Changelog

Tweaks / Improvements

• Added a Top Bar UI toggle to the advanced options menu. [/*]
The Observatory’s scanned Status Effect icon will always show for Aliens within range, regardless of HUD detail settings. (Similar to the Parasite status effect icon for Marines.) [/*]
Re-added the Railgun Exo’s target outline HUD effect on all Aliens and resolved the performance issues when looking at something far beyond the effect’s maximum range. (Thanks Axtel!) [/*]
Three additional status effect icons added: Nerve Gas, Spores and Armor Healing. [/*]
All status effects are now clearly marked as buffs/debuffs. [/*]

Matched Play Changes

• New Friends Group feature where you can invite up to 2 other friends before joining a public lobby, to end up on the same team! There is a maximum of two friend groups per public lobby, and one group per Team. [/*]
New Private Lobby feature where only those whom you invite can play in your match! Note that Matched Play rewards are disabled for this mode. [/*]
Penalties are temporarily removed until they can be administered in a more fair and accurate way in a future update. [/*]
You should now be able to reconnect to an in-progress match after crashing, unless steam has gone offline or the lobby no longer exists. [/*]
New and improved shuffle algorithm which ensures Friends Groups will stay together and evenly balance teams around them. [/*]
Lobbies now robustly handle users leaving and joining after the lobby has reached 12/12 players. Lobbies will correctly roll-back the lobby state as long as the lobby has not reached the Planning Phase. [/*]

Matched Play Fixes

• Fixed known cases where player names and avatars would not show up in the Planning Phase screen. All players on the same team should now be visible to team-members after a short delay. [/*]
Fixed known cases where a lobby would fail to spin up a server due to lobby authentication issues. [/*]
Fixed known cases of users being assigned to Team 0 and thus kicked from the match. [/*]
Fixed the lobby status UI (waiting for commanders) not updating properly in some scenarios. [/*]
Fixed some instances where a client could get into a desynchronized state with the lobby UI. [/*]
Fixed users who volunteered to command not being able to see their voted maps during the map voting stage. [/*]
Fixed users not being able to see the Map Vote button after a lobby was rolled back to Waiting for Players. [/*]
Fixed the volunteer to command button showing up after a map vote. [/*]
Fixed a case where Waiting For Commanders timer could get stuck at 0 without progressing the lobby. [/*]
Fixed an issue where players who left during the Map Vote stage would still appear to be in the lobby if the Map Vote screen was open when they left. [/*]
Fixed several issues with player names and avatars being in an incorrect state in the Lobby screen after multiple players left/joined. [/*]
Fixed ability to join a match that just completed using steam friends. [/*]
Fixed ability to join a lobby that had progressed to or beyond the Planning Phase (the user would be kicked from the server when they joined). [/*]
Fixed inconsistent behaviors with in game lobby invites and steam friends invites. [/*]
Fixed numerous script errors and other scenarios that would break a lobby. [/*]
Fixed multiple issues where clicking too fast on some UI elements caused script errors. [/*]

Mod System Changes

• Trigger reinstall of hotfix mods if they are failing consistency check. [/*]
When a file fails consistency check the mod it belongs to is now listed in the log when failing to connect to a server. [/*]
Force caching the current version of a hotfix mod if it was updated outside the game by steam to reduce chance of “mod out of date” errors connecting to a server. [/*]
Switch to auto updated steam runtime libraries for the dedicated server to try and fix mod download issues. [/*]

Fixes

• Fixed that the Marine Flashlight rate was tied to moverate. [/*]
Fixed Marine structures taking too long to build in some cases. They were affected by server performance or even latency. The TSF has issued a mandatory firmware update to all build tools to resolve this issue. [/*]
Fixed Exo Crosshairs not being included in the default consistency exclusion list.  [/*]
Fixed Marine tutorial not progressing when asked to open Map if binding was set to toggle instead of hold. [/*]
Fixed base tutorials not automatically progressing to the next tutorial after completion. [/*]
Fixed Ambient Occlusion graphics setting being turned off on every client restart. [/*]
Fixed Hallucinations not using the player skins of those they were copying. Hopefully they never learn how to copy Marines. [/*]
Fixed player names that used certain special characters causing the Windows error sound during server joining, chatting, or death.  [/*]
Fixed Atmospherics graphics setting defaulting to 1.0 even though the UI reported 0.15, the intended default.  [/*]
Fixed seasonal throwables (snowballs and candy) causing console errors and not being rate limited. We’ll be sad to see the infinite streams of candy go. [/*]
Fixed Bmacs getting hit with the Axe making flesh sounds. It creeps us all out just a little bit less now.  [/*]
Fixed weapons dropped upon death near an Armory still having a decay timer. (Thanks Axtel!) [/*]
Fixed the Revert button not working correctly when making changes in the Options menu. [/*]
Fixed old hooks\console commands of hot reloaded lua files not being cleared. [/*]
Fixed the menu sometimes being restarted from Lua errors. [/*]
Fixed hallucinated Drifters occasionally making Marine footstep sounds when they moved about. It was terrifyingly funny, but an unfortunate evolutionary dead-end. [/*]
Fixed that Nano Shield could not be used on unpiloted Exosuits.  [/*]
Fixed Power Nodes not playing their critical sound effects for players who have left relevancy range and returned. You have no excuse for not welding the Power Node now. [/*]
Fixed outdated Alien commander tutorial that required manually infesting tunnels. [/*]
Fixed outdated Marine commander tutorial that blocked progress due to Robotics Factory size change. [/*]

Maps

Descent (Thanks Salty!)  [/*]

Gravity Control - Fixed death trigger.   [/*]

Summit (Thanks psyk!)[/*]

Fixed death trigger issues in Crevice and Crossroad [/*]

Tools

• Map editor workflow improvements (Thanks Axtel!) [/*] [list]
Added reliable transform gizmo planar handle selection. [/*]
Added Ctrl-click and Alt-click to selection filter toggles. [/*]
Fixed multiple editor state corruptions that could result in an unusable editor. [/*]
Moved “select object layer” functionality to Alt-LMB with Select tool active. [/*]
Negative texture scales are properly preserved when using the paint tool. [/*]
Reduce unintended viewport freezes when manipulating objects. [/*]

Improvements to supporting light placements in a level file when flipping rooms or entire maps. (Thanks Axtel!)
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SDK

• Event.RemoveHook is now an engine function instead of Lua and the table of registered hooks can now be accessed from Event.HookTable. [/*]
Scripts are now passed a hot reload depth as toplevel parameter if it's being hot reloaded otherwise it’s nil. [/*]

Known Issues

• The Matched Play “Team Imbalance auto-concede” feature that is triggered when too many players have left one team, does not work well with reconnecting players just yet. [/*]
Clicking the “Find Match” / “Cancel Searching” button in the Friends Group screen multiple times in quick succession can trigger script errors that require the group host to restart their client. [/*]
When entering the planning phase the First Team splash screen may sometimes  show up twice. [/*]
There is currently no visual indication of which players in a lobby, if any, are in a friends group. [/*]
Chat messages received while the Map Vote screen is open will not be visible after closing the Map Vote screen. [/*]