- 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
- #### 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.
## 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.
Introduce optional `HudDuration` and `DescriptionHudDuration` fields in skill config metadata and propagate them through all skill config constructors and `skillsInfo.json`.
- GeoLite/MaxMind lookup wrapped in try/catch and disabled for the session on failure
(stops the per-tick exception spam when the assembly cannot load during hot-reload)
- New PerfMode config option: writes performance logs to logs/perf_<date>.txt
(DisableAll/SetSkill/PlayerDeath totals, per-skill SkillAction timings,
aggregated OnTick/CheckTransmit avg-max summaries)
- css_reload now invalidates the skill-info and freeze-time caches
- Removed the last null-forgiving player lookups (Command, Armored, Baseball,
FriendlyFire, OneShot)
Performance & stability pass (issue #34 + audit)
General:
- DisableAll resets only skills active in the previous round instead of all loaded skills (~89ms -> ~5ms)
- Removed per-tick LINQ/allocations, O(1) HUD skill lookups, translation substitutions moved to load time
- ForceFullUpdate creates the network service once per broadcast; view-angle guard only skips a genuine (0,0,0) placeholder
- Debug hooks/logging only active when DebugMode is enabled (single reused writer)
- Player skill state unified to a single collection (fixes a rare disconnect race)
- Gamedata signatures resolved lazily/isolated; hardened tick/transmit paths against invalid handles
- Description HUD honours always-show / -1 duration consistently across all assignment paths
Skills:
- Jester: fixed the no-damage effect leaking after a mid-round skill change (Thief/Deactivator)
- Jackal: fixed trail entities accumulating over a round
- Falcon Eye / Third Eye / Spectator: camera state cleared on disable
Also: added missing translation keys as untranslated markers across language files.
Fixes#34
- #### General:
- ###### Updated the GitHub source code to implement the changes introduced in merge request (https://github.com/Juzlus/jRandomSkills/pull/32).
- #### Skill improvements:
- ###### Ninja:
- ###### Removed debug chat messages that were used for testing.
## 📋 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.
# Updates & Fixes
- New Commands: Added `css_bot_place` which teleports a bot to the player's position with optional godmode and translation support.
- Miner (New Skill): Added a new skill that allows for detonating HE grenades near enemies.
- Bomb Abort Support: Introduced `BombAbortplant` support across `ISkill` and event registration; added handlers for aborting plants in Planter, ChillOut, and other skills.
- System (Rework & Optimization):
- Reworked player event dispatching to call `SkillAction` once per distinct active skill, reducing redundant invocations.
- Switched timing logic to use `Server.CurrentTime` (replacing `EngineTime`).
- Added extensive null and validity guards for player and pawn objects.
- Skill-specific Changes:
- AimLock: Fixed vector/validation issues and updated config defaults (cooldown, duration, and offset).
- AreaReaper: Now uses `BombPlantedHere` state and includes `OnTick` alerts.
- ChillOut & Planter: Improved tracking for planting players with center-print and HUD updates.
- HomingNades: Simplified callbacks and fixed detonation timing.
- Muhammed: Tweaked explosion delay handling and reduced friendly fire damage.
- Core & Utils:
- TraceRay: Implemented `CS2TraceRay` for skills to prevent activation through doors or on dropped weapons.
- Dependencies: Bumped `CounterStrikeSharp.API` to 1.0.364 and `MaxMind.Db` to 5.0.0.
- Bug Fixes: Resolved multiple HUD/print update issues and fixed various translation keys.
# Updates & Fixes
- New Commands: Added `!health` and `!plantedbomb` for testing and server management.
- Config: Client commands are now fully registerable via configuration files.
- Jester (Rework):
- Refactored from a global mode to a per-player system.
- Improved timer logic to prevent crashes during round resets.
- Added special handling for bomb planting and defusing.
- SkillUtils: `AddHealth` now supports an optional `maxHealth` parameter.
- KillerFlash, LongKnife & LongZeus: Added `friendlyFire` options to skill configs.
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.
