Beta Update

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We've just pushed an update into our Beta branch with the following changes:

Fix marine bots collision group
- Fixes issue where marines were teleporting through elevators, and falling to the ground below the ship at the start of rd-til8comcenter

Add rd_queen_hud_suppress Cvar
It is used to suppress the Swarm Queen's health HUD if not damaged for this long seconds (-1 to always show)

Fix title of Bonus Mission 5

Fix bots don't get into train in tft3Spaceport map

Improve nodegraph in tft3Spaceport

Update reactivedrop.exe with HiDPI aware flag. This should resolve numerous issues with HiDPI displays or when Windows text and apps scaling is set to be above 100%. Previously users have had game window opened in a size(resolution) that is bigger than user's monitor resolution and thus were unable to change the resolution and any options(because most of UI was off screen).

If you find an issue with the game please create a new discussion in this sub forum and describe the issue in it.

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Fix bots getting stuck in sentries

Fix missing Cvar dedicated server warning
- Fixes the "ConVarRef rd_weapons_regular_class_unrestricted doesn't point to an existing ConVar" warning for dedicated servers.

Add asw_weapon_gas_grenade

Add asw_weapon_medrifle

Add 7th promotion(do not promote yet, it's locked to 6).

Add asw_weapon_heavy_rifle

Add new VScript functions
CBaseEntity
- GetLocalOrigin() //Returns the Entity position in the world relative to the parent as a vector
- SetLocalOrigin( Vector position ) //Moves the entity to this global position vector relative to the parent
CASW_Alien & CASW_Buzzer
- ElectroStun( float duration ) //Stuns the alien
- Freeze( float freezeTime ) //Freezes the alien
Global
- DropFragGrenade( float damage, float radius, Vector position ) //Drops a frag grenade
- DropIncendiaryGrenade( float damage, float radius, Vector position ) //Drops an incendiary grenade
- DropStunGrenade( float damage, float radius, Vector position ) //Drops a stun grenade
GameEvents
- weapon_fire //Event fires when a marine fires a weapon
- weapon_offhand_activate //Event fires when a marine activates offhand item
Add DropGasGrenade() function

Fix alien_selection SizeScale for asw_drone_uber

Increase level cap to 34 to accommodate the 3 new weapons

Add couple CHATTER_GRENADE lines for Wildcat

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Fix weapons are not visible in weapon selection UI

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Fix medrifle has no ammo at round start

Increase asw_weapon_heavy_rifle base damage from 9 to 10

Add accuracy cvars for asw_weapon_heavy_rifle and asw_weapon_medrifle
asw_skill_accuracy_heavy_rifle_dmg_base 0
asw_skill_accuracy_heavy_rifle_dmg_step 2
asw_skill_accuracy_medrifle_dmg_base 0
asw_skill_accuracy_medrifle_dmg_step 2

Fix asw_weapon_medrifle is destroyed when empty

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Add rd_controller_radius_adjust client convar
Convar to adjust the cursor radius when using a controller

Add subtitles for Wildcat grenade chatter

Fix inability to see level and promotion of players with private profiles

Prevent deathcam if last marine dies

Disable Steam_OnUserStatsReceived spam in console
It will only be printed if developer 1 is specified

Add the requirement of rd_workshop_allow_item_creation 1 before creating a workshop item
This can save workshop from hundreds of new and empty items created every day.

Fix horde sound, it is now played from swarm subfolder

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Fig Grenade Launchers damage for PvP game modes

Remove FCVAR_NOTIFY from asw_marine_gravity cvar

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- Added rich presence for Steam and Discord. You need to have Steam Beta installed to see the new features in your friend list window. If you have Discord desktop app installed RD will send an extended status in it. You can also invite people to your lobby using Discord.
- Added soundscripts required for bonus_mission2 map(thanks to Rock N Roll)
- Fixed medic rifle has infinite heals with rd_infinite_ammo(thanks to element109)

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Disable blinking light at til1MidnightPort. Blinking light at map start was causing frame time fluctuations. Looks like lights with changed appearance are causing frame-time to increase which makes next frame time to be decreased. Such fluctuations in frame-time cause monitor to display the same frame during two monitor refreshes. This results in reduced actual framerate even if game's reported framerate is 60

Update Discord rich presence
Add images for official maps.
Add time elapsed to deathmatch.
Add generic images for main menu and demo.

Add rd_suggest_difficulty cvar. If set to 0, game will not show a message suggesting player to change their difficulty(thanks to element109).

Add rd_hud_minimap_drawing convar. If set to 0 the player cannot draw on the mini-map and does not receive other's drawings. This does not affect other players ability to draw and receive drawings(thanks to element109).

Fix asw_spawner Skill Level. Brutal and Insane are no longer treated as the same Skill Level.

Bots can be selected from a player by another player from lobby(thanks to element109).

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Fix alien health is being lowered after mission restart. Difficulty modifier was not properly updating, affecting aliens' health(lowering it). Thus asw_adjust_difficulty_by_number_of_marines and rd_increase_difficulty_by_number_of_marines cvars didn't properly work.

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Added rm_prespawn_num_biomass cvar

It can be used in user challenges to randomly create biomass around
a map. Requires rd_prespawn_scale to be set to 1 or higher.

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Update description of rm_prespawn_num_* cvars

Set rd_increase_difficulty_by_number_of_marines to be 0 by default. Game difficulty will not be increased for 5+ players

Add mute button to player list window(F9). Thanks to element109 for the initial pull request.

Add VScript Functions to Get info_node Data. 
InfoNodes.GetNumNodes() //Returns the amount of info_nodes in the network array
InfoNodes.GetNodeOrigin( int nodeID ) //Returns the origin of the node
InfoNodes.GetNodePosition( int nodeID, int hull ) //Returns the hull specific origin of the node
InfoNodes.GetNodeType( int nodeID ) //Returns the type of node

(Temporary for testing)Bots can be selected from a player by another player from lobby

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Add rd_drone_uber_knockdown cvar. Set to 1 to make uber drones knock down marines like shieldbugs do. Also added related cvars rd_drone_uber_knockdown_force and rd_drone_uber_knockdown_lift

Make asw_trigger_fall, trigger_hurt and env_laser kill marines even if reviving is enabled

Display number of incapacitations in player list window. If reviving is enabled F9 window(player list) will now display the number of times marine was incapacitated during current mission.

Fix marine is deleted after asw_suicide. This bugged out challenges with reviving enabled

Grey out difficulties above Hard and challenges for players below 30 level in Find Public Games window

Disable blinking light on area9800PP1 map to improve frame rate

Fix help hint is displayed permanently during bonus mission 1

Fix aliens getting stuck in huge yellow door on lan3_maintenance

Fix alien getting stuck inside wall on LandingBay_01

Fix uber drones getting stuck in door frames and windows

Add rd_auto_kick_low_level_player. Server auto kick players below level 30 from challenges which have this cvar set to 1. This cvar is meant for players who use dedicated server browser to join games, since Public Games window already restricts filters to max Hard difficulty and challenge being disabled

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Add rd_sentry_refilled_by_dismantling cvar
If set to 1 marine will refill sentry ammo by dismantling it.

Fix bot frags are not counted for co-op missions
This caused ammo to not spawn from aliens in challenges that used
the rd_spawn_ammo cvar

Fix white screen crash

Show yellow icon when player is speaking in Player List window
Also added rd_speaking_r, rd_speaking_g, rd_speaking_b ConVars to
allow players to set their own color for speaker icon

Add rd_ray_trace_distance convar
Can be modified by challenges or maps(using Convars.SetValue() vscript)
to increase the distance which can be targeted using grenade launcher.

Add VScript Function to spawn fire StartFire()
StartFire( Vector position, float duration, int flags )
Returns a handle to the created env_fire entity

Add ConVar rd_biomass_ignite_from_flares

Add rd_auto_kick_low_level_player for challenges ASBI, TIER 1 and 2

Fix difficulty in ASBI is lowered for 3 or less marines
asw_adjust_difficulty_by_number_of_marines 0 was applied after the mission start
but difficulty adjustment happens before this. This cvar was moved from
challenge_asbi.nut to asbi.txt

Add rd_auto_kick_high_ping_player convar
If not zero the value will be compared to players ping and player is kicked if the ping is higher than the value.

Add ability for each map to have its own background image for the loading screen
The window's background image which is shown during map load can now be customized to
show a unique image per each map.
Added rd_loading_image_per_map cvar which can be used to turn this feature off.
By default it is set to 1 which means the feature is enabled.
This works for all maps, including community maps.
Example of files required for the custom loading image to work(for rd-til4area9800.bsp map):
reactivedrop/materials/vgui/swarm/loading/rd-til4area9800.vmt
reactivedrop/materials/vgui/swarm/loading/rd-til4area9800.vtf
reactivedrop/materials/vgui/swarm/loading/rd-til4area9800_wide.vmt
reactivedrop/materials/vgui/swarm/loading/rd-til4area9800_wide.vtf
Files with "_wide" suffix are meant for 16x9 aspect ratio resolutions.
Files without suffix are meant for 4x3 aspect ratio resolutions.
If custom material is missing a default material is used.

Fix uber drones are smaller when spawned from spawners
Uber drones default to 1.3 in size of regular drone.
asw_spawner, alien selection and vscript code can change the size of
asw_drone_uber by setting the Size Scale parameter.
It is no longer required for asw_spawner to manually set uber drone's
Size Scale to 1.3.

Add Vietnamese translation for game UI by Tuan Long Nguyen

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Add antlion guard NPCs to the asw_clearhouse
Add rd_chatwipe cvar, set it to 0 to prevent chat wiping
Fix crash on connect introduced by custom loading image feature

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Prevent inserting blank page to chat on mission restart if rd_chatwipe set to 0
Prevent camera rotation when not in game

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Fix tech marine requirement is not disabled after hack on ocs2landingbay7
Fix skybox blinking black at start of bonus_mission2