This update adds a brand-new free cop class called "Swarm", who has access to seven different drones, each with different abilities and weapons, allowing him to set up complex defenses and cover multiple locations simultaneously. As a trade-off for his drones, he can't carry any ranged weapons, and instead is only equipped with a Wrench that can repair cop gadgets, and a Drone Remote, that allows him to command his drones to specific locations without having to fly them himself.
Here is an overview of his seven drones:
Doc (Green): can repair other downed drones
Grumpy (Red): has a bigger minigun turret (40 damage, 900 RPM)
Happy (Yellow): 30% faster than the other drones
Dopey (Purple): has no weapons, but can hide nearby money, making it nearly invisible and requiring robbers to first destroy Dopey before being able to steal it
Sleepy (White): has no weapons, can shut down, falling down and alerting Swarm if someone interrupts his sleep
Bashful (Pink): has no weapons, instead generates a small stun field around it after not moving for a few seconds
Sneezy (Blue): has a water hose instead of a gun, automatically sprays water that extinguishes nearby burning plants
The Gym Buddy robber class has also received a big update, with his Gym Bag being removed, he got a new Shirt Launcher weapon, that allows him to change the disguises of his robber teammates or NPCs from a distance. If he gets up to speed with the help of his treadmill, an equipped mask, or his teammates, he can run through cop gadgets and weak walls, taking 60 damage for each wall he destroys.
He also has access to two new gadgets, the Spa Steam Machine that covers an area in smoke, while healing nearby characters, and the Tennis Ball Cannon, which covers an area with suppressive tennis ball fire, that deals low amounts of damage but slows down hit players.
Additionally, lots of bug fixes and improvements are included in this update, as well as a new Fire Extinguisher object that can be found in the upper levels of New York, and on custom maps, that will release smoke for ten seconds after getting shot, allowing robbers to take cover or hide their escape. Cops will now be able to run through Officer barriers, Combat Medics get an additional Heartbeat Monitor if an NPC gets killed wearing one, and Crypto had his active EMP ability range reduced from 15 to 10 meters.
Full changelog:
New:
- added new cop class "Swarm"
- added new player avatar icon for fired cops, instead of just showing them as dead
- added Fire Extinguisher object, shoots out smoke for 10 seconds after being shot at
- added leaderboards for Artist & Surge
- added new network connection quality info UI
Changes:
- removed fire door UI popup for robbers, explaination when fire doors open is now displayed only while looking at the door
- Officer can now longer report bodies killed by cops
- cops can now walk through Officer's tape barrier
- Combat Medic now gets an additional Hearbeat Monitor if an NPC dies with one equipped
- reduced Crypto EMP range from 15m to 10m
Gym Buddy Rework:
- removed Gym Bag
- he can now run through weak walls if he's moving fast enough (requires treadmill or other sources of bonus speed)
- new secondary weapon: T-Shirt Launcher (disguises and heals hit robbers)
- added new "Quarterback" achievement that unlocks Golden T-Shirt Launcher skin
- reduced money bag bounciness to make it easier for Gym Buddy to throw
- made it easier to hit escape vans with thrown money bags
Map Changes:
New York:
- added the new Fire Extinguisher to the upper employee area
Performance:
- optimized UI to improve FPS
Fixed:
- fixed missing collision/textures in background office building
- fixed Combat Medic revives sometimes not working correctly
- fixed "Sketchy Business" achievement progress sometimes not updating correctly
- fixed money bags floating on treadmills
- fixed money bags getting stuck between treadmills
- fixed treadmills sometimes not pushing money off high enough so it can land inside the van
- fixed crash while placing Marie Curies X-Ray scanner
- fixed multiple chat focus bugs
- fixed crash caused by invalid Steam Friends Interface
- fixed Officer being able to infinitely report bodies carried by Janitor
- fixed "Quickplay" often trying to connect players to servers that are already full
- more Horse dismount bug fixes
- fixed drones pitch angle getting reset when switching to it
- fixed Horses spawning inside each other sometimes
- banned classes now get cleared when changing maps
- additional fix for ragdolls sometimes taking a while to appear for clients
Level Editor:
- multiple fixes for island and empty sublevel custom maps not working correctly on dedicated servers (especially after a map vote)
- added the new "Functional Fire Extinguisher" object to the level editor
- fixed "Vent Door" object sometimes flickering in-game
- potential fix for sometimes falling through the map when loading into a custom map
- potential fix for "change robber spawn to the right" button sometimes not working correctly
- added missing weapons to the Weapon object
- bots will now try to walk off roofs, if there is no other appropiate path down (ladders/stairs)
- added "Interrupt Channel" to the Logic Timer
- fixed custom maps sometimes loading twice on dedicated servers