[musashiwook]

Originally Posted by saulstari lets send some xmas tweets at valve?

https://twitter.com/csgo_dev

[VamPiro]

it is better to send Christmas tweet the authors metamod for an early release snapshot

[asherkin]

The time it'll take to fix this is no way related to the holiday period, the changes were just very, very breaking and major.

[RoNn]

.... now i panic ! ! we going to miss all the fun for sometime..?!? ?

[benjani13]

Originally Posted by asherkin The time it'll take to fix this is no way related to the holiday period, the changes were just very, very breaking and major.

I really don't understand why Valve do not communicate about game updates before they release them.

Metamod and SourceMod developers are very courageous.

[Zephyrus]

valve should strip the binaries for extra fun...

[Zephyrus]

for added fun they removed the usermessage name strings from the binaries but we got protobuf structures instead, not sure if thats good for us tho

[Zephyrus]

well bad news, as far as i can see the user message indexes are now hardcoded, they are not looked up from a list like before, i really have no idea what we can do, keeping track of user messages in gamedata would be...lame...

HudMsg now:

mov dword ptr [esp+4], 4 <- this is the message index call __Z15SendUserMessageR16IRecipientFilteriRKN6g oogle8protobuf7MessageE

HudMsg before:

lea eax, (aHudmsg - 61121Eh)[esi] ; "HudMsg" <- they were using the name before mov [esp+4], eax mov [esp], edi call __Z16UserMessageBeginR16IRecipientFilterPKc ; UserMessageBegin(IRecipientFilter &,char const*)

the message id was retrieved in UserMessageBegin by CUserMessages::LookupUserMessage(char const*), which just checked a CUtlRbTree list for the corresponding index

as you can clearly see not even the engine keeps track of name - id pairs, if sv_show_usermessage is set to 1 it just retrieves the name using google::protobuf::Message::GetTypeName() from the message itself if im not mistaken

i could be wrong as i spent like an hour only to find a way around, but not even the old names are kept, by checking the strings in the binaries i could only find references to the protobuf structures

[Wizball]

I guess Valve is desperatly trying to kill the dedicated server. Hooray @ ingame matchmaking and total control.
Sad... really sad.

[nikooo777]

They arent going far without a modding community and such. See how css is still alive thanks to this community!