[R#175/176] Test Patch Notes

[Alduin]

The Patchnotes for the current #175 on the testserver! Kudos to the whole Neocron Support Team and our beloved community!

Hot Fix T#176

• Temporarily disabled Stealth Tools which cause connection issues to the server

T#175
Technical changes:

• Fixed numerous exploits and vulnerabilities
• Fixed a bug that stopped Neocron from launching when certain applications are open ("Chrome Bug")
• Fixed a crash on alt+tab in wastelands in fullscreen mode
• Fixed the main menu going black on alt+tab in fullscreen mode
• Fixed a crash caused by neocron.ini not being writable
• Fixed an issue with team xp calculation
• Fixed combat rank not always being updated
• Fixed a bug that allowed overcasting of stronger shields.
• Fixed low level drones being very hard to use
• Changed the way interpolation is handeled ("clipping fix")
• Fixed a bug that caused the HUD not being rendered on screenshots
• Screenshots are now saved as .jpg
• Fixed a bug that caused the HUD to reset to default state after a crash
• Removed legacy elements from the HUD (e.g.: recover bagpack)
• Fixed misalignment of worldmap at widescreen resolutions (fullscreen mode)
• Fixed culling problems with widescreen resolutions (fullscreen mode)
• Fixed misaligned outpost signs
• Added widescreen resolutions to the launcher configuration panel
• Added Anisotropic Filtering, configurable via the launcher configuration panel
• Dropped support for DirectX 7

Content changes:

• Turned around CopBot staring at the wall in Plaza Sector 1 (after 8 years, the wall wins)
• Temporarily disabled area drones
• Temporarily removed outpost turrets
• Added TL92 Tangent Assault Pulselaser Pistol to high level tech pistol vendor
• Added TL63 Gatlin Cannon to high level low tech cannon vendor
• Added permenant spawn for the Outzone 2 High Tech Cannon Smuggler
• Added entrance to the Drone Racetrack
• Added RN Terminals to Crahn HQ
• Replaced Outzone Station ambient sound
• Removed OOC advertisement from the Plaza area
• Fixed a conflict between Reza's Calling & Regant's Faith Missions
• Fixed spawn of Heff in TG Canyon.
• Fixed spawn of Malfunctioning Warbot Prototype in the MIRL-600 Warhammer Mission
• Fixed drop rate of fragment from Tacholytium Titan Warbot for Crahn Epic mision #4. Now always drops for those with the mission.
• Fixed a large number of wrong object types (e.g.: CityComs being tagged as chairs)
• Fixed position and alignment for a large number of static objects and NPCs
• Fixed many more miscellaneous gameworld issues

[Alduin]

Again: this is not yet a release candidate for retail 175! We will enable and disable stuff as needed to focus testing.

T#177

• Tweaked the loading screen a bit
• Reenabled all stealth tools (resolved crash issue)
• Reenabled all drones (NPCs now target drones correctly)
• Tweaked interpolation ("clipping fix")
• Added mission NPC to grant XP needed for WoC5
• Added several missing vendors to Neocronstruct

Please test the improved interpolation and the drone safespotting fix as extensively as possbile! Also everything else still needs much testing, the more you test, the earlier this patch will reach gold status!

Slauncha
Alduin

[Alduin]

This is still not yet a release candidate!

T#178

• Tweaked interpolation ("clipping fix")
• Increased position update rate
• Position update now always contains the y coordinate

Slauncha,
Alduin

[Alduin]

T#179

• Fixed a reloading bug
• Reduced the intensity of visual interference when Drones are being damaged
• Fixed clan account money transfer issues
• Fixed truncation of entries inside error.log
• Slightly tweaked player interpolation (should not get stuck in hackterms anymore)
• Fixed NPCs getting stuck
• Fixed possible server crashes and vulnerabilities
• Casting should be more fluent now
• Altered CR calculations

Slauncha,
Alduin

[Alduin]

This patch is mainly adressed at serversided problems.

T#180

• Several fixes on the server side
• Fixed Venture Warp returning players to appartment
• Added timestamps to the damage log
• Filtered the error messages which tell players to be reported asap to only contain important ones

Slauncha
Alduin