SERVER CHANGELOG

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September 2nd, 2022 [The Crystal Caverns Update]

New map: cinema_summit_v1a

Complete overhaul of the map
New areas:

The Crystal Caverns

More on this below

Concert

An open venue south of the theater, near the new lake. Watch videos, have a nice meal, it's got it all!

House :)

A cozy little home behind the theater. Comes with an attic, kitchen, bedroom and a garage.

Lake

Relax with a nice view of this lake, with luscious palm trees and a beautiful little lake house

Construction Yard

Has a drivable crane vehicle

Soccer Field

Has a playable soccer minigame

Server Room

Check out the cool servers the map is running, like Swag Gaming, Thin Ice Cinema, and of course, Summit Cinema

Freezer Room

Connects to the kitchen in the cinema

Ticket Booth

Housed right at the entrance of the cinema

Sneed's Feed and Seed

A little shop next to the lake, selling various trinkets and wares.

Docks

The docks shops seem to be closed… Maybe they'll open in the future?

Parkour

A challenging gauntlet with lots of lava
Connects to the sewers

Badasses Only

Only badasses are allowed here

Storage Building

This building doesn't have much of a purpose yet, but it might in the future

Mini theaters

There are five theaters on the map which require being tiny to enter. Try and find them!

Changed areas:

Kitchen

Expanded to be much larger

Lobby

Lobby has been completely overhauled

Hallways & concessions

Hallways have a different layout
Fixed the concessions cash registers being backwards
The concessions now has proper flooring and is much bigger

Sewer

Expanded to accommodate for the new parkour area and to properly connect back to the surface

Employee parking & roads

Roads layout has been modified, employee parking layout has been modified

Skybox

Now twice as big as before, with actual mountains and a lovely view of the river down south

Merged with the campsite, can be found next to the new Concert location

Wizard tower

Added a little graveyard, and fixed the broken roof
Improved visuals

Parking lot

Added lights to the parking lot

Dance club

Has been renamed to Lo-Fi Lounge
Has been moved from the west side of the lobby to the east
More moody colors for a better clubbing experience

The pool has been removed due to its lack of use
The locker room has been moved from the north side of the building to the east side
Some minor design changes

Arcade

Now has actual arcade machines, a cozy little theater, and a playable DDR game (more on that below)

Bathroom

Now has better lighting, and SINKS!

Public Theaters

Now have projectors

Complete redecoration of the private theaters

Moved private theater seats closer to their screens

Updated the outside grass & dirt textures
Updated the detail props (grass sprites)
Added better lighting to existing street lights
Nighttime ambient lighting is much brighter, and much easier to see outside at night

Removed/disabled features:

Removed Blink spell

Reasons as to why it was removed:

Easily exploitable
Responsible for the majority of out-of-bounds map glitches
Rarely used in PvP (in contrast to the other spells)
Heavily discouraged use of other movement techniques (e.g. bunnyhopping, strafing, wallrunning, & rocket-jumping)

Removed vote-kicking

Reason as to why it was removed: Vote-kicking was used almost exclusively to harass specific players, and prevented them from playing on the server.

Disabled the /lastonline command

Reason as to why it was disabled: This command could cause major server lag.
The command may be re-enabled in the future.

Added a moon in the night sky
New server activities/minigames:

Crystal Caverns

A new minigame for Summit Cinema, and the main focus of this update
Discover the winding and expansive caverns just below the surface, and mine for gems as you explore!

Collected gems can be deposited for points at the deposit yard behind the Cavern Cabin

Pickaxe has been modified to include a wall-climbing mechanic

Right-click to latch onto walls.
While latched:

Right-click again to un-latch
Jump to un-latch and then lunge yourself in the direction you're looking

The Crystal Caverns has two entrances:

Down the hole behind the new House :) location
At the end of the lava room in the mines

Arena

A PvP location with free weapons
Can be found west of the parking lot
The arena weapon theme cycles, allowing for different PvP events
If nobody else is in the arena, a bot will spawn to fight you

DDR

Playable vertically-scrolling rhythm game in Garry's Mod (like Guitar Hero, osu!, Stepmania, etc.)
Many unique song selections with different difficulties

Arcade cabinets

Play web games in the arcade on these retro machines

Added the Schizophrenia option to the scoreboard under the Experimental tab
The Kleiner & Half-Life Male SWEPs no longer force your playermodel to Kleiner & male_07 respectively
Reduced the expiration time for /tp and /tphere commands from 30 seconds to 15 seconds
Added a guide NPC at the new Ticket Booth

The NPC will let you view various aspects of the server: help menu, achievements, MOTD, and pointshop.
It is intended to be a noob-friendly way to understand how the server works.

Bots:

Slightly improved fighting AI (for the arena)
The NoobSaibot bot now speaks in all uppercase
Many more idle bot lines
Now have a chance to jump while idle when a nearby player jumps
Will have different idle lines when in a theater
Will now type dance-related emotes into chat while they're dancing
Will no longer enter/exit vehicles while taunting

The Mines:

Removed the Diamond ore rarity due to the new Crystal Caverns minigame
Added some ores that spawn on the ceiling to help new players grasp the wall-climbing mechanic

Pointshop:

Slightly adjusted the look of the pointshop
New weapons:

G-Man

New cosmetics:

Badass glasses

New pointshop category: One-Time Skin Purchase

New one-time skin purchases:

Katana Skin: Black & Gold
Katana Skin: Cyberbone
Katana Skin: Dragon Koi
Katana Skin: Glowing Text
Katana Skin: Yin & Yang

Weapon price changes:

Frag grenade: 5,000 to 9,000 points
RPG: 7,000 to 14,000 points
Creeper: 20,000 to 18,000 points
One Punch: 30,000 to 20,000 points
Explanation on these changes:

The RPG and frag grenade are extremely powerful, but were very cheap for their price.
Creeper is devastating at close range, but beyond that it becomes useless. It's a major contrast to the RPG, but was significantly more expensive, so its price has been slightly lowered.
Despite its unique one-shot attack, One Punch was still ridiculously expensive for its price.

Changed "Turn into Fumo" kill effect price from 7,500,000 to 6,000,000
Fixed the ps_get_max_income console command so that it's more accurate
Added a new console command: ps_get_income
Income rework:

Achievements point incomes have been reworked to account for the new achievements
Overall max income has been scaled down a bit

Chatbox:

Removed the animated [usa] and [edgy] chat colors
Added a new animated chat color: [fieryguy]

Bug fixes:

Fixed a bug where the "(AFK)" popup above a player's head would show up for the local player in first-person
Fixed bugs where auto-bunnyhop would prevent the player from using jump on ladders and in water
Fixed a bug where the "explode" console command would not make the player gib

Removed the localized chat for the locker room
Auto-bunnyhop is now enabled by default
Private theater owners can no longer use the physics gun on players outside of their theater
Added a "viewmodel blur" option to the scoreboard under the Experimental tab
Made certain actions, such as spawning/removing construction props, contribute to the corresponding Garry's Mod achievement, making it possible to earn additional Garry's Mod achievements on Summit
Added a new command: /randomsong and cinema_requestrandomsong

Works very similar to /randomvideo, but instead of random videos, it's random songs
Bots in the Lo-Fi Lounge will randomly queue songs instead of the typical videos

Added an F2 hotkey to quickly toggle player names
Updated the look of the mystery forest portal
Added the cinematic vehicle view option to the scoreboard
Changed around some colors used by some chat commands to better fit the server's color scheme
Added a truck bomb
Added more tips to the chat
/firework now no longer does anything if the player is dead
Countless code optimizations to ensure a smoother player experience
Many, many small miscellaneous changes and bug fixes to ensure the best possible Cinema experience
Removed pony