changelog.md

0.9.26 (in development)

• Improved: Going in and out of the settings no longer clips into the player model.
• Fixed: NPC makers not respecting the spawn frequency -1 causing a lot of NPCs being spawned in some cases.
• Fixed: ep1_c17_00a: Don't cancel scripted_sequence on player death.
• Fixed: Weapons not properly transitioning for NPCs.
• Fixed: Entity outputs not firing in the correct order.

0.9.25

• Improved: Hints will no longer show duplicates, instead it will renew the existing hint that has the same text.
• Improved: ep1_c17_05: Add a checkpoint after the hallway.
• Fixed: ep1_c17_02a: Alyx not picking up a shotgun.
• Fixed: No longer runs 'skill' concommand, it's blocked since version 201211.

0.9.24

• Fixed: trigger_multiple ignoring the delay time.

0.9.23

• Improved: Some minor performance improvements for level transitioning.
• Improved: Implemented "ShowLogo" input to env_message entity.
• Improved: ep1_citadel_00: Fixed T-pose on vortigaunt and remove leftover chapter messages.
• Improved: d3_breen_01: Get the functionality closer to the original.
• Improved: Add a button in the settings menu to revert colors.
• Improved: ep1_c17_05: Escorting the NPCs should be a bit more reliable now.
• Improved: Players that didn't make the changelevel trigger will not be forcefully teleported, they get the default spawn next map.
• Fixed: Transitioning doors have sometimes the wrong rotation.
• Fixed: HUD is now hidden when point_viewcontrol takes control.
• Fixed: Triggers not firing outputs when they are disabled and then enabled again while entities are touching it.
• Fixed: trigger_teleport not working properly with flying NPC's.
• Fixed: ep1_c17_06: Add a fail-safe timer to ensure Barney will board the train.

0.9.22

• Improved: Weapon selection weights, this should improve selecting the next weapon when current one is empty.
• Fixed: Level transition sometimes ignoring the transition volumes forcing players to spawn with the default loadout on the next map.
• Fixed: ep1_citadel_00: Alyx stops the scripted scene if player falls off the cliff.
• Fixed: Killing mission critical NPCs causes the game end text to show up twice in some cases.
• Fixed: d2_coast_07: Forcefield has a white square when returning from d2_coast_08.
• Fixed: d2_coast_07: Wrong vehicle checkpoint when returning from d2_coast_08.
• Fixed: d3_citadel_04: Added missing checkpoint for the elevator.

0.9.21

• Improved: lambda_gametype will now default to 'auto' and warns about a misconfiguration.

0.9.20

• Feature: Episode 1 support.
• Improved: Language localization of settings (English only as of now).
• Improved: When "Friendly Fire" and "Player Collision" both disabled, bullet can pass through other players.
• Improved: Lambda no longer override the localization already existing in the game.
• Improved: d2_coast_03: Give more supplies, hope this can help player fight with multiple gunships better.
• Improved: d2_coast_03: Mission critical NPCs now have protection to prevent dying from a car accident.
• Improved: The gravity gun punt has now an energy effect.
• Improved: Small performance improvements for cockroaches and also improved the logic.
• Added: Option to limit the maximum amount of cockroaches, convar is 'lambda_max_cockroaches', 0 disables all.
• Fixed: Pickup SMG grenade showing wrong icon.
• Fixed: d2_coast_03: G-Man and Oddssa stay in the balcony forever.
• Fixed: d2_coast_03: Blocked a exploit where player can use it to skip the final scene.
• Fixed: Disallow commanding citizen NPCs that have an active schedule.
• Fixed: Enemy scaling was improperly calculcated, now the math is right.
• Fixed: Players can sometimes spawn in the void if they didn't make it to the end of the map.
• Changed: Added a new setting to block respawns until a checkpoint is activated, previously it relied on lambda_max_respawn_timeout being -1.

0.9.19

• Fixed: SWEPs that use custom CalcView not working correctly.
• Fixed: Hide the builtin crosshair when SWEPs have custom ones.

0.9.18

• Improved: env_screenoverlay now works like behavior from HL2.
• Improved: d1_trainstation_05: Breen now plays the expected cutscene.
• Improved: d3_citadel_03: Reworked confiscation field area to make it process faster.
• Improved: d3_c17_10b map script.
• Fixed: env_screenoverlay causing error on some unexpected cases.
• Fixed: Open settings menu and close it too fast will leave a slider bar at top of screen.
• Fixed: d2_coast_10: Vehicle not being removed after parking it in the warehouse.
• Fixed: d3_citadel_03: A lua error at the beginning of the round and a rare potential soft-lock.
• Fixed: d3_breen_01: Breen can get stuck on the chair making the cutscene a bit slower.
• Fixed: Default difficulty is now "Normal" rather than "Very easy"
• Fixed: d1_canals_07: Metrocop didn't use the turret.
• Fixed: d3_c17_06b: Player can kill a friendly NPC and probability trigger a soft-lock.
• Fixed: d3_c17_10b: Player died in laser room, make the map unable to proceed.
• Fixed: Gravity gun animation doesn't properly works when breaking a ammo crate.

0.9.17

• Improved: Addon compatibility, Lambda will attempt to recover if there are conflicts and warns about it.

0.9.16

• Improved: Major performance improvements with lots of players on the server.
• Improved: Setting lambda_gametype to "auto" will detect the right gametype based on the loaded map.
• Improved: Scoreboard UI tweaks, allows to show more information provided by game type.
• Improved: d1_trainstation_05: Move alyx a bit further back for the introduction scene.
• Improved: Cockroaches have better performance and better behavior.
• Fixed: d1_trainstation_04: Don't despawn metropolice on street.
• Fixed: ep1_citadel_00: Dog intro scene not working correctly.
• Fixed: Screen overlays can get stuck when the map restarts while overlays are active.
• Fixed: NPCs stepping on cockroaches did nothing.
• Changed: Scoreboard will now show at the end of each map, this can be controlled by 'lambda_changelevel_delay'.
• Added: Support for skins and bodygroups on playermodels.

0.9.15

• Fixed: Incorrect addon structure causing custom content to not load for clients. [Regression]
• Fixed: 'lambda_allow_npcdmg' having no effect, mission critical NPCs are now protected from player damage when disabled.

0.9.14

• Feature: Checkpoints can now have a timeout, setting is controlled by 'lambda_checkpoint_timeout', 0 disables the timeout.
• Improved: Environmental player speech is now an option 'lambda_player_speech', 0 disables it.
• Improved: Damage player speech is now an option 'lambda_player_damage_speech', 0 disables it.
• Improved: Miscellaneous improvements to the gamemode menu.
• Improved: Console command registration.
• Improved: Render always the player when in settings menu.
• Improved: d1_trainstation_05 map script.
• Improved: d1_trainstation_06 map script, move med-kit further away.
• Improved: d3_citadel_01 map script.
• Improved: d3_citadel_02 map script.
• Improved: d3_citadel_03 map script.
• Improved: d3_citadel_04 map script.
• Improved: d3_citadel_05 map script.
• Added: A hint for players that have not yet opened the gamemode menu.
• Added: A warning notification for players starting the gamemode in Singleplayer mode.
• Added: Player name on top of death effect.
• Fixed: Player sometimes loose ammo over map transitioning.
• Fixed: Gravity Gun not being able to get objects behind fences.
• Fixed: Gravity Gun not allowing to punt non-debris ragdolls.
• Fixed: Gravity Gun effects breaking when transitioning from third-person to first-person view.
• Fixed: Gravity Gun not respecting setting for glow mode.
• Fixed: Gravity Gun light comes from player instead of the gun.
• Fixed: SWEPS fired by NPCs being extremly inaccurate, fixes some weapon addon compatibility issues.
• Fixed: Reset leftover global states if none provided in mapscript.
• Fixed: Lambda menu hint displaying the wrong binding.
• Changed: Do not give all weapons on missing map scripts.

0.9.13

• Fixed: d2_coast_11: Not giving everyone weapon_bugbait.
• Fixed: d2_coast_03: Combine binoculars corrupting view for all players.
• Fixed: Players not being credited for kills with ragdolls and mega gravity gun.
• Added: env_screenoverlay multiplayer support.

0.9.12

• Fixed: Only auto switch to weapons when still holding the empty gun.
• Fixed: HL2:EP1/HL2:DM game types not working correctly [Regression]
• Fixed: NPCs ragdolls would have different pose when killed with gravity gun.
• Improved: Gravity gun functions now closer to the original and interpolates at clients frame time.
• Added: Support for ep1_citadel_00 (Episode 1).
• Added: Support for ep1_citadel_01 (Episode 1).
• Added: Support for ep1_citadel_02b (Episode 1).
• Added: Support for ep1_citadel_03 (Episode 1).
• Added: Support for ep1_citadel_03 (Episode 1).

0.9.11

• Fixed: Lua error on death when dropped weapon can not be spawned.
• Fixed: Player shouting out enemies in pre-criminal state.
• Fixed: Settings camera menu will follow the player now.
• Improved: Gravity Gun on ground now has random colors instead of black.
• Improved: Minor performance optimizations for the gravity gun.
• Improved: Walking animations on moving platforms.

0.9.10

• Improved: Ability to register game types via addons.

0.9.9

• Fixed: Sprint not working correctly with newer Garry's Mod version (dev).
• Fixed: Sound not playing when sprinting is denied.

0.9.8

• Fixed: Soundscrapes playing indefinitely

0.9.7

• Fixed: env_credits throwing errors if credits file is missing.
• Fixed: entities not registering outputs via AcceptInput
• Fixed: point_viewcontrol having uninitialized angle.
• Fixed: d3_c17_02 having default player loadout.
• Fixed: PLAYER_META:Give not working in rare cases.

0.9.6

• Feature: Accelerated backhopping
• Feature: env_credits multiplayer support.
• Improved: Removed Cockroaches from kill feed, players will no longer get points for killing them.
• Improved: Keep track of physcannon color when dropped.
• Improved: d3_breen_01: Place all players in the same pod to not skip the scene.
• Improved: Transitioning from d3_citadel_05 to d3_breen_01
• Improved: Better round restart info.
• Improved: Players get the medkit now at d1_trainstation_06 instead of d1_trainstation_05.
• Fixed: Potential crash after changelevel.
• Fixed: point_viewcontrol not behaving like original.
• Fixed: Some entity outputs being fired twice.
• Fixed: Lua errors when cleaning up map during players view controlled by point_viewcontrol.
• Fixed: d3_breen_01: Platforms would stop moving if player reached top.
• Fixed: Medkit not properly working in singleplayer.
• Fixed: Selection of best weapon on depleted ammo and player spawn.
• Fixed: Settings not correctly clamped.
• Fixed: Physcannon throwing errors when players die.
• Fixed: Settings showing up twice.
• Fixed: Vehicles getting displayed in kill feed instead of player.
• Fixed: d3_citadel_05: Default weapons not being removed.
• Fixed: d3_citadel_05: Keep the pod cycle active after the player left the area.
• Fixed: Networked variables being overwritten by client ignoring server value.

0.9.5

• Improved: Add projected textures as an option for physcannon glow, enabled by default (physcannon_glow = 1)
• Fixed: Physcannon not dropping attached object when weapon dropped.

0.9.4

• Feature: Add 'LambdaInitializeMapList(maplist)' hook, allows addons to add/remove maps from the list.
• Fixed: Vote system did not consider amount of voters, 2/3 is required to be a valid vote.
• Fixed: Gravity gun throwing errors in some cases.

0.9.3

• Feature: Realism difficulty, for people who like a challenge.
• Feature: Medkit was added to heal and revive players, received in d1_trainstation_05.
• Feature: lambda_weapondropmode allows to specify what players drop on death.
• Feature: Implemented env_zoom with multiplayer support.
• Feature: Implemented point_viewcontrol with multiplayer support.
• Feature: Player flinching animations that indicates the hit position of damage.
• Improved: Allow gametype to auto start without players.
• Improved: (F1) Player menu overhaul.
• Improved: Checkpoints were rebalanced, encourage players to revive others.
• Improved: Physcannon prediction has now a tolerance before being attached clientside.
• Improved: Physcannon glow was reduced.
• Improved: Kill feed overhaul, now considers screen resolution.
• Improved: Replaced bullet impact sounds with more realistic ones.
• Improved: Proxy animation models for episodic support, currently incomplete.
• Fixed: PLAYER:Give not working properly in some cases.
• Fixed: Physcannon not networking idle time causing stuttery momvement.
• Fixed: d1_town_02 lock door to prevent backtracking.
• Fixed: Physcannon missing sprites glow sprites on end caps.
• Fixed: Vehicle view not resetting roll.
• Fixed: Item respawn spam.
• Fixed: d2_prison_05 blocking players near map end.
• Fixed: NPC Maker not spawning NPCs in some cases.
• Fixed: d1_trainstation_01 queue sometimes blocking the player.
• Fixed: Don't render player blockades in Skybox rendering pass.
• Fixed: Gravity Gun not resetting beam properly on FP/TP view change.
• Fixed: Some delayed inputs firing after map reset.
• Fixed: trigger displaying waiting info when requested not to.
• Fixed: Pending entity outputs not being cleared on map restart.
• Fixed: Round information HUDs missing when first connected.

0.9.2:

• Fixed: logic_auto and trigger_auto firing too many events.
• Improved: Slightly offset the glow on physcannon to prevent culling.

0.9.1:

• Feature: Dynamic crosshair overhaul, no longer requires capturing the framebuffer, can be changed in the options menu.
• Feature: Native game hints.
• Feature: Deathmatch gametype, set lambda_gametype convar to 'hl2dm' to try it out.
• Feature: Ability to command friendly NPCs via the Context menu.
• Feature: Vote system, allows players to vote: Skip Map, Change to Map, Kick Player, Restart Round.
• Feature: Allow players to kill every NPC, the game will restart the map if a critical NPC died, set 'lambda_allow_npcdmg' to 0 to disable this.
• Feature: Cockroaches, more or less like the classic ones from Half-Life 1, can be found hiding under objects.
• Feature: Gore effects when crushed or exploded, set 'lambda_gore' to 0 disable, enabled by default.
• Feature: Difficulty can be now set via 'lambda_difficulty', values 1: Very Easy, 2: Easy, 3: Normal, 4: Hard, 5: Very Hard
• Feature: Gravity Gun Glow, can be turned by setting 'physcannon_glow' to 0.
• Improved: Combine will now emit hurt sounds when taking damage.
• Improved: Allow to select all known player models the server has.
• Improved: Player sounds and taunts are now specific to the player model type.
• Improved: Replaced some killicons, credits to _Kilburn for the icons.
• Improved: The scoreboard has some improvements to better match gametypes and their rules.
• Improved: Flashlight no longer drains suit energy.
• Improved: Overall performance improvements for server and client.
• Improved: Players will no longer have empty grenades or slams in their inventory.
• Added: Game content mounting for episodic content, automatically creates and mounts GMA based on gametype.
• Added: ConVar to block moving weapons/items by shooting them, 'lambda_prevent_item_move '.
• Added: ConVar to disable ammo limits, 'lambda_limit_default_ammo '.
• Fixed: trigger_hurt using invalid damage type.
• Fixed: d2_coast_01 having default map items
• Fixed: d2_coast_03 having default map items.
• Fixed: Prediction errors caused by 'friendly_encounter' game state.
• Fixed: Physcannon not stopping looping sounds and not detaching on player death.
• Fixed: Physcannon ignoring the mass.
• Fixed: Physcannon spamming animation events.
• Fixed: Physcannon unable to push back enemies such as headcrabs.
• Fixed: Weapons can only be picked up once now per player.
• Fixed: Player not spawning properly when starting with d3_c17_07.
• Fixed: Player being left behind after battle in d3_c17_07.
• Fixed: Disallow players going back in d1_town_02 preventing disruptive play.
• Fixed: Missing changelevel blockade in d3_c17_07.
• Fixed: Prevent player from going back in d1_town_02
• Fixed: NPC's sometimes not playing the scene under unknown situations.
• Fixed: Server sometimes not starting a new round
• Fixed: Scripted scenes getting stuck, forced playback after timeout.
• Fixed: Networked velocity per client, no longer using estimates on player animations.
• Fixed: Enemies not enabled when going back from d2_coast_08 to d2_coast_07.
• Fixed: Remove more default map spawn items, managed by Lambda.
• Fixed: Reset global state on d1_trainstation_01 to d1_trainstation_05.
• Fixed: d1_trainstation_05 do not lock up players in barney room by an invisible wall.
• Fixed: Prevent non-players enforcing touch events on triggers.
• Fixed: Settings not replicating.
• Fixed: d3_c17_07 creating infinite soldiers when player does not meet alyx.
• Fixed: Barney to appear twice on d3_c17_10a.
• Fixed: Barney to appear twice on d3_c17_10b.
• Fixed: Players not getting the crowbar on d1_trainstation_06.
• Fixed: Suit would recharge too fast, prevents players from infinite sprinting.
• Fixed: Ragdolls wouldn't be properly transitioned.

0.9:

• Removed: Freezing physics when trying to jump off them.
• Removed: Animation blending.
• Fixed: Giving players more ammo than they can carry on weapon pickup.
• Fixed: Weapon damage not properly set via cvars.
• Fixed: d1_canals_05 not opening gate, manually possible now.
• Fixed: Giving default ammo ammount, only give what player carried from level to level.
• Fixed: Draws the player weapon with player tracker now.
• Fixed: Checkpoints not properly resetting.
• Fixed: Death symbol using incorrect eye position.
• Fixed: Weapon switching not stopping reload.
• Fixed: Output log vanishing if EPOE is present.
• Fixed: Hopefully fixed players timing out while they shouldn't.
• Fixed: Player tracking being invisible in some cases. Better debug info on triggers.
• Fixed: Player tracking being client option, now server side.
• Fixed: Grenade duplicating on death.
• Fixed: User never signaled connection, consider him fully connected when message arrives.
• Fixed: Commands being unable to ran from server console.
• Fixed: Bots having invalid models.
• Fixed: Sprint sound not working on singleplayer game.
• Fixed: Passing nil ent on Touch.
• Fixed: Calling Touch manually if the player left a trigger that disabled EndTouch events.
• Fixed: Autoreload not reloading mapscripts.
• Fixed: d1_trainstation_05 messing up barneys spawn if player is nearby, simply closing the soda door.
• Fixed: Dog disappearing in d3_c17_02.
• Fixed: Door never opening in d3_c17_03.
• Fixed: Pickup hud not being properly aligned and sized.
• Fixed: Fire sounds not stopping in some cases.
• Fixed: Player unable to select weapons using passenger seat.
• Fixed: Player seeing the vehicle symbol when inside vehicle.
• Improved: Precision on GetSyncedTimestamp.
• Improved: Minor performance improvements.
• Improved: Reduced distance of player stats.
• Improved: Player tracking option.
• Improved: Modified player tracker to be less annoying when barely visible.
• Feature: Custom gravity gun rewritten from scratch with support of the mega gravity gun and prediction support.
• Feature: Dynamic checkpoint selection.
• Feature: Players will consider their souroundings and use shout outs accordingly.
• Feature: Made the player timeout a convar.
• Feature: Custom HUD colors.
• Feature: Settings menu for player models, admin settings etc. on F1.
• Feature: Teleport heuristic to allow changes on collision rules.
• Feature: Allow player collisions.
• Feature: Friendly fire support.
• Feature: No respawn support.