Quake 3 Official Point Release

Lucutus

Now that this is out for real, (d/loading it now!), Will it be used in the league? Is the IGN server running with Pure Server set to off? (anyone with the patch can play).

see below for list of changes...

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Changes as of 1/13/2000

Store CD Key in a seperate file
Shrink Icons on scoreboard and do away with staggered heads
Voting can change gametype if current map does not suppoprt current game type
Server list shows ip address
possible team uneven measures? (as in L-Fire CTF) Prevent team join, prevent capture, prevent flag pickup
Add team overlay location colors
Server Browser: Could we remember settings for "Show Full" and "Show Empty" ? They are reinitialized every time. I like to see *ALL* servers and it's redundant to have to click those two buttons every time
New scoreboard. Minor positional adjustments to default score board when clients hits more than seven, the scoreboard goes into compressed mode and interleaves the players head models/icons.
Fixed health color display bug on team overlay
Changing gamma causes a crash
Spectators can now go through doors. A spectator only teleport is created on each side of the door that teleports a spectator to the other side (spectators on q3tourney4 will love this)
fixed drop shadows also showing up on ground with gap
bots should NOT use the personal teleporter when carrying a flag (except
fixed bot_minplayers, kept loading bots during intermission because
changing ctf strategy randomly if the game is 'stuck' for too long
Bots have both agressive and passive ctf strategies
fixed recalculating item area even if item didn't move
added flag status icons to the hud, displayed as:, flag icon -- at base, empty colored square -- flag taken, grey colored square -- flag dropped
fixed resetting rush base away time when flag returns
fixed bots defending dropped flags
fixed team leaders not giving 'orders' to themselves
fixed removing double quoting in chat, tchat and print messages before
Keybind INI files are broken
Fixed Gamestate/Snapshot issue for modem users
don't play denied sound if team mate picks up the powerup
g_teamAutoJoin (default off), sets it so players automatically join a team on connect
g_teamForceBalance (default off), forces it so that the spread between the number of players on a team is no more than two. Player will be disallowed to join a team with two or more players than the other.
added callvote nextmap, and display available callvote commands if usage is incorrect
adjusted maximum width of team overlay down
added g_needpass serverinfo so remote browsers can determine if a password is needed
Team scoreboard needs to overlay a colored team background on the scoreboard to clearly show team divisions
added the ability to set g_password to "none" which means no password. This makes /rcon g_password none work
fixed width problem for names on the team overlay
team scores displayed on scoreboard in spectator mode
team scores are now correctly updated and displayed when joining game in progress
dead player displays crossout for weapon instead of missing texture on team overlay
Fixed scores so that only the flag carrier gets five points for capturing. Team members do not get a bonus--the entire team gets a capture point. This was the originally indended scoring for Q3.
Fixed it so that you get the aggressive enemy bonus for fragging a player who hurt your flag carrier (it had an 8 millisecond timeout, oops)
Add g_doWarmup to allow warmup countdown timer on all game modes. This helps out in clan matches, since they can do a restart and get a fair countdown (as opposed to a random map_restart that is abruptive). This also gives people with slow load times a fair chance
add g_doWarmup to callvote so people can vote in the warmup option
Player is ALWAYS shown on the scoreboard, dropped at the bottom if player wasn't shown in the top scores
drop ctf flags when player activates personal telporter (you can't take it with you!)
don't draw crosshair in spectator mode (names are still drawn however). Crosshair is drawn when following a player.
empty servers should show by default on the server display list
adding game cvar tracking so that cvar changes made in mid game are told to all clients. The following cvars are tracked: dmflags, fraglimit, timelimit, capturelimit, g_friendlyFire, g_warmup, g_doWarmup, g_speed, g_gravity, g_knockback, g_quadfactor, g_w
added the ability to select the position of the teamoverlay. Updated the game options menu to make the new positions available. I find I like it much more in the lower left [doesn't interfer with chat text.] Available positions are: cg_drawTeamOverlay 0 ­
added 'teamoverlay' to userinfo. This allows the server to determine if the client has the team overlay display on and only send the team information if needed (turning it off saves some bandwidth)
made positions on team overlay static--takes the top eight players by score and puts them in client order (so they won't switch positions on the team overlay)
made location strings left justified in team overlay
Added IP banning. Similar to Quake2 method. Two new commands addip _mask_ and removeip _mask_. The ban list is saved in a cvar called g_banIPs. g_filterBan controls ban direction (default value of non-zero means everyone is allowed to connect, except thos
teleport spectators to other side of door trigger brush when the door is Not open
Display 2D player, flag, ammo and armor icons if draw3dIcons is off in status bar and on scoreboard (so all 3D icons are replaced by 2D version if cg_draw3Dicons is off)
fixed bug where bots stand still not reacting to anything, not even incoming enemies
added new individual CTF AI
fixed team AI when base flag is gone
fixed bots ignoring your commands if your name contains certain non alphabet characters (like . / ~).
added ctf task preference for human players
don't start kill, hitnokill, or hitnodeath chats when there are nearby enemies
Add new cg_drawIcons cvar, turns off all icons (2D or 3D depending on setting of draw3dIcons
don't start chatting when using a powerup
Denied no longer sounds on same team pickups
dropped items can fall out of the map or stick into walls. dropped items should use player clipping
If a callvote passes with "map _mapname_", the game will keep the value of nextmap the same. This allows a player call vote a map change without upsetting the map rotation
Screenshots broken in Q3, restarting exe causes game to overwrite 001 etc
delay deferred model load until after death, and after client presses fire to respawn
"No team_CTF_redflag in map" is no longer fatal
Weapon Switch Issues: I'm still getting double clicks when I run out of ammo on the lightning gun or plasma. I'll have the fire button down, it runs out of ammo, it clicks, I let go of the fire button, press down, it clicks again
Fixed up flag on flag carrier player model, made it stop rotating while being carried
CTF Flag destroyed by nodrop areas
s_khz 44 broken
Right justified the team overlay
default shader fix
com_hunkMegs now works properly, com_hunkMegs has a minimum value of 56 for standard gameplay and 1 for a dedicated server connecting to a pure server works properly, no more kickouts

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Anyone else got any comments on this?

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Lucutus of Borg

MindPhuck

Yes. We can all read the Whatsnew.txt file.

Ive played with this release (and the beta) and it fixes loadsa stuff. We should use this.

WhiteWashMan

and it is how big and it is course on the ign ftp board?

SickBoy

Give me time WWM, I'm in work atm and as soon as I get home its going up on ftp.ign.ie
Its only 1.4 megs or something like that so no need to crank up the duel ISDN connection ala UT patches

Jimmy...

WhiteWashMan

give it time......remember how big the q2 patches got
mind you, i think sin probably gets the award forbiggest patch at 23 mg afaik

Cloud

I put it up at ftp.ign.ie.

Here!

It's also running on quake3-1.ign.ie.

[This message has been edited by Cloud (edited 14-01-2000).]

MindPhuck

Once again John you outdue yourself.

Excellent ms. moneypenny.

Cloud

SickBoy

John I hope you didnt **** with my file system up there