- Skill card and W/S/E target menu drawn as CCSCustomHudLayout panels via PanoramaManager
(panorama/ sources), replacing PrintToCenterHtml and WASDMenuAPI; WASDMenuAPI.dll dropped
- Custom status lines (cooldowns, charges) overwrite the description on the card; Medic keeps its
description with the charge count below
- css_setoverride toggles a per-player cooldown bypass
- YourSkillChatInfo also gates the round-start skill description in chat
- Language: "[css_useSkill]" becomes the configured button name, "Press ... key" wording,
welcome message trimmed to its first line
- Build against CounterStrikeSharp.API 1.0.375
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.
## GENERAL
- The HUD loop now runs on the shared 16 Hz frame gate (SkillUtils.IsHudFrame) instead of keeping its own every-other-tick schedule, and fifteen skills that were refreshing their HUD on every single tick were moved onto that same gate.
- Added SkillData.GetSnapshot(), a cached array of the registered skills, so the HUD no longer copies the whole skill bag every frame. The cache is invalidated together with the existing lookup map, so a reload still picks up new skills.
- Added SkillUtils.ForceFullUpdateToAllChunked(), which spreads a full network update across frames (two clients per frame) instead of pushing one for every connected client in a single tick. The original ForceFullUpdateToAll is untouched, so the six skills that already call it keep their current behaviour.
- BlastShot, Cypher and Iana now clear their HUD line in DisableSkill, so a stale line can no longer survive the skill being taken away.
## FIXES
- SoundMaker threw a divide-by-zero on every tick when its cooldown was configured as 0, because the tick gate divides by that value. The cooldown is now clamped to at least 1.
- Regeneration and RadarHack were calling the wrong SkillsInfo.DefaultSkillInfo overload, which silently dropped disableOnFreezeTime, requiredPermission, hudDuration, descriptionHudDuration, maxPerServer and rarity. Every configured field now reaches the base class, so those two skills finally honour their own config.
- Falcon Eye blocked the trigger on the wrong side of the check: picking up a weapon while back in the normal view locked primary and secondary fire, because the pickup handler tested for the player being in their own view instead of in the skill camera.
- Spectator locked primary and secondary fire when its camera could not be created at all, which happens when no enemy is alive to spectate. The player stayed in the normal view with a weapon that would not fire until the round ended.
## SKILL IMPROVEMENTS
- Wallhack:
-- The glow build and the full network update now start when freeze time ends and are spread across frames, instead of running in a single tick the moment the skill is handed out. On a busy server this used to cost roughly 13 ms in one frame, close to a dropped tick at 64 tick; across four grants in an eight-hour session it no longer reaches the 2 ms profiler threshold at all.
- Jackal:
-- CheckTransmit resolves the trail relays once per frame rather than once per viewer, so the same entity lookups are no longer repeated for every client on the server.
-- Removed an opponent list that was gathered in EnableSkill and never used.
- ThrowingKnife:
-- CheckTransmit builds the knife glow list once per frame, and the viewer index is resolved once per client instead of once per knife.
- Glaz:
-- The observer target is only resolved for players who do not own the skill themselves, and the lookup now bails out early when there is no observer target at all.
- RadarHack and QuickShot:
-- The skill check runs before the validity check, so players without the skill are skipped immediately instead of being fully validated first.
- Distancer, HealingChicken and SoundMaker:
-- These now return straight away while nobody holds the skill, rather than walking the player list every tick.
## DEBUG
- Removed the [HITGROUP] mismatch check. Every recorded case was accounted for: ten were Aimbot rewriting the hit group as designed, and thirteen were non-bullet skill damage, which reports a generic hit group by nature. Dropping the check also removes a dictionary write from every damage event.
- Removed the identity-split tag from the damage log. It was dead by construction, because the victim controller had already been routed before the comparison ran, so it could never report a difference.
- Removed the player-shoot handler, which produced no output on this build.
- [DMG] lines now print the routing fields only when the routed index actually differs from the original one, so the check remains as a tripwire without adding noise to every line.
## TRANSLATIONS
- Turkish: reworded sixty-two entries that padded their sentences with second-person verb endings, dropped the English glosses left in parentheses, and settled every [css_useSkill] line into one shape. Also fixed genuine typos in Dracula, Giant, Thorns and Impostor.
- All eight languages received the strings for the four new skills. (AI)
## NEW SKILLS:
- Chameleon: The first player you kill gives you their skill.
- Grapple Hook: Press [css_useSkill] to fire a hook at the point you are aiming at and pull yourself there.
- Inheritance: When a teammate dies you can take over their skill.
- Ricochet: Your bullets bounce off walls and can still hit enemies.
- 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
## GENERAL
- Added a css_entity admin command to check whether an entity with a given index/handle exists (prints the designer name to chat or console).
- Added a TakeDamage post-hook (OnTakeDamagePost) alongside the existing pre-hook, so skills can now react after damage has actually been applied, not just before.
- Added CreateMolotovProjectile (new CMolotovProjectile_CreateFunc signature) and CreateTrackedChicken entity helpers.
- Added a weapon_mp7 → weapon_mp5sd fallback mapping.
- Added class for KillfeedIcons
## SKILL IMPROVEMENTS
- Aimbot:
-- Only forces a headshot hitgroup once (skips if it's already a head or an invalid hitgroup), and now restores the original hitgroup value in the new post-damage hook instead of leaving it overwritten.
- Tripwire:
-- Reduced the default wire width from 1.5 to 0.7.
## NEW SKILLS:
- Berserker: You deal more damage and move faster as your health gets lower.
- Blast Shot: Press Attack2 with the MP5 to fire an HE grenade.
- Demon Eye: You deal damage to every enemy you are looking at.
- Fire Rain: Throw a decoy to call down a rain of Molotovs.
- Flashlight: Click [css_useSkill] to turn the flashlight on or off; its light can blind enemies.
- Healing Chicken: Your chickens heal you while you are nearby.
- Jetkick: Select a player to jetkick - every shot they fire knocks them backwards until disabled.
- Last Gasp: After you die, you deal damage to the enemy who killed you.
- Take Ammo: Click [css_useSkill] to take the active weapon's magazine from a random enemy.
- Team Teleport: Press [css_useSkill] to teleport to the teammate you're looking at.
## 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).
Fixed conflicts with the merge https://github.com/Juzlus/jRandomSkills/pull/33
- #### General:
- ###### Fixed players' view angle snapping to look at (0, 0, 0) at round start (ForceFullUpdate was re-applying a zeroed view angle). [by: @ByDexterTR and @Juzlus].
- ###### Stability: skills are now correctly disabled and cleaned up on attacker-less deaths (fall damage, drowning, world). [by: @ByDexterTR].
- ###### Performance: the end-of-round skill summary now runs in a single timer instead of one per player, and skips players who disconnect during the delay. [by: @ByDexterTR].
- #### Skill improvements:
- ###### Re-Zombie:
- ###### Fixed the player dying instead of respawning with full zombie health. [by: @ByDexterTR].
- ###### Jester:
- ###### Armor no longer drains while the skill is active. [by: @ByDexterTR].
- ###### Soundmaker / Anomaly:
- ###### Updated the description. [by: @ByDexterTR].
## 📋 Changelog
- #### General:
- ###### Updated Chinese language translation by [by: [@Ericzzrbb](hhttps://github.com/Ericzzrbb)].
- ###### Fixed a bug where a player could be given multiple skills at once while the HUD displayed only one (the player list was never cleared on map change and had no duplicate protection on join). [by: [@ByDexterTR](https://github.com/ByDexterTR)]
- ###### Fixed skill names and descriptions showing the raw translation key on Turkish servers (culture-sensitive lowercasing) - affected skills starting with "I" (e.g. Illiterate, Impostor, InfiniteAmmo, Iana). [by: [@ByDexterTR](https://github.com/ByDexterTR)]
- ###### RayTrace-based skills and the skill-use button no longer throw when the RayTrace module is not installed - they now degrade gracefully instead of crashing. [by: [@ByDexterTR](https://github.com/ByDexterTR)]
- ###### Fixed the skill-use button (when bound to Use/E) blocking option selection inside WSAD target menus. [by: [@ByDexterTR](https://github.com/ByDexterTR)]
- ###### Performance: cached reflection lookups in `SkillAction` and `SkillsInfo.GetValue`, and de-duplicated the repeated event-dispatch logic on hot paths (OnTick, OnTakeDamage, etc.). [by: [@ByDexterTR](https://github.com/ByDexterTR)]
- ###### Stability: removed dead methods that threw `NotImplementedException`, hardened team-score handling, and reset all skill state on round start / map change. [by: [@ByDexterTR](https://github.com/ByDexterTR)]
- ###### Build: post-build copy paths now follow the active `$(Configuration)` and `$(TargetFramework)`. [by: [@ByDexterTR](https://github.com/ByDexterTR)]
- ###### Added new Turkish translation strings for the skill notifications listed below. [by: [@ByDexterTR](https://github.com/ByDexterTR)]
- ###### Fixed bot-related messages so they now display correctly in the chat of the controlling player.
- ###### When a player takes control of a bot, all active skill effects affecting that bot are now correctly transferred to the controlling player.
- ###### Prevented bots from automatically using skills while being controlled by a player.
- #### Skill improvements:
- ###### Wallhack:
- ###### Fixed enemy outlines briefly flashing for everyone when the skill holder dies. [by: [@ByDexterTR](https://github.com/ByDexterTR)]
- ###### Area Reaper:
- ###### Teammates (CT) are now notified which bombsite (A/B) was sealed. [by: [@ByDexterTR](https://github.com/ByDexterTR)]
- ###### Wild Throw:
- ###### Now notifies the targeted player, consistent with other targeted skills. [by: [@ByDexterTR](https://github.com/ByDexterTR)]
- ###### Careful Bullets / Darkness / Deaf / Glitch / Jammer / Jump Ban / Magnifier / Poison / Primary Ban / Wild Throw:
- ###### The targeted player is now notified when the effect ends after the skill holder dies. [by: [@ByDexterTR](https://github.com/ByDexterTR)]
- ###### Careful Bullets:
- ###### Added damage-taken sound effects when missing a shot
- ###### C4 Camouflage / Ninja:
- ###### Fixed a bug where dying with invisibility active and taking control of a bot would grant invisibility to the bot as well.
- ###### Poison:
- ###### Added damage-taken sound effects.
- ###### Primary Ban:
- ###### Changed mechanic to directly block shooting weapons instead of forcing a weapon switch to the knife.
- ###### Hot Bomb:
- ###### Replaced the bomb-burning sound effects.
- ###### Added a notification when the burning effect ends and the bomb returns to its normal color.
## GENERAL
- Updated CSS to version 1.0.369.
- Upgraded the project from .NET 8.0 to .NET 10.0.
- Updated Turkish language translation by @ByDexterTR.
- Added Russian language translation by @213sdfsdgf.
- Fixed an issue with incorrect display of Arabic nicknames.
- Used ForceFullUpdate to resolve the "FATAL ERROR: CopyExistingEntity" crash.
- Disabled stale HandleCommandDrop hook to avoid crashes when a player joins a team (thanks to @vladimir214sd).
- Added new signatures to gamedata.
- Added the ability to configure the number of grenades for every skill that uses grenades as part of its ability (e.g., Miner, AntyFlash, MagneticDecoy, etc.).
## SKILL IMPROVEMENTS
- Re-Zombie:
-- Fixed weapon switching issues when a player is holding a Zeus and a knife.
-- Weapons are now removed for bots in zombie mode.
- Ghost:
-- Blocked the ability to use the Zeus.
- Thorns:
-- Added a configurable maximum health limit (37 HP) for the damage that can be reflected.
- Second Life / Phoenix / Re-Zombie:
-- Fixed an issue where players would occasionally fail to respawn if they took too much damage too quickly.
- Ghost / Chicken:
-- Blocked the ability to use the SG556 (`weapon_sg556`).
- Wallhack:
-- Fixed a bug that caused temporary enemy highlighting right after death.
- Cypher:
-- Added camera position persistence.
- God Mode:
-- Fixed an issue with permanent immortality triggering after reaching exactly 0 HP.
- Weapons Swap:
-- The ammo count is now also transferred when weapons are swapped.
- Muhammed:
-- Renamed the skill to "DeathBomb".
- Spectator:
-- Fixed a bug where a player with the Chicken skill would still display as a ragdoll after death when spectated.
- Friendly Fire:
-- The skill now works even when the server's mp_friendlyfire setting is set to 0.
- Baseball:
-- Disabled teammate killing.
Bump module version to 1.2.1.b7 and change SkillAction to return the invoked method result (object?) or null when not found. Add and normalize many localization entries across multiple language files (aimlock, homingnades, hotbomb, illiterate, illusionist, magneticdecoy, magneto, miner, planter_planting, teleporter chance string, throwingknife, weightless, wildthrow, smoker, etc.) and clean up duplicate/obsolete entries. Update server plugin binaries and configs (WASDMenuAPI.dll, jRandomSkills.dll, config.json, skillsInfo.json) and remove playersLanguage.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.
