Classic Marathon news & patch notes

Please help test this beta release. It is not network compatible with the previous release, and films cannot be played back with older releases.

Highlights:

• Native Steam Linux support

• Audio improvements

• Additional sprite rendering option for 3D perspective

• Replay films for saved games

Changes:

• Numerous audio improvements:

  • Pauses/resumes in-game audio when the game is paused/resumed

  • Intro music now continues to play in preferences dialogs

  • Shield/O2 charger now fully loop to prevent pops

  • Adds 3D spatialization for stereo sources

  • HRTF no longer affects music, streaming sources and 2D sounds

  • Fades in ambient sounds when they start playing

  • Sound obstruction adjustments

  • Allow HRTF settings only when stereo + 3D sounds are enabled

• Adds a sensitivity/deadzone preference for each controller aim axis (#525)

• Adds a few cheats to Cheats.lua

• Adds support for Steam Linux including workshop upload

• Films are now recorded when starting from saved games

• Allows viewing terminals when the overhead map is active (#549)

• Adds a new setting to tilt sprites parallel to the camera when 3D perspective is on

• Shell casings are now interpolated at 60+ fps

• Adds Game.player accessor for Tag/KTMWTB/Rugby

Other fixes:

• Fixes players sprites when gathering a network game (#527)

• Fixes stats board displayed twice before the epilogue in coop net games

• Fixes hotkey issues with dead players and ball carriers (#516)

• Fixes aim issues with aim getting stuck when both mouse and joystick are plugged in (#513)

• Fixes an issue with DPDI and alien weapon ammo (#509)

• Fixes network-only items not spawning on the first level (#517)

• Fixes teleporting (local) effects when transiting to another level in coop net games

• Fixes an issue where players can't respawn in net games on some broken maps (#457)

• Stability improvements to dedicated servers

• Improvements to native file dialogs (#550)

• Fixes window focus loss when replaying a film selected with native file dialog (#401)

Behind the scenes:

• Uses libmatroska, libvpx, libyuv and pl_mpeg instead of FFmpeg

• Uses ASIO for networking instead of SDL_net

• Uses HUD filtering preference for Lua HUD images
• Physics file is no longer mandatory for gathering using dedicated servers
• Fixes an issue interpolating ephemera

• Fix a crash with some older Marathon net maps like Villa Banzai and Rancid Cafe
• Don't disable achievements when accidentally activating the console, or just entering gibberish. Only executing a genuine Lua command on the console will disable achievements
• Print a message to the screen when achievements have been disabled
• Fix issue with loading games saved with achievements disabled
• Fix an issue with the default and basic HUDs displaying error messages in net games with a kill limit
• Allow passing args to Classic Marathon to assist debugging, for instance: adding -g will force Classic Marathon to use the software renderer, which works around the green lines some broken OpenGL drivers show over top of the game