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The game had a serious vulnerability that allowed the rainbow femboy crew from AVPUnknown to crash our servers by using Cheat Engine together with the Marine melee attack. The vulnerability has now been fixed, but Marine melee attacks will deal zero damage. This does not affect the actual melee mechanics in any way: heavy attacks can still be interrupted as before. In any case, the increased pistol damage should compensate for this. This is only a temporary measure. We are already investigating possible workarounds that would allow us to restore melee damage without bringing back the server crash exploit.

As for the new bot distribution system, it works many times faster than the old one. Bots now automatically select the race assigned to them, preventing situations where the ai-teams become unbalanced. If a server becomes full, the last group of three bots is guaranteed to leave, freeing up slots for real players. If I have more time in the future, we may also work on making the bots more active and lifelike.

We have also rented a server in the United Kingdom to test a new Linux-based hosting setup. The server is called: =STDM= LV-426 <UK> You can now choose the server closest to you from three countries: Deutschland (Germany), the United Kingdom, and Italy. Later, we may expand to North America as well.