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Date: April 5, 2013

Patch 244

Highlights

  • Improved Med-/Ammopack precision
  • MAC/ARC improvements
Blog Post

Changelog

Change

  • Reduced extractor death and Spikes tracer effect intensity.
  • Distress beacon sound has no longer a distance restriction.

Feature

  • Added capturing of dump information from the TechSupport.exe tool if NS2.exe is running.
  • Clicking an already selected hot group will cause the view to jump to the units position.

Fix

  • Fixed “runtime error” that occurred sometimes on map change.
  • Fixed bug where AI units could push each other off of pathable ground.
  • Fixed a bug where the microphone is muted until you enter sound options menu.
  • Reload sounds stop playing when a player drops a weapon or dies.
  • Fixed medpacks being created under tech points.
  • Fixed Commander double clicks preventing single click actions from being performed.
  • Fixed bug where vortexed Marines / Exos take damage inside Gorge tunnels.
  • Fixed bug where distress beacon could teleport Marines back to an already destroyed Command Station.
  • Commanders are no longer able to see projectiles from units which are not sighted.
  • Fixed bug where vortexed Exosuit can smash eggs.
  • Fixed bug where Commanders select/deselect units unintentionally the moment they perform an action (cast enzyme, drop medpack)
  • Fixed rookie status drawn in red in the scoreboard.
  • Fixed bug where you could switch weapons during building.
  • The camera will no longer jitter while waiting to spawn at an Infantry Portal due to players running over the IP.
  • Fixed bug where dead players could trigger taunt voice over.
  • Fixed resource towers / command structures being slightly offset on the minimap.

Balance

  • Increased Infantry Portal cost to 20 (up from 15)
  • Reduced nano shield duration to 3 seconds (down from 8)
  • Increased nano shield effectiveness to 75% (up from 50%)
  • Increased arms lab upgrade costs to 20/30/40 (was 15/25/35)
  • Reduced gorge tunnel research cost to 10 (was 30)
  • Reduced gorge tunnel cost to 5 (was 10)
  • Increased gorge tunnel armor by 100

Improvement

  • Added “fps” console command to toggle displaying the framerate on the top left of the screen.
  • Improved precision of marquee and Ctrl-Click selection.
  • Improved med/ammo pack drop precision.
  • Its now easier to give attack / defend orders on moving targets.
  • Changed the default player limit on the server if no parameter is specified to 16.
  • Steam Ids are now also displayed in the traditional format in the Server console (STEAM_0:1:XXXXXXX)
  • Changed the scoreboard font to match the other in-game fonts.
  • Added numbers in front of player names on scoreboard to facilitate communication.
  • Its now easier to hit with parasite (thanks Matso!)

Optimization

  • Low-level shader optimizations.
  • Disabled compiler generated buffer security checks.
  • Effects inherit now the relevancy from their triggering entities.

Editor

  • Fixed bad texture scales when creating faces; texture scale behavior changed: larger scale values mean texture is stretched – should not affect existing maps;
  • Added “spawn_selection_override” entity to more directly control how initial spawns are selected.

SDK

  • Added Class_Reload(className, networkVars) for easier overriding classes.
  • Added loading of entry points for multiple mods (see lua/entry/readme.txt for more info)
  • Created simplified sound system that allows sound files to be played without using FMOD projects.
  • Client.PlayMusic now requires a the FEV project name as part of the cue name (e.g. “sound/NS2.fev/Main Menu” instead of “Main Menu”)
  • ClientUI.lua is now more moddable with exposed functions to add more UI scripts.
  • Removed support for TTF fonts (bitmap fonts should be used instead)

Refinery

  • Moved Containment hive to a less snipeable position.
  • Adjusted cover in Containment in aliens’ favour.
  • Added vent from Containment to Containment/Chasm Entrance, and vent from Chasm to Chasm/Turbine entrance to provide more flanking opportunity in the area.
  • Added cover at exit of vent over the chasm in Chasm.
  • Adjusted Turbine cover to prevent sniping from Conduit entrance.
  • Added random spawns for both teams in Flow Control, Smelting, Turbine and Containment, with close spawning prohibited.

Mineshaft

  • Rotated Deposit tech point around so it is no longer able to be arced from central drilling
  • Modified Repair tech point with better cover and fewer LOS issues
  • Modified Cave tech point with more cover for the hive, as well as made the middle path leading into crusher cystable for easier expansion to the resource node.
  • Modified Operations tech point for better cover also moved the resource node away from the wall so aliens can move behind it
  • Modified Sorting tech point for better cover, also added a stairway on the north side, to make cysting into north tunnels much simpler
  • Moved cavern resource node to be centered between the repair and cave tech points
  • Moved pilot drill resource node to be centered between repair and operations
  • Modified central drilling to have better cover for aliens, moved the southern resource node to the north, on the upper platform, also added a stairway on the southwest side for better accessibility to the gap
  • Modified and extended the vent leading from cave to north tunnels
  • Added a vent from Deposit to the Gap
  • Added more cover for aliens in Crusher
  • Modified the minimap to be easier to navigate in places that overlapped or were unclear

Descent

  • Temporarily disabled the music in Club due to a bug(should be fixed for the next patch)


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