Changelog

2.13.0:

• Convar now allows you to re-enable killcams
• Select menu now shows your progress toward earning enough points for a class
• Select menu now shows progress toward unlocking a class
• Slight wording changes in class details
• New selector icon to show if a class is too expensive or is locked behind requirements
• Added AI Units to the CTF gamemode
• Fixed Spectre Leader contributing to Pilot Score instead of Sentry Tech
• AI Pilots no longer recieve Smart Pistols (due to a crash)
• Hemlok Grunt has been added to the game
• Specialist now uses human models by default to match with the grunt specialist
• Added convar for specialist skin
• Reformatted Thunderstore package to work with most modern mod managers

2.12.2

• List of all grunt classes and their upgrades now included as a Markdown file

2.12.1

• Updated Thunderstore formatting

2.12.0

• AI now will contribute to hardpoints (each AI soldier counts as half a player)
• Increased default number of max players capturing a hardpoint to 5
• Added conVar to quickly change the max players contributing to hardpoint progress
• Heavily improved compatibility with other modes
• Individual class progression and overall progresssion now working in other modes
• Bounty hunt confirmed to be fully working

2.11.1

• Updated for most recent Northstar Release (Thank you to my community for pointing this out!)

2.11.0

• Increased melee knockback
• Spectres get additional melee knockback
• Melee damage slightly reduced for grunts
• Melee damage slightly increased for spectres
• AI Pilot Weapon accuracy doubled
• AI Pilots can now utilize the Kraber and Smart Pistol
• AI Pilot health 300 -> 250
• Special AI Units now drop their respective grenade
• Normal grunts have a 1/8 chance to drop their grenade
• All players (excluding next-gen pilots) will drop their grenade

2.10.2

• Fixed Specialist Upgrade Pop-Ups not correctly displaying
• Fixed desync issue with Sniper Spectre's doubletake
• Fixed issue where Sniper Spectre would not spawn with doubletake
• Fixed Crash when someone gains another turret after they leave

2.10.1

Economy:

• Killing a player on an enemy hardpoint awards an extra 3 (spendable) points
• Killing a player on a friendly hardpoint awards an extra 4 points
• Extra 5 points for hardpoint siege or snipe
• Extra 3 points for perimeter defense
• 5 points for hardpoint capture or amp
• 2 points for holding an amped hardpoint

2.10.0

NEW GAMEMODES:

• Grunt vs. Grunt (Players only)
• Hardpoint Attrition

Gameplay:

• Reapers now have a 25% of blowing up when they die
• Player droppods now have an exploding door
• Droppods have a new spawn animation

Economy:

• Drones now give 1 point per kill
• Turrets now give 3 points per kill

UI:

• Score popups no longer appear for 0 point kills (like MRVNs or worker drones)
• "Respawning as" now use popups instead of SendHudMessage (smooth animation + backend improvements)

Server Hosting:

• Set default MRVN count to 0 (can still be changed)
• Set default Gunship count to 0 (can still be changed, though gunships are buggy)

Bugs:

• Fixed Sniper Spectre Amped weapons unlock constantly popping up
• Fixed issue where Specialist and Sentry tech "ready to redeploy" messages appearing after you have changed loadouts
• Fixed issue where Specialists sometimes run out of drones to spawn
• Fixed some issues with Spectre Leader displaying incorrect point values after unlocks
• Fixed an issue where spectre leader unlocked blast spectre too early
• Cleaned up and improved some old code (Im getting better :)
• Improved Compatability with other modes (Modes like bounty hunt should work)
• Reworked point giver notification to be compatible with other modes
• Score for capturing/assaulting hardpoints is now combined into the "defense" score tab

2.9.0

• Nerfed reaper health (10000 -> 8000)
• Increased droppod spawn rate when a team is low on NPCs
• AI Specialists have a chance to have Fast Reload on their weapons
• AI Spectre Leaders have a chance to have Extended Mag on their weapons

Economy:

• Improved assist scoring to make it more readable + count toward unlocks (it will also add to your leaderboard score)
• Reduced some values to unlock classes

Classes:

• Upon unlocking a new attachment you will instantly recieve it
• Most classes have an extra attachment they can unlock
• Attachments are given to players when they are unlocked
• Fixed sending unlock messages twice
• Added Individual Class scores in the class choosing text
• Blast Spectre blast ability heavy damage reduced ( 20000 -> 8000 ) [No more one shotting dropships/titans, you had your fun]
• Pilot RE-45 now has Quickscope
• (More info in the txt file)

Server Hosting:

• Added ConVars for AI counts
• Added ConVars for Attrition escalation
• Added ConVars for class unlocks
• Added ConVars for OP Pilot unlock types (Any class, Free classes, Grunt Classes, or only Rifleman) [Default is now any grunt class]
• Added ConVars for attachment unlocks
• Added ConVars for class prices

2.8.0

New Classes:

1. Sniper

• Costing 10 points
• Equipped with a DMR, P2016, and an archer
• This class excels at dealing high damage at long ranges
• Unlock by getting 10 kills with the Marksman class
• More details in-game

1. I couldn't tell you

• Unlock by getting a 10 killstreak as a rifleman
• Find details after unlocking

Classes:

• You can now spawn as a sniper initially
• Blast Spectres no longer have double jump
• Sniper Spectre cost decreased to 30
• Sniper Spectre must now earn amped weapons
• Spectre Leader cost decreased to 40

NEW CLASS UNLOCKS

1. Spectre - Get 5 kills as a grunt
2. Sniper Spectre - Get 5 kills as a Spectre
3. Spectre Leader - Get 10 kills as a Spectre or Sniper Spectre
4. Blast Spectre - Get 5 kills as a Spectre Leader
5. Sentry Tech - Spawn 5 drones as a Specialist
6. Pilot - Get 20 kills as a grunt

NEW ATTACHMENT UNLOCKS

• Available weapon optics will unlock after 15 points with any class
• Available weapon upgrades/attachments (including threat scopes) will unlock after 30 points with any class
• Classes with 2 upgrades/attachments will unlock them individually after 20 point increments
• Pilots do not have to unlock their attachments

AI:

• AI will now refer to you as a standard grunt
• New AI Spectre Leader

Voicelines:

• Added 2 new voicelines when spotting enemy grunts
• Added 2 voicelines when spotting enemy reapers
• Added voicelines when spotting friendly spectres, reapers, or titans
• Removed ability for spectres or specialists to say grunt voicelines when spotting

UI:

• Changed too-many points from [LOCKED] to [$$$] for clarity
• Moved class info to right side of screen
• Moved class info slightly up
• Added 11 info tips, one will appear every 1-2 minutes
• Added points at top of class info screen

Bug fixes:

• Fixed bug where you wouldn't spawn in droppod if the game is in epilouge phase

Backend:

• Un-hardcoded class locking
• Added extra failsafe to prevent a spawn-as-locked-classes cheat

2.7.2

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed crash when trying to spawn a player in a dropship on a non-dropship map on round start (Last known crash)
• Added failsafe, because of it every player's first spawn will be a normal spawn

Gameplay:

• You will always join an existing dropship if it is available (Excluding pilots/spectres)
• Changed spawn chances to:
• • Create dropship 10%
• • Create droppod 40%
• • Normal Spawn 50%

2.7.1

Bug Fixes:

• Added failsafe for attempting to spawn player multiple times
• Fixed crash regarding last issue

Gameplay

• If a dropship is available, instead of spawning without an animation you will spawn in the dropship
• If the map you are currently playing on doesn't have defined/unobstructed dropship spawns, it will spawn you in a droppod instead (Dropship map whitelist)

2.7.0

Gameplay:

• Added Dropship Respawns (Only available for non-spectres) // 30% chance
• Teams have a default maximum of 1 dropship, but can have multiple if a pilot is spawning in
• Added Normal Respawns // 40% chance
• Droppod respawns now have a 30% chance
• Hero dropships and epilouge dropships have hugely reduced health pools ( 20000 -> 10300 )
• Added some of VoyageDB's spawn code, this will keep teams more organized and grouped together, and will reduce out-of-bounds spawns or spawnkilling

AI:

• Increased Stalker health
• Specialists now correctly spawn
• Specialists will have the communications model of the opposing team, and a special nametag
• Grunt dropships will spawn with a leader unit (either a shield captain or specialist)
• Grunt droppods will also spawn with a leader unit, but have a 33% chance not to
• Spectre droppods will no longer spawn with a leader unit
• Droppod AI now have correct weapons
• Leaders now have specialized weapons
• New AI Weapons
• Spectres spawn later in the round
• Leaders now have secondaries
• Shield captains may have attachments

UI:

• You should now be able to see friendly dropships, titans, and reapers from across the map
• Edited the Pilot description to fit the new changes
• Spawn Zones have been added to the minimap

Classes:

• Pilots will always create a new dropship and be the first person in it
• Pilots now have a kunai as a melee weapon (BUFF)

Economy:

• Specialists are now worth 4 points

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed Crash on maps with no dropship spawns
• Fixed crash from AI trying to gain score from assists
• Fixed crash when trying to set the squad leader to an unspecified person
• Spectres who try to enter a dropship / grunts to a full dropship will be sent in via drop pod
• Fixed rare crash where a pilot had an archer

Backend:

• Minor Optimizations/cleanup all around

2.6.1

Backend:

• Prevented AI attempting to gain currency from assists against players

Gameplay:

• Grunt droppods will have a 50% chance of spawning a specialist, not a shield captain (shield captains still spawn 100% of the time from dropships) Specialists will also spawn in 50% of spectre droppods

• AI Shield Captains have a 50% chance of spawning with a grunt droppod
• AI Specialists will spawn with every spectre droppod
• No special units will be dropped with Stalkers
• Increased Stalker Health

2.6.0

AI:

• New AI Specialists (33% chance to spawn in Spectre Droppods)
• New AI Shield Captains (33% chance to spawn in Grunt Droppods and always spawns in an AI Dropship)
• New Stalker Drop Pods (Thanks VoyageDB for adding a failsafe I would otherwise have to create myself)

Gameplay:

• Removed Volt from stalker weapon pool

Economy:

• AI Specialists give 5 points
• AI Shield Captains give 5 points
• AI Stalkers give 3 points This should lead to players getting more points by targeting certain AI, making more points available

Backend:

• Further Optimized player kill scores
• Improved Level Escalation

• Removed Unused/unhelpful code snippets

Known Issues:

• AI Specialists have to use the Spectre model

2.5.4

Gameplay:

• Suicide Spectre now gives 5 points upon attempted suicide
• Suicide Spectre maximum hold time increased from 3.5 -> 5

2.5.3

Gameplay:

• Points are awarded for assists (and scale with enemy class)
• Fixed rodeo exploit, servers should be more stable

Backend:

• Added ways to add to player points

• Removed unncessary anti-rodeo features

2.5.1

Gameplay:

• 8 extra points are now awarded for destorying a dropship
• Friendly AI will only be highlighted when within Line-Of-Sight (Does not apply to heavy armor units)
• Gunships should now have longer firing bursts
• Reworked Class system so spectre/specialist variants have to purchase their initial class first (should lead to some more linear and meaningful progression)
• Enemy Grunt names will only show when aimed at

Classes:

• Added Suicide Spectre Class
• Added Spectre Leader Class
• Improved Pilot Sliding
• Pilot not affected by increase in gravity
• Fixed rare occurance of rifleman having reduced health
• Sniper Spectre now gets a charge rifle
• Specialist now gets 1 extra drone every 20 seconds after using both drones
• Sentry Tech now gets 1 extra turret every 30 seconds after using both turrets
• Added tooltip for when your drone/turret regenerates

• Reduced Spectre Glide/Airstrafing capabilities

Backend:

• Improved code
• Added failsafes for potential crashes
• Classes are now defined as mechanical or non-mechanical
• Everyone now gets infinite tick glitch (Yay --communism-- canada)

2.3

Classes:

• New class: Sentry Technician - This class is able to place down 2 light anti-personnel sentry turrets, and are equipped with a cold war to deal with both large threats and groups of enemies, find more information in-game

• Sniper Spectre weapons are now amped

• Shield captains wall now follows him around

AI:

• Grunts will now spawn in dropships when able

• Drones will no longer self-destruct

• Sentry turrets will no longer self-destruct

• Reduced number of MRVNs by default

Economy:

• Killing AI Pilots now award 8 points instead of 1

• Other economy changes

Bug Fixes:

• Certain players can no longer spawn over 2 drones as a specialist

2.1.1:

You can no longer rodeo while a pilot is entering a titan