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New test server patch -175/176 |
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Written by Brammers
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Thursday, 25 October 2012 |
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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
Patch T#175
Technical changes:
- 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
Content changes:
- 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
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