A ton of other bug fixes and feature tweaks are included. The full patch notes are available on Mod DB. Happy new year!

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Turns out a patch to Source SDK Base 2013, some time in 2015, perhaps permanently ended anyone's enjoyment of Coven. I couldn't get it to run at any rate, but I certainly hope that I was the only one.

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• Leveling has been stripped out in order to streamline the match. Many of the abilities are fun, but I didn't find it fun having to wait for half of a match in order to use them all. Vampires still level up (resetting upon death), gaining more health and damage output, but abilities are fixed by class. Feeding now helps level up faster (if you are full health), and corpses now grant a fixed amount of feeding for all players, not just first come first served. Slayers now collect "bounties" for staking vampires and are able to collect additional funds throughout the level. This can be spent to purchase items. More on this later.
  
  
• Bots have been rebuilt (still a work in progress) and now provide a reasonable (and hopefully more realistic) playing experience. This should help give a little more longevity to Coven depending on how enthusiastic the community ends up being. There's only so much time in a day, and there are a lot of fun games out there. Does anyone still play mods on a 16+ year old engine? I hope so.
  
  
• Classes and abilities have been streamlined. Many of the not so fun abilities have been pulled to make room for something a little more fun. This is still in progress, and some classes have missing abilities and a few clunky not so fun abilities remain. Holywater has been transferred (back) into a throwable grenade/item and is no longer an ability. My opinion is that holywater is a staple of Coven and it is back to all Slayer classes being able to purchase/throw it. Other grenades have also been implemented (or borrowed from HL2) as collectable items (frag grenade/stun grenade/SLAMs). Grenades can now be cooked to make them a little more useful against fast moving vampires. As a side note, I repaired the old holywater physics/model. Anyone reading this who played the old 2009/orange box Coven will surely remember the bizarre corkscrewing holywater of yesteryear. Healing type items and medkits are now purchasable as well as performance enhancing pills. Any purchased items will drop as a breakable item crate upon death. It seemed cruel for Slayers to spend all their hard earned money on a bunch of supplies just to lose them all.
  
  
• A new game mode is in. The new game mode involves Slayers gathering gasoline for refueling an APC through a series of waypoints. Each subsequent checkpoint is marked by a flare, and has a time limit that accumulates as waypoints are reached. Slayers will need to guide the APC across a series of waypoints to ensure victory. Think TF2 cart mode. This has been implemented on two of the existing Coven maps. The other three don't lend themselves well to such a mode (and I am still not convinced about outskirts either), and I have other ideas bouncing around for providing more fun on those down the road. Currently they will default back to the old capture point game mode from 2014. Truth be told, I don't really even hate a Counter-Strike style simple round-based TDM mode. That's where Coven started and it still feels great. This is also implemented as a playable option. The mod in it's current state has some balance issues, and probably it's fair share of bugs. I am especially worried about the APC implementation. I am certain the Coven community will find new and horrible ways to break it if they are anywhere near as enthusiastic about breaking it as they were about breaking the grappling hook.

Yes, there is a server. The Steam server browser is suck.

75.102.38.132:27015

If you are new to the mod, check out the moddb page and get ready for some bloody action. All new features, if you remember the previous version, including some real game changers! Release party this Friday the 28th, we will bring the game. :)

Check ya later

Cheers to everyone who attended tonight! Much fun was had all round and it was good to see faces old and knew.

Same time again next week!

Also dont forget to sign up on the forums especially if you have suggestions!