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Released August 9, 2012

Features[]

  • Added community spectator mod "Insight" to the game (thanks Huze, Dghelneshi and Rantology!).
  • Added an option to select the language.
  • Added support for "fullscreen windowed" mode.
  • Removed hard-coded loading screens (can be customized by script). Added new loading screen with animated spinning graphic.
  • Added placeholder shader for parasited marines

Balance[]

  • Armories heal armor. Armories now take "energy" to heal (1 energy = 1 heal = 1 second). Armories can have a max of 10 energy. So if an Armory isn't drained too much, it will heal everything full speed, but if a lot of marines start leeching, it will slow down. Armories start with 0 energy (so will be full after 10 seconds).
  • Evolving Crag/Shift/Shade hive reduced from 20 to 15.
  • Heal spray no longer builds structures at a simple fixed rate of .6. It now adds .25 + a scalar between .25 and .7, depending on the last time it was sprayed. This makes multiple Gorges helpful, but increasingly less effective.
  • Heal-spray tuning so Hives can't be rejuvenated so quickly.
  • Increased Skulk bite and leap costs a little they have to pause from destruction occasionally.
  • Increased energy cost on healspray from 10 to 12.
  • Parasite duration increased from 15 to 30 seconds.
  • Players on fire recover energy 20% slower (.2 instead of .25).
  • Reduced mature Cyst health from 650 to 550.
  • Regeneration now takes 8 seconds to kick in instead of 5 and heals 20/second instead of 12%/second(better for lower lifeforms, slower for higher lifeforms.
  • Sped up Gorge speed with Celerity to make him better able to defend hives.
  • Tweaking Fade energy costs. Swipe takes less energy (-14%), shadow step (+27%) and blink (+33%) take more. Should decrease Fade dominance, esp. with long blink times with Adrenaline.

Improvements[]

  • Redesigned the create game menu screen.
  • Redesigned the options menu screen.
  • Added energy cost to belly slide.
  • Added small energy cost to flap for Lerk and Shadow Step.
  • Aliens keep their abilities after Hive has been killed until they change life form or die.
  • Aliens no longer lose an upgrade which they already have evolved once the upgrade structure is destroyed.
  • Changed vents to be colored on the minimap (requires vent geometry to be in a group called "Vents"). Maps will be updated soon to support this.
  • Current units are deselected upon selecting the Build, Advanced, or Assist Commander tabs.
  • Disabled % text on builder / welder (is shown as progress bar / crosshair text).
  • Eggs from hives under attack are now preferred for respawning.
  • Only upgrades from different hives can be evolved at the same time.
  • Removed Hive Sight.
  • Removed team color tinting from maximap.
  • Waypoints are now hidden when constructing something.
  • Welder is now also constructing during welding, to prevent confusion (same rate as builder).
  • Added arrow to ghost model UI when ghost structure requires an attach point (Hive, CC, Extractor, etc).
  • Added objective bar, displays always the health of nearest hive / command station under attack.
  • Improved welder hit detection.
  • Smoothed out lerk movement and model orientation (thanks twiliteblue!).
  • Added progress bars (showing up when building, welding).

Fixes[]

  • Added a few missing localization strings from the Commander selection panel and the Armory/Prototype Lab.
  • Added mouse wheel handling when raw input is switched off.
  • Added precaching for some shaders to reduce hitches during gameplay.
  • Adjust Monkeys to loss of game-name in OnConnectionPacket protocol.
  • Build tab is displayed correctly when a Commander first logs in.
  • Don't ever show help widgets in the ready room.
  • Don't reposition rooted whips.
  • Don't switch maps right away after game ends - always wait at least 20 seconds after Ready Room.
  • Fixed 1 frame hitch when starting the main menu.
  • Fixed ARC attack timing being inconsistent.
  • Fixed bug where "ns2_summit" was displayed as the default map name instead of "Summit".
  • Fixed bug where a Hive would fail to find valid spawn points for eggs in some circumstances.
  • Fixed bug where a MAC couldn't weld a Command Station.
  • Fixed bug where a structure would be unpowered if built in an area containing a dead Power Point after the point was welded.
  • Fixed bug where holding down the buy key while evolving to a new lifeform would cause the buy menu to get stuck on the screen.
  • Fixed bug where leap was not affected by carapace.
  • Fixed bug where losing the crag hive would prevent you from evolving the specific upgrades, even with the upgrade structures alive.
  • Fixed bug where players could switch weapons while using something.
  • Fixed bug where research at buildings was not canceled when the structure became unpowered.
  • Fixed bug where sound events were not cleaned up in some cases.
  • Fixed bug where the arrows on the left and right of a dropdown list would not be properly shown or hidden when the value was changed.
  • Fixed bug where the font in a text input could not be changed.
  • Fixed bug where the physics representation for cylinders was not properly constructed.
  • Fixed bug where the sound sliders would be reset to 0 in the options screen when the resolution changed.
  • Fixed crash when calling Client.PlayMusic during the loading phase.
  • Fixed crash when downloading a mod from Steam Workshop.
  • Fixed crash when playing back an incompatible replay.
  • Fixed error caused by placing all mines after the Marine had dropped their primary and secondary weapons.
  • Fixed hitching the first time a model is seen.
  • Fixed multi-threading and memory leak issues with HTTP requests.
  • Fixed parasite not marking enemies as sighted.
  • Fixed potential crash when accessing a precached model that was reloaded.
  • Fixed problem where LOS is not updated when a player changes his view direction and is not moving.
  • Fixed script error when a projectile moved outside the valid bounds of the world.
  • Fixed starting a listen server using a level mod.
  • It is no longer possible to stack structures on top of the Infantry Portal.
  • Jump land sound effects no longer play twice.
  • Raw input gets correctly enabled on startup.
  • Removed unused "lan" option in menu.
  • Smooth out lerk/skulk movement on slopes and stairs.
  • The MAC will now auto-weld Marine armor when they are near a Marine.
  • The Sentry and Hydra will no longer do damage to friendly units if they are between the target and the shooter.
  • The Sentry no longer makes a scanning noise while unpowered.
  • Unified the text for waypoints with the rest of the Marine HUD.
  • Update the navmesh when an entity is repositioned.
  • Use raw input to handle mouse buttons 4 and 5 even when raw input is disabled.

Optimizations[]

  • Added configuration for network vectors allowing efficient transmission of velocity.
  • Changed commander height maps to not be created for non-local clients.
  • Changed level height maps to only be loaded once on the client and server at startup.
  • Compile snapshots in its own thread.
  • Disabled double tap code and network fields.
  • Improved Cyst connection code.
  • Optimized memory allocation for particle emitters.
  • Optimized particle emitter vertex buffer updating.
  • Optimized the GUI animation system.
  • Reduced Infestation network usage by 8 bytes.
  • Reduced the complexity of determining the location of an entity for relevancy checking.
  • Send origin changes as deltas where possible.
  • Transmit times relative to current time, use fixed time steps.
  • Analysis of movement pattern to optimize network transfer of positions.
  • Speed up entity origin changes in EntityQueryManager.
  • Trim network fields to cut down bandwidth use.
  • Use less bandwidth for origin.

Docking[]

  • Added a gap in the upper level railings in Maintenance.
  • Added reflection probes to the map.
  • Added some cover to Ballcourt.
  • Better player collision in Maintenance.
  • Detailed vents.
  • Fixed CommanderNoBuild in Landing Pad.
  • Fixed invisible barrier issue in Locker Rooms.
  • Fixed some CommanderInvisible in Terminal.
  • Fixed texture alignment issues in Terminal.
  • Modified East wing connection to Tram.
  • Modified Stability connection to Tram renamed to 'North Point'.
  • Modified the lower section of Tram.
  • Moved Cafeteria power node.
  • Moved RT and Power node in Tram.
  • Moved Tram techpoint further north.
  • Moved and rotated Tram to the north east.

Summit[]

  • Fixed evolution stuck point in Computer Lab vent.
  • Fixed gorge stuck point in Crossroads.
  • Fixed skulk movement issues in Pipe Junction.
  • Smoothed out player movement in Crossroads.

SDK[]

  • Added an error message in the model compiler when a syntax error was detected in a model_compile file.
  • Added max particles field for particle emitters.
  • Added network logging to p_logall, extend PerfAnalyser with network traffic analyser.
  • Changed animated material files to specify numFrames instead of frameHeight to be independent of texture resolution.
  • Changed the texture quality setting in the Editor to update immediately (no longer requires restart).
  • Fixed bug where the font renderer did not take into account any padding that was added into the font when exporting.
  • Fixed issue where events at the beginning of a cinematic would be triggered multiple times.
  • Removed Shared.GetWebpage (use Shared.SendHTTPRequest instead).
  • Updated PerfAnalyser.
  • PerfAnalyser now handles large version 2+ logs.
  • Handle search for child-entities properly.

Sound[]

  • Harvester idle with added NS1 mud,.
  • NS1 tooltip in the docking welcome sound for nostalgia.



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