Brink PC patched with new features

24 Jun 2011 at 01:29:48 by Paul Younger

Splash Damage has updated their team shooter Brink earlier which added new features.

The latest PC version of Brink has added end game chat, a new Stopwatch results screen, VoIP sliders, a fix for invisible players, networking optimizations, and a loads od weapon tweaks. If you're running a server, that has also been updated so admins are urged to make the update. The full list of changes are as follows.

General

• Fixed invisible players sometimes (dis)appearing
• Combat Intuition no longer gets triggered by disguised players
• Flash Bangs no longer affect spectators
• Fixed being able to collide with grenades as a spectator
• Fixed drag-to still applying when enemies respawned
• Enabling cheats now disables character saving and stats reporting for that session
• Team switch delays now get reset on map restart
• Vsync is now enabled by default
• Fixed 3rd person animation when hacking as an Operative
• Fixed server/client aim issues
• Fixed dark shadow-band on narrow FOVs
• Fixed potential crash during map load on client if heavily lagged right before a map change
• Fixed potential crash if disguising on a dedicated server
• Fixed odd line appearing during some cinematics

Levels

• Fixed overtime when repairing the crane on Shipyard
• Fixed overtime not ending when Hackbox is removed on Reactor
• Fixed Container City lab door sometimes appearing closed for clients

User Interface

• Added better chat support for match results and during midtro/outros
• Added improved Stopwatch mode end-game review screen
• Added options for VOIP volume in settings menu
• Fixed navigation issues on menus with password fields
• Disabled chatting when in solo mode
• Added support for up to 4 deployable icons
• Fixed being able to click invisible filter buttons when the filters panel is collapsed

Balance

• Tweaked several weapons (full details here)
• Added body type health to Netvars for future tweaking
• Added map spawn timers to Netvars for future tweaking

Optimizations

• Optimized networking to reduce snapshot sizes
• Optimised light-rendering
• Minor performance improvement to static AO rendering
• Added conditional to sun-rendering to speed it up slightly in case of all shadow
• Fixed sunlight when indoors in Security Tower
• Added support for dummy files to improve loading times

Dedicated Servers

• No longer disconnect server if Steam connection is lost and grace period ends
• Added listClients server command
• Disabled missing mesh/sound/image warnings on servers
• Disabled character compositing on servers to reduce server size

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