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'Vietcong' - Update Patch Available NOW

by Rainier on June 6, 2003 @ 10:11 a.m. PDT

In Vietcong you will lead as many as six expertly trained soldiers through 20 dramatic missions, and follow a storyline that captures the danger, fear and unpredictability of the war itself. The full-featured multiplayer mode also allows gamers to play as U.S. Special Forces or Vietcong soldiers and to battle over specially designed levels. Illusion Softworks has released the new Vietcong update patch, bringing your retail game to v1.2. This upgrade adresses new anti-cheat measures, a slew of multiplayer improvements, fixes and tweaks. Read more for details and download links ...

Get the Vietcong v1.2 patch off Worthplaying (22.5mb)

NEW IN V1.20 VIETCONG PATCH.

  • Speed hack anti-cheat and Weapons and ammo anticheat - When cheating is detected, the player who is cheating will be killed and message about this is written on screen for all player to see "name and shame".
  • A Results text file is generated at the end of match and can by generated by console command 'mpresult' (requested for clan wars).
  • VC sapper - fixed adding of ammo (it didn't work!).
  • vcded.exe - You are able to start a dedicated server without the game checking the CD.
  • Improved re-spawning of the players (they shouldn't fall through the ground).
  • Fixed: the occasional missing sounds of missiles and explosions.
  • Weapon value balancing ( for example: M60 and dektarev - improved accuracy)
  • coop game - weapons are now dropped by the dead AI.
  • Now when you kill somebody, their weapon and now all of that weapons ammunition will be available for the player to pick up.
  • Internet servers list are automatically refreshed for the first time only (as this can take quite a long time, we will not force users to wait when returning from the game to the menu).
  • Server option to enable ammo boxes in CTF a RW (the engineer feature is not used that much so players run out of ammo quite a lot. Ammo boxes are placed near to the flags).
  • Whenever there is a possibility for the player to scroll up or down using PageUp/PageDown in console, a hint has been written (a lot of console users do not know there is a possibility to scroll).
  • The name of the server is written in the 'TAB' window
  • The 'aim switch' off/on had been added to General options (some players would like to be able use aim_key as a switch - as for example crouch has).
  • The 'in-game menu control' fullmouse/wheel&buttons/none has been added to General options (hardcore players want to be able to look around and shoot while giving commands).
  • New multiplayer skins and headgear
  • New Storm RW game mode
  • Bahnar : Better visibility.
  • On the radar different colors for classes of players (so everybody can find a medic easily)
    • Colors of classes
    • Soldier: green
    • Machinegunner: yellow
    • Sniper: grey
    • Medic: violet
    • Engineer: cyan
    • Radioman: blue
    • US pilot (in ATG): white
  • On the radar - when a player asks for a medic/engineer, using menu commands his position is highlighted to all medics/engineers.
  • ATG : The connected player has to wait until the end of the round before joining the game.
  • ATG : Time limit in server options.
  • An improved voting system.
  • The amount of time until the end of the voting is displayed.
  • The number of YES and NO votes along with the total number of votes is shown during voting.
  • Fixed the rendering of plants on the ATI Radeon when 'Force Anisotropic filtering' is set in adapter settings. (This was used for cheating, as the enemies were more visible).
  • Improvements on levels (fixed re-spawn points, ammoboxes)
  • Support for CTF on the Halong port level, support of 16 players for all modes in Halong (it was 10)
  • Support for Spectator (server has to enable it by "set srvspectators" console command)
  • Spectator can be selected on client only (not on server)
  • keys in spectator mode:
  • arrows left and right - switch between 'static cameras' / 'dynamic cameras' & 'players'
  • arrows up and down - scroll through items in the selected list
  • mouse - rotate camera
  • Num0 and Num1 - zoom camera
  • left and right mouse buttons - move with dynamic camera (use Shift for slower and / for faster movement)
  • ENTER - show/hide spectator info HUD
  • Replay - The player can save the running game in Spectator mode to create a replay - see rpstart and rpend commands.
  • Replay mode - see rpload command
  • keys in replay mode
  • all keys from Spectator mode
  • Num+ and Num- - changes the speed of the replay
  • Pause - pauses the replay.
  • Space - starts and stops the saving of BMP files at selected fps (see rpsetbmp command)
  • ATG pilot - fixed the possibility of having 2 (or even more) pilots in the game.
  • The minimal value for idlekick is changed from 5 to 2 minutes (requested by admins).
  • When the game is switching from inactive to active mode in CTF
  • All dropped items are removed from the scene.
  • All booby-traps are removed.
  • All active artillery support is stopped.
  • Screenshots taken when pressing F2 are placed into a BMP folder within the root of the game. Default of which is C:Program FilesVietcong.
  • We fixed the problem regarding 2 servers being run on the same machine, when both are in the favorites list the player will always join the first one game (host port definition problem).
  • Vietnam mode - while reloading weapons, number of magazines left is displayed on the HUD.
  • startadmin - there is a limit of 3 tries to enter valid password.
  • booby-trap - If your teammate is killed by your booby-trap, you are not marked as a team killer, and you don't get -1 frag. Also when you place a booby-trap the tripwire in bright colour, so when your teammates are near it, they won't activate it by accident so easily.
  • Burning objects are disabled in MP (too many problems connected to this)
  • fixed: in CTF when the explosion kills flag holder he has the flag after re-spawning and he can still score.
  • fixed transformation of character when in the prone position (This is how player see other players).
  • fixed : C4 not shown in the inventory in the mission The Last Stand
 


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