Red Eclipse News

Hello again! We're excited to roll out another update, primarily focusing on bug fixes and improvements. Plus, we've added a handy new Quality of Life feature to enhance your gameplay experience.

• Introduced a quick weapon switch wheel: Hold the middle mouse button, select, and release to switch weapons.
  
• Implemented a quick chat wheel: Press 'X' to access team chat and 'V' for taunts.
  

• Reduced friendly fire damage by half.
  
• Enhanced crosshair behavior when friendly fire occurs.
  
• Improved clarity in team chat UI.
  
• Added corroder pick-ups on the ‘Wet’ and ‘Ubik’ maps.
  
• Updated core game libraries (SDL) to address mouse jitter issues on some systems.
  
• Refined automatic AI navigation mesh placement for better movement patterns.
  

• Fixed residual damage from hazardous materials (like poison pits) persisting after respawn.
  
• Addressed additional scoreboard-related crashes occurring on map load.
  
• Corrected incorrect affinity/weapon drop binds in control settings.
  
• Resolved weapon switch errors while in edit mode.
  
• Eliminated occasional crashes during waypoint initialization.
  
• Ensured players no longer trigger explosions when dying if they have equipped grenades without remaining ammo.
  
• Removed visible 3D mesh obstructions when spectating janitors.
  
• Fixed an issue with player model settings not being saved correctly.
  
• Addressed non-updating shadows on rotating models during map load.
  

We hope these changes make your gameplay even more enjoyable. Thanks for your continued support and feedback!

It's been a few more days which, as usual, means more community feedback to address. We've tackled a range of issues from bothersome bugs to game feel enhancements. Here’s what you can expect in this update:

• Improved hit sound effects to better convey the impact of your shots.
  
• Increased enemy blood visuals to clearly indicate successful hits.
  
• Added an option to invert mouse controls.
  
• Implemented binding options for primary and secondary weapons in the control settings.
  
• Resolved the black screen issue and various related problems, such as missing sound effects.
  
• Doubled the maximum frame rate limit to twice the current screen refresh rate in the settings.
  
• Added a HUD padding adjustment setting.
  
• Fixed the positioning of the sword during swings in First-Person Perspective mode.
  

We hope these updates improve your gameplay experience. As always, thank you for your feedback and support!

Another small update bringing a number of improvements to address the feedback we've received.
Most important of which are performance improvements, particularly in games with high player counts.

• Optimize player, janitor and projectile FX by implementing culling mechanisms
  
• HUD sway toggle in interface settings
  
• Postpone opening of the vote menu until the user has stopped interacting with chat/other menus
  
• Fixed occasional race condition crash in scoreboard scripts on map load
  
• Fixed team switch notification issues
  
• Added team swap warning
  
• Restored chat voice lines
  
• Improved sword handling (and new animations by SniperGoth and Rabidbutton)
  

Update 2.0.9-4: Please accept our apologies for the delay on this update. We have been listening to everyone's feedback and very much appreciate it.

• Added duel spawn status in the HUD
  
• Added brightness slider in display settings
  
• Improved visibility of tool tips in map editor
  
• Fixed halo outlines broken on Intel hardware
  
• Fixed renderer reloads in fullscreen mode when no resolution change has been made
  
• Slightly improved performance on Intel integrated GPUs by disabling oqwait (might lead to rare and slight occlusion artifacts)
  
• Fixed flashlight not showing up for the main player