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Hello all, I’ve been meaning to write this for a while now and have only recently been able to. As a project lead of a volunteer-effort-based passion-project, I believe I should update everyone with my personal standings in the project, and bring people up to speed with the current state of development with that personal kick to it.* So, without further ado: * A proper “state of development” document has been in the works with under-the-hood assets being made, code improvements, etc. Expect that one soon™. ...

It’s that time again -- for bugfixes! 0.7.2 is another minor update aiming to fix a good chunk of bugs found in the previous version, along with some more small additions to the game. Small Additions New grenade model by BlockBuilder and SethJH With a shiny new game for surfing and bhopping comes a shiny new grenade to replace to default HL2 one. Smoke trail to the pistol barrel In some particle exploration, we’ve added a small smoke trail to the pistol. You can check it out by shooting and just looking at it! ...

It’s that time again! The team has been hard at work at fixing up and adding more goodies to the game. While this is another minor version update, with mostly bugfixes, we were able to add some of the features that 0.7.0 couldn’t quite get in time. Paint Me Like One of Your French Girls We’ve added a paint gun in this update! The beautiful model was done by the beautiful SethJH. You can spawn it with the command give weapon_momentum_paintgun on any map where it’s needed. Upon left clicking, a colorful spot is shot onto the world geometry. It should be noted that if a ramp is a model, the paint will not show up. Also, the paint has issues with overlapping. The first shot is the upper most layer! ...

It’s been how long? ... Almost a year? Really? … Ah, shit. Hello all, it’s about time for an update! As mentioned in our previous blog post, real life tends to get in the way of being able to work on Momentum Mod, but we are still working on it! In fact, we’ve just recently finished up version 0.7.0, and have pushed it to Steam for all of our playtesters to try out. ...

Hello objects with mass and velocity! … *cough* ... You're all long overdue for an update from the team, and I bet you all thought we were dead (again!) Rest assured, even though it's been 8 (EIGHT!) months since our last update, we are not dead! We’ve made some large changes to the workflow for developing the mod. Thanks to Gocnak’s personal sacrifice of blood, sweat, tears, and $100, the mod is now officially on Steam Direct (but not released yet, read below)! There’s no voting process to get the game released on Steam, but it does bring an exciting turn for the game’s development. ...

0.6.2-prealpha is another (relatively) small update that provides some new features, a preview of 0.7.0, and a bunch of fixes for bugs reported in 0.6.1. You Got a Purdy MapSaul Rennison's Dynamic RTT Shadows Thanks to the very generous Saul Rennison, we were able to implement his Dynamic RTT Shadows code to make shadows casted by world lights be more accurate. A comparison can be shown below: Before: After: ...

0.6.1-prealpha is a small update that fixes many bugs and small annoyances reported in 0.6.0.  Slight Annoyance Alleviated  Added "Do not show again" checkboxes to version/zone warning MessageBoxes SuggestionsChanged settings panel to disable child checkboxes (suggestion by Enjoy.) Changed sv_noclipspeed to scale to maxvel (suggestion by lody) FixesFixed checkpoints being corrupted upon map load Fixed (most) crashes with changing resolution and exiting the game Fixed ReplayUI to better scale for 1080p Prevent playback of replays with different tickrate than current (will revist) Fixed maps that crashed when using a fade-in trigger Fixed spawn searching to prioritize info_player_start over info_player_(counter)terrorist Fixed bug with cursor disappearing when net_graph was turned on Fixed maps that use detail objects (for real this time) As always, can download the new build on our GitHub page.  ...

Well, it’s been awhile since our last update, but that doesn’t mean we haven’t been hard at work! For many of us on the Momentum development team, update 0.6.0 feels like far more than an incremental update; it contains 334 commits to the master branch, and 14 different feature branches were merged to the development branch. Much of this update includes behind the scenes refactoring of our codebase or small fixes suggested by players. ...