jRandomSkills

📋 Changelog

• General

  • Ninja, Ghost, C4 Camouflage - Hidden players are now revealed in the player_death pre-hook, preventing CopyExistingEntity: missing client entity crashes.
  • DisableOnFreezeTime - Passive damage skills (Cypher, Exploding Barrel, Explosive Shot, Fortnite, Iana, Illusionist and Replicator, etc.) now also respect the setting.
  • Skill distribution - One disconnecting player can no longer stop skill assignment for everyone else; If no skills are assigned, the system retries up to 6 times every 0.5s and logs the reason for failure.

• Skill Fixes

  • No Recoil - Changed the way no recoil is applied to prevent it from affecting other players.
  • Falcon Eye - Weapons no longer remain locked after a round ends while the camera is active.
  • Jump Ban - Jumping is now fully blocked by clearing upward velocity and extending the effect duration; The message confirming that jumping is available again now displays correctly.
  • Blast Shot - Grenades can no longer be thrown during freeze time.
  • Sound Maker - Phantom screams no longer come from 0 0 0 and are only sent to living enemies.
  • Careful Bullets, Darkness, Deaf, Expensive Ammo, Giant, Glitch, Jammer, Jet Kick, Jump Curse, Magnifier, Nightmare, Poison, Primary Ban, Wild Throw - The message confirming that the effect ended now displays correctly.

Full update contributed by @ByDexterTR in pull request #58. Thanks to ByDexterTR!

📋 Changelog

• General

  • ConVar lookups - ConVar.Find results are now cached by name in SkillUtils. All 25 call sites converted.
  • Config loading - Malformed skillsInfo.json no longer resets all settings to defaults. Failed entries keep current settings and prevent config rewriting.
  • Config writing - Replaced copy-and-delete with an atomic rename to prevent half-written configs.
  • Config diagnostics - Load now logs the resolved path, file status, entry counts, known skills, rewrite status and the actual exception.
  • Use button (CT skills) - Skills no longer trigger near planted C4. Range and aim are checked directly.
  • SkillUtils.UpdateGrenadeCount - Fixed delayed clip reset affecting a weapon that replaced the original inventory slot.

• Shared Systems

  • SkillUtils.IsPredictedLethal - Added a shared lethality check with hitgroup multipliers, ArmorRatio and correct armor coverage, replacing three duplicated headshot-only checks.

• Skill Fixes

  • ReZombie, Phoenix, Second Life - Fixed stomach hits between 80–100% HP being treated as survivable by using the shared lethality check.
  • Blast Shot, Death Bomb, Exploding Barrel, Explosive Shot - Explosion kill credit now accounts for armor.
  • Explosive Shot - Projectile owner/team state is now tracked per player and tick, preventing conflicts between simultaneous users and duplicate pellet explosions.
  • Fire Rain - Thrower/team/count state is now stored in per-tick batches, preventing conflicts between simultaneous users.
  • Rich Boy - Bonus removal now restores the account from a pre-bonus snapshot instead of CashSpentThisRound.
  • Robin Hood, Rich Boy, Bounty - Rewards now respect mp_maxmoney.
  • True Armor - Helmet state is saved and restored alongside armor.
  • Gravity Decoy - Added WeaponEquip and WeaponPickup handlers to keep the grenade count correct.
  • Catapult, Push, Shade, Rubber - Now react only to bullet damage.
  • Throwing Knife - Thrown knives at round end are tracked separately and replaced next round.
  • Planter, Chill Out, Magnifier - Players are validated before reading Team/PawnIsAlive.
  • Weapons Swap - Both players are validated before removing weapons, and invalid/dead/spectating enemies can no longer be selected.
  • Ninja, Ghost, C4 Camouflage - Fixed client crash (FATAL ERROR: CopyExistingEntity: missing client entity) when a hidden player died nearby. Hidden pawns are restored to the network snapshot on the same tick.
  • Ninja, Ghost, C4 Camouflage, Glaz, Jackal, Wallhack, Throwing Knife, Nightmare - Dead players are no longer treated as viewers, preventing visibility leaks and network desync.
  • Wallhack, Jackal, Throwing Knife, Nightmare - Dead players no longer see Wallhack outlines, Jackal trails, Throwing Knife glows or Nightmare volumes.
  • Sound Maker - Fixed the scream playing for players without the skill.

• Stability

  • CheckTransmit (Ninja, Ghost, C4 Camouflage) - Dying entity handles are now tracked with their expiry and removed when indexes are recycled, fixing CopyExistingEntity: missing client entity.
  • WeaponEquip, WeaponPickup - Skip dispatch when another plugin supersedes the pre-hook and leaves the event null.

• Config

  • SkillsChance, VIPSkillsChance - Added configurable rarity distribution tables to config.json, percentages and fractions are normalized to 100%.
  • VIPFlag - Added with default @css/vip, empty disables the VIP rarity table.
  • All skills - Added MinPlayer to skillsInfo.json. Skills require the configured minimum number of players on a team. 0 (default) disables the limit. Applies to normal draws, late joiners and Gambler rerolls.

• Localization

  • Catapult, Push, Shade - Turkish descriptions now clarify what the percentage applies to.

Full update contributed by @ByDexterTR in pull request #57. Thanks to ByDexterTR!

📋 Changelog

• General

  • Updated core dependencies: CounterStrikeSharp to 1.0.373
  • 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.

• Skill 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.

Full update contributed by @ByDexterTR in pull request #56. Thanks to ByDexterTR!

📋 Changelog

• Shared Systems

  • PlayerManager.FillSkillHolders - Skill holders are now resolved from the player index instead of scanning every controller each tick, replacing the per-skill full player loop used by ten skills.
  • PlayerManager.GetControllerByPawn - Added a tick-cached pawn-to-controller map, replacing the linear observer-target scan.
  • PlayerManager.IsServerIdle - Added a tick-cached idle check shared by the debug and performance writers.
  • SkillUtils.IsFriendlyFireBlocked - Now takes the skill, so the per-skill FriendlyFire key and server convars are resolved in one place. The convar-only overload remains for victim-side skills.
  • SkillUtils.TerminateRound - Now accepts the player who ended the round and pays out the round-end money that the engine skips on plugin-terminated rounds.

• Performance

  • OnTick(hud) - Average cost reduced by 17% compared to the previous build.
  • CheckTransmit - Average cost reduced by 25%, with peak cost reduced by 39%.
  • OnTick(skills) - Peak cost reduced by 62%.
  • Host stalls - Real freezes measured with players connected dropped from six to two across 785 rounds.
  • DecoyRing - Beam creation is now spread across four frames instead of spawning the entire ring in one tick.
  • Fourteen skills - OnTick now returns immediately when the skill holds no state.
  • Berserker, BladeMaster, BunnyHop, DemonEye, Flash, PawelJumper, Pilot, Poison, QuickShot, RadarHack, Regeneration - Switched to the shared skill-holder list; config reads were moved out of per-player loops.

• Fixes

  • GravityDecoy - Restored a hardcoded gravity of 1.0 when leaving the field, permanently breaking Astronaut. Each pawn's own gravity scale is now captured and restored.
  • PsychicDefusing - The bomb location remained unset when the skill was assigned after the plant, the stored position pointed into the entity and became invalid once the bomb was killed, and setup was silently skipped when the pawn was not ready.
  • PsychicDefusing, FragileBomb - Winning teams received no money when the plugin ended the round. Winners are now paid from the matching cash_* convars, with the defuser bonus applied on top.
  • FriendlyFire - mp_autokick is now restored to its default value after the round ends.
  • ToxicSmoke, HealingSmoke - Smoke continued damaging and healing after its owner lost the skill, and expiry could leave behind smokes whose owner had already lost the skill. HealingSmoke also did not track an owner at all.
  • EmpGrenade - Crosshair and radar stayed jammed forever because OnTick stops being dispatched once nobody holds the skill and the jam timer never expired.
  • ThrowingKnife - Losing the skill while the knife was thrown destroyed it without returning one to the player.
  • OnlyHead, ReactiveArmor - Both ignored fall and world damage, which has no player attacker.
  • Gambler - Refreshing consumed the one-shot instead of rolling two new skills, and the refresh row lost its colour prefix to the text-direction wrapper.
  • Berserker, Flash - The falling-speed clamp could trigger while noclipping.
  • ExplodingBarrel - The prop spawned without a model and received it a frame later; the model is now passed through CEntityKeyValues at spawn.
  • FastReload - Added a cooldown, five seconds by default, with a HUD countdown. The cooldown only starts when a magazine is actually refilled.
  • Config - Missing-key migration now descends into nested sections, so keys under HtmlHudCustomisation are detected.

• Damage Hook

  • OnEntityTakeDamagePre / OnEntityTakeDamagePost - Replaced the deprecated CBaseEntity_TakeDamageOldFunc hook across 27 files.
  • Teammate damage - The new hook runs before the engine zeroes friendly fire, so attacker-side modifiers now require explicit guards. Added to OneShot, Cutter, Assassin, Soldier, Berserker, Nemesis and Punisher.
  • FriendlyFire - Added a new per-skill key to twelve skills, defaulting to true. Setting it to false prevents teammates from being affected, as already supported by LongKnife and KillerFlash. This covers both damage amplifiers and explosives that previously only reduced teammate damage.

• Menu

  • WSADMenuVisibleItems - Added a new setting replacing the hardcoded three visible menu rows. The value is clamped between one and ten.
  • WSAD menu - The final menu row now keeps its #RRGGBB colour prefix instead of losing it to the text-direction wrapper.

• Config Migration

  • skillsInfo.json - Missing keys are now written back to the file on load instead of only being defaulted in memory. Existing values are preserved.
  • playersLanguage.json - Players are now grouped by language instead of using one row per player, reducing a ten-thousand-player file by 20%. Old files are converted on load and invalid SteamIDs are dropped.

• Debug

  • Perf samples - Report p50, p95 and p99 alongside the average and maximum.
  • Per-skill sampling - Every skill is now sampled instead of only logging calls that exceeded two milliseconds. The measurement was already running; only the reporting threshold discarded it.
  • Load context - Aggregate lines now include player, alive, bot, active-skill and round counts, allowing sessions to be compared under different loads.
  • ENTITIES - Tracked entities are now broken down by type.
  • STALL - Lines now include the tick, tracked entity count and load context, helping distinguish map-load pauses from genuine freezes.
  • DMGHOOK - Reports how often the attacker and ability resolve on the damage hook.
  • Idle server - Nothing is written while the server is empty, apart from lifecycle lines and player connects/disconnects.

• Startup & Stability

  • Startup crash - Fixed a crash on servers with PerfMode or DebugMode enabled during boot at the first skill. PerfLog.Sample called IsServerIdle() on every SkillAction, which scanned the player list while the server was still booting. This was a 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, causing the same command name to be registered natively two times. Cleaned up the defaults and added a duplicate guard to cover user configs as well.

• Chat

  • Skill announcement - Teammate skills are now shown first and your own skill description last, keeping it at the bottom of the chat instead of allowing it to scroll away.
  • SetRandomSkill - No longer leaves the chat box unclosed when the player has teammates.

• Debug Fixes

  • PerfLog - p50, p95 and p99 previously returned the upper bound of the histogram bucket instead of a real sample, meaning they could report a value higher than max. This occurred in 74% of the windows during a 6.5-hour session (for example: avg=0.06ms p99=8.00ms max=4.68ms). Percentiles are now taken from the actual samples in the window. The bucket estimate is only used as a fallback when the buffer overflows, interpolated inside the bucket and clamped to max.
  • EntityManager - An already-tracked entity could log a second + line, causing creates and destroys to stop matching and making the entity log look like a leak. Re-registering now logs ~ oldType -> newType when the type changes and nothing when it does not.
  • Ghost, Ninja, C4Camouflage - The hiding prop was registered twice, first as prop_dynamic and then as empty_prop. It is now tracked under the correct name from creation through the new trackAs parameter of CreateTrackedDynamicProp.

• Cleanup

  • Compiler warnings - All twelve warnings have been resolved; the build is clean.
  • SkillUtils.SetPlayerCollisions - Removed because its body started with an unconditional return.
  • Damage hook aliases - Removed the unused param and param2 locals left behind by the migration across 27 files.

Full update contributed by @ByDexterTR in pull request #53. Thanks to ByDexterTR!

📋 Changelog

• 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 Example: 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.

Full update contributed by @ByDexterTR in pull request #52 . Thanks to ByDexterTR!

📋 Changelog

• New Skills (9)

  • Bounty: Put a price on an enemy's head; whoever kills them takes the money.
  • EMP Grenade: Anyone hurt by your grenade loses their radar and crosshair for a while.
  • Gravity Decoy: Your decoy changes the gravity of everyone nearby.
  • Heavyweight: Skills that push or slow you down have no effect on you.
  • Nemesis: The player you mark takes extra damage.
  • Punisher: You bank part of the damage you take and add it to your next hit.
  • Rewind: Click [css_useSkill] to drop a marker where you stand and return to it shortly after.
  • True Armor: Part of the damage you take is paid by your armor instead of your health.
  • Voodoo: The enemy you mark also takes part of the damage you take.

• Shared Systems

  • DecoyRing - Shared ground ring showing the actual decoy area of effect.
  • DecoyRing Config - Added an option to disable the DecoyRing. [by: @Juzlus]
  • WeaponPool - Centralized weapon classification with configurable Weapons support, replacing duplicated weapon lists across multiple skills.
  • HUD Suppression - Refcounted radar/crosshair hiding prevents overlapping skills from restoring HUD state too early.
  • ResolveHiddenPawns - Shared invisible-pawn resolution for C4Camouflage, Ghost and Ninja.
  • Config - Added a Weapons section with automatic migration for existing installations.
  • DisableOnPistolRound - New per-skill option supported by both round draws and css_setskill.

• Sound

  • Rebalanced skill sound volumes.
  • Added SkillUtils.EmitSoundToPlayer with private recipient filtering, preventing skill sounds from being broadcast to all players.
  • Added new sound effects for LongKnife, Grapple, Ricochet, Nightmare, Tripwire, Jammer, PsychicDefusing and more.
  • Added configurable SoundVolume to 29 skills; LongKnife also supports HitSoundVolume.
  • Grapple - Hook impact sound now plays at the hook's position.
  • PawelJumper - Only extra jumps emit a sound.

• Models & Visuals

  • Grapple - Added a proper hook model with configurable hookScale and hookEmbed.
  • Pilot - Added a glowing exhaust trail while airborne.

• Performance

  • SkillsInfo.GetValue - Added caching to eliminate repeated reflection.
  • HUD - Added render caching to skip identical frames.
  • Glaz - Optimized smoke index resolution and pawn-owner mapping.
  • playersSkills - Replaced ConcurrentBag with HashSet, improving NoRepeat lookups.

• Fixes

  • NoRepeat - Fixed players receiving multiple copies of skills in the same round.
  • SniperElite - Weapon is now correctly restored after the halftime team swap.
  • Illiterate - Holder alerts now reach chat and bypass the holder's own scrambler.
  • EntityManager.DestroyBeam - Fixed beams occasionally remaining visible after destruction.
  • Ricochet - Removed diagnostic tracing that was generating excessive debug log output.
  • ThirdEye - Added the ability to interact with doors while ThirdEye is active in third-person mode. [by: @Juzlus]

• Debug

  • Warmup round start, round end and freeze-time-end messages are now tagged with [WARMUP] to separate warmup activity from live-round load.

'Full' update contributed by @ByDexterTR in pull request #50 . Thanks to ByDexterTR!

📋 Changelog

• General:

  • HUD refresh for all skills now runs on one shared 16Hz update loop instead of separate per-skill ticks, cutting server load.

  • Skill list is now cached instead of rebuilt every frame, reducing HUD overhead.

  • Full network updates are now spread across multiple frames instead of firing all at once, avoiding lag spikes.

  • Improved Turkish translations.

• Fixes:

  • Fixed SoundMaker crashing/erroring when its cooldown was set to 0.

  • Fixed Regeneration and RadarHack ignoring several of their own config settings (freeze-time behavior, permissions, HUD duration, rarity, max per server).

  • Fixed Falcon Eye blocking weapon fire after a pickup while back in normal view.

  • Fixed Spectator locking fire when its camera failed to spawn due to no living enemy to watch.

• Skill improvements:

  • BlastShot / Cypher / Iana:

    • No longer leave a stale HUD line after the skill is removed.

  • Wallhack:

    • Glow setup and network update now run after freeze time and are spread across frames, removing a lag spike on grant.

  • Jackal:

    • Trail rendering now resolves once per frame instead of per viewer; removed unused leftover code.

  • Throwing Knife:

    • Knife glow and viewer lookups now run once per frame instead of repeating per knife/client.

  • Glaz:

    • Observer target lookup skipped for skill owners and exits early when there's no target.

  • RadarHack / QuickShot:

    • Players without the skill are now skipped immediately instead of running full validation first.

  • Distancer / Healing Chicken / SoundMaker:

    • These skills now exit instantly while unowned, instead of scanning the player list every tick.

• Debug:

  • Removed dead/no-op debug checks and trimmed damage logs to only print when routing actually changes, lowering per-hit overhead.

• New Skills:

  • Chameleon: The first player you kill gives you their skill.

  • Grapple Hook: Press [css_useSkill] to fire a hook and pull yourself to where you're aiming.

  • Inheritance: When a teammate dies you can take over their skill.

  • Ricochet: Your bullets bounce off walls and can still hit enemies.

Full update contributed by @ByDexterTR in pull request #49 . Thanks to ByDexterTR!

📋 Changelog

• General:

  • Added an activation notification for the Illiterate skill. [by: @Juzlus]

  • Illiterate now only affects messages related to skills. [by: @Juzlus]

  • FOV is now reset only when the Magnifier skill is enabled and the player's current FOV matches the configured Magnifier FOV value. [by: @Juzlus]

  • Curses are now tracked at all times and are automatically cleared when a player disconnects, preventing them from carrying over to a new player joining the same slot. [by: @ByDexterTR]

  • Fixed an issue where a skill throwing an exception during round cleanup could stop the remaining cleanup and leave entity kill suppression enabled for the rest of the map. [by: @ByDexterTR]

• Skill improvements:

  • Wallhack / Nightmare:

    • Fixed both skills being revealed to the entire server during the round start skill announcement. [by: @ByDexterTR]

  • Blast Shot / Death Bomb / Exploding Barrel / Explosive Shot / Toxic Smoke:

    • These skills now respect friendly fire damage reduction. [by: @ByDexterTR]

  • Fire Rain:

    • Added a fallback splash mode that is automatically used when a ceiling is detected above the target. [by: @Juzlus]

    • Molotovs now correctly retain their owner and team, allowing friendly fire rules to apply. [by: @ByDexterTR]

  • Healing Chicken:

    • Added a configuration option to customize the health of spawned chickens. [by: @Juzlus]

    • Teammates can no longer damage or kill spawned chickens. [by: @ByDexterTR]

  • Take Ammo:

    • Fixed a crash during map changes while restoring weapon reserve ammo. [by: @ByDexterTR]

  • Fortnite:

    • The wall now spawns with high initial health to prevent it from breaking instantly. [by: @ByDexterTR]

  • JetKick / Careful Bullets / Wild Throw:

    • Fixed the remaining effects when an affected player disconnects. [by: @ByDexterTR]

📋 Changelog

• General

  • Added automatic HUD hiding to prevent conflicts with other plugins using the center HUD system (HideHudForOtherPlugins in config.json).

📋 Changelog

• 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). [by: @Juzlus]

  • 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. [by: @Juzlus]

  • Added CreateMolotovProjectile (new CMolotovProjectile_CreateFunc signature) and CreateTrackedChicken entity helpers. [by: @Juzlus]

  • Added a weapon_mp7 → weapon_mp5sd fallback mapping. [by: @Juzlus]

  • Skill-caused deaths are now credited to the skill's owner (instead of counting as suicides) and appear in the killfeed with the ability used; covers DeathBomb, Exploding Barrel, Baseball, HotBomb, Poison, Illusionist, Replicator, Careful Bullets, Toxic Smoke and Iana. [by: @ByDexterTR]

  • Added a CurseSkillPerPlayer config option to cap how many curse skills can be stacked on one player per round (unlimited by default), enforced centrally in SkillAction. [by: @ByDexterTR]

  • Tripwire now uses a cooldown instead of a fixed placement limit, with the remaining time shown on the HUD. [by: @ByDexterTR]

  • Tripwire wires are now colored per team: red for T, blue for CT. [by: @ByDexterTR]

  • PlayerEvents.cs split into three partial files (PlayerEvents, RoundEvents, EntityEvents); behavior unchanged. [by: @ByDexterTR]

  • Replaced 28 duplicated enemy-gathering LINQ chains with one shared helper across 18 skills. [by: @ByDexterTR]

  • Added a use-cooldown for Spectator's camera (default 0.5s) and a disconnect handler. [by: @ByDexterTR]

  • Added ClearCursesFor and AnyCurseCapacity curse-bookkeeping helpers; Thief added to the curse skill set. [by: @ByDexterTR]

  • CurseSkillPerPlayer is now ignored in TeamSkills, SameSkills and Debug game modes, and curse target menus no longer come up empty when every enemy is at the limit. [by: @ByDexterTR]

  • C4Camouflage's MaxPerServer lowered from -1 to 1. [by: @ByDexterTR]

• Performance:

  • SkillUtils.HasMenu reordered so the costly menu check only runs for affected players, across 17 skills and HUD updates. [by: @ByDexterTR]

  • Skill names/descriptions are now cached per skill/language/roll instead of being regenerated every 2 ticks (Illiterate still gets fresh garbled text). [by: @ByDexterTR]

  • Death HUD admin permission checks are now cached per round, and DateTime.Now is read once per tick instead of once per player. [by: @ByDexterTR]

  • End-of-round skill pre-calculation now builds turn constants in a single pass using set operations instead of repeated linear scans. [by: @ByDexterTR]

  • Removed Dead code: Earthquake.cs and HealingChicken.cs (unregistered skills), EntityManager.CreateTrackedEnvShake, EntityManager.CreateTrackedChicken, PlayerManager.UpdatePlayerSkill. [by: @ByDexterTR]

• 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. [by: @Juzlus]

  • Tripwire:

    • Reduced the default wire width from 1.5 to 0.7. [by: @Juzlus]

    • Wires are now removed when the owner dies or loses the skill, instead of staying until round end. [by: @ByDexterTR]

  • Iana:

    • Fixed the ability hook firing with no clone present when purchases happened during freeze time. [by: @ByDexterTR]

  • Throwing Knife:

    • Fixed the next-round spawn knife being withheld incorrectly; now only blocked when the player's own knife is on the ground. [by: @ByDexterTR]

  • Jammer:

    • Fixed the confirmation message showing the user's own name instead of the target's. [by: @ByDexterTR]

  • Careful Bullets:

    • Misses are now matched to the exact hit tick instead of using a 10-tick tolerance window. [by: @ByDexterTR]

  • Replicator / Illusionist / Iana:

    • Fixed a single shotgun shot dealing the clone's damage multiple times due to delayed entity destruction. [by: @ByDexterTR]

  • Cutter / Assassin:

    • Damage is now modified in the damage hook instead of via the post-damage player_hurt event. [by: @ByDexterTR]

  • Dracula:

    • Removed the fixed healing cap. [by: @ByDexterTR]

  • Focus:

    • weapon_accuracy_nospread is now restored from the server's own value instead of a hardcoded reset. [by: @ByDexterTR]

• New Skills (17):

  • Berserker: You deal more damage and move faster as your health gets lower. [by: @Juzlus]

  • Blast Shot: Press Attack2 with the MP5 to fire an HE grenade. [by: @Juzlus]

  • Demon Eye: You deal damage to every enemy you are looking at. [by: @Juzlus]

  • Fire Rain: Throw a decoy to call down a rain of Molotovs. [by: @Juzlus]

  • Flashlight: Click [css_useSkill] to turn the flashlight on or off; its light can blind enemies. [by: @Juzlus]

  • Healing Chicken: Your chickens heal you while you are nearby. [by: @Juzlus]

  • Jetkick: Select a player to jetkick - every shot they fire knocks them backwards until disabled. [by: @Juzlus]

  • Last Gasp: After you die, you deal damage to the enemy who killed you. [by: @Juzlus]

  • Take Ammo: Click [css_useSkill] to take the active weapon's magazine from a random enemy. [by: @Juzlus]

  • Team Teleport: Press [css_useSkill] to teleport to the teammate you're looking at. [by: @Juzlus]

  • Tripwire: String a wire between two walls; enemies who touch it appear on the owner's radar until round end. [by: @ByDexterTR]

  • Exploding Barrel: Place a barrel that detonates when shot. [by: @ByDexterTR]

  • Expensive Ammo: Select an enemy who loses money on every shot. [by: @ByDexterTR]

  • Jump Curse: Select an enemy who jumps whenever a living teammate jumps. [by: @ByDexterTR]

  • Knockback: Firing while airborne pushes you backwards. [by: @ByDexterTR]

  • Giant: Enlarges a selected enemy. [by: @ByDexterTR]

  • Nightmare: Gives a selected enemy a nightmarish vision. [by: @ByDexterTR]