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¡La compilación 186 de la beta de NS2 está ya en Steam!

Bueno, esta vez nos costó más tiempo de lo que esperábamos, pero la compilación 186 ya está acabada y en Steam. La meta de este parche era arreglar tanto como fuera posible de modo que podamos centrarnos en añadir nuevas características en la 187. Hemos mejorado el rendimiento, arreglados muchos errores (grandes y pequeños) y ampliado y mejorado la usabilidad de la interfaz.





Features

1. Ammo packs, Med packs, and weapons on the ground now have an icon hovering over when you are in need of them
   
2. Spectators can now toggle between small, big, or no minimap visible
   
3. Infestation now has animating parts making it seem more alive (Thanks Schimmel!)
   
4. Added Deadspace-style animated waypoint indicator (lineon the ground showing you were to go)
   
5. An icon will now display on the HUD when the player is standing over a dropped weapon, they can press their drop weapon key to swap their current weapon with the dropped weapon
   
6. New randomized alien egg spawning system. Egg spawning rates also scale with # of players. Many more eggs are created around hives as well. Egg entities are now ignored
   
7. Added ability for dead aliens to choose their egg to spawn from
   
8. Team and personal resources are now visible on the scoreboard to any player on the spectator team
   

Balance

1. Sped up marine rifle reload by 25% to make running out of ammo less harsh (marines die a lot when reloading)
   
2. Trying new alien egg spawn system, to allow marines more momentum when attacking hives, to allow marines to make earlier pushes, to reduce spawn-camping and to add to the atmosphere. Now hives start with 0 eggs, get a new egg every 15 seconds (was 13) and can grow up to 16 eggs. (experimental)
   
3. Increased GL cost from 20 to 25
   
4. Lowered grenade damage from 150 to 130
   
5. Increased ARC movement speed from 2.5 to 5
   
6. Ammo packs can now fill the clip of a weapon, if the reserve ammo is full (this is especially for Commanders buffing marines)
   
7. Increased marine armor +use repair from 12 to 18 to avoid tedium
   
8. Increased armory armory resupply speed by ~40% to avoid excessive waiting (esp. with armor)
   

Fixes

1. Infamous black screen bug fixed (Thanks to all the play testers who helped us figure out the reproduction steps!)
   
2. Fixed bug causing the Alien buy menu to remain on the screen in some cases (Thanks Frhoe and Colin!)
   
3. Fixed an issue where powerpoint gave LOS all the time now they only give LOS when being attacked and a short period of time afterwards. This makes it more fair to the Aliens as they can now be more sneaky when attacking power nodes.
   
4. The recycle button no longer shows up on commander stations that are currently occupied. This is to prevent any possibility of of recycling while occupied. Still allow to recycle when vacant.
   
5. Lerk spikes now have infinite range, to make them more intuitive. Made slightly less accurate to compensate.
   
6. Fixed bug where ARCs couldn't be repaired by MACs. MACs can also repair each other.
   
7. The local player will be able to hear Swarm and Frenzy sound effects now
   
8. Fixed bug preventing Frenzy from working properly in all cases
   
9. Fixed problems with GL reloading from ammo packs. Fixed problems where ammo packs couldn't always be picked up when needed when holding the GL. Fixed problem where GL could hold a total of 9 grenades instead of 8.
   
10. Fixed issue where you can place structured on top of each other.
    
11. The distress beacon text will no longer persist on the screen forever in some cases
    
12. The local alien no longer will display a hive sight blip for itself
    
13. Fixed bug where hive spawns first egg immediately when hive was created
    
14. Unbuilt structures can no longer be seen by other units thus do not provide LOS.
    
15. Fixed the ability to weld yourself
    
16. Players do not heal macs now
    
17. Unconnected cysts no longer get auto-healed and take damage
    
18. Fixed bug where Arms Lab didn't require power to function
    
19. Fixed tech tree so research is properly enabled and disabled when structures are destroyed or they become unpowered and repowered
    
20. Marine damage upgrades now work for all damage types, not only Normal damage
    
21. Fixed bug where marine upgrades depended on the Armory instead of ArmsLab
    
22. Fixed bug where having multiple research nodes that depended on each other weren't disabled/enabled properly
    
23. Fixed an issue where it was possible when exiting a hive you would get an error about not having a GetEnergy function
    
24. Fixed bug causing dead Marines to respawn in Marine Start instead of near the Observatory during a distress beacon
    
25. Fixed an issue where dead players could provide LOS
    
26. Fixed an issue where Macs would spawn in the ground and in weird locations when being built from the Robo Factory
    
27. The flamethrower effects are no longer visible when switching to the pistol
    
28. Fixed an issue where if you had more than one commander and you were not the original owner of the unit you were commanding you would not be set as the owner for any structures you ordered that unit to build.
    
29. Fixed an issue where Drifters would not revert to there hover location if they failed to build something because of a player or another unit blocking them
    
30. Fixed an issue where you could not select Power Nodes as an Alien Commander
    
31. Fixed an issue where the Flare animation would play and then stop and then Flare would go off... We now just do the Flare when the animation is done
    
32. Fixed an issue where structures were not properly being added as obstacles into the pathing mesh
    
33. Fixed an issue where certain structures pathing obstacles would be floating
    
34. Fixed Pathing debugging
    
35. Fixed an issue where MACs/Drifters could teleport to pathing nodes outside the main map area
    
36. Fixed an issue with the squad text being in a silly place
    
37. Scan entities cannot take damage anymore
    
38. When joining a new team... old player is removed from the spawn queue of the old team
    
39. Fixed a possible script error when spawning as an alien as the round was ending
    
40. Can only weld a marine if you are a marine! No freebies for Aliens!
    
41. The Observatory will no longer beacon Marines after it has been destroyed
    
42. Fixed an issue where structures built by the marine commander did not show up right away
    
43. Fixed an issue where if you went to the ready room as a marine spectator it would not correctly spawn you as a marine
    
44. Fixed an issue where the Armory would keep resupplying dead players
    
45. Observatory Distress Beacon will not spawn players outside the world anymore
    
46. Fixed issue where structures being powered by power packs would not properly powerdown if the power pack was destroyed
    
47. Fixed an issue where you could use the Alien buy menu before the game started... You can still bring it up before the game starts but the message on the button states that game has not started and thus is unclickable
    
48. Fixed floating ARCs
    
49. Fixed an issue with the ARC Idle sound playing while deployed
    
50. Commander selection returns to the Command Station/Hive when the selected entity is destroyed or recycled, this fixes a bug where a new structure could not be built after a previously selected structure was destroyed until selecting a new structure
    
51. Fixed an issue where if an alien was cloaked it would still show them on the minimap if they were in min LOS range
    
52. A player that was about to spawn in an egg changing teams would cause that egg to never spawn another player, eggs are not so monogamous anymore
    
53. Resource received on kill sound effect will now only play for the player who earned the resources instead of everyone on the team
    
54. Tech is no longer allowed if the game has not started
    
55. Fixed an issue where client side pathing data was not removing objects
    
56. Fixed bile bomb broken bug
    
57. Don't execute Commander targeted actions when clicking on top of the UI
    
58. Fixed an issue where power events where not getting unregistered when an entity died which could result in weird power behavior when rounds reset
    
59. Fixed memory leak when opening the armory menu (opening it and closing it enough would eventually cause an out of memory and client crash)
    
60. Fixed bug allowing Power Nodes to be damaged by Marine players before a round starts for the first time
    
61. Fixed bug where Fade initial blink cost was wrong (it was .1 instead of 10 by accident)
    
62. Fixed bug where RoboticsFactory could be created with an orientation that would allow MACs and ARCs to be created in an invalid spot. Don't allow RoboticsFactory to be built where it creates units on top of attach points either (tech points, nozzles)
    
63. Fixed an issue where if you build a power source before building a structure it would not properly power the device
    
64. Fixed bug where bile bomb upgrade disappeared if you bought it then evolved another trait
    
65. Fixed an issue where the ARC idle sound would not stop playing when the arc died
    
66. Don't show 0 health when less than 1 health but still alive
    
67. Fixed bug where players could spam j1/j2 and unbalance teams. Also, can no longer join another playing team without going to the ready room first (but with cheats 1, you can still type "switch"
    
68. Fixed an issue where structures that did not require power did not have their deploy effects being played
    
69. Fixed an issue where whips would leave stale pathing obstacles when they would unroot and move
    
70. Removed ability to have the quote character " in a player's name which was causing some problems on the server
    
71. Fixed an issue where whips would float
    
72. Fixed an issue where whips would play their walking animation forever
    
73. Fixed an issue where whips would take damage while moving
    
74. Fixed bug where phase gate idle sounds continued to play after it was destroyed
    
75. Gorges can no longer build structures on resource nozzles or tech points
    
76. Fixed an issue where Cloaked/Camo structures and units where not getting uncloaked when scanned
    
77. Fixed drifters from spawning outside the map sometimes
    
78. Structure placement is now more strict when checking for collisions. Changed extents of all structures to be more accurate (precalculated from the model)
    
79. Phase gates now can only be placed such that there is some room at the exit
    
80. Tech Points that are owned by a specific team no longer show up as valid build locations. This fixes the issue where you would try to build at marine start and it would pick the heliport tech point
    
81. You can no longer spam taunt sounds
    
82. Removed "error" sound when a ready room player taunted
    
83. Fade blink can no longer be spammed to weird effect
    
84. Starting a blink takes more energy, but being ethereal costs less (tried this before, but wasn't right)
    
85. Made the visual effects of the flame thrower less spammy
    
86. Fixed problems where players sometimes didn't die when the command station closed around them, being protected. Forever
    
87. Fixed bug where you could only build structures on attach points (tech points, resource nozzles) with the same team number. This meant that players couldn't build Hives/CommandStations on their enemy's starting position after it had been destroyed
    
88. Fixed an issue where the Obs LOS range was smaller than its detect range
    
89. Fixed an issue where scan was not giving LOS because it thought it was an unbuilt structure
    
90. Cloaked drifters uncloak when they attack
    
91. If the stop order is given to a drifter while its building it now properly resets itself
    
92. Added the Power Point destroyed sound back into the game
    
93. Fixed bug causing the Sentry to become inoperable after ordering it to stop as it is moving
    
94. Added back in cool flamethrower audio response when swinging it around rapidly (sounds flanged)
    
95. The player will no longer receive auto-orders while dead
    

Changes

1. When updating AutoHeal we do off infestation/healing in a single loop instead of two loops
   
2. Reworked how the drifters reset themselves when they fail to build
   
3. We now enforce a max height above the ground
   
4. Changed Waypoints to use the pathing system instead of the old nav waypoint system
   
5. Enable code that will filter our static props that are flagged not be included in the pathing mesh
   
6. Egg icons are now half the normal size on the minimap
   
7. Re-enabled multi-threading support for animation
   
8. Removed freelook when dead (to avoid seeing something you shouldn't)
   

Improvements

1. Optimized server map blip updating (Thanks Matso!)
   
2. Improved client and server performance when interpolating entities
   
3. Optimized updating the blips on the minimap
   
4. Moved the Flamethrower effects to the client
   
5. Broadphase collision detection optimization
   
6. When counting max entities to determine valid building placement, don't count eggs
   
7. Players on different teams can no longer hear other players before the game starts (interferes with pre-game strategizing, ie "Let's relocate to Data Core...doh"
   
8. Spectators can hear team voice chat when they're following a member of that team (this will be for non-tournament mode only, once that's in)
   
9. Addressed problems where spawning is confusing/jarring. Now dead aliens go right to the egg instead of floating where they died
   
10. Sentry will now fire visible tracer rounds like other Marine weapons
    
11. Observatories now prevent cloaking (players/structures) and camouflage (players) in range.
    
12. Added new phase gate idle animation when active and linked to another phase gate
    
13. Phase gates can now be used even if there are players blocking the gate on the receiving end. A marine may spawn inside the player, but they will move apart (better than killing a big alien automatically, and not killing them allows griefing)
    
14. Added taunt sound for Marine, Skulk and Lerk
    
15. Increased acceleration on Fade blink to feel more responsive
    
16. Grenade launcher now starts with full ammo and one in the clip (it doesn't need initial reload)
    
17. Rifle now starts with full ammo
    

Sounds

1. Nicer tail and more reverb on guns
   
2. Added a Cyst idle sound
   
3. A bunch of eq to ambient sounds, and others
   
4. New sound for sentry scanning, fade swipe hits on metal
   
5. More metallic sounding reloads and deploys
   
6. Armory has a nice oneshot sound when opening the menu
   
7. Better grenade bounces
   
8. Grenade fire has more metallic sound now
   
9. Occlusion (sounds now become muffled as they move away, or move behind walls)
   
10. Lerk spikes sounding better with the increased ROF
    
11. Sounds for robotics factory opening and closing
    
12. Sound for commander performing a scan
    
13. Upgrading weapon/armour/ability now has a sound to let players know the upgrade is complete for both teams
    
14. Improvements to axe, armory, flamethrower and GL launcher deploy sounds
    
15. Better invalid sound
    
16. Sounds for whip unroot walk and root
    
17. Better alien chat msg sound
    
18. Sound for when a drifter turns into a structures
    
19. Fixed up some bugs where sounds wouldn't play more than once
    
20. Timing improvements to whip attack, phase gate deploy, observatory deploy, and axe swing
    
21. Better parasite sound for the skulk
    
22. New skulk jump
    
23. Gorge dry reaching when he hasnt got the res to make a structure
    
24. A sound for whip fury attack
    
25. Better / less glitchy count down sound
    
26. Nicer fade blinking sounds
    
27. Trying out a new pistol fire sound
    
28. Fixing beacon and alien voice sound
    
29. Better rifle butt sound
    
30. Better fade jump
    
31. Small change to res received for marines
    
32. Better skulk bite impact sound
    
33. Fixed some clicks when looping some sounds
    
34. Arcing electricity sound layer for power nodes
    
35. Better commander drop cyst sound
    

ns2_summit

1. Set Dynamic:False for dynamic props in Ventilation
   
2. Fixed power point powering Crossroads instead of noname hallway
   
3. Adjusted collision geometry at Marine Start ceiling
   

Como siempre, si quieres entrar en la beta, puedes pre-comprar Natural Selection 2 aquí.

Ahora es el momento de trabajar en la compilación 187. Esperamos tener el largamente esperado sistema de oclusión, añadir un nuevo sistema de animaciones y su correspondiente herramienta y algunos elementos de tier 3 para ambos bandos.

¡Gracias por la paciencia!

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