Warfork — v2.16 Released

Changelog

Graphics & Visuals

• Added Vulkan renderer (OpenGL is still the default for now, as the Vulkan renderer is experimental. To enable it, go to Options > Video > Graphics Driver). — Michael Pollind

• Add additional triangles to bullet, plasma, and gunblade hit effects — astroZEBUS

• Grenade model now has an outline; higher-res blob shadow; fixed cg_shadows 2 on Vulkan; fixed flickering world outlines on Vulkan; fixed clipping error on cg_showselfshadow 1 — astroZEBUS

• Repaired deformvertexes wave/bulge on the Health Model shader — astroZEBUS

• Increased max animmap frames to 32 (used for weapon textures) — astroZEBUS

• More triangles on projectile models — astroZEBUS

• Repaired model smoothing to improve lighting — astroZEBUS

• Fixed mirrored UV on the ammobox; added backface to the playerspawn model — astroZEBUS

• Player-outline cvar cg_outlinePlayers default changed from 1 to 2; added a black outline option — astroZEBUS

• New post-processing path: FXAA and color correction via pogo buffers — Michael Pollind

• Fixed shadow rendering, portal rendering, skybox crash, and assorted Vulkan validation issues — Michael Pollind

• Resolved broken cubemaps — Michael Pollind

Gameplay & UI

• New cvars for dash and wall-jump cooldowns, with console descriptions — EXtremeExploit

• New g_pmove cvars — velzie

• New g_callvote_usercooldowntime cvar — velzie

• Callvote instagib option — velzie

• Scoreboard now displays immediately without waiting for the server — velzie

• Scoreboard teamcolor selection corrected (fix #363); offsets now scale with font size — velzie / CoolElectronics

• Added a 3-second timeout before Esc sends a disconnect — velzie

• New menu option to select the video module — velzie

• Quake 1 and 2 maps can now be played (ported from Qfusion). — Michael Pollind

Audio & Voice Chat

• cl_flip now also flips audio left/right — astroZEBUS

• Initial in-game voice chat implementation with push-to-talk and binds (off by default for now, as it is experimental; to enable it, go to Options > Audio > Enable voice chat). — velzie

• Voices HUD with enable/disable option in the UI — velzie

• Voice playback and voice-token effects now respect the player blocklist — velzie

Steam Integration

• Added Steam Datagram Relay support to route traffic through Steam: [https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/features/multiplayer/steamdatagramrelay](https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/features/multiplayer/steamdatagramrelay) (off by default for now, as it is experimental; to enable it, go to Options > Player > Route traffic through Steam). — velzie

• Warning UI when Steam isn't active; added hint about Steam overlay — velzie

• Steamshim watchdog thread and reworked connection logic for reliability — velzie / Michael Pollind

• Resolved a performance issue with steamshim — Michael Pollind

• Fixed broken Steam avatar images — Michael Pollind

Server Browser & Networking

• Warfork masterserver fetching in the server browser, with masterservers_warfork cvar — velzie

• Fixed server hang and maps ajax command overflow — velzie

• Warmonger disabled for dedicated servers — Velzie

Stability & Crash Fixes

• Added Sentry.io Crashpad support, which can be opted out of in-game via Options > Privacy. — Michael Pollind

• Fixed client drop when switching maps (SDR) — Michael Pollind

• Fixed dedicated servers being broken — Michael Pollind

• Fixed crash when switching to fullscreen — Michael Pollind

• Fixed crash where ftlib R_InitShader was called twice — Michael Pollind

• Fixed pk3s not loading with the new version logic — velzie

• Fixed several null-pointer crashes and memory leaks in the network and rendering paths — velzie / Michael Pollind

Platforms & Localization

• Builds on aarch64 (ARM64) targets — Jeta

• Russian translation updated — adem

Thanks to all contributors: Michael Pollind, velzie, astroZEBUS, Tonik, EXtremeExploit, Caine, Jeta, Gelmo, adem