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Current Unreleased Version: 1.08/RC17

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Unreleased: Version 1.08

Empires 1.08 Build 138/RC 17 July 27, 2007

Version 1.08 Beta Build 138/RC 17 Changes:

Maps: altered cliff textures
Added: visual build effect when non-engineers are building
Added: sound effects for building/repairing and reviving
Added: new world models for all updated view models
Added: melee kill death icon
Added: run over by vehicle death icon
Added: death icons to differentiate mortar and rpg weapons and to differentiate Northern Faction and Brenodi types
Added: head shot death icon
Fixed: Brenodi radar did not give off smoke when damaged
Fixed: if a player is voted commander and spawns after someone enters the command vehicle, they're informed that the spawn point has been lost instead of spawning at the command vehicle
Fixed: when spectating a vehicle in chase cam view, passengers could interfere with the camera
Fixed: ML turrets couldn't lock onto Brenodi jeeps
Fixed: in squad list GUI, "leave" button was disabled when the squad was full; "invite player" button is now disabled when the squad is full
Fixed: squad leader's artillery strike did no damage
Fixed: squad leader's artillery strike did not always occur in the correct location
Fixed: cancelling an order from the popup menu did not work
Fixed: when successfully ejecting the commander by the Brenodi team, the wrong name was printed for the commander's name
Fixed: a large lag spike could cause the starting music to play again
Fixed: could not see teammates' names above their heads while in a vehicle
Fixed: squad points were not counting down when a squad leader power was used
Fixed: rare crash on level load
Fixed: players could climb ladders while in prone
Modified: revamped vehicle network variables to reduce bandwidth usage
Modified: altered weapon scripts for greater accuracy when in prone
Modified: health regeneration skill and squad leader engineer aura slowly repair vehicle health and armor (1 HP/2 sec)
Modified: doubled radius of squad leader's aura
Modified: improved Brenodi APC/AFV and NF APC turning ability at higher speeds
Modified: improved vehicle turret range of motion; BE APC and AFV can aim lower; APCs can aim much higher
Modified: put darker background behind the HUD's entity health bar due to being whited out by engineer tool kit effect

Version 1.08 Beta Build 137/RC 16 Changes:

Maps: new textures for emp_cyclopean, emp_isle, and emp_duststorm
Added: sitting animation for players in vehicles
Added: skill icon under squad HUD that shows the skill you're getting from being near your squad leader; transparency based on distance from squad leader
Added: swaying to scout rifle when in scope view; magnitude of sway is affected by amount of stamina the player has
Added: squad leader activated skills, two per class, each require 4 squad points:
- scout = spot all enemies in a nearby radius for one minute
- scout = squad members are hidden for 30 seconds
- rifleman = no stamina drain for 30 seconds
- rifleman = damage is reduced by 20% for 30 seconds
- grenadier = weapon damage bonus of 20% for 30 seconds
- grenadier = arty strike
- engineer = mass revive all dead squad members and place near squad leader
- engineer = instant health regen to 100%
Fixed: VGUI panels would screw up when changing resolution
Fixed: accuracy in prone being worse than ducking
Fixed: going prone could put the player through the ground
Fixed: player could jump while in prone
Fixed: spectator could go prone
Fixed: NF HMG crosshair being solid
Fixed: holding the attack button while in prone and moving would stack the weapon firing until the player stopped moving and release the stored up weapon firings
Fixed: decal flickering on team logos in emp_crossroads
Fixed: squad HUD should no longer have blank names
Fixed: building attack alerts had ceased working when commander alerts were added
Fixed: commander is no longer listed in the squad panel's player list
Fixed: commander can no longer see engineer's build effect which was not obscured by the commander fog of war
Modified: increased stamina penalty per scout rifle shot to increase weapon sway with each shot
Modified: reduced scout's total rifle ammo from 60 to 30 and scout rifle clip size from 15 to 5
Modified: squad leader is now always the first name listed on the squad HUD
Modified: revived players start in the prone position
Modified: changed squad leader's green arrow on the HUD to a star icon

Version 1.08 Beta Build 136/RC 15 Changes:

Added: sabotaged buildings now experience a health drain of 1 HP every 3 secs
Added: squad limit of no more than 5 players to a squad
Added: squad leader bonus aura of 50 feet; squad members within this aura will receive a bonus determined by the squad leaders class (scout = stamina recharge rate + 33%, rifleman = accuracy increase of 20%, grenadier = weapon damage increase of 10%, engineer = health recharge of 1HP/2secs)
Added: prone (+prone acts as a toggle; no firing while moving in prone; no moving while zoomed/in ironsights in prone)
Added: third person melee animations

Version 1.08 Beta Build 135/RC 14 Changes:

Maps: updates to emp_district402, emp_cyclopean
Added: new melee animations for Brenodi SMGs 1 and 2
Added: new melee animation for NF SMG 1
Added: scout rifles no longer automatically unzoom when fired; they'll stay zoomed until the fire button is released
Added: another zoom level to the scout binoculars for a total of three zoom levels (unzoomed at 90 FOV, zoomed at 20 FOV, zoomed at 4 FOV)
Added: turrets can be sabotaged by a scout like any other building; the turret will refuse to target and fire when sabotaged
Added: "Falloff" parameter to weapon scripts to define how a bullet's damage decreases with range
Added: loading screen with hints and an image of the next map (if you were on the server when the map changed)
Fixed: both commander vehicles had not been updated for the new armor system
Fixed: player voted to become the commander could still spawn at the command vehicle if he spawned after another player had already taken the command vehicle
Fixed: health regen gave health even if the player had died
Fixed: players with max health upgrade only spawned with 100 health; changed so that they spawn with 130
Modified: when a flag is turned neutral, the two adjacent flags of the neutralized flag are disabled from being captured
Modified: reduced time penalty when trying to fire the mortar while standing from 1 second to 0.2 seconds
Modified: mortar can now be fired from a vehicle's passenger seat
Modified: reverted vehicle turret code to 1.07 codebase
Modified: faster throw animation for NF landmine
Modified: altered Speed Upgrade skill to allow you to move at 15% faster movement speed when not sprinting, was 10%
Modified: scout binoculars can be used to spot unlimited targets instead of only one target at a time (only last spotted target will give a point when destroyed)
Modified: scout concussion grenades will disable turrets for up to a maximum of 12 seconds (was 5 seconds) and emit purple smoke while disabled
Modified: jumping takes 20% stamina (was 25%) and can be done even if there's not enough stamina (penalty wait time will still activate at 0%)
Modified: scout rifles no longer experience excessive damage falloff with range (maximum falloff is now approximately 10%)
Removed: NF SMG 3 weapon

Version 1.08 Beta Build 133/RC 13 Changes:

Maps: updates to emp_escort, emp_isle, emp_district402, emp_canyon, emp_cdr_canyon, emp_crossroads, emp_streetsoffire, emp_urbanchaos
Added: visual effect to engineer kit repair
Added: reload and melee animations to BE smg 2 weapon
Fixed: revived players were only unsticking themselves if revived inside another player; changed to unstick if inside any object
Fixed: weapons had no "ACT_VM_DRAW_EMPTY" animation; pulling out an empty weapon played no sequence and always added a couple of seconds of delay before reloading
Fixed: engineer could repair wall being recycled
Fixed: crash when trying to write to read-only config files
Fixed: in controls panel, couldn't bind a command to "enter" if it had already been used
Fixed: health indicator was not taking Health Upgrade into account
Fixed: in a vehicle, the mouse could be lowered/raised greater than the turret would actually move
Fixed: vehicle cannon recoil was broken in previous turret code modification
Fixed: NF commander's unit panel's buildings list did not work
Modified: changed vehicle armor system to rely on the hit location's angle to determine the side of the armor hit
Modified: for vehicles built with no armor on a side, the engineer kit's HUD display shows no armor health bar vice an empty bar
Modified: weapon scripts to reduce weapon accuracy

Version 1.08 Beta Build 132/RC 12 Changes:

Maps: updates to emp_streetsoffire, emp_duststorm, emp_escort, emp_isle, and emp_canyon
Fixed: for spectators, players were still appearing in the center of the map when out of network range
Fixed: rare crash when first joining a game
Fixed: large improvements to "emp_unstuck" command
Fixed: vehicles colliding with small walls as if they were full length walls
Fixed: commander alerts' background drawn with random width
Fixed: commander unit info area text drawn with background
Fixed: in commander interface, player healthbars were broken in RC11
Fixed: players could join a locked squad
Fixed: players requesting to join a locked squad unable to join if the squad leader invites them afterward
Fixed: only visible passengers in a vehicle create a ragdoll when the vehicle explodes; hidden players do not
Fixed: dying via falling will black out the player's screen; if the player went into spectator mode at this point, the screen would remain blacked out
Fixed: squad HUD showing blank names for squad members out of network range
Fixed: squad HUD showing yellow (shoot) and red (hurt/death) color indicators not updating correctly
Fixed: buildings being recycled still able to be repaired by engineer kit
Modified: changed engineer revive ability to revive the player where his ragdoll is vice where the player died
Modified: added check to revive to ensure the player will be above ground when revived

Version 1.08 Beta Build 129/RC 11 Changes:

Added: custom performance profiler with real-time logging to a CSV file
Added: for commander alerts, added background to the alert text showing exactly where you need to click to jump to the alert and improved detection of clicking on the alert
Added: engineer turret and camera health HUD indicators now show two health bars if two are built
Added: the commander will get points for all kills from commander built turrets no matter who was the commander when they were built
Fixed: NF rpg world model's normal texture map was defined incorrectly
Fixed: BE radar LOD problems
Fixed: set cannon shells to not hit the cannon or turret they originated from to prevent tanks from driving so fast that they hit their shell when it's first fired
Fixed: passenger in vehicle getting hurt from things hitting the vehicle
Fixed: spectating passengers in vehicles causing problems with spectator camera
Fixed: scout going hidden when in a vehicle
Fixed: going from spectator in-eye to chase camera would preserve the roll angle; it now resets to 0 when in chase camera mode
Fixed: as spectator, players out of visible range were showing up on the mini-map in the middle of the map
Fixed: background for spectator name was drawn incorrectly when the player's name contained unicode characters
Fixed: players lost their health upgrade skill after being revived
Fixed: server crash related to capture point event firing
Fixed: server crash related to "FindPickerEntity" function
Fixed: players getting stuck in engineer ammo crates
Fixed: passenger in vehicle getting credit for running players over
Fixed: spectators getting rank points
Fixed: controls panel resets all buttons and names when opened
Modified: set commander camera to not zoom when clicking on an alert unless the distance from the camera to alert position is less than 600 inches where it will then zoom out
Modified: scout now gets a rank point when two buildings are sabotaged (was five)

Version 1.08 Beta Build 124/RC 10 Changes:

Added: experimental client-side authoritative movement mode which is switched on via "emp_sv_client_auth_movement" convar
Modified: vehicles are required to be going at least 10 MPH before they begin dealing damage to enemy players, 20 MPH is lethal
Modified: when spectating a vehicle, the chase camera will sit at a farther distance
Fixed: squad panel not accepting commands after having joined a squad in a previous map
Fixed: issues with missile turrets
Fixed: spectator camera roll angle getting stuck on non-zero angle
Fixed: walls showing health meter to all classes when fully built (should hide when fully built)

Version 1.08 Beta Build 123/RC 9 Changes:

Maps: updated emp_glycencity to reduce overall brightness
Added: spectators can now see all players, vehicles, and buildings on the minimap
Added: "emp_sv_turret_search_interval" (default 0.5) convar to set how much time each turret must wait before searching for a new target
Added: spectators can now see the number of reinforcements remaining
Added: scout receives a point for sabotaging five buildings
Added: minimap maintains separate zoom levels for full and reduced map sizes
Fixed: "spray logo" command on the controls menu was not binding the correct command to the key
Fixed: engineer build kit not regenerating in the commander interface
Fixed: level 3 MG turrets could not keep their targets locked
Fixed: spectating an engineer will draw the health bars in the correct color (green or red) instead of always red
Fixed: spectating an engineer in a vehicle will not show the engineer kit HUD information
Fixed: players with the health upgrade skill would have their health bar as seen on the engineer kit's HUD extend past the border
Fixed: player voted as commander wasn't reporting his position as being in the command vehicle which prevented him from placing buildings nearby until getting out and back in
Fixed: ending a map as commander would leave you stuck in the commander interface in the next level without being able to do anything
Fixed: client-side vehicle turret acting twitchy
Fixed: as commander, unit order buttons would not update when recalling a # group
Fixed: when entering a vehicle, the player's view would not be set to the position the turret was in
Fixed: artillery vehicle turret appearing as backwards to the player who built it when first built
Fixed: large buildings (vehicle factories especially) weren't receiving full damage from explosive weapons
Fixed: scout rifle scope appearing as opaque on DX6/7 cards
Fixed: engineer would not get points for destroying an enemy building with the engineer kit
Fixed: choosing a skill gained from joining a squad and then leaving that squad would prevent you from changing your class, weapons, or skills
Fixed: unicode characters were not being printed correctly in the top left HUD area which printed the name of the commander
Fixed: line linking player orders from the player to the order location was not using the player's correct location when in a vehicle
Fixed: Brenodi repair pad crane texture not being transparent in black areas
Modified: added small time delay from when "emp_unstuck" command is given to when the player is actually moved to prevent player from avoiding being run over by vehicles
Modified: moved the location of the name of the person being spectated so that it's not overlapped by the vehicle heat bar
Modified: altered NF Vehicle Factory so that sabotage smoke comes from the top of the building vice from inside
Modified: lowered the 'emp_sv_spawn_protection' default to 3 seconds (was 6 seconds)

Version 1.08 Beta Build 122/RC 8 Changes:

Maps: updates to emp_cdr_canyon, emp_escort, emp_duststorm
Added: pressing the "show squad panel" button if the squad panel is open will close it
Added: both primary and secondary weapon groups can be fired at the same time
Fixed: added more error checking in HUD/GUI areas to prevent client-side crashes
Fixed: turrets would target the commander's camera in the commander interface
Fixed: Brenodi vehicle factory was using wrong LOD model
Fixed: vehicle turrets not appearing as black when destroyed
Fixed: commander able to use normal weapons (i.e. engineer tool) in command interface
Fixed: enemy commander being spotted by engineer cameras
Fixed: grenadier mortar crosshair showing in tanks' driver position
Fixed: grenadier in passenger position could damage his own tank with RPG
Fixed: mines placed and camera/turret health info would show when driving a vehicle and when in the commander interface
Fixed: commander would be warned of a player being hurt by the world (i.e. falling damage)
Fixed: in the controls panel, pressing escape when binding a key would warn if another command had also had escape pressed while binding it
Fixed: grenadier armor detection skill worked while dead
Fixed: going to iron sights would deactivate a hidden scout's darkened HUD affect, giving the false impression that he had lost his hidden status
Fixed: Brenodi engineer unable to use his revive ability
Fixed: revived players getting default ammo instead of the same amount of ammo they died with
Fixed: players were spawning inside each other because only the first spawn point was being returned as valid
Fixed: squad unlocking everytime the squad leader died
Fixed: squad panel not responding
Fixed: accepting a squad invite from the popup menu not working
Fixed: guns firing two tracers at once
Fixed: spotting via popup menu and binoculars was not checking if the spotted entity was alive
Fixed: mine counter was deducting two mines every time one mine was being defused
Fixed: scout receiving a point for spotting an enemy vehicle and then it being destroyed message saying that it was an enemy building, not a vehicle
Fixed: squad member HUD no longer shows dead squad members as having negative health
Fixed: touching a ladder as a spectator would alter the player's movement type and break spectator movement
Fixed: vehicle turrets not being client-side, again
Fixed: switching between the different control profiles is now done server-side vice client-side to eliminate key binding problems
Fixed: on the scoreboard, the "Victorious" and "Defeated" labels would stay after the level had changed
Fixed: when firing multiple vehicle weapons at the same time, they would collide with each other
Fixed: spectators not able to cycle through players in vehicles as available to be spectated
Fixed: crash when spectating a player in a vehicle and he quits
Modified: increased speed that buildings under attack flash on the minimap
Modified: commanders are no longer notified when an engineer building is built
Modified: increased scout rifle damage to 110 (was 60)
Modified: lowered RPG damage to 80 (was 105)
Modified: lowered mortar damage to 110 (was 120)
Modified: sabotaged buildings must now be repaired for 50 units of health to be repaired (was 10)
Modified: sabotaging a building places it health to 100 units of health (was 185) if its health is greater than 100 at the time of the sabotaging
Modified: improved player and vehicle collisions
Modified: made sure "emp_unstuck" command can find the ground beneath the player before moving them to the new position
Modified: if an enemy player is targetted via the commander's attack order and that player becomes the enemy commander, then he is removed from the attack order
Modified: for a commander's multiple attack order, each target is removed from the order and the commander informed on its death; previously, this only occurred when all targets were destroyed
Modified: changed vehicle turret mouse movement to mimic infantry mouse movement
Modified: renamed "emp_vehicle_mouse_speed" convar to "emp_cl_vehicle_sensitivity_ratio"

-Modified: all grenades and all secondary weapon attacks (melee/iron sights) can now be used underwater

Version 1.08 Beta Build 116/RC 7 Changes:

Modified: increased spawn protection to a default of 6 seconds
Fixed: artillery tank cannons shooting low
Fixed: commander is no longer warned that a building has been lost when an engineer recycles his own engineer buildings
Fixed: improved unsticking of players when getting stuck in engineer buildings
Added: building icons now flash on the minimap when under attack
Modified: when entering a passenger position on a vehicle where you can use your own weapons, the infantry binds are executed first and then the vehicle binds to prevent overwriting the keys for changing seats
Removed: eliminated missiles and shells from being able to be shot down
Fixed: for real this time, fixed the issue with not getting weapons when spawning in an APC
Fixed: some BE squad voices using NF voices as placeholders, now using the commander voice as a placeholder

Version 1.08 Beta Build 115/RC 6 Changes:

Added: HDR versions of emp_canyon, emp_cdr_canyon, emp_crossroads, emp_duststorm, and emp_money
Added: bind for "Choose Commander" in the controls panel to show the Vote Commander screen
Fixed: issue with vehicle attachment positions not being accurate
Fixed: vehicle machine guns were shooting slower on the server (which was incorrect) than on the client
Fixed: vehicle weapons would reload even if they still had ammunition currently loaded
Added: new ambient sounds for buildings
Added: individual explode sounds for each grenade
Added: new death explosion sound effects for vehicles
Fixed: vehicles sometimes not appearing as black when destroyed

Version 1.08 Beta Build 114/RC 5 Changes:

Added: emp_cyclopean
Added: emp_cdr_canyon which is a version of canyon with prebuilt bases and no commanders
Added: new version of emp_canyon and emp_crossroads
Fixed (RC4): first person shoot position was incorrect due to previous fix of making tracers come from world muzzle positions
Modified: reverted change to getting vehicle cannon origin and angles as the original method is more accurate but comes at a price
Fixed (RC4): going from scoped view to another weapon and then back would show the scoped crosshair when not in scoped view
Fixed: crosshairs (mortar crosshair especially) showing when driving a vehicle
Fixed: in the commander's Units panels, buildings were not being listed correctly
Fixed: when determining which armor side was hit on a vehicle, areas along the side but near the front of the vehicle were being reported as the rear armor side vice the front armor side
Fixed: spawn points would remain visible on the map after their parent building or APC was destroyed
Fixed: buildings emitting smoke when damaged at all instead of when less than half health remaining
Fixed: certain vehicle MG weapons would do friendly fire damage
Fixed: when entering the exposed hatch position of a vehicle (where you can use your own weapons), the vehicle controls would still be set instead of the infantry controls
Fixed: a player in a vehicle could enter another vehicle without leaving their current one; fixed so that the original vehicle is notified that the player has left
Fixed: when spawning in an APC, players would sometimes not be given their weapons
Fixed (RC4): bug with weapons not firing
Fixed: ammo counter acting jittery
Fixed: altered both team's jeeps' collision models so that passengers can shoot out

Version 1.08 Beta Build 113/RC 4 Changes:

Modified: removed ability to switch weapons while transitioning to/from iron sights
Fixed: crosshair disappearing if switched away from a weapon while in iron sights and then pulled out the weapon again
Fixed: weapons were appearing to shoot faster than they really were due to the prediction system predicting weapon shots multiple times
Fixed: increased the NF and BE scout rifle cycle time to prevent muffling the fire sound due to firing too quickly
Fixed: getting stuck in your own turret/camera/radar by building it on top of yourself
Fixed (RC3): too bright HDR in emp_glycen
Fixed: typo with "need artillery fire at these coordinates"
Fixed: turrets, engineer cameras and radars, and walls were able to be sabotaged but had no detrimental effect; removed the ability to sabotage these entities
Added: "emp_comm_zoom_speed" console variable to control how fast the commander camera zooms
Fixed (RC3): players getting teleported from one side of a vehicle to the other when running up against it
Fixed (RC3): bullets always coming from players' heads
Fixed (RC3): players not being hidden in vehicles like they're supposed to be

Version 1.08 Beta Build 112/RC 3 Changes:

Fixed (RC2): missing binoculars texture
Fixed (RC2): crates having no collision mesh
Fixed (RC2): dropping an engineer build object would show a crate no matter what
Fixed (RC2): sabotaging a refinery caused the refinery to output twice as much res instead of half
Modified (RC2): made commander zooming via the mouse scroll wheel smoothly transition from in/out instead of an abrupt transition
Fixed (RC2.5): commander minimap icon was not following the commander
Fixed (RC2): vehicle and grenadier's armor info HUDS were not in the correct position
Fixed (RC2): commander could still use the grenadier armor info skill in his interface
Fixed (RC2): NF world mortar model showing as "error"
Fixed (RC2): going into or out of iron sights able to be cancelled before the animation is completed
Added: new NF assault rifle model with iron sights as secondary attack
Fixed: NF mortar weapon's shells now shoot exactly from the barrel instead of to the side
Added: new NF .50 cal weapon model
Added: new NF MG weapon model
Fixed: "auto team join" always thinking the NF team had more players
Fixed: crash from commander vote
Added: progress bar for scout's sabotage with a "danger: electricity" icon
Added: for vehicles running over players, added a hull trace from the vehicle's previous position to current position in case vehicles are driving too fast to actually contact the player during a frame
Fixed: for combo boxes in panels on the title screen, the dropdown list was being hidden behind the active window
Added: new NF scout rifle model and animations
Added: new NF smg 2 model and animations
Modified: increased NF and BE scout rifle reload times to 1.25 to match the reload animation
Added: crosshairs to zoomed in scout rifles
Added: unzooming of scout rifles after each shot to reflect having to work the bolt to load the next bullet
Modified: removed weapon kick reduction modifier when in iron sights due to community feedback
Added: "stamina penalty" for weapon script files which will deduct from the player's stamina per shot; currently used for MGs
Fixed: NF shotty pistol having 300 rounds of ammunition

Version 1.08 Beta Build 108/RC 2 Changes:

Modified: scaled down all NF building textures to take up less texture space
Fixed (RC1): vehicles spawning with sabotaged health even though the vehicle factory wasn't sabotaged
Fixed (RC1): "+use"ing a vehicle factory to build it could crash the game when fully built
Fixed: player weapons and vehicle based machine guns would appear to shoot almost twice as many bullets as they actually fired
Fixed: weapon reloads would appear to finish in < 1 ms, have a full clip, and then shoot one bullet before syncing up with the server and having an empty clip with the weapon reloading
Fixed (RC1): voice status HUD was not showing when speaking
Fixed (RC1): player voted as commander placed in command vehicle every respawn beyond the initial spawn
Modified (RC1): players can now send messages while commander voting is occuring
Fixed: the NF rpg, mortar, and engineer kit weapons were using the Brenodi world models instead of NF ones
Fixed (RC1): missing binoculars zoom overlay texture
Fixed (RC1): commander name font size stays the same no matter what resolution now
Fixed (RC1): minimap vehicle icons always being rotated incorrectly
Fixed: improved the accuracy of pointing at and using the vehicle factory console
Fixed: tracers now correctly come from the player weapon's muzzle
Fixed: added env_tonemap_controller entity
Fixed: "game_text" entity was not showing its text on the screen when activated
Added: new NF shotgun pistol model
Added: env_tonemap_controller entity
Added: color_correction entity
Modified: changed building and vehicle damage smoke to start at 50% health instead of 75%
Added: replaced Valve start up video with the Empires logo

Version 1.08 Beta Build 107/RC 1 Changes:

Fixed: exploit where an engineer could switch between the repair kit and another weapon while holding attack to instantly regain his repair ammo
Fixed: weapon melee attacks would not delay primary attacks
Fixed: commander able to be hurt (ie from water or explosions)
Modified: players in vehicles no longer create ragdolls when they die
Fixed: exploit where a player could build a vehicle with negative armor and get money from the purchase, thanks dizzyone
Fixed: exploit where a player could build a vehicle with weapons it's not supposed to have, thanks dizzyone
Fixed: damage to armor that had negative speed modifiers (absorbant, reactive) could become negative and add armor instead of subtracting it
Fixed: concussion grenade were no longer blinding players with the new sdk
Modified: altered commander unit selection code to draw the selection box to more accurately reflect the shape of the unit
Added: commander can now select and recycle walls, even ones he hasn't built; only those built by the commander will give back any resources though
Modified: improved turret code to be more efficient/use less cpu
Added: 'emp_sv_max_turrets' cvar that limits how many turrets the commander can build; turrets no longer count for the team's build limit
Added: 'emp_sv_max_walls' cvar that limits how many walls the commander can build
Fixed: spawn and revive code now check to make sure the spawn area is empty to prevent the player from getting stuck in other objects
Added: 'emp_unstuck' command to move you if you're stuck in an object, will only work if it detects you're stuck
Added: vehicles now collide with players and deal collision damage to enemy players
Fixed: vehicle wheels now spin accurately instead of by a very rough appoximation
Fixed: recycling a building with less than full health wouldn't give back any resources
Fixed: as commander, selecting an engineer built radar or camera shows the correct image in the selection area
Fixed: the commander can no longer attempt to recycle an engineer built radar or camera
Added: vehicle wheels kick up dust when rolling (was removed in 1.01 due to being server-side and is now back in, implemented client-side)
Added: if a scout has an enemy vehicle or building spotted with binoculars for at least 6 seconds and it's destroyed by a team mate, the scout receives a rank point
Added: damaged vehicles emit smoke from their engines (use "emp_vehicle_smokeinterval" to set how often smoke is created per second, 0 = no smoke created)
Added: damaged buildings emit smoke from multiple places (use "emp_building_smokeinterval" to set how often smoke is created per second, 0 = no smoke created)
Fixed: homing missile lock on boxes more accurately match the location and shape of the vehicle
Added: as the commander a selected turret will display a circle in the world and on the minimap around itself to show its detection and attack radius
Added: as the commander a selected engineer camera/radar or regular radar will display a circle in the world and on the minimap around itself to show its detection radius with an inner animated circle
Added: work in progress fog of war for commander, needs improvement by turning it into a pixel shader as it currently looks blocky, must be turned on with "emp_comm_fogofwar 1"
Modified: set missile smoke trail to be more opaque and not dissipate as quickly
Added: 'emp_sv_spawn_protection' cvar which defines how many seconds a player is invulnerable to damage after spawning, default time is 2 seconds
Added: tanks with the faster engines slow down when turning to prevent spinning out
Fixed: vehicles and buildings on the minimap would stop showing up once 64 existed for either either team
Added: player chat is now colored based on the person's team (NF = red, BE = blue), commander chat is a lighter version of the team's color (only team mates of the commander see this)
Fixed: exploit where commander could use engineer build kit while in commander interface
Added: the commander's name is printed in the top left corner
Added: above the ammo bar, added an indicator of how many mines the player has existing in the world out of eight (the limit of placed mines)
Fixed: placing a mine when eight were already placed, would not update the new mine's placement time, sometimes causing the game to think the new mine was the earliest one placed and detonating it when a ninth mine was placed
Added: redid the grenadier's armor detection skill; it now recreates the vehicle HUD chassis information on the grenadier's HUD showing armor levels and hull health of the targetted vehicle
Added: above the health bar, added a health indicator for an engineer's built turret
Added: above the health bar, added a health indicator for an engineer's built camera/radar
Fixed: players can no longer open the team selection, class selection, or vehicle customization screens via shortcut key while in commander mode due to losing mouse control upon doing so
Modified: added a slightly transparent black background to chat text to make it more visible
Fixed: commander can no longer build in water
Added: scout sabotage ability: as a scout, hold +use on an enemy building for five seconds until purple smoke begins to pour out; an engineer can repair the building for 10 health to remove the sabotage status

Buildings are affected as follows: refinery - outputs half as many resources barracks - spawning players receive half their total amount of health radar - shows friendly units to the enemy instead of enemy units to friendlies armory - ammo and health crates take twice as long to give ammo/health repair bay - takes twice as long to repair a vehicle vehicle factory - vehicles are built with half of their total health and armor

Modified: changed crosshair so that it never expands more than 1/4 the size of the screen
Fixed: mines dropped in buildings were not able to be defused by a grenadier with the defuse skill
Fixed: commander was able to build a line of walls even though the start or end point was in an unbuildable area/out of buildable range
Added: events in the FGD for buildings to let map makers get output events from buildings when they're fully built and when they're killed
Added: events in the FGD for when a refinery is placed on a resource node for both teams
Fixed: when in commander mode, the player can no longer open the voice/quick command popup menu.
Fixed: on level change, the commander interface now resets the research tree position to the start point
Modified: team, class, and spawn point selection windows no longer continuously open; they will open only once and then print a message telling the player how to open the window again if needed
Added: commander voting during the first 60 seconds of a new map via a new window that automatically appears; the winner spawns inside the command vehicle in the commander interface
Fixed: passenger names in vehicles sometimes showing as "unconnected"
Added: new squad selection panel shown via "choosesquad" command, allows joining/leaving of squads, kicking players, locking a squad to disallow players from joining, and inviting players to the squad
Modified: players no longer have to request to join a squad and wait to be invited to complete the transaction unless the squad has been locked by the squad leader
Added: secondary attack toggles iron sight mode for BE Rifle and Scout Rifle
Modified: iron sights reduces weapon kick by 50% and weapon spread by 25%
Added: new Brenodi grenade model
Added: new NF RPG model
Modified: BSID updated many weapons and vehicle settings
Added: new minimaps done by Jcw87
Modified: rpg and mortar weapons can be switched from to another weapon while reloading
Modified: scaled down all NF building textures to take up less texture space

Version 1.08 Beta Build 92 Changes:

Added: new NF landmine
Fixed: all NF grenades have the new model and operate correctly
Modified: increased speed vehicle suspension moves wheels and removed players affecting vehicle wheel position (wheels would move up if a player stood next to them)
Modified: decreased NF light tank gear ratio to minimize spinning out
Added: new commander commands for zooming in/out a certain amount per button press and for toggling the build/factory/units/research windows
Added: new controls configuration panel on the title screen (accessed via 'Controls' item). It lets you configure key bindings for the different roles of infantry, in vehicle, and in commander interface.
Fixed: bug where commander camera would reverse its controls if it went below the z origin of the map
Modified: commander camera move speed code so that the "emp_comm_move_speed" cvar has more control over the speed of the camera's movement where before it only minimally affected movement speed
Modified: set players in a jeep as crouching instead of standing up
Added: converted Empires player models to HL2DM animation system
Fixed: improved the way vehicles fire their weapons (and get the origin and angles of the weapon) to decrease network traffic and remove the possibility of a crash
Fixed: exploit where clients could run certain admin only commands that would alter building physics or kick a commander
Added: new NF pistol model and animations
Fixed: bug with client-side player movement where certain buildings would cause the player to jitter up and down (caused by server-side physics shadow and network variable inaccuracy)
Modified: changed the client-side player movement code to run with the same tick time as the server (will this cause lagged players to move slower?)
Fixed: commander camera movement speed changing based on frames per second (ie, looking at a graphically intensive area with lots of buildings would slow the camera movement down instead of staying constant)
Fixed: commander wouldn't hear the build sound effect when placing walls
Fixed: exploit where an engineer could switch between the repair kit and another weapon while holding attack to instantly regain his repair ammo
Fixed: weapon melee attacks would not delay primary attacks

Version 1.08 Beta Build 86 Changes:

Modified: moved to HL2DM player animation
Fixed: vehicle client-side turret control was jittering due to client-side prediction
Added: implemented client-side movement
Added: new muzzle flash effects for all weapons
Added: vehicles jump into the air when they die
Fixed: player client-side movement teleport issues
Fixed: as commander, dragging a box around a dead player would highlight a box around him as though he were still alive
Fixed: as commander, while dragging a selection box, moving the mouse over the minimap caused the camera to move with the mouse
Added: "Log Out" button to commander GUI
Fixed: destroying an unbuilt radar would subtract from the total number of built radars, causing an issue where the team had a fully functional radar but couldn't research anything
Fixed: destroying an unbuilt building that is marked for recycling would cause the building to never be removed from the game
Fixed: the commander was able to recycle an engineer built turret
Modified: altered squad HUD member listing to only show each member's name and their health
Fixed: enemy engineer deconstructing a vehicle would send a voice alert that the commander was under attack
Added: alerts to the left side of the commander GUI for when a player/vehicle/building is attacked/destroyed which lists the event happening and clicking on the alert will move the commander camera to that location
Fixed: in commander interface, commander was able to order units to attack enemy units that were shrouded in his fog of war
Fixed: in commander interface, ordering a unit to attack multiple targets would not clear his previous orders, ie, if he were guarding a building before being ordered to attack multiple targets, he would be told to attack the new targets as well as the building he was guarding
Fixed: in commander interface, dragging a box around units could be done too quickly, causing it to be ignored
Added: 'emp_comm_jumptoalert' console command which will center the commander camera over an alert's location
Added: optimized NF building models
Fixed: NF vehicles had "nocull" textures which was unoptimized
Modified: increased horsepower for all tank engines

Version 1.071 Beta

This is a client-only patch to version 1.07 which needs to be installed first.

July 30, 2006

Fixes

Crashes related to Vehicle HUD (ie, getting in AFV crashes you)
Crashes related to Commander HUD unit status area
Commander GUI buttons not registering mouse clicks correctly in widescreen
Commander GUI mouse clicks not registering in the correct world space when using a screen resolution which doesn't have an aspect ratio of 4:3

Version 1.07 Beta

July 21, 2006

Additions

New missile and shell models created by Hellion
New convar "emp_vehicle_mouse_speed" which acts a multiplier for mouse speed when controlling a vehicle's turret
New background image created by ^Dee^
Spectating a player now shows their name on your screen

Fixes

Brenodi team was able to build past the server's building limit
Spectating a player now correctly shows their health and ammo
In the commander HUD, the green passenger names of players in a vehicle were all set incorrectly, and would possibly crash the client if many units were selected
HUD elements were being resized above normal if the user was using a widescreen resolution
Exiting the commander mode sometimes causing a crash
Rare crash of spawning on capture point causing the capture HUD to appear before the player has fully spawned
Miscellaneous commander crashes
In the commander HUD, the green passenger names of players in a vehicle were all set to the driver's name
Commander still able to research even though all of the team's radars have been destroyed
Research countdown timer on the commander's HUD freezing when anything other than the research tab is selected
"Attempting to precache model, but model name is NULL" server console error appearing often
1.06 linux server was not compiled correctly, preventing players from joining the server

Modifications

Escort - alterations to last two flags to require more than one person to cap
Gauntlet - fixed issues that were causing the map to crash often
MValley - many new changes
Increased NF assault rifle damage from 35 to 42

Unofficial Version 1.064 Beta

July 12, 2006

Additions

Spectating a player now shows their name on your screen

Fixes

Spectating a player now correctly shows their health and ammo
In the commander HUD, the green passenger names of players in a vehicle were all set incorrectly, and would possibly crash the client if many units were selected
HUD elements were being resized above normal if the user was using a widescreen resolution
Exiting the commander mode sometimes causing a crash
Rare crash of spawning on capture point causing the capture HUD to appear before the player has fully spawned
Miscellaneous commander crashes

Note
Please note that this patch is not official yet, but rather a hotfix to try and resolve issues with crashing whlile in Commander mode. A real patch will be available soon.

Version 1.06 Beta

July 1, 2006

Additions

New Map - MValley by R_yell
New Map - Slaughtered by Hellion
New Map - Gauntlet by Doobie
Revised Map - Escort by Doobie
Tank rotate in place when at slow or still speeds
'emp_comm_restrict' brush entity that prevents either commander from building in the occupying area
silhouette for binoculars when zoomed in

Fixes

Brenodi ML level 2 turrets did not work
Server crash related to armory or barracks being destroyed
Memory leak that would lead to a server crash after an extended period of time
'emp_sv_player_think' cvar which was implemented to reduce cpu loading was causing hitboxes to not always be matched with the player correctly; this cvar has been effectively removed by defaulting it to 0 and making it a cheat cvar
Turrets not able to hit players who are standing right next to the turret
Console error when in a NF heavy tank reporting that four variables exceeded the max allowed value and were being clamped
Cannon kickback being inconsistent with actual firing
Vehicle self damage working the exact opposite, vehicle weapons hurting other friendly vehicles and not damaging their owner's vehicle
Vehicle passengers always being parented to the vehicle's main body even if the position is associated with the turret
Commander able to suicide and become invincible
The vehicle HUD's chassis health indicator now scales with resolution to not get too large
Changing teams now resets the player's class and spawn point selection
Vehicles now show the order location/target of the driver and connect the line from the vehicle to that location correctly
Vehicles can receive orders correctly now
Units that are outside the commander's PVS/network update distance will now remain selected, will update their position, and can receive orders
The Units selection panel lists all entities in the world regardless of your proximity to them instead of dropping ones off the list as they exceed the network update distance
The second seat on the NF jeep was not positioning the player in the correct location
The commander unable to see enemy units when in the driver position of the command vehicle

Modifications

Matched NF Assault Rifle's damage to the BE Assault Rifle
Increased HMG weapon damage from 20 to 25
Halved movement speed when zoomed in

Version 1.05 Beta

May 13, 2006

Additions

New Map, District402, a linear capture the flag based map in an urban setting with only infantry combat
Map .cfg files are now loaded by the clients on initial spawn, this is for altering bloom color values, radiosity levels, or other client side parameters to situate the map.
When a team wins, the winner is written in the chat area
When the game ends, the winner and loser are declared on the score board
In the F popup menu, added a "Kick Commander" button to the squad menu area which votes to kick the team's commander
"emp_sv_kick_commander_be" and "emp_sv_kick_commander_nf" server side commands to automatically eject a team's commander from the command vehicle, just like if a vote to kick the commander succeeded
On the scoreboard, the number of players for each team is listed next to the team's name

Fixes

More than 32 emp_cap_models on a map were causing minimap flags to not show correctly
Some players as commander were still crashing in relation to client-side physics
Scout's hide ability turning on and off when the player's rank was equal to or greater than Sergeant (E-4)
Scout being able to hide, then walk around freely while staying hidden by using binoculars
Scout rifle being able to shoot faster by zooming/unzooming inbetween shots
Turrets not shooting crouched players
Throwing a grenade no longer auto-switches to another weapon if the player has another grenade to throw
Engineer kit wasn't starting with full ammo on spawn
Rapidly switching between the engineer kit and another weapon would quickly regenerate the engineer kit's ammo
Engineer grenades healing enemy buildings if it explodes far enough away from the building
If a team can't spawn due to running out of tickets and all players on that team are dead, then the game will now end
Blood spray was not being shown when a player was shot

Modifications

A hidden scout will only be spotted by a camera for 0.2 seconds per every 3 seconds instead of 1 full second per every 3 seconds
Decreased damage from vehicle collisions and made the damage apply to armor instead of just to the hull
Spawning in an APC will spawn the player at the highest numbered seat available instead of the lowest numbered seat (driver seat)
Closing the MOTD screen will immediately bring up the team selection screen
Increased mortar explosion radius from 150 inches to 210 inches
Increased NF shotgun pistol damage from 10 to 12 per bullet
The Increased Movement skill no longer drains stamina continuously
The Rifleman's Dig-In ability has been altered: When taking damage while crouching, half of the damage is taken from stamina bar, and the other half is dealt to the player. If half of the total damage exceeds the amount of available stamina, then as much stamina is available is used to reduce the total damage.
Reduced force knockback from being shot by a player by half
On the scoreboard, the classes of the enemy players are not shown
APCs are now correctly shown as only having one slot for an engine
Vehicles can now hurt themselves with their own weapons
Vehicles can now be customized even if there are insufficient resources to build the vehicle
Increased spread for all pistols

Removals

Auto-reload for those players who were complaining that it interfered with using melee after unloading a clip

Version 1.04 Beta

Additions

New version of emp_canyon map to fix glitches
New version of emp_escort map with fixes and modifications
New map emp_badland; it's a large commander based map with fog
Message of the Day panel that appears when first joining a server; it displays the server name at the top and a viewport for displaying the MOTD.txt file on the server (place just a url in the file that redirects to a web page or keep the .txt file under 2048 characters); also, clicking the "Help Guide" button will load up the Empires manual
Anything spotted via the F voice menu or the scout's binoculars will have a blinking red indicator over it for all players in the HUD
Brenodi Empire specific textures for the engineer radar and camera
Vehicles now take damage (directly to the hull) from impacting with other objects; the jeep is much weaker than other vehicles to reduce it being used to ram enemy tanks and get them stuck
APCs have spawn points, if the vehicle isn't full, then spawning at the vehicle will place the player inside, otherwise the player will spawn outside
APC passengers (all except the driver position) get their health refilled at 5 HP/sec and ammo refilled at the same amount as ammo crates

Fixes

Map placed turrets now work and their level can be defined within the entity properties in Hammer
Barracks spawn points would not always show up/would be grouped together with another barracks
Explosions could hurt players through buildings and vehicles
Artillery tank cannon appearing backwards
Can't switch from the RPG until it's fully reloaded
Scouts using hide could stay hidden when firing
Players in an armory when the armory dies/recycles able to change class anywhere on the map
Engineers can no longer revive players who suicide
Grenadiers could fire the mortar in the air by jumping and ducking
Grenadier's armor spotting skill was taking an excessive amount of time to show enemy armor values, similar to the scout's hide problem in 1.02
Command vehicle appearing as the enemy team's color when first joining the team
Repair stations could repair either team's vehicles

Modifications

Reduced tank turret sensitivity
Reduced MG turret rate of fire for all levels
Increased rifleman's max ammo for rifles from 60 to 150, increased max 50 cal ammo from 30 to 60
Increased kick of both IMP and NF assault rifles
On spawn, all players receive 1/3 of their total ammo for each weapon
Removed weapon accuracy penalty when the scout uses his hide skill
Raised the player's viewpoint when crouching to more accurately reflect the location of the player's head
Upon firing the RPG launcher, the player must continue to hold the Fire button to guide the rocket; letting go of Fire will set the rocket to dumb fire mode and reload the RPG launcher for use again
Set default "zoom_sensitivity_ratio" convar to 0.3 instead of 1.0, this convar reduces mouse sensitivity when zoomed in
On death, set vehicle velocity to zero
When building a building as the commander, decreased distance the building must be away from an enemy building or vehicle to 1000 units from 3000 units
Enemy engineer cameras and radars no longer restrict the commander's ability to place buildings
The scout now retains his crosshair when hiding
Turret damage resistance has been lowered from 4 to 3 (damage received is divided by this number)
Increased length of time a unit stays spotted from 5 seconds to 7 seconds
Moved capture point flag model animations client-side
Switched damage, cycle, and kick values for the Imperial Assault Rifle with the Heavy Rifle (makes more sense that the heavy rifle does more damage

Version 1.031 Beta

Fixes

Artillery tank cannon was backwards due to the new client-side turrets

Version 1.03 Beta

Additions

Vehicle turrets are now handled client-side to eliminate lag
Holding onto a grenade after pulling the pin will cook off the grenade down to a minimum 1 second fuse, total grenade fuse time has been increased to 6 seconds
Engineers now get points for healing friendly players, healing 200 points of health will give 1 rank point

Fixes

Scout's hide was broken with 1.02
Spectator was causing the client to crash due to an error with the new minimap code
Random commander GUI based crash due to an uninitialized research variable
As the commander, selected turrets were not showing the correct image in the selected unit area
Buildings no longer animate while dead (radar spin, turret rotation, etc)
Vehicles getting stuck after exiting and re-entering (especially NF artillery tank)
Changing seats in a vehicle causing the vehicle to stop momentarily
Walls were not changing their physics collision mesh on raising and lowering (this only affected vehicle interaction)
Vehicle presets wouldn't save if your language setting was anything other than "English"
Bringing up the scores panel while the team or class selection panel was open would cause the team or class selection panel to show up again after joining a team/selecting a class

Modifications

Made extensive changes to vehicle, engine, and armor properties (improved weight as well as other changes)
Made changes to the research tree
Improved how engineer buildable map objects handle players standing inside when construction is completed and they turn solid
Improved engineer repair kit regenerating while not in hand or while in a vehicle
For engineer revive, increased the distance the ragdoll can be from where the player actually died
A player's ragdoll is immediately removed when he respawns making it easier for an engineer to know if a player can be revived or not
Set NF and IMP scout rifle parameters to match in terms of accuracy and damage
Set engineer camera and radar and radar building to detect players/vehicles through objects
Increased default tickets to 200 per side

Version 1.02 Beta

Additions

Removed some unnecessary building and tank network vars that were wasting bandwidth
'emp_sv_refinery_interval' server cvar for setting how many seconds pass before a refinery will generate a resource point (default is one second)
New cvar 'emp_sv_player_think' to set the frequency of the player's post think function which takes up a decent chunk of the server's cpu time when running every single frame

Fixes

Commander crash when having only one unit selected and that unit dies
Players could build a vehicle from an unbuilt vehicle factory using the menu bound to "v"
Bots now spawn when using the commands "bot_add_nf" or "bot_add_imp", all they do is run around
Using the "f" voice menu while holding crouch would skip the second tier menu
Unbuilt armory giving ammo to vehicles
A player's rank in the squad menu was being displayed as one rank higher than it actually was
Building a turret, camera, or radar as an engineer now requires that the surface angle is greater than -45 and less than 45 (AKA the ground and not the ceiling)
On the team select screen, 'Northern Faction' was misspelled once and the objectives were the same for both teams
The Brenodi APC & AFV had areas near the front which were being treated as rear armor instead of side armor
Players can no longer block the vehicle factory build area to prevent vehicles from being created
If the interior of a vehicle factory is blocked and prevents a vehicle from being built, it no longer deducts the cost of the vehicle even though the vehicle wasn't created
Inverted mouse pitch now works when aiming a vehicle turret
A player who team kills another player loses a rank point instead of gaining one
Scoring rank points as a squad leader no longer goes toward extra points for the squad; only the other players in the squad's earned points go toward extra squad points
Commander in command view was able to be killed even though he was invisible
Server crash when spotting a tank's turret with the scout's binoculars
Server crash when a tank's turret would collide with a mine
Server crash when a homing missile's target was removed while the homing missile was still alive and tracking it
Player RPGs had stopped being guided in 1.01 Beta, they now guide as they did in 1.0 Beta
NF scout rifle was missing its deathmessage icon
On death messages in the HUD, the weapon name no longer get cut off
Client side assertion when bringing up the scoreboard on a 32 player server as the 32nd player
Entity responsible for sending player minimap positions was causing a crash when attempting to run a 64 player server
Optimized building collision meshes to reduce cpu usage
HUD now works with widescreen resolution
On suicide, a player no longer gains a rank point
Armor and engine weight and cost values were not being factored into the final weight and cost labels in the vehicle build panel

Modifications

Moved turret rotation to the client when not attacking to save on bandwidth
Optimized turret range checking code for less cpu usage
Optimized commander visibility range checking code
Cut out the parts on the client dealing with physics collisions that were causing crashes
Optimized the player's think functions to reduce cpu usage
Increased cost of all vehicle chassis
Increased cost of all vehicle engines
Increased cost of all vehicle armor
Reduced standing spread on most infantry weapons
Reduced bio MG total damage done over time to 80 down from 300
At the end of a game, players are only locked in place now instead of freezing their controls so that they can hide the scoreboard
A scout using the hide skill in the open will be hidden from turrets instead of being required to be in contact with at least one surface
Increased max player limit to 64
Added "emp_env_embers" map entity which copies the "env_embers" entity but allows setting of the start and end sizes
Set vehicles to kill themselves immediately upon reaching their self destruct time instead of slowly hurting themselves
Changing class to an engineer starts the engineer kit off with zero ammo, spawning as an engineer starts the kit with full ammo
On damage to turrets, only the owner is notified unless there is no owner, then everyone is notified
Optimized netcode for entity responsible for sending player minimap positions by only sending necessary information to each team
Made the local player arrow icon brighter
Made the local player arrow show even when inside a vehicle
No players can spawn when there is only one reinforcement remaining

Version 1.01 Beta

March 17, 2006

Additions

Linux server.so for running a linux server
'emp_sv_vehicle_resource_interval' and 'emp_sv_player_resource_interval' cvars for setting the interval between updating player & vehicle resource managers which send all info needed for the minimap
'emp_sv_vehicle_fadout_time' cvar for determining how long vehicle wreckage exists before being removed
'emp_sv_netvisdist_player', 'emp_sv_netvisdist_building', 'emp_sv_netvisdist_vehicle', and 'emp_sv_netvisdist_commander' cvars which determine how far each type of entity can be seen, commander affects how far the commander can see other entities
Support for 'mp_autoteambalance', if a player tries to change teams and it would make the teams uneven, then the player is forced to the team with the fewest players
'emp_sv_vehicle_selfdestruct_time' cvar (default: 300 seconds) that determines how long a vehicle will go unoccupied before it starts to damage itself and then die
Successfully moved all server-side vehicle wheel physics simulation to the client (steering, wheel height, wheel rotation) which reduces a lot of wasted network bandwidth
Three new voice taunts
"commander under attack" warning when the commander takes damage, only played once every 30 seconds
"<building name> under attack" warning when a building takes damage, only played once every 30 seconds
Map specific config files located in the "/cfg/maps/" dir; the .cfg file that has the same name as the map name is executed on map start; specifically for setting the number of resources/reinforcements per map (emp_escort NF reinforcements for example)

Fixes

A research item was missing an icon
Brenodi Empires could continue to build vehicles past their limit
'mp_timelimit' works correctly now, when time is reached, both team reinforcements count down at a rate of 2 per second
When recycling a building, your team would gain the refund as reinforcements instead of resources, whoops
As grenadier, oldest dropped mine was not always being detonated when attempting to drop more than eight mines
Minimap would not show spotted/binocular targetted vehicles and buildings if they were out of your PVS (ie, not visible)
Reduced network bandwidth used by minimap
The player in the last slot on a server was not being shown on the scoreboard
Northern Faction MG Level 3 turret's barrels were spaced too far apart to hit infantry
Crash when canceling/completing an order and the target of the order was already removed from the game
Crash when trying to issue praise to a squadmate that didn't exist
Crash when a shell/mortar detonated and couldn't find its owner
Crash when spotting a target with the binoculars, then 120 secs would pass and the binocs would try to remove the spotted status except the target had already been destroyed/removed
Crash when a mine was checking if a vehicle that touched it had a passenger with mine defusal to prevent detonation
Crash when denying a player from joining your squad
Various client crashes (the big crash that affects everyone is a real pain, it's not fixed but it's rearranged to give me more info in the memory dumps on what exactly is going wrong)

Modifications

Increased horsepower for some vehicle engines
Various infantry weapons (hmg, scout rifle, pistols, brenodi rifles)
Removed server vehicle wheel dust generation to reduce network traffic and time spent thinking
Reduced time spent calculating physics
Set voice commands to require at least a 3 second wait time before issuing another command
Added a larger arrow over the local player on the minimap
Increased rate all players can build buildings to 1 HP per every 0.5 seconds (engineer's build at 1 HP per every 0.2 seconds)
A scout can use secondary attack while hidden and not be revealed, can also use binoculars and not be revealed
A scout's rank affects how fast his invisibility skill hides him by lessening it one second per rank achieved (to a minimum of 2 seconds)
Scout's invisibility now goes into effect even if the scout is not touching anything (50% transparency)
Both command vehicle driver view points now sit atop the vehicle so that you have a frame of reference while driving
Instead of putting '(Comm)' in front of the commander's name, the commander's class is set to 'Commander'
Engineers get points for repairing the commander's walls
Reduced frequency of updates for when a turret is playing its idle animation, need to move it fully client-side though
Changed turret collision mesh from a pyramid shape to a box so that vehicles won't drive up onto them and get stuck
Split resources and refinery cvar multiplier into separate cvars for each team, this is so that the reinforcements for NF can be increased by the server for emp_escort
Set HMGs to increase in spread with each bullet fired, inaccuracy starts to take hold if the weapon is fired for too long

Removals

Engineer's ability to build buildings via '+use'

Version 1.0 Beta

March 4, 2006

Initial Release
Added: ALL

Change Log (pre 2.25)

Unreleased: Version 1.08

Version 1.071 Beta

Fixes

Version 1.07 Beta

Additions

Fixes

Modifications

Unofficial Version 1.064 Beta

Additions

Fixes

Version 1.06 Beta

Additions

Fixes

Modifications

Version 1.05 Beta

Additions

Fixes

Modifications

Removals

Version 1.04 Beta

Additions

Fixes

Modifications

Version 1.031 Beta

Fixes

Version 1.03 Beta

Additions

Fixes

Modifications

Version 1.02 Beta

Additions

Fixes

Modifications

Version 1.01 Beta

Additions

Fixes

Modifications

Removals

Version 1.0 Beta

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