#### General
- **Updated markdown** files.
- Switched from `RayTrace.WorldOnlyMask` to CounterStrikeSharp's built-in `Masks.SolidBrushOnly` mask.
- Added tracking and automatic removal of beams created by traces with `drawBeam` enabled.
#### Compatibility
* **CounterStrikeSharp v1.0.375** - after the CS2 update, RayTraceImpl stopped working. All traces now use CounterStrikeSharp's native `Trace` API, so **RayTrace-CSS-API and RayTrace-MM are no longer required**. `RayTraceApi.dll` was removed from the project and the Ray-Trace step was removed from the README install guide.
* **Gamedata** - CS2 1.41.8.3 broke the Windows `HEGrenadeProjectile_CreateFunc`, `CMolotovProjectile_CreateFunc` and `SnapViewAngles` signatures, and the Linux `SmokeGrenadeProjectile_CreateFunc` signature. `INetworkGameServer_Slots` moved from 584 to 616 on both platforms; the old value read a garbage size and pointer without throwing. All signatures now match exactly one function on both platforms, and the offsets were confirmed at runtime.
#### Skills
* **No Recoil** - the client received `weapon_accuracy_nospread`, but the server still applied spread, so the crosshair looked straight while bullets spread. The weapon's spread and inaccuracy values are now also zeroed on the server for that tick. Weapon data is shared per weapon type, so a weapon type is only patched while no other living player holds the same type; the values are restored on the next tick, at map end and on unload.
* **Long Zeus** - kills went through suicide, so they did not count as Zeus kills and the ragdoll was marked `world`. The suicide damage is now rewritten to the attacker's Zeus with shock damage, so the engine credits the kill natively (killfeed, kill sound, scoreboard, ragdoll). The victim's body also gets the electric shock effect, which the engine only plays on real Taser hits.
* **Long Knife** - long-range slashes now draw a tracer to where they hit.
* **Fragile Bomb** - the bomb position was only stored by the `bomb_planted` event, which is sent only to skills active at that moment, so receiving the skill after the plant never detected hits. The planted bomb is now looked up when needed. Hits were also measured from the impact point, so shots passing through the bomb and landing behind it were missed; the bullet's path is now checked instead.
* **Tripwire** - wires stayed visible after the skill changed. Beams were hidden from clients in the same tick they were cleared, so the "hide" update never reached the client. Beams are no longer hidden from clients before removal.
#### Reliability
* **Skill distribution** - an exception thrown during skill assignment aborted the round's distribution silently. It is now caught, logged and retried. Spectators without a pawn no longer count as connected players, which had caused unnecessary retries.
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
- 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
- **`Spectator` use cooldown** (`UseCooldown` in skillsInfo.json, default 0.5s) — every press destroyed and recreated the camera prop, with no rate limit.
- **`SkillUtils.ClearCursesFor(playerIndex)`** — clears a leaving player's curse bookkeeping from both sides (as curser and as victim).
- **`SkillUtils.AnyCurseCapacity(player)`** — reports whether a player still has any enemy left that is under the curse limit.
- **`Spectator.PlayerDisconnect`** handler.
- **`Thief`** added to the curse skill set.
## Changed
- **`CurseSkillPerPlayer` is ignored in GameMode 1 (TeamSkills), 2 (SameSkills) and 5 (Debug).**
- **Curse target menus no longer go empty.** When every living enemy is already at the limit, the menu falls back to the unfiltered list and the claim is forced through.
- `C4Camouflage` `MaxPerServer` -1 -> 1
## 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).
