- Death screen has been made smaller in overall size, hides when the map is opened, the fade to black lasts only 2 seconds, and the killfeed is no longer hidden. This should be more in line with the previous deathscreen experience over the years. Thanks everyone for your feedback on this feature!
- Re-added text drop shadows to the in-game chat text elements.
- Changed the text drop shadow rendering feature to fix severe FPS losses on certain graphics driver and hardware configurations. (Thanks, Axtel!)
- Added Drop shadow text to damage numbers
- Individual players are automatically kicked from a lobby after 1 hour has elapsed without progressing the lobby state beyond Waiting for Players. This prevents long term AFK individuals propping up a potentially bugged lobby that acts as a trap for everyone else matching.
- Fixed Steam Authentication potentially failing when waiting in a lobby for more than 30 minutes.
- Fixed multiple players ending up being on an unassigned team and therefore being kicked from the server.
- Fixed rare occurrence of a client not progressing through the lobby stages with everyone else.
- Fixed a lobby failing when a server request returned error 500.
- Fixed the Matchmaking Rewards menu’s Queue button being active all the time
- Fixed Steam Offline status triggering too easily. It now counts down over multiple seconds before considering you having lost connection and can roll backward to a reset state over the same time frame if the offline status did not get reached. This ensures that a momentary loss of internet does not trigger kicking you from the game or lobby.
- Fixed client script errors during certain lobby stages.
- Fixed skill offset miscalculation between the teams [Drey]
- Added an option to the create local server page to enable mounting UWE hotfix mods when creating a server.
- Maps from non-active mods are now included in the Listen Server map list and are automatically mounted on the server when it is created.
- Hotfix mods are no longer hidden in the menu mod list.
- Duplicate Mod ID entries in a server’s map cycle are now handled properly.
- Fixed being able to receive Matchmaking invites while playing in a public server already.
- Fixed Auric Clog not being able to be selected or used once unlocked.
- Fixed Chroma Resource Tower not being able to be selected or used once unlocked.
- Fixed when earning the Battle Gorge calling card, it's not available. And instead two items of Turbo drifter are granted.
- Fixed a potential server crash when fetching hotfix mods fails.
- Fix -game command line option not handling absolute paths for the Linux dedicated server.
- Client hitsounds files are no longer constrained by our file validation rules.
- [b]Biodome:[/b] (Thanks psyk!) [list]
- Moved Agri RT to the north of Agri (New room, thanks Kash!)
- Increased height of small connection between Atmospherics and Scrubbers to nerf Armory blocks while arcing.
- Disabled Bridge-Agri jump (still possible with boosting or dropped structures).
- Reduced Cysts needed to Filtration from 5 to 4.
- Fixed LoS issue which enabled Railguns to shoot Atmospherics Hive from CO2 Scrubbers.
- Fixed structure placement exploits in Hydro.
- [b]Caged:[/b] (Thanks psyk!) [list]
- Added a vent below the stairs between the Purification and Ventilation connection.
- Smoothed out movement below the walkway leading from Ventilation to Purification.
- Closed off the door a bit more coming into Ventilation from Purification and moved Pillars/Walls at that entrance (less space at sides) to make it harder for Marines to attack Ventilation from Purification PG.
- Added a Pipe/Crate combo so you can jump up on the higher level of Ventilation from the south side.
- Moved the Powernode in Ventilation to be less vulnerable.
- Created space between the scanner and container in Shipping.
- Added a glass hole at the northern entrance of Generator for building ARCs.
- Smoothed movement around that area below Generator.
- Added some obstacles into Monitoring.
- Marines can now get into the Lower Wasteflow ceiling vent using the barrels and doorframe to climb up.
- Added a ladder into the DAT-1 vent.
- Slightly scaled out the doorframe near the DAT-1 vent to make it easier to trick jump into the vent.
- Marines can now trick jump into the Sewer-Puri vent from Sewer.
- Removed collision from tons of tiny props.
- [b]Derelict:[/b] (Thanks psyk!) [list]
- Added 5th techpoint in the middle of the map in Admin.
- Moved res node in Admin.
- More cover, thicker trees and other improvements to Plaza (smaller room).
- Added a few more cover spots here and there.
- Added vent between Flooded and Botany.
- Added additional route between Garage and Turbine.
- Added additional route between Geothermal and Flooded.
- Re-arranged the Truck/Container setup in the entrance of Garage / Alley. Can go through the right side of the truck, jump up the small crates; also broke the right yellow railing at the right entrance for more fluid gameplay.
- Added kinda vent between Glass Hallway and Biome.
- Added ladder at the pipe tower in Plaza.
- Changes to Administration to help Aliens against ARCs coming from Overlook: [list]
- Another window hole to bile or attack.
- Lowered the vent on floor level to help (retreating) Gorges.
- Put more crates into that ARC spot hallway to the right to remove some space for ARCs and to the left to give Gorges some cover to bile from range.
- Smoothed out movement in those offices by rearranging/scaling the desks, etc. and using collision geo.
- Moved up the entire floor plane to reduce issues with height differences and techpoint being in a kinda pit.
- Shrunk pipes above techpoint.
- Blocked off the space above the ceiling pipes leading away from Geothermal and used for bile bomb abuse.
- Removed ladders, you can use the rocks to jump up now.
- Moved power node around the corner to be more protected from bile.
- [b]Origin:[/b] (Thanks psyk!) [list]
- Moved Ore RT into Generator; easier to defend from Ventilation and a good tunnel location for Biodome start. Also denies an RT to Marines, if they hold Furnace side, similar to how Maintenance is denied, if they hold Biodome side.
- Added more starting Cysts to Biodome Alien Start.
- Increased height of Acidic-Access vent to make boosting more difficult
- Lowered floor of Fusion Core resource node to make cyst sniping harder
- Pipes in Computer Control-SatCom hallway have been broken so that players may more easily use them as an escape
- Chemical Transport’s south side now allows structures to be placed
- Ladder added to south side of Chemical Transport platform
- Western Entrance modified slightly to smooth out travel between Old Wing and Reactor Room
- Some fixes to areas where structures should not have been able to be placed
- Several stuck spots removed
- Fixed exploit where marines could escape the map
- Fixed power issue in Locker Room
