Cortex Command Build 32, the Performance Update is HERE

Your wait is over: both for this fresh build of your old faithful game, and also for the next frames in the heat of the fiercest battle! Don't wait to get a copy for yourself or a friend, since the massive 85% OFF sale will only last for a few more days...

Here's what's fresh, thanks to Evgeniy "Weegee” Vigovskiy, Jesús “GranPC” Higueras Pica, and Chris “Montdidier” Kruger:

Performance

• Cortex Command now pumps up to 2x more frames per second!!

• Game activities no longer slow down when played for too long.

Gameplay

• Added keyboards shortcuts for weapon switch, reload, drop and pickup actions (also works with gamepads).

• Gib editor now rounds all offsets.

• Deployments can spawn flipped for non-flipped actors.

• It's easier to find out how many gamepads were detected and who moves the cursor in UIs.

• Limbless actors will inevitably and quickly die.

• Reworked Test Activity to act as an ordinary GAScripted and execute Global Scripts (good for testing and debugging global scripts).

Content

• Bunker breach can be used with randomized bunkers.

• Added randomized fortresses for Bunker Breach.

• Added new skirmish activity Siege, which uses Bunker Breach maps.

• Nerfed heavy ronins a lot.

• Added global script, which gives 3x more gold when digging.

• Added infinite ammo global script.

• Added invincible crafts global script.

• Added instant and delayed delivery global scripts.

Bugfixes

• Added range checks to functions, which take Team as parameter to avoid memory corruption.

• When brain actor is deleted, MovableMan checks if it's a brain and if it is, set's this brain to 0 to avoid crashes.

• Dead actors no longer roll and scream infinitely

• Dead actors reduce their AngularVel.

• Fixed crashes in allegro and luabind.

• Vanilla activities now count used MOIDs on per-team basis.

• Fixed the shield-related crash in Campaign.

• Primitives are no longer drawn on top of game UI elements.

• Fixed a bug, which caused a crash in buy menu.

• Fixed crash caused by digging.

Lua binding improvements:

Scene:

• function GetOptionalArea the same as GetArea, but does not render scene incompatible for Activity if specified area is missing

SceneMan:

• function RestoreUnseen(const int posX, const int posY, const int team)

• function RestoreUnseenBox(const int posX, const int posY, const int width, const int height, const int team);

FrameMan:

• function DrawTextPrimitive(Vector start, std::string text, bool isSmall, int alignment) , alignment 0 = left, 1 = center, 2 = right

• function DrawBitmapPrimitive(Vector start, Entity * pEntity, float rotAngle, int frame)

• function CalculateTextHeight(std::string text, int maxWidth, bool isSmall)

• function CalculateTextWidth(std::string text, bool isSmall)

GameActivity:

• function int GetActiveCPUTeamCount()

• function int GetActiveHumanTeamCount()

HDFirearm:

• property FiredOnce, r/o , Whether at least one round has already been fired during the current activation. May be 0 because weapon might have activated but no actual rounds were fired yet.

• property FiredFrame, r/o, Whether at least one round has already been fired during the current frame. Use this to check if weapon fired something.

• property RoundsFired, r/o, How many rounds were fired during this frame.

GameActivity:

• property BuyMenuEnabled, r/w, Whether buy menu is enabled for this activity

Actor:

• property AimDistance , r/w

• property SightDistance, r/w

AEMitter:

• property BurstDamage, r/w

• property EmitCountLimit, r/w

• property EmitDamage, r/w

INI changes:

PEmitter:

• Lightweight, non-rotating MOSParticle-based emitter

MovableObject:

• DamageOnCollision 0,1 - When it's != 0 actors takes health damage on collision with this MO, without penetration

• IgnoreTerrain 0,1 - When it's 1 MO ignores any terrain collisions and travels right through them

Settings.ini:

• PreciseCollisions 0,1 - When off uses experimental simplified MO collision model which may improve performance up to 30%