ZERO CALIBER 2 | Major Update (Refined Gunplay, Smarter Enemies, New Content)

Hey everyone,

This update is a BIG one and focuses on three main areas: weapon feel, AI behavior, and hands-on VR interaction. A lot of this comes straight from community feedback: things that felt off, looked odd, or just didn’t hit as hard as they should.

You’ll find long-requested features like the flippable G33 magnifier, fully dynamic pistol hammers, deeper belt and weapon customization, improved AI reactions, and a big polish pass across weapons, audio, animations, combat and visuals. There’s also new content to unlock, plus a mountain of fixes under the hood.

Let’s break it down.

NEW OPTIONS | GAMEPLAY TWEAKS

• Added Grenade Throw Assist with 3 strength levels
• New Weapon Smoothing setting
• Bloom on/off toggle
• Chromatic Aberration on/off toggle
• Weapon attachments are now visible when holstered
• Weapon slots and player belt are now fully customizable and can be repositioned individually
• Added trigger interaction for grabbing ammo from the belt (Known issue: when trigger grip is set to toggle, releasing the trigger may drop the ammo)
• Improved force-pull mechanics

WEAPONS | INTERACTIONS

• Flippable G33 magnifier
• Can be flipped by hand or with other objects
• Other players can also flip your sight

Grenade launcher barrels can now be opened and closed manually

• Also interactable by other players

Dynamic pistol hammers

• Can be pushed down manually

Animated pistol hammers across supported weapons

Overhauled several weapon, magazine, and attachment models based on player feedback for more realistic visuals

General weapon polish pass:

• Recoil behavior fixed and refined
• Controller rumble values adjusted across all weapons for stronger, caliber-dependent feedback

Reworked weapon sounds to feel more powerful and punchy

Fixed gunstock calibration, added horizontal adjustment

Lobby now includes newly added weapons

NEW CONTENT

New Weapons

• Moss500 – Black Edition
• VSS

New Weapon Skins (Pulse Series)

• AUG – Pulse skin
• AK15 – Pulse skin
• Smith & Wesson .45 ACP – Pulse skin
• VSS – Pulse skin
• Pulse Breaker (melee weapon)

All unlockable through in-game challenges.

RECOIL | AUDIO | GUN FEEL

• Overall recoil tuning pass for:
• Pistols
• SMGs
• Assault Rifles
• Snipers

Improved weapon audio

Improved controller vibration and weapon rumble

Colt Python fixes:

• Spent casings now appear correctly after firing
• Cylinder rotates on trigger pull
• Hammer animation corrected

AI BEHAVIOR

• Enemies now use cover more effectively under fire
• Improved AI interaction speed
• Added movement smoothing for enemies
• Improved enemy animation frames
• Improved enemy head-turning animations
• Added 100+ new physical death animations
• Fixed enemies getting stuck in reload loops

CONTROLS | UI

• Fixed tutorial holo controller buttons and widgets
• Fixed weapon UI:
• Magazine order
• Magazine naming

Fixed armory item info widget issues

Improved hand poses for rope climbers

Fixed various input-related issues

FIXES | STABILITY

• Fixed multiple server crash issues
• Improved OpenXR and Virtual Desktop support
• Fixed Vivox voice chat randomly stopping
• Fixed missing music or sound playback
• Fixed projectiles passing through the ground
• Fixed laser pointer locking in one direction
• Fixed incorrect height calibration when calibrating while crouched
• Fixed players getting stuck in crouch after respawning from checkpoints
• Fixed smoke grenade visual blocker not clearing on kill
• Players can no longer damage teammates with grenades or grenade launchers when friendly fire is off
• Added additional cheat protection

VISUALS

• Replaced low-resolution title screen with a high-quality version
• Updated lighting for:
• Hill Nest
• Richwood’s Fall
• Richwood’s Shock
• Lobby

Improved LOD for distant characters to reduce choppy animations

Added new burning surface effect

Fixed glowing barrels and attachments

Numerous weapon-specific texture and mesh fixes across pistols, SMGs, ARs, shotguns, and snipers

PVP

• Fixed lighting on all PvP maps:
• Fixed rank display in the lobby
• Removed random leftover text from host panels

As always, thanks for all the feedback! A huge chunk of this update came directly from things you called out. Keep it coming. We’re already working on what’s next!

Have fun! o7

- Dan & the XREAL Games Team