Sven Coop 2.1 Released news

Sven Coop 2.1 is out! This is quite a major update adding three new monsters, improving a ton of things as well as some awesome fixes to problems such as telefragging. With a storming development speed (2.0F was released in September!) this has been a great effort by my fellow teammates.

• New Map: Hostage2b
• New Map: Surface Ex-Tension
• New Map: ToonRun
• New weapon: Pipe Wrench (model by Gearbox, converted by WarpZone).
• New Monster: Pit Drone (model by Gearbox). Eats fallen enemies to gain health
• New monster: Shock Trooper (model by Gearbox). Spore grenades disabled in this version due to time constraints
• New monster: Shockroach (model by Gearbox). Player weapon Shockroach not added in this version
• Precision based telefragging for spawn and teleport points (If you're not directly in the way, you won't be telefragged)
• Heavily damaged RoboGrunts will have a glowshell shock effect randomly and, while active, touching them will result in injuries
• RoboGrunts explode when they experience overkill damage (Before or during their explosion sequence)
• Friendly monsters attacked by players become friendly again after being healed
• Added Medkit mirror health
• Houndeyes eat their fallen enemies to gain health
• Non-Sniper Male assassins investigate sounds
• Squad based monsters not in squads will try to form a squad every so often
• Akimbo and Single Uzis produce shells when firing
• Added sv_dropweapons as a map CFG setting (For disabling players dropping weapons on death/with the Drop command). Default: 1
• Model replacement added per weapon_ entity. (Don't have to use the squadmaker entity now)
• New Commands for Mappers (cheats must be enabled) :
• -- No Clip -> cl_noclip 1 in console
• -- NoTarget -> cl_notarget 1 in console
• Bug Fixes
• Spawning at "Off" spawnpoints bug fixed
• Fixed Friendly Male Assassins/Robo Grunts shooting Friendly *Alien Grunts/Gargantuas
• Fixed model replacement bug for Male Assassins/Robo *Grunts/Leeches
• Fixed crash bug with applying properties to non-monsters in monstermakers
• Fixed Houndeye pause problem
• Robo Grunts, Human Grunts and Male Assassins do not throw grenades at dead enemies
• Map spawned snarks attack grunts again
• Clientside-gib crash bug fixed
• Fixed framerate related bug with monster TURN RATES. *Monsters are not "slow" on high-end machines/servers when they turn to face a direction
• Monsters do not attack dead sentry/turrets if previously in combat with them
• Osprey bug FIXED - Osprey correctly refills levels with grunts
• Fixed crash bug with deaths
• Distance limit bug with Sniper male assassins fixed
• Fixed health display of monsters on the HUD when at <1 health
• Freeze bug with monsters finishing scripted_sequences when not in range of player, fixed
• Fixed mp_npckill not defaulting to 1 properly (again)
• Tweaks & Changes
• Strafing at long distances from a Sniper male assassin may allow you to dodge their aim
• Martial Arts assassins have increased speed compared to their normal versions.
• Monster AI handles enemy deaths more appropriately
• Medkit uses skill settings
• SKILL entry for Robo Grunt explode damage
• Bullsquid's spit shows Bullsquid as correct owner + monsters now react to bullsquid spit hit
• Changed 5 second wait for Gonome to 4 seconds (Before throwing spit)

What to expect from future releases? Well just think about this, 2.5 will be to weapons what 2.1 is to monsters.