PD_Salvador B3c

• Fixed beach water for DirectX 8

• Removed expensive reflective water, replaced with cheap water with refract pixel shader (Double brush water+refract func_illusionary). It seems to cause some visual artifacts in some places, however it's very cheap (20+ average FPS everywhere in the map) and looks good enough

• Reduced file size by about 50%
• Synced assets with Tropic Crisis pack, it should reduce the chance of missing textures after playing multiples maps before Salvador
• Adjustments to a lot of early prop fades everywhere
• Increased HDR brightness a bit
• More optimizations
• Added distance fade to confetti particles to improve performance
• Truck now destroys engineer buildings
• Reverted some props back to brush to improve lighting shadows
• Fixed weird collisions on underwater path
• Fixed detail objects on displacements (We now have grass sprites)
• Minor adjustments to artpass
• Minor adjustments to soundscape

• Possible fix for crash
• Added missing powerup icons

Gamemode @LizardOfOz:

• The Samba Meter provides only 1 buff chosen at random when completely full. Available buffs: mini-crits, speed, battalion's backup damage resistance, instant respawn, infinite ammo.
• The meter fill speed has been doubled.
• The truck speeds up after been captured for some time
• Fixed game_text overdrawing

Map @Midlou:

• Started base artpass
• A lot of adjustments to 3D skybox
• Expanded the area between the spawn and mid
• Changed height of some routes so you have more advantage when leaving spawn
• Adjustments to pickups placement
• Added new routes in the edges of the map

• More optimizations
• Removed prop_dynamic's from skybox 3D to improve FPS
• Blocked/adjusted some sighlines
• Adjustments to some areaportals

• General adjustments to layout
• Moved some pickups around to balance stuff
• Changed spawns to be outdoor
• Tried to reduce places where players can be stuck around the truck
• Adjustments to HDR
• Adjustments to respawn time and capture point bonus