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Alpha 6.21 Balancing Asymetry

Exterminatus Beta 6.20 has been generally well received, with plenty of folks joining in the regular games scheduled through the steam community group. 

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• New version of CIty Conflict by DarkMarine

• Nerfed the splatter radius from Deathspitter hits from 96 to 80
• Nerfed the size of the warriors weapon hitboxes (may have be acting as a shield)
• Nerfed the reload speed of the heavy bolter considerably
• Improved ceiling clearance between Cave and Dock objectives on ex_spacehulk ( plus some aesthetic changes )
  
• Buffed the health of the Genstealer class from 85 to 105
• Buffed the Terminator classes resistance to melee attacks by 10%

• Prevent both teams spawning at the Cave objective on Space Hulk if the point is re-captured.

by ChromeAngel - Today at 04:03:14 pm - Discuss

Beta 6.20 release event

It gives me great pleasure to announce the release of Beta 6.20 of Exterminatus - Rival Species 2 (EX), a just a few  brief months after the release of Beta 6.0.

• New map ex_city_conflict by Dark Marine (FYI city conflict was the first EX map ever be started).
• All the existing maps have been re-built using a new objective system, with standardized capture points that light up in the color of the team that owns them and display there name on aim.
• Per map loading screens featuring some useful tips and tricks for new players.

• New class preview  that shows up in the class selection screen when you hover your mouse over a class portrait.
• Class based hints for new players when you spawn (elite players can suppress these with the console command "ex_hint_Elite 1")

• Objectives are now sorted into the order you need to capture them in the Tactical Overview, bound to F1 by default.
• New "Vox Commands" menu, to boost team communications, bound to F2 by default.
• Added 3rd person aiming animations, breathing more life into both teams.
• New "Spacemarine" inspired Skull Post prop and an imperial poster decal from Farseer.
• New menu background art by Kanartist and Nqss (in both widescreen and regular aspect ratios) with new symphonic menu music by Phott.

• Buffed Genestealer talons hit detection.
• Buffed Plasma Pistol rate fo fire and nerfed it's damage slightly.
• Buffed frag grenade damage slightly to compensate for the plasma pistol changes.
• Added a defensive wall to Ichar IV to shorten the duration of standoffs at the last objective.

• Made all class costs multiples of 25 as they are now presented to the players more often.
• Improved Fence models and skins thanks to Farseer.
• Re-worked the mission system code, so you shouldn't get out of date or additional mission notifications.

• Fixed a bug when zooming the view model appears to be flipped to the top-left (this was most obvious with the knife).
• New Lictor ragdoll that doesn't jitter and jive like the old one, this also seems to have fixed the client side physics crash that has plagued EX for years.

by ChromeAngel - April 23, 2012, 12:24:30 pm - Discuss

Alpha 6.13 - Totally Converted

All the existing EX maps have now been been converted over to the new entity system.  This should make it easier for new players to find there way to where the fight is and new mappers to make additional EX maps.

Since all new maps means a humongous patch to download I've decided to roll in all the updates from Beta 6.0 up to this point too, so new testers only need Beta 6.0, 6.09, 6.10, 6.11 and this patch.

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• Looking at a capture point or breakable objective show's it's name
• Objectives should now be sorted into the order you need to capture them in the Tactical Overview
• Capture points now light up in the color of the team that owns them
• ex_lycantium (the city map) has been converted to use the new objective entities

• Tweaked ex_thunderhawk to have more mission updates for the marine team
• Re-compiled all the maps in final mode, with HDR lighting and cube-mapping
• Re-worked the mission system code, so you shouldn't get out of date or additional mission notifications
• Re-visited the capture objective model and it's textures.

• Found and fixed the server crash that occurred during last week's testing
• Added code to prevent living players spawning spurious ragdolls on the clients during lag (I suspect these were causing some of the client crashes).
• Fixed impact effects being doubled up

• Missions not showing up.  Tweaked the new mission networking code, this needs testing.
• The team colored glow on the objectives was appearing at the model's origin, rather then over the lamp.  A new version of the model fixes this.
• The new logging system was causing CPU/disk lag.  So I re-wrote it to be hybrid of the new and old systems.  Needs testing.
• The Tyranid HUD was not updating health correctly.  This should be corrected now.

• Cameras for the Objectives were not working.  Investigation so far has revealed that the camera entity must be actively networked to act as a camera.  I've patched the maps hive, digsite and ichar IV to use prop_dynamic type entities as cameras for their breakable objectives.  I'm still trying to find a way to make it worth with any entity or at least one that is less obvious to the players.
• The server hang during a change from Digsite to Orbital has been investigated, but I haven't been able to spot the faulty code yet.  If it happens again I need to know all the details. (hence the work on the log)
• The client crash after a lag spike is still there.  It is deep in the closed source physics code, where I cannot get to it, but I think it's ragdoll related.  I may have to design an elaborate test with faked lag and ragdolls for all the player classes...

• New map ex_city_conflict by Dark Marine (FYI city conflict was the first EX map ever be started)

• The Tyranid HUD was not updating health correctly.  This really should be corrected now.
• Veteran marines should get their combo weapon again (typo while hunting for the server crash bug).
• Attempted to fix the server side infinite loop that causes the server to stop responding.  This needs multi-player testing.
• Attempted to fix the client side physics crash by re-rigging the Lictor player model.
• Fixed a bug when zooming the view model appears to be flipped to the top-left (this was most obvious with the knife)

• New class preview  that shows up in the class selection screen when you hover your mouse over a class portrait.  Most of the class text can be edited in the resources/ex_classes.txt file.  So if you can do a better job of the writing than I have done please feel free to that file and post the changes.
• All ex_capture_objectives now use the console variable ex_capture_time to determine how long they must be used to capture them.  The default is 5 seconds and can be changed only by the server operator.

• New revision of ex_city_conflict by Dark Marine, still v1, but now it uses the new objective entities.
• Added in some missing missions to ex_orbital
• Tweaked the Tactical and Specialst aim animations, so they no longer appear to be aiming down by default
• Adjusted the speed of the Lictor run animations
• Included widescreen and regular aspect ratio backgrounds for the menu

• Fixed the server side infinite loop that causes the server to stop responding.  This needs multi-player testing, but I think this will do the trick

• New revision of ex_city_conflict by Dark Marine, still v1, but now with drop zones for the mid-point objectives.  This should fix the server crash bug that occurred with last week's build.
• Made some adjustments to the player spawning code to handle cases where players are trying to spawn at an objective with no dropzones (should write a warning to the console and fall back to their previous objective).

by ChromeAngel - March 24, 2012, 09:35:44 pm - Discuss

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