Warsow

Patch 2.1 (15 April 2016)

General:

• The client will probe the official Warsow mirror for all .pk3 downloads before attempting to download the file from game server.
• Third-party .pk3 downloads are stored in a separate directory to prevent them from overriding basewsw assets or shaders.
• When connected to a pure server, do not fully reload the game assets on map change.
• Changed default console font to monospace Droid Sans.
• Changed help messages for 'callvote map' to contain the title of the map being voted for.
• Added tab-completion of console commands and variables to chat.
• Downloaded third-party add-ons will now go into separate filesystem directory. Use +set fs_usedownloadsdir 0 on the command line to disable such add-ons altogether.
• Improved support for Quake 3/Quake Live maps.

Renderer:

• Offloaded the renderer to a separate thread. r_multithreading 0 reverts to traditional single-threaded mode.
• Added r_maxfps to cap the refresh framerate in multi-threaded mode, changed cg_showFPS 1 and 2 to display refresh and client framerates respectively.
• Increased the number of background loader threads to 4.
• Fixed support for palette-based PNG images with alpha channel.
• Use optimal VRAM storage format for grayscale lightmaps when deluxemapping is disabled.

Gameplay:

• Don't render flesh hits for RG and MG pellets as they were often mispredicted.
• In bomb gametype, reset all map entities to their initial state at round start.
• Allow grenades to be shot straight down.
• Disabled the minimum walljump height if jump button is pressed.
• Fixed instagib shots stopping on the first hit player.

Server:

• The server will now re-open console log file on SIGUSR1.
• Running multiple servers in the same homedir won't corrupt .pk3 files downloaded via autoupdates.

Modding:

• Expose "random" entity property to gametype scripts.
• MeansOfDeath (MOD_RIOTGUN_S, MOD_GRENADE_SPLASH_S, etc enums) is now passed as the fourth argument to "kill" score event in gametype scripts.
• Added G_ResetLevel() to gametype scripting API. The function resets all map entities to their initial state, keeping clients intact.
• Added Client::getMMLogin() method to gametype scripting API, which returns the match-maker login for authenticated players.
• Added hasChallengersRoulette, forceTeamHumans, forceTeamBots, disableObituaries gametype properties to scripting API.

Linux:

• Changed base data, cache and runtime directory paths to conform to XDG specs.
• Fixed MOUSE4 and MOUSE5 mouse buttons support.

Mac:

• Changed base cache directory path to ~/Library/Cache/.
• Fixed MOUSE4 and MOUSE5 mouse buttons support.

Mapping:

• Added "random" key support to func_timer and target_delay, specifies delay variance. Total delay = delay +/- random seconds.
• Added "delay" key support to "target_delay" for backwards compatibility with Q3 maps.

Race:

• Sector reports are now buffered until the end of the race.
• Top command to display records in reverse order.
• More records are now stored (30).
• Added quickmenu with basic commands.
• Picking up a weapon doesn't remove it from the map.
• Associate records with login names when possible.
• Color- and case-insensitive nickname associations for records.
• Weapon information is now saved when saving a position.
• Allow loading prerace-saved positions in prerace.
• Added setting a speed for the saved position (only in practicemode).
• Limited announcer sounds to once per player.
• Simple randmap vote with a pattern to search for.
• The kill command will now make spectators join.
• Nice checkpoint feedback in the console.
• Disabled starting a race while alive after finishing.
• Fixed the respawner after finishing.
• Allow racerestart while not racing.
• Linked kill to racerestart.
• Fixed displaying of the top scores in the hud. They are now shown when you connect.
• Save no more than one time per player to the local highscore file, so the highscores are not populated by one player.
• Print finish and sector times to the console so they can be looked at later.
• Assign saved top times to their owners when they reappear.
• Added practicemode with noclip and position save / load commands.
• Disabled warmup.

HUD:

• Apply localization to scoreboard strings.
• Expose system mono font to the HUD via con_fontSystemMono.
• Draw crosshair even when out of ammo.
• Updated the "connection interrupted" icon.
• Added drawCleanStatString and drawCleanPlayerName commands for drawing player and team names without color codes and forcing the current color.
• Added TEAM_ALPHA_NAME and TEAM_BETA_NAME constants to draw team names with drawStatString.
• drawPlayerName now ignores the current color and defaults to white, only taking the current alpha into account.

WarsowTV:

• Fixed demo playback.

UI:

• Fixed random crash on vid_restart.
• Color correction profile can now be applied to the "worldview" widget by specifying the "color-correction" RCSS property.
• Improved demo player modal window.

Patch 2.01 (29 December 2015)

General:

• Rewinding demos no longer breaks POV switching.
• Fixed client-side crashes in CTF: Tactics game mode.
• Corrected the list of assets released under Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives license (see license.txt).

Server:

• Fixed race condition which was preventing multiple server instances to complete initialization in case they were sharing the same home directory.
• Bugfixes and improved performance for the built-in HTTP server.
  UI:
• Fixed memory leaks, improved peformance for the server browser with l10n enabled.

Renderer:

• Automatically disable multithreading if Nouveau graphics driver is detected (Linux).
• Automatically use discrete GPU's on laptops with both integrated and discrete GPU's.
  HUD:
• Updated adem HUD.
• Updated strafe.hud for all HUDs.

Patch 2.0 (29 December 2015)

General:

• Switched to Creative Commons license for media assets.
• Added full out-of-the-box gamepad support (XInput on Windows, SDL on Linux and OS X).
• The engine automatically lowers the frame rate to 24 FPS and enables sleep state when the game is minimized.
• Multi-threading improvements for the following; fixed race conditions, reduced latency and the amount of context switches.
• .pk3 files explicitly named as "pure" are now preferred to different .pk3 files.
• Restricted downloads of binary modules and "pure" content to official Warsow web mirror.
• Greatly reduced memory footprint for fonts (especially for CJK).
• Pressing Escape key during the map load or connection set-up will now cancel the process much quicker.
• New high resolution "flat" icon.
• Maximum refresh rate now defaults to 250 fps.
• It is now possible to pause demo playback at the end of a demo file, instead of dropping to main menu (see "demo" command help).
• Added "flipped view" mode, set "cl_flip" to "1" to enable.
• Use HTTPS for secure authentication to matchmaker.

Renderer:

• 30% to 50% overall performance improvement.
• Greatly reduced VRAM footprint for textures.
• Added support for texture arrays, used for lightmaps.
• Added KTX texture format support.
• Enabled binary cache for GLSL programs to speed up startup time by default now.
• Enabled multi-threading to speed up map loading by default now.
• Curved meshes are now optimized to remove excessive polygons.
• Changed rendering order so that the sky is now rendered after world geometry to minimize overdraw.
• Fixed infinite far clipping plane calculations.
• The renderer now queries the operating system for available screen resolutions.
• Shadowmaps now account for normals of geometry they are cast on, making them less prone to be visible through walls and ceilings.
• Added "stencilTest" shader keyword.
• Added per map colour correction support. Toggle-able with cg_colorCorrection 0/1, maps can define colorCorrection key in worldspawn to use color correction profile.
• Removed "vid_mode", "vid_customwidth" and "vid_customheight" console variables in favour of "vid_width" and "vid_height" for video modesetting.
• Dropped support for "noDepthTest" shader keyword.
• Dropped "r_colorbits" console variable (used to set desktop colour depth).

Gameplay:

• New Tutorial game mode.
• Added 3 new awards:
• First Frag (awarded to the first fragger);
• Fair Play (say "gg" to your opponents during the post-match using the chat or the vsay);
• Man of the Match (You must score the most + achieve the ""Fair Play" award). See above.
• Added sounds for Lasergun, Electrobolt and Instagun impacts.
• New spawn points selection algorithm: returns the furthest point to which there's less than 4 points on the map; otherwise it returns to a random one, excluding the closest 3 points.
• Ammo packs dropped on a players deaths, now actually contain strong ammo.
• The movement style now defaults to "old movement", set "cg_movementStyle" to "1" for "new movement".
• Incorporated a number of movement fixes from Racesow.
• Ranked servers will now announce a players profile name at warsow.net alongside the nickname of the players entrance to the server.
• On ranked servers, the "players" command now also prints login names for authenticated players.
• After joining a server, the game menu is now opened automatically.
• On ranked servers, certain votes now require players to be authenticated.
• Votes now ignore AFK players.
• In round-based game modes, in-active players are not removed until the beginning of the next round.
• Added bot navigation files for wda5 and wbomb6.
• Player movement prediction now works properly when riding a moving platform.
• New RL/GL trail effect, cg_rocketTrail & cg_grenaderTrail merged into cg_projectileTrail.
• Bots will now ignore chatting players.
• Reduced respawn sound volume by 35%.
• Added new callvote options "shuffle" and "rebalance".
• Decreased weapon respawn timer to 10 in Duel.
• In bomb, players can now move at crouch speed during the pre-round; upped maximum running speed to 320ups.
• Removed 'Team Domination' game mode.

Graphics:

• New "illuminati" gibs.
• New Instagun & Electrobolt decals.
• New "simple items" sprites.
• New teleportation\spawn effect.
• New EB beam texture for cg_ebbeam_old 1.
• New default EB beam effect.
• New Lasergun beam, added hit model for LG endpoint.
• New bullet hit decal and model.
• Improved rocket launcher projectile texture.
• Added gloss textures for BigVic and Bobot player models.
• Added cg_viewBob, viewport smoothing/bobbing to falling/high jumps.
• Bomb model colour follows the planted state dynamic light color (red when planted, orange normally).
• Disabling gun "bobbing" now also disables fire and idle gun animations.
• New damage hit effect (cg_showBloodTrail).

Weapons:

• Reduced Rocket Launcher pick-up ammo count to 5.
• Reduced Lasergun and Plasmagun pick-up ammo count to 50.
• Increased Lasergun and Plasmagun ammo box count to 100.
• Increased Electrobolt ammo box count to 10.
• Removed custom gravity and friction from Grenade Launcher projectiles.
• Unified knockback of Grenade Launcher and Rocket Launcher to 100.
• Unified minimum knockback of Grenade Launcher and Rocket Launcher to 35.
• Unified splash radius of Grenade Launcher and Rocket Launcher to 125.
• Changed Gunblade full recharge and reload time to 600ms.
• Changed Gunblade projectile damage, splash radius and knockback to 40, 70 and 90 respectively, self-damage ratio increased to 100%.
• Increased Gunblade melee damage to 50 and decreased reload time to 600ms.
• New Riotgun spread pattern based on Fibonacci/sunflower spirals.
• Increased per-pellet knockback for Riotgun to 7 (140 on 100% hit), spread reduced.
• Increased Rocket launcher reload, damage and projectile speed to 950ms, 80 and 1150ups respectively.
• Increased Grenade launcher reload, damage and self-damage ratio to 800ms, 80 and 100% respectively.
• Increased DPS for Lasergun to 140, knockback increased to 14.
• Increased Machinegun bullet damage to 10, reload time increased to 100ms, spread removed.
• Increased knock-back for Electrobolt to 80.
• Increased Plasmagun speed and knockback to 2500ups and 20 respetively.

Maps:

• New Tutorial map.
• Improved wdm6.
• Improved wdm1 item layout.
• Added colour correction profiles for wdm5, wbomb6, wbomb1.
• Removed wdm3.
• Removed wca2.

Mapping:

• "target_print" entities can now provide overlay help messages/hints to players (use the the "helpmessage" key in Radiant/map editor of choice).
• Added support for "target_kill" and "target_teleporter" entities from Quake3.
• Use "gravity" attribute on the "worlspawn" object to set map gravity.
  Localizations:
• Added 9 new localizations: Belarusian, Bulgarian, Lithuanian, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Romanian, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian.
• Maps can now be localized individually (drop .po files into l10n/maps/).
• Centre-printed messages and map locations are now localizable.
  Sound:
• Added "s_globalfocus" option: when enabled the game will continue to play its sound and music even if the user switches to another application.
• It is now possible to use .ogv video files as background music tracks.
• Fixed support for remote .ogg music tracks/streams.
• Reduced default sound mixer delay from 200ms to 140ms (snd_qf).
• The background music is now not interrupted at demojumps.

HUD:

• Added current time to the HUD in the race mode.
• Added text animation for game awards.
• All HUD elements are now resolution-independent.
• Optimized rendering of scoreboard strings.
• Scripting: it's now possible to pass a non-constant math expression to setFontSize.
• New spec HUD, added adem HUD.

UI:

• Added voicecomm menu for Team Deathmatch, Bomb, CTF and CTF: Tactics game modes (bound to Left Shift by default).
• Revamped title screen, this incorporates a players profile and stats from warsow.net.
• Added an option for server browser to open a dialogue with suggested game servers after the search is complete.
• Added quit confirmation dialogue.
• Added descriptions for game modes.
• Added pre-load option, enabled by default (set "ui_preload" to "0" to disable).
• Added several new configurable options.
• Added confirmation dialogue for "Move to TV" command.
• Removed IRC chat tab.

Server:

• The built-in HTTP server now runs in a separate thread.
• Optimized file transfers from the built-in HTTP server.
• Matchmaker HTTP authentication now respects sv_ip.

WarsowTV:

• Fixed an issue with the automatic chase-cam, which occasionally goes rampant in round-based game modes.
• Enabled TCP connections support.

Linux:

• Switched over to SDL2 for video initialization and input.
  NOTE: versions prior to SDL2 suffer from doubled mouse sensitivity. This is expected to be fixed in SDL 2.0.4.
• ALT+Tab works now.
• Keyboard input doesn't steal the whole system focus.
• The game now respects system keyboard layout.
• Switched over to dynamic linking for support libraries.

Windows:

• The window can be minimized when the game is running in windowed mode.
• ALT+F4 works again.
• The UI now respects system DPI settings.
• Added support for Japanese and Korean input to the chat.

SDK:

• Added NetRadiant and Q3Map2 with KTX texture format support, older versions won't load the textures properly.
• Added .map files and models for all stock maps.
• Added source files for textures and models.
• Switched to cmake as the unified build system for C/C++ code.
• Added Dockerfiles for cross-compilation.
• Added debian meta-package to install all engine dependencies.
• Updated to AngelScript 2.29.2.