v0.11.43

Sound no longer goes silent

• Found the cause of the sound dying mid-game. The co-op host runs as a network game, and the game made a voice-chat playback stream for every AI soldier. Each one played silence at full volume and never stopped. Once there were 64 of them they took every sound channel, and nothing more could be heard.
• Voice-chat streams are now made only for players. Voice chat between friends keeps working, also after a checkpoint load.
• The sound log now counts these streams, so any future silence shows its cause.
• The menu's background sound no longer keeps playing in the level after a checkpoint is loaded from the co-op menu.

Checkpoints

• "The checkpoint before" now makes that checkpoint the current one: when everybody goes down, the game goes back to it, not to the newer one.
• The menu says "The newer checkpoint" when the other checkpoint is the newer one.
• After a checkpoint load the AI companion stands next to you. It was put next to your place of the previous checkpoint, hundreds of metres away.
• The AI companion stays in the game when you load the other checkpoint for the first time in a session (it used to leave and join again).

AI companion in fights

• Takes the nearest cover: if where it stands already hides it from those shooting at it, it gets down there; with no cover close by it moves at most 8 m and lies down to shoot back, instead of running far away.
• Uses the cloak: when it is first hit or spotted in the open, when it falls back, and to reach and revive a downed teammate under fire. It no longer shoots or throws grenades while cloaked.
• No speed mode in the middle of a fight or right after a load.
• Stays near a downed teammate it fights for, and keeps away from a vehicle about to explode next to him.
• In a test of your camp fight at Rescue_05 (host down, soldiers and a machine gun firing), the old version's companion went down every time and never cloaked; the new one revived the host every time, cloaked each time, and took at most one hit.

Same version for everyone who plays together (0.11.43); the launcher updates itself.

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