- #### Fixes
- **Pyro** - Fire damage killed the holder at low health. The regeneration now runs before the damage is applied instead of after.
- **Iana** - The clone did not absorb a lethal hit, same cause as Pyro.
- **Dracula** - Lifesteal used the raw damage, so an AWP headshot healed for 400. It is now capped to the health the victim actually had, works on the killing blow, and can no longer leave the attacker alive at 0 HP.
- **RobinHood** - Stolen money used the raw damage and a hardcoded 16000 cap. It is now capped to the victim's real health, works on the killing blow, and respects `mp_maxmoney`. The victim loses exactly what the attacker gains.
- **Voodoo** - Reflected damage used the raw damage, now capped to the victim's real health.
- **Config** - The `Rifle`, `Pistol` and `Grenade` weapon pools grew every time the config was loaded, so removed weapons came back on the next start.
- **Use button** - Skills no longer trigger when a CT presses `Use` while looking at a planted C4, so the skill key no longer competes with the defuse key.
- #### Other
- Built against CounterStrikeSharp 1.0.373.
- #### Fixes
- **Startup crash** - Servers with `PerfMode` or `DebugMode` enabled crashed during boot at the first skill. `PerfLog.Sample` called `IsServerIdle()` on every `SkillAction`, which scanned the player list while the server was still booting. Our own regression, introduced with the idle-logging gate in b8.
- **PlayerManager** - Added a `serverActive` flag set on map start; `IsServerIdle`, `GetTickPlayers` and `GetTickBomb` no longer touch the game before the map is up.
- **Commands** - `zmienmape` and one Chinese alias were listed twice, registering the same command name natively two times. Cleaned up the defaults and added a duplicate guard so user configs are covered too.
- #### Chat
- **Skill announcement** - Teammate skills are now shown first and your own skill description last, so it stays at the bottom of the chat instead of scrolling away.
- **SetRandomSkill** - No longer leaves the chat box unclosed when the player has teammates.
## Shared Systems
* **DecoyTracker** - owner-aware decoy tracking shared by FrozenDecoy, GravityDecoy and MagneticDecoy, replacing the per-skill position dictionaries.
* **DebugCategory** - new flag enum backing the numeric `DebugMode`, with automatic migration from the old boolean value.
* **SkillsInfo.GetSkillConfig** - indexed skill config lookup replacing the linear scan used by draws and HUD rendering.
* **SkillNames** - cached enum name table, removing repeated `ToString()` calls from the draw path.
* **SkillUtils.HideCarriedEntities** - shared carried-weapon resolution for C4Camouflage, Ghost and Ninja.
## Performance
* **Skill draw** - replaced the O(n²) config lookup; rounds exceeding the perf threshold dropped from 89% to 0.3%.
* **CheckTransmit** - the weapon chain is now resolved once per hidden pawn instead of once per receiver; Ghost cost down 61%.
* **Pilot** - the exhaust trail is paused and resumed instead of being destroyed and recreated on every jump release.
* **MagneticDecoy** - config reads and the pawn list are hoisted out of the per-decoy loop.
* **FrozenDecoy** - config reads are hoisted out of the per-tick loop.
* **Debug** - the damage hook is only installed when damage logging is enabled.
## Fixes
* **PsychicDefusing** - can no longer finish a defuse and award an extra round after the round has already ended.
* **Spectator** - now picks a different enemy on each activation and no longer creates an unused camera prop every time the skill is switched off.
* **Random** - replaced the shared `Random` instance with `Random.Shared`, preventing degenerate results from concurrent use.
* **Baseball** - decoys are removed when their owner dies or loses the skill.
* **FrozenDecoy, GravityDecoy, MagneticDecoy** - decoys and their ground rings are removed when the skill is taken away.
* **ThirdEye** - fixed the camera check dereferencing a missing `CameraServices`, and the door toggle now verifies the entity class before casting.
* **Round start** - fixed `[gamerules unavailable]` appearing on the first freeze-time end after every map change.
* **Config** - added migration for keys missing from existing configuration files.
## Menu
* **WASDMenuAPI** - fixed a malformed `<font>` tag that wrapped every non-hovered menu row in an unclosed attribute.
* **WSAD menu** - the controls line is no longer dropped when the header line is hidden.
* **HtmlHudCustomisation** - line size options left empty now hide their line instead of emitting an invalid font class.
## Debug
* **DebugMode** - changed from a boolean to a number with concatenated category digits: `1` Skill, `2` Round, `3` Entity, `4` Damage. `123` enables Skill, Round and Entity. `0` disables logging. Existing `true` values migrate automatically.
* **EntityManager** - entity creation, destruction and failures are now logged under the Entity category instead of the server console.
* Startup now reports which debug categories are active.
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.
- Curses are now tracked at all times and cleared when a player leaves, so a curse can no longer stick to whoever joins into that player slot afterwards
- Wallhack and Nightmare no longer shows up for the whole server during the round start skill reveal
- One skill throwing during round cleanup no longer cancels the rest of the cleanup or leaves entity kills suppressed for the rest of the map
- Fixed the TakeAmmo crash on map change while restoring weapon reserve ammo
- Friendly fire reduction now applies to BlastShot, DeathBomb, ExplodingBarrel, ExplosiveShot and ToxicSmoke
- FireRain molotovs now land around the decoy instead of on nearby rooftops, and the fire keeps its owner and team so friendly fire rules apply to it
- Teammates can no longer shoot the chickens spawned by HealingChicken
- Fortnite wall now spawns with its model and health set up front, so it takes the configured amount of damage instead of breaking on the first bullet
- JetKick, CarefulBullets and WildThrow now clean up after their target disconnects
## Added
- **`CurseSkillPerPlayer`** (config.json) — limits how many curse skills (Darkness, JumpBan, PrimaryBan, Bankrupt and 14 others) can be stacked on a single player per round. `null` = unlimited (default), `1` = one curse per player, `2` = two. When the limit is reached the target is rejected and the curser gets a chat warning. Enforced centrally in `SkillAction`, so no per-skill code is needed.
- **Tripwire cooldown mode** — replaces the fixed wire limit with a Replicator-style cooldown. Players can place as many wires as they want as long as the cooldown is up; remaining time is shown on the HUD. Configurable via `Cooldown` in skillsInfo.json (default 20s).
- **Tripwire team colors** — T wires red (255, 64, 64), CT wires blue (64, 128, 255).
## Fixed
- **ExpensiveAmmo** also charged money for knife swings and grenade throws. It now only charges when a bullet-firing weapon is fired.
- **Knockback** also triggered on grenade throws; bound to the same allowlist.
## Removed
- Dead code: `Earthquake.cs` and `HealingChicken.cs` (neither was registered in the `Skills` enum, so neither ever ran), `EntityManager.CreateTrackedEnvShake`, `EntityManager.CreateTrackedChicken`, `PlayerManager.UpdatePlayerSkill`.
## Changed
- **Tripwire wires are now removed when the owner dies or loses the skill.** Previously they stayed on the map until the end of the round.
- `PlayerEvents.cs` split into three partial files: player events in `PlayerEvents.cs`, round and skill dispatch in `RoundEvents.cs`, entity and weapon hooks in `EntityEvents.cs`. Behaviour is unchanged; all members stay in the same `Event` class.
- 28 copy-pasted enemy-gathering LINQ chains reduced to the shared helper (Bankrupt, CarefulBullets, Darkness, Deactivator, Deaf, ExpensiveAmmo, Giant, Glitch, Jammer, JumpBan, JumpCurse, LifeSwap, Magnifier, MoneySwap, Nightmare, Poison, PrimaryBan, WildThrow).
