We're happy to announce version 2.36.3 which is live on Steam right now.
Changelog below and also on our Website

Come join us on Discord!
Don't forget to check Discord events to see the date and time of when Games are played.
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Did you know we are porting this mod to Unreal Engine 5?
You can follow its development on our Website and/or Discord

Changelog:

• Potential fix for the player collision issues introduced in 2.36.0

• Northern Faction Heavy Tank
  • Increased available weight by 60
• Brenodi Empire Heavy Tank
  • Increased available weight by 60

• Biological Cannon
  • Reduced Weight from 120 to 100
• Homing Missile
  • Reduced Lock On Time from 0.5 to 0.4
  • Reduced Lock On Range Modifier from 0.5s/1000u to 0.4s/1000u

• • Locking on is now 25% faster, it takes between 0.4s to 3.2s from 0.5s to 4s

• Biological Missile
  • Increased Total Ammo Clips from 3 to 5
  • Reduced Cycle Time from 1.5 to 2
• Depleted Uranium Rounds
  • Increased Clip Size from 80 to 100
• Biological Rounds
  • Reduced Cycle Time from 0.38 to 0.12
  • Reduced Damage from 8 to 4
  • Reduced Minimal Damage from 6 to 3
  • Reduced Heat from 1.5 to 0.5
  • Increased Clip Size from 30 to 80
  • Reduced Bio Damage agasint Vehicles from 10 to 5
  • Reduced Bio Time against Vehicles and Infantry from 2 to 1
• Plasma Rounds
  • Reduced Cycle Time from 0.28 to 0.1
  • Reduced Damage from 10 to 5
  • Reduced Minimal Damage from 8 to 4
  • Reduced Heat from 2 to 0.6
  • Increased Clip Size from 40 to 100
• High-Explosive Rounds
  • Reduced Cycle Time from 0.4 to 0.135
  • Reduced Damage from 8 to 3
  • Reduced Minimal Damage from 7 to 3
  • Reduced Heat from 1.5 to 0.6
  • Increased Clip Size from 25 to 70

• Reactive
  • New Damage Reductions from Machine Gun changes
    • Depleted Uranium Rounds: from 25% to 66%
    • Biological Rounds: from 25% to 66% (not counting the bio effect)
    • High-Expllosive Rounds: 66%
    • Plasma Rounds: from 0 to 25%

• Turrets lvl 2
  • Increased Cost from 360 to 480
  • Increased Time from 90 to 120
• Turrets lvl 3
  • Increased Cost from 480 to 600
  • Increased Time from 120 to 150

• Vehicle Factory
  • Increased Cost from 500 to 700

• Reduced Scout Rifle’s Headshot Multiplier from 3 to 2

• Reverted to 2.36.0 version of soft flesh impact sounds.

We're happy to announce version 2.36.2 which is live on Steam right now.
Changelog below and also on our Website

Come join us on Discord!
Don't forget to check Discord events to see the date and time of when Games are played.
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Did you know we are porting this mod to Unreal Engine 5?
You can follow its development on our Website and/or Discord

Changelog:

• Fixed a few issues caused by changes in 2.36.0
  • Fixed player round stats not restoring if the player reconnected to the server.
  • Fixed issues with collision of projectiles/players.
  • Fixed an issue causing soundscape entities to not play any sounds.

• Biological Cannon
  • Increased Cost from 360 to 480
  • Increased Time from 90 to 120

• Biological Missile
  • Reduced Cycle time from 3 to 1.5
  • Reduced Heat from 12 to 10
• Guided Missile
  • Increased Clip Size from 5 to 6
  • Reduced Reload Time from 5 to 4

We're happy to announce version 2.36.1 which is live on Steam right now.
Changelog below and also on our Website

Come join us on Discord!
Don't forget to check Discord events to see the date and time of when Games are played.
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Did you know we are porting this mod to Unreal Engine 5?
You can follow its development on our Website and/or Discord

Changelog:

• Fixed commander vote issues introduced in the last update.
  
• Fixed a client crash.

• Changed the colour of the border indicating empty armour plates on the vehicle HUD. These are now dark red instead of grey.
  
• Modified soft flesh impact sounds slightly.

We're happy to announce version 2.36.0 which is live on Steam right now.
Changelog below and also on our Website

Come join us on Discord!
Don't forget to check Discord events to see the date and time of when Games are played.
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Did you know we are porting this mod to Unreal Engine 5?
You can follow its development on our Website and/or Discord

Changelog:

• Added angle snapping to commander building placement. This shares a key bind with multi-unit selection. (Default key is shift.)
• Added firing sounds to MG turrets.

• The health of each armor plate and hull are overlaid as a number. This feature can be enabled in the advanced options section. (Default is off)
• Each armor plate is no longer drawn as a sequence of overlapping lines. They’re now drawn correctly as polygons.
• The corners of armor plates no longer have large gaps. Armor plates are drawn as trapezoids with a defined gap between them, resulting in the armor display looking more rectangular overall.
• Armor plates that are missing are now drawn as a grey outlined shape. This should help to communicate to players that there are plates that can be repaired.
• Armor plates (or hull) that are affected by biological DoT are now drawn as a darker shade of the current health color and if HP text is enabled, the text will turn green.
• The following console variables have been added to customize the vehicle HUD:
  • ‘‘’emp_hud_vehicle_show_health’’’: Controls whether to display the amount of armor and hull health numerically in the vehicle HUD.
  • ‘‘’emp_hud_vehicle_armor_offset’’’: How many pixels to offset the armor plates from the chassis in the vehicle HUD.
  • ‘‘’emp_hud_vehicle_armor_thickness’’’: How many pixels thick to draw the armor plates in the vehicle HUD.
  • ‘‘’emp_hud_vehicle_armor_proportional’’’: How much the thickness of armor plates in the vehicle HUD is affected by the maximum health of each plate, with 50 hp/plate as a baseline.
  • ‘‘’emp_hud_vehicle_armor_spacing’’’: How many pixels thick the gap is between the armor plates in the vehicle HUD.
  • ‘‘’emp_hud_vehicle_armor_spacing_corner’’’: How many pixels thick the gap is between the corners of the armor plates in the vehicle HUD.
  • ‘‘’emp_hud_vehicle_chassis_scale’’’:

• This entity fires outputs when the player count changes. You can specify whether to search for Brenodi or Northern Faction players or both, and whether to check for just alive players or all players.
• More information is available on the Valve Developer Wiki.
• This release includes emp_variable_playercount_template.vmf, an example map to show how you might use this feature to dynamically open and close map lanes as player count changes.

• OnPhaseBeginTactics
  • Note: Since the tactics phase is not currently implemented, this fires at the same time as OnPhaseBeginGame
• OnPhaseBeginWait
• OnPhaseBeginGame
• OnPhaseBeginInfSuddenDeath
• OnPhaseBeginCVSuddenDeath
• OnGameEnd
• OnGameOutcomeNFWin
• OnGameOutcomeNFLose
• OnGameOutcomeBEWin
• OnGameOutcomeBELose

• Inputs
  • SetHealth : “Sets the health of the building, clamped between 0 and the building’s maximum health.”
  • Destroy : “Set the health of the building to 0.”
  • RecycleStart : “Begin the recycle process.”
  • RecycleStartDuration : “Begin the recycle process, with the countdown set to the given number of seconds.”
  • RecycleCancel : “Cancel the recycling process, returning the building to a functional state.”
  • SabotageStart : “Mark this building as sabotaged. If the activtor is a player, give them points for it.”
  • SabotageEnd : “Mark this building as no longer sabotaged.”
• Outputs
  • OnBuilt : “Fired when this building is fully built.”
  • OnNFBuilt : “Fired when this building is fully built by the Northern Faction.”
  • OnImpBuilt : “Fired when this building is fully built by the Brenodi Empire.”
  • OnKill : “Fired when this building is destroyed.”
  • OnSpotted : “Fired when this building is spotted by an enemy using any method. The spotter is the activator.”
  • OnSpottedBinoculars : “Fired when this building is spotted by an enemy using the binoculars. The spotter is the activator.”
  • OnSabotageStart : “Fired when this building has become sabotaged. The saboteur is the activator.”
  • OnSabotageEnd : “Fired when this building is repaired.”
  • OnRecycleStart : “Fired when a commander has started the recycling process on this building.”
  • OnRecycleCancel : “Fired when a commander has canceled the recycling process on this building.”
  • OnRecycleComplete : “Fired when this building has been recycled.”
  • There are also two additional outputs for the Radar, Engineer Radar, and Engineer Camera that fire whenever an entity is detected.
    • OnVehicleSpotted, OnVehicleFirstSpotted, OnPlayerSpotted, OnPlayerFirstSpotted

• Applied a potential fix for player muting via the scoreboard. When the server reaches enough players, player muting would stop working as intended.
• Fixed squad heal not removing Bio damage over time effect properly.
• Fixed unintended behaviour where the biological damage over time effect wouldn’t extend it’s duration if it was applied to vehicle armor by the same weapon repeatedly.
• Fixed an issue where squad recon would spot squad hidden players for longer than intended.
• Fixed various issues where the game’s code would skip over the last player when processing through all players in a full server. Unknown what bugs this may have caused.
• Changed building smoke to always emit fire when the building is destroyed, instead of sometimes showing unbuilt/sabotage smoke.
• Neutral tank turning now rotates around the tank’s local axis instead of world space. This was causing strange behaviour when driving up/down slopes.
  • Neutral turn is no longer unconstrained in applying angular velocity. Prior to this version, angular velocity was set directly; instead of being applied as an angular force impacting the angular velocity. This will mean that tanks are no longer able to rotate beyond the capability of the force being applied.
• Fixed the emp_infantry_restrict team filters being inverted.
• 3x Crashes have been fixed.
• Fixed some minor issues in the vehicle HUD. For example, no longer displaying the armor detection overlay for your own vehicle or dead vehicles.
• Map info script parsing system has been refactored.
  • All parameters present in the map info file have sensible defaults, allowing a map to be played even if there is no map info file or the client fails to download it.
  • Line breaks can be placed in the objective and description panels using the \n escape sequence.
  • Map info can be reloaded client-side using the mapinfo_flushscript command, though this currently requires the map to be reloaded for the changes to take effect.
• Fixed commander vote count not resetting between rounds.
  • There are still some client-side vote count issues to resolve but these will be addressed in a future version as it requires large changes to rewrite the client-side vote count system.
• Fixed a bug where spotting a building with regular spotting would override the longer spotting provided by binoculars.
• The emp_info_params entity inputs SetNFResources and SetBEResources now function correctly. Previously, they would double the current resource value and then subtract the desired value.
• The vehicle weapon HUD now displays properly when using a vehicle equipped with weapons that are not researched. Previously, unresearched weapons would not show up in the HUD. This was only an issue for maps that spawned in vehicles.

• Added prop_sphere to the FGD and updated code to allow a radius to be set.
• Added various team colored developer textures for use when designing maps. (‘‘‘materials/dev’’’ directory)
• Added the startResearched research script variable. Researches that have startResearched = 1 will already be researched when the game starts (if this is the correct team).
  • This allows specific maps to use the emp_sv_unresearch_item command to set the starting chassis as restricted (Jeep/APC/Light tank/AFV).
  • If there are no chassis available the vehicle menu will not open when players attempt to open it.
• Changed all turret/camera/radar models to use metal surface property instead of default.
• Lobby server auto-connect has been disabled by default. Auto-connect to lobby can be re-enabled by adding -lobby to the launch options within Steam.

• The code that decides whether a player can join a team has been reworked
  • The skill based auto-balance system which decided how players are put into teams has been disabled.
    • Removed convars ‘mp_autoteambalance’, ‘mp_autoteambalance_smart’, and ‘mp_autoteambalance_skilldifference’ as these were used by this system.
  • Auto-assign has been reverted to a random selection of the available teams.
• Added the emp_sv_forceteam convar, which will force all players to join either BE or NF if enabled.
• Completely rewrote the ‘jointeam’ console command code.
  • Jointeam respects emp_sv_forceteam, emp_sv_forceautoassign, emp_sv_forcespec, and emp_allowspectators.
• Added convar ‘mp_teams_unbalance_limit’
  • This controls the maximum numbers advantage a team can have before players are no longer allowed to join.
  • The default value is 1, which allows each team to have one extra player.
  • Setting this convar to 0 disables the limit.

Jumping stamina usage has been tweaked so that the stamina requirement to jump is 50% of the actual stamina deduction. Additionally, stamina upgrade now reduces the amount of stamina deducted per jump by 1/4 instead of 1/3.

• This means a jump spends 20 stamina (roughly displayed as 3 bars), but you can still jump so long as you have 10 stamina (roughly displayed as 1.5 bars) left. With stamina upgrade, each jump will spend 15 stamina instead of 13.3.
• This change was made to make navigating the map less frustrating when out of combat. This should be less punishing when you have completely depleted your stamina, but still enforce the usual restrictions to combining sprinting and jumping while in combat. The values were tweaked to ensure that even with stamina upgrade, you cannot bunny hop when you’re out of stamina.

• Brenodi Empire Heavy Tank
  • Increased Max Weight from 470 to 490

• Increased 3 Phase engine heat dissipation by 1
• Decreased Advanced coolant engine heat dissipation by 1
• Decreased Fission engine heat dissipation by 0.5 (0.7 for medium tank)

• Homing Missile Launcher
  • Reduced Lock On Radius from 0.42 to 0.1
    • It should make it easier to pick which target you’re locking, but it also means you have to track it more accurately
  • Increased Lock On Time from 0.3 to 0.5 seconds
  • Increased Lock On Range Modifier from 0.2s/1000u to 0.5/1000u (a wall is 256 units)
  • Reduced Missile range from 8000 to 7000
  • Reduced Turning Ability from 3.15 to 3.0
  • Increased Cost from 100 to 150
• Nuclear Missile Launcher
  • Increase Cost from 200 to 300
• Biological Missile Launcher
  • Increased Player Bio Damage from 3 to 5
  • Increased Vehicle Bio Damage from 8 to 10
• High-Explosive Cannon
  • Increased Cost from 70 to 90
  • Reduced Damage from 75 to 70
• Upgraded Missile Launcher
  • Increased Cost from 70 to 80
• Biological Cannon
  • Increased Weight from 80 to 120
  • Increased Cost from 100 to 180
  • Increased Cycle Time from 2.25 to 2.5
  • Increased Heat from 15 to 20
  • Vehicle Biological Effect Properties
    • Damage: 10
    • Duration: 10
    • Interval: 0.5
    • Total Damage: 200
  • Infantry Biological Effect Properties
    • Damage: 5
    • Duration 10
    • Interval: 0.5
    • Total Damage: 100
• Plasma Cannon
  • Increased Cost from 110 to 140
  • Increased Weight from 80 to 90
  • Increased Heat to Target from 10 to 12
• Railgun
  • Increased Cost from 120 to 150
  • Increased Weight from 80 to 90
  • Increased Damage from 120 to 130
• Depleted Uranium Machine Gun
  • Reduced Cost from 60 to 50
• High-Explosive Machine Gun
  • Reduced Cost from 70 to 60
• Plasma Heavy Machine Gun
  • Increased Cost from 110 to 120
  • Increased Weight from 55 to 60
• Biological Machine Gun
  • Increased Player Bio Duration from 1 to 4
  • Increased Vehicle Bio Duration from 1 to 2
• Standard Machine Gun
  • Reduced Cost from 40 to 30
• Chain Gun
  • Reduced Cost from 60 to 45
• Grenade Launcher
  • Reduced Cost from 50 to 40
• High-Explosive Grenade Launcher
  • Increased Cost from 60 to 75
• Small Artillery Cannon
  • Increased Cost from 70 to 90
• Medium Artillery Cannon
  • Increased Cost from 80 to 110
• High Explosive Artillery
  • Increased Cost from 120 to 170
• Ranged Artillery Cannon
  • Increased Cost from 130 to 170
• Biological Grenade Launcher
  • Increased Damage from 40 to 60
  • Increased Vehicle Bio Damage from 5 to 10
  • Increased Infantry Bio Duration from 4 to 5

• Absorbant
  • Reduced Speed to Damage modifier from -0.000112 to -0.00005
  • Increased Health from 70 to 75
• Composite
  • Reduced Speed to Damage modifier from -0.00005 to -0.000025
• Reactive
  • Increased Health from 100 to 120

• Rifleman
  • Fixed BE’s Assault Rifle starting ammo

• Defuse
  • Decreased from 5 to 3
• Capturing a flag
  • Increased from 0 to 3
• Destroying an enemy vehicle
  • Increased from 5 to 10

• NF/BE Walls
  • Increased Cost from 10 to 15
• Barracks
  • Increased Cost from 200 to 300

• Turret sounds do not play on clients who are too far away from a firing turret, even if they approach the turret as it is firing.
• In some circumstances, the button to join a team will be selectable when you cannot actually join that team.
  • If mp_teams_unbalance_limit is set to 1, you are on team A, and team B has the same number of players as team A, then the button to join team B will be active, even though you are correctly not allowed to join.

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We're happy to announce version 2.35.1 which is live on Steam right now.
Changelog below and also on our Website

Come join us on Discord!
Don't forget to check Discord events to see the date and time of when Games are played.
(It's not dead yet)

Did you know we are porting this mod to Unreal Engine 5?
You can follow its development on our Website and/or Discord

Changelog:

• Fixed an issue causing Sourcemod plugins to malfunction on Linux servers.
• Fixed a divide-by-zero bug in emp_engineer_map_brush / emp_engineer_map_object entities’ “raise on build” functionality. This was causing entities to not spawn in correctly. In some cases where these entities were parented to other entities, it would crash the server.
• Fixed a few issues with how scout hide is applied to players. A code change in the last update was causing the server to reapply the hide effect constantly. This resulted in some strange behaviour, such as flickering invisibility and flickering screen overlays. This has now been fixed.
• Spectators can now see screen overlay effects from players affected by biological damage over time & scout hide.
• Applied a few fixes to building smoke. Smoke states should now update a bit more reliably. There was an issue where sabotage smoke would still appear, even after the effect ended.

• Fixed some displacement seams having holes near the last flag.

• Changed initial team owner of the emp_engineer_map_object entities in ruins (wood barricades). Now that this functionality is actually working properly, the map has been updated to reflect this.

We're happy to announce version 2.35.0 which is live on Steam right now.
Changelog below and also on our Website

Come join us on Discord!
Don't forget to check Discord events to see the date and time of when Games are played.
(It's not dead yet)

Did you know we are porting this mod to Unreal Engine 5?
You can follow its development on our Website and/or Discord

Changelog:

• Added a screen overlay that is applied when players are afflicted with the damage over time effect of biological weapons.
• Added tips to the loading screen. (Similar to when the game was on the 2007 version of the engine)
• Changed the old scout hide screen darkening to use a screen overlay that is essentially a vignette effect instead of darkening the whole screen.

• Fixed vehicle spawners autorespawn keyvalue not working as intended. Vehicles would never respawn if the previous vehicle carcass had been recycled.
• Fixed an issue causing vehicles to be sent less throttle input than expected. The expected multiplier input to the physics engine was 1.0 (MAX), actual input was 0.92 because of a bad constant hardcoded in via joystick code. (This also affects keyboard input.)
  • This means vehicles will effectively have 8% increased throttle. This is unlikely to have a big impact on game balance.
• Fixed a bug causing non-solid emp_engineer_map_brush / emp_engineer_map_object entities to receive damage.
• Concussion grenades now only blind alive players.
• Various bug fixes to env_projectedtexture
  • Also increased limit of env_projectedtexture entities from 1 per PVS to 9.
• Fixed a bug preventing the “raise on build” functionality of emp_eng_map_brush & emp_eng_map_model entities from working.
• Fixed a bug involving turrets spawned using the point_template. Turrets would try to upgrade beyond level 3 and would break completely.
• Fixed a bug where you would get the Grenadier RPG view model stuck on screen while in the driver seat of vehicles. This happened when placing your last mine, causing the active weapon to switch right before entering the driver seat.
• Fixed a bug where the repair bar would not display if an entity was parented to another entity.
• Fixed incorrect function assignment in code for emp_params entity - GetBETickets, GetNFResources & GetBEResources would call the incorrect functions; these are now fixed.
• Fixed a bug causing blood spatter decals to spawn when hit by concussion grenades.
• Fixed various console errors.

• Increased the radius of the engineer radar from 2000 -> 4000 units.
• Reduced the radius of the scout’s auto-spotting from 5000 -> 3000 units.

• Concussion grenades
  • Concussion grenades no longer disable turrets if the damage dealt is lower than 10.
  • The temporary disabled state applied to turrets is now removable by repairing the turret.
    • Repairing 25 units of health or repairing a turret to full health will now end the disabled state early.
  • Reduced the damage from 40 to 35.
  • Reduced the explosion radius from 400 to 350.
  • Reduced the explosion falloff radius from 200 to 175.

• Removed the 2.5 degree dead-zone from armors using the Angle Modifier script variable (reverted to legacy behavior).
  • This was added back in 2.33.2. It was added to reduce the effectiveness of the Angle Modifier trait if players landed their hits correctly. It is being reverted because it is negatively affecting the identity of ‘Deflective’ armor, causing it to feel a bit weak.
• Regenerative
  • Increased Health from 75 to 80
• Reactive
  • Reduced Health from 110 to 100

• All Chassis
  • 3 Phase Motor
    • Increased Heat Output at Idle from 1 to 2
  • Fission Reactor
    • Decreased Heat Output at Max from -3 to -5
  • Gas Turbine
    • Increased Heat Capacity from 100 to 150
    • Increased Stalled Horsepower from from 10% to 50%
    • Increased Cost by 50%

• Ticket issues resolved.
• Map description has been updated/fixed.
• Slight adjustments to one of the flags.
• Changed the lighting and atmosphere, added weather effects.

• 4x damage multiplier on the second flag’s build-able bridge is now 2x - Respawn timer is unchanged. (60 seconds)
• Tweaked displacements around the last flag to hopefully prevent Brenodi being able to access areas they’re not supposed to reach.
• Fixed some exploit spots around the first flag by tweaking the player clip brushes.

• Change commander alert hotkey to jump to the most recent alert instead of cycling through the onscreen alerts.
  • This has been changed because new alerts weren’t resetting the cycle position and the hot key was confusing to use. It now mirrors behavior typical to other RTS games.
• Updated the Empires FGD with various fixes and additions.
  • Vehicle chassis/engine/weapon ID’s have been updated for vehicle spawner entities to work as expected.
  • Added various autovisgroup definitions for ease of hiding/selecting entities in hammer.
  • Added a new keyvalue to vehicle spawners to add a delay when respawning vehicles after a previously spawned vehicle is removed.
  • Updated and improved the FGD definition for env_projectedtexture.
• Reduced screen shake duration caused by building explosions.

We're happy to announce version 2.34.9 which is live on Steam right now.
Changelog below and also on our Website

Come join us on Discord!
Don't forget to check Discord events to see the date and time of when Games are played.
(It's not dead yet)

Did you know we are porting this mod to Unreal Engine 5?
You can follow its development on our Website and/or Discord

Changelog:

• Double clicking of weapons/armor/engine in vehicle custimization now adds/removes. Armor and engine will swap what is equipped if trying to add a different armor.

• Fixed a bug causing engineer tool to lose charge if the player triggered a re-equip before deploying the weapon.
• Fixed a bug preventing vehicles from repairing on repair stations when taking DMG_CRUSH damage type. (Physics crush damage/Damaged caused by crashing into walls)
• Fixed a client crash relating to guard/attack orders.
• Minor fixes to mini-map player icons.
• Minor fix to cross-hair alignment.
• Minor fix to artillery feedback skill showing hits that occurred before having the skill.
• Minor fix to prevent console spam on the server - caused by vehicle engine heat variables.

• Regenerative
  • Reduced Cost from 12 to 11
  • Reduced Weight from 15 to 13
  • Reduced Biological Damage Multiplier from 1.25 to 1.1
• Absorbant
  • Increased Cost from 10 to 11
  • Increased Biological Damage Multiplier from 0.5 to 0.8
  • Reduced BulletPlasmaResist from 0.1 to 0
  • Reduced ShellPlasmaResist from 0 to -0.1
• Reactive
  • Increased Cost from 15 to 16
  • Reduced Health from 120 to 110
• Composite
  • Increased Angle modifier from 0.35 to 0.5

• Homing Missile
  • Increased Reload Time from 5s to 8s
• Plasma Cannon
  • Increased Clip Size from 30 to 40
• Biological Cannon
  • Increased Clip Size from 30 to 40
• Depleted Uranium Machine Gun
  • Reduced Cycle time from 0.105 to 0.09

• Bio Diesel
  • Decreased Heat Stall Penalty from 50% to 25%

• Mines
  • Disabled mine detonation by vehicle carcasses. (This is back to the old behaviour.)
• RPG
  • Reduced Explosion Radius from 75 to 50
  • Reduced Turning Speed from 1.65 to 1.5

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We're happy to announce version 2.34.8 which is live on Steam right now.
Changelog below and also on our Website

Come join us on Discord!
Don't forget to check Discord events to see the date and time of when Games are played.
(It's not dead yet)

Did you know we are porting this mod to Unreal Engine 5?
You can follow its development on our Website and/or Discord

Changelog:

• Fixed some alignment issues on text / icons.
• Text should is now set as ‘proportional’ and should better based on resolution.
• Health values update more reliably and are now colored Red-]Green based on health percentage. (Squad aura indicator is now white, to avoid confusion.)
• The Squad Power icon now has text displaying time left on it’s timer.
• Fixed some issues with the squad member flashing indicator when squad members fire weapons. (This now flashes their name instead of the whole row background.)

• Improved the checks used for positioning revived players. Ray casts are more predictable in terms of where players might be revived, using a radius around the squad leader.
• Added extra checks to prevent reviving through terrain. This might not cover every situation but it’s a big improvement over the previous method.
• Player’s are no longer revived on locations where they would fall down a slope. It will instead try a different location.
• Squad members now revive slightly closer to the squad leader if the revive is successful. Previously players would spawn in very random locations which could be quite far from the squad leader, leaving no opportunity for counter play from the enemy team. This is no longer the case and squad revive is more predictable, both for the squad leader and the enemy!
• Revived squad members now point in the direction that the squad leader was looking, rather than always pointing toward east!

• Spotting is now removed when a player dies. Previously the spotting diamond would display until the spotting timer expired.
• Updated console font to be proportional. It should now be readable on most resolutions.
• Updated some mini-map fonts to be proportional. These should now be readable on most resolutions.
• Fixed an issue with chat closing when you get revived. Although there are benefits to this, it can be annoying if you typed out a whole message and lose it all!
• Fixed issues where the engineer tool couldn’t detect a ragdoll when attempting to revive players. (Reviving players who died in water is now fixed!)
• Fixed a bug where the squad menu player ordering would break, leaving gaps and breaking the squad menu. This only occurred when the round had ended.

• Speed upgrade now increases swim speed through water. There was previously a bug causing players to move at the maximum speed regardless of having the skill or not.
  • Stamina use in water is now the same regardless of player stance (Crouch/standing), this is because the speed is the same regardless of stance.
• Speed upgrade now affects crouch/prone stances - whereas previously they were set to always consider you having the speed upgrade skill.
• Fixed a few bugs causing low movement speed whilst using weapon iron sights. This is a significant change to the previous move speed as it was setting it lower than it should have been.
  • As a result, the view model bobbing effect has been significantly reduced when using weapon iron sights and moving around.
  • Running while in sniper scopes is slower than standard iron sights. (25% reduction but this may need further tweaking.)

• Concussion grenades
  • Disable effect to turrets is now applied when the damage is applied rather than separately. Explosion damage is more reliable than the single ray cast method that was previously in use.
    • As a result, the damage radius has been increased to be closer to the original disable radius. Damage falloff reduction has been changed to reflect this. Radius is now 400 (up from 300), damage falloff reduction starts at 200 (down from 300).

• All Engines
  • Gas Turbine
    • Heat Dissipation increased by 1
    • Heat Output At Max decreased by 1
  • Bio Diesel
    • Heat Dissipation increased by 0.5
  • Fission Reactor
    • Heat dissipation increased by 0.5
    • Heat Output At Max decreased by 1