Version 3.0 Beta 2

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January 30th, 2004 - Natural Selection Version 3.0 Beta 2

• Changed Combat respawn system. Players now respawn in bigger waves, and time to wait depends only on team size (so smaller games spawn faster). Spawn times vary from around 6 seconds (1v1) to 20 seconds (16v16).
• The return of the Gorge to Combat! This should address the problem where marines can heal their CC easily while the aliens cannot.
• Fixed bug in UTIL_SharedRandomFloat that fixes bug where bullet holes were firing with perfect accuracy for everyone but the shooter (bug #233)
• Changed catalyst packs so they no longer do damage to recipient
• Fixed bug where holding walk key while cloaked sometimes allowed you to move too fast and uncloak you
• Halved acid rocket damage and energy cost (to make rockets more fun to use)
• Fixed bug where lerk sometimes showed spike model
• Fixed bug where aliens sometimes spawned with the wrong weapon selected (bug #249)
• Increased Fade stats from 250/100 to 300/150 (+33% damage capacity)
• Increased Onos stats from 700/500 to 700/600
• Increased cost of heavy armor to 2 levels (Combat)
• Increased redemption chance from 30% per second per level to 35% per second per level
• Experience is again awarded for repairing the CC or healing the hive (currently 1/3 the amount). Removed faster hive healing in Combat to compensate.
• Changed welder to have a random ROF (gameplay effects should be unchanged)
• New welder sound
• Electricity damage reduced from 25 to 20 (to compensate for increased range)
• Scan upgrade can no longer be purchased multiple times in Combat (bug #478)
• Fixed bug where options on the pop-up menu looked like they were available before they actually were (also bug #478) (should also fix bug where prices weren't shown in NS mode)
• Fixed issues with alien pop-up menu in NS mode (bug #471)
• Fixed bug where aliens with level 3 movement upgrades were taking 1/2 damage from turrets (Thanks Fortuna Wolf!)
• Added missing credits list to ns_agora
• Fixed bug where Metabolize interfered with regeneration (bug #356)
• Fixed bug where Metabolize cost more energy to use then energy it gave back
• Changed hive healing so it now scales healing by the target's hitpoints (the hive now heals 6% of a player's hitpoints per second)
• Changed "kills" to be actual number of players killed, not adjusted for type/level of lifeform (thanks Lux!)
• Removed mp_spawninvul variable (it defaulted to 0 before so this won't change most servers)
• Installer fixes (WON/multiple Steam ids)
• Temporarily removed playback of intro movies until we figure out how to encode them properly
• Updated ns_metal (thanks quazilin!)
• Tweaks
• Fixed crash bug when cheats were enabled

• Updated ns_nancy (thanks Lazer!)
  • Added ladder to vent outside of Marine Start. (the "death vent")
  • Port Hive lowered a little, south wall moved back in to be a little more like the 1.x version.
  • Made Subspace vent even more gorge friendly.
  • Better clipping on ceilings of hallways so getting into the ceiling vents becomes a lot more possible without leap.
  • Lowered r_speeds, and other assorted tweaks.
  • Added a few things to the readyroom... :]

• Updated co_pulse (thanks tommyd!)
  • Improved marine spawn point locations
  • Added more room to the marine start

• Updated ns_tanith (thanks tommyd!)
  • Removed welds near waste hive to prevent marine camping
  • Fixed in-the-void siege/building exploit near fusion hive
  • Fixed vent-siege-building in new vent by waste hive