Tech:

- Fixed multiple reflection probes for shader quality 0
- Added simplistic network compression & encryption, seeing a reduction of around 33% traffic (server->client only)
- Changed default sv_steam_port from 25797 to 25788
- Reduced jittering of all entities client-side
- Reduced jittering when colliding with other players
- Added comment support to config (.cfg) files
- Connect coomand is now just <ip:port>
- Use "password <blah>" in the console to supply a server password
- This format is required for steam:// links
- We now load player steam friends list, and their avatars
- Allowed friend info for players you meet in a server (to get their avatar + steam info)

Dedicated servers:

- IMPORTANT: Our dedicated servers now require the Microsoft Visual C++ 2013 Redistributable (x86) to be installed.
- Steam is supposed to install it automatically but that doesn't seem to work with SteamCMD.
- We expect we'll end up including this in future releases but for now we don't.

Weapons:

- All weapons again obey weapon offsets
- Updated IC: revised mesh, updated beam and impact effects, additional animation and glow effects when firing, new sounds based on states
- Fixed ioncannon beam clipping through ground visually in some instances in first person
- Added player hands in first person
- New first person weapon animation system
- Shotgun, boltrifle, plasmarifle casings eject from their correct positions again
- New first person melee animations

Art:

- Optimisation pass on egyptian meshes
- Optimisation pass on japan meshes

Effects:

- Blood decals are now larger and moister with smoother normals (helps look a bit thicker)
- Gib decals have more velocity spread (more likely to go on walls)
- CTF carried flag wisp toned down (might need another pass still)
- Blood on melee weapons now correctly matches blood in the world.
- Robot blood is now some kind of blueish coolant or something

Stats:

- Added in-game stats for weapons, powerups & generic player info (calculated server side)
- We also now track top 5 race times (and distance / topspeed / avgspeed), and store these for each player too
- Stats are all pushed to lua
- Stats are currently only available during matches -- no fancy web API.

Scoreboard:

- Implemented new scoreboard to showcase stats
- Scoreboard is different per gamemode
- Scoreboard is interactive
- By default hold +showscores and rightclick to enable cursor.
- You can click on another player to view more info about them, including adding them to friends / viewing their profile
- You can re-bind the scoreboard cursor release in the options menu. Either with the "showscorescursor" command for a specific key, or "showscorescursorhook" which allows you to hook it in to an existing key "Jump" / "Attack".
- You can now see player steam avatars on scoreboard
- You can now see friend status / add player to friends list on scoreboard
- Added flag for each player to the scoreboard, this is toggled with cl_country (cl_country default is pulled from steam)

Gameplay:

- Implemented /roll command (WoW style). To use, type "roll 20" in console
- Improved the feel of projectiles by pushing the projectile spawn position from 8 to 28 (and fixed all the bugs that usually would have caused).

Editor:

- Added ReflectionProbe entity. The old effect based reflection probes still work but are deprecated.
- Added me_showclip
- Added "Show Clip" to MapEditor.lua titlebar, which controls me_showclip

Bugfixes:

- Players will no longer get stuck inside each other
- Instead, they will have their collision disabled until it can be resolved.
- Internally, this is now known as "Patrick Swayzeing"
- Fixed bug where overlapping guns could prevent pickups. i.e. if player full on burst ammo, and burst gun overlapped RL, RL was blocked.
- Steam defaults are now applied after config load (this was probably causing steam defaults to be stomped :|) note - they are only applied if cvar is at default value!
- Clicking on ReflectionProbe no longer breaks it
- Fixed issue where prefab names with a space in them weren't properly being parsed in on map load.
- Fixed issue where end of game sound would sometimes play on connection
- Right click friend->join game should now work

Known Issues

- Players are Patrick Swayzeing more often than expected.
- Again, our Dedicated Server currently requires Microsoft Visual C++ 2013 Redistributable (x86) to be installed
- Race times in scoreboard are not sorted properly
- Race times do not reset properly