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Smithy at 19:14, 10 February 2022

2022-02-10T19:14:01Z

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	* Decreased resistance against Depleted Uranium Machine Gun.		* Decreased resistance against Depleted Uranium Machine Gun.
	* Increased resistance against High Explosive Machine Gun.		* Increased resistance against High Explosive Machine Gun.

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Smithy at 14:58, 6 August 2021

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	== 2.30.10 (Hotfix) ==		== 2.30.10 (Hotfix) ==
	<small>'''Release: (2021/02/27)'''</small>		<small>'''Release: (2021/02/27)'''</small>

Smithy at 14:32, 27 February 2021

2021-02-27T14:32:43Z

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			== 2.30.10 (Hotfix) ==
			<small>'''Release: (2021/02/27)'''</small>
			=== Bug fixes===
			* Fixed a server crash relating to kill-assists.
			* Fixed a client crash relating to research scripts being mismatched with the server. (Specifically the research display top left would crash the client because the client didn't have the research item in the scripts.)

	== 2.30.9 ==		== 2.30.9 ==
	<small>'''Release: (2021/02/25)'''</small>		<small>'''Release: (2021/02/25)'''</small>

Smithy: /* 2.30.9 */

2021-02-25T19:08:32Z

2.30.9

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	* Fixed a bug where player’s would get stuck in ammo/health crates spawned by capturing flags.		* Fixed a bug where player’s would get stuck in ammo/health crates spawned by capturing flags.
	** Crates will now spawn when the spawn location is free from player obstruction.		** Crates will now spawn when the spawn location is free from player obstruction.
	* Mortar now uses HL2’s AR2 reload animation in third person. (It’s the closest animation available without additional ~~arist~~ work)		* Mortar now uses HL2’s AR2 reload animation in third person. (It’s the closest animation available without additional artist work)
	** Previously it had no animation so you couldn’t tell when people were reloading.		** Previously the mortar had no 3rd person reload animation so you couldn’t tell when people were reloading.
	** It has also been requested that the lines on the bottom/left of the mortar crosshair display be removed, therefore has now been removed.		** It has also been requested that the lines on the bottom/left of the mortar crosshair display be removed, therefore has now been removed.
	* Fixed an issue with the glowing mine outline effect causing the screen to go darker. (This was a side effect of the HDR auto-exposure on some maps scaling the lighting down dramatically)		* Fixed an issue with the glowing mine outline effect causing the screen to go darker. (This was a side effect of the HDR auto-exposure on some maps scaling the lighting down dramatically)

Smithy at 18:00, 25 February 2021

2021-02-25T18:00:24Z

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			== 2.30.9 ==
			<small>'''Release: (2021/02/25)'''</small>
			=== Bug fixes===
			* Fixed a bug causing localization to fail for vehicle kill-assists strings.
			* Fixed a bug causing simple/critical kill-assists to record the wrong damage amount and potentially award the critical assist to the wrong player.
			* Fixed a bug where player’s would get stuck in ammo/health crates spawned by capturing flags.
			** Crates will now spawn when the spawn location is free from player obstruction.
			* Mortar now uses HL2’s AR2 reload animation in third person. (It’s the closest animation available without additional arist work)
			** Previously it had no animation so you couldn’t tell when people were reloading.
			** It has also been requested that the lines on the bottom/left of the mortar crosshair display be removed, therefore has now been removed.
			* Fixed an issue with the glowing mine outline effect causing the screen to go darker. (This was a side effect of the HDR auto-exposure on some maps scaling the lighting down dramatically)
			* Fixed a missing texture caused by moving tool textures. “common/tools/toolsblack”
			* Changed the collision mesh for the Brenodi Vehicle Factory as there was a possible exploit that would allow access to the top of the building.

			=== Maps / Level design ===
			==== Cyclopean ====
			* The map has been re-compiled with slightly brighter HDR lighting and using slightly brighter HDR skybox textures.

			=== Script/Game Balance ===
			* Engineer heal rank points are now only awarded when healing damage caused by the enemy team.
			* Shells and missiles will now detonate when they hit a player’s hit-boxes instead of bounding box.
			** This was likely the expected behaviour but was not already the case.
			** This change is simply to improve the accuracy of these interactions, however, it will be significant in regards to the grenadier class. Player’s will need to adapt their aim because they will need to be more precise.
			* Weapon bullet spread is now incremented after a bullet is fired instead of before. The original behaviour has been in the game for many years but it caused some issues:
			** Developers couldn’t reliably balance weapons for first-shot accuracy because the weapon base spread was always higher than intended because it was tied to spread increment.
			* “Heavy Caliber Machine Gun” research has been split into two separate items, one for “Depleted Uranium Rounds” and one for “High Caliber Rounds” (.50Cal)
			** Depleted uranium rounds:
			*** Cost to research is 240 resources
			*** Time to research is 60 seconds
			** High Caliber Rounds:
			*** Cost to research is 180 resources
			*** Time to research is 45 seconds
			* Added some developer console commands to help scripters working on weapon balance visualize the bullet spread/impacts.
			** sv_showimpacts_duration - FLOAT - “Duration to display impact points used by sv_showimpacts (Min 1/Max 30)”
			** emp_cl_weapon_draw_spreadcone - BOOLEAN - “Draw debug lines to visualise bullet spread cone”
			** emp_cl_weapon_draw_spreadcone_line_multiplier - INTEGER - “Multiplier for how many lines used to draw the cone 4*value (Min 1/Max5)”
			** emp_cl_weapon_draw_spreadcone_line_duration - FLOAT - “How long to display the debug cone (Min 1/Max10)”

	== 2.30.8 ==		== 2.30.8 ==
	<small>'''Release: (2021/02/06)'''</small>		<small>'''Release: (2021/02/06)'''</small>

Smithy at 19:02, 6 February 2021

2021-02-06T19:02:00Z

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			== 2.30.8 ==
			<small>'''Release: (2021/02/06)'''</small>
			=== Maps / Level design ===
			* Moved all of the tool textures into the correct folder. (materials/common/tools -> materials/tools)
			** The simple reason for this is that Empires was not overriding the HL2 textures, which causes duplicates to appear in the menus.
			** Mappers will need to use the texture replace feature in hammer to point to the new location before compiling.
			==== Mvalley ====
			* Re-added high ground areas back into play. (Removed all clip brushes and tweaked the terrain to allow access again.)
			* Fixed some texture misalignment issues.
			* Fixed the dirt road overlays not being applied to the displacements properly. (Some of them were only showing part of the overlay, example was north under the bridge)
			* Fixed the 3d skybox fog not matching the color of the fog in the playable area.
			* Fixed a hole in a displacement (Coordinate A3)

			==== Crossroads ====
			* Improved optimization, specifically to fix issues with middle always being rendered regardless of where you are on the map.
			* Standardized critical entity names to match other official maps. (An example is emp_info_params being named inf_params for easy manipulation by developers)
			* Reduced HDR bloom scale.
			* Fixed a lot of texture misalignment issues.
			* Fixed some lighting bugs. (Including smoothing group issues)
			* Changed middle to remove access to the top of the towers.

			=== Script/Game Balance ===
			* Lobbing/Rolling grenades now removes scout hide.
			* Slight improvement to steering at high speeds on all vehicles.
			** Added two new variables "Slow Car Speed" & "Fast Car Speed" to vehicle_engines.txt to allow Empires' vehicle engines to alter the steering start/end interpolation.
			==== Infantry ====
			* Scout no longer has access to Seismic Grenade.
			==== Infantry Weapons ====
			* NF .50Cal Rifle
			** Reduced recoil slightly and re-enabled iron-sight recoil reduction.
			==== Buildings ====
			* Armory
			** Increased cost from 75 to 100.
			* Walls
			** Decreased Infantry Sticky Resist from 0.94 to 0.916.
			*** It increases stickies damage to walls from 18 to 25.
			** Decreased Explosive Grenades Resist from 0.94 to 0.925
			*** It increases Grenade Launcher damage to walls from 4 to 6.
			*** It increases High Explosive Grenade Launcher damage to walls from 6 to 8.
			==== Vehicle Weapons ====
			* Machine Guns
			** Plasma Machine Gun
			*** Increased Reload Time from 4 to 4.5.
			*** Increased Clip Size from 30 to 35.
			** Plasma Heavy Machine Gun
			*** Increased Reload Time from 3.5 to 5.
			*** Increased Clip Size from 30 to 40.
			** Depleted Uranium Heavy Machine Gun
			*** Decreased Reload Time from 5 to 4.5.
			* Grenade Launchers
			** Grenade Launcher
			*** Increased Gravity from 0.92 to 1.
			*** Increased Grenade Timer from 3 to 4.
			** High-Explosive Grenade Launcher
			*** Increased Gravity from 0.88 to 1.
			==== Infantry Resists ====
			* Grenadier
			** Reduced Explosive Bullet Resist from 0.7 to 0.55
			** Reduced AP Bullet Resist from 0.3 to 0.
			** Reduced Bullet Resist from 0.1 to 0. (Affects vehicle bullets only.)
			* Rifleman
			** Reduced Explosive Bullet Resist from 0.5 to 0.4.
			** Reduced AP Bullet Resist from 0.3 to 0.
			* Scout
			** Reduced Bullet Resist from 0.35 to 0. (Affects vehicle bullets only.)
			** Reduced AP Bullet Resist from 0.3 to 0.
			* Engineer
			** Reduced Bullet Resist from 0.1 to 0. (Affects vehicle bullets only.)
			** Reduced AP Bullet Resist from 0.3 to 0.

	== 2.30.7 ==		== 2.30.7 ==
	<small>'''Release: (2021/01/31)'''</small>		<small>'''Release: (2021/01/31)'''</small>

Smithy: /* Script/Game Balance */

2021-02-01T05:06:05Z

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	=== Script/Game Balance ===		=== Script/Game Balance ===
	* Changed scout sway pattern to use a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lissajous_curve#/media/File:Lissajous_relaciones.png Lissajous Curve]		* Changed scout rifle sway pattern to use a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lissajous_curve#/media/File:Lissajous_relaciones.png Lissajous Curve]
	** Tweaked sway values again to balance the weapon again		** Tweaked sway values again to balance the weapon again
	** There was a small amount of interference depending on FPS values for sway, this is now fixed and should be standardized regardless of the player's FPS		** There was a small amount of interference depending on FPS values for sway, this is now fixed and should be standardized regardless of the player's FPS

Smithy: /* Script/Game Balance */

2021-01-31T19:37:11Z

Script/Game Balance

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	*** This was hard not very discoverable and added a layer of complexity to balancing the game.		*** This was hard not very discoverable and added a layer of complexity to balancing the game.
	** Reverted a feature that would give you a 50% random chance to repair less if the building you were repairing was recently under-fire		** Reverted a feature that would give you a 50% random chance to repair less if the building you were repairing was recently under-fire
	* Improved Vehicle Handling		* Improved Vehicle Handling as of last patch
			* Reduced the recoil slightly on NF 50cal rifle for crouch/prone stances

	== 2.30.6 ==		== 2.30.6 ==

Xyaminou: /* Script/Game Balance */

2021-01-31T19:31:21Z

Script/Game Balance

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	*** This was hard not very discoverable and added a layer of complexity to balancing the game.		*** This was hard not very discoverable and added a layer of complexity to balancing the game.
	** Reverted a feature that would give you a 50% random chance to repair less if the building you were repairing was recently under-fire		** Reverted a feature that would give you a 50% random chance to repair less if the building you were repairing was recently under-fire
			* Improved Vehicle Handling

	== 2.30.6 ==		== 2.30.6 ==

Smithy at 19:12, 31 January 2021

2021-01-31T19:12:01Z

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			== 2.30.7 ==
			<small>'''Release: (2021/01/31)'''</small>
			=== Bug fixes ===
			* Fixed a bug with scout hide not being removed when using squad hide and certain weapons (engineer kit/RPG/Mortar)
			* Fixed a bug with the squad aura icon displaying the wrong icon when changing between squads (Displayed for less than a second but it's now fixed.)
			* Fixed a bug preventing squad aura effect from being removed when leaving squads sometimes.

			=== Script/Game Balance ===
			* Changed scout sway pattern to use a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lissajous_curve#/media/File:Lissajous_relaciones.png Lissajous Curve]
			** Tweaked sway values again to balance the weapon again
			** There was a small amount of interference depending on FPS values for sway, this is now fixed and should be standardized regardless of the player's FPS
			* Changes to building damage:
			** Removed the 25% damage increase against unbuilt buildings
			*** This was hard not very discoverable and added a layer of complexity to balancing the game.
			** Reverted a feature that would give you a 50% random chance to repair less if the building you were repairing was recently under-fire

	== 2.30.6 ==		== 2.30.6 ==
	<small>'''Release: (2021/01/30)'''</small>		<small>'''Release: (2021/01/30)'''</small>