The first thing I should tell you about this patch is that it is a Retail patch only, The Tactical Ops team have decided that the MOD version of the game will no longer be supported and no further patches will be released for it. This has been heavily discussed by the T.O. community and some people are for it, and others against it (These tend to be people without the retail version ;)

Its main contents are :

• A new score-system
• "punishTK" which, if you have been teamkilled, punishes the person who killed you with death, This has proved very useful in dealing with consistant TK'ers
• Binoculars
• Reduced the M16 to a 20 bullet round
• When you charge a nade and die, The nade explodes (Sometimes)
• Fixed most cheats (Effective but doesn't get rid of the more advanced cheaters)
• Spam-Protection (Players can not transmit the same line twice in a row within 7 seconds, Players can not transmit a multiple line spamscript)

These are the main features of the patch, but there a loads more, Which can be found in the readme file with the patch.

Overall, I'd say this patch was a big improvement on 3.3.2 and 3.1.5. The binoculars have proved very useful to me, However some people find them a bit useless. The new score system is great. It is basically - You get 1 point for each 10hp damage you do to you opponent, So you would get 10 points for doing 100 damage on an opponent. It also has a slightly different layout (You can find a picture of the score-system on the Screen-shots page) The punishTK has proved useful, However this can be abused. If you genuinely kill a team-mate by accident they will not always show empathy, It can also be exploited with a few bugs, Like the Trooper lift. The new nade addition is a great addition, How-ever it doesnt not always explode if you die, Which can be very annoying for you kamakazi's ;) The spam protection is useful, However most people have cracked this and can now submit as many lines as they want.

Overall rating - 7.5/10