Insurgency update changelist May 26, 2016

[[RC]Hunter]

We have released an update that includes a new map and numerous features, fixes and improvements. The new map is called Dry Canal, originally created by community member Tribly and a finalist in our Gamebanana level design contest last year.

We are also releasing the foundation for our competitive ranking system. The system is not fully functional yet, but the game now loads the web-based system that will evolve into the competitive component. We can begin to update our competitive and stats systems without requiring a game update.

We know our competitive community are anxiously awaiting the competitive matchmaking features, and we appreciate everyone’s patience. You can expect to see ingame progress in the near future, and if you want a preview of our competitive features, we will be creating a Competitive Testing group on Steam which will give you early access to features before they are introduced to everyone else. We will use this group to test the systems on a smaller base of users and solicit feedback.

In addition to the update to Insurgency, the Day of Infamy mod has also been updated on Workshop. Five new community-made maps have been added to the official map rotation for the mod, and some new content has also been added including a new weapon and new weapon assets.

Important note regarding custom player models: Because of animation changes made in this patch, any Workshop custom player models now will cause the game to crash because they do not have the correct IK settings compiled. Please unsubscribe and notify the Workshop creator that their models must be updated. Workshop authors: check this forum post for info on how to make the fix.


Full changelist is below:


New Maps

Dry Canal (Day and Night versions)

New Scenarios

Multiplayer

Dry Canal Push
Dry Canal Skirmish
Dry Canal Occupy
Dry Canal Firefight
Dry Canal Strike
Dry Canal Elimination
Dry Canal Ambush
Cooperative
Contact Checkpoint
Dry Canal Checkpoint
Dry Canal Conquer
Dry Canal Outpost
Dry Canal Survival
Dry Canal Hunt

Features

Implemented facial animations for your guide in the training level.
Created Clean Sweep achievements for every map running Hunt game mode.
Created Decisive Victory achievements for every map running Checkpoint game mode.
New first person AK-74, AKS-74u and Makarov animations.
New third person animations for reloads, grenade throws and foregrips.
M16, M4 and AK-74 world models have been updated with moving bolts.
IK support for third person hands and feet. Mod authors will need to update any player model mods they have on the workshop.
Steam View Game Info dialog now shows the player score rather than kill count. Player score can be hidden on the View Game Info dialog if server enables sv_suppress_steam_score.
Damage and suppression is replicated to spectators watching in first person.

Optimizations

Player spawn staggering implemented to reduce server lag spikes that occurred when a large amount of players spawn at once.

Gameplay Improvements

Survival improvements
Adjusted price and amount of ammo received from chest rig and chest carrier to make ammo more limited.
Tweaked AI behavior so bots are less likely to patrol parts of the map humans can avoid.
Added win condition for level 100

Fixes

Players now get correctly damaged and flashed by grenades while leaning around a corner.
Fixed the black sky issue when Shader Details were set to medium or low settings.
Fixed the subtitles not working in the training level.
Fixed the clean sweep hunt achievements not triggering properly.
Possessing a bot no longer reloads when using a controller.
Fixed being able to crash servers by spamming the inventory_resupply command.
Fixed FPS drop caused by main menu HTML panels after connecting to a server.
Character models are now positioned with their head where the first person view is in crouched and standing stances, which should help prevent “head glitching”.
Fixed multiple world model bipods attaching to a weapon.
Fixed detached foregrip on shotgun world models.
Added IK support to first person hands on various weapons to prevent any sliding during transitions, specifically pistols.
Fixed being able to skip the M249 reloads.
Players now experience fall damage when landing in shallow water.
SourceTV demos can now be viewed without crashing the client. Demos recorded prior to this patch may fail to load.
When viewing a player in first person through SourceTV, proning and leaning is now shown correctly.
sv_hud_deathmessages can now be enabled on co-op servers.

Map Changes

New District checkpoint layout
Fixed an issue in Embassy where you could jump behind the map.
Added invisible walls in Panj to prevent players from accessing certain exploit locations.
Fixed a bug in Siege Outpost where cache B would be in a bad location.
Fixed many other miscellaneous issues in multiple levels.

User Experience Improvements

Pressing escape now closes menus properly.
HTML MOTDs have been disabled due to player feedback. Unfortunately, too many servers were abusing this ability by playing ads that could not be stopped or were obnoxious.

Modding

Server-side Workshop now supports collections.
Workshop servers will now correctly query for map updates between games.
Spawn points and spawn zone entities can now be assigned a squad ID, allowing mappers to create squad specific spawn areas.
Theaters:

Added mutual exclusion to weapon upgrades. This can be used to exclude any two upgrades from being equipped simultaneously that are in different upgrade slots. Under a weapon upgrade add “excluded_upgrades”, with an arbitrary key and a value set to the name of the upgrade to exclude. The exclusion should be defined on the latter of the pair in the theater file.
Added “overlay” setting to gear definitions.
Added the “third_person” subsection to weapon definitions.
Replaced c_thirdpersonshoulder with sv_thirdperson and all the associated settings.

Capa Mode (beta)
Introducing new features to the roaming spectator mode, currently controlled using Console Variables. The name "Capa" is an homage to one of the greatest war photographers, Robert Capa, who co-founded Magnum Photos following the Second World War. His images of Omaha Beach on D-Day are iconic. Sadly, he was killed by a mine in Indochina in 1954. Capa had a famous saying: "If your photographs aren't good enough, you're not close enough," and this feature will help you get closer to the action while spectating.

spec_camera_options_gui 1, displays UI to adjust f-stop, focal length, and focal distance
spec_bank 1, enables camera banking
spec_bank_angle <180>, Maximum camera banking/roll angle
spec_bank_smoothing <0>, Banking interpolation amount (higher = slower)
spec_handheld <0>, enables handheld camera feature that moves the camera around as if it were held by a camera operator
spec_handheld_frequency <Hz>, frequency at which the camera shakes (recommended value is 0.3)
spec_fov 1, enables manual FOV control while in Capa mode allowing you to zoom in and zoom out using the scroll wheel
spec_fov_angle <0>, manual FOV angle that can be changed using the ConVar or by scrolling
spec_fov_delta <n>, Amount of degrees to add or subtract depending on scroll wheel movement
spec_fov_smoothing <0>, interpolation amount
spec_fov_lockdoftofov 1, Use FOV to calculate the focal length of the brute force Depth of Field effect (mat_insdof 1)
spec_interpolate 1, smooth out mouse movement
spec_interpolate_smoothing <0>, interpolation amount
spec_interpolate_position 1, smooth out camera position
spec_interpolate_position_smoothing <0>, interpolation amount
sv_specspeed (server) - this is not a new value but it should be lowered during the test which we will probably do via RCON as we go like during previous tests


UPDATE 5/27/16: We are releasing a hotfix today to address some issues that have come up from the patch. Hotfix changelist is below followed by the full patch changelist:

Fixes

Fixed grenade prime animation getting stuck in third person.
Fixed missing resource file for the depth of field/spectator control UI (Capa mode UI).
Fixed server log output displaying “TEAM ONE” and “TEAM TWO”.
Custom playlist can now be selected.
Added Dry Canal Checkpoint to Coop Elite playlist.
Added Tell Hunt and Tell Night Hunt to playlists.
Fixed muzzle bone on AC-556 world model.

Map Changes

Removed windows in Market to avoid spawn camping Security.
Fixed Dry Canal survival objectives disappearing after capturing B.
Fixed a respawn issue on Tell Checkpoint

Modding

Spectator fixes for sv_thirdperson.
Added mp_ignore_win_conditions for customising gamemode behavior.

Michael Tsarouhas - Community Manager and Voice Actor for Insurgency


Source:

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