Empires 2.25 Released news

Modified:

• Map skybox raised for commander view and standardized squad artillery.
• emp_canyon: Reworked with textures and added rain.
• emp_district402: Added back way into NF 3rd flag.
• emp_duststorm: Reworked with textures and effects.
• emp_isle: Retextured, replaced old palm trees and added 2 new ladder in NW.
• emp_glycencity: Retextured and tweaked to allow acceptable HDR, new snow blending effect.
• CV hull health is 2000, CV armor plate health is 250.
• Soft collisions: player doesn't collide with teammates but instead is slowly pushed away.
• Optimized bandwidth used by dumb missiles and shells.
• Optimized CPU time used by tanks.
• Scout sabotage changed from damage type to setting health directly.
• Chat window now always has a slightly grey background.
• Sabotage damage to 4hp every 3 seconds.
• The amount of ammo a class gets at spawn is now scriptable.
• Grenadier can now carry 12 rockets (gets 8 at spawn). He also gets 5 mines at spawn (max is still 8). When spotting enemy armor, it will now name the actual chassis of the vehicle instead of just "armor".
• Restrict skid sounds to play only if handbrake is pressed.
• Limit horns to a time interval, rather than 4 times per map.
• Game music volume is now set by volume slider in options.
  First spawn does not take any tickets.
• Bots follow your view angles in vehicles.
• Ambient Sound Lengths are no longer hardcoded.
• Changed the dropdown-box for vehicle weapons to buttons.
• Enable APC spawns from the start.
• Disabled green background in mortar HUD.
• Scoreboard now shows the classes of all players after the game ends.
• Player now always sees the chassis indicator for tanks of the same team.
• Moved heat capacity from chassis to engine.
• Each commander has his own engine now.
• Increased the amount of particles that can be sent through the TE system to 4096.
• Increased the max engineer walls to 30. Full walls now cost 3 of this limit, 1/3 walls cost 1.
• Fixed an issue with commander ML turrets not doing damage when you built them and then changed team.
• Made the vehicle preset dropdown bigger so you can write more in it.
• Precache all vehicle models on maps where commander exists.
• Dead people can talk with alive people.
• Teammates are not blinded by concussion grenades.Projectiles (grenades) go through friendly players.

Fixed:

• emp_streetsoffire: Fixed crash.
• Changing infantry weapons as vehicle passenger works again.
• Invalid chat escape sequences are printed back to chat.
  Particle tracers no longer spout off attachment error.
• Chat window hides when nothing to read.
• Crash in spectator.
• Crash with the vehicle spawner.
• Calculator amount doesn't get reset on suicide.
• Can now destroy buildables that have never been healed (issue with solid on spawn).
• Fixed issue with sabotage triggered outputs.
• Stats saving after a client disconnect.
• Passenger could control tank.
• Removed unnecessary (un)parenting when getting attachments.
• Multiplayer tonemapping fixes.
• Unbuilt walls not taking damage.
• Fixed bug where player sees mortar shells from a grenadier staying inside his model.
• Fix showing default tracer instead of weapon-specific for vehicle MGs.
• Scout rifle cycle time matches animation.
• Effective turn rate of missiles depending on tick rate.
• Resources given from refineries with output greater than 1 weren't scaled properly.
• Incorrect starting point for weapon tracer.
• Scout silencer not working.