The Exterminatus Open Beta seems to have been well received. Thank you all for trying our mod, we appreciate your time and your feedback. Special thanks goes out to all those generous individuals who have hosted servers that have enabled so many moire to play. Our sympathy goes to those who have struggled to get connected, sadly the flaky steam server browser is beyond our control.
It has become apparent that 40k fans LOVE to play space marines. Perhaps too much for the good of the game. So I ( ChromeAngel ) have developed a patch to try and balance things out a bit. Clients will need the patch to play on patched servers.
Change Log:
* Added ex_autobalance console command
* Fixed the "Walk" command sticking (thanks to Zaro27 for reporting this)
* Buffed the acid splatter from the Tyranid Warrior's Deathspitter
How the auto balance works:
Auto team balance is turned off by default to maintain continuity with the initial beta. When a server operator turns on auto balance using the "ex_autobalance 1" command, players connecting to that server will no longer be prompted to select a team, they will automatically be assigned to the team with the least players. When auto balance is active attempts to switch team will re-assign that player to the team with the least players.
This is intended to prevent the "stacking" of players on the marine team and return some semblance of balance. Since the warrior's deathspitter wasn't getting enough respect we've seen fit to increase the damage it's acid splash does. This should make it much less painful to switch from playing marines to tyranids.
