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Patch Name April 2016 Update
Changelist Title Engine Changes
date_range Thursday, 28 April 2016
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Features

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    Added 'mat_reloadtexture' console command. It reloads a single texture
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    Added 'sv_crazyphysics_wheels' console variable. Toggles crazy physics detection for vehicle wheels
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    TheFreeman193
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    AE_CL_STOP_PARTICLEEFFECT & AE_CL_ADD_PARTICLE_EFFECT_CP
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Improvements

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    The max size of reliable snapshots has been increased from 256KiB to 1024KiB. This should reduce or eliminate any "Couldn't send snapshot." errors
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    Major improvements to text rendering on OSX
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    The console can now be opened by pressing shift+escape. The old behaviour remains unchanged
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    Improved delta encoding of ragdoll bone positions/angles. They should now use slightly less bandwidth
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    Improved the error message emitted when patch materials have failed to load
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    Limited length of URL in JavaScript error prints
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    Improved GMA mounting performance
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    gamemodes/, lua/, addons/ can no longer be marked for FastDL downloads
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    Game will no longer try to load non TTF fonts and crash
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Fixed

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    Texture auto-refresh no longer reloads every texture in the game and can reload JPEGs
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    Fixed TLK_PLAYER_ASK_FOR_BALL console warning message
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    Fonts on Windows and OSX can now display non-latin characters
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    Fonts contained within Workshop addons are now properly loaded
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    HTML panels and anti-aliased text are now correctly alpha-blended on OSX
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    The game can now be played on OSX from case-sensitive filesystems such as NTFS
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    Workshop Lua files now emit errors with the correct file path
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    Gamemodes within addons now have their 'entities' and 'content' directories mounted
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    Cyclic entity parenting no longer crashes the game
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    Navigation meshes
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    Engine tools
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    Airboat guns no longer cause a crash if fired as a player is joining
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    Airboats no longer cause a crash when attempting to eject a NULL player
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    Multiple bug fixes for hammer
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    Armor is now networked as a 32-bit unsigned integer
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    Health and max-health now properly update when changed on "anim" SENTs in singleplayer
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    "kill" input no longer puts players in an invalid inescapable state
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    The pistol now uses less network bandwidth when equipped
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    Fixed corruption in the SVC_PacketEntities net message. This should stop disconnections from servers with 'random' reasons and some other odd behaviour
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    Fixed crash issues with npc_cscanner
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    Fixed Nextbot NPCs being deleted on map spawn
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    Fixed a crash related to creating particle effects
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    Fixed crash when CNewParticleEffect has an invalid particle collection
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    Fixed detection of VRAM size when you have more than 2GiB
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    Fixed hang when loading certain fonts
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    NPCs will now play footsteps when walking
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    Bo98