• Added additional anti-cheating checks
• Edited for better compatibility with Windows XP and Vista

• Test Version (Renamed to .40 for official release.)

• Fixed proximity bomb bug introduced in 0.38
• Fixed crash in some systems few seconds after entering zone

Gameplay

• Added support for specifying spawn location and radius per team is settings
• Added server option to disable passing ball through wall
• Added server option to disable catching ball when stating still in safezone to eliminate "ball killing"
• Added support for new configuration variable Misc:AntiWarpSettleDelay which will activate artificial anti-warp for given amount of time after attaching, portaling and warping. This should fix "getting past anti" bug in flagging zones
• Added support for multi-server zones
• Added support for negative gravity
• Fixed ball remaining in phased out state for long periods of time
• Fixed removing of powerballs from arena
• Fixed point blank bomb shrapnel doing full damage, istead of inactive shrapnel damage as it is supposed to
• Fixed driver stealthing entire turret
• Fixed crash when somebody attaches you at same moment when you go to spectator mode

User Interface

• Fixed auto commands not beeing sent when there is not any chats in profile
• Fixed character keys not working as PREV/NEXT key in menus
• Fixed arena list not working with many areas (50+) moved first 2 previously hardcoded help pagas into Commands.hlp so they can be changed too by including Commands.hlp to lvz file
• Fixed attach, tick next and tick previous actions not working with joystick

Graphics

• Added support for GIF, PNG and JPG files in addition to BMP. This should help reduce lvz file size v reworked lvz loading logic. image, audio and help files and now loaded directly from lvz file instead of extracting all files and saving to disk. files are now loaded in following order: 1. zonedir\arenaname (arenaname (public) can be used for main spawn), 2. active lvz files, 3. zonedir, 4. graphics/sound dir, 5. Continuum dir.
• Added support for 16, 24 and 32-bit display modes
• Added support for aligning screen objects with various screen elements (stats box, energy bar, specials, weapons, radar, chat). See BuildLevel docs and examples for details Added configurable colors. Background color, menu colors, radar colors are now read from colors.bm2
• Added advanced option 'Always show common resolutions'. Checking this makes 800x600, 1024x768, 1200x1024, 1600x1200, 1920x1440 and 2048x1536 modes available for selecting even if DirectDraw says that these are not supported. Useful when DirectDraw detects your monitor maximum resolution wrong.
• Added advanced option 'Disable clipping'. Use this when you have problems with tasking in and out in fullscreen mode
• Added support for lvz objects in multiple lvz files. In earlier versions only objects from last lvz where used
• Added support for *objset command with multiple objects
• Fixed loading of shipX graphics from lvz
• Fixed freeing of lvz sprites when changing arenas
• Fixed gradient.bm2 beeing not re-loaded
• Fixed radar lining images transparency
• Fixed "holes" in radar at high resolutions and made scrolling smoother
• Fixed "move object" packet handling
• Fixed thor explosions not showing on the radar
• Fixed graphics not beeing displayed after tasking out
• Fixed graphics beeing reloaded twice after tasking in, causing low-end computers to lag out during that process
• Fixed level and screen objects not showing up when changing arena while in chat window
• Fixed zone setting Frequency shift 0 crashing Continuum
• Fixed ship name displaying when ships with different sizes attached to eachother

Menu/Chat

• Fixed menu window was creeping up/left each run if task bar was at left/top of display
• Fixed menu not showing some ships when using mixed ships.bm2 and ship#.bm2
• Ignore left button while in right-click zone info mode, and remove state if focus lost
• Zone pings showed invalid spike after zone/proxy dialogs because of old packets sitting in network buffer
• Fixed " #" in chat showing in blue instead of green
• Don't flash chat for 5 seconds upon opening to avoid flash for existing text
• Rare crash on menu close Fixed
• Added web links, news, help, banner editor to chat menu
• Fixed bug with passwords having non-ascii chars
• Fixed macros not showing right in chat/edit dialog if they have been changed in game
• Numeric zone ping now shows lowest of last 8 pings, not average
• Edit chats feature in chat window (Ctrl-H)
• Added find support to chat with advanced options for message types
• Ability to add custom zones
• Improved menu/skin draw speed and loading of custom ships
• Improved URL detection
• Support optional chatbg.bm2 for chat window background (graphics/ or zones//)
• Fixed web links and help menu URLs
• Removed all accesses to resource.dll from menu
• Fixed bug in skins drawing animations for many regions
• Fixed minor mouse cursor bug in banner editor
• Added color depth to menu and profiles
• Added "show default resolution" and "disable clipping" to advanced graphics options

Sound

• Fixed not beeing able to set music volume to higher after setting it once

Misc

• Fixed zone setting BounceFactor 0 crashing Continuum
• Fixed frequent 'Packet tampering' server messages caused by incorrect retry handling when packet got lost during initial handshake
• Added support for hashed passwords
• Better timer synchronization with server
• Fixed Continuum not starting sometimes when clicked on icon
• Added asss support

Gameplay

• Made ship radius part of server ship settings so it is possible to make ship hat squeezes through 1 tile wide hole or a capital ship with size 5x5 tiles you can also make appropriate graphics for it using graphics download functionality)
• Fixed bug that allowed laying portal right after attaching even if enemy has antiwarp engaged
• Fixed bug in simulation code that caused ship to jump back after long screenlag period (for example, using PrintScreen no longer makes you lag on other player's screens)
• Fixed drawing of "lagged" or "phased" ball (.36 did not draw phased ball at all)
• Changed the amount of time a ball stays "lagged/phased" from 3 seconds to 1
• Fixed ball movement glitch on map when ball goes outside of radar range
• Removed weapon fire/warp delay after passing with Insert key
• Fixed turrets falling apart if several people attached at same time making turret bigger than allowed
• Fixed bombs hitting the spot a player specced from, Fixed not being able to fire bombs in spot player specced from
• Fixed /*warpto safe zone
• Fixed energy deplete prize sent by moderator which did not work (*prize #-13)
• Made flagger/baller decoy behaviour compatible with SS 1.3x (baller decoy no longer red)
• Fixed multifire bullets when one turret is blocked and ship is touching wall
• Fixed proximity bomb safety radius which was slightly smaller than VIE
• Fixed turrets consisting of people from different teams when driver reenters arena
• Fixed crash when doing /*warpto to spectator
• Fixed bug with decoys standing still beeing counted as mines
• You can no longer be warped during death timer
• Support for more (Public) arenas

Graphics

• Added functionality to download custom graphics, sounds and help files with level file per zone or arena (View -> Options -> Misc -> Use Optional Level
• Graphics and Sounds) through use of *.lvz files
• Ship graphics loaded from ship1.bm2 - ship8.bm2 to allow different ship sizes. If these files are not present ships.bm2 is used for backward compatibility
• Added map graphics objects. map designers can place any image (also animated images) anywhere on the map now, so map design is not limited by tileset.
• Further more, these graphics objects can be attached to certain events (enter zone, enter arena, death, kill) or commands issued by moderators. it is also possible to move these objects around using bots
• Added screen graphics objects. screen graphics objects are similar to map graphics objects, only they are not on the map, but on user's screen. some ideas for screen objects: arrow pointing to enemy with flags, powerball, etc, controlled by bot; clock showing time till end of league game, splash screen when you enter zone
• Added green-line coordinate grid to radar (optional in View -> Options -> Radar -> Show Radar Grid)
• Fixed screenshot funcionality (PrintScreen)
• Fixed burst trails (which were not diplayed in .36)
• Fixed visual bug of thors disappearing at level edge
• Fixed frequent DirectDraw error when reentering zone
• Fixed goal tile animation speed
• Max number of flyunder tiles displayed is unlimited now
• Asteroids and wormholes are drawn with black transparency now
• Rolling ship is now displayed when rolling ship graphics is in same directory as regular ship graphics
• Corrected thrust output position when rolling ship is disabled
• Fixed banner palette when setting banner
• Fixed windows PrintScreen functionality when tasked out
• Fixed problem with maps with > 10x compression ratio
• Fixed ship disappearing when decloaking
• Fixed some sprites not displayed after tasking out and in
• Fixed various color palette bugs, incorrect tile graphics displayed, and invisible tiles bug
• Fixed various bugs and crashes when changing graphics or sounds in-game

Chat

• Added 2 new fonts Large and Extra large (View -> Options -> Chat -> Font Style, thanks to ZippyDan for graphics)
• Added command ?nopubchat. it toggles displaying of public (blue) chat on and off. useful for league games
• Added international character support (öäõü etc - also ZippyDan)
• Help menu texts and help ticker texts are optionally downloaded from server, so they can be customized for zones
• Added option to require message key to be able to chat (View -> Key Defs -> Require Msg Key). useful so you dont accidentally enter message mode
• Increased chat window history length from 128 to 1,000 lines (applies to ?logbuffer too), so you can scroll back much farther
• Fixed ` key handling problems
• Fixed ignoring of players with )> in name
• Empty *arena messages are not displayed - moderator bongs no longer make a blank space
• Fixed dedupe messages so it now works ignoring duplicate messages (View -> Chat -> No Duplicate Messages)
• Fixed ;9999999999999; not to show random numbers
• Fixed problem with Enter beeing message mode key
• Fixed empty lines in help ticker
• Added ability to use %% to send %
• Fixed ignoring of leading spaces when determining chat color

User Interface

• Reorganized options menu so it is easier to find options and renamed some options so that they are more easily understood
• Added joystick/gamepad buttons configuration (View -> Key Defs -> Joystick/Gamepad)
• Added support for configurable ship names and ship graphics in main menu and in-game so each zone can rename and describe its own ships abilities
• Fixed joystick/gamepad incompatibility problems under Windows XP
• Fixed Alt-Tab firing bombs
• Made pageup/down and shift-pageup/down to open player list
• Added option to remove banner (Esc + B, scroll to bottom of banner list)
• Added option to activate Chat Window in Windowed mode and to disable chat window in options (View -> Options -> Chat -> Chat Window). Now you can copy text and click links if you use Windowed mode!
• Added "auto-execute" commands functionality to profiles (View -> Profiles -> Auto) that lets you auto-send chat/commands every time you login. Use\ to indicate a new line of chat.
• Added option for all users to see other players' ping times (View -> Options -> Misc -> Player Ping Times, this was previously moderator-only feature, note that it is roundtrip time!)
• Added functionality for moderators to view a player's real-time weapons damage (/*watchdamage)
• Added server option to disable PrintScreen while playing
• Fixed bug when changing arenas while map download was in progress
• Added detection of Continuum infected by virus, so players won't get the "you need to upgrade" message when they have already upgraded which is caused by many viruses
• Fixed AntiWarp engaged by .. text if there is % in the name
• F11 will reenter to last ship used instead of always entering as Warbird
• Opposite arrows will cancel each other out when scrolling in spec mode
• Using shift-F5 macro no longer specs ball in spec mode
• Completely new alt-tab Chat Window code
• Added scroll-bar to chat window
• Added clickable URL links and emails to chat window (links -http,https,ftp, email- are underlined). Clicking on links/emails will open new default browser window or default email client at clicked address
• Added highlighter to chat window that can be used for copying very large or small portions of text as you want- just like in a word processor (can modify selection color Edit -> Selection Color)
• Red arrow in chat window shows when new messages received when scrolled up
• Added "standard" keyboard and mouse support including: up, down, left, right, pgup, pgdn, home, end, ctrl-home, ctrl-end; shift with above selects text, left button click sets caret; left button drag selects; mouse wheel scrolls; wraps at commas in additions to spaces; can select font/size/bold, increase/decrease/bold font with keystroke
• Can change chat window font and style (Edit -> Font)
• Copy (Ctrl-C) in chat window without selection copies entire current line as in .36
• ESCAPE puts cursor back into edit field, deselects and snaps text back to bottom
• TAB toggles between edit and text windows
• Up/down in edit field moves cursor to bottom line of text
• Chat player list selection stays visible as players come and go
• Fixed buffer overflow for long private message from a player with a long name
• Moved player passwords to registry
• Added zone dns name fix for corrupted zone.dat files
• Fixed a number of small resource leaks in the menu and chat window
• Fixed problem pasting text with CR/LF
• Added simple banner editor (View -> Create/Edit Banners, hold CTRL for eyedropper)
• Fixed chat window not showing sometimes after alt-tab
• Added more skin features for developers
• Menu can optionally display default ships for each zone as zone selection changes (View -> Options -> Menu -> Zone-specific Ships). This option is left off by default because it can degrade menu performance
• Holding mouse over ping column on zone list now shows packet loss
• Zone download dialog re-vamped and shows what zone properties changed -if any (ip, port, name, etc) after a download (View -> Zones)
• Fixed some potential mouse wheel problems
• Added tip-of-the-day (Help -> Tip of the Day)
• Added ability to change macros in chat window (Macros -> Edit)
• Added right-click menu to Continuum on taskbar
• Added chat window icon flash on taskbar when a private message is received
• Fixed window focus problem when 'skip splash screen' is selected
• Added target bounty to player profiles (View -> Profile -> Target)
• Fixed activation of chat window when no other top-level windows present
• Added news.txt viewing for each zone in main menu (Weblinks & News)
• Added export text file feature to trace dialog (View -> Trace -> Export)
• Title.dat now applies to main menu and program window
• Added saving of f3 name tag status (all name tags off is not saved)
• Fixed refresh bug when changing macro/key def/profile names
• All macros/keydefs/profiles required to have unique names now
• Fixed a bug where skin selection was not saved
• Added several checks to make sure players have working dirser address
• Pressing f2 in chat window changes player sort as it does in-game
• Better handling of zone pings when there's a lot of zones in list
• Added menutext.bm2 which main menu uses for font
• Fixed always displaying chat window at last position
• Added wav file size limit for sound macros

Sound

• Added support for team sounds. Players can play sounds %150 - %255 in team chat, zone sysops can upload these sounds in lvz file
• Up to 5 bong sounds can be played in parallel instead of previous 1
• Fixed sending voice messages
• Fixed bug with sending wav macros to clients that werent accepting wavs
• Fixed bource.wa2 misnamed file
• Some fixes to 3d sound (View -> Options -> Sound -> 3D Sound Effects)

Communications

• Added SOCKS5 proxy support
• Fixed incompatibility with some cable modems / non-standard TCP/IP stacks
• Fixed security checksum not returned error

Gameplay

• Down arrow has now priority over up arrow
• Enemy team decoys doesnt make sound when released anymore
• Mines (and all other weapons) are removed when player leaves arena
• Portal is removed when changing team
• Bomb with bouce count 1 bounced from corner is shown using non-bouncing bomb shape
• Fixed BombSafety setting
• Prizes are not generated after user gets disconnected
• Added waepon fire delay after shooting ball with Ins
• Sounds are stopped when changing arenas
• Fixed problems with shift keys getting stuck when WM_KEYUP message is lost
• Made mines 2/3 darker on radar
• Added server option to disable shooting while using afterburners
• Added server option for showing bombs on radar
• Added server option to hide flags for spectators
• Added server option to disable xradar in spec
• Added server option to disable random bullet damage
• Added server option to specify low fps limit

Chat/Menus/Misc

• Changed screenshot key to PrintScreen
• Fixed typo Sealth -> Stealth in text weapons display
• When trying to change to team that is full, 'Team is full' message is displayed
• Rest of the macros are cleared out if macro file contains only few macros
• When downloading level chat and names box is displayed
• Double-click on player name in chat window sets focus to edit
• Fixed player name list scrolling to top when it is changed in chat window
• Fixed security checksum not returned while downloading level
• Added arena list sorting
• Added banner list sorting

DirectDraw/DirectSound

• Fixed problem that mouse cursor was blinking on screen in fullscreen mode on some systems
• Fixed memory leak when locking workstation using Windows 2000
• Fixed windowed mode not working with some video cards with 32bit desktop mode
• Added DirectDraw troubleshooting options (Advanced options) by default all options should be OFF in there when Refresh in profile is set up DirectDraw
• Interface is used for compatibility instead of DirectDraw2 interface
• Added Sound Quality option "Default". With this option sound card is left to cooperative mode, so sounds of other applications such as WinAmp are audiable too (works only if your sound card drivers support it)

Profile/Skins/Zone

• Increased player name length to 23 characters
• Fixed unassigned macro keys blocking usage of valid F-keys
• Fixed bad zone.dat file with names like "name,0,0,0,0,0,0,0"
• Fixed zone dns lookup (still another related bug)
• Fixed problem that caused key sequence set to "key 255" when editing key definitions
• Possibly Fixed transparent draws on menu with some weird drivers
• Added check for wave size
• Changed default macro keys from Shift F1-F12 to LShift F1-F8 and RShift F1-F8
• Duplicate names for profile/macro/keydef are not allowed anymore
• Blank macros/keydef is created when creating new profile
• Text "updated" persist in zone list when downloading
• Backspace set to message key is cleared first time you run 0.36. This will get rid of chat bouncing problem
• Fixed problem clipping skin size when menu bar wraps

• Initial public release