Firearms Source 1.0e Released!

DysPatch — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 23:49:57 GMT

Finally, I am proud to release Firearms Source 1.0e, a huge improvement on our previous Firearms Source builds. After public testing the game the past week, we have been receiving great feedback. With this release, we are finalizing FAS 1.0 and are putting are heads back down and going to work on our Attachment System for 1.1. We are hoping that FAS 1.0e is what you were expecting for our initial release, and more. We will also be kick starting league play and will be recording a clan battle between two prominant Firearms clans that have made their return. So please, check out our trailer while you download our 1.0e client.

As a reminder of what we have been focusing on, you can check out the list and our changelog.

Increased Weapon Accuracy
An increase in the base weapon accuracy across all weapons allows for more distant engagements. The problem before this was that most engagements were happening face to face due to the general inaccuracy of the weapons. If you fired at someone at a distance, most of your shots would miss, and those that did connect were limb shots more often than not. Increasing accuracy allows you to properly aim and take down targets with precision, and a greater influence from fire modes gives players a better reason to swap at different ranges.
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Decreased Armor Absorption Levels
With the decrease in armor absorption, players are generally taken down much faster under fire but their armor lasts much longer overall. The problem before was that with full heavy, we saw quite a bit of tanking, and players simply weren't being taken down quick enough. Fire fights would often last multiple magazines. We have since dropped the absorption by half of its previous value, with more decisive and exciting firefights as a result.
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Weapon Re-balancing
We have been vigorously testing and improving the roles of each weapon to fit in line with the new accuracy and armor values. Some of the weapons in our previous builds were seeing very little use, while others were being used in roles they shouldn't be. We are looking at the values more carefully and are making sure each class of weapon excels in its proper role.
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New Server Options
1.0e is our last planned patch before the big 1.1 release, so we want to make sure the server admins have the tools they need to run a successful server. These new server options allow server owners to limit weapons where they see fit, restricting weapons for scrimmaging or competitive games. While we encourage all play styles in FAS, we understand that others may want to tailor the experience.
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Over 60 Resolved bugs
We are fixing bugs daily, and trying to remove all critical bugs so that we can allow our player base to grow. Unfortunately, there was some oversight to how extreme a number bugs were, particularly in the case of the ragdoll issue mentioned above. In its worst form, this all but prevented players with lower end specifications from joining servers in progress. In 1.0e you will notice a much more stable game, both as the client and server.

Changelog 1.0e
- Speed modifiers for heavy and medium armor.
- You can select spectate from the team menu after spawning now.
- Fixed bug where you would be shown in the wrong team colour when an enemy you hurt would commit suicide. This is now shown as an "assisted suicide" in the death notices.
- Teamkills no longer report an assister to avoid confusion with the assister being in the wrong team colour. You are silently rewarded assist points.
- Improved assault rifle accuracy (usually 2-3x more accurate) - tweaked to 1024 unit range
- Improved SMG accuracy (about 1.5-2x more accurate) - tweaked to 512 unit range
- Improved pistol accuracy (to about the same degree as SMGs), lowered damage to compensate
- LMGs now have 0.25x the bullet cone while deployed
- M60 damage lowered
- M1911 damage increased
- SR-25 recoil significantly increased
- Lowered M79 Cost
- Fixed inaccurate skill descriptions
- When healing yourself with the IFAK, it no longer reports the previous healing target
- Fixed tracer rounds on the Vollmer
- Armor damage mitigation modified to lower values. Light 0.4x, Medium 0.5x, Heavy 0.6x
- Different types of armor have different armor hit point values, rather than being 150 for all of them. Light has 100, heavy has 200, helmet has 100, limb armor has 75
- Added new damage sounds
- Run speed reduced to 210 from 230 (~9% slower)
- Sprint speed reduced to 325 from 340 (~4% slower)
- Changed strafe and backpedal speeds. Backwards: 0.6 from 0.8, Strafe: 0.7 from 0.8
- Removed delay between firemode toggle
- Added missing MenuOpen/MenuClose/MenuPulse HUD animations
- Resolved sniper weapon selection slot conflicts
- Delay between voice and radio messages
- Weapons start with full ammo on spawn (6 reserve mags rather than 4)
- Hopefully improved stability of Mortars
- Added a fas_version command
- Reworked the ammobox code a little bit to address the ammoboxes only giving ammo to the current weapon
- Made some tweaks to the lighting effects for the NVG's to help prevent model texture/material washout
- Addressed an area of potentially invalid memory in the round over HUD element which could cause a crash
- Reworked some VGUI panels (MOTD, team panel, loadout etc)
- Fixed hint panel showing a black box with no text in it
- Fixed case where holding down MOUSE2 would continue to play the idle animation when you aim down the sights (G36C)
- Holding down the attack, attack2 or reload key will no longer prevent a weapon from deploying
- Solved some visual glitches associated with bolt action (or pump action) weapons
- Disabled the ability to jump if your stamina is less than the amount of stamina drained for jump
- Slightly upped the stamina drain for jumping from 20 to 30
- Setting fas_endgametimer to -1 will remove the 0 rein timeout, waiting until all the players on the team are dead or a full cap is made
- Added fov_desired cvar which is used in Valve's official games which allows you to adjust your FOV between 75 and 90. Defaults to 90
- You can no longer climb a ladder while prone or ducked
- Burst fire queues bullets to fire, so 1 click = 3 bullets (with M16/FAMAS), rather than having to hold it down
- mp_switchteams is now fully operational and will flip the teams when a server admin issues the command
- Ability to restrict weapons per-server through a weapons blacklist
- Shotgun reload cancelling waits until you have released the mouse button
- View punches for recoil are now applied to spectators
- Firemode recoil modifiers are fully operational
- Marksman skill increases accuracy in 10% increments rather than 5% (5->10, 10->20, 15->30)
- Projectiles no longer spawn at the other side of a wall when you're facing next to one
- Reinforcements are drained on spawn rather than death
- Added 4-directional hit indicators, in addition to the red fade
- Ammo caches will replace partial magazines
- Fix for ragdoll spam on initial spawn which would lag out players
- Re-compressed textures which should help users running on low end machines
- SG550 and FAMAS have been re-animated
- Specular maps added to weapon view models
- Fixed channels and attenuation of some sounds, fixes some issues where you can't hear the gun you're being shot by
- Fixed potential crashes with quick bandaging
- Kill icon for suicide
- Fixed ERRORNAME appearing when destroying SD objectives
- Fixed bug with animations and reloading when going prone with internal magazine weapons (M3)
- Fixed the appearance of an IFAK floating next to a player when a player has been put in spectator
- Weapons can fire underwater
- Added cvar fas_switch_teams_on_rwin which flips the teams and rein count between rounds
- Gunnery II now improves holster/deploy times as the label describes
- Server name now appears on scoreboard
- Game should now end after a full cap results in a team going to 0 reins

New for mappers in 1.0e
- PointsForDestroy keyvalue on sd crates to give players points for destroying the objective

FA:S 1.0e Coming Soon!

DysPatch — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 22:01:30 GMT

Hey folks, I think you will be happy to learn that 1.0e will be coming out very soon. We have just finished wrapping up the issue that causes mass amounts of ragdolls to spawn in the level upon server join. The problem came about since we moved to the Orange Box engine with its server side predicted ragdolls. Now that we have marked that off our list, we are just testing linux stability and can release 1.0e. This is where you come in! We will be hosting a Public Stress Testing event on our forums, where we give our community members the chance to check out 1.0e and stress test it on our official Linux testing server. From now on, before every release, we will be hosting public stress testing so that we can make sure the build is stable before releasing it to Server hosts and the general public. Information on the first Public Stress Test will be available on our forums. If you are wondering what makes 1.0e different from 1.0d, here is a list of features you can expect:

Increased Weapon Accuracy
An increase in the base weapon accuracy across all weapons allows for more distant engagements. The problem before this was that most engagements were happening face to face due to the general inaccuracy of the weapons. If you fired at someone at a distance, most of your shots would miss, and those that did connect were limb shots more often than not. Increasing accuracy allows you to properly aim and take down targets with precision, and a greater influence from fire modes gives players a better reason to swap at different ranges.
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Decreased Armor Absorption Levels
With the decrease in armor absorption, players are generally taken down much faster under fire but their armor lasts much longer overall. The problem before was that with full heavy, we saw quite a bit of tanking, and players simply weren't being taken down quick enough. Fire fights would often last multiple magazines. We have since dropped the absorption by half of its previous value, with more decisive and exciting firefights as a result.
.
Weapon Re-balancing
We have been vigorously testing and improving the roles of each weapon to fit in line with the new accuracy and armor values. Some of the weapons in our previous builds were seeing very little use, while others were being used in roles they shouldn't be. We are looking at the values more carefully and are making sure each class of weapon excels in its proper role.
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New Server Options
1.0e is our last planned patch before the big 1.1 release, so we want to make sure the server admins have the tools they need to run a successful server. These new server options allow server owners to limit weapons where they see fit, restricting weapons for scrimmaging or competitive games. While we encourage all play styles in FAS, we understand that others may want to tailor the experience.
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Over 60 Resolved bugs
We are fixing bugs daily, and trying to remove all critical bugs so that we can allow our player base to grow. Unfortunately, there was some oversight to how extreme a number bugs were, particularly in the case of the ragdoll issue mentioned above. In its worst form, this all but prevented players with lower end specifications from joining servers in progress. In 1.0e you will notice a much more stable game, both as the client and server.

Thanks to all of your constructive feedback on our input forums and in-game we have geared this patch to address all of the most important topics of debate within the community, and going forward we will continue to do so. With all of our weapons rebalanced, base accuracy increased, and armor absorption decreased, ranged combat has featured much more prominently on our testing servers, and multi-kills are a more common sight. We will be releasing 1.0e as a patch if you have 1.0d, as well as in the form of a full installer for those of you who are new to FAS or only tried 1.0 since our first release. For you competitive types, we have also started to put together an official league for Firearms Source that will begin after the clans become comfortable with 1.0e's new gameplay. I encourage those who originally felt that the damage values of 1.0 and 1.0d were off base to give 1.0e a shot and let us know how we are doing. We are listening to your input, and we are doing our best to bring a successful product to the table.

Thank you for supporting Firearms Source, and happy fragging.

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