Fixed

• (Shaders) Water ripples are not generated when shooting at or entities collide with Ocean surface) (CE-217).
• (Shaders) Water sss was not taking into account fog color neither sun intensity anymore (CE-628).
• (Shaders) Eyeball is rendered as opaque object to avoid sorting issues with the tear layer (CE-3022).
• (Shaders) Fixed generic SSS support in Illum shader (CE-3023).
• (Shaders) Fix for shader compile error: SParticleVertex.blendTC needs to be float4.
• (Rendering) Ensure that light projector textures don't get downscaled in low spec and are not streamed, otherwise they won't work with tiled shading (CE-3231).
• (Rendering) Revived radial/directional blur and merged into regular motion blur (CE 3249).
• (Rendering) Fix dissolve for vegetation.
• (Rendering) Render shadow casters inside vis areas into static shadow map.
• (Rendering) Fixed specular target not being bound for ambient pass (CE-3207).
• (Rendering) Enabled BC1 compression for LightProjector preset so that texture will work with tiled shading (CE-3231).
• (Rendering) Fixed probe box clipping in tiled shading (could have caused NaNs).
• (Rendering) Fix static shadow map when e_StreamCgf=1: Don't consider collision and raycast proxies as shadow casters.
• (Rendering) Update streaming status on designer objects so they will get rendered into static shadow map.
• (Rendering) Don't globally overwrite shader specified cull mode for point lights. Enable back face culling for sun shadows (CE-3001).
• (Rendering) Fixed vertex color support for eyes so that the specular overlay can be masked properly.
• (Rendering) Fix for sampler mismatch in fog shadows (CE-1186).
• (Rendering) Potential crash in dependency of r_MSAA CVar accessed in r_AntialiasingMode callback (CE-3375).
• (Rendering) Disabled depth clip for stencil passes so geometry beyond far plane is handled correctly.
• (Audio) Fixed where we lost the audio listener on a view.
• (Audio) Fixed footstep sound culling distance by checking actor against listener instead of actor against client.
• (Audio) Fixed sound obstruction so delayed playback works again.
• (Statoscope) Datagroup a - need metrics (CE-3215).
• (Statoscope) DataGroup g - Unknown stat tracked needs explanation (CE-3226).
• (Statoscope) Datagroup e (ef_lists) broken (CE-3217).
• (Statoscope) datagroup broken (CE-3185).
• (Statoscope) Screenshot capture - fullscreen 1080p = bad screenshot (CE-1701).
• (Statoscope) Crash when e_statoscopeScreenshotCapturePeriod is set in system.cfg.
• (Statoscope) ArtProfile - NumLightingDrawcalls - incorrect stat (CE-3250).
• (Statoscope) Default the log destination to 1 (socket logging) (CE-3208).
• (AISystem) Crash when creating a new level in Sandbox while AI/Physics is active fixed (CE-3094)
• (AISystem) Out-of-bounds access in InterpolatedPath.
• (AISystem) Fixed AI alertness level not being set in MBT.
• (Material) Fix for material editor causing crash when texture slot didn't contain fullstop (nearest_cubemap).
• (Material) Hiding Environment map slot for PBR based shaders (CE-1711).
• (CryDesigner) Switched data format of designer from xml text to xml encoded Binary.
• (CryDesigner) Fixed a bug on a crash happening when entering edit mode (CE-3207).
• (CryDesigner) Fixed a bug on areasolid having physical data (CE-3207).
• (CryDesigner) Fixed a crash bug happening when entering the pivot tool.
• (CryDesigner) Fixed creation of invisible designer object after clicking "Designer" button during creating a primitive shape.
• (CryDesigner) Fixed a bug related to plunging into the infinite loop when switching a designer mode after undoing.
• (CryDesigner) Fixed a bug of the Extrude Tool about incorrectly dealing with the side regions in extruding and not deleting opposite regions.
• (CryDesigner) Fixed a bug of some regions disappearing after drawing lines between inner parts in a region.
• (CryDesigner) Fixed a bug in the Move Tool omitting a vertex between an another edge.
• (CryDesigner) Improved a way of editing in 2D viewport (CE-2479).
• (CryDesigner) Got the manipulator for selected elements(Vertices,Edges or Faces) to be invisible when the empty space is selected (CE-3418).
• (CryDesigner) Fixed a bug so that empty designer is not allowed to be cloned.
• (Trackview) Fix delete sequence always throwing an exception.
• (Trackview) Fix sequence renaming by context menu (CE-2976).
• (Trackview) Fix infinite loop when renaming entity that is in sequence.
• (Trackview) Crash during shutdown if trackview sequence is active.
• (Scaleform) Crash when UIElement is invalid in material editor.
• (Scaleform) UI disappeared when hitting return.
• (Scaleform) UIElements are not updated in the renderer (CE-3152).
• (Scaleform) Stall during level unload.
• (Scaleform) Changed logic for in-game mission display.
• (Game) Assert failed when jumping rapidly - caused by camera shake.
• (Game) Timedemo crashing the editor (CE-3073).
• (Game) Need to restart before doing a second timedemo.
• (Game) Added check to prevent AI from receiving health regeneration (CE-772).
• (Ropes) Some rope attachment serialization fixes.
• (Ropes) Rope slicing sometimes not detaching tied objects (CE-3328).
• (Ropes) refcounting issue with subdivided ropes (CE-3122).
• (Ropes) Potential mem corruption in rope serialization (CE-3122).
• (Particles) bOrientToVelocity and TurbulenceSpeed/Size combination, fCameraOffset, connected-particle tiling with negative texture frequency.
• (Particles) Make sure particle don't creep during 0 steps (CE-3103).
• (Particles) Fixed incorrect emitter location during the first frame when using the mannequin ParticleEffect proc clip.
• (Particles) Fixed particle effects created from the dedicated Mannequin proc clip ignoring the given reference joint name (CE-3162).
• (Physics) Editing water level not affecting the physics immediately (CE-1073).
• (Editor) Objects: Better link visualization.
• (Editor) Generated a name of GeomEntity type based on a mesh file name (CE-2370).
• (Mannequin) Fixed Gizmo manipulations in the Mannequin editor not triggering a modification of the database being updated.
• (Assets) Forest: Fixed cave solid using incorrect material, fixed broken cover surface entities.
• (Assets) Turret: Added in Mannequin setup and audio.
• (Assets) Fixed shading issue with concrete_beam assets.
• (Assets) Fixed Light projector textures not being set to 512x512px and using the LightProjector preset.
• (Assets) Numerous material/texture fixes for missing content.
• (Assets) Numerous PBS-related tweaks to Materials/Textures.
• (JobManager) Profiler doesn't show main/render thread information (CE-2935).
• Fix deadlocks if number of job threads is greater than number of frames in Alembic.
• When resizing to a larger terrain size, only manipulate the area that matches the size of previous heightmap and leave the rest of the area with zero height (CE-3166).
• Disabled async dips for PC (Editor may crash when opening character editor in CCryDeviceContextWrapper::PSSetShaderResources) (CE-3147).
• Fixed access to 0-entry arrays.
• Fix crash in alembic compiler when color array is missing.
• Handle light volume hash collisions. Fix light volume index calculation.
• Fixed int overflow when biasing.
• Fixed assert in SSAO blur (CE-3042).
• Scale depth values in r_deferredshadingdebug 1 (CE-2114).
• Fixed texture stream thrashing due to double advancement of far zone round id.
• Fix wrong LOD calculation in character texture streaming.
• Ensure precache lod is clamped to available lods.
• Pivot distance was wrong for streaming, uses adjusted bbox distance, real fix is to precache +1/-1 LODs everywhere.
• Crash on level load when path contains special characters.
• Fixed issues with duplicate CVars registered in config files and code (CE-3198).
• Potential fix for printf validation fatal error.
• Fixed restarting the Editor with the character editor open causing in-game textures to appear low res (CE-3195).
• Fixed NaN check in SSRRaytrace (D3D11 define is not existing any more) (CE-3199).
• Breakable joint assignment issue (CE-2576).
• Fixed problem with multi-part living entities.
• Fixed contact stability problems with small breakable chunks.
• Fixed problem with character aux physics and bones' rotational velocity estimation.
• CHitDeathReactions Found more than one tag in container (CE-1359).
• Fixed Rope on Light in starting Ruin. Had FrictionPull set to max (100). Reduced down to 2.
• Fixed missing material warning in HUD.
• Fixed getControlVal() for listbox items. Now returns the value specified when item was created instead of the caption. to get caption, use GetListboxItemCaption.

Added

• (AISystem) Added AIActionSequence-compatible flow node to approach and enter vehicles.
• (AISystem) Added AISequence-compatible flow node "AISequence:WeaponDrawFromInventory".
• (AISystem) Added AISequence-compatible nodes for drawing and holstering the weapon.
• (Flowgraph) Exposed "FileName" to DecalPlacer entity via Flowgraph.
• Added toolbar icons for animation import panel and animation compression editor.
• Added Snow.lua script for use with Snow entity.

Deleted

• (Entity) Hide obsolete ShootingTarget entity.
• (Entity) Set RigidBody entity to invisible. RigidBody is obsolete as users should always use RigidBodyEx instead.
• (Entity) Hiding ParticleEffect entity from entity list. Deprecated method of adding PFX to level. Use Particle Editor or Particle Effect button in rollupbar (CE-1205).
• (Entity) Remove unused TowerSearchLight entity and code.
• (FlowGraph) Hide obsolete nodes: Image:Glittering, Image:Global, Image:Glow, Image:DistantRain, Image:HUDHitEffect, Image:Scratches. Fixed bug with Image:Condensation node not being properly set in Obsolete category (CE-296).
• Delete unused ZeroG/GravitySphere lua script. Note the GravitySphere script inside Entities/Physics remains functional (CE-873).

Optimization

• (SSE) Enabled on 64bit.
• (Config) Update all PC configurations with better performance CVars.
• Additional motion blur optimizations.
• Use r_motionBlurQuality 0 on low specs.
• Geometry cache SSE3 code path for PC.
• Ocean rendering optimization: Fixed wrong flag usage, disabled deprecated matrixes usage to prevent redundant CBs update (CE-3101).

Refactored

• (Common) ZeroInit<>.
• Reviving grain params through common grain rendering (CE-296).
• Rollback change which removed Terrain Occlusion / Sky Brightening from TOD/Terrain Texture Generation dialog (CE-3230).
• Move geom cache hit test to CGeomCacheEntity.
• Tiny cleanup in ShadowMaskGen.cfx.
• Disabled deprecated light clipvolumes (LightShape) geometry. Feature is not compatible with tiled shading/latest engine updates - from 3.6 only clipboxes (LightBox) will be supported.
• PBR related shader cleanups: Renamed gloss to specular where appropriate. Removed gloss in specular alpha option.
• Adjusted nearest probe picking to better fit how probes are setup now (use layers rather than global probe and check against OBB).

Tweak

• (Renderer) Removed vegetation profiler left overs.
• (Shaders) Use red channel instead of green channel for eye specular overlay texture.
• (Audio) Add sound obstruction data to surface type instead of relying on the pierceability. Renamed some variables to suit.
• (Audio) Turn off max obstruction radius scaling by default.
• (Audio) Set max obstruction level to full (1.f).
• (RC) ImageCompiler: removed CUDA, nvtt, ATI Compress.
• (Particles) Emitters created through the ParticleEffect procedural clip are immediately created with the correct location, instead of waiting for the attachment update.
• (CryDesigner) Added a routine to delete the existing binary files, DesignerObjects.dat and DesignerMeshes.dat as they're no longer needed/used.
• (CryDesigner) Removed the items in the Preference related to saving designer data as binary form.
• (CryDesigner) Added a routine to getting total polygon count of a designer object.
• (CryDesigner) Improved the Extrude tool for boundary edges created with pulling not to remain.
• (CryDesigner) Improved the box creation tool so that union operation can be applied to the result regions.
• (CryDesigner) Improved the Extrude tool for boundary edges created with pulling not to remain.
• (CryDesigner) Made the selection of elements correct and more sensitive
• (CryDesigner) Removed "Separate" check box in the primitive creation panel.
• (CryDesigner) Changed a destination buffer for decoding base64 type from std::vector to array.
• (Editor) Added secondary outputs to MissionStateListener FG node.
• (Editor) reworked reload script functions in editor (CE-1451).
• (Statoscope) e_statoscopeEnabled=0 by default to avoid log spamming
• (Flowgraph) Blacklist obsolete nodes: AI:Anim/Ex, AI:Goto/SpeedStance, AI:Interested/InterestingEntity, AI:ShootAt, AI:WeaponDraw/Holster/Select. Use replacement AISequence nodes instead (CE-2964). Cleaned out Rem/Ren entries from Blacklist no longer required.
• (Assets) Updated PFX libraries: Removed some duplicates, updated lighting settings, moved some unnecessary children pfx to parent.
• (Assets) Forest: Lowered ropes FrictionPull from 100 to 1 (CE-3258). Removed subdivision on Ropes and increased segment count (CE-3258). Decrease LOD ratio for noticeably popping objects.
• (UIActions) Cleaned SP_Objectives setup with new Secondary output ports. Added in IsMuliplayer check for scoreboard/objectives to only display in their appropriate mode (CE-3336).
• Adjusted default probe falloff to 0.3.
• Removed unnecessary attachment update call in the ParticleEffect procedural clip.
• Player characters always have high streaming priority.
• Removed bAll parameter in CObjectArchive::CObjectArchive().
• Fixed missing type when only including "PixelFormats.h".
• Adjusted error-message for incompatible texture-format for tiled-shading (CE-3253).
• Cleaned up sketch mode configs.

New Feature

• (Audio) Introduced audio obstruction offset on SoundEventSpots.
• (AISystem) "crouch" stance is now also supported in movements (CE-3310).
• (Lobby) Steam Invite friends.
• (Renderer) Displayinfo compact mode (r_DisplayInfo 3: fps - ms).
• (Particles) Comment, Inheritance, System.Default effect.
• (Particles) Optionally disable surface alignment for particles (CE-3103).
• (Editor) Rotate objects during creation and cloning with CTRL + mouse scrollwheel.
• (Editor) Option to show mesh statistics on mouse over.