New and improved for consideration for this year's Scream Fortress event! A lot can happen in a year, and Slasher is back with a vengeance. There might be a few more tweaks to go here and there, but this is the big update from the last few months of on-and-off work! Here's what changed:
- Fixed a bug where spell-casted Merasmus will have the same effect on the capture point as the Boss Merasmus - i.e. locked, timer paused, etc, courtesy of a fix from Valve.
- Merasmus now doubles as an announcer throughout the round, replacing The Administrator in full.
- Improved optimization brushwork.
- Increased round time to 7 minutes.
- Fixed leftover playerclip brushes that would get players caught on a set of doorframes.
- Changed any stair and underworld platform clips from playerclip to blockbullets.
- Fixed floating props.
- Completely rehauled 3d skybox.
- Fixed some displacements that were clipping through others.
- Scaled up water in the lake.
- Updated materials for the Totem Pole.
- Added more grass to the lower half of the map.
- Reduced overall grass sprites by 40% for optimization.
- Harshened prop fade distances.
- Updated detailing on the lakeside building routes out of the spawns.
- Raised the high route buildings.
- Fixed some Red textures that weren't changed on Blu.
- Fixed a road overlay that wasn't applying to part of its faces.
- Updated structure of the lakeside mid buildings for detailing renovations and optimization.
- Added cross-mid sightline blockers to lakeside paths.
- Fixed discrepancy in the rock symmetry between yards.
- Disabled nobuild on mid building rooftops.
- Added custom soundscapes.
- Lengthened mess hall buildings and revised their detailing.
- In addition to the Ghosts that patrol the map during the Haunting event, other Ghosts will now pop out of randomized points in the ground briefly to spook players in rapid succession.
- Fixed some pumpkin bombs spawning in world geometry.
- Updated FX for when a Boss is spawning in.
- Fixed a bug where sometimes the first roulette spin wouldn't happen for over 3-4 minutes into a round.
- Fixed players not being properly oriented when teleported to the Otherworld.
- Improved lighting around the point.
- Various detailing additions and improvements.
- Improved clipping.
- Closed a doorway in the boathouses.
- Fixed players being able to hide buildings in the trees at mid.
- Improved detailing in the boathouses.
- Fixed vphysics console spam on map start.
- Added menu photos.
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