Version/2.37.x

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2.37.0

Release: 2024-05-26

Features

• Grenades and mines make sounds when they bounce against surfaces.
• Added armor impact sounds.
  • Distinct sounds play when a vehicle's armor is damaged, a vehicle's hull is damaged, and when a sticky grenade latches to a tank hull.
  • Different armors can have different sounds, though most armors currently do not.
• Enabled several unused NF taunts.
• Updated the commander view's zoom functionality.
  • Added zoom-to-cursor functionality. The camera will zoom towards the cursor position when enabled. An option will be added to the advanced section of the multiplayer settings menu.
  • Camera smoothing has been updated, updated cvars added to control this.
    • emp_comm_zoom_stepsize - Controls how many units to increment/decrement the target zoom amount per scroll.
    • emp_comm_zoom_speed - Original cvar, original values should still work with updated smoothing method.
• Enabled the trigger_portal brush entity.
  • trigger_portal is an brush entity in the Source base code.
  • It moves touched entity to a destination trigger_portal, preserving the relative position and velocity of the entity.
  • Warning: This entity can cause teleported entities to become stuck or escape the map, and has not extensively tested. Use at your own risk!
• Added team-limiting spawnflags to all trigger bruah entities.

Bugfixes

• Fixed the game phase material proxy not updating correctly.
• Fixed MG turrets continuing to play the shooting sound effect after game end.
• Fixed spectator HUD not displaying observer target info correctly.
• Added warning message when the vehicle customization menu fails to open because your team has no chassis researched.
• Changes to team physics content masking.

Script/Game Balance

Vehicle Weapons

• Guided Missile
  • Increased Maximum Guiding Range from 5500 to 8000
• Homing Missile
  • Increased Maximum Lock On range from 7000 to 8000
• Biological Missile
  • Reduced Bio Duration from 8 to 5s

Vehicle Armors

• Regenerative
  • Reduced Health Regeneration from 4 to 3

Vehicle Engines

• Bio Diesel
  • Reduced Cooling by 0.25

Other changes

• Sever operators can now disable the server inactivity timeout by setting emp_sv_inactivity_timeout to 0.
  • If non-zero, the timeout has a minimum of 120 seconds.
• Deprecate the emp_sv_forceteam convar.
  • This functionality has been replaced by the new AllowedTeams field in emp_info_params.
    • Setting AllowedTeams to 0 allows players to join either team. Setting it to 2 or 3 allows player to only join Northern Faction or Brenodi Empire respectively.
    • This function can still be accessed by setting the emp_sv_forceteam convar, but that variable is now deprecated and will not show up in autocomplete.
• Remove remnants of the PushMap setting in emp_params
• Minimap icons will now be revealed to both teams when the game is over.
• When the game ends, the game timer on the HUD will freeze, displaying the final time for that round.
• When creating workshop packages, you can now specify a preview image.
  • This can be done by adding the "Image" "FilePathRelativeToWorkshopItemFolder.jpg" KV pair to the package.txt`

Known Issues

• Armor impact sounds are often too quiet to be heard well.