V3.0 Final - March 5th, 2005

Gameplay changes

• Aliens have innate regeneration at a rate of 2% per second, this regeneration will always heal at least 1 point of health or armor and adds to healing from Defense Chambers or Hives, but doesn't 'stack' with Regeneration.
  
• Alien upgrades no longer cost resources.
  
• Gestating to skulk cost no resource points anymore.
  
• Sieges no longer damage players (damage against structures has been adjusted to stay consistent with previous versions).
  
• Turrets now priorise players over structures.
  
• Offense Chambers now priorise players over structures.
  
• Parasite now takes precedence over Scent of Fear on Hive Sight (allows players to see that their Parasite hit when using SOF to help teammates track enemies).
  
• Bile Bomb's range has been increased by 15%.
  
• Cat-pack cost has been reduced from 4 to 3 resource points.
  
• Marines near Sensory chambers show up as if detected by Scent of Fear.
  
• Acid rocket now does double damage to armor.
  
• Fades can now blink off ladders.
  
• Major changes to the alien cloaking upgrade:
  - Players moving faster than walking pace will gradually become more visible the faster they move, but only to a max visibility of 30%.
  - Players using Cloaking upgrade will no longer be fully visible at any time unless attacking or being attacked.
  - You have to wait 3 seconds after uncloaking before you begin to cloak again.
  - Turrets will not fire at slow moving aliens (-> players with less than 10% visibility).
  - Increased visibility for aliens moving at greater than normal moving speed (bunnyhopping, gliding, etc.).
  
• Changed Scan cost from 25 to 20 energy units.
  
• Changed default combat game time to 15 minutes.
  
• Combat scan is now triggered by partially cloaked aliens. Note: Scan 'fires' every 3 seconds, so there is a window in which a fast alien can still close the distance.
  
• Combat scan deploy time halved to 0.25 seconds.
  
• Alien flashlight tweaks: marines in the alien's field of view are now lit up just like friendly structures and players.
  
• Shotgun range begins to fall off at 500 units, and is then reduced by 1% for every 2 further units, resulting in no damage after 700 units, to stop shotgun sniping.
  
• Alien respawn time reduced for teams larger than 6. As the number of hives increase, this time is increased, so at 3 hives there is no difference from respawn rate at 6 players.
  
• Combat wavespawn now takes a 5 seconds plus 2 seconds for every dead player, up to a maximum of 13 seconds.
  

• Fixed a bug that would lead to valid weapons being 'redded out' (showing up as disabled).
  
• Waypoint system changes:
  - Group waypoints will now act like personal waypoints for each player (so when you reach the waypoint, it disappears for you, while remaining for all other players).
  - Reduced the size of the waypoint icons slightly.
  - Added 'weld target at waypoint' support for players and structures.
  - Added 'defend target' support for players and structures.
  
• If you are within 600 units of a marine spawn location, you will not be transported in by Distress Beacon.
  
• Added 'notready' command to reverse ready status in tournament mode.
  
• Equipment, med-packs, ammo-packs, etc. can again be dropped directly on players.
  
• Allowed item placement near resource towers.
  
• Made scanner sweeps deployable everywhere.
  
• Added a build restriction radius of 16,50 units around marines.
  
• Fixed a bug where a hive could not be dropped over a chamber.
  
• Changed player minimum build distance to the structure from 20 to 30 units.
  
• Knife knockback has been removed.
  
• Knockback from attacks reduced to 1/3 for ducking players on the ground.
  
• Tweaked xenocide/gore pushback behavior to eliminate weird flying marines and deaths by worldspawn.
  
• Limited how fast a player can re-join a team from readyroom. 3 seconds must pass before re-joining the game.
  
• Players no longer join a team in the 'dead' state.
  
• Recycling IP now triggers change of marine status in queue.
  
• A Phase Gate bug that allowed for the fast transportation of numerous marines has been fixed.
  
• Each Phase Gate now throttles the rate at which marines depart from it - One marine every 0.8 seconds.
  
• 'Pancake' prevention code. Limit on vertical component of lerk flight velocity to maximally 1000 units per tick upwards and 1200 down.
  
• Mines now do damage when the player who planted them leaves the team.
  
• You can no longer scan for free using hotgroups on observatories.
  
• Fixed bug where resupply wasn't effective for HMG or pistol. A resupplied weapon will never reload to less than a full clip.
  
• Changed the health bar around structures to more acurately reflect its health. Full bar is now exactly 100% health, empty bar is 0%.
  
• Reset room_type to 0 after being digested to avoid sound issue.
  
• Fixed bug that makes dead marines show up with a red health segment in the healthbar.
  
• Commander hints will not play if cl_autohelp is set to 0.
  
• Recycling observatories will no longer uncloak aliens.
  
• Set minimum time for alien gestations to one second to avoid instant gestation in combat.
  
• Fixed the 'research transfer' exploit.
  
• Fixed the 'late join timer' exploit.
  
• Fixed exploit where structures could be dropped near marines in water to avoid building restrictions.
  
• Hive Sight no longer draws the player we are spectating.
  

• New medpack (thanks Brigadierwolf!).
  
• New ammo clips (thanks Brigadierwolf!).
  
• New hand grenade (thanks Brigadierwolf!).
  
• Added Heavy Armor falling sound.
  
• Gave each alien a unique landing sound.
  
• Updated Jetpack sound.
  
• Updated LMG clip out and clip in sounds.
  
• Updated Pistol reload sounds.
  
• Reverted LMG firing sound back to sound from beta 4.
  
• Updated welder idle sound to be more obvious when not welding anything.
  
• Replaced raindrop sprites.
  
• Added a "player joined team" messages to HUD.
  
• Team join sounds now only play for the team joined.
  
• Increased volume of welder hiss when target is not being welded.
  
• Updated cat-pack commander menu icons to provide a consistent interface.
  
• Friendly parasited players no longer show up in hive sight, and are no longer notified that they are parasited (Parasite still does FF damage though).
  
• Added a separate sprite for parasited enemy structures (thanks gazz0zz!).
  
• Hive locations now always appears on Hive Sight.
  
• Unbuilt hives use a different sprite for easy detection.
  
• Commander Station always shows as closed in combat maps.
  
• Changed Hive Sight sprites to be better discernable for color-blind players (thanks JazzX!).
  
• Implemented third person reload animations.
  
• Added slightly tweaked xenocide charge and explosion sounds.
  
• Animations for the egg model now play, they were broken.
  
• New medpack skin and icons (thanks Supernorn!)
  
• Added all-new hivehealth indicators for the alien HUD.
  
• alien_hivedying2.wav now plays.
  
• Recycling Phase Gates are no longer visually active.
  
• Phase Gates don't light up until they have a valid destination.
  
• Included cool colored minimaps (thanks JazzX!).
  
• Updated tooltips.
  
• Jetpacked marines now show up as 'JETPACK' on the scoreboard.
  
• Unavailable alien upgrades are now grayed out in the pop-up menu.
  
• Voice comms can now be used during game start.
  
• Added a new, sanely-sized bilebomb model.
  

• Added co_niveus by drath
• Added ns_eon by Olmy
• co_angst
  - Completely reworked center area of map
  - Increased brightness in landing gear zone
  - Fixed several onos stuck issues
  - Various other changes around the map
• co_core (updates by Merkaba)
  - New ready room
  - New light in hive
  - New vent between hive area and upper marine start exit
• co_daimos
  - Full visual rework
• co_faceoff
  - Widened vents near marine start
  - Changed geometry behind comm chair to be more accessible
  - Hive can no longer be shot by jetpackers sitting in the side vents
  - Fixed performance issues
• co_pulse
  - Added a ramp to the hive room
• co_sava
  - Increased brightness level
  - Added cover in most rooms
  - Added more vents
  - Reworked the hive room
  - Tweaked some areas to allow easier Onos movement
• ns_altair
  - Added vent from Omega to Zeta with two exits into Phi
  - Massive Optimizations
  - New Surface Umbilical
  - Redid Upper MS
  - New Monitor Textures by Samejima
  - Covered up pit in Omega
  - Custom minimap with vents marked in red
  - Removed Diving Tanks
  - Connected Nanite Regulation to Settling Tanks
  - Connected Settling Tanks to Communications
  - Retextured Vents to be easier to distinguish
  - Removed door weldable
  - Added new vent weldables
  - Moved Parts Room rt to Sigma Test Site
  - Added new info_locations to help with navigation
  - Played with HLRAD settings to increase brightness
  - Added more light into sewer
  - Combined Station Monitoring and Sub Bay nodes into one
  - Divided sub bay into two rooms, Sub Bay and Sub Refueling
  - Removed upper hallway between Life Support and Parts Room
  - Reopened route between Lower Sub Bay and Parts room
• ns_bast
  - The broken door in MS is now closed
  - Marines have to go through Main Aft again to get to Engine
  - Added infestation in Refinery to block the line of sight to the hive from the ramp entrance
  - Added some cover in Refinery
  - Reworked and renamed Docking Storage (it's called Reactor Core Regulation now)
  - Removed one node from Atmospheric Processing
  - Moved column in Atmospheric Processing more to the center
  - Added vent from Engine to Water Treatment
  - Added vent between Feedwater and Steam Generation
  - Widened the corridor outside feedwater
• ns_eclipse
  - Redesigned marine spawn to a 1.0 / 3.0 mix
  - Moved horseshoe RT to T-junction
  - Added new vents to KeyHole
  - Moved maintenance RT
  - Added pillars to eclipse hive to prevent spawn camping
  - Made it easier to get on top of eclipse hive
  - Added vent from eclipse -> triad
  - Redesigned power sub junction
• ns_hera
  - Moved data core delta node into hive room
  - General bug fixes/cosmetic improvements
  - Onos can now leave through back door of delta hive (oops!).
  - Outside now has proper light level
  - Restricted movement outside even more so gorges can't build on tube
  - Skulks cannot climb the cliff walls or sky anymore. (might be slightly unaccurate
  - skulks are still able to stick to the ceiling but only if they manage to get through a trigger_push pushing them away with a force of 2000 units.)
  - Hanger bay doors now openable/closable (again). Added a twist whereby for a short moment (3 secs) when opening/closing, onoses aren't able to pass through.
  - A few general clipnode improvements
  - Minimap Sprite updated (sorry for not including that before)
  - Removed Systems and Fog Corridor nodes.
  - Fog Corridor now has a weld to turn on lights
  - Made the CC area more open/acessible to help alien attacks.
  - Minor bug fixes
  - Lighting returned to previous states
  - Fixed marine start door
• ns_metal
  - General updates
• ns_nothing
  - Sped up and fixed all elevators
  - Elevators can no longer be permanently blocked by players or structures
  - Widened most vents
  - Fixed several ladders to improve Onos navigability
  - Fixed railings in Ominous Kismet and improved general navigability of the area
  - Several trivial bug fixes
• ns_tanith
  - Fixed ramp in Central Access tunnels
  - Added structures to Waste and Satcom hives to reduce spawncamping
  - Added a vent between Satcom and Acidic Solution resource node
  - Fixed bugs with ceiling architecture in Fusion Reactor hive
• ns_veil
  - Fixed cargo -> double res vent
  - Added cover to outside of cargo
  - Changes to vent from dome/pipeline -> cargo
  - Redesigned pipeline hive
  - c12 connections changed
  - Redesigned areas directly surrounding pipeline
  - Visual changes to marine spawn
  - Vent from pipeline -> c12