We’ve witnessed quite the come-up for a variety of tactical first-person shooters in recent years, and as a fan of the genre, I’m here for every one of them. Operator is one of the most ambitious. It’s a highly authentic tactical FPS focused on providing realistic mechanics, environments, and gameplay for diehard fans of the genre. The best part? It’s improving significantly with each major update. The latest Operator update 008 patch 1 enhances the game’s night vision goggles, voice lines, Armenia map, and more!
Operator Update V008 Patch 01 Notes
Changes
- Changed Pain icon colour to be less mistaken for bleeding.
- Added tooltips to the whiteboard.
- AI’s FOV is now half when not in combat or alerted.
- More Veteran Clothing variants (MC and MCB)
- New boots variants + Veteran variant.
- Helicopter Pilot voicelines
- Added a pop-up when there are unsaved keybind changes.
- Increased default player voip volume to 1 from 0.5 ( new players that join will be at max volume)
- Increased max voip volume setting to 2 ( in case you play with low master volume and still want to hear people)
Night Vision
- New NVG transition for activating and deactivating.
- Fixed graphical issues with flickering and the edges of the screen artifacting
- Improved consistency for all users: Forced NVG FOV and tuned NVG effects per resolution.
- Fixed PVS30 Night vision optic on all maps.
- NEW: Night vision for Spectator cameras. Pressing N will turn on and off your night vision. This automatically turns on during night operations. You can also enable this using a console command (ToggleNVGCamera and SetNVGCamera true/false)
- Updated PVS-14 graphic mask
Armenia Fixes
- Fixed Armenia Night AI detection.
- Fixed M72 LAW taking more than 1 shot to destroy vehicles
- Fixed Hotel 1 Infil on day and night
- Fixed Armenia Night not being able to extract or destroy objectives.
Other Fixes
- Fixed Slap Charge’s collider not disabling immediately after explosion, which blocked player movement.
- Fixed Slap Charge physics between clients
- Fixed Slap Charges bouncing off the doors as the client.
- Removed unused “Hotel 1” infil from Sinaloa, Mexico.
- Fixed the Helicopter Infil animation not playing when respawning in survival mode.
- Fixed Inaccurate total kill counts in the end screen
- Fixed not being able to change the Canted Weapon keybind.
- Fixed Voip and Radio Keybinds
- Fixed Voip and Radio Toggle keybind option.
- Fixed ECOTI not showing on some AI.
- Fixed Mexico and Armenia not showing after completion in the Simulation category (you still need to beat it again)
- Fixed cases where you can be disconnected while joining a lobby.
- Fixed and Improved Low and Medium shadow quality settings.
- Fixed new M4 barrels not having the correct gunshot sfx in relation to barrel length (barrels 12” and above have different gunshot sfx)
- Fixed leaving the lobby while drawing on the whiteboard not hiding the cursor
- Fixed ATAK markers on the Mexico Map
It’s fantastic to see an ambitious title like Operator improving by leaps and bounds. I’ll be honest with everyone, I didn’t see the potential initially. I bought the game, played a few rounds, and promptly refunded the game. But I came back to it after a few months, and I haven’t looked back since. This update cements that choice!