An update to Alien Swarm: Reactive Drop has been released. The update will be applied automatically when you restart Steam. The major changes include:
- Difficulty no longer increases for 5+ marines. Thanks to everyone who left their feedback regarding this feature.
- Voice mute buttons. Players are now able to mute separate players using the Player List window(F9)
- To improve user experience when browsing for public games players with in-game level below 30 and no promotions will not see games with a challenge enabled or difficulty harder than Hard.
- [Modding]VScript access to info_node positions, new cvars
- Miscellaneous fixes
Changelog
- Added rm_prespawn_num_biomass cvar. It can be used in user challenges to randomly create biomass around a map. Requires rd_prespawn_scale to be set to 1 or higher.
- Updated description of rm_prespawn_num_* cvars
- Set rd_increase_difficulty_by_number_of_marines to be 0 by default. Game difficulty will not be increased for 5+ players
- Add mute button to player list window(F9). Thanks to element109 for the initial pull request.
- Added VScript Functions to Get info_node Data.
- InfoNodes.GetNumNodes() //Returns the amount of info_nodes in the network array
- InfoNodes.GetNodeOrigin( int nodeID ) //Returns the origin of the node
- InfoNodes.GetNodePosition( int nodeID, int hull ) //Returns the hull specific origin of the node
- InfoNodes.GetNodeType( int nodeID ) //Returns the type of node
- Add rd_drone_uber_knockdown cvar. Set to 1 to make uber drones knock down marines like shieldbugs do. Also added related cvars rd_drone_uber_knockdown_force and rd_drone_uber_knockdown_lift
- Make asw_trigger_fall, trigger_hurt and env_laser kill marines even if reviving is enabled
- Display number of incapacitations in player list window. If reviving is enabled F9 window(player list) will now display the number of times marine was incapacitated during current mission.
- Fix marine is deleted after asw_suicide. This bugged out challenges with reviving enabled
- Grey out difficulties above Hard and challenges for players below 30 level in Find Public Games window
- Disable blinking light on area9800PP1 map to improve frame rate
- Fix help hint is displayed permanently during bonus mission 1
- Fix aliens getting stuck in huge yellow door on lan3_maintenance
- Fix alien getting stuck inside wall on LandingBay_01
- Fix uber drones getting stuck in door frames and windows
- Add rd_auto_kick_low_level_player. Server auto kick players below level 30 from challenges which have this cvar set to 1. This cvar is meant for players who use dedicated server browser to join games, since Public Games window already restricts filters to max Hard difficulty and challenge being disabled