• Fixed a minor script error when joining a server during a map vote.

AFK Kick

• Checking the Steam overlay can now be disabled using the config option "CheckSteamOverlay = false".

• Opening the chatbox in team chat will now change the background colour slightly to reflect the team you are on. This should help make it clearer when it has been opened in team chat mode vs. global chat.

• The map vote menu may now be opened automatically for players when a map vote starts using the config option "ForceMenuOpenOnMapVote = true".
  
  • The menu will not open if a game is in progress or about to start.
    
  • Clients may override this behaviour in the client config menu or using the "sh_mapvote_onvote" command in the console.

• Implemented an improved team optimisation pass that produces much more balanced teams compared to the old method in most cases.
  
  • The optimisation process will pick the best team composition from the old and new methods.
    
  • The new method is unaffected by the "StandardDeviationTolerance" option. This option should be considered deprecated.
    
  • The behaviour of "AverageValueTolerance" remains unchanged.
• When forcing shuffles with "AlwaysEnabled = true", the vote will now be to disable the automatic shuffle for the next round start. If it is disabled, it can still be voted back to enabled again as long as the round doesn't start.

• Join and leave messages for specific players can now have their own colour, prefix and prefix colour[github.com].
  
• The config is no longer used to track which players have had their message displayed across map changes. This has been moved to a separate file to prevent the config being constantly changed by the server.

Adverts

• Fixed map filters not being applied.
  
• Improvements:
  
  • It is now possible to specify multiple cycles of adverts.
    
  • Cycles can now have start/stop triggers.
    
  • Cycles can now have looping disabled so that they only display their advert list once.
    
  • Cycles can now have a default template.
    
  • Messages can now use multiple templates, with earlier templates overriding later ones.
    
  • Messages/templates can now specify their own delays to override a cycle's default interval.
    
  • Messages/templates can now specify a team filter to show the message only to players in the given team(s).
• For more information, see the wiki page[github.com].

• The AFK prefix will now only show on the scoreboard and not interfere with auto-complete or the admin menu.

• Added a new command, "sh_slotsummary", to display a summary of player slot usage in the console.

• The "Map Vote" button now opens the voting page when clicked during a map vote, rather than displaying an error message.

• Fixed reserved slots being consumed by spectators when "TakeSlotsInstantly" is enabled and "SlotType" is "PLAYABLE".

AFK Kick

• Fixed spectators in first person being warned/kicked unfairly.

• Added auto-completion of location and player names. Press the tab key to cycle through available completions, and hold shift to cycle in reverse order.
  
  • You may use the start of words, acronyms and abbreviations (e.g. "xroads", "ops"), as well as a more loose containment match.
    
  • For example, typing "dc" and pressing tab could complete the location named "Data Core", or typing "xr" may complete "Crossroads".

• Fixed a script error when a player rejoins the game.

• Added a new plugin[github.com] named "votealltalk" which adds a vote to enable or disable global all talk.

• "TextEntry" objects can now have an auto-completion handler added to them. See the chatbox plugin for an example.
  
• Multi-select lists (such as the admin menu's player list) now require holding either ctrl or shift to select multiple rows.
  
• Plugins can now declare dependencies on other plugins being enabled by adding a "DependsOnPlugins" field, which should be a list of names of plugins that must be enabled to allow the given plugin to be enabled.
  
• Fixed generated configs (created when a plugin has no config file) not having the plugin's version added to them.

Reserved Slots

• Added new "SlotType" option. Can be either:
  
  • "PLAYABLE" - the existing behaviour.
    
  • "ALL" - treats all slots as a single max player limit, including spectator slots. This allows for reserving spectator slots.

• The end of map vote now blocks vanilla votes that would interfere or not function correctly while it is ongoing.

• Changed the error message when attempting to vote kick a player that has a higher immunity to state they cannot be targeted.
  
• Fixed a few issues with datatables.

AFK Kick

• Time resetting behaviour can now be configured to one of 3 modes:
  
  • "STRICT" - the existing mode, where time is only reduced with activity, not reset.
    
  • "LENIENT_FOR_SPECTATORS" - equivalent to the old "LenientModeForSpectators" option, resets time for spectator activity, but still applies strict tracking to non-spectators.
    
  • "LENIENT" - resets time for any player activity.

• The plugin will no longer unstick players that are trapped in bone walls.
  
• Added the "DelayBeforeMovingInSeconds" option, which allows for enforcing a delay between a player using the unstuck command and them being moved. If the player moves between this delay they will not be unstuck.

Adverts

• Adverts can now use templates to avoid repeating colours in messages.
  
• Adverts can now have a coloured prefix.
  
• Adverts can now be triggered on certain events, such as a round starting, as well as having a cycle.
  
• Adverts may be filtered by map/game state.

• When voting, buttons will show a tick on the button if you have already voted.
  
• The "Map Vote" button now displays a counter for the current number of votes to change the map.

• Fixed web configs not properly validating/migrating data.
  
• Added a recursive config check option for plugins, which checks all values in the default config except arrays and explicitly ignored tables using Shine.IgnoreWhenChecking().
  
• Added OnWebConfigReloaded event for plugins.
  
• Improved the output format of configs when they are updated to make it more readable.

• Fixed shuffling not ignoring commanders when player team satisfaction is low.

Shuffle Improvements

• Team preferences can now be explicitly specified by players.
  
• When shuffling, a history of previous rounds indicating which players got to play the team they prefer is used to determine an overall score for how satisfied players are with their teams. If there are more players unhappy than happy, the final teams will be swapped entirely (i.e. marine becomes alien and vice-versa).

• Player AFK state is now always tracked, regardless of player count/round state. However, no action will be taken until the minimum player count/correct round state is reached.
  
• When the minimum player count/correct round state is reached, any player that has been AFK for greater than the warn/kick time will be warned/kicked immediately, rather than starting from 0 AFK time.

• Fixed chatbox script error when changing resolution.