openmw-tes3mp/tes3mp-changelog.md

0.8.1

• Allow GameSettings packet to override clientside VR settings
• Include projectile origins in packets for attacking and casting, necessary for VR compatibility

0.8.0

• Synchronization of custom records for interior cells, allowing for on-the-fly creation of entirely new interiors or ones based on existing interiors
• Synchronization of custom records for clientside scripts, allowing for on-the-fly creation or overriding of MWScripts
• Synchronization of custom records for containers, doors, activators, statics, ingredients, apparatuses, lockpicks, probes, repair tools, lights, body parts, sounds and record-based game settings
• Synchronization of clientside local variables based on which clientside scripts are set to be synchronized by the server
• Synchronization of clientside global variables based on rules defined for each one in the server scripts, with the possibility of also creating new clientside globals on-the-fly
• Synchronization of active spell effects for players and actors that no longer relies on players witnessing the spellcasting associated with the effects
• Synchronization of death animations for players and actors
• Synchronization of merchant inventories and gold pools
• Synchronization of environmental sounds made by players, e.g. when picking up or dropping items, when opening or closing chests and doors
• Synchronization of plant harvesting from herbalism mods
• Reworked attack synchronization with more precision, fixing skipped attacks for creatures with fast attack animations and making melee attack animations not depend on the direction a player or actor is moving in on the current client
• Reworked spellcasting synchronization, fixing improper failed spellcasting for actors with fast casting animations and reducing desyncs by not tying spellcasting for non-local actors and players to their animations on the current client
• Reworked equipment synchronization for players with less spammy packets
• Packet for resetting interior and exterior cells on-the-fly
• Packet for setting players as allies so they don't break each other's stealth and so their companions don't fight back when attacked by mistake
• Packet for overriding cell destinations, useful for moving players to instances of interiors instead of regular interiors
• Packet for tracking hits received by objects
• Packet for tracking dialogue choices selected by players
• Packet for tracking the cooldowns of powers used by players
• Allow GameSettings packet to override clientside game settings
• Allow custom records to override AI services for NPCs, alarm and flee values for NPCs and creatures, as well as scales, blood types, soul values and attack damage for creatures
• Fix freezes related to having too many players in a single interior cell
• Fix packet spam from some situations where actors start fights with players during dialogue
• Fix ObjectActivate packets not being sent when picking up items from inventory screen
• Fix ObjectDelete packets not being sent when non-container items are purchased from merchants who own them
• Fix PlayerItemUse packets not being sent when using quick keys
• Fix ConsoleCommand packets being ignored when sent by the server without a cell being associated with them
• Fix desyncs caused by late-arriving ActorAuthority packets by sending the packets to everyone on the server instead of only the players who have the associated cell loaded
• Fix indexes used when synchronizing the unassigning of quick keys
• Fix stealing being ignored when using Take All on owned containers
• Fix guards ignoring fights between players and other guards
• Prevent players from attacking while in persuasion dialogues with NPCs
• Prevent players from sending DoorState packets when not logged in
• Prevent NPCs from saying their dying words if they have been loaded up as dead from the server
• Prevent players and actors from playing their equipping sounds when they are first encountered
• Alleviate actor-related desyncs by not ignoring an entire packet when one of the actors referenced in it cannot be found
• Track kills caused through spell effects that do damage over time
• Track uses of the console by players
• Add serverside script functions for saving the identities of summoners
• Implement hashing for player passwords

0.7.0

• Synchronization of custom records for spells, potions, enchantments, creatures, NPCs, armor, books, clothing, miscellaneous items and weapons
• Synchronization of weather
• Synchronization of world map exploration
• Synchronization of spells cast through items
• Synchronization of player reputations
• Reworked attack synchronization now accounts for "cast on strike" enchantments, knockdowns and projectile speeds
• Reworked container synchronization that relies on server approval of every container change
• Reworked object synchronization that relies on server approval of every action on objects and tracks whether actions originated from regular gameplay, the console or from ingame scripts
• Reworked time synchronization that preserves ingame date and does not allow for any unilateral clientside time changes
• Reworked summoning synchronization that prevents duplicate summons and retains summon durations
• Reworked inventory, equipment, attribute, skill and dynamic stat packets that are sent more often while containing minimal instead of maximal data
• Packet for activation of objects
• Packet for using items in inventory
• Packet for actor AI
• Packet for actor deaths, used to track their killers
• Packet for overriding collision on objects
• Packet for setting momentum of players
• Packet for saving and loading marked locations and selected spells
• Player scales and disguises as creatures are now included in shapeshift packets
• Soulgem souls are now included in item and object placement packets
• Physics framerate caps and enforced log levels are now included in game settings packets
• Journal entry timestamps are now included in journal packets
• The value of the OnPCDrop variable for player-placed objects is now preserved by being included in object placement packets
• Video play packets no longer have hardcoded synchronization
• Death packets now include clear information about the killers, and deaths through spells are no longer treated as suicides
• Inventory packets no longer include bound items, preventing them from becoming persistent upon quitting
• Fix broken check in equipment synchronization that was preventing throwing weapon synchronization from working
• Fix rare inability to start up game caused by use of potentially invalid pointer for storing cell unloads
• Death as a werewolf now removes status as known werewolf, to prevent infinite aggression from NPCs
• Death as a criminal now prevents witnesses to previous crimes from continuing combat
• Players are now kicked from the server when failing to reply to its handshake
• Players can no longer open up their rest menu before logging in
• NPC followers now follow players correctly from interiors to exteriors and vice versa, and are able to follow non-authority players
• NPCs can now start combat through dialogue with non-authority players
• The console window now displays the unique index of a selected object

0.6.2

• Packet for quick keys
• Packet for player sounds
• Packet for player animations
• Packet for console commands
• Enchantment charge values are now included in item and object placement packets
• Settings packet can now be used to separately enable or disable resting in beds, resting in the wilderness and waiting
• Changes in attribute and skill modifiers now send their respective packets
• Attribute and skill packets using 0 as a modifier can now remove all attribute or skill fortification effects from a player
• Completion of vendor trades and skill training now sends inventory packets
• Item drag and dropping is now finished when arrested or when moved to another cell by the server
• Window minimization no longer pauses the game
• Actor speech captions are now searched for in dialogues instead of being sent in packets

0.6.1

• Record player positions before their last cell change
• Remove inertia from players who are teleported via a packet
• Fix data loss caused by server packets attempting to add invalid items, spells and quests
• Fix client crashes caused by items with state disabling scripts, as well as their side effects of making players disappear to others
• Fix server crashes caused by improper interior initialization when exterior 0, 0 is loaded
• Fix server freezes caused by infinite topic packet spam from local scripts
• Fix spell casting probability synchronization
• Prevent players from using excessively long names

0.6.0

• Synchronization of NPC & creature positions, stats, equipment, speech, attacks, spells & animations
• Reworked server browser with major stability fixes and additional information about servers
• Synchronization of client & server plugins (non-automated)
• Synchronization of leveled & summoned creature spawns
• Synchronization of rotation animations
• Synchronization of journal entries
• Synchronization of faction ranks, reputation and expulsion states
• Synchronization of dialogue topics
• Synchronization of kill counts checked in quest progression
• Synchronization of trap states
• Synchronization of object states (i.e. whether they are enabled or disabled)
• Synchronization of player werewolf states
• Synchronization of time of day
• Packet for saving and loading of read skill books
• Fix to messagebox buttons for client scripts
• Fix to synchronization of object locking/unlocking
• Packet for jailing players
• Packet for setting the difficulty for each player
• Bandwidth optimization for all packet types
• Various fixes to client & server crashes

0.5.2

• Fix to server crash caused by not deleting empty cells upon players disconnecting
• Fix to client freezes caused by invalid spells and races
• Fix to players not being spawned when using other base master files
• Fix to visual glitch where flying players bounced up and down continuously

0.5.1

• Fix to server crash caused by incorrect cell comparison added by bandwidth optimization changes
• Fix to server browser freeze caused by connection failures and incomplete data received from master server

0.5.0

• Server browser
• Synchronization of containers
• Reworked world packets allowing for the saving and loading of world state, including container state
• Bandwidth optimization by forwarding the most frequent player packets only to other players in the same loaded cells

0.4.1

• Packet for saving and loading spellbooks

0.4.0

• Synchronization of spells
• Packet for saving and loading inventories
• Being in a menu no longer prevents you from sending packets about your client
• Fixes to freezes and problems caused by players moving around in cells from expansions/plugins that are not loaded by others

0.3.0

• Synchronization of world object removal, placement, scaling, locking and unlocking
• Synchronization of local, global and member script variables for specific scripts
• Synchronization for the setdelete, placeat, setscale, lock and unlock console commands
• Player markers on minimap
• Death reasons in chat
• Fix to client freeze related to players logging in at the same time
• Fix to server crash related to sending information about invalid players

0.2.0

• Packets for saving and loading classes, birthsigns, dynamic stats, levels, level progress, attribute bonuses from skill increases and progress towards skill increases
• Version checking to prevent mismatches between clients and servers

0.0.1b

• Synchronization of attributes and skills
• Fix to memory leaks related to player initialization on Windows servers
• Fix to various graphical glitches
• Main menu buttons for starting, saving and loading games are now disabled

0.0.1a

• Combat animation
• Synchronization of melee and ranged (bow, crossbow, throwable weapons) combat
• Synchronization of health, magicka, fatigue and death
• Synchronization of cell changes
• Server-side Lua scripting
• Chat

0.0.1

• Initial networking and packet architecture
• Synchronization of player character generation
• Synchronization of player position
• Synchronization of player attack states (unarmed, armed with a weapon, using a spell)
• Synchronization of movement and jump animations