Enemy Territory: Quake Wars - Patch 1.4 Released

A new update has been released for the game "Enemy Territory: Quake Wars", this update fixes a lot of bugs in both single and multi player modes, as well it has lots of game play tweaks.

"The wait is over! The Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars 1.4 update is now available via the in-game updater and the download sites below. You can read the full changelog by clicking the "read more" link."

Change log:

Front End
• Hot Servers listing added to the server browser (includes listing of number of players considering joining the server)
• Server browser now updates player count the instant somebody chooses to connect to it
• Added panel to the server browser screen that displays the users stats and awards progress
• Ticker on server browser screen now links to external web sites
• New options available on Play Computer screen
• Additional option on the Game Settings screen (Advanced HUD, Respawn Text, Draw Fireteam List etc)

  Play Computer

• New Tutorial mode with pre-set bot skill levels
• Key tooltips now briefly pause the game in tutorial mode to help lead the player
• Tooltips played in tutorial mode now highlight corresponding HUD elements where appropriate
• Additional new tooltips
• Updated bot AI for Tutorial mode: bots play less aggressive, assist more and pace the completion of objectives

  General

• Head hitbox for player models adjusted, damage now scales better based on accuracy
• New VO added for tooltips
• Subtle Motivators added - When players achieve various records in-game they are told so via a pop-up message
• Vehicles at the main base of either side are now immune to damage after spawning, immunity is lost when used by a player
• Spawning vehicles are now static until used by a player to avoid exploiting
• Mines are now highlighted by green or red dots on the HUD
• Fireteam leaders are now displayed with White player arrows, fireteams with Yellow arrows and friends with Cyan arrows
• Vampire Strike beacon smoke effect has been updated
• Revive missions for Medics/Technicians are now Tasks
• Matches can now be paused mid-game via 'pausegame' or 'admin pause/unpause'
• Player models on the limbo menu now rotate 360 degrees when a class is first selected
• Buttons added to mute limbo menu voice tutorial
• End game stats screen has been updated with new stats info (Next Award, Rewards gained this campaign, Personal Bests, Mouse over info on map awards like Best Engineer)
• Advanced HUD option (moves text, reduces space used by obituaries and moves subtle motivator pop-ups)
• Deployables now display the owner's name on Crosshair info
• New HUD icons for parachuting/air-shield and Third Eye Camera
• Reduced decoy fire rate on Tormentor and Anansi
• Reload time increased on Anansi Rockets and Tormentor Plasma Cannon
• Reduced damage done to deployables by Anansi Rockets and Tormentor Plasma Cannon
• Re-balanced Anansi and Tormentor XP
• Basic hacking has had its time reduced and can now also cause damage when hacking an already disabled deployable
• Slightly updated effects on Violator
• Sniper Rifle and Railgun trails are now more obvious/longer duration
• Stroybomb reload time increased slightly
• Adjusted the point at which the attacking team gets a reduced spawn time
• Progress decay on some objectives has been adjusted
• Player's now receive a warning when a turret is targeting them or when they have triggered a mine
• Added more support for loading mods
• A message is printed on the HUD when someone finishes hacking a shield generator
• The game running in fullscreen no longer forcefully captures the mouse, resulting in better multitask behaviour
• 'vstr' now evaluates immediately, rather than adding its output to the end of the command buffer
• Workaround for certain ISPs filtering out legitimate authentication and match making packets
• Multiplayer stereo sound separation algorithm alternative from Quake 4 added, s_earSeperationAlgo 1 to enable (Default and legacy is 0) two additional cvars for control: s_esa1_minVolume (sound never drops below this fraction for either ear), s_esa1_maxWindow (window size in which volume is maxed, fraction of full range)
• Text declarations now take priority over binary ones to make mod development easier
• WriteJumpStartDemo now overwrites existing files
• Added local stats tracking for offline play
• Increased XP reward for players picking up your Health Packs, Ammo Packs and Stroyent Cells
• Added green repair indicators if someone repairs your vehicle.
• The icarus is now more forgiving to lock on to
• The MCP auto-deploys when it has been in the deploy zone for half a second, deploy text on HUD removed.
• MCP does not take damage unless it can move
• MCP driver can now remain inside the MCP when it is disabled
• MCP driver MG cannot be used when the MCP is disabled
• Shotgun pellet count reduced and fire rate increased
• Assault Rifle and Lacerator base weapon accuracy increased
• Sprinting will now pull you out of sighted/scoped mode
• APT turrets now have a 1.5 second delay before it starts turning towards the player.

  ETQW:TV

• Added support for spawning repeater server on dedicated server, net_spawnRepeater 1 to enable
• Added support for connecting repeater relay servers to other repeater servers, net_spawnRepeater 1 to enable
• The port the repeater will use can be controlled by net_repeaterPort, the default is 27833 is no port is specified
• Use ri_maxViewers to control viewer slot limit for repeater servers
• Access to the repeater can be limited by the use of ri_useViewerPass, g_viewerPassword, g_repeaterPassword, ri_privateViewers and g_privateViewerPassword
• Repeater server name can be controlled by ri_name
• Viewers may chat to other viewers on the same repeater server, this can be disabled with g_noTVChat
• Viewers may cycle through player views by pressing the attack key, and free fly using the alt attack key
• Broadcasting can be delayed by changing net_clientRepeaterDelay, this is only supported on repeater relays
• Repeaters can be set up to auto-download required content by setting net_clientRepeaterAutoDownload to 1
• For additional information on the ETQW TV feature, please see the ETQW TV Readme file.

  Bug Fixes

• Fixed saving some passwords causing the local account to be corrupted
• Fixed typing quickly scrambling user input
• Fixed typing while holding down Shift sometimes causing text overwrites
• Fixed low apparent texture quality if texture quality settings were below the baseline
• Fixed an intermittent crash on startup during the "Loading UI..." stage
• Fixed crash when loading a map on ATI brand cards
• Fixed serverInfo command incorrectly reporting server status
• Fixed filters being applied to History and Favorites list
• Fixed auto-updater being used when running from the Steam version of the game
• Fixed ServerLauncher not reloading the last opened profile
• Fixed ServerLauncher not properly setting the mod
• Fixed being able to corrupt user chat history
• Fixed a crash when deleting the last item in the replay list
• Fixed sometimes being able to send empty messages when chatting
• Fixed jittery bots & vehicles when playing against the computer with unlockFPS on
• Fixed clipping through ceiling when getting out of the Husky in specific locations
• Fixed Player.cpp bad floating point dump-to-console error
• Fixed GDF deployable "jerk" on landing
• Fixed servers having incorrect antilag tuning - antilag tuning CVars are now read-only
• Fixed infiltrator being able to teleport without having full charge
• Fixed bugs with accurized lacerator/scoped assault rifle scoping & unscoping
• Prevented vehicle view FOV issues - FOV limited to 90 when in vehicles
• Fixed loading screen sometimes showing previous server's information
• Fixed relative directory name detection incorrectly marking certain paths as relative, resulting in problems when attempting to create directories or files
• Fixed offline friends in the friends list incorrectly appearing as if they were on a server
• Fixed 5.1 and 7.1 audio not working in certain surround configurations
• Fixed mouse buttons not being swapped correctly when the raw input api was used
• Fixed autocompletion not working in certain situations for files that exist in PK4s
• Fixed bindings.cfg able to be being executed multiple times in a frame due to input language switches, potentially resulting in keys not being bound
• Fixed projection matrix jittering being applied in cases where it shouldn't (for example, waypoint icon coordinate calculation)
• Fixed not always clearing the fireteam name edit box before opening it.
• Fixed 'create' on fireteam menu when trying to create more than 8 fireteams.
• Fixed playing OOB tooltip even though player was dead.
• Fixed inverted "blocked you"/"unlbocked you" tooltips in the friends list.
• Fixed campaign tab being fullscreen when restarting map and going straight to the vote tab.
• Fixed seeing the action icon on enemy mines even though disarming was impossible from that distance.