Version/2.36.x

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2.36.0

This patch has not yet been released The information in this section is preliminary and subject to change, including the addition and removal of entire sections.

Release: (TBA)

Features

• Added angle snapping to commander building placement. This shares a key bind with multi-unit selection. (Default key is shift.)
• Added firing sounds to MG turrets.
• The vehicle health HUD has been improved:
  • The health of each armor plate and hull are overlaid as a number. This feature can be disabled in the advanced options section.
  • The armor plates are no longer crudely drawn as a sequence of overlapping lines, they're now drawn correctly as textured polygons.
  • The corners of armor plates no longer have large gaps. Armor plates are drawn as trapezoids with a defined gap between them, resulting in the armor display looking more rectangular overall.
  • Armor plates that are missing are now drawn as a border. This should help to communicate to players that there are plates that can be repaired.
  • Armor plates (or hull) that are affected by biological DoT now display an icon.
  • The following console variables have been added to customize the vehicle HUD:
    • emp_cl_vehiclehealth_show_numbers: Controls whether to display the amount of armor and hull health numerically in the vehicle HUD.
    • emp_cl_vehiclehealth_armor_offset: How many pixels to offset the armor plates from the chassis in the vehicle HUD.
    • emp_cl_vehiclehealth_armor_thickness: How many pixels thick to draw the armor plates in the vehicle HUD.
    • emp_cl_vehiclehealth_armor_spacing: How many pixels thick the gap is between the armor plates in the vehicle HUD.
    • emp_cl_vehiclehealth_armor_spacing_corner: How many pixels thick the gap is between the corners of the armor plates in the vehicle HUD.
• Added emp_logic_playercount_listener entity.
  • This entity fires outputs when the player count changes. You can specify whether to search for Brenodi or Northern Faction players or both, and whether to check for just alive players or all players.
  • This release includes emp_variable_playercount_template.vmf, an example map to show how you might use this feature to dynamically open and close map lanes as player count changes.
• Added outputs to emp_params on almost every game phase transition:
  • OnPhaseBeginTactics
    • Note: Since the tactics phase is not currently implemented, this fires at the same time as OnPhaseBeginGame
  • OnPhaseBeginWait
  • OnPhaseBeginGame
  • OnPhaseBeginInfSuddenDeath
  • OnPhaseBeginCVSuddenDeath
  • OnGameEnd
  • OnGameOutcomeNFWin
  • OnGameOutcomeNFLose
  • OnGameOutcomeBEWin
  • OnGameOutcomeBELose
• Added the following inputs and outputs to all buildings: (Used by level designers.)
  • Inputs
    • SetHealth : "Sets the health of the building, clamped between 0 and the building's maximum health."
    • Destroy : "Set the health of the building to 0."
    • RecycleStart : "Begin the recycle process."
    • RecycleStartDuration : "Begin the recycle process, with the countdown set to the given number of seconds."
    • RecycleCancel : "Cancel the recycling process, returning the building to a functional state."
    • SabotageStart : "Mark this building as sabotaged. If the activtor is a player, give them points for it."
    • SabotageEnd : "Mark this building as no longer sabotaged."
  • Outputs
    • OnBuilt : "Fired when this building is fully built."
    • OnNFBuilt : "Fired when this building is fully built by the Northern Faction."
    • OnImpBuilt : "Fired when this building is fully built by the Brenodi Empire."
    • OnKill : "Fired when this building is destroyed."
    • OnSpotted : "Fired when this building is spotted by an enemy using any method. The spotter is the activator."
    • OnSpottedBinoculars : "Fired when this building is spotted by an enemy using the binoculars. The spotter is the activator."
    • OnSabotageStart : "Fired when this building has become sabotaged. The saboteur is the activator."
    • OnSabotageEnd : "Fired when this building is repaired."
    • OnRecycleStart : "Fired when a commander has started the recycling process on this building."
    • OnRecycleCancel : "Fired when a commander has canceled the recycling process on this building."
    • OnRecycleComplete : "Fired when this building has been recycled."
    • There are also two additional outputs for the Radar, Engineer Radar, and Engineer Camera that fire whenever an entity is detected.
      • OnVehicleSpotted, OnVehicleFirstSpotted, OnPlayerSpotted, OnPlayerFirstSpotted

Bug fixes

• Applied a potential fix for player muting via the scoreboard. When the server reaches enough players, player muting would stop working as intended.
• Fixed squad heal not removing Bio damage over time effect properly.
• Fixed an issue where squad recon would spot squad hidden players for longer than intended.
• Fixed various issues where the game's code would skip over the last player when processing through all players in a full server. Unknown what bugs this may have caused.
• Changed building smoke to always emit fire when the building is destroyed, instead of sometimes showing unbuilt/sabotage smoke.
• Neutral tank turning now rotates around the tank's local axis instead of world space. This was causing strange behaviour when driving up/down slopes.
  • Neutral turn is no longer unconstrained in applying angular velocity. Prior to this version, angular velocity was set directly; instead of being applied as an angular force impacting the angular velocity. This will mean that tanks are no longer able to rotate beyond the capability of the force being applied.
• Fixed minor issues with vehicle detection overlays. (Don't show for your own vehicle and for vehicle corpses.)
• Fixed the emp_infantry_restrict team filters being inverted.
• 3x Crashes have been fixed.
• Fixed some minor issues in the vehicle HUD. For example, no longer displaying the armor detection overlay for your own vehicle or dead vehicles.
• Map info script parsing system has been refactored.
  • All parameters present in the map info file have sensible defaults, allowing a map to be played even if there is no map info file or the client fails to download it.
  • Line breaks can be placed in the objective and description panels using the \n escape sequence.
  • Map info can be reloaded client-side using the mapinfo_flushscript command, though this currently requires the map to be reloaded for the changes to take effect.
• Fixed commander vote count not resetting between rounds.
  • There are still some client-side vote count issues to resolve but these will be addressed in a future version as it requires large changes to rewrite the client-side vote count system.
• Fixed a bug where spotting a building with regular spotting would override the longer spotting provided by binoculars.
• The emp_info_params entity inputs SetNFResources and SetBEResources now function correctly. Previously, they would double the current resource value and then subtract the desired value.
• The vehicle weapon HUD now displays properly when using a vehicle equipped with weapons that are not researched. Previously, unresearched weapons would not show up in the HUD. This was only an issue for maps that spawned in vehicles.

Other Changes

• Added prop_sphere to the FGD and updated code to allow a radius to be set.
• Added various team colored developer textures for use when designing maps. (materials/dev directory)
• Added the emp_sv_forceteam CVAR, which will force all players to join either BE or NF if enabled.
• Added the startResearched research script variable. Researches that have startResearched = 1 will already be researched when the game starts (if this is the correct team).
  • This allows specific maps to use the emp_sv_unresearch_item command to set the starting chassis as restricted (Jeep/APC/Light tank/AFV).
  • If there are no chassis available the vehicle menu will not open when players attempt to open it.
• Changed all turret/camera/radar models to use metal surface property instead of default.
• Auto-connect to the lobby server has been disabled by default. Auto-connect to lobby can be re-enabled by adding -lobby to the launch options within Steam.

Script/Game Balance

• Jumping stamina usage has been tweaked so that the stamina requirement to jump is 50% of the actual stamina deduction. Additionally, stamina upgrade now reduces the amount of stamina deducted per jump by 1/4 instead of 1/3.
  • This means a jump spends 20 stamina (about 3 bars), but you can still jump so long as you have 10 stamina (about 1.5 bars) left. With stamina upgrade, each jump will spend 15 stamina instead of 13.3.
  • This change was made to make navigating the map less frustrating when out of combat. This should be less punishing when you have completely depleted your stamina, but still enforce the usual restrictions to combining sprinting and jumping while in combat. The values were tweaked to ensure that even with stamina upgrade, you cannot bunny hop when you're out of stamina.