Hello everyone! Today we're finally bringing some quality-of-life changes focused on game performance, UI/UX improvements when using inoculators, player movement & game balance adjustements and many bugfixes we would have liked to release sooner. Full details in the list below:

Changelog

Achievements

• Fixed escaped Survivors not earning certain achievements if they started from the beginning.

Administration System

• Added "@carriers" pattern to target all Carriers in the server.
• Changed name targeting logic to mimic SourceMod's.
• Fixed AFK checker being too "aggressive" by kicking "AFK" players way earlier than it should be.
• Fixed admin warning count in the chat having an offset.
• Steam IDs in ban/warn lists are read and saved as "classic" Steam ID instead of Steam ID 3 for consistency (no need to update the IDs yourself, the game will do that automatically for you).

Angelscript

• Fixed "Globals.GetMapCycle" crashing the server with huge mapcycle and maplist files (this by extension also fixes the included Rock The Vote plugin).
• Fixed "Globals.OnPlayerConnect" not working.

Characters

• Enabled culling on survivors materials.
• Reworked first person Lea's hands.

Client

• Fixed being able to see players of the opposite team silhouettes through glows.

Entities

• Fixed props and "func_physbox" entities not recognizing their owners whenever they were pushed. This fixes both the "teamkill with props" and "kill with props are marked as suicide" problems.
• Potential fix for a crash related to the "game_ui" entity (this one is for community maps such as Smash Cannons).
• Potential fix for an issue when using a "func_tank" brush entity (this one is for community maps too).
• Restored "PVS mode" property on spawn point entities.

Engine

• Numerous security and stability improvements.
• Updated to the latest public Source SDK 2013 Multiplayer engine.

Game Rules

• Fixed Carrier spawning with normal Zombie arms instead of Carrier's (on first spawn only).
• Fixed forced infected Survivors not being cured if needed when someone disconnects.
• Fixed infinite Carrier roar exploit.
• Fixed team selection not curing force infected Survivor.
• Fixed team selection treating escaped Survivors as "Zombie skippers".
• Fixed "Zombie stacking" glitch.
• Potential fix for infection being forced in 1 Survivor VS 0 Zombies situations.

General

• Added breakable versions of Half-Life 2 door models.
• Minor server code optimization.
• Updated contributors list.
• Various improvements to loading JSON files. One of them is the ability to see why your JSON file isn't loading properly (missing file, parsing failed due to bad syntax...)

Localization

• Potential crash fix for achievements announcement in languages that do not use Latin characters (like Simplified Chinese).
• Updated the sentence "you can't grab/use during reload/unload" to remove the "use" part (English and French only).

Maps

• [Aquatica] Added some extra ammo at lab spawns at 6 Zombies instead of 7.
• [Aquatica] Fixed Zombie spawn timer not scaling to the amount of Zombies.
• [Cinema] Fixed an out of bounds ammo entity and broken line of sight spawns.
• [Frozenheart] Minor optimizations to the map and its trees.
• [Survival Maps] Added a few movable props and fixed couple of lighting issues on Corpsington, Keretti and Silence.
• [Town] Fixed a skybox issue.

Player Movement

• Slightly adjusted stamina regeneration for Survivors.
• Slightly adjusted walking and ducking speeds for both teams.
• Slightly adjusted Zombie lunge speed (very barely noticeable).

Server

• Fixed a rare crash when killing players with an invalid attacker (thanks SuperConker).
• Fixed "impulse 103" cheat not being reset when resetting "sv_cheats".
• Fixed some incorrect Hardcore checks when "sv_zps_hardcore" CVAR was set to "2".
• Updated the description of "sv_zps_hardcore" CVAR to precise it only impact non-ZPH maps.

Sound

• Fixed dead Survivors being able to play the "win" voice line.
• Fixed "win" voice line not being played underwater.

UI/UX

• [Inoculator HUD] Added a black background to the text to make it more visible.
• [Inoculator HUD] Added a sound whenever it shows up, this should give you an audio cue whenever someone tries to heal you.
• [Inoculator HUD] Moved it closer to the crosshair to make it more visible.
• [Player list dialog] Added a way to copy names and Steam IDs to your system's clipboard in the menu (right click on a client). Note that you cannot copy Steam IDs of bots or SourceTV.
• [Player list dialog] Fixed admin. icon not being hidden if an admin. has disabled the "show tags" option.
• [Scoreboard] Fixed "Default" sorting mode not having a "secondary filter" in case of a tie.

Weapons

• [All shotguns] Reworked their shooting behavior in an attempt to make them more "comfortable" to use.
• [All shotguns] Slightly changed spread patterns.
• [Axe] Adjusted knockback and range.
• [Baseball bats] Adjusted knockback and range.
• [Crowbar] Adjusted swing rate.
• [Frying pan] Adjusted range.
• [Golf club] Adjusted base damage.
• [Inoculator] Increased distant target range, this should make healing teammates much easier.
• [Machete] Adjusted base damage.
• [Meat cleaver] Adjusted range.
• [MP5] Updated some first person animations.
• [Pipe] Adjusted base damage.
• [Pipe wrench] Adjusted base damage, knockback and range.
• [Pot] Adjusted base damage and knockback.
• [Revolver] Slightly adjusted spread patterns and slightly increased camera kick.
• [Spanner] Adjusted range.
• [Tennis racket] Adjusted knockback and range.
• [Wrench] Adjusted base damage, knockback and range.

Special thanks to those who have reported and sent their crash dumps for investigation & potential fixes. We encourage anyone to always send your .dmp files directly to us via Discord or Steam forums.