Read the original on Steam ↗This patch includes some gameplay adjustments and some of the work-in-progress modding components. Some of the existing modding components are not fully functional and some features haven’t been added yet.
Gameplay changes
Tiny Adjustments:
Tiny (Small form): Scale increased by 20%.
Tiny (Small form): Now has the same HP as when big (250 instead of 100) but takes 150% damage from enemies.
Reduced the amount of fuel that Tiny’s jetpack can hold.
Slam recovery time increased by 0.5s.
Uppercut recovery time increased by 0.3s.
Uppercut knockback reduced by 50%.
Grenade Launcher grenades now only explode on direct contact or after their fuse runs out, they will not explode when making contact with an enemy if they have already bounced once against a surface.
Grenade Launcher (Secondary Fire): Sticky grenades' minimum detonation time increased from 0.25s to 0.35s (sticky grenades can only be detonated 0.35s after they are fired).
General:
The Warmup mode now uses the Wipeout maps.
The Fast but Fragile passive upgrade now resets the speed penalty after 1 second instead of 3
seconds.
Gameplay fixes
Fixed a bug where Tiny could deal damage in pre-game and pre-round start with landing impact damage.
The Frontal Shield upgrade for the Leap can no longer be destroyed by teammates.
Fixed an issue where self on-hit effects would be triggered while dead-spectating someone (fast but fragile could be triggered when spectating).
The Trampoline upgrade for the Eggbot’s Heal Aura ability now uses the boosted radius from when the ability is activated, instead of the base radius.
Slightly increased the growth speed of the radius of the Eggbot’s Heal Aura ability when it’s activated.
Consecutive shots are now properly reset on miss - this affects the speed boost upgrades for Wolfhound and SB-34 MG.
Modding (work in progress)
In custom lobbies it’s possible to enable the mode editing setting which will allow players in that match to alter some game and weapon variables during the match while it’s ongoing (the initial values of the variables depend on which mode was selected in the lobby). The changes made can be saved into a custom mode, which can be made private so that only the author can select the mode in custom matches, or published publicly in order for all players to be able to use the matchmaking for it, or create pickups for it, or for players to be able to select it from the community modes list in a custom lobby.
On the top left of the mode editing menu there’s a button that lists your modes and allows you to load them, on the top right there’s a gear wheel button where the name of the mode you are working on can be defined and where the mode can be set to public.
There are map list settings (including community maps) that define which maps will be available when matchmaking or joining a pickup for that mode.
There are teamsize settings (gear wheel) that define the team size when matchmaking for a mode.
Besides the Diabotical Rogue weapons, it’s also possible to select the presets for the equivalent Diabotical weapons, and for the Diabotical PnCR and Diabotical Melee.
By default F4 is now bound to editor_toggle_play_mode which enables and disables the mode editing menu (if mode editing is turned on in the custom match), and functions as the F4 button did in the editor. For players that already had non-default keybinds we recommend opening the console with the button above tab, to the left of 1, and typing /bind F4 editor_toggle_play_mode
Individual weapon binds can be set in the Settings-Controls-Mod Weapon Bindings, which will not interfere with your Diabotical Rogue binds and will only be active when playing a community mode.
Several game and weapon variables currently accept a wide range of values, some extreme values may cause issues, for example a weapon with a very high fire rate can create a very large number of particles which can negatively impact performance.
Note that you should press enter whenever you change the value of a variable, that the general-ruleset dropdown options don’t work correctly, some settings might not work correctly, some settings like teamsize and privacy might be unintentionally reset when editing your mode a second time (set them again for now when clicking update, even if they appear to be correct), and that not everything is available to recreate Diabotical Wipeout. A mode called “Diabotical Wipeout” is available with Diabotical physics and some Diabotical weapons.
Interface and HUD
Changed the visual style of the menus.
The Play menu now has 3 tabs, matchmaking, pickups and custom matches.
In the Play menu’s matchmaking tab there is now a list of modes, official and player created that players can queue for.
When there are no cards left there is now a message stating so, instead of 3 selectable cards called “No cards left”.
The HUD’s health bar frame now has a dynamic width, with each segment having a fixed width
Added new icons for the following upgrade cards: Poison Ivy, Health Regen, Cleansing Jump, Slip & Strike, Battle Harden, Immovable Object.
Updated the loading screen and thumbnail of the Hub and Wellspring.
The suit reroll button now has a ticket icon instead of a coin.
Performance, maps, editor
The performance in maps has been improved, some framerate comparisons of some static positions in different maps (same day, same hardware, same fov, same high video settings) 199fps->396fps (+98%), 240->363 (+51%), 255->384 (+50%), 270->425 (+57%), 212->335 (+58%).
There are now visibility volumes that can be set on maps.
To add visibility volumes, first look through your map for a space that you think of as a room
Add the entity visv2 by typing in the console /add visv2
Select visv2 and click the “New plane” button in its properties menu
Define the vertices of a room-encompassing box/prism by clicking 3 or more times on the ground in a clockwise direction along the shape of a room (if the plane has vertical lines instead of a solid color, it is incorrect, /undo your previous steps, the shape of certain rooms might require multiple volumes)
After the plane is set you can click the “Select plane” button, click the plane itself, and while holding Alt you can vertically drag it in order for that box to gain some height
After that volume is created click the “Continuous add” button in the Bake spots section, and fly around within the volume that you created to place bake spots (camera positions that define what angles will be tested in order to render or not render parts of the map-you don’t need to physically rotate your camera in all directions when placing bakespots, multiple angles will be tested based on each bake spot location)
In the visv2 properties, set “Vis enabled: On” and click the “Clear+rotate auto bake vis” button (depending on the number of bake spots it may take some time), when the baking concludes there should be a performance improvement as parts of the map that aren’t visible should not be rendered.
Several adjacent visibility volumes (starting from the “New plane” button step) should be created to include all parts of the map. The previous explanation describes the full process for a single volume, you can choose to place multiple volumes on the map first, then place bake spots in all of them and then click the bake button, instead of baking multiple times. There are also the “Fix once” and “Fix every frame” buttons if you see a problem afterwards such as a far away wall being invisible from a certain angle, those buttons will attempt to fix the visibility based on your current camera position. You can check the official Wipeout maps for examples of volume positioning by selecting the visv2 entity in them (check if visv2’s visibility is turned on, if the eye icon in the entities list is disabled or not).
Updated Wellspring’s lighting.
New terrain foliage aquatic_coral_grass added.
Some props in the editor have been removed, and some have been replaced with different models, if you were using them in your maps you can use the following commands to replace them (this does not include replacements for the maple canopy props, some other canopy props exist but they might not be direct replacements for what you had):
/multi /find prop* -get model == theme/industry/props/ramp_platforms/ramp_platform_2_long_grate -set model ramp_platform_grate_long; /find prop* -get model == theme/industry/props/ramp_platforms/ramp_platform_2_short_grate -set model ramp_platform_grate_short; /find prop* -get model == theme/industry/props/ramp_platforms/ramp_platform_4_wide_color_grate -set model ramp_platform_grate_wide; /find prop* -get model == palmtree_tall_03_branches -set model var_palmtree_tall_03_branches
Visual changes
Fixed a flickering issue affecting the ocean on AMD graphics cards.
Weapon reload animations now dynamically adjust to match upgraded reload speeds.
Fixed antialising not working in the Locker.
Some known issues
The Scout’s Explosive Grenade with the Bouncy Nades upgrade is exploding when it touches a surface and then it disappears (unless it also has the Cluster Bombs upgrade).
Pressing your keybind for the Scout’s Hookshot ability while pressing other keys that take the Diabotical Rogue window out of focus or bring it into focus can cause the ability to be unusable until you repeat the process.
Some particle effects continue to travel after hitting a door.
Mode editing changes during warmup may affect other players in the match in unintended ways, such as a weapon being removed, after players ready up the weapons should match what is currently set in the mode.
In community modes the character arms don’t animate properly when firing and reloading weapons.
