Update 1002 (Killing Floor 2)

General

• Game will now read the server game port from the command line when setting up the Steam server
• Changed "Zynthetic" to "zYnthetic"
• Flamethrower now ignores damage scaling by difficulty and deals the full damage amount to player that fires it
• Ana now comments on her favorite weapon (flamethrower)
• Updated server .ini's to default to normal difficulty
• Changed EndOfGame delay from 20 to 10 in default ini
• Increased online framerate cap for clients from 90 to 150
• Tweaked down Pulverizer Damage on Alt Fire
• Safe Guard skill now applies a 15% bonus
• Added in voice detection with option to turn it on and off in the audio menu. Off by default.

Economy Changes

• Made changes to spread out dosh earning over the waves and more evenly between classes
• Reduced the trading time in normal to 75

Zed Changes

• Made changes to several zeds health, damage and aggression based on feedback and stats on different difficulties
• Blocked accepting invites at times when they would be problematic to other processes
• Adjusted MaxRespawnDosh up to 1250 to match better with our higher weapon prices
• Hans XP grant should be higher to compensate for the time it takes to kill him
• Added the ability to scale how much extra damage a zed gets when they are vulnerable to a damage type

Maps

• Adjusted all maps based on feedback and stats
• Tweaked spawn times
• Added additional spawn zones
• Cleaned up geometry

Optimizations

• Adding depth bounds test support (AMD and NVIDIA) to speed up deferred lights.
• Disable rigid body collision events for giblets for low and medium settings.
• Add Setting to turn off footstep sounds on low FX setting.
• Misc optimizations from main game thread
• Set small and canbecomedynamic asset detail mode for min spec perf optimization
• Turned off obliteration gibs for low settings
• LOD'd out collision events on blood particles
• Disabled CanBecomeDynamic objects from being activated from bullet impacts on low setting.
• Added setting to disable blood splatter decal on low and medium settings. Just use persistent blood splat for those.
• Removed all smoke particles in the tank and set clot and track animations to only render on medium detail settings
• changed all particles in character cust room to medium detail level
• Optimized collision on some meshes.
• Collision optimizations.
• Min spec optimizations
• Removed aurora particles but left the mesh for less awesome aurora
• Removed all physics flags
• Removed all remaining snow particles.
• Removed half of the animated cameras
• Removed half of the interp actor wind turbines
• Optimized Persistent blood traces
• Tied max blood splats per frame to graphics settings.
• Do not busy wait for server to reduce idle time CPU utilization

Bugs

• Fixed bug where Medic weapons wouldn’t lock on at angles
• Fixed issue where the flamethrower will spawn a ground fire at the origin of the map if a trace failed
• Fixed sound not playing online for the metal detectors
• Fixed some debug spam
• Fix for mono looping echos not getting cleaned up
• Fixed door pound sounds not playing on dedicated client
• Fixed case where bloats would puke through the door in an attempt to attack the player even though they could not reach them
• You no longer die if you're tired of being an admin
• Fixed molasses bug (where players would be set to a lower speed)
• Fixed an issue where Zeds would not properly select spawn volumes not viewable by players
• Fixed other client hearing the Medic weapons beeping lock on
• Fixed Commando rapid fire skill not working online
• Fixed Professional skill not working online
• Fixed Menace Skill: Attack Speed not applying during zed time
• Fixed missing heartbeats
• Fixed missing mesh log errors.
• Fixed Server browser only showing top 100 servers by player ping
• Fixed Hans gas grenade not always rendering correctly
• Fixed shutting doors on players and zeds causing them to get stuck
• Made sure door close sounds are heard on clients (different from previous door sound issue)
• Fix for bad mouse sensitivity
• Healing Surge now gives the proper amount of health
• Fixed players pausing the game online
• Fixed a bug with the Husk where he wouldn't fire his fireball or flamethrower attack if he was newly spawned until his cooldown had passed
• Fixed Flamethrower flame not showing up if player couldn’t see the player shooting it
• Fixed issue with large bounding region on fx
• Fix for third person fire effects not appearing if Instigator was 50 meters away from where they spawned in
• Fixed Server Browser not properly filtering older versions out of the list
• Attempted Fix for a server only memory leak

Crashes

• Fixed issue which would cause an infinite loop
• Fixed audio related crash