Public Beta 0.8.1

Changes since 0.8

• Reduced health of Antlion Guard enemies: 1000 HP -> 300 HP.
• Added command for reducing flashing from the Gravity Gun launch effect (hl2_bReduceGravityGunFlash command).
• Antlion and Antlion Guard enemies now consist mostly out of flesh rather than bones.
• ModelHolder2 entities can now be damaged with the Gravity Gun.
  • But MovingBrush entities with infinite health, on the other hand, not so much anymore.
• Added warning about the physics simulation in multiplayer.
• Disabled suit zoom and flashlight functionality without the HEV suit.
• Heavily optimized handling of entities with realistic physics.
  • So much so that certain maps can handle even 100 simulation iterations per tick now (overkill, definitely not recommended).
• Added flares to items for better visibility, like in Serious Sam (hl2_bItemFlares command).
• Added option for disabling realistic physics for local items per player (when someone picks up an item and it disappears for them but still stays for everyone else).
• Increased use range for Switch entities: 2m -> 3m.
• Allowed physics objects to be flung when released from the Gravity Gun during player movement instead of resetting all velocity.
• Added bullet impact sounds from shooting any ModelHolder2 entity with destruction and any non-fleshy enemy.
• Restored old jumping physics while moving downwards on sloped surfaces.
• Attached Gravity Gun's launch beam to the hit entity to prevent it from floating in the air.
• Restored old logic for replacing surfaces of specific textures on brushes by adding a new option that forces these replacements on non-default surfaces (such as Sand and Grass).
  • This was intentionally done this way pre-0.8 to handle cases such as levels from some POANL mods that implement new metal surface type by replacing particles and sounds of the snow surface.
• Allowed respawning items to be physical with custom logic that prevents these items from being misplaced too much.
• Made Gravity Gun drop any held objects if they are not directly in front of it for longer than one second.
• Made physics objects orient themselves properly while floating on water instead of acting like they are in zero gravity.
• Reworked screen shaking from explosions and added more sources for them.
  • Allowed multiplying explosion shake intensity with hl2_fExplosionShakeIntensity shell command.
• Added more commands to the mod config under Options -> Advanced Options in-game.

Fixes

• Fixed Antlion enemies using Boneman projectiles (regression since b0.8).
• Fixed kinematic physics objects sometimes breaking with invalid positions.
• Fixed Scientist enemies setting themselves to a specific type when replacing BigHead enemies with "Saint" or "Zombie" types.
• Fixed rotation jitter during rendering of entities with realistic physics at unusual angles.
• Fixed weird physics when spawning physics objects on moving brushes and then taking them off those brushes.
• Fixed broken physics objects on Bouncer entities if their brushes are too flat, just like with MovingBrush entities.
• Fixed crazy third person camera angles when targeting nearby entities with the Gravity Gun.
• Fixed the impassable spike room in Valley of the Jaguar due to the new physics properties of the player entity (and possibly some other places with applied sector force).