Beta 4a Playtest

[BigD]

Maybe the PT has something to do with BUS.. Seeing how its server-side only.

[rad4Christ]

Negatory, mostly normal stuff. It's looking better, although I had to leave right after the 2nd patch came out. and <gasp> we played ns, though ppl kept jumping into the chair before I could get there.

Maybe Jhunz can give more info (what we're allowed) when he posts on the second half (or third if there was another change), but I will say combat was fun even for me...

[JHunz]

The changes were mostly to combat, but I will say that I find them welcome.  It'll take a little while for people's tactics to adapt, but it definitely eliminates the problem of stalemates for good.  

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[Fewlio]

Mmmm manpei.... erm wait.... that doesnt solve the problem!! Hunzy dont lie to us!

[BigD]

sounds...Interesting.. How is all this being done server-side only?

[JHunz]

Well, actually, it's not completely serverside.  There will be a small client download.

[Grillkohle]

It looks like the PT is taking a little longer than we thought, but that may be a good thing. Right now, Flayra is trying to approach the spawn camping issue with a couple of changes.

[Grillkohle]

Here comes the changelog, though most of you probably read it already. I have recorded some demo's from the playtest, unfortunately, I lost the romano one, and they are pretty big in size (23 and 29 MB).

[Uranium - 235]

OMFG YES!!!!

O Grenades no longer teleport into the void before exploding when they are shot into vents (bug #530)

My bug was fixed, and I was right!

For the less informed...

This bug caused the 'invisible nukes of doom' in vents that'd annihilate everything near it, through walls, whatever. It had been a major bug, people knew about it, but no one really knew why.



When a grenade explodes in half-life, the engine will detect if there are any walls (brushes) nearby. If there's nothing, it removes the grenade projectile, and spawns an explosion.

If it does detect a brush, it will teleport a virtual point slightly above the grenade, based on a calculation that factors in the power of a grenade (more power = higher in the air). Then it spawns an explosion at this point.

Another guy calculated it out, figured out that if it was using default half-life mechanics, it was teleporting the grenade a hundred or so units above it. I pointed out that this was larger then the size of vents in NS. Then I mentioned that half-life will completely remove the outside of a map (the 'void' area) that you can't see. So for all intents and purposes, a grenade detonating in the void, to the engine, would not see any walls (since the backfaces are completely invisible and non-existant to the engine) nor entities, so it was the equivilent of the grenade exploding next to you in a large open room.

[Sancho]

Yes, U235, you are one smart cookie, GJ

- Focus cost increased from 1 to 2 levels

HURRAY!