Version beta 32 is now available for testers! It will appear as "b32_3.0". If you are just keeping up with development from the outside. thank you for your support. Make sure to join the Discord!
Content
New weapon: Compound Bow!
New weapon: Drill Cannon!
New weapon: Flak Artillery!
The Item list has been refreshed. I'll just put the complete list here.
Armor Shard
Ammo Box (he's back!)
Grapple Hook
Exo Boots
Steel Trap
Spray Can
Ink Rocket
Versus Sensor
MEGA Sensor
Unstable Core
Boombox
Burst Bubble
Weather Machine
Phase Watch
Heavy Gear
Seeker Swarm
Balance
Player movement code has been completely replaced. It is now much more faithful to iD Tech and (g)old Source.
Added a speedometer under player name to the UI. Disable it in Settings.
Most weapons have had a TTK/damage adjustment.
Player visibility and highlighting has been reworked.
Removed overhead "hostile triangle".
Added "barrel flares" to hostile players. Reactive to effective range and ammo type.
Players now cast a small amount of light.
Added an "importance" visual effect to saturate players, and other important objects.
Overall environment saturation has been reduced.
Reworked Assault Rifle alt-fire grenade to be more consistent and useful.
Adjusted Slug Repeater to spin down over a short period of time instead of immediately.
Reworked Scrap Blaster to feel more consistent and lethal within it's combat range.
Reworked Fissile Collider. Reduced damage, improved ammo economy for primary and alt fire.
Most weapons that are not already explicitly in the "Precision" style category have had their ability to headshot removed. Certain exceptions include most automatic hitscan weapons. In particular, automatic large-projectile weapons (Machine Gun, Capacitor Rifle etc.) can no longer headshot.
Example: The Minigun retains it's ability to headshot. The Machine Gun lost it.
Weapons affected by this change have had their base damage increased (usually equivalently) to compensate.
Reworked weapon Plus-Powers.
Relaxed ammo effect damage thresholds across all weapons.
A Plus-Power level can be gained by collecting a duplicate of a weapon you already have.
Scoring a kill with a weapon reduces it's level by one, and grants a small amount of ammo.
Weapon pickups now drop at the level they were held at.
A select number of weapons that need more to "feel" the effects of their Plus-Power bonuses have had their individual scalars increased.
Added "Power Pills" to the Firing Range to test weapon level.
Duplicate and level-down effects are disabled in the Firing Range.
Reworked the Voltage weapon Plus-Power. Now spawns a lightning strike object that tracks targets for a short time before "disjointing", striking shortly after.
Strike can affect multiple targets in it's (small) radius.
Recoil and bloom have been reevaluated across all weapons. Many weapons have more (and more consistent) recoil and recoil patterns.
All heal and repair effects that were previously "burst" now occur over 1s (technically 0.9s as a tick of healing is applied immediately)
Example: Large Health kits restore 10hp every 0.1s, for 0.9s (100hp total)
Most items and effect sources that previously applied a small amount of damage and a status effect now simply apply the status effect
Example: Spray Can no longer deals 12 damage upon affecting a target with the Painted status.
"Painted" status effect has been expanded. Now spawns a paint blob on death.
Paint "splats" have been expanded. Now "slip" you off of them in your direction of motion.
Replaced item spinner UI with a new version that actually shows a preview of the items you could obtain at your placement.
Item system changes:
Respawning with >4 and >9 armor stacks grants a free item roll each.
Item Spirits have a new "no armor stack" type.
Items no longer drop on death. Instead. dying with items creates an Item Spirit per full slot.
Added crosshair elements to indicate when an item starts rolling.
Added the "Item Meter", a gauge made up of 3 "pips".
Item Spirits now grant a single "pip" if they are not shot, and 3 pips if they are (full meter)
Meter pips are gained passively at a slow rate.
Specific Item changes:
The Grapple Hook no longer needs to contact a surface to activate and pull you towards it.
The Ink Rocket now creates a paint splat whenever it bounces.
Sensor items no longer hang out in your item slot waiting for you to "commit" the track.
The Boombox has a new "backpacked" state. Crouch to drop the box off.
Burst Bubble shields are now persistent, taking only one hit to break.
The Phase Watch now makes you much more invisible and leaves a hologram behind.
Auto-Missiles are now the Seeker Swarm. No more timer, the missiles simply hang out until you use them (or die)
Features
New Main Menu screen: the Codex. Contains a record of all accessible game content including weapons, maps, cards, etc.
Open loot crates in the Lobby!
Player face customization has been expanded to contain optional "slots" for alternate faces for combat states.
Ray Gun, Mine Thrower and Slug Repeater got beautiful new remodels
Added idle particle effects to a number of Voltage weapons that indicate ammo state.
Improved "chambering" animations on multiple shotgun-type weapons.
Overall scene saturation has been reduced.
Added new combat medals for going on a headshot kill streak.
Improved visual diversity between combat medal icons.
Added new transition screens to changing levels and changing scenes.
The chat window can now be closed by pressing [Backspace] when empty.
Bots can now attack placed damageable objects (traps, bio-blobs, etc.) and item boxes/spirits
Bots now crouch
Chat "last command" handling has been improved.
Changed player list entries: removed armor stack indicator, added bot head.
Improved sounds for multiple "spin-type" weapons.
Weapon viewmodels have been reauthored across all weapons for better posing and readability.
Third-person weapon poses have been touched up across all weapons.
Improved visibility of "tracker" (wallhack) UI.
Improved impact visuals for bouncing projectiles.
Added a lobby command to control splitscreen. This is not an official feature!
Improved match end experience.
High rate of fire weapons no longer spawn a tracer with every bullet.
Game vote UI now uses appropriate bot head "stamps" instead of progress bars to indicate votes.
Added "cinematic bars" to death screen to make it more evident.
Improved Incinerator primary and alt fire VFX.
Improved player footstep animation syncing.
Added unique projectile impact VFX for each ammo type.
Gamepad Aim Assist has been improved.
Added an option for mouse inversion.
Improved explanations for gold events.
Improved mode "Major Alerts" UI.
Added weapon swap sounds.
Updated Item Box visuals.