Build 195

From NS2 community wiki

Released February 8, 2012

Contents 1 Feature 2 Fix 3 Balance 4 Mineshaft 5 Tram 6 SDK

Feature

• Onos Stomp moved to alt fire and now it knocks down marines
• Moved Onos smash to separate HUD slot.
• Onos will not collide with medium sized structures anymore.
• Added a stoop animation for Onos, which triggers when you move through low corridors/doorways. This will trigger most of the time instead of auto crouch and does not slow the Onos down.
• Increased Onos hide armor.
• Adjusted Onos movement collision model.
• Increased Onos acceleration.
• Added a bitmap based font rendering system.
• Added Lerk "roosting", fly into a wall or ceiling and hold the movement modifier button to latch on (Thanks Matso!)
• The Commander can now drop weapons anywhere, not only in range of Armory. Weapons always cost player resources.

Fix

• Fixed bug causing some Hydras placed on walls or ceilings to take damage even though they are on Infestation.
• Marines with a Jetpack now display on the minimap.
• Fixed script error caused by a bot switching to a different player class.
• Improved melee attack collision detection (Rifle alt, Axe, Fade, Skulk, Onos, etc) (Thanks Matso!)
• Fixed script error caused by upgrading Shade to Mature Shade.
• "DEFEND" order text is now displayed as "Defend" as intended.
• Pistol laser is pointing in the correct direction when viewing another player with a pistol.
• Player will now rotate more smoothly.
• Fixed script error when using the web admin interface.
• Fixed bug where sometimes the Alien hatch text would say "-2 more Aliens will hatch before you"
• Scenario Handler now handles unconnected cysts properly (Thanks Matso!)
• AI units will now go to the direct spot commanded instead of nearby (Thanks Matso!)
• The Sentry laser will only appear once the Sentry is fully deployed.
• Scoreboard reloads now correctly when you change the screen resolution.
• Fixed a bug where Whip bombs could sometimes damage health from Marines.
• Added Onos death message icons.
• Fixed the minimap generator not working properly.
• Fixed crash when a vertex buffer couldn't be created due to the system being out of memory.
• Fixed infinite loop when an open space can't be found for a Drifter.
• Fixed script error caused by the Marine Commander giving a Marine an order to defend an Entity that hadn't been damaged yet.
• Changed the field of view to remain constant vertically regardless of the aspect ratio of the game.
• Give dropped weapons a little bit of initial angular velocity.
• Increased the size of the minimap.
• Marine Commander can now drop weapons everywhere on the map (no armory nearby required anymore)
• Aliens can choose same number of upgrades as they have Hives.
• Better targeting system for Sentry, Hydra, Whip, etc (Thanks Matso!)
• Whip Grenade whack improved (Thanks Matso!)
• 'autobuild' option will work with powerpoints now (thanks matso!)
• Updated Alien ability icons.
• Sentries and pistols in alt fire mode have now a red laser attached to them.
• Added "killall" console command to kill all of one type of Entity, "killall Hive" for example, cheats must be enabled.

Balance

• Increased Onos Stomp energy cost from 10 to 40.
• Reduced Bile Bomb damage by 10%.

Mineshaft

• Moved Power Node in Central Drilling to other corner.
• Opened up brew room into small room next door and moved the black door.
• Raised the Left Operations exit slightly
• Rebuilt Operations right exit to Drill Repair
• Extended rock division wall in The Gap
• Moved Drill Repair RT Closer to Operations
• Replaced all Location Volumes
• Renamed "Ore Transfer" to "Refinery Transfer"
• Included "Refinery Transfer" Tech point into Marine Random Spawn.
• Renamed "Belt Room" to "Belt Transfer"
• Renamed "Ore Extraction North" to "North Tunnel"

Tram

• Replaced dev textures in corridor outside Server room.
• Removed some deformed geometry from Alien Tram.
• Fix for drifter stuck issue in Shipping.

SDK

• Added the ability to make static and dynamic props as not collidable in the Editor.
• Added SetAngularVelocity to CollisionObject.