Version history

This page chronicles the releases of Fortress Blast and how each of them changed from their previous releases, sorted in reverse chronological order.

Version 4.1, Feb 13 2020

• Addition: Added ConVar sm_fortressblast_intro which controls whether or not to automatically display the intro message in chat.
• Addition: Added ConVar sm_fortressblast_powerups_roundstart which controls whether or not to spawn all powerups on round start.
• Addition: Added command sm_respawnpowerups which will delete all powerups and respawn them in their regular spawns.
• Addition: Added subcommand sm_fortressblast "force" which will show the Fortress Blast intro message to all players.
• Addition: Chance of ULTRA POWERUP!! spawning is now passed to the player manual.
• Adjustment: Chance of ULTRA POWERUP!! spawning lowered to 0.1%.
• Adjustment: ConVar sm_fortressblast_drop_rate now supports decimal numbers.
• Adjustment: Teleportation now remembers your active weapon and remaining magazines.

Version 4.0, Feb 10 2020

• Addition: Added Dizzy Bomb powerup, which rotates the screens of all enemies within 512 units of the user for 5 seconds.
• Addition: Added ConVars sm_fortressblast_dizzy_states and sm_fortressblast_dizzy_length to control the number of rotational states and length of time Dizzy Bomb utilises, these settings are useful for players that suffer from vertigo.
• Addition: Added ULTRA POWERUP!!, which gives 75% damage resistance, Super Speed, four times overheal, Frost Touch with no victim damage resistance, Magnetism and full criticals, all for 10 seconds.
• Addition: Added ConVar sm_fortressblast_ultra_spawnchance to control the spawn chance of ULTRA POWERUP!!.
• Adjustment: Added ConVar sm_fortressblast_gifthunt_multiply, which gradually increases the amount each gift is worth for the losing team in Gift Hunt.
• Adjustment: Blast and Effect Burst now play sounds for enemies affected depending on the status effect.
• Adjustment: Gift Hunt now supports Attack/Defense, in this mode the timer won't start until RED reaches their goal, and gifts don't spawn during setup.
• Adjustment: Gift Hunt now supports neutral flag maps such as Hold The Flag.
• Adjustment: Gifts no longer spawn if both teams have reached the gift goal.
• Adjustment: The player manual now uses an encrypted connection.
• Bug fix: Fixed player movement sometimes flickering if trying to move during the pre-round freeze time.

Version 3.1, Jan 28 2020

• Addition: Added Effect Burst powerup, which upon use will give one of four negative effects to enemies in a large radius.
• Addition: The player manual now knows whether or not Gift Hunt is enabled.
• Addition: Players can no longer use powerups if they have lost the round or are in a stalemate.
• Addition: The collected powerup text now turns red if you're unable to use a powerup.
• Adjustment: Server tags are now added to the start if they get truncated.
• Adjustment: Mega Mann stuck-checking now prevents powerup use instead of checking one second into use.
• Bug fix: Powerup particles are now removed if their owner dies.
• Bug fix: Fixed being able to use Demoman's shields while using Time Travel.
• Removal: Entering a Halloween Kart with a powerup no longer removes your powerup.

Version 3.0.4, Jan 18 2020

• Adjustment: Replaced Fortress Blast's key check with the built-in one from Rest in Pawn, make sure to update Rest in Pawn as well for this to work.

Due to an oversight, the version number will show as '3.0.3' in-game.

Version 3.0.3, Jan 13 2020

• Bug fix: Teleportation now respawns players while remembering their health and ammo, this fixes teleporting to inactive spawnpoints.

Version 3.0.2, Dec 22 2019

• Addition: Added ConVar sm_fortressblast_admin_flag which controls the admin flag needed to use sm_setpowerup and sm_spawnpowerup while debug mode is off.
• Addition: The command sm_spawnpowerup can now be used by anyone if debug mode is on.
• Bug fix: Fixed Engineers not being able to place buildings or switch weapons after using Time Travel while carrying a building.
• Removal: Using Time Travel while grappling no longer switches your weapon to primary.

Version 3.0.1, Dec 17 2019

• Addition: Added ConVar sm_fortressblast_gifthunt_countbots which controls whether or not bots are counted as players when calculating the Gift Hunt gift goal.
• Adjustment: Gift Hunt now disables the King of the Hill timer.
• Bug fix: Fixed Blast not working if trying to damage a building with debug mode enabled.
• Bug fix: Fixed Teleportation ocassionally not teleporting the player.
• Bug fix: Fixed Teleportation not spawning snowflake particles if the player was sent to spawn.

Version 3.0, Dec 10 2019

• Addition: Added Magnetism powerup, which attracts or repels enemies depending on the user's current weapon slot.
• Addition: Added ConVar sm_fortressblast_gifthunt which controls whether or not Gift Hunt is enabled, disabled by default.
• Addition: The tag "fortressblast" is now automatically added to the current server with sv_tags.
• Adjustment: Players frozen with Frost Touch now have 90% damage resistance.
• Adjustment: File path checking is now done once per round instead of on map change.
• Adjustment: Gift Hunt is now powered by .json files instead of custom maps.
• Adjustment: Frost Touch ice statues no longer move after being created.

Version 2.2.1, Dec 3 2019

• Addition: Added ConVar sm_fortressblast_event_xmas which controls whether Smissmas features are enabled or not.
• Addition: Intro message is now festive-coloured during Smissmas.
• Addition: Blast and Teleportation have extra particles and sounds during Smissmas.
• Adjustment: Gifts are now only checked every tenth of a second to relieve server stress.
• Bug fix: Fixed parts of Frost Touch ice statues disappearing depending on the class.

Version 2.2, Nov 26 2019

• Addition: Added plugin description read by other SourceMod plugins.
• Addition: Blast now does damage to buildings as well.
• Addition: Added ConVar sm_fortressblast_blast_buildings to control the damage ratio of players to buildings.
• Addition: Added command sm_coordsjson which prints the coordinates at the crosshair to chat (in a format easible insertable into a .json file).
• Adjustment: Mega Mann stuck-check is now done by ray-tracing, which means players may stand still without being respawned.
• Bug fix: Fixed bad ConVar reading which allowed any player to set their powerup with an admin command.

Version 2.1, Nov 25 2019

• Addition: Added Teleportation powerup, which takes the user to an active team Teleporter, or back to their spawn if there are none.
• Adjustment: ConVars are now stored in memory rather than being queried repeatedly.
• Bug fix: sm_fortressblast_spawnroom_kill is no longer enforced after a round has been won.
• Bug fix: Players using Mega Mann can no longer use teleporters.

Version 2.0.1, Nov 22 2019

• Bug fix: Fixed Gift Hunt player count not resetting upon new rounds.
• Bug fix: Fixed being able to use powerups while frozen with Frost Touch.

Version 2.0, Nov 21 2019

• Addition: Added logic for the map game mode Gift Hunt.
• Addition: Added command sm_spawnpowerup which spawns a temporary powerup at the crosshair.
• Addition: Added ConVar sm_fortressblast_gifthunt_rate which controls roughly how many gifts should spawn each respawn.
• Addition: Added ConVar sm_fortressblast_gifthunt_goal which controls the base gift goal.
• Addition: Added ConVar sm_fortressblast_gifthunt_players which controls when to increase the gift goal.
• Addition: Added ConVar sm_fortressblast_gifthunt_increment which controls how much to increase the gift goal by each time.
• Bug fix: Added ConVar sm_fortressblast_spawnroom_kill which kills players in enemy spawnrooms.
• Bug fix: Fixed being able to use the Sapper during Time Travel.

Version 1.1, Nov 16 2019

• Addition: Added ConVar sm_fortressblast_powerups which allows enabling only certain powerups with a bitfield.
• Addition: The MOTD is now responsive to the plugin's ConVars, specifically the powerups enabled and action required.
• Adjustment: Debug mode text is now printed to the server console as well as to chat.
• Bug fix: Engineers can no longer place buildings while in Mega Mann before the stuck check has taken place.

Version 1.0, Nov 9 2019

• Addition: Added Frost Touch powerup, which freezes enemies on touch.
• Addition: Added Mystery powerup, which takes on the effects of another random powerup.
• Addition: Powerups now use a custom model courtesy of ChargingTurnip.
• Addition: sm_setpowerup now supports @bots and @humans.
• Adjustment: Time Travel now puts you into third person.
• Adjustment: Super Jump now takes into account your existing velocity.
• Adjustment: Super Jump only gives you half height if you are using Mega Mann.
• Bug fix: Fixed an issue where a previous update broke the Mannpower support.

Version 0.4.1, Nov 6 2019

• Adjustment: Mega Mann stuck checking is now done by a timer instead of tick counting.
• Bug fix: Avoided getting stuck on slopes when using Mega Mann by raising players 16 units off the ground.
• Removal: Powerups no longer spawn during waiting for players.

Version 0.4, Nov 4 2019

• Addition: Added new Mega Mann powerup, which gives the player 1.75x size and 4x health for 10 seconds.
• Addition: New ConVar sm_fortressblast_action to allow server owners to set their own powerup.
• Adjustment: Default death drop rate is now 10% instead of 5%.
• Adjustment: Time Travel lowered to 3 seconds instead of 5.
• Adjustment: Changed Blast powerup to remove cloak and Time Travel.
• Bug fix: Fixed powerup effects carrying over to new rounds.
• Bug fix: Fixed Blast powerup lagging the server when used in Medieval mode.

Version 0.3, Oct 30 2019

• Addition: New ConVar sm_fortressblast_debugimplemented.
• Addition: Added new Blast powerup, which creates an explosion that damages any nearby enemies.
• Addition: Fortress Blast menu now uses an MOTD instead of in-game menus.
• Addition: sm_setpowerup now supports @all, @red and @blue.
• Bug fix: Fixed sm_setpowerup taking admin immunity into account.
• Bug fix: Plugin now forcibly removes powerups each new round instead of relying on TF2.

Version 0.2, Oct 28 2019

• Addition: Added beta particles system.
• Addition: More ConVars for controlling powerup drops on death.
• Adjustment: Collected powerup text moved from top-right to middle-right to avoid conflicting with killfeed.
• Adjustment: Super Speed now takes into account external speed changes like weapons and minigun revving.
• Bug fix: Introductory chat message spam reduced.
• Bug fix: Fixed players not losing powerups on death.
• Bug fix: Fixed Super Bounce glitching when attempting to jump with a very low stored velocity.
• Bug fix: Fixed powerups ending early if they are used multiple times.
• Bug fix: Fixed being able to use the grappling hook during Time Travel.
• Bug fix: Fixed some Mannpower powerups not being replaced.

Version 0.1, Oct 25 2019

• Initial release of Fortress Blast