Version/2.15.x

2.15.9

Not yet released

Bugfixes

• Fixed a very rare situation where engineer charge could go below zero.
• Homing missiles will now seek homing_beacon model attachment if there is one, fixes ml turrets missing repair stations.
• Fixed the first revive of the game giving players all their ammo back.
• Fixed issue with vbsp.exe resulting in broken cubemaps.

Features

• emp_sv_vehicle_fadeout_time_partial now controls how many seconds to add onto vehicle carcasses after the original fadeout time has passed.
• Added a cvar to control e-repair speed: emp_sv_player_erepair_speed
• Added a cvar to control how much health a player has after being revived: emp_sv_player_revive_penalty

Model changes

• Added homing_beacon attachments to both repair station models.
• Tweaked collisions on NF Armory to fix the parts you could walk into.

Balance changes

• e-repair speed lowered from 200 health units per minute to 150

Map changes

• Fixed cubemaps on various maps
  • Coast
  • Crossroads
  • Cyclopean
  • District 402
  • Duststorm
  • Glycen City
  • Mvalley
  • Palmbay
  • Streets of Fire
  • Urban Chaos

Coast

• Clipped off a potential stuck spot south of NF main
• Behind the scenes optimisation
  • vvis time down from just under 30 minutes to under 2 minutes

Crossroads

• Fixed reflections on tower roofs

Glycen City

• Updated to misplaced, newer version
• Fixed final flag for each team not appearing on the minimap

Mvalley

• Fixed exploit where players could get under the concrete bridge leading to BE main
• Fixed exploit where players could drop from dam refinery building roof into its window
• Disabled placement of engineer walls inside dam refinery building and near its northern exits
• Adjusted several misaligned textures around dam
  • Should you find more, do report them

Streets of Fire

• Clipped off exploit points around BE main
• Plain glass windows are now breakable
• Disabled shadows on trees
  • Their shadows caused visual issues
• Lighting adjustments in NW and tunnels
• Behind the scenes optimisation
  • vvis time below 20 minutes!

2.15.8

Features

• Spanish translation by Joy

Bugfixes

• Fixed trailing '1' after research completion message.
• Reinstated stamina and health bars for players inside vehicles

Map changes

Coast

• Added AI navigation mesh
• Changed amount of players required to capture the flag from 1 to 2
• Fixed incorrect shadow near middle
• Fixed broken cubemap near the southeastern refinery
• Minor behind the scenes optimisation

Cyclopean

• Brightened LDR lighting

Duststorm

• Adjusted fog to not blind at long range
• Tweaked tonemap controller

Streets of Fire

• Tweaked shadows - trees and other tall objects should now have them
• Fixed elevator in B5
• Disabled ladders leading to rooftops near main bases
• Unified render distance for foliage along the A2-D2 street
• Minor behind the scenes optimisation

2.15.7

Bugfixes

• Fixed issue which crashed the linux dedicated server on startup

2.15.6

Features

• Added new "OnWaitPhaseEnd" event to be used by mappers, called when the timer at the start of the game is over.

Bugfixes

• Fixed a bug that would cause players to have to re-enter a flag to change their class after capturing
• Fixed missing localization strings in the research menu
• Fixed railgun being automatically researched
• Fixed a bug with buildings trying to block parts of the nav-mesh before it was loaded

Map changes

Crossroads

• Moved rock cluster near western NF checkpoint to make driving a little easier
• Disabled Engineer restrict brushes in middle
• Re-allowed all Engineer buildables
• Blocked vehicle traversal of cliff paths leading to north and south middle buildings
• Tweaked all potholes to ensure vehicles can't get permanently stuck while still being able to roadkill infantry within
• Generated a navigation mesh for AI
• Replaced some complex brush-based details with Propper-made models
  • Railing section above NF main (called railing01)
  • Pipe section from middle's eastern and western building (called pipe_large02)

2.15.5

Bugfixes

• Fixed pipe_large01 model preventing maps with it from compiling

Map changes

Crossroads

• Minor graphical improvements
• Sewed misaligned displacements near the eastern and western buildings
  • Should prevent edge case scenarios getting players stuck while traversing
• Reinstated missing railing section in NF main
• Added player clips to northern and southern buildings
  • Smoother stair traversal should make for easier shooting
• Fixed NF western checkpoint's ramp logic
  • Ramps should no longer hover above the ground
• Added vehicle clips to potholes around the map
  • They should prevent vehicles from getting (as) stuck while still allowing infantry hiding within to be roadkilled
• Added rocks blocking vehicle access to walkways along checkpoints

Version 2.15.4

Bugfixes

• Fixed translation issue with unresearched tech
• Made artillery recoil weaker than the brakes. Added emp_sv_artillery_recoil_multiplier to control it.
• Fixed the bug causing mortars and tanks not showing the correct icons in the killfeed.

Version 2.15.3

Bugfixes

• Fixed armor translations
• Fixed engine translations

Features

• NPCs

Version 2.15.2

Features

• Added clientside ability to map chat commands starting with an exclamation mark. ( emp_chatcommand_bind )
• Added (optional) admin list that allows players to execute commands without having to know the rcon password. ( emp_admin_add )

Changes

• mp_chattime increased from 20 to 45
• Modified mapcycle.txt to better suit low population games
• Updated maplist.txt to contain all working maps

Bugfixes

• Added background to stamina(sprint) bar.
• Fixed issue with squadlead.cfg not executing when receiving squadlead.
• Fixed issues with translations.
• Firing weapon when out of stamina no longer gives a penalty unless weapon uses stamina.
• Fixed issues with hitting players in vehicles.

Map changes

Crossroads

• Removed building restricts from main base walls

Cyclopean

• Adjusted NF base foundation to allow for easy maneuvering around the northeastern corner
• Tweaked displacements and their textures in NW
• Raised commander restrict brushes on main base walls to allow turret placement
• Modified shadow_control entity to improve shadows

District 402

• Adjusted some player clip ramps to ensure all stairs have smooth traversal
• Moved overlays on a building in D7 so that they are not in between two different surfaces

Glycen City

• Reduced tickets to 3000 for each side
• Fixed incorrect door entity origins that prevented the map from compiling
• Minor behind the scenes optimisation

Mvalley

• Removed comm_restrict brushes from dam ramps
• Raised map border grid to the top of the skybox so that commanders see it too
• Increased resource income for main base refineries to 2x
• Added vehicle clips to dam ramps to prevent hiding vehicles inside ramps, then building them
• Modified shadow_control entity to improve shadows

Palmbay

• Re-enabled props inside the shack in middle
• Re-enabled tonemap controller
  • This should make the map more bearable in HDR

Streets of Fire

• Behind the scenes optimisation
  • Compile time down from 8+ hours to 2 hours
• Added vehicle clip brushes to clipped areas to disallow 9mining out of the map
• Disabled easter egg
• Normalised refinery income - all refineries generate 2 resources per second
• Lowered trees in the central park to no longer float
• Tweaked shadow_control entity
  • Please report any and all shadow issues you come across

Urbanchaos

• Lowered floating crates at BE 1st flag
• Reworked crates at BE 1st flag to disallow hiding behind them while capturing the flag
• Shrunk the size of 1st NF flag to not extend past the crates in the west
• Modified shadow_control entity to give more accurate shadows

Version 2.15.1

Features

• Improved weapon descriptions
• Update to research item descriptions
• Artillery now uses lag predicted shells
• Packed files into vpks for faster disk access
• Changed falloff system to be easier to tweak
• Made a lot of strings translatable.
• Added sv_pure support for most assets.
• Added research item translation strings (name and descriptions, this means the following are now translatable)
  • Plasma-Resistant Shell Coating
  • Dedicated Plasma Cannon
  • Projectile Physics
  • Aerodynamic Shells
  • Heavy-Duty Ranged Cannon
  • Thermobaric Shells
  • Thermobaric Cannon
  • Expanded Missile Launcher
  • Heavy-Duty Missile Warhead
  • Enhanced Grenadier Missiles
  • Mobile Industrial Electromagnets
  • Overcharged Railgun
  • Enhanced Homing AI
  • Upgraded Homing Missiles
  • Guiding Signal Boosters
  • TOW GUided Missiles
  • Incubator Missiles
  • Virulent Warhead
  • Biological Cannon
  • Incubator Tanks
  • Virulent Shells

• Updated names and descriptions of some existing strings (This brings them up to date with what is in the scripts)
  • Research Index
  • Superheated Material Physics
  • Nuclear Fission
  • Fission Reactor
  • Deflective Armor
  • High Explosive Grenades
  • High Explosive Shells
  • Improved Warhead Compounds
  • Upgraded Missile Warhead
  • Absorbant Armor
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Upgraded Chassis
  • Advanced Chassis
  • Advanced Machining
  • Composite Armor
  • Electrical Engineering
  • Advanced Magnet Research
  • 3 Phase Electric Motor
  • Capacitive Armor
  • Reactive Armor
  • Tracking Systems
  • Upgraded Turrets Lvl 2
  • Upgraded Turrets Lvl 3
  • Regenerative Armor
  • Biological Weaponry
  • Biological Projectile
• Added emp_ungrief command

Bugfixes

• Fixed crash on exit
• Fixed shells no longer highlighting when using artillery feedback
• Fixed engineer kit ammo dropping below zero.

Map Changes

• Cyclopean:
  • Adjusted displacements around NW
    • This removes a visual 'leak' under the southern NW refinery
    • This makes it slightly easier to get up on the hill in the southeastern corner of NW
  • Adjusted displacements in city
    • This prevents climbing an unintuitively climbable area in the southeastern corner
  • Fixed skybox fog density
    • It's no longer a wall of grey until you get very close to a map border
  • Fixed displacement sticking through terrain in BE main
    • Kudos to anyone else who noticed that one
  • Fixed displacements sticking through terrain in NF main
  • Fixed an exploit where you could climb a hill into the NF main
  • Fixed (some) textures being needlessly rendered in northwest
    • If you find any others, post on the forums and they will be fixed
  • Adjusted displacements around the southern bridge to prevent seeing under the map
  • New 2D skybox
  • New lighting
    • Please report any lighting issues you notice
  • New fog

• District402:
  • Preparing the map for AI players:
    • Broadened staircase to BE 4th flag
    • Slightly tweaked detail crates near BE 1st and 3rd flag
    • Moved BE resupply boxes at BE 3rd flag
    • Slightly moved poles near NF 1st and 4th flag
    • Added [disabled] bot spawners
  • Behind the scenes optimisation efforts
  • Fixed exploit where BE 2nd flag could be captured from outside its building
  • Added automatic attack/move targets that indicate the current objective
  • Tweaked stairs to allow for smooth traversal instead of jumpy climbing

• Mvalley:
  • Added a border grid akin to duststorm to better visualise the edge of the map
  • Added a missing commander restrict brush on BE's dam ramp

• Urbanchaos:
  • Decompiled to get editable source files
    • This might have caused unforeseen errors within the map. Please report any bugs you find
  • Fixed 1st BE flag dimensions
    • It is no longer capturable from the western side of the barricades
  • Moved destroyed NF APC prop near NF 2nd flag to allow easy vehicle traversal around it
  • Fixed exploit where players could traverse along a sheer wall near BE 2nd flag
  • Fixed some missewn displacements
  • Rotated NF resupply crates near NF 1st flag to face the correct direction
  • Added sky viscluster in an attempt to improve performance
  • Behind the scenes optimisation

Script Changes

• Normalized melee damage
  • BE Machine Pistol
    • Damage 50->40
    • Cycle Time 0.5->0.4
  • BE Pistol 1
    • Damage 70->40
    • Cycle Time 0.5->0.4
  • BE Pistol 2
    • Cycle Time 0.5->0.4
  • BE SMG 1
    • Cycle Time 0.5->0.55
  • BE SMG 2
    • Cycle Time 0.5->0.55
  • NF Pistol 1
    • Damage 70->40
    • Cycle Time 0.5->0.4
  • NF Shot Pistol
    • Cycle Time 0.5->0.4
  • NF SMG 1
    • Cycle Time 0.5->0.55
  • NF SMG 2
    • Cycle Time 0.5->0.55
  • NF SMG 3
    • Cycle Time 0.5->0.55

• Infantry weapon tweaks
  • NF Heavy Rifle
    • Damage 43->45
    • FalloffEnd 5250->7000
    • Minimal Damage 35->33
  • BE Assault Rifle
    • FalloffEnd 8000->6000
    • Minimal Damage 22->20

• Vehicle weapon tweaks
  • UML
    • Damage 60->62
    • Speed 2500->2600
  • Heavy-duty ML
    • Damage 66->68
    • Speed 2650->2750

• Fixed engine inconsistencies
  • APC
    • Gas Turbine
      • HorsePower 1050->1190
  • LT/AFV
    • Gas Turbine
      • HorsePower 2500->2700
  • Medium Tank
    • Gas Turbine
      • HorsePower 2000->2700
    • 3 Phase Electric
      • HorsePower 2000->2500
  • Heavy Tank
    • Gas Turbine
      • HorsePower 2000->2700
    • 3 Phase Electric
      • HorsePower 2000->2500
  • Artillery Tank
    • Gas Turbine
      • Reverse Speed 20->23
      • HorsePower 2000->2700
    • 3 Phase Electric
      • Reverse Speed 20->25
      • HorsePower 2000->2500
    • Fission Reactor
      • Reverse Speed 20->24
    • Advanced Coolant Engine
      • Reverse Speed 20->22