After a short absence, the Neocron 2 Public Test Server has made a welcomed return, with a lot of technical bug fixes.

If you wish to test on the test server, make sure you make a fresh copy of your Neocron 2 folder, and then follow the instructions closely in this thread.

Patch notes can be found here , and if you wish to discuss the patch notes and testing you can go here . (Although it may be wise to skip the whine about drones.)

Patch notes:-

Hot Fix T#176

• Temporarily disabled Stealth Tools which cause connection issues to the server

• Fixed numerous exploits and vulnerabilities
• Fixed a bug that stopped Neocron from launching when certain applications are open ("Chrome Bug")
• Fixed a crash on alt+tab in wastelands in fullscreen mode
• Fixed the main menu going black on alt+tab in fullscreen mode
• Fixed a crash caused by neocron.ini not being writable
• Fixed an issue with team xp calculation
• Fixed combat rank not always being updated
• Fixed a bug that allowed overcasting of stronger shields.
• Fixed low level drones being very hard to use
• Changed the way interpolation is handeled ("clipping fix")
• Fixed a bug that caused the HUD not being rendered on screenshots
• Screenshots are now saved as .jpg
• Fixed a bug that caused the HUD to reset to default state after a crash
• Removed legacy elements from the HUD (e.g.: recover bagpack)
• Fixed misalignment of worldmap at widescreen resolutions (fullscreen mode)
• Fixed culling problems with widescreen resolutions (fullscreen mode)
• Fixed misaligned outpost signs
• Added widescreen resolutions to the launcher configuration panel
• Added Anisotropic Filtering, configurable via the launcher configuration panel
• Dropped support for DirectX 7

• Turned around CopBot staring at the wall in Plaza Sector 1 (after 8 years, the wall wins)
• Temporarily disabled area drones
• Temporarily removed outpost turrets
• Added TL92 Tangent Assault Pulselaser Pistol to high level tech pistol vendor
• Added TL63 Gatlin Cannon to high level low tech cannon vendor
• Added permenant spawn for the Outzone 2 High Tech Cannon Smuggler
• Added entrance to the Drone Racetrack
• Added RN Terminals to Crahn HQ
• Replaced Outzone Station ambient sound
• Removed OOC advertisement from the Plaza area
• Fixed a conflict between Reza's Calling & Regant's Faith Missions
• Fixed spawn of Heff in TG Canyon.
• Fixed spawn of Malfunctioning Warbot Prototype in the MIRL-600 Warhammer Mission
• Fixed drop rate of fragment from Tacholytium Titan Warbot for Crahn Epic mision #4. Now always drops for those with the mission.
• Fixed a large number of wrong object types (e.g.: CityComs being tagged as chairs)
• Fixed position and alignment for a large number of static objects and NPCs
• Fixed many more miscellaneous gameworld issues