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Point Release 0.37.3 -- Cake and murder!

Birthday event!:

  • We decided to add a bunch of stupid stuff (including effect changes to rockets, grenades and gibs) to the game for the next few days to celebrate our first year on Early Access. Lets party!
    • If Reflex is serious business to you, you can disable all the event customizations with cl_events 0  


Gameplay:

  • Next pass movement tweaks
    • Speed and control have been increased for A/D bunny hopping to give a similar feel to 0.36.
    • Gravity has been increased slightly to between 0.36 and 0.37.0 values to still give an increase in hangtime and readability while feeling less floaty for players.
    • Ground friction has been increased slightly to improve the feeling of responsiveness when on the ground.
    • Speed bonus for circle jumps and strafe jumps has been decreased by 5% as many tricks were getting far too easy and that eventually rolls-on to worse maps and longer combat ranges.
      • This tweak slightly changes the optimum angle for strafe jumps so you may lose some speed until your technique adjusts.  


Maps:

  • Added ctf-monolith-birthday variant
  • Added dm-ashur-birthday variant
  • Added thct2style
  • Added xy2
  • Updated thcdm13
  • Minor fixes for ctf-monolith  

Servers:

  • Servers can now be passworded with sv_password.
    • Players will be unable to connect unless they know the password.
    • To connect to a passworded server, use "connect " or use the password dialog in the server browser.

  • Servers can now set a referee password with sv_refpassword.

    • Players who know the referee password may become a referee, causing all their votes to instantly pass.  


Bugs:

  • Fixed incorrect velocity for gibs.

User Interface:

  • The font color for delta score box is now switched between light/dark (based on adaptive luminance of background colour)
  • Added an icon to show when a server requires a password  

Art:

  • Glass cubemap reflection support
  • Added frosted glass material  

Game:

  • Added cl_camera_player to instantly switch to spectating that player.
  • Added referee mode: referee , unreferee cvars