Co-op friendly fire, a way out for stuck guests, more settings that apply at once, and Linux fixes. Everything from 0.4.1 is included.
New
- Friendly fire in campaign co-op. PC Options > Multiplayer > Friendly fire (co-op). It turns on only while every player in the session has it on; if one player turns it off, nobody can hurt anybody again. Only human players can hurt each other: AI squadmates never take or deal friendly damage. The host log says
COOPFF active (2/2 opted in)orCOOPFF inactive (1/2 opted in). Split-screen players on one PC share one setting. - Go to player 1. PC Options > Multiplayer > Go to player 1 moves you next to player 1 (Marcus) if you got stuck as a guest. Campaign co-op only; it waits 10 seconds between moves, and it does nothing while either of you rides a vehicle or a turret or a cutscene plays.
- More settings apply at once. FSR softening, CAS sharpness and dithering (PC Options > Graphics) now change while you play, without a restart (SDK patch 0077).
Every player needs 0.4.2 for friendly fire and Go to player 1. A guest on an older release sends no friendly-fire vote, so friendly fire stays off. gow2_coop_requests = false on the host turns both features off and leaves the game's scripts as they were.
Linux and SteamOS (experimental)
- The RenderDoc "Capturing Vulkan" overlay that SteamOS showed in the top-left corner with 0.4.1 is gone. SteamOS ships RenderDoc's library and the game loaded it, which turned on RenderDoc's capture layer. It is now off by default (
load_renderdoc = trueingow2.tomlbrings it back for debugging; SDK patch 0076). - The build now targets x86-64-v3 (AVX2, FMA, MOVBE): Steam Deck, Legion Go, Intel from 2013 (Haswell) on and every AMD Ryzen. On an older CPU,
gow2.shstops with a message instead of crashing. - The frame counter: PC Options > Display > Frame counter, or Steam's own performance overlay.
The Linux build has still only been tested on a software Vulkan driver, not on a real Steam Deck or Legion Go; please open an issue with your logs/gow2_*.log if something goes wrong.
Install / update
Windows: download gow2-recomp-0.4.2-win64.zip and copy the contents of its gow2-recomp-0.4.2-win64 folder into your game folder. Your gow2.toml and saves are kept.
Linux and SteamOS: download gow2-recomp-0.4.2-linux-x86_64.tar.gz, extract it on the device itself and copy everything inside its folder into the game folder, next to default.xex. Steps for Steam Deck and Legion Go in the README and docs/LINUX.md.
Everyone in a co-op session should run the same release.
Android: no new APK in this release; the latest APK is in v0.3.18.
Still looking for testers: HDR10 and F12 (#47), frame generation (#48), mods and stacked texture packs (#49).
SHA-256 (zip): 37AF607338AA950D8430B4B3E2736837E2D193310BE08B5E5DFDBF7FB210A1C1
SHA-256 (Linux): cd22382fca10c2e868f0049ea557b9e5a70dc73b0a10299c6a4c4e599c00b468