New World Order Retail 1.42 Patch

Problems solved V1.42:

This version "has been tons of fun to build, as we have kicked NWO into high gear. We even build in some add-ons too this time. What to think of tracer rounds for all submachine guns and rifles? This helps to locate enemy (or friendly) fire, so the player can take cover if needed. We also improved the networking and HUD. The Heads Up Display, or HUD for short, now offers a bullet display, showing the bullets you have left in your current clip. Another HUD add-on is the death messages display. This new features shows the player who he/she killed or was killed by during a round."

The complete list of fixes and changes:

- Improved smoothness, especially on nVidia hardware
- Improved networking, down to 50% sustained bandwidth usage and better
synching
- Added tracer rounds for all submachine guns, rifles for all players
- Improved Desert Eagle animation to remove glitch
- Improved singleplayer / coop AI
- Fixed occasional glitch with misplaced weapons when spectating
- Added new scoreboard with better layout
- Added deathmessages with icons for weapon used and for headshot
- Improved minimize application behaviour, restore to fastest screen refresh mode
- Added proportional text output, rendering
- Added bullet-display, showing the bullets you have left in your current clip
- Scoreboard marks yourself, and the player that killed you
- Added display of number of grenades and flashbangs next to select-field
- Improved shadow rendering code
- Improved audio volume handling in the game, going to menu and back
- Improved singleplayer loading of maps on nVidia hardware, stability
- Improved weapon rendering, no sticking through walls
- Grenades / flashbangs not removed from game until new round starts
- Improved weapon physics when dropping weapon
- Added 'cap fps to monitor refresh' to video settings - caps max fps to monitor refresh
- Added 'override driver management' to video settings - overrides problematic 3D- card drivers
- Made it so that dead players are not displayed as standing up on first round spectating
- Changed order of weapon cycling so glock and usp come before desert eagle and higher ranking weapons
- Added 'damage multiplier' setting to start server screen and the SAT
- Added code to allow servers to make sure they're always connected to master-server
- Added flashing servers if have players in server listing

Version 1.41 changes:

- Game runs faster
- More stable
- Drastically improved networking
- New weapons behaviour and tweaks
- Added freeze-time and round-time
- Improved AI behaviour
- Server pass wording, admin login
- More

Version 1.35 fixes:

- Improved stability
- Improved performance
- Added bind able 'previous weapon' control
- Added bind able 'cycle weapon forward' control
- Added bind able 'cycle weapon backward' control
- Added mouse wheel as bindable input
- Single player made easier, player more resistant
- Improved networking throughput and bandwidth usage
- AI upgraded for single player and Cooperative game modes
- Hostage rescue game mode improved, hostage behavior improved
- Added blue/green colors to different teams in scoreboard
- Added blue/green colors for chat messages showing team
- Added 'dead' tag after name in chat messages
- Added 'auto reload' switch in player options
- Weapons upgrade for AI in coop, AI's grab weapon according to rank
- Added map rotation script for servers
- Added map rotation time '+map time' switch on command line
- Added 'vote map' remote command for map voting
- Added 'vote mode' remote command for game mode voting
- Moved 'dead' tag in scoreboard to after name, so you can see rank when dead
- Made chat messages use smaller font
- Added a little gravity for jumping
- Added 'player joined' and 'player left' messages top right corner
- Fixed issues with certain keys
- Shooting hostages give minus ranking points
- Fixed server thread timer issue
- NWO dedicated server with +pure option now runs in a window so it will run on any Windows box

Version 1.34 fixes:

- Increased stability
- Increased FPS
- Added fast screen refresh option to video settings for extra fps
- Added VSync option to video settings
- Added Triple-buffer option to video settings
- Added Bump mapping option to video settings
- Upgraded player movement (higher attack, less delay)
- Tweaked player jump, higher and slower
- Upgraded server-side hit detection to be exact
- Upgraded networking
- Upgraded client prediction for smoother movement
- Added head bobbing on/off switch to player options
- Fixed clearing of keyboard buffer issue that could
cause movement without key press
- Improved server refresh speed
- Added 'fast server refresh' toggle to network options
- Added key-bindings for weapon slots
- Improved scoreboard, players now sorted according to
rank points
- Fixed shooting while having voice-commands and load out menus open, they will auto-close
- Added Rotating radar to player options
- Fixed glitch in camera-go-through-wall protection code
- Increased speed of death animations playback
- Added ability to spectate other team
- Fixed so that you can't spectate dead players
- Fixed right mouse button zoom issue, zoom could flicker if held down
- Increased weapon switch speed to 180%
- Added 3rd person free look mode
- Added mouse wheel zooming for free look mode
- Added system to control player animations according to their true velocity
- Added vote kicking
- Added vote chat command to open up a channel for dead players to live players
- Added anti-stuck protection code
- A Planted bomb stays in effect until disarmed
- Fixed issue with client crashing if falling off map
- Fixed lag for flame and tracers

Version 1.3 fixes:
- Massive texture and geometry compression added, loss less. 35-45% (depending on map) off in memory usage squeezes NWO into 256 megs of ram, even with the
largest maps, without needing to use virtual memory.
- 10-25% (depending on hardware) world rendering speedup.
- 25% player models rendering speedup.
- 50-60% Single player/coop fps increase.
- Code added that disengages not seen (DVA test) players from the rendering / animation pipelines completely - to further increase performance.
- Added server packet-routing auto-adapt code, that will give a client that is maxing out his connection an evenly distributed stream of packets from other clients.
Eliminates high network-speed clients taking up too much of the available bandwidth to low-bandwidth clients, which could cause lag.
- Improved server packet decide-to-route code to eliminate transmission of un-needed packets.
- Improved client-to-server network transmission further. Added auto-adapt code that down-throttles more efficiently.
- Improved client-prediction code to be able to handle out-of-order packets properly and to handle predictions further ahead of time using a larger memory of previous
movements.
- Added lag-compensation layer that shifts time back a little during lag conditions to get access to more actual / real data of position and velocity.
- Fixed plant-the-bomb bug where you would keep a copy of the bomb, after planting the bomb, if you had equipped grenades.
- Fixed bug where non-planting team could pick up bomb, plant it, disarm it and win the round.
- Fixed round restart bug where too much of the message queues would be flushed. Could cause instability.
- Fixed spectator bug that could cause crash.

Version 1.2 fixes:

-Network bandwidth requirements lowered.
-Improved auto-detect net speed during game play.
-Added support for high latency players.
-Fix for single player on different hardware configs.
-Fix for joining - (thrown back if computer too slow).
-Fixed respawn bug where you could get stuck as dead.
-Fixed bug where you would not respawn after team-switch, team-switch now costs you a life.
-Fixed bug where player would not stand up after respawn / new round.
-Fixed problem where you could see through walls.
-Fixed stuck at spawn location problem.
-Fixed problem with jumping in sloping surfaces / jumping.
-Added in keypad keys for binding + a bunch missing keys.
-Fixed so that you can only speak to dead player when you're dead yourself.
-Dedicated server CPU + RAM requirements lowered.
-Added dedicated server + pure option for GISPs (remote controlled hardware).
-Improved client network transmission / higher throughput.
-Added faster feedback on kill / playback of death animation when you shoot someone.
-Fixed so that players that are dead on the server will not get movement packets routed (high latency could cause clients to delay their deaths).
-Fixed problems with single player scripts.
-Made Internet server listing default in 'join server' menu.
-Added 'want to disconnect' dialog boxes before start server and join server menu options if you're already connected to a server.
-Fixed player message typing, type outside the screen.
-Fixed orientation cords being transmitted over the
network - players could flip around and flicker when moving / turning.
-Added 3rd person spectator view (Fire2 toggles).
-Added ability to spectate players after team select when you've just joined the server.
-Added in support for binding middle mouse button to actions.
-New command line switches.

Version 1.1 fixes:

- Player skin problem fixed.
- Show dedicated servers always, even when empty.
- No sound of players equipping during game state receive.
- Domination mode for respawn game modifier added.
- Shooting teammates decreases your points.
- Flash bang active on dead played fixed.
- Weapon throw animation playback fixed.
- Added 'connection problems' icon display on screen when
player is on a bad connection.
- Speeded up ping-check of game servers.
- Adjusted server listing window to proper format.
- Added extra ranking points for each round - 300 for
winning team, 150 for losing.
- Fixed picking up weapons problem (multiple copies).
- 'Game state' receive progress bar added loading console.
- Fixed respawn game modifier.
- Fixed problem with joining a server.
- Improved networking and reduced latency.
- Fixed problem where hostages where reported as players in the server listing.
- Added command line switch to run dedicated LAN servers from a batch file.
- Fixed weapon switching to the Glock randomly.
- Speeded up/adjusted the joining networking sequence.
- Fixed match-time, to be set properly in the 'start server' menu.
- Fixed match-time problem where not all ranks where reset properly.
- Fixed problem where a grenade kill could go to the wrong player.
- Fixed issues with climbing ladders.
- Added back in - F1 to display frame rate and network stats.