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Released January 11, 2011 - Official Blog Post

Changelog[]

Gameplay[]

  • Changed marine and alien spawn timing (marines take 10 seconds to spawn at IP, eggs take 9 seconds)
  • Tightened rifle cone of fire from 4 degrees to 3 degrees to make it feel more like NS1
  • Added the ability to drop weapons as a Marine (weapon pickup will be in a future patch)
  • Fixed armor bug which was causing marines to be killed in 2 bites instead of 3 (thanks Harimaru)


Technical[]

  • Rewrote Marine Commander UI (now all Lua, not Flash) for massively improved frame rate for the Marine Commander!
  • Changed Marines to put away their weapon when building
  • Added data-driven effect system for artists (EffectManager.lua and *Effects.lua)
  • Fixed timeout when creating a local server
  • Fixed crash when Lua code performed an invalid operation
  • Fixed the alien tech tree so the Whips have the proper prerequisites melee 1 > melee 2 > melee 3 (thanks Enceladus)
  • Fixed Observatory buttons to not be active until the observatory is built (thanks Enceladus)
  • Fixed Crag upgrade menu not having a back button (thanks Enceladus)
  • Fixed Skulk leap prediction issues
  • Flamethrower look-up/look-down 3rd person animations fixed
  • Fixed texture lock in the Editor
  • Fixed bug where a WebRequest response was limited to 8192 characters
  • Fixed exploit where an embryo would slide if the alien was moving prior to gestating
  • Fixed bug where looking straight up and moving forwards would cause the player to move backwards
  • Fixed bug where looking straight down and firing the Pistol would cause the view to flip
  • Fixed Alien "structure under attack" alerts not properly displaying
  • Fixed bug where Aliens could use the Armory
  • Fixed bug where Special Edition black armor didn't show up in the ready room
  • Fixed Distress Beacon not working
  • Fixed prediction issues with weapon unholstering
  • Fixed bug where a Marine could obtain all of the weapons simultaneously
  • Fixed commander tool tips not displaying the proper resource requirements (carbon, plasma, etc.)
  • Fixed bug where the bots wouldn't use the current target's location to move/aim
  • Fixed bug where bots would stop acting after they had killed their target
  • Fixed bug where "create" command created 2 entities instead of 1
  • Fixed bug where aliens could escape the map or get stuck in walls while evolving
  • Fixed bug where clicking with Commander ghost selected the unit underneath (meaning you can support with med/ammo much easier now)
  • Fixed Sentries not being able to see targets very close to it (now "sees" out of the camera on the model)
  • Fixed bug where infantry portal wouldn't wait full spawn time before spawning players
  • Added drawing commander buttons in red when they are available but you don't have enough resources
  • Added culling of lights when they have zero intensity (optimizes bullet impact effects)
  • Added flashlight key binding (thanks Enceladus)
  • Added support for joining a friend's game through the Steam UI
  • Added the ability to get a player's Steam ID in script
  • Added a parasite indicator on the Marine HUD
  • Increased the brightness of the flashlight
  • Changed the master server query port to be port+1 instead of being hard-coded to 27016
  • Changed the names of parasited team-mates to be drawn in yellow in the HUD
  • Added new alien and marine blood effects


Assets[]

  • New marine expansion room on ns2_tram



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