Natural Selection 2 #HO

Balance

Increased mature hydra health by 30%. Decreased spread on hydra spikes so they are more accurate. Removed inaccuracy versus fast-moving targets.
Reduced Lerk umbra energy cost from 30 to 25.
Reduced marine total sprint distance and recovery time to make more intentional. Added "out of breath" sound effect when you run to exhaustion.
The MAC is no longer able to weld for 1 second after taking damage.
Adjusted minimum (and minimum-emergency) egg spawn rates to increase the spawn rate when many aliens are dead.
Increased Exosuit research from 20 to 30.

Fixes

Attempt to improve wall jumping by adding more of a vertical boost.
Fix server browser column sorting order (e.g. first click on the ping column will always sort in ascending order).
Fixed TechNode:GetHasTech on client side.
Fixed aliens not being able to damage partially repaired powernodes.
Fixed bug causing the first click on the Commander minimap to be ignored.
Fixed bug where aliens could upgrade the same hive type multiple times.
Fixed bug where Gorge could attack during belly slide.
Fixed bug where marine could purchase weapons when in vortex.
Fixed bug where other players would not hear the pistol attack sound.
Fixed bug where the GUI would stop updating after hot-loading Lua files.
Fixed bug where the server could send an update to the client even if the world had not been updated (could cause poor interpolation for server side simulated objects).
Fixed crash when calling destroy on a nil render object.
Fixed exploit where a player could gain unresearched abilities when evolving with a commander dropped egg to a higher life form.
Fixed incorrect icons displaying on the death screen (The pistol will not display when you are killed by the Exo Minigun for example).
Fixed incorrect interpolation of grenades.
Fixed issue where the Exosuit interior was lit by the outside world when the cockpit was closed.
Fixed issue with commander ping interfering with default voice keybind (ping can now only be triggered with mouse button 3 or the icon at the minimap).
Fixed script error caused by using sv_say or sv_tsay without providing any message.
Fixed spike attack sound triggered too early.
Fixed vortexed units being affected by bilebomb.
Increased Lerk spore energy cost a bit so they can't be spammed forever with Adrenaline.
Increased Lerk umbra radius a bit to more accurately match the effect.
Insight - tech point damage audio and flashing red warning not working.
Marine commander sees now player health bars again.
Moved Shade to use ModelMixin; it animates too much for it to be a good ClientModelMixin candidate.
Sentries now correctly attack hallucinations.
Server/Client side hitbox mismatch for some structures.
Shooting the Shift will always result in damage now, it was inconsistent before.
The Exo no longer displays the weapon switch indicator at the bottom of the screen.
The Exo no longer tracks cloaked enemies on the UI.
The Mine will no longer damage enemies on the other side of a wall.
The Mine will no longer explode when it detects an enemy through a wall.
The button image for Welder on the Commander interface is no longer blank.
Weapons will no longer float above the Marine after they are knocked down to the ground from the Onos stomp ability.

Improvements

Added an image that is displayed on the UI when there are connection problems to alert the player.
Camera is closer to egg when you're evolving: looks better and makes you paranoid about what might be sneaking up on you.
Marines now drop weapons which cost resources (same as when they die) before entering an exosuit.
The sv_status command may now be used by all clients on the server.

ns2_summit

Fixed problem where you couldn’t drop anything between Sub Access and Maintenance.
Fixed some Commander building exploits (Thanks rantology!).

ns2_tram

Detailing changes in Repair room, added tram tunnel signs.
Fixed texture issues in some rooms.

Optimizations

Changed precached cinematics to be loaded when the client starts.
Fixed issue where materials could be loaded and unloaded during ray tracing.

SDK

Fixed hot loading of textures and surface shaders in the tools.
IP address is no longer displayed in sv_status, sv_statusip can be used for that now (only available for admins).

Sound

No more girl screams.