Version 20 Changelog
First and Foremost: Official server maintenance has concluded, official servers are online as of Version 20. We appreciate your patience while we worked through this maintenance period.
What is Nexus? Nexus is our in-house game statistic reporting, and fair gameplay enforcement system.
Additions
Supermax: Added Nexus system
Support Sites Are Dead: Added in-game report system for official servers. Players can now be directly reported through the player list.
Power To The People: Most game settings are now configurable by server operators. View the documentation here: ANEURISM IV Server Documentation
reloadservercfg to reload server configs
printvariables to see current server variables
Backend Overhaul:
Official servers now have scheduled restart warnings, and backups
Server browser overhaul
Player reports are now in the server window.
Admin Commands:
Added "addkarma"
Added "rattrack \" \[1-5]
Rats Are Alive
Pet rats: Tame a Dumpster Rat by feeding it any rat food.
Rats follow you around with real pathfinding and animations (idle, walk, run, sit).
You can have up to 2 rats following you at once.
Feed rats to increase their stats. Rats can also be damaged and killed.
Only a rat's owner can pick it up or grab it as long as the owner is online.
Rats have random colors, can be named, and follow their owner.
Rat stats: Top Speed, Acceleration, Brain, Air (stamina), and Perseverance. Different rat foods raise different stats, with some randomness.
5 different race tracks.
Up to 6 rats per race, and at least 2 are needed to start.
Betting season opens every hour for 20 minutes, with notifications.
Bid 10–100¢ for a race spot. If someone outbids you, you're refunded. The winning rat's owner takes the whole race pot, plus an Anamnecyte reward.
Spectators can bet, and winners split the full betting pool in proportion to their bets. Winnings can be claimed at the betting table.
Outside betting season, races are unranked: no payouts, no rewards, and no bets.
MOTD: Added "news feed" to main menu.
No Longer The Favorite: Added "Delete from favorites" button to server browser.
Hobo Cooking: Added "Barrel Grill"
Grill recipes: \[Slop Soup, Scary Soup, Cigarette Soup, Rotter's Goulash, Ghetto Spaghetti, Bloody Solyanka, Bone-ash Flour, Tushonka, Pemmican, and new Stuffed Rat Skewer]
Grill tells you when food isn't finished cooking (fixed from preview9)
Removed "ireallywanttowipetheserverplease" command
Changes
Respect Authority: The value of neutral fates is now directly correlated to their productivity in the eyes of the Cortex.
Cortex who kill neutrals unjustly will now incur an anamnecyte penalty tied to the rank of the victim (Higher rank, higher penalty)
Killing a rank 0 prole will result in loss of 3 anamnecytes
Bare Necessities \[Experimental]: Hunger, thirst, and sanity values are now persistent across lives (30% minimum on new life)
Disruption & Cleanup: Destroying bomb components during wartime will result in loss of anamnecytes. Destroying components after wartime is finished will result in anamnecyte gain.
Sigma Grindset: Bankers now receive sense (anamnecyte gain) for completing banking transactions. \[20% every interval per person]
Anonymity Returns: Removed "SteamID" and "Steam Profile" button from player list.
Changed consumable/component prices:
Night Market
Boneash Flour: 16 --> 10
Dented Food Can: 20 --> 15
Dealernet
M.B. Secret Formula: 7 --> 5
Gabagool: 20 --> 15
Sausage Rolls 20 --> 15
Canned Bread 20 --> 15
Miligrade Gun Parts: 100 --> 75
New rank for Malpractitioner "Unscrupulous"
New rank for Rogue "Immovable"
Neutrals can no longer open the Scum vault doors by any means
Fixes/Optimizations
Improved server browser responsiveness.
Experimental performance/stability fixes.
Fixed Rogue not leveling to Rank 6.
Fixed Malpractitioner not leveling to Rank 5/6
Fixed GUID issue with item stands.
Fixed Scumbag soulfetchers not appearing as "Slunk"
Soulfetchers now show the correct karma colour on newly spawned spirits
Voice chat has been fully rebuilt
Proximity voice range increased
Fixed voice falloff and microphone input inconsistency
Players who are too far away no longer output audio or chat bubbles.
Dedicated server fixes
Greatly improved server performance and bandwidth
Fixed the Limitator's ragdoll vanishing instantly, and fixed ragdoll pool errors
Fixed ghost players
Item tooltips now display ammo counts
Fixed the vomit coffin animations
The Limitation Order announcement now fits in its tooltip
The Elephant in The Room (Where Map?)
Many moons ago, we announced working on a new map called "Genome". Obviously, plans have changed since seeing the love for Nightmare. However, many flaws have been brought to our attention, and so, since July, we've been working on a Nightmare rework to implement what we've missed. After Nightmare's "V2", we will pass over Misery, address common issues with the map, and then complete Genome.
Here's the latest progress on the Nightmare rework.
Note: These photos are work in progress. Everything you see is untextured first draft meshes that are subject to change.
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In the Nightmare rework, the docks area is being heavily reworked by adding revised sections from the Godot era of Aneurism's development (Slide 2), including the OG Red Lion Bar, which the present day Red Lion Bar is based off of. This entire sector encompasses the bottom left of the map, with 3 other sectors taking up the other quadrants known as Industrial, Commercial, and Residential.
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This is the Red Lion Bar interior, and the Port Civil Center, situated inside a corner store.
This is where the train passes through Port from the Industrial Sector on its way to the Wastelands
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And finally a birds-eye view of the Port Sector in its current state
