Puck: Build 185

Yet another Puck update has arrived! This update introduces a lot of QOL features along with some physics changes which will affect competitive play. See the full changelog below.

Changes & additions:

• Reworked goals & nets:

• Completely remodeled goals to closer match their real life counterparts

• Introduced physics to goal nets which react to puck impacts

• Pucks impacting the net will be dampened, mimicking a real net interaction

• Improved A/D sway to be more responsive and less floaty

• Improved stick:

• Added stick dragging across the ice sounds

• Added stick tapping the ice sounds

• Changed stick angle rotation pivot to the bottom center of the blade, which has a few benefits:

• Stick -> board collisions will react more predictably at certain angles, where previously reverse velocity would be applied even if the stick would not visually contact the boards

• Puck will leave the stick blade at a more predictable trajectory with any angle above or below 0

• Improved puck:

• Added slightly more weight to the puck

• Added custom physics solver to calculate the exit trajectory of the puck when it is hit

• Improved puck visibility:

• Added puck elevation indicator showing a ring & line on the ice while the puck is mid-air (toggle in settings)

• Added puck outline to help with puck visibility specifically on black sticks/tapes (toggle in settings)

• Improved player body colliders:

• Reworked all player body colliders to match the visual mesh 1:1

• Raised the player crouch height just enough so the puck can pass underneath the player

• Improved minimap:

• Fixed minimap markings not matching the updated rink markings

• Added background opacity adjustments (slider in settings)

• Added positional adjustments (slider in settings)

• Added scale adjustments (slider in settings)

• Improved chat:

• Chat messages will now gradually fade out after a specific amount of time

• Added animation for new chat messages to slide in gradually

• Added separate team & all chats (T for team chat, Y for all chat by default)

• Added quick chat messages (used with 1, 2, 3 & 4 keys)

• Added rate limiting for chat messages to avoid chat spam

• Added scale adjustments (slider in settings)

• Fixed chat not being scrollable

• Fixed chat losing focus when trying to select text within it

• Added 2nd assist player when a goal is scored

• Added possibility to sprint backwards

• Added number & name labels on top of players heads (toggle in settings)

• Added camera angle adjustment, allowing you to adjust the camera downwards angle (slider in settings)

• Added possibility to disable profanity filters (toggle in settings)

• Added /start and /warmup admin commands to force Face Off or Warmup phases

• Improved shadow visibility at longer distances

• Improved shadow contrast further

• Swapped default debug shortcut key from F12 to F8 (to avoid Steam's screenshot shortcut)

• Network Smoothing setting will now be off by default for new players

• Raised slide height slightly to allow for easier 5 hole shots

• Improved goal announcements formatting (specifically goal player and assist players)

• Improved goalie leg pad animations stuttering if pressed rapidly

Bugfixes:

• Fixed server browser still failing to show some servers in certain cases

• Fixed scroll wheel input for some specific mice, especially with linear scroll wheel

• Clients will now be prompted for password input when joining a server via Steam invite

• Fixed board colliders causing the puck to sometimes shoot off in a random direction

• Fixed body checking sometimes causing the target player to be launched across the rink

• Optimized client network synchronization saving 1kB/s per-player

• Split game settings into two sub-categories - GAMEPLAY and USER INTERFACE

• Fixed left handedness not being perfectly mirrored from right handedness

• Fixed exploit allowing for multiple Goalies to be spawned in the same team

• Fixed floating point error causing player input delays on long running servers

• Fixed a skating speed exploit caused by stick & board interactions

• Fixed replays freezing before play when the match has been ongoing for longer periods of time with a lot of players

• Fixed an issue where self-hosted servers would ignore the port number input field resulting in always launching on port 7777

• Fixed Goalie pads stuttering during animation