- (bug fix) Vehicles and deployables now properly explode if they are destroyed while someone is repairing them.
- (bug fix) Sniper laser shots no longer create water splash effects if hitting ground near the water.
- (bug fix) Immersion iForce force feedback mouse is now working properly again.
- (bug fix) The "flag jumping" bug is now fixed. When a flag lands after being dropped, it will stay put when it slides to rest.
- (bug fix) Fixed a situation where closing tribe or player tags on the Browser out of order would cause a disconnect with the database server.
- (bug fix) Players can no longer fire, place mines, place grenades, or place beacons when inside a force field.
- (bug fix) Fixed bug where modifier keys (specifically SHIFT) bound to actions in the game would still cause those actions when typing in a text edit control in-game (such as the chat entry)
- (bug fix) Fixed a bug that could cause a player to drop to desktop when attempting to join a game which was in the process of cycling missions.
- (bug fix) Fixed a Radeon video card issue which could occur if the desktop color bit-depth was different than the color bit-depth that the player was using in the game.
- (bug fix) You won't try to fade into a vehicle that was destroyed after you purchased it, but before you had actually tported to the seat.
- (bug fix) Minor change in the MPB explosion so that the turret part of the MPB doesn't seem to hover in place for a split-second during the explosion.
- (bug fix) Bomber bombs now tumble properly and won't seem to disappear when falling.
- (bug fix) Fixed a rare problem that could cause a client crash while the server is resetting.
- (bug fix) Fixed a problem with the ELF gun effect that was causing hangs.
- (bug fix) Telnet can now be used to set passwords for PURE servers so that they can be used for match games. (command line option...see the post in T2FAQs called "How do I TELNET INTO A PURE SERVER?" for more information on how to use this ability.)
- (bug fix) The "cloning" issue (where players could clone themselves by dying, going to the CC with the CC camera showing themselves, spawn, and flicker back and forth to the CC) is now fixed and no longer occurs.
- (bug fix) Another "cloning" issue which occurred when the Tourney Admin would switch teams for players is fixed and no longer occurs.
- (bug fix) Fixed a bug where, when a client joins a server where the client does not have the map being run on the server, the client hangs while loading. This now elegantly exits instead of hanging.
- (bug fix) Fixed an issue where the last few characters of the Server Info dialog would be cut off.
- (bug fix) Fixed a situation where a blank error box could occur if CD key not entered properly when creating an account.
- (bug fix) Sensor rings will no longer show up on the Command Circuit if the generators are not powered.
- (bug fix) There was a rare bug where, if a player was standing in a force field's position when that force field went from a depowered to powered state (in otherwords, if the gens were repaired while he stood in the FF position), then the player would be stuck forever. If this case occurs, that player will now be destroyed.
- (improvement) The "redjack" icon has been removed and new network throughput graphs have been implemented to better help players troubleshoot their net settings. Additionally, a more accurate and complete set of network presets is available. (See details below under "NETWORK SETTINGS" for more information.)
- (improvement) The pure server concept is now implemented. Pure servers only allow regulation scripts and maps to be run on the server (no restrictions yet on the client), thus ensuring that anyone that joins a "base" server is playing the game as it was designed by Dynamix. MODs are still easily joined, but players can be assured that a "Base" game is really a "Base" game now. (Any game with server or rules mods that is not actually named as a new MOD will be described as "variant" instead of "base" on the master server list.) NOTE: See "PURE SERVER" below for more information on this.
- (improvement) Old Password is now required in order to enter a New Password when editing your account.
- (improvement) Password handling is different now in order to make it more difficult for people to casually find a password on a hard drive.
- (improvement) Made more room for player names to display on the Server Info box.
- (improvement) Bomber and Tank now have separate energy capacitors for their turret weapons. This energy pool is completely separate from the energy pool that the thrusters and force shields use. (Gunner energy is displayed as a second bar below the regular vehicle energy and is orangish in color.)
- (improvement) Vertical thrusters on air vehicles are now more efficient to enable better takeoffs from ground level.
- (improvement) Changed team damage OFF to include friendly turret fire and vehicle fire. (In otherwords, if Team Damage is OFF, then turrets fire and vehicle fire will not affect friendly units.)
- (improvement) Splash damage no longer falls off so dramatically with distance. You will find that area effect (explosion) weapons now are more effective within their damage area.
- (improvement) While in Tournament mode, and while in observer mode at the beginning of a match (before teams have been selected), players will now be able to chat with one another.
- (improvement) Added observer points to Tombstone (it previously had none).
- (improvement) Grenades tossing is slightly improved. The grenades will throw farther with less time spent pressing the grenade key. (They still have the exact same minimum and maximum throwing distances, it's just easier to throw it out to max range now.)
- (community) Player histories are now accurate.
- (community) Preferences in the FORUMs should be fixed now so that they stay in existence. The sort is the only exception. That will reformat each time you enter the FORUM and you will need to select whichever sort your prefer at that time.
**Tweak, Spider Clamp turrets need more Surface area for legal deploy space now**:
*Minor tweak to improve long-term server stability.
*A new voice Codec, 'GSM' was added to allow voice communication between Linux and Windows users.
*Minor Sound system tweaks and fixes.
*Minor BOT navigation and seeking improvements.
*Fix removing BOTs counting toward the Vote Meter representation.
*Improvement for Vehicle Physics, particularly instances when Vehicles would get stuck on their edge.
*Fix for BOT's skins not dynamically updating to correct team skin, when Admin team changed them.
*Fixed bug where certain cases would cause Cursor to vanish when it should not.
*Minor Server query improvements.
*Fix Players can be added to the 'Admin List'.
*No more voting to BAN, only Super ADMIN may now BAN.
*Various GUI improvements, notably the Voice Com. elements in the Lobby, and some minor pointer Icon improvements for certain cases.
*Linux 'Penguin' Symbol added for Server List Screen when joining, so users may identify Windows and Linux servers at a glance.
**SIEGE GAMEPLAY CHANGE**: When attacking a base, you will see red waypoints on the generators. When those generators are destroyed, the waypoints will change to green. If the generators are repaired thereafter, they will return to red. If you are on the defender team, these colors are reversed (green normally, red if destroyed, green if repaired again). This will help teams coordinate attack and defense more easily.
**FLARE GREANDE GAMEPLAY CHANGE**: Each flare will only attract ONE missile now. When the missile hits the flare, the flare will be destroyed. Only the first missile fired after the flare is thrown will be fooled by that flare. Other missiles must be attracted by other flares in order to be avoided.
*There was a problem where emails were getting cloned multiple times for some folks. This is fixed now and no longer occurs.
*There was an issue where the single player game type was not being properly cleared for folks when they left single player and went to other games. This is fixed now.
*A stray underground generator was removed from Caldera.
*The name column will no longer jump to the top when folks leave and join a room, thus making it easier to stay focused on a particular player's name.
*If you steal a vehicle, the vehicle's sensor radius will not switch to the stealing player's team. In otherwords, the sensor of the vehicle will still report to the original team's sensor net...not the team that stole the vehicle. That's as design and is one of the drawbacks of using a stolen vehicle.
*Bounty & Hunter: The player icons on the command maps are now the correct colors.
*More items have correct names and tags on the command map and in the HUD. There were instances like "East Generator Generator". Those have been eliminated.
*The last patch accidentally eliminated the "PlayerXXX joined YYYY game. Click here to join." links from the CHAT. This has been resolved and is now available again.
*Players are no longer able to squeeze in under the tires of vehicles and play Superman by lifting them off the ground. ; )
*Bots were getting stuck in Riverdance when the fell in the water near the bridge. This has been fixed.
*Added more filtering options so that the filters for the server query (JOIN) screen are more powerful and flexible.
*Added a Linux indicator so users can tell whether they are joining a Win32 or Linux server. (Shouldn't make any difference to game play, but we felt you'd like to know.)
*Fixed a small texture leak on 3Space objects.
*Added an underwater satchel charge effect. Slightly increased the delay time between activating the satchel and the time that it actually explodes (this was as designed...a minor bug was causing it to explode too soon).
