[LIVE] v3.0 - MAJOR UPDATE

Firing Range

• Season 17 Firing Range added to the game
  • Added retail like loot system.
  • Added vending machines with improved deathbox UI.
  • Added retail ninja easter egg.
  • New loot table just for new firing range.
• Added gadget items to both original and new Firing Range maps
• Fixed broken game state in firing range playlist
• Merged firing range and survival loot table together, now they share the same loots

Legends

New Legend: Ash

• Fully playable tactical and ultimate abilities
• Original particle effects

Horizon

• Implemented horizon tactical ability

Fuse

• Replaced tactical and ultimate particle effects with original ones.

Valkyrie

• WIP Tactical and Ultimate abilities

Gibraltar

• Added missing fast revive in Gibraltar dome

Revenant

• Disabled dev debug draw for tactical
• Abilities now use original particle effect

Weapons & Equipment

• Added Rampage LMG with energize mechanic.
• Added Nemesis.
• Added CAR SMG.
• Reworked sentinel energize mechanic.
• Reworked Bow animations.
• Fixed missing muzzle flash on all weapons.
• Heat Shield:
  • Added to the game.
  • Uses original sounds and particle effects.
  • Available in firing range.
• Portable Respawn Beacon.
  • Fixed incorrect particle effects.
  • Now spawns in firing range.
  • Loot type changed from ordnance to gadget.
• P2020 animations updated to season 11.
• Updated all weapon values to retail values.

Visuals, FX & Audio

• Updated all particle effects to season 11.
• Updated impact tables for s11 particles.
• Audio is updated to Season 18.
• Fixed bad harvester beam on worlds edge maps.

Maps and Map Toys

• Arenas Reworked
  • Most of arenas maps have been reworked to use original shaders.
  • This includes Encore, Phase Runner and Party Crasher.
  • Fixed minimap being zoomed out too much in arenas maps.
• Reworked Map: Olympus Season 9
  • Reworked the entire map to use original shaders.

• New Map: Arenas Habitat 4

Dev Note: Most of the new maps are still WIP, I just wanted to give R5V players a chance to try them out, we are aware of the bugs these maps have. Please do not report them.

Stability and Scripts

• General script cleanup and base script updates
• Fixed broken dome triggers
• Added error handling for Quick Chat
• Added error handling for missing loot refs
• Fixed missing bodygroup settings for new Legends when reviving
• Updated localizations
• Updated dummy model in firing range to retail dummies.
• Movement Recorder returns!
• Herobrine Removed.
• Lobby map select layout changed from 1x5 to 5x5

SDK and Engine Changes

• common_sdk.rpak and common_r5valk.rpak has been removed.
• All paks have been rebuilt using updated repak
  • This should fix some crash issues on pak unload
• Increased total amount of MTX cosmetics (1000 > 4000)
• Added BSP visibility and collision debug rendering systems
• Added static prop debug hooks and new debug_staticprop_text ConVar
• Added extended model precache system
• Improved FMOD backend:
  • Better event instance management and control
  • Fixed rapid-fire audio issues
  • Added hash mapping for event instances
  • Wrapped FMOD debug output behind fmod_debug checks
• Patched Miles Audio 10.0.62 for crash fixes and debugger support
• Fixed listener mask crash
• Fixed ziprail entity crash and added detour registration
• Replaced Discord SDK with native IPC
• Updated all core and player animations to season 11 version
  • Bow now has third person animations.

[LIVE] v2.9.4 - Map Update

I have some good news R5Valkyrie players! We managed to convert some newer versions of the Apex Legends's shader assets. This allowed us to port newer Apex maps into our engine.

To test things we are releasing a new map.

NEW MAP: STORM POINT

• Map is still in active development.
• Expect bugs, crashes and visual glitches.
• Please report the bugs you encounter to our discord server.

OTHER CHANGES

• Fixed script crash related a missing passive type.
• Fixed script crash caused by Caustic town takeover being loaded in all the maps.
• Added an error screen for client only sdk.
• Spider NPC model and animations updated to s11 version.
• Prowler animations updated to S11 version.
• Fixed broken particle effects for portable respawn beacons.

[LIVE] v2.9.31 - Map Update

New Map: King's Canyon Season 8 (WIP)

• Playable Town Takeover: Caustic Treatment

• Playable Map Toy: Explosive Hold

• Playable Map Toy: Sniper Towers

• So many new playable map pois

Dev Note: This is the first map ported with converted s7+ shaders. Expect bugs, visual glitches and maybe even crashes.

Other Changes

• New sdk convar "pak_debugmaterialdeps", enables material dependency logging to pak parsing system.
• Suppressed an old engine error "Material "error" not found, replacing with error_rgdu" error.
• New keybind: Toggle Legend
  • Press N to open legend select panel just like in firing range.
  • Requires "sv_cheats" convar to be active.
• Fixed a script error from earlier update.

[LIVE] v2.9.3 - Major Update

New Legend: Fuse

• Ported with original season 9 assets.
• Playable passive and tactical ability.
• Ultimate ability (wip)

Bug Fixes and New Features

• Add support for custom network key via sv_netkey.
• Add mods profile support to server hosting.
• Horizon Ultimate (wip)
• Improved dev menu
• Fixed missing lobby images for Olympus MU1 and Encore

This update is +30 gb in size due to every pak rebuilt with latest version of repak.

[LIVE] v2.9 - Major Update

This is a major update fixing lots of bugs and adds new content.

New Map: Encore

• Map is rebuilt from the ground up.
• All assets ported properly.

New Legend: Horizon

• All animations and models ported properly.
• Passive ability is fully functional.

New Weapon: 3030 Repeater

• All animations and models ported properly.
• Weapon is available in all gamemodes.

Other Additions:

• Added trident animations and effects. (WIP)
• Added tier 4 sniper stock to loot pool.
• Updated weapon attachments.
• Updated legend select screen background smoke model to include newer legend effects.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed script crash in firing range caused by missing spinoff.
• Disabled broken evo shields.
• Fixed Crosshair not turning off while adsing.
• Fixed an engine limit causing game to crash.
• Fixed bad Valkyrie head and hair materials.
• Removed broken particle effects from Valkyrie.

R5Valkyrie is now stable enough to change the branch into live.

• Default game config is now retail.
• Cheats and game console disabled by default.
• PDB's are now stored in platform folder.

[PTU] v2.8.5 - Playtest Update

Another bug fix update is here

• Music pack system has been completely reworked and now server driven.
• Added snow particles to Christmas lobby.
• Added season 5, 6 and 9 event and legend music packs.
• Fixed missing ui icon for iron crown music pack.
• Fixed incorrect ui icons for season 4 music packs.
• Fixed health and comms menus crashing due to rui changes.
• Fixed broken consumable calculations causing game to show incorrect health bar while healing.
• Fixed missing health item notifications.
• Some unneeded prints disabled.

[PTU] v2.8.4 - Playtest Update

This is a small overhaul update to R5Valkyrie, Merry Christmas everyone!

• Lobby is updated
  • Lobby map is now Christmas themed.
  • Aim trainer has been removed from gamemode select panel and replaced with Winter Express.
• UI.dll changed to season 3.1 version
  • This will allow us to add more ui content into the game.
• Winter Express Rework (WIP)
  • Fixed more than one Winter Express crash issues due to dependency mod flowstate is seperated from the script base.
  • Custom legend select panel has been removed.
  • Custom weapon loadout system has been removed.
  • Original Winter Express rui assets have been ported properly.

Dev Note: Winter Express is still work in progress state, expect bugs and crashes.

• Default music pack is now holo-day bash.
• Retail like Kill Leader notification has been added.
• Pilot legend has been removed by default, can be added back from root_asset_lists.gnut
• All Valkyrie banner poses have been ported properly.
• Fixed a missing Valkyrie core animation when idling.
• Fixed Firing Range randomly crashing due to asset overwrite issue.
• Fixed P2020 Animation bug causing weapon to clip through player hand.
• Fixed bad Valkyrie materials causing her to glow and look shiny under sun.
• Fixed Valkyrie playing wrong animation while idling.
• Fixed wrong activity modifiers on empty hand valk animations causing game to skip them and play gun anims.
• Added missing "Barrel Roll" Valkyrie banner pose.
• Replaced custom bik videos to official ones in order to fix bik related crashes.
• Disabled a corrupted model causing game to spam missing material error in the console.

[PTU] v2.8.3 - Playtest Update

• Added missing Valkyrie player animations
• Added missing rare Valkyrie banner poses
• Added Valkyrie tactical animations
• WIP Valkyrie passive
• WIP Evo shields
• Mirage Voyage tweaks
• Season 5 effect support
• Fixed broken shadowfall assets
• Season 7+ maps are now non-overridable
  • This change is to ensure older asset versions do not break season 7+ shader format, this fixes a lot of visual bugs and rare crashes.

[PTU] v2.73.1 - Playtest Update

This update focuses on steam auth system and discord rich presence.

• Game will now warn the player if steam is not loaded.
• Game will fall back to offline mode if steam is not loaded.
• Added discord rich presence.
• Added protection against bad words in names.
• Added protection against usernames with in game hud icons
  • Protection can be disabled by server/client owner with the convars below.
  • sv_allowIconsInNames
  • sv_allowIconsInChat
  • cl_allowIconsInNames
• Fix pilot ultimate titanfall assigning the titan to player 0.
• Fixed broken discord link in the lobby.
• Fixed satchel precache issue. Added to dev menu.
• Added a new warning screen if player is in PTU branch.
• Fixed script crash if a playlist is not registered.
• Map enum has been removed. Mods now do not need to register custom maps.

[PTU] v2.72.3 - Playtest Update

This is a really small update contains a major change

• Moved to steam auth system
  • EA App is no longer required
  • Game now needs steam to be running before launched
  • If no steam process found, game will fall back to offline mode