Patch 164

Patch notes of Steam update #164, released on June 28th, 2024:

[h2]Maps[/h2]

• Added HL:DM Pool Party, FoF Fistful, and FoF Tijuana
• Canal Zone
  • Fixed missing announcement when red team's command center is destroyed when the team controls Point 3 only (regression since patch 110)
• Cloisters
  • Visual and detailing upgrades
• Crossfire
  • Fixed grates attached to moving platforms disappearing forever after the first round start
• FoF Depot
  • Added new western-themed models
    
  • Improved clipping on various stairs
• G-force
  • Fixed missing speed boost effect (regression since patch 130)
• Meat World
  • Added more Postal 2 assets
    
  • Fixed clipping issues
    
  • Meat grinder tweaks
• Mission Gun
  • Fixed blurry map textures
• Pool Party
  • Fixed fall death triggers not working
• System Shock 2 - Ops
  • Detailing
• c3a2e
  • Fixed the elevator's move sound keep playing after stopping

[h2]Game Modes[/h2]

• Battle Royale
  • New Quiet Mounds and Gun Roulette mutators
    
  • Added Landmines to the standard weapon pool
• Shidden
  • Rear Gas grenades will no longer change its owner when damaged by another player

[h2]Weapons[/h2]

• Updated Charge Rifle's firing mode to switch when the Reload key is pressed instead of release
  
• Increased max. ammo for Landmines from 3 to 6
  
• Buffed hornet gun with stronger hornet breed...
  
• Added proper world models for Nailgun and Super Nailgun
• Fixed Quad Rocket Launcher firing queued burst fire mode rockets after re-equipping
  
• Fixed texture issues on Golden Guns and added gold sheen and sights glow
  
• Fixed missing reload sounds for CMP-2A and Plasma Rifle
• Tweaked sound scripts for various weapons

[h2]Player models[/h2]

• Added HL:DM Alpha Barney, Bowling Pin, Postal 2 Krotchy, Postal 2 Easter Bunny, and Sven Coop Skelepuncher
• Reworked info_player_start_wireframe player model with detailing upgrades and teammode skins
  
• Updated Mr Valve with rigging fixes and valve placement bodygroups
  
• Updated first person view arms for Nihilanth, Pitworm, HL1 Zombie, and Postal player models
  
• Updated footsteps for Postal Dude
• Fixed console spam from missing attachment points on LilSneakNut and Purple Dank Man
• Fixed hit boxes on Cheaple

[h2]User Interface[/h2]

• Added 56 new emojis
  
• Added kill icons for Raptor, Small Raptor, and Headcrab
• Fixed crash on attempt to copy/cut text
  
• Fixed crash on attempt to send a message containing an ampersand followed by an emote
  
• Fixed missing borderless windowed mode on Linux
  
• Fixed missing scope overlay when spectating after other players in the first persion view
  
• Tweaked GameUI initialization and client disconnect behavior
  
• Updated the connect retry console message to also display the number of attempts
  
• Updated the end map voting's random result message to display the chosen option
  
• Updated several system error message boxes containing URLs to open those URLs after pressing OK
  
• Fixed the Numpad Enter key not working with Panorama panels
  
• Fixed "Take the screenshot" action could not be rebound at the game settings
  
• Implemented cursor clipping on Windows (can be disabled with -nomousegrab startup param)
  
• Implemented text coloring for the dedicated server's console
  
• Improved Unicode support for the dedicated server's console on Linux
  
• Implemented pasting from the clipboard for dedicated servers on Windows (with Control+V and Shift+Insert hotkeys)
  
• Updated localization files

[h2]Effects[/h2]

• Updated and optimized bullet impacts
  
• Added new fire effects
  
• Fixed non-static entities having dynamic shadows disabled (regression since patch 163)
  
• Fixed RTT shadows always use second last LOD instead of the distance based one when r_shadowlod is set to -1

[h2]VScript[/h2]

• Fixed malformed engine commands generated by CCVarAccessor::SetValue
• Lua
  • Fixed various memory leaks

[h2]Miscellaneous[/h2]

• Refactored the game launcher
  
• Updated Steam API to version 1.60
  
• Fixed server crash caused by the deletion of fluids containing floating objects
  
• Fixed server crash related to vphysics constraint entities
  
• Fixed server crash caused by spawning an Airboat without a model or a vehicle script specified
  
• Fixed possible server crash on attempt to load a map with no worldspawn entity defined
  
• Fixed possible memory corruption caused by malformed PAK entries in BSP files
  
• Fixed a hang where NPC pathfinding could stall forever
  
• Fixed various errors in first person weapon animations
  
• Fixed first person view arms not turning golden when needed
  
• Fixed Xen web spawning error models when destroyed
  
• Updated env_entity_maker entities to look for the first non point sized template entity when ckecking for obstacles
  
• Fixed func_door_rotating not falling back to the default value when the locked sound is set to 0
  
• Marked various entities as server only
  
• Implemented support for Tactical Intervention's FPX archives and BSP format (Steam version only)
  
• Implemented various sanity checks when loading maps
  
• Skybox materials will now be loaded after the world model is loaded
  
• Increased the max number of BSP submodels from 1024 to 4096
  
• Added protected field to the server_cvar game event
  
• Dropped support for the game.cfg
• Dropped support for the legacy movie recording feature
  
• Dropped support for the pre SM 2.0b shaders
  
• Implemented $pointsamplemagfilter parameter for the LightmappedGeneric shader
  
• Added jb_admin_gag and jb_admin_ungag commands to block/unblock both text and voice communications with one command
  
• Fixed jb_admin_slap command always leaving targets with 1 HP left

[h2]SDK tools[/h2]

• Hammer
  • Fixed malformed range values produced by the sphere helper
• Xwad
  • Various stability fixes and cleanups
    
  • Implemented support for larger images (up to 8192x8192 pixels)
    
  • Implemented support for WAD2 files (uses Quake's color palette by default, can be changed with -palfile startup param)
    
  • Implemented support for Linux