@ -1,49 +1,116 @@
; When zed time activates, game speed is immediately set to
; 'zedTimeSlomoScale' (0.2 by default), defined, like all other variables,
; in 'KFGameType'. Zed time lasts 'zedTimeDuration' seconds (3.0 by default),
; but during last 'zedTimeDuration; 0.166' seconds (by default 0.498)
; it starts to speed back up, causing game speed to update every tick.
; This makes animations look more smooth when exiting zed-time;
; however, updating speed every tick for that purpose seems like
; an overkill and, combined with things like
; increased tick rate, certain maps and raised zed limit,
; it can lead to noticable lags at the end of zed time.
; This fix limits amount of actual game speed updates, alleviating the issue.
[Acedia.FixDualiesCost]
; This feature fixes several issues, related to the selling price of both
; single and dual pistols, all originating from the existence of dual weapons.
; Most notable issue is the ability to "print" money by buying and
; selling pistols in a certain way.
;
; As a side effect it also fixes an issue where during zed time speed up
; 'zedTimeSlomoScale' was assumed to be default value of '0.2'.
; Now zed time will behave correctly with mods that change 'zedTimeSlomoScale'.
[Acedia.FixZedTimeLags]
; Fix only works with vanilla pistols, as it's unpredictable what
; custom ones can do and they can handle these issues on their own
; in a better way.
autoEnable = true
; Maximum amount of game speed updates upon leaving zed time.
; 2 or 3 seem to provide a good enough result that,
; i.e. it should be hard to notice difference with vanilla game behavior.
; 1 is a smallest possible value, resulting in effectively removing any
; smooting via speed up, simply changing speed from
; the slowest (0.2) to the highest.
; For the reference: on servers with default 30 tick rate there's usually
; about 13 updates total.
maxGameSpeedUpdatesAmount = 3
; [ADVANCED] Don't change this setting unless you know what you're doing.
; Compatibility setting that allows to keep 'GameInfo' 's 'Tick' event
; from being disabled.
; Useful when running Acedia along with custom 'GameInfo'
; (that isn't 'KFGameType') that relies on 'Tick' event.
; Note, however, that in order to keep this fix working properly,
; it's on you to make sure 'KFGameType.Tick()' logic isn't executed.
disableTick = true
; Some issues involve possible decrease in pistols' price and
; don't lead to the exploit, but are still bugs and require fixing.
; If you have a Deagle in your inventory and then get another one
; (by either buying or picking it off the ground) - the price of resulting
; dual pistols will be set to the price of the last deagle,
; like the first one wasn't worth anything at all.
; In particular this means that (prices are off-perk for more clarity):
; 1. If you buy dual deagles (-1000 do$h) and then sell them at 75% of
; the cost (+750 do$h), you lose 250 do$h;
; 2. If you first buy a deagle (-500 do$h), then buy
; the second one (-500 do$h) and then sell them, you'll only get
; 75% of the cost of 1 deagle (+375 do$h), now losing 625 do$h;
; 3. So if you already have bought a deagle (-500 do$h),
; you can get a more expensive weapon by doing a stupid thing
; and first selling your Deagle (+375 do$h),
; then buying dual deagles (-1000 do$h).
; If you sell them after that, you'll gain 75% of the cost of
; dual deagles (+750 do$h), leaving you with losing only 375 do$h.
; Of course, situations described above are only relevant if you're planning
; to sell your weapons at some point and most players won't even
; notice these issues.
; But such an oversight still shouldn't exist in a game and we fix it by
; setting sell value of dualies as a sum of values of each pistol.
; Yet, fixing this issue leads to players having more expensive
; (while fairly priced) weapons than on vanilla, technically making
; the game easier. And some people might object to having that in
; a whitelisted bug-fixing feature.
; These people are, without a question, complete degenerates.
; But making mods for only non-mentally challenged isn't inclusive.
; So we add this option.
; Set it to 'false' if you only want to fix ammo printing
; and leave the rest of the bullshit as-is.
allowSellValueIncrease = true
[Acedia.FixAmmoSelling]
; This feature addressed an oversight in vanilla code that
; allows clients to sell weapon's ammunition.
; Due to the implementation of ammo selling, this allows cheaters to
; "print money" by buying and selling ammo over and over again.
autoEnable = true
; Due to how this fix works, players with level below 6 get charged less
; than necessary by the shop and this fix must take the rest of
; the cost by itself. While it's _highly_ unreliable and can only provide
; a minuscule benefit this can potentially be abused by cheaters.
; To decrease the amount of value they can get from it, this fix can be
; allowed to decrease players' money into negative values.
; The trade off is a small chance that there is a bug in this fix and
; an unlucky circumstances can lead to regular players
; to have negative dosh values.
; Both situations are highly unlikely and whichever one you chose probably
; doesn't matter, but the option is there.
allowNegativeDosh = true
[Acedia.FixInventoryAbuse]
; This feature addressed two issues with the inventory:
; 1. Players carrying amount of weapons that shouldn't be allowed by the
; weight limit.
; 2. Players carrying two variants of the same gun.
; For example carrying both M32 and camo M32.
; Single and dual version of the same weapon are also considered
; the same type of gun, so you shouldn't be able to carry
; both MK23 and dual MK23 or dual handcannons and golden handcannon.
; But cheaters do. But not with this fix.
autoEnable = true
; How often (in seconds) should we do inventory validation checks?
; You shouldn't really worry about performance, but there's also no need to
; do this check too often.
checkInterval = 0.25
; For this fix to properly work, this array must contain an entry for
; every dual weapon in the game (like pistols, with single and dual versions).
; It's made configurable in case of custom dual weapons.
dualiesClasses = (single=class'KFMod.SinglePickup',dual=class'KFMod.DualiesPickup')
dualiesClasses = (single=class'KFMod.Magnum44Pickup',dual=class'KFMod.Dual44MagnumPickup')
dualiesClasses = (single=class'KFMod.MK23Pickup',dual=class'KFMod.DualMK23Pickup')
dualiesClasses = (single=class'KFMod.DeaglePickup',dual=class'KFMod.DualDeaglePickup')
dualiesClasses = (single=class'KFMod.GoldenDeaglePickup',dual=class'KFMod.GoldenDualDeaglePickup')
dualiesClasses = (single=class'KFMod.FlareRevolverPickup',dual=class'KFMod.DualFlareRevolverPickup')
[Acedia.FixInfiniteNades]
; This feature fixes a vulnerability in a code of 'Frag' that can allow
; player to throw grenades even when he no longer has any.
; There's also no cooldowns on the throw, which can lead to a server crash.
autoEnable = true
; Setting this flag to 'true' will allow to throw grenades by calling
; 'ServerThrow' directly, as long as player has necessary ammo.
; This can allow some players to throw grenades much quicker than intended,
; therefore it's suggested to keep this flag set to 'false'.
ignoreTossFlags = false
[Acedia.FixDoshSpam]
; This feature addressed two dosh-related issues:
; 1. Crashing servers by spamming 'CashPickup' actors with 'TossCash';
; 2. Breaking collision detection logic by stacking large amount of
; 'CashPickup' actors in one place, which allows one to either
; reach unintended locations or even instantly kill zeds.
; 'CashPickup' actors in one place, which allows one to either
; reach unintended locations or even instantly kill zeds.
;
; It fixes them by limiting speed, with which dosh can spawn, and
; allowing this limit to decrease when there's already too much dosh
; present on the map.
[Acedia.FixDoshSpam]
autoEnable = true
; Highest and lowest speed with which players can throw dosh wads.
; It'll be evenly spread between all players.
@ -63,6 +130,35 @@ doshPerSecondLimitMin=5
criticalDoshAmount = 25
[Acedia.FixSpectatorCrash]
; This feature attempts to prevent server crashes caused by someone
; quickly switching between being spectator and an active player.
autoEnable = true
; This fix will try to kick any player that switches between active player
; and cooldown faster than time (in seconds) in this value.
; NOTE: raising this value past default value of '0.25'
; won't actually improve crash prevention, but might cause regular players to
; get accidentally kicked.
spectatorChangeTimeout = 0.25
; [ADVANCED] Don't change this setting unless you know what you're doing.
; Allows you to turn off server blocking.
; Players that don't respect timeout will still be kicked.
; This might be needed if this fix conflicts with another mutator
; that also changes 'numPlayers'.
; This option is necessary to block aggressive enough server crash
; attempts, but can cause compatibility issues with some mutators.
; It's highly recommended to rewrite such a mutator to be compatible instead.
; NOTE: fix should be compatible with most faked players-type mutators,
; since this it remembers the difference between amount of
; real players and 'numPlayers'.
; After unblocking, it sets 'numPlayers' to
; the current amount of real players + that difference.
; So 4 players + 3 (=7 numPlayers) after kicking 1 player becomes
; 3 players + 3 (=6 numPlayers).
allowServerBlock = true
[Acedia.FixFFHack]
; This feature fixes a bug that can allow players to bypass server's
; friendly fire limitations and teamkill.
; Usual fixes apply friendly fire scale to suspicious damage themselves, which
@ -70,7 +166,6 @@ criticalDoshAmount=25
; In oder to avoid that, this fix allows server owner to define precisely
; to what damage types to apply the friendly fire scaling.
; It should be all damage types related to projectiles.
[Acedia.FixFFHack]
autoEnable = true
; Defines a general rule for chosing whether or not to apply
; friendly fire scaling.
@ -119,134 +214,37 @@ alwaysScale=Class'KFMod.DamTypeZEDGunMKII'
;neverScale=Class'KFMod.???'
; This feature fixes a vulnerability in a code of 'Frag' that can allow
; player to throw grenades even when he no longer has any.
; There's also no cooldowns on the throw, which can lead to a server crash.
[Acedia.FixInfiniteNades]
autoEnable = true
; Setting this flag to 'true' will allow to throw grenades by calling
; 'ServerThrow' directly, as long as player has necessary ammo.
; This can allow some players to throw grenades much quicker than intended,
; therefore it's suggested to keep this flag set to 'false'.
ignoreTossFlags = false
; This feature addressed an oversight in vanilla code that
; allows clients to sell weapon's ammunition.
; Moreover, when being sold, ammunition cost is always multiplied by 0.75,
; without taking into an account possible discount a player might have.
; This allows cheaters to "print money" by buying and selling ammo over and
; over again ammunition for some weapons,
; notably pipe bombs (74% discount for lvl6 demolition)
; and crossbow (42% discount for lvl6 sharpshooter).
[Acedia.FixAmmoSelling]
autoEnable = true
; Due to how this fix works, players with level below 6 get charged less
; than necessary by the shop and this fix must take the rest of
; the cost by itself. While for unreliable and for minuscule benefit,
; this can potentially be abused by cheaters.
; To decrease the amount of value they can get from it, this fix can be
; allowed to decrease players' money into negative values.
; The trade off is a small chance that a some bug in this fix and
; an unlucky circumstances can lead to regular players
; having negative dosh values.
; Both situations are highly unlikely, but the option is there.
allowNegativeDosh = true
; This feature attempts to prevent server crashes caused by someone
; quickly switching between being spectator and an active player.
[Acedia.FixSpectatorCrash]
autoEnable = true
; This fix will try to kick any player that switches between active player
; and cooldown faster than time (in seconds) in this value.
; NOTE: raising this value past default value of '0.25'
; won't actually improve crash prevention.
spectatorChangeTimeout = 0.25
; [ADVANCED] Don't change this setting unless you know what you're doing.
; Allows you to turn off server blocking.
; Players that don't respect timeout will still be kicked.
; This might be needed if this fix conflicts with another mutator
; that also changes 'numPlayers'.
; However, it is necessary to block aggressive enough server crash attempts,
; but can cause compatibility issues with some mutators.
; It's highly preferred to rewrite such a mutator to be compatible.
; NOTE: it should be compatible with most faked players-type mutators,
; since this fix remembers the difference between amount of
; real players and 'numPlayers'.
; After unblocking, it sets 'numPlayers' to
; the current amount of real players + that difference.
; So 4 players + 3 (=7 numPlayers) after kicking 1 player becomes
; 3 players + 3 (=6 numPlayers).
allowServerBlock = true
; This feature fixes several issues related to the selling price of both
; single and dual pistols, all originating from the existence of dual weapons.
; Most notable issue is the ability to "print" money by buying and
; selling pistols in a certain way.
[Acedia.FixZedTimeLags]
; When zed time activates, game speed is immediately set to
; 'zedTimeSlomoScale' (0.2 by default), defined, like all other variables,
; in 'KFGameType'. Zed time lasts 'zedTimeDuration' seconds (3.0 by default),
; but during last 'zedTimeDuration * 0.166' seconds (by default 0.498)
; it starts to speed back up, causing game speed to update every tick.
; This makes animations look more smooth when exiting zed-time.
; However, updating speed every tick for that purpose seems like
; an overkill and, combined with things like
; increased tick rate, certain open maps and increased zed limit,
; it can lead to noticable lags at the end of the zed time.
; This fix limits amount of actual game speed updates, alleviating the issue.
;
; It fixes all of the issues by manually setting pistols'
; 'SellValue' variables to proper values.
; Fix only works with vanilla pistols, as it's unpredictable what
; custom ones can do and they can handle these issues on their own
; in a better way.
[Acedia.FixDualiesCost]
autoEnable = true
; Some issues involve possible decrease in pistols' price and
; don't lead to exploit, but are still bugs and require fixing.
; If you have a Deagle in your inventory and then get another one
; (by either buying or picking it off the ground) - the price of resulting
; dual pistols will be set to the price of the last deagle,
; like the first one wasn't worth anything at all.
; In particular this means that (prices are off-perk for more clarity):
; 1. If you buy dual deagles (-1000 do$h) and then sell them at 75% of
; the cost (+750 do$h), you lose 250 do$h;
; 2. If you first buy a deagle (-500 do$h), then buy
; the second one (-500 do$h) and then sell them, you'll only get
; 75% of the cost of 1 deagle (+375 do$h), now losing 625 do$h;
; 3. So if you already have bought a deagle (-500 do$h),
; you can get a more expensive weapon by doing a stupid thing
; and first selling your Deagle (+375 do$h),
; then buying dual deagles (-1000 do$h).
; If you sell them after that, you'll gain 75% of the cost of
; dual deagles (+750 do$h), leaving you with losing only 375 do$h.
; Of course, situations described above are only relevant if you're planning
; to sell your weapons at some point and most people won't even notice it.
; But such an oversight still shouldn't exist in a game and we fix it by
; setting sell value of dualies as a sum of values of each pistol.
; Yet, fixing this issue leads to players having more expensive
; (while fairly priced) weapons than on vanilla, technically making
; the game easier. And some people might object to having that in
; a whitelisted bug-fixing feature.
; These people are, without a question, complete degenerates.
; But making mods for only non-mentally challenged isn't inclusive.
; So we add this option.
; Set it to 'false' if you only want to fix ammo printing
; and leave the rest of the bullshit as-is.
allowSellValueIncrease = true
; This feature addressed two inventory issues:
; 1. Players carrying amount of weapons that shouldn't be allowed by the
; weight limit.
; 2. Players carrying two variants of the same gun.
; For example carrying both M32 and camo M32.
; Single and dual version of the same weapon are also considered
; the same gun, so you can't carry both MK23 and dual MK23 or
; dual handcannons and golden handcannon.
[Acedia.FixInventoryAbuse]
; As a side effect it also fixes an issue where during zed time speed up
; 'zedTimeSlomoScale' was assumed to be default value of '0.2'.
; Now zed time will behave correctly with mods that change 'zedTimeSlomoScale'.
autoEnable = true
; How often (in seconds) should we do our inventory validations?
; We shouldn't really worry about performance, but there's also no need to
; do this check too often.
checkInterval = 0.25
; For this fix to properly work, this array must contain an entry for
; every dual weapon in the game (like pistols, with single and dual versions).
; It's made configurable in case of custom dual weapons.
dualiesClasses = (single=class'KFMod.SinglePickup',dual=class'KFMod.DualiesPickup')
dualiesClasses = (single=class'KFMod.Magnum44Pickup',dual=class'KFMod.Dual44MagnumPickup')
dualiesClasses = (single=class'KFMod.MK23Pickup',dual=class'KFMod.DualMK23Pickup')
dualiesClasses = (single=class'KFMod.DeaglePickup',dual=class'KFMod.DualDeaglePickup')
dualiesClasses = (single=class'KFMod.GoldenDeaglePickup',dual=class'KFMod.GoldenDualDeaglePickup')
dualiesClasses = (single=class'KFMod.FlareRevolverPickup',dual=class'KFMod.DualFlareRevolverPickup')
; Maximum amount of game speed updates upon leaving zed time.
; 2 or 3 seem to provide a good enough result that,
; i.e. it should be hard to notice difference with vanilla game behavior.
; 1 is a smallest possible value, resulting in effectively removing any
; smooting via speed up, simply changing speed from
; the slowest (0.2) to the highest.
; For the reference: on servers with default 30 tick rate there's usually
; about 13 updates total (without this fix).
maxGameSpeedUpdatesAmount = 3
; [ADVANCED] Don't change this setting unless you know what you're doing.
; Compatibility setting that allows to keep 'GameInfo' 's 'Tick' event
; from being disabled.
; Useful when running Acedia along with custom 'GameInfo'
; (that isn't 'KFGameType') that relies on 'Tick' event.
; Note, however, that in order to keep this fix working properly,
; it's on you to make sure 'KFGameType.Tick()' logic isn't executed.
disableTick = true
