New gladiator: Angel
Angel is built around invisibility, with both her active and passive abilities allowing her to disappear during a match.
- Invisibility hides Angel for five seconds. She has no shadow or name under the crosshair, leaving only a faint outline visible.
- Her passive ability makes her invisible after standing still for five seconds. She remains hidden until she moves, fires or takes damage.
Angel uses Invisibility as both an active and passive ability
Weapon changes
- Plasma Gun damage has been increased from 15 to 20, together with its splash damage. Plasma tricks provide more push but also cost more health.
- Zoomed Machinegun damage has increased from 13 to 14.
- Grenade Launcher is now a full weapon and is bound to key 6 by default. Rocket Launcher, Lightning Gun and Railgun move to 7, 8 and 9 on new configurations. Existing configs keep their current bindings.
- MG and LMG firing sounds have been made quieter.
Networking and automatic downloads
The networking system has received one of the largest changes in the build.
- The server now sends world updates every server frame. At sv_fps 60, clients receive 62 updates per second instead of 20, making player movement smoother and combat events arrive sooner.
- Losing two consecutive packets no longer causes movement or shots to disappear.
- rate, snaps, cl_maxpackets and cl_packetdup have been removed. Bloodrun now configures these settings automatically, preventing old or unsuitable config values from affecting the connection.
- Missing maps can now be downloaded automatically when connecting to a server and are loaded immediately afterwards. The option is enabled by default under SETUP -> GENERAL -> DOWNLOADS.
Smarter bots
Bots have received another AI update following the improvements introduced in previous build.
- Bots can fire while moving toward an item instead of stopping to fight.
- They prioritize destroying a turret that is attacking them.
- Weapon selection has been improved based on combat distance.
- Bots playing Angel use Invisibility.
- Against an invisible Angel, bots have reduced visibility and accuracy.
Scoreboard and interface
- The Scoreboard now opens instantly and updates live.
- Opponent item pickups remain hidden until the end of a match, while spectators can see pickups for both players.
- Dying no longer closes an open SETUP or voting menu.
- Mouse Gain can now be adjusted in steps of 0.0001, while volume settings use 0.05 increments.
Other changes
- The item pickup radius has been reduced from 75 to 70.
- dm7 Deep Inside has been renamed [map=Deep Outside BR].
New build is available on RESP MOSCOW 1, 2, 3 and ALPHA. Players who already have the Bloodrun Launcher installed only need to install the new build.
Links: Bloodrun Launcher RU, Bloodrun Launcher EU, Full changelog
