Hello everyone!
A new PVKII update is among us! This update contains map updates, most notably a major overhaul of the old tw_desertruin, along with few other minor map and general updates. This tw_desertruin update is brought to you by a lot of hard work from Latteh, Roald, and Phone Booth.
Join us tonight for Friday Night Mayhem!
Server owners, please update your servers! Without further ado, here's the changelog.
Changelog
Map Updates:
- Major overhaul to tw_desertruin
- Updated bt_island with a gate between Viking and Pirate areas at the start of the map as well as instant class switching in spawn zones
- Updated bt_pinegrove with instant class switching in spawn zones
- Updated te_sandstorm with some updated props by Pixenal
Code Update:
- Miscellaneous crash fixes
- Miscellaneous optimizations
- New "map hacks" system that allows modifying a map without having to have the map source
- Add auto-complete to the "give" console command
- Experimental dynamic sky shader (unused)
- Minor memory leak fixes
- Fix mistake that caused certain FMOD sounds to be fully loaded instead of be streamed that could lead to potential stutter
- cl_ragdoll_enable console variable now works
- Discord Rich Presence now always shows the correct player count
- Discord Rich Presence now available on Mac and Linux
- Allow mappers to enable\disable chest physics
- Fix achievements not being announced on Linux dedicated servers
- Fix "Waiting for Players" text not showing up on Linux
- Fix issue that would cause certain inputs to happen twice on some Linux distros
- Slightly better text scaling on Mac
- Mac OS X minimum required version now 10.9
- Fix floating viewmodel hands
- Can now offset viewmodel position with viewmodel_offset console variables
- Big heads now considered a server cheat
General Updates:
- In-game Main Menu updated to add mute button back in
- Captain kill taunts against Vikings now work
- Fix Captain chest kill taunt
- Updated firstperson spear animations
- New chest and item respawn sounds
wow! still updates, amazing!