Another large update!

I've been doing my best fixing and balancing things that was either broken or OP. Some new additions has also been added, such as "Nightmare" difficulty, for those who are up for the challenge.

Flatline has been updated, such as the "Mystery Box", and the new "Trap" items. The "Mystery Box" will always grant a weapon with a random upgrade, such as double damage for example.



The survivor AI has also been updated, they no longer get stuck on ladders and will now drop their weapon if they run out of ammo, and get scared if the zombie attacks them if they have no weapon.

Extraction has been tweaked, it no longer starts the horde right away when you reach the hold out position, so now you will have time to board up and loot the location.



Infected AI can now also grapple survivors, however, this only applies to Hard and higher difficulties. Just like the player grapple, it will infect the players if infection is enabled. And will deal a great deal amount of damage, so double check your surroundings when playing on Hard or higher difficulties.

Steam Workshop has also been updated to UGC format, instead of using the old Legacy which utilized Steam Cloud. With this new changes, clients will be able to download UGC directly when trying to join a server that uses a map from the Steam Workshop. Older Legacy content does not support this feature.



The Inoculator is back! This time, however, it acts differently than it did in the KS and Early Access builds, since the First Aid kit has taken it's role. The inoculator this time around cures the infection, however, on Hard and higher, it only delays the infection. It also grants 25% health, so it can also be used as a health item.



2 New zombie "types" has been added, which is the "doctors" and "looters". The doctors can drop a first aid kit, or a inoculator, however, the drop chance decreases on each difficulty. The looters act similar to the "fallen survivor" from Left 4 Dead, which is where this type is inspired from. They will randomly drop ammo, or an explosive. Just like the doctors, their drop rate gets less the harder difficulty you play on.

I hope everyone will enjoy this update!

Changelog

Engine

• Added "maxplayers_override" to override the maxplayers limit. This will however warn players when they try to join the server
• Updated ServerBrowser.dll to show Game Version, instead of "Game", and removed Game Filter
• Updated Steam Workshop to use UGC format instead of Legacy content
• Fixed "status" showing incorrect steamid's
• Fixed "[S_API WARN] Calling ISteamGameServer::SetDedicatedServer after CM connection already initiated." spam

Tools

• Updated the Contagion Workshop tool to use the latest SteamAPI calls and use SteamUGC instead of SteamStorage for publishing to Steam Workshop.
• Updated contagion.fgd

Game

• Added new achievements
• Added "Drop Return Position" for key objective items (keys, keycard, boltcutter, gasmask) to prevent griefing
• Added "Mystery Box" and "Trap" shop items for Flatline
• Added Banjo sound events
• Added trap_fire and trap_fence for flatline
• Added weapon_glowstick
• Added weapon_inoculator
• Added difficulty convar cg_flatline_money_bonus
• Added difficulty convar cg_flatline_money_penalty
• Added convar cg_safezone_endtimer_on_reach (Default: 0)
• Added convar cg_safezone_endtimer (Default: 120)
• Added convar cg_safezone_ignore_latejoiners (Default: 0)
• Added convar cont_toggle_hud_drawtime (Default: 2.5)
• Added new optional difficulty "Nightmare"
• Added where infected zombies can grapple survivors (Hard and higher difficulty)
• Added 2 new zombies types "Zombie Doctor" and "Zombie Looter"
• Updated Flatline to delete dropped weapons after 60 seconds
• Updated Survivors on Extraction, to have ammo capacity (they only have 10 extra clips, reads the max size cap of the current weapon)
• Updated Turret AI to have ammo capacity (default: 500)
• Updated TargetID to show turret ammo capacity
• Updated Survivor AI weapon drop on death (doesn't refil weapon when dying)
• Updated Survivor AI to become scared if they don't poses a weapon
• Updated Lobby Game Settings to allow panic classic, and panic objective to support 16 players
• Updated Extraction, to enable the horde after 35 seconds instead of 5 (boarding was basically pointless)
• Updated Survivor AI to refuse other people from taking over, if we already have a follower (that isn't dead)
• Updated zombie animations, now it will read the death animations (if they are in important state)
• Updated filter_objective to allow for objectives that uses specific names
• Updated where you can attach to any player on all modes, not just flatline
• Updated particle files (environmental_fx.pxf & weapons_fx.pxf)
• Updated escape gamemode to give the player a melee weapon on spawn (kabar, wrench, banjo or guitar)
• Updated camp.bnk (Added AS_ElectrifiedFence)
• Updated "Ambient Sound Editor" to create the "scripts/soundsystem" under "contagion" folder when trying to save, if the folders does not exist
• Updated Turret AI sounds
• Updated damage when shoving zombies on higher difficulties (Hard and higher)
• Updated Flatline penalty and bonus for each difficulty
• Updated Flatline Nightmare mode, where money resets back to default 100 on failure (if round saver was not bought)
• Updated Turret AI to have the same firerate as MP5K and nerfed it's OP aim lock on zombies
• Updated "Healing…" to use the same textures as the Contagion Beta
• Updated "Healing…" to be hidden on Nightmare difficulty
• Updated infected death animations
• Fixed healing not working on teammates
• Fixed some minor bugs on Flatline
• Fixed crossbow reload animation not resetting the "empty_pose" paramater
• Fixed crossbow arrows being terrible
• Fixed compbow breaking apart if empty
• Fixed "ThePresident.SetInfectedLives" Vscript code. Now it no longer softlocks the game for one stupid reason or another
• Fixed Extraction GPS not sending the location to the extraction zone correctly
• Fixed Extraction Survivor throwing gasmask and keycards
• Fixed Survivors AI having a breakdown when using ladders
• Fixed cockroaches spectating another cockroach on flatline
• Fixed biotec monitors having broken UV
• Fixed "props_train_station/outer_light01_bulbmetal.vmt" being faulty
• Fixed where pistol ammo where given if Flatline was on Hard and Extreme
• Fixed bullets not registering as damage on glassplanes
• Fixed Turret AI having blood decals
• Fixed Turret AI not stopping sounds when its being destroyed
• Fixed crossbow and compbow dealing 1hit kill when using their melee
• Fixed item_ammo_barricade not playing "use" activities
• Fixed buddha being incorrect
• Fixed VGUI breaking apart on the phone on Extraction
• Fixed a crash on the mainmenu where the game would crash if it was trying to load custom UI
• Fixed where the game would give the user wrong achievements on map completion
• Fixed cont_toggle_hud not working as intended

Maps

• Updated cf_stonecreek, fixed some visual bugs
• Updated ce_biotec to support parallax cubemaps
• Updated ce_barlowesquare_02 balance at the subway being impossible on Extreme
• Updated cf_harvest to utilize fence trap
• Updated cf_campwhitner and cf_montclair old fence trap to utilize trap_fence entity instead