New skills (9)
- Bounty: put a cash price on an enemy's head, the killer collects it.
- EmpGrenade: grenade victims lose radar and crosshair for a while.
- GravityDecoy: the decoy alters gravity for everyone in its radius.
- Heavyweight: immune to push and slow effects from other skills.
- Nemesis: the marked player takes extra damage from everyone.
- Punisher: banks part of the damage you take and releases it on your next hit.
- Rewind: drop a marker and teleport back to it shortly after.
- TrueArmor: armor absorbs part of incoming damage instead of health.
- Voodoo: the marked enemy shares the damage you take.
Shared systems
- DecoyRing: reusable ground ring so decoy skills show their real area of effect. Adopted by FireRain, FrozenDecoy, GravityDecoy and MagneticDecoy.
- WeaponPool: single cached weapon classification (rifle/pistol/grenade) with a normalizing lookup, backed by the new config Weapons section. Replaces the duplicated hardcoded arrays in Assassin, Chicken, Ghost, NoNades, PrimaryBan, RandomWeapon, SniperElite and WeaponsSwap. [because of compatibility with WeaponRestrict]
- HUD suppression registry in SkillUtils: crosshair and radar hiding is now refcounted per owner, so overlapping skills (Glitch, Jammer, EmpGrenade) cannot restore each other's state early.
- SkillUtils.ResolveHiddenPawns: shared invisible-pawn resolution for C4Camouflage, Ghost and Ninja.
- Config gained a Weapons section with automatic migration for existing installs, plus a per-skill DisableOnPistolRound switch honoured by both the round draw and css_setskill.
Sound
- Volume rebalance
- Add SkillUtils.EmitSoundToPlayer with a private RecipientFilter. A null filter had been broadcasting every skill sound to all clients. Migrated 16 call sites: Poison, DemonEye, ToxicSmoke, CarefulBullets, Thorns, HotBomb, LastGasp, LongKnife, Nightmare, Jester, Tripwire, Medic, HealingSmoke, Rewind, Watchmaker.
- New effects: LongKnife knife-hit feedback (Weapon_Knife.Hit.Heavy/Light), Grapple hook impact, Fortnite barricade placement, Ricochet bounce, Nightmare cursed tone, Replicator/Illusionist spawn, PsychicDefusing defuse cue, TakeAmmo pickup, Tripwire and Jammer trigger tones.
- 29 skills gained a configurable SoundVolume, LongKnife also HitSoundVolume.
- Grapple: emit the hook impact at the hook entity instead of at the owner so the enemy team can locate it.
- PawelJumper: the engine already plays the first jump, only extra jumps emit.
Models and visuals
- Grapple: real hook model with configurable hookScale and hookEmbed so the hook sits in the surface it hit.
- Pilot: glowing exhaust trail parented to the pawn, active only while airborne.
Performance
- SkillsInfo.GetValue now resolves through a ConcurrentDictionary cache instead of reflecting on every call; invalidated on config reload.
- HUD render cache keyed on player, config, description flag and the three source lines; identical frames skip the rebuild.
- Glaz.CheckTransmit: hoist smoke index resolution out of the per-viewer loop and build the pawn-owner map lazily.
- playersSkills switched from ConcurrentBag to HashSet<Skills>, turning the NoRepeat filter from an O(n) scan into a set lookup.
Fixes
- NoRepeat could hand a player two or three skills in one round because the history bag was never deduplicated; the HashSet rewrite closes it.
- SniperElite: restore the saved weapon after the halftime team swap instead of dropping it on the pistol round.
- Illiterate: the holder alert now reaches chat and is exempt from its own scrambler via PrintToChat(ignoreIlliterate).
- EntityManager.DestroyBeam: zero out width and render colour before the kill so beams cannot linger visibly, with a next-frame Remove fallback.
- Ricochet: drop all 18 diagnostic Trace calls and the Trace helper; the skill measured stable over 48h and the tracing dominated the debug log.
Debug
- Tag round start, round end and freeze-time-end lines with [WARMUP] so warmup load is separable from live rounds.
Revive skills (Second Chance / Phoenix / Re-Zombie) — unified "on death" logic:
- Intercept the lethal hit before it is applied. Previously they reacted after the death was already committed, so one-shots, fall damage and skill-based kills were missed (Phoenix and Re-Zombie were rewritten from a post-death handler to pre-damage interception).
Killer Flash:
- Kills through real damage instead of forcing a suicide, so revive skills can intercept.
Baseball:
- Fixed a rare server crash from decoy grenades: a freed decoy's entity index could be reused by another entity and written to (use-after-free). Decoy tracking is now validated per tick (DesignerName gate) and cleared every round.
Native crash hardening:
- Aimbot: guard the hit-group native pointer before writing (avoids writing to freed/null memory).
- Wallhack: detach the glow when the target dies or disconnects (stale FollowEntity on a freed pawn).
- Spectator / Cypher / FalconEye / ThirdEye: null-guard the camera SceneNode walk and re-validate the target before teleport/parent (cross-frame freed-entity deref).
- CServerSideClient.ForceFullUpdate now bails on a null client handle.
Performance:
- Added a per-tick player/bomb cache (PlayerManager.GetTickPlayers / GetTickBomb).
- Migrated 82 skills from per-skill Utilities.GetPlayers() to the one shared per-tick scan, and the HUD loop reuses it. Much lower per-tick cost at high player counts (verified 10v10).
RayTrace:
- Prints a single notice when the module is not installed; dependent skills (Long Zeus, Long Knife, Iana, Cypher, Noclip, Shade + the skill-use aim check) no-op instead of failing silently (#43).
Introduce optional `HudDuration` and `DescriptionHudDuration` fields in skill config metadata and propagate them through all skill config constructors and `skillsInfo.json`.
Refactored command handling to improve player and skill lookup logic, replaced some list operations with direct queries, and updated method signatures for clarity and null safety. The vote system was reworked to support more robust vote tracking, cooldowns, and localized chat messages. Language files were updated to add new vote-related translations. Various code style and nullability improvements were made throughout the plugin.
