User interface:

Improved scoreboard The scoreboard now shows the player's team first. Added resource counts for each alien player. Added primary weapon type for each marine player. This column shows the player's level when playing combat. Added map name and round timer to scoreboard. Fixed a bug where team score was being displayed in the kills column. Allow muting of players on the other team.

Minimap improvements Can now be viewed before the round starts. Structures under attack flash red on the minimap. New colour scheme for minimap sprites. Commander minimap improvements. Show the full minimap sprites for the commander on +showmap. Added transparent minimaps with cl_labelmaps 0: unlabelled minimap. 1: labelled minimap. 2: transparent, unlabelled minimap. 3: transparent, labelled minimap.

Added new inventory indicators to marine HUD: welder. mines. hand grenades. Updated HUD icons to more clearly indicate the level of marine upgrades.

Added a cloaking indicator to the alien HUD. Modified the alien ability HUD icons. Reduced size to make them less obtrusive. Added indicator for available upgrade level.

Updated sprite for generic progress bar.

• Added custom crosshairs

• Five crosshairs types for every weapon.
• The crosshair choices are available in the advanced multiplayer options.
• Can also be selected with cl_customcrosshair 0|1|2|3|4.
• Type one and two include spread indicators, while type three and four stay the same for all weapons.
• Type zero selects the crosshairs from 3.1.
• Crosshairs are available at these resolutions: 640/800/1024/1280.

• Hive sight HUD text
  • Added transparency effect: the farther from the center of the screen the HUD text is, the more transparent it will be.
  • Added cl_labelhivesight cvar (default 1) to allow players to disable hive sight labels on the alien HUD.

Various fixes:

• Fixed: Losing all upgrade levels when at least 1 active chamber remains.
• Fixed a bug where a player had to click "Readyroom" twice.
• Fixed: flashlight sound is affected by silence
• Fixed: Votemap was not adjusting the required votes when a player left the server.
• The advanced alien sight (flashlight) will not be automatically switched off when a player dies.
• Death sprites now determined by the weapon doing the damage instead of the current weapon selected (e.g. no more "stomp" kills).
• Players always see the health indicator for the other team's structures, not the unbuilt status.
• Reverted the animation of a jumping skulk to 3.0 behaviour.  This is an animation change only.
• Fixed a problem where sieges automatically sighted structures in range that are on slopes.
• Fixed a problem where players could not sight structures on slopes.
• Fixed commander keyboard scrolling (+scrollleft, +scrollright, +scrollup and +scrolldown).
• Heavy armour and jetpack are now visible in the readyroom.
• Fixed cl_autohelp in options window.
• Added player list to game menu for steam friends. (Thanks anakin)
• Improved playback of HUD alert messages (base under attack, enemy approaches, hive under attack etc.)
• Added support for +commandmenu.
• Fixed: "building under attack" will play on friendly structures after an enemy structure dies in the same location.
• Fixed commander view of alien health rings.
• Fixed server crash related to large numbers of chambers (entities)
  • added server varaible sv_structurelimit, which restricts the number of structures that can be built on the map at once (excluding hives, RTs, and CCs).
  • default value is 300.

• Fixed end-of-round player disconnection issue (usually seen on large servers)
  • Chambers and structures no longer play effects when being destroyed during round reset.

• Fixed a textmsg crash.

• Votes against a commander are now retained unless a different player becomes commander.

• Fixed setgamma.
• Fixed slowresearch (sv_cheats 1) for build times.
• Reset the crosshair show count on round reset, fixes the missing crosshair problem.
• Fixed Onos digestion progress bar.
• Fixed: if an advanced armory is lost and no other armories exist, the observatory and armslab can not be built until a new armory is built.
• Fixed a formatting issue with the server name in the scoreboard.
• Removed the voice- and sound-related signoncommands from ns-hltv.cfg.
• Fixed a logfile print issue for end of round score.
• Fixed a bug where team score was not being reset if mp_tournament mode was changed from 1 to 0 between rounds.
• Crouched lerk flight plays flap animation.
• Crouched alien attack animations now play.
• Aliens can not gestate on steep slopes.
• Eggs no longer take fall damage.
• Fixed a bug where a the hive gained 15% health when it completed after it has been killed before.
• Exploit prevention
  • Improved cvar locking.
  • Added ns.wad, ns2.wad and v_wad.wad to consistency check.
  • Remove the cl_rate command from the game.
  • Fixed a bug where the obs effected neutral entities on the minimap for both teams.
  • Fixed silent walk exploit.
  • Fixed a bug where observatory actions (e.g. scan) were selectable during research.
  • Fixed an exploit where commanders could place structures silently. (thanks RouterBox)

• Fixed "Auto Director" button in HLTV.
• Fixed a bug where player chat in HLTV wasn't displayed after round end.
• Fixed a HLTV bug where a minimap would become unavailable after map change.
• The HUD initialises correctly when connecting to HLTV directly from an active game.
• Fixed a bug where joining a HLTV server after playing on a game server (either the server you are spectating, or another) would cause sprites and particle effects to display oddly.
• Scoreboard is now updated more frequently for HLTV (so connecting players get the info).

• Fixed problematic model hitboxes:

Armory changes:


Phase Gate changes:



Resource Tower changes:



Turret Factory changes:



Automated Siege Cannon changes: