Kategorie: UT2004

Tim Willits: It definitely has a technical look to it — the Prey shots (being developed by 3DRealms and Human Head – ed.) are our technology as well. Hopefully our E3 presentation with our trailer will definitely distinguish it from DOOM 3. I think we have enough different stuff in there that people won’t think it’s DOOM 3.

Eric Biessman: From the beginning, the inception of development, we said, „how can we differentiate ourselves both stylistically and gameplay wise from DOOM?“ We just set out to make a fast-action, nonstop game that you’ll sit down and play right through. There’s more than just fighting, but it’s definitely a different game. Without letting you sit down and play through the whole game, it’s hard — I couldn’t list everything. We’ve really gone out of our way to try to differentiate.

• Fixed stuttering/snagging/sinking into static meshes in some places on clients in net games
• Improved getting out of water
• Fixed FaceClassic teleporter exploit
• The Cicada hud indicators should now show up in all game modes.
• Fixed SPMA causing damage at world origin.
• Fixed not being able to exit raptor when it’s on the ground
• Fixed (for assault) the energy core always showing on the HUD even if it not the current objective (thanks AngelMapper)

Networking:

• Server performance improvements
• Cheating detection improvements, with shorter time for master server ban detection
• Integration of UTAN bans with UT2004 master server. Admins can opt out by adding bIgnoreUTANBans=true to [IpDrv.MasterServerUplink]
• Fixed potential garbage collection crash when changing levels during network games
• Improved caching of server data for when you can’t connect to the master server.
• UTV updated (netspeed fix).
• Better Client
• >Server
• >MS Error Messages

Demo Recording:

• Added code to insure StopDemo is executed before a map change or game exit
• Remove 8x from the demo playback menu.  The engine has problems with that speed.
• Fixed bug in Demo Playback menu that caused the Play/Pause button to be out of sync
• Added Demo playback jog keys to the console.
     
  • Left Cursor slows down playback (1/4x -> 1/2x)
  • Right cursor speeds ups playback (2x -> 4x)  
  • Up/Down cursor resets to 1x
  • Disable by settings bDemoJogKeys=false in [XInterface.ExtendedConsole]

Engine:

• Improved level loading speed, especially on network clients
• Fixed calling SetBase(NULL) on all attached actors when an actor is destroyed

Editor:

• Fix for importing static meshes

Menus:

• Model select page now properly selects the current character when you open it.
• Korean localization updates.
• VCTF now appears in server browser, even if you don’t already have any VCTF maps installed.
• Added code to sync the Stream (MP3) volume with normal music volume.

    This patch should be installed *after* installing the Epic ECE Bonus Pack, as it updates some of the game code included with the bonus pack.

    Onslaught related:
    – Added a gunner indicator for the Cicada.
    – Onslaught low skill bot AI tweaks
    – Max lifespan for shot down ONSMortarCamera
    – Fixed regular dust showing when Manta jumps over water
    – Fixed Cicada staying above StallZ if driver switches to gunner position
    – Fixed SPMA engine sound volume
    – Tweaked powercore destruction and electricity sounds
    – Improved artillery explosion effect
    – Don’t call destroyed powercore „green powercore“ in scoreboard (after round ends)

    General Gameplay:
    – Fixed Berserk combo (properly turns client side weapon changes on and off)
    – Fixed quadjump mutator in multiplay (was only allowing regular double jump on first jump)
    – Fixed gamespeed mutator „sticking“ in instant action games
    – Don’t let Cicada passengers carry flag (for VCTF)
    – Added OnslaughtBP.UCL to patch so bonus pack mutators will show up
    – Fixed problem with landing view shake sometimes not working at very low frame rates
    – Fixed bug where not all actors got NotifyTeamChanged() when client team changed
    – Assault objective announcements can come from packages other than AssaultAnnouncer
    – IonCannonKillVolume bug fixes
    – Don’t allow players to change teams if team sizes are equal if bPlayersBalanceTeams is true
    – Fixed team balancing code bug
    – Fixed footstep sounds playing while in vehicle where driver isn’t visible if enter while running
    – Removed obsolete weapon debugging code
    – Localization fixes for Italian, French, German, and Spanish
    – No log or console message when player enters or leaves team. public, or local channels
    – Fixed Dom.xml for bot voice command in DDOM
    – Fixed F3/F8 stats now shows all players in list
    – Don’t limit suiciding to 10 second interval in standalone games

    Demo recording:
    – Fixed client-side demo recording of vehicles

    Networking:
    – Fix for clients unable to connect with „Incompatible Games Files“ message
    – Fixed WebAdmin play list and mid game menu to report the proper ping.
    – Fixed resetting initial position of saved move when moves are combined
    – Increased min idle kick time to 30 seconds
    – Never idle kick player if only human in game
    – Moved gamespeed option in URL parsing to after mutator spawning, so gamespeed can be set from URL
    – More speedhack detection tweaks (less false positives)
    – Server CPU use improvements relative to last patch
    – Consider CPU saturation in determining whether to do extra work on server to reduce bandwidth use for low
    bandwidth clients
    – Don’t allow clients <3320 to connect to servers with OnslaughtBP.     - Fixed server crash when using bonus vehicles mutator.     - Fix for client-side crash caused by DynamicLoadObject problem uncovered by interaction of AntiTCC with     certain other mutators.     - Fix for annoying server browser bug (not showing correct initial game type).     - Fix for team VOIP channels in large games     Menus:     - Fixed map list menu problems with bonus vehicles and custom link setups.     Editor:     - Fixed Unrealed working with Windows 98 (See note below)     Mod Author Related:     - New script profiling tool.     - Added (slow) full dangling reference checking option.     Logs dangling references which could cause a crash during gameplay or on GC. Use only for testing, as it     is very slow, by adding bSlowRefChecking=true to the [Engine.Engine] section of UT2004.ini. I'd recommend     running a dedicated server with bots with this option enabled, connect to it to start the match, and let the     bots do the testing for you.     - Fixed spider physics view direction setting bug     - Added RotateSoundThreshold to ONSWeapon to allow mod authors control over when RotateSound is played     - Moved BaseMutator.ModifyLogin() to the beginning of GameInfo.Login().     - Fix for UParticleEmitter::UpdateParticles crash in SkeletalMeshGet     IMPORTANT NOTE REGARDING UNREALED and Windows 98     If you plan on using UnrealED with Windows 98, you will need to download an install the MSVCP60.DLL library. This file can be found at the following url:     http://www.dll-files.com/dllindex/dll-files.shtml?msvcp60

    Without that file, the editor will not run.