Hello and welcome to our latest and greatest update for Treason! This has been the longest update to make, but we have a lot of things to share with you! We hope you like it.

We're starting off by introducing global Steam Leaderboards. This is launching as an experiment, so we've only added a handful of things to track, but more are coming in the future! Right now they include total score earned, number of bombs planted, number of players revived and number of clues delivered. These leaderboards can be tracked in multiple time ranges, too: today, this week, this month, this year and lifetime (since this update!)

Next up, we did a major overhaul to abilities. Many of you asked us for a way to re-arrange your abilities, and we heard you! We have added an entirely new loadout section when you join a game, where you can re-arrange your abilities however you like (except the first ability for Innocents and Traitors, it's still locked to your class ability.) But that's not all! We have also added a lot of brand new abilities, suited for different playstyles: whether you wanna make a lot of noise as a Traitor, or blend with the crowd, we have covered you!

But even that's not all, either! We are also introducing a brand new Gadget system. With many of the abilities we've added, we realized that you can very clearly divide all abilities into two categories: something physical (such as the Bomb as Traitor) and something abstract, like a skill that you can learn (such as Doctor Resuscitate, because we imagine it as CPR.) So with the new Gadget system, we have divided the abilities into those two categories. Abilities are now things that you can do however many times you want (minus the cooldown) and that don't depend on any external device, basically like your skills. Gadgets on the other hand, are tools with limited quantity, that can be used whenever you want and however many times you want with no cooldown. There's many to choose from, so we hope you enjoy them!

One more thing we have added with the new loadout system melee selection. You can now select between either a Bat or a brand new Stiletto for your loadout.

We have took our time (quite a lot of it actually) making characters feel a tiny bit more alive. We have added facial flexes to all our characters with the help of a 3D modeller RIVEN_LLOYD, meaning players' lips sync to the lines they say and they can express various emotions (which is not in-game yet, sadly, but they could do it if we wanted to!) and with the recent-ish addition of Treason mounting support to Garry's Mod, this is a very welcome addition for many of you poster-movie-makers out there (including for SFM, too!)

We have added a way for you to spend time while you are bored after dying. A new Spectator Ghost match! When you are spectating, press your ability 1 key to enter a Spectator Ghost mode, where you can throw hats at other Spectator Ghosts, score hits and earn a new achievement! The best Spectator Ghost receives a praise in server chat when the round ends.

We've made some major changes to how Karma works. Previously, it worked exactly the same as score: despite it's name, it did not actually show how good of a player you were, you would get points for just doing random things, exactly the same as score, except capped in the range of 30 to 100. We have changed that to try to represent actually good actions from players. In detail, we:

removed any Karma points for winning a round
added Karma penalty for damaing confirmed teammates (when you shoot a Traitor as a Traitor, for example)
added separate Karma penalty for killing confirmed and unconfirmed teammates (so you would get less Karma punishment for killing an Innocent as Innocent without knowing their role, than if you killed a Traitor as Traitor)
added Karma for killing confirmed enemies as Innocents (so you would get Karma for killing a revealed Traitor or a Zombie Traitor as Innocent)
added Karma for damaging confirmed enemies as Innocent
added Karma for healing players as Doctor
added Karma for resuscitating players
added Karma for scanning Gadgets as Detective
added Karma for revealing roles of dead people
added Karma for turning on the Power Supply
added Karma for defusing a bomb.

With that, we've also lowered lots of Karma numbers, so it's not as easy to gain or lose Karma as before. And to reflect on those changes, we have increased default Low Karma threshold (t_teamkill_karma_threshold) from 50 to 70 karma.

Last but not least of the major changes, we have slightly changed pacing of the game with this update. Previously, all clues would spawn at a time, so in a high-skilled server, Traitors would have very little time until all clues get delivered all at once by multiple players, and a Traitor gets revealed. This was what we called Clues 2.0 and we are now introducing Clues 3.0! Clues 3.0 is similar to 2.0, but the clues spawn one at a time, and the clue spawn sound is now directed towards the clue location. This showed potential in increasing Traitor survival rates for high-skilled lobbies in our testing, but you can always revert to Clues 2.0, or even Clues 1.0 if you want, by using t_dev_clues_objective_version command or your lobby settings.

For anyone wondering, Clues 1.0 is when all Traitors are revealed at once instead of one Traitor at a time, and all clues spawn at once.

Full list of changes

Tools

$selfillummask parameter can now be used with $bumpmap on VertexLitGeneric shader
Selfillum can now be used with $blendtindbybasealpha on VertexLitGeneric shader
Material proxies now work more reliably and no longer give "material proxy not found" errors for proxies that definitely always existed in Source
Added a new SineEntIndex material proxy: same as Sine, but offset based on index of whatever entity it's applied to, so all entities have a unique result

Gameplay

Implemented Steam Leaderboard (see above)
Added a loadout system with many new abilities, a new Gadget system and a new melee selection (see above)
Added Clues v3.0 (see above)
Fixed water splah effect spawning in incorrect position when you hit water by penetrating another object
Slightly lowered position requirements to register a back hit with a Bat, and exposed it into a console command: t_weapon_bat_back_damage_margin (default: 0.7)
Players can no longer use abilities after the round is done or before the investigation starts
Increased default player speed when charging a heavy Bat hit
Gameplay hints will now only appear when entities related to them are actually usable (i.e. bombsite hints will no longer appear for Innocents)
Added an option to toggle pseudonames on and off on your server (will use Steam names when toggled off)
Slightly increased fidelity of player lag compensation
Added radio voice chat for Traitor communication and 2-way Detective-to-Doctor communication (old players need to bind a key in controls settings, or reset their controls settings to defaults)
The game will no longer enter pre-game state if it's duration is set to zero
Added distance readings to Info Room dummies
Added "Prevent consecutive Annihilation rounds" option to lobby settings (t_carnage_prevent_consecutive)
Potentially fixed a bug with double clues spawning when two players interact with the Don
Fixed dropped clues not disappearing on round end
Players can now push each other by pressing secondary attack on Finger Gun
Added first and third person animations for sprinting with Finger Gun out
Renamed t_dev_body_detective_radar_duration command to t_dev_detective_call_radar_duration
Fixed an issue with player legs being stuck in wrong direction if players stay still after spawning
Stats and achievements will no longer be recorded in Info Room
Fixed a bug where Resuscitating as Doctor would give score for reviving a Zombie and vice versa (the values were the same, so it did not affect the game by default, unless you changed them on your server)
Added t_force_detective and t_force_doctor commands to force Detective and Doctor to be a player under specified index respectively
Fixed missing attack delay on Finger Gun
Increased overall accuracy and fire rate for MP40
Decreased damage, increased fire rate, decreased damage falloff and increased standing accuracy for Remington
Decreased damage falloff, decreased spread and increased standing accuracy for Revolver
Decreased damage falloff, decreased spread and increased firing accuracy for Sawed-Off
Decreased damage fallof for Springfield
Increased damage, decreased fire rate, decreased damage falloff, decreased spread, increased standing and crouched accuracy, decreased firing and movemeng accuracy for Sturmgewehr 44
Increased fire rate, decreased damage falloff, increased standing and firing accuracy for Thompson
Increased spread and decreased standing accuracy for Colt
Fixed a bug where Zombie Don syringe would spawn by round ending if it was already spawned by last innocent alert
Updated Thompson shooting sound
Fixed some instances of players being revived outside of the map if their ragdoll was moved out of map boundaries
Changed default clue glow start delay (t_dev_clue_glow_start_delay) from 20 to 30 seconds
Changed default clue glow loop time (t_dev_clue_glow_loop_time) from 25 to 35 seconds
Added separate headshot damage multipliers for weapons: Sturmgewehr 44 is x1.78, Remington 81 is x1.7, Thompson is x1.7, the rest is x1.6
First person arm models now follow weapon models lighting, instead of their own
Increased max number of voting options from 5 to 8 (used for map votes at the end of the game)
Added an option to re-vote once a second after casting a vote
Game icon will now flash on taskbar when you spawn in-game
Fixed an issue with threaded bone setup causing mayhem with player models
Fixed an occasional very long delay when switching maps after game ends
Added missing clue spark particle to dropped clues
Renamed t_post_roundtime_innocents_win_time command to mp_roundtime_postround_innocents and changed it from 30s to 45s
Players can now shoot each other's glasses off, just like hats
Players can no longer be revived/resuscitated by multiple people at once
Fixed incorrect "not allowed to attack" message for Zombies when they respawn and have spawn protection
Changed default tracer speed (t_tracer_speed) and light (t_muzzle_light) values
Fixed a bug when you could keep using hold-to-use abilities or using hold-to-use items (such as defusing a Bomb or toggling Power Supply) after dying
Fixed a bug that caused multiple tracers to spawn for each penetrated object during your shot
Fixed an issue with grenades deploy animation not playing when you cannot attack before investigation starts
Fixed an issue with third person addon models (weapons that appear on players' backs) being visible in first person
Re-added player disconnect messages back
Added missing Remington lowered player animations (when you cannot attack before investigation starts)
Added distant versions of player death sounds
Increased default Bomb range (t_pseudobomb_range) from 1320 to 1500 units
Added dynamic crosshair gap (cl_crosshair_dynamic, 0 - off, 1 - affected by standing accuracy only, 2 - affected by real-time accuracy as you move around)
Potentially fixed clues being unreachable in tight corners
With the addition of multi-use Gadgets, you can now only plant one Bomb at a time on the same bomb site
Viewmodel sway is now correctly mirrored when you switch from right hand to left hand

UI

Damage received now affects damage indicator fade out time, instead of starting opacity
Made damage indicator slightly bigger
Re-designed scoreboard, it now scales with players (again) and does not lose fidelity depending on your resolution
Forced Annihilation message will no longer appear on round start if Annihilation hasn't actually started (if a player left during the round start timer)
Slightly increased fidelity of UI icons in Traitor and clue counters
Capitalized all instances of role names being mentioned in UI
Fixed a bug when round end panel would show that you played as Zombie if you didn't, and vice versa
Round end panel now shows roles of players as they were when they killed you/when you killed them, as opposed to their roles at the end of the round
Voice chat names no longer show up for proximity voice chat
Round end panel will now only show hud_roundend_bestplayers_limit best players in Annihilation (default: 3)
Players' skin now becomes rotten (without affecting clothers) when their bodies rot after dying, until they get revived as Zombies and their clothes become messed up as usual
Added an option to show important game events separately at the top of the screen, to not get lost in the list of minor and uninteresting game events
Main menu music on disconnect is now affected by music slider
Added fade to Radar icons
Slightly tweaked colors for some roles
Scoreboard now shows when a player role got revealed in "Status" column
Updated how background maps load, now they're in-line with other Source Engine games
Updated rank icons
Fixed a bug with revive icon not appearing when you are being revived after leaving pre-death state
Re-colored chat to be black

Maps

Various optimizations across all maps

New map: Arena

New main menu background maps

Castle

Redesigned the back area of B Site
Increased size of the 8-Ball pool area and replaced the couch with a chair for better navigation
Moved the crates closer to the wall in the sand & garage areas and improved stairs on the second floor
Expanded floors around bombsite D
Expanded C.P.U. area
Expanded the corridor between bombsites A and D
Added breakable furniture in various areas

Church

Removed some objects in the spawn area
Removed collisions for the lamps in the doorways between the spawn area and middle area
Expanded a corridor between the spawn area and kitchen
Redesigned bombsite D
Added a new corridor on the highest floor and redesigned the balcony
Redesigned the Power Supply room
Replaced a bench with a shower in jacuzzi area at bombsite A
Added new travel options in the middle area
Re-textured stairs from bombsites B and D
Fixed collisions with the red chair on bombsite D
Fixed stairs in the middle not colliding with objects
Fixed floating knights in the spawn area