[AfterShock]

Fortress Forever v2.7 Released!



Pyro class has been overhauled:

• Pyro now has a Jetpack - Hold attack2 to use.
  • Also prevents 25% fall damage if used whilst hitting the floor
• Burn levels have been reworked.
  • Afterburn damage-over-time has been removed.
  • Burn levels now increase damage from pyro weapons instead:
    • Flamethrower (18 -> 20 -> 22)
    • Incendiary cannon (85 -> 95 -> 105)
    • Napalmlets (2 -> 3 -> 4)
  • Burn levels no longer require different weapons:
    • Flamethrower increases burn level every 5 hits
    • Napalm grenade increases burn level every 10 ticks
    • Incendiary cannon increases burn level every 1 hit (provided they are already on fire)
  • The Incendiary cannon no longer sets players on fire - you must light them with a flamethrower or napalm grenade first.
• Flamethrower
  • Flamethrower self-push has been removed
  • Flamethrower damage has been increased from 16 to 18
  • Flamethrower range has been increased by 10%
• Incendiary cannon
  • Incendiary cannon base damage increased from 55 to 65
  • Incendiary cannon jumping now does less self-damage to the pyro
  • Incendiary cannon fire rate increased from 1.2sec -> 0.6sec
  • Incendiary cannon now has a clip of 5
• Napalm grenades improvements
  • Number of napalmlets increased from 8 to 9
  • Napalmlets are now more evenly spread over the area for more reliable area denial
  • Napalmlet burn height increased from 40 to 70 (it was previously possible to jump through a napalm field without getting hurt)
  • Napalmlets do damage more regularly now, so jumping through napalm will hurt you much more than before
• Pyro rocket stock raised from 20 to 25

Pyro class interactions:

• Scout, Medic and Spy extinguish their flames much faster than other classes
• HW Overpressure extinguishes flames of himself and those around him
• Pyro is still immune to being set on fire by other pyros.

Gameplay Balance:

• Jumpgun has been removed from scout whilst it's design is reworked. Thanks for all your feedback on this!
• All weapons now deploy faster. This means switching weapons is faster and more responsive.
• MIRV initial explosion damage reduced from 180 to 145, this now matches normal grenades and mirvlets.

Other Improvements:

• Kill Assists have been implemented.
• Deathnotice self-highlighting has been improved and defaulted on.
• Add new hints (Thanks NeoNL!)

Bug fixes

• Fixed projectiles blocking hitscan weapons
  • Notably, nailguns against SGs and HWGuy will no longer block their bullets.
  • Flamethrowers will also now work against nailgunning players
• Fix local weapon sounds from playing twice on a high ping (e.g. deploy sound)
• Fix weapon specific crosshairs for the AC/RPG/Tranq
• Fixed the soldier 3rd-person RPG pose so it now points to where the rocket will travel. (Thanks WillWow_mc!)
• Fixed flag trails performance issues
  • Fixed stutter when the flag returns after it is capped
  • Added cvar cl_spritetrail_maxlength that controls the max length of a sprite trail (once exceeded, the trail will start over from its parent's current origin)
  • Made it so trails are not calculated at all client-side if they are disabled by their respective cvars

Lua Improvements:

• Add basic support for spawning entities through Lua
  • Not very well tested, but is able to spawn info_ff_scripts like flags and have them work like normal
  • Added baseentity:SetName(string name)
  • Added global function SpawnEntity(string entity_class_name, string entity_name) that returns the entity spawned or nil if unsuccessful (example: `local entity = SpawnEntity("info_ff_script", "red_flag")`)
  • Added global function SpawnEntity(string entity_class_name) that returns the entity spawned or nil if unsuccessful (example: `local entity = SpawnEntity("info_ff_script")`)
• Add basic support for free-for-all teams
  • Lua can set a team as a free-for-all team by doing `GetTeam(Team.kBlue):SetFFA(true)`
• Add Lua getters for various InfoFFScript settings
  • infoscript:GetModel() returns the string path of the current model
  • infoscript:GetStartOrigin() returns the Vector that the infoscript will spawn at when returned
  • infoscript:GetStartAngles() returns the QAngles that the infoscript will spawn with when returned
• Improve Lua angle/vectors a bit
  • Add player:GetEyeAngles()
  • Add __tostring() implementations for Vector and QAngle classes
  • Convert VectorAngles and AngleVectors to use Lua-style return values rather than C++ style pass-by-reference parameters. Example usage of the new functions:
    
    local eye_angles = player:GetEyeAngles()
    local forward, right, up = AngleVectors(eye_angles)
    local angles = VectorAngles(forward)
    assert(angles == eye_angles)

We had a lot of fun testing the pyro, but it's sure to need some tweaks after release. Please let us know what you think!