This release is not network compatible with the previous release, and films saved with this release cannot be played back with older releases.
Highlights:
- Native Steam Linux support
- Audio improvements
- Additional sprite rendering option for 3D perspective
- Replay films for saved games
Changes:
- Numerous audio improvements:
- Pauses/resumes in-game audio when the game is paused/resumed
- Intro music now continues to play in preferences dialogs
- Shield/O2 charger now fully loop to prevent pops
- Adds 3D spatialization for stereo sources
- HRTF no longer affects music, streaming sources and 2D sounds
- Fades in ambient sounds when they start playing
- Sound obstruction adjustments
- Allow HRTF settings only when stereo + 3D sounds are enabled
- Adds a sensitivity/deadzone preference for each controller aim axis (#525)
- Adds a few cheats to Cheats.lua
- Adds support for Steam Linux including workshop upload
- Films are now recorded when starting from saved games
- Allows viewing terminals when the overhead map is active (#549)
- Adds a new setting to tilt sprites parallel to the camera when 3D perspective is on
- Shell casings are now interpolated at 60+ fps
- (Lua) Adds Game.player accessor for Tag/KTMWTB/Rugby
Other fixes:
- Fixes players sprites when gathering a network game (#527)
- Fixes stats board displayed twice before the epilogue in coop net games
- Fixes hotkey issues with dead players and ball carriers (#516)
- Fixes aim issues with aim getting stuck when both mouse and joystick are plugged in (#513)
- Fixes an issue with DPDI and alien weapon ammo (#509)
- Fixes network-only items not spawning on the first level (#517)
- Fixes teleporting (local) effects when transiting to another level in coop net games
- Fixes an issue where players can't respawn in net games on some broken maps (#457)
- Stability improvements to dedicated servers
- Improvements to native file dialogs (#550)
- Fixes window focus loss when replaying a
filmselected with native file dialog (#401) - Fixes an assertion failure with some Marathon 1 maps (#533)
Behind the scenes:
- Uses libmatroska, libvpx, libyuv and pl_mpeg instead of FFmpeg
- Uses ASIO for networking instead of SDL_net
- Build fix for new versions of Boost (#556)