Developer Black Matter Studios deployed a hefty new patch for Hell Let Loose, which included plenty of new features and content for you to enjoy.
Do you have access to a microphone while playing Hell Let Loose? If not, there's a new feature in Update 14 that lets you communicate non-verbally to your teammates called the Radiant Wheel. This gives you access to the four most essential comms in the game, such as requests, responses, information, and actions.
Unlike similar implementations in other first-person shooters like Overwatch 2, the Radiant Wheel in this game only puts a marker on you or on a specific part of the map. This marker is only visible to your unit, but in its current state, it just looks kind of clunky. Hopefully, the company will refine this in future updates.
Update 14 includes plenty of new content as well. Here is a list of the best ones:
New Faction
- Great Britain
New Great Britain Uniforms
- Rubberized Macintosh Raincoat
- P-37 Battledress
New Weapons
- Lanchester MK1
- Sten Gun
- Bren MK2
- Lee-Enfield Pattern 1914
- Lewis Gun
- PIAT
- Rifle No.4 MK1
- Rifle No.5 MK1
- Webley MK VI
- Fairbairn Sykes Knife
- AP MK2
- AT MKV
- Boys Rifle
- Flamethrower Life Buoy
- Mills Bomb No.36
- No.77 Smoke Grenade
- No.2 MK5
Artillery
- 6 Pounder
- 25 Pounder
New Vehicles
- Sherman Firefly
- Cromwell
- Tetrarch
- Daimler
- Bedford Supply Truck
- Bedford Transport Truck
New Maps
- Driel: Driel offers intense combat where players will need to apply a tactical approach to securing territory and traversing the small villages and farmland.
- El Alamein: With structures few and far between, players will need to work together to cover their six.
HUD/UI
- [Fixed] Some players 500 meters away could disappear from the tactical map
- [Fixed] Smoke grenade FX popping in and out rapidly
- Reworked Text Based Tutorials - updated in the Field Manual
- V0.1 Video Tutorials: short gif-style videos to support Field Manual text
- Vote to Kick Added for Console: allowing players to now vote to kick other players for Abuse, Cheating, or Team Killing
- Improvements to the XP Screen: a new breakdown of how XP is awarded will help players better understand how to alter their play style to maximize the XP they earn
- Point-and-Ping: Developing on the existing ping feature, allowing players to highlight the location of ammo, explosive ammo, and supply boxes to other players in their platoon
Optimization
- Performance improvements to a range of maps
- Further HLOD fixes to address transition issues
- Pass over meshes to remove excessive triangle counts, additional UV sets, reverse buffer index and build adjacency enabled
To "cap" things off, the company also allows you to download the new Jericho Cap cosmetic for free.
Hell Let Loose Update 14 is available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC.
