Build 243 Live on Steam - Natural Selection 2

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Build 243 Live on Steam - Natural Selection 2

Build 243 is now live on Steam. This is a small patch that fixes a bug introduced in 242 as well as speeds up the “compiling shaders” step of the loading process.  Here is the complete change log:

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Exoskelett

fiiiirst - hopefully not affect the awesome performance of 242

ritualsacrifice

hopefully this fixes the invisible infestation bug.

YMICrazy

Aw yea that was fast.

0+0=0

aw yea

Kouji_San

ritualsacrifice wrote: »

hopefully this fixes the invisible infestation bug.

Among another one that just popped up randomly.

*glares at the infestation*

Got any more tricks up your sleeve *gets the flamethrower from the shed*

Obraxis

ritualsacrifice wrote: »

hopefully this fixes the invisible infestation bug.

It does indeed

SquishpokePOOPFACE

242 wouldn't have been a real patch without a hotfix. :P

ritualsacrifice

Obraxis wrote: »

ritualsacrifice wrote: »

hopefully this fixes the invisible infestation bug.

It does indeed

yesssssss i just encountered it for the first time and it was driving me crazy even if it isn't really that big of a deal xD

YMICrazy

Still I wonder why our infestation was messed up. Not a lot of people reported it and the one's that did had different video cards. Either way at least it's gone.

ritualsacrifice

anyone else having trouble using the nsl maps? we can't get them to load on our server and we have a match that's supposed to start right now

it's probably just our server, it's usually pretty bad lol but i was j/w

MzMz

nvm

Obraxis

Just a remind folks, NS2Stats and other mods will need to be updated first.

Wheeee

woop 400% faster shader compiles

RockyMarc

Can you see if you are invis in alien vision yet? o_O

Comprox

YMICrazy502 wrote: »

Still I wonder why our infestation was messed up. Not a lot of people reported it and the one's that did had different video cards. Either way at least it's gone.

@YMICrazy502 It dealt with whether shaders had been recompiled or was a fresh install. Nothing video card specific really.

HeadhunT101

Do you guys know if this update may of caused some bugs in stopping mods from working, none of my mods work now, and originally I have had problems were shader mods and even changing the loading spinner wont work unless its installed server side, anyway of updating it so this doesn't happen. Ive worked really hard and for many hours to bring people these mods, and I'd like to make sure they stay working.

Asraniel

i needed 5 minutes to compile shaders before, now its under a minute. i'm happy

Xarius

Thank god for the compiling shader change, definitely welcome with the free weekend coming up, as I think a lot of players would have be appalled by it. (For me it sometimes took a whopping 5 minutes)

Madd0g

UWE patchs this game more times in a week than DICE does in years.
And for free!
You guys are awsome!

MiniH0wie

RockyMarc wrote: »

Can you see if you are invis in alien vision yet? o_O

Nope

Jekt

Ok, so everytime I open the game and join a server I need to run through compiled updated shaders and precaching EVERY TIME. And it ain't quick, it takes 5+ minutes. During this 5 minutes my CPU usage is at 100% constantly. Typing this I've been stuck on Compiled Updating Shaders at 80% for 4 minutes now and counting. Pretty sure it's actually stuck this time.

During map change myself and at least two others I play with have encountered a common crash to desktop runtime error.

i7 3750k @ 4.4Ghz on 64bit Windows 7.


edit: Was stuck at 80%, using disconnect in console got me back to the main menu where I was still locked at 100% CPU usage. Is NS2 the new top of the art overclock stress test?

eliotmat

Thanks for the update, gentlemangs and womangs.

This game keeps getting better and better!

Gorgenapper

Just as a heads up to an otherwise great patch (242 and 243), it appears that some of us (and probably only some of the time) cannot get nanoshield/bone wall/scan to work. Maybe other commander actions are broken too, but I know for certain that nanoshield and scan failed to work for me in a game last night. Admittedly I wasn't commanding (marines) as well as I should have been, and the biggest problem was that I kept losing my second base to gorges and that I should have beaconed for a few of those rushes, but MY GOD the lack of nanoshield and scan was just . I could have saved several power nodes for long enough for my team to phase and kill that gorge, but E-D no worky. I could have blasted out nanogrid with my ARCs without needing west junction power.

Also, the after effects of those scans/umbras/enzyme mists remain on the map afterwards. I played another game after that, and we had one guy on the alien team complain about the comm (not me) scanning 20 times in a row when he wasn't even doing so. In fact, even after the aliens took out the power in that part of the map, scans were still 'pinging' continuously just without the noise, and that area of the map never turned dark or red.

tarquinbb

gotta say that there was an unusually large number of people idle in the ready room, presumably taking ages for them to load the map... i don't remember it being that bad before.

although performance has been great for me, faster loading (although not as fast as b240 which was lightning quick), and the framerate seems to have greatly improved - on average about 15fps more than b241.

Obraxis

Gorgenapper wrote: »

Just as a heads up to an otherwise great patch (242 and 243), it appears that some of us (and probably only some of the time) cannot get nanoshield/bone wall/scan to work. Maybe other commander actions are broken too, but I know for certain that nanoshield and scan failed to work for me in a game last night. Admittedly I wasn't commanding (marines) as well as I should have been, and the biggest problem was that I kept losing my second base to gorges and that I should have beaconed for a few of those rushes, but MY GOD the lack of nanoshield and scan was just . I could have saved several power nodes for long enough for my team to phase and kill that gorge, but E-D no worky. I could have blasted out nanogrid with my ARCs without needing west junction power.

Also, the after effects of those scans/umbras/enzyme mists remain on the map afterwards. I played another game after that, and we had one guy on the alien team complain about the comm (not me) scanning 20 times in a row when he wasn't even doing so. In fact, even after the aliens took out the power in that part of the map, scans were still 'pinging' continuously just without the noise, and that area of the map never turned dark or red.

Please make sure the server is not running any mods. Try on vanilla servers.

Gorgenapper

Obraxis wrote: »

Gorgenapper wrote: »

Just as a heads up to an otherwise great patch (242 and 243), it appears that some of us (and probably only some of the time) cannot get nanoshield/bone wall/scan to work. Maybe other commander actions are broken too, but I know for certain that nanoshield and scan failed to work for me in a game last night. Admittedly I wasn't commanding (marines) as well as I should have been, and the biggest problem was that I kept losing my second base to gorges and that I should have beaconed for a few of those rushes, but MY GOD the lack of nanoshield and scan was just . I could have saved several power nodes for long enough for my team to phase and kill that gorge, but E-D no worky. I could have blasted out nanogrid with my ARCs without needing west junction power.

Also, the after effects of those scans/umbras/enzyme mists remain on the map afterwards. I played another game after that, and we had one guy on the alien team complain about the comm (not me) scanning 20 times in a row when he wasn't even doing so. In fact, even after the aliens took out the power in that part of the map, scans were still 'pinging' continuously just without the noise, and that area of the map never turned dark or red.

Please make sure the server is not running any mods. Try on vanilla servers.

Yeah this is possible... it was on the KKG servers, and those are modded (badges, etc, nothing fancy).

joshhh

Gorgenapper wrote: »

Yeah this is possible... it was on the KKG servers, and those are modded (badges, etc, nothing fancy).

KKG's consistency checker used to break parts of the game like infestation and such. Might be something like that.

MiniH0wie

Gorgenapper wrote: »

Just as a heads up to an otherwise great patch (242 and 243), it appears that some of us (and probably only some of the time) cannot get nanoshield/bone wall/scan to work. Maybe other commander actions are broken too, but I know for certain that nanoshield and scan failed to work for me in a game last night. Admittedly I wasn't commanding (marines) as well as I should have been, and the biggest problem was that I kept losing my second base to gorges and that I should have beaconed for a few of those rushes, but MY GOD the lack of nanoshield and scan was just . I could have saved several power nodes for long enough for my team to phase and kill that gorge, but E-D no worky. I could have blasted out nanogrid with my ARCs without needing west junction power.

Also, the after effects of those scans/umbras/enzyme mists remain on the map afterwards. I played another game after that, and we had one guy on the alien team complain about the comm (not me) scanning 20 times in a row when he wasn't even doing so. In fact, even after the aliens took out the power in that part of the map, scans were still 'pinging' continuously just without the noise, and that area of the map never turned dark or red.

That's OK, you had two guys that carried your entire team with both of them going something like 86-6.... :-?

I did notice the scan ping that was contanstly going off in Nanogrid, I thought it was strange that you were wasting all that res on little oh me. But then I remembered you saying scan wasn't working.

Gorgenapper

MiniH0wie wrote: »

That's OK, you had two guys that carried your entire team with both of them going something like 86-6.... :-?

I deny everything! Cease your lies and slander!

But yeah, it was Joe and wallenberg...but it's not like aliens didn't have any good players, otherwise it would have been a straight stomp. Keep in mind too that I was really on the ball with most of the med and ammo requests, if I must say so myself, and those two would have died many times over if I hadn't done my job of medding/ammo them. I wish I could have used nanoshield to keep them both alive even longer for some of the fiercer fights at Overlook though....

When all is said and done, I think I did good on keeping the res flowing (with a great deal of help from people who welded and kept being at those res nodes to bring them back up), and I think I did good on the upgrades (except for not getting GLs/Flamethrowers earlier due to my focus on trying to ARC out nano - before I realized scans were not working)...but I dropped the ball on the early game beacon (I meant to upgrade phase tech, but hit S instead...), and I wasn't keeping a closer eye on my second base in Pipeline that it went down several times.

I mean, I was quick enough to beacon when I saw that final epic 5 gorge rush on Control at the end (and we still lost power anyway)....but the fact of the matter is I screwed up on keeping Pipeline alive... -_-

I did notice the scan ping that was contanstly going off in Nanogrid, I thought it was strange that you were wasting all that res on little oh me. But then I remembered you saying scan wasn't working.

If you don't hear the ping noise, that wasn't a scan that I dropped.

ijustpwnedu96

Fps improved by 10-20. I can finally fight in late-game now