Blade Symphony Free To Play Patch 3 Released

Blade Symphony Free To Play Patch 3

Changelog

• Added support to SourceMod (https://www.sourcemod.net/) to Harmonious Prelude engine branch, huge thanks to their developers for working together on this!
  
• Added experimental Vulkan support. Can be toggled using -vulkan launch parameter
  
• Added support for new Steam Controller system
  
• Changed Classic Style to always be default
  
• Added new Round Replay that occurs after displaying the finishing blow
  
• Changed finishing blow to have a dynamic camera angle
  
• Added icons for Sword Glows in Customization Screen
  
• Improved appearance of Summary Screen
  
• Added new transition going from the end of a Match to the Summary Screen
  
• Added ticking sounds to alert players of end of round while on Summary screen
  
• Changed spectator music tracks to shuffle if the player did not click continue on the Summary Screen
  
• Improved appearance of Overgrown Mask, Skin and Attachments (Thanks Jester!)
  
• Improved appearance of waving Emblems by using specular maps and better shadows
  
• Added support for maps to have their own combat and meditation music
  
• Added jigglebones to Pure's Furious Mask
  
• Added intro cameras for duel_box and practice box
  
• Changed the reset time for combo attacks to be 2.5 seconds from 1 second
  
• Changed Pure and Vanguard's Heavy taunt to draw a heart
  
• Changed Matches with only bots to shuffle their Style if more than one player is in the server
  
• Changed Matches to use the player's Style if there is only one player in the server
  
• Increased FFA challenge timeout from 10 seconds to 5 seconds
  
• Increased chat font size and made it proportional for higher DPI displays
  
• Changed ".sw.vtx" models to be optional for workshop submission
  
• Increase maximum map file download size to 300MB from a server
  
• Removed warning message informing player of switching to Classic Style
  
• Added more language translators to credits
  
• Added exclusive capes for 2017 Autumn Winter Tournament and Patreon supporters
  
• Changed the Discord Rich Presence party size to be the size of the server, instead of 5
  
• Updated SDK to use studiomdl, vbsp, vvis and vrad from CSGO Danger Zone branch added staticpropcompile
  
• Updated SDK to include staticpropcompile
  
• Updated Hungarian translation (Thanks Tamás!)
  
• Updated French translation (Thanks Charles and Alexander!)
  
• Updated Ukranian translation (Thanks Anatolii!)
  
• Added a community FastDL host as default for common custom community maps
  
• Move Round Win/Lose panel below the combo bar
  
• Reengineered end-of-duel slowdown to slow down only the current duel rather than the entire client
  
• Add small flash feedback effect on the final blow of a match
  
• Change FFA respawn time from 8 seconds to 5 seconds
  
• Added Discord lobbies to Blade Symphony
  
• Add feedback sound for outfit color, glow type, glow color, chat color, color picker and others on customization screen
  
• Added Steam Workshop support for legacy maps and client mods
  
• Disabled texture streaming to avoid crashes until new texture streaming system is finished
  
• Added self-illumination support to PBRStandard shader for content creators, use the alpha channel of the Albedo to modulate it
  
• Made game models load asynchronously, making things load faster
  
• Fix duel slowdown camera clipping through geometry or not looking correct
  
• Fix VPK not loading old file format properly while not breaking compatibility with the new VPK formats
  
• Added Steam Workshop support for legacy maps and client mods
  
• Made game models load asynchronously, making things load faster
  
• Fix bug where generic attachments would seem still selectable on entering Misc tab on customization screen while already having maximum count of generic attachments
  
• Added self-illumination support to PBRStandard shader for content creators, use the alpha channel of the Albedo to modulate it
  
• Fix transition effect not working on generic attachments in customization screen
  
• Skip duplicate colours on customization screen
  
• Add feedback sound for outfit color, glow type, glow color, chat color, color picker and others on customization screen
  
• Fix bug where you would actually get readded to a queue if you unqueue and wait for duel timeout on summary screen
  
• Fix rare crash during duel introduction if player is not fully initialized or doesn't exist
  
• Fixed players being able to remain on duel even after summary screen timeout
  
• Change FFA respawn time from 8 seconds to 5 seconds
  
• Fixed dead players and players of other duels being layered inside player's emblem flag
  
• Make announcer sounds play at correct volume
  
• Fix server crashing when changing bb_duelbots_numbots while ingame
  
• Add small flash feedback effect on the final blow of a match
  
• Fixed sounds feeling "crackly" when slowdown effect is active
  
• Disable texture streaming to avoid crashes until new texture streaming system is finished
  
• Reengineered end-of-duel slowdown to slow down only the current duel rather than the entire client
  
• Fixed ghost hits and lag compensation issues
  
• Fix rare case where "Round win" bar would stay painted permanently
  
• Fix shurikens' tracer being blocked resulting in it shooting upwards
  
• Move Round Win/Lose panel below the combo bar
  
• Added a community FastDL host as default for common custom community maps
  

• Add engine fixes and changes from CS:GO Danger Zone update
  
• Improved network latency by not transmitting data of invisible players in the same arena
  
• Improved client FPS by reducing engine-level copy function time for various operations
  
• Improved accuracy of calculation of scoreboard ping
  
• Improved per-pixel motion blur and made it simulate HDR overexposure
  
• Improved rendering pipeline (Citation needed)
  
• Improved game initialization time
  
• Improved 'fastpath' rendering method to improve rendering of level models
  
• Improved physically based rendering (PBR) shader to appear better and render faster
  
• Improved the Horizon Based Ambient Occlusion (HBAO) shader
  
• Upgraded to new Discord SDK for Discord Rich Presence
  
• Upgraded to Steam screenshot system when taking screenshots
  

• Fixed issue where all or some players would suffer decrease in frames when other players join a server.
  
• Potentially fixed "ghost" hits occurring when a player would hit their opponent, but damage was not registered
  
• Potentially fixed players and bots potentially falling underneath the level
  
• Fixed instance where Texture Streaming system could freeze the game
  
• Fixed crash when game client attempts to create a physics prop without a model
  
• Fixed occasional crash due to rendering Sword Glows
  
• Fixed occasional crash when playing the Tutorial
  
• Fixed players being able to change their duel Style even after map time limit has reached.
  
• Fixed "My Hero" achievement not being given even if conditions were met
  
• Fixed players being able to suicide during opponent's death animation
  
• Fixed rounds not ending in a draw if both players die at the same time
  
• Fixed Round ending in a draw if a player died due to the environment
  
• Fixed footstep sounds not playing for Pure when walking on metal materials
  
• Fixed voice icon for local player not appearing when player is using the microphone
  
• Fixed Conical Cantata sounds being played in other arenas
  
• Fixed player being unable to upload custom spray images to server
  
• Fixed not being to able enable Cascaded Shadow Maps (CSM) from the Video menu
  
• Fixed character outlines being rendered at times when they shouldn't be
  
• Fixed issue causing Pure's Furious Sword Scabbard not to show
  
• Fixed various visual issues occuring on Style Confirmation Screen
  
• Fixed not being able to deselect an Emblem when one is equipped on Customization Screen
  
• Fixed various visual issues occuring after selecting a new Emblem on Customization Screen
  
• Fixed various visual issues showing if the Summary Screen appeared while the chat box was open
  
• Fixed Emblem's waving effect appearing distorted on character intro scenes
  
• Fixed Emblem's waving effect not appearing at all on AMD graphics cards.
  
• Fixed combo notification showing for a split-second during character intro scenes
  
• Fixed Inverse Kinematics (IK) not working when player is doing stances or sheathing
  
• Fixed black shadows on duel_box
  
• Fixed being unable to close in-game Main Menu after changing video settings
  
• Fixed being unable to go back to the previous menu on confirmation menus or the Video menu
  
• Fixed external Main Menu buttons for Discord, Forums and Steam not appearing while in-game
  
• Fixed missing lock icon texture when joining password protected servers.
  
• Fixed misaligned text in duel spectator menu if there is only one player in the duel
  
• Fixed various issues on Credits screen
  
• Fixed Discord automatically launching when client is started
  
• Fixed various issues with Discord Rich Presence
  
• Fixed the Crash Reporter's background not appearing and not wrapping text
  
• (Mac only) Fixed the need to double click on Main Menus
  
• (Mac only) Fixed disappearing cursor while using in-game or out of game menus
  
• Removed debug messages shown when sliding on walls
  
• Removed debug messages about clamping level of detail change speed
  
• Fix console input not working on Linux and macOS
  
• Fix duel slowdown camera clipping through geometry or not looking correct
  
• Fix rare case where "Round win" bar would stay painted permanently
  
• Fixed ghost hits and lag compensation issues
  
• Fixed sounds feeling "crackly" when slowdown effect is active
  
• Fix server crashing when changing bb_duelbots_numbots while ingame
  
• Fixed announcer sounds playing at incorrect volume
  
• Fixed dead players and players of other duels being layered inside player's emblem flag
  
• Fixed players being able to remain on duel even after summary screen timeout
  
• Fix rare crash during duel introduction if player is not fully initialized or doesn't exist
  
• Fix bug where you would actually get readded to a queue if you unqueue and wait for duel timeout on summary screen
  
• Fix transition effect not working on generic attachments in customization screen
  
• Fixed bug where multiple colors of the same kind could appear in customization screen
  
• Fix VPK not loading old file format properly while not breaking compatibility with the new VPK formats
  
• Fixed Lightmappedgeneric shaders rendering incorrectly in duel_temple and free_temple
  
• Fixed Water Rendering
  
• Fix bug where generic attachments would seem still selectable on entering Misc tab on customization screen while already having maximum count of generic attachments
  
• Fix shurikens' tracer being blocked resulting in it shooting upwards