What's new in Half-Life 2: Pirates, Vikings and Knights II Beta Client 2.2
Sep 12, 2008- Fixed arrows sometimes pushing the enemy towards the attacker instead of pushing him away.
- Added a delay before teams can be switched again after joining a team.
- Kegs that explode after the thrower has died no longer increase the special bar.
- Fixed berserking health boost not working correctly when the player already has the health boost for holding the grail
- Fixed Blunderbuss special reload exploit.
- Fixed pickup respawn issue in deathmatch maps.
- Fixed the grail overlay being too bright/obtrusive.
- Fixed attacks doing 1.4x the normal damage against the grail holder.
- Fixed +1 death caused by autoteambalance.
- Fixed some reported client-side crashes.
- Added health and armor bars now flash white when getting the instant health and armor bonus for killing the grail carrier.
- Added a hud effect when being healed by the grail.
- Added support for loading maps/mod_textures_mapname.txt for support custom map custom death notices.
- Added Parrot Naming ability. Defaults to Polly (name can be changed in multiplayer advanced options).
- Added Donator Icons.
- Added a status_pvk2 console command which prints name steamid and parrot name for each player.
- Balance:
- Shields now block 80% of explosion damage.
- Increased amount of damage the HK needs to deal to get special.
- Damage taken from perfect parry now depends on the size of the opponent's weapon.
- Made keg fuse sound audible from longer distance.
- Chest and Keg Damage from being thrown increased slightly.
- Reduced blunderbuss damage and increased spread slightly.
- Grail is automatically transferred to the killer of the carrier if close enough.
- The player who kills the grail carrier gets instant full hp and armor.
- Removed the health boost for teammates around the grail holder.
- Reduced grail carrier's speed slightly.
- Reduced health boost when holding the grail.
- Halved perfect block penalty damage.
- Charging now affects the amount of damage dealt against a blocker.
- Parrots and crows are now mortal enemies, They also do less dmg to each other so that they dont die instant contact.
- Grail holder now gets a 1.1x damage boost.
- When using the crossbow the crosshair is not visible unless in aiming mode now.
- Reduced crow damage.
- Crows now add some special when killed.