Version/2.35.x

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2.35.0

Release: (TBA)

Features

• Added a screen overlay that is applied when players are afflicted with the damage over time effect of biological weapons.
• Changed the old scout hide screen darkening to use a screen overlay that is essentially a vignette effect instead of darkening the whole screen.

Bug fixes

• Fixed vehicle spawners autorespawn keyvalue not working as intended. Vehicles would never respawn if the previous vehicle carcass had been recycled.
• Fixed an issue causing vehicles to be sent less throttle input than expected. The expected multiplier input to physics engine was 1.0 (MAX), actual input was 0.92 because of a bad constant hardcoded in via joystick code. (This also affects keyboard input.)
  • This means vehicles will effectively have 8.69% increased throttle. This is unlikely to have a big impact on game balance.
• Fixed a bug causing non-solid emp_engineer_map_brush / emp_engineer_map_object entities to receive damage.
• Concussion grenades now only blind alive players.
• Various bug fixes to env_projectedtexture
  • Also increased limit of env_projectedtexture entities from 1 per PVS to 9.
• Fixed a bug preventing the "raise on build" functionality of emp_eng_map_brush & emp_eng_map_model entities from working.
• Fixed a bug involving turrets spawned using the point_template. Turrets would try to upgrade beyond level 3 and would break completely.

Script/Game Balance

• Increased the radius of the engineer radar from 2000 -> 4000 units.
• Reduced the radius of the scout's auto-spotting from 5000 -> 3000 units.

Infantry Weapons

• Concussion grenades
  • Concussion grenades no longer disable turrets if the damage dealt is lower than 10.
  • The temporary disabled state applied to turrets is now removable by repairing the turret.
    • Repairing 25 units of health or repairing a turret to full health will now end the disabled state early.
  • Reduced the damage from 40 to 35.
  • Reduced the explosion radius from 400 to 350.
  • Reduced the explosion falloff radius from 200 to 175.

Maps

con_eastborough

• Ticket issues resolved.
• Map description has been updated/fixed.
• Slight adjustments to one of the flags.
• Changed the lighting and atmosphere, added weather effects.

as_escort

• 4x damage multiplier on the second flag's buildable bridge is now 2x - Respawn timer is unchanged. (60 seconds)
• Tweaked displacements around the last flag to hopefully prevent Brenodi being able to access areas they're not supposed to reach.
• Fixed some exploit spots around the first flag by tweaking the player clip brushes.

Other/Misc

• Change commander alert hotkey to jump to the most recent alert instead of cycling through the onscreen alerts.
  • This has been changed because new alerts weren't resetting the cycle position and the hot key was confusing to use. It now mirrors behavior typical to other RTS games.
• Updated the Empires FGD with various fixes and additions.
  • Vehicle chassis/engine/weapon ID's have been updated for vehicle spawner entities to work as expected.
  • Added various autovisgroup definitions for ease of hiding/selecting entities in hammer.
  • Added a new keyvalue to vehicle spawners to add a delay when respawning vehicles after a previously spawned vehicle is removed.
  • Updated and improved the FGD definition for env_projectedtexture.