ValoCraft

[2.2]

Replace the jar in plugins/; the resource pack updates automatically.

Added

Interface and visuals

• Full scoreboard (Tab), aligned in columns.

  	Allies	Enemies
  Agent and name	✔	✔
  Credits	current credits	credits at the start of the buy phase
  Weapon	weapon in hand	–
  Health	HP + shield	–
  K / D / A	✔	✔
  Ultimate	✔	–

• Tactical minimap for Sky Smoke, Dark Cover, Orbital Strike and From the Shadows: a rendered top-down map of the level with a cursor, the sites, teammates and smokes.

• Smokes really hide players:

  • smokes and walls are opaque, tinted 3D models, visible from afar;
  • an enemy inside or behind a smoke disappears from your screen at any distance.

• Agent heads worn by every player when full agent skins are turned off (agents.full-skin: false, see Agents).

• Lobby shop and Radianite:

  • agents to unlock;
  • 6 weapon skin collections (Prime, Reaver, Glitchpop, Ion, Elderflame, Oni) on 18 weapons, i.e. 108 models.

Game modes

• Swiftplay: first to 5 rounds, side swap after 4, economy and spike, no overtime (modes.swiftplay).
• Replication:
  • during agent select, everyone votes for an agent (duplicates allowed);
  • the whole team then plays the most-picked agent;
  • first to 5 rounds (modes.replication).
• Escalation:
  • two teams, respawns, no abilities;
  • each level forces a weapon: Odin, Ares, Phantom, Vandal, Spectre, Judge, Bulldog, Guardian, Sheriff, Marshal, Operator, then the knife;
  • 3 team kills per level (1 on the knife level). First team to finish wins, otherwise the furthest team after 10 minutes (modes.escalation).
• Spike Rush:
  • first to 4 rounds;
  • same random weapon for everyone;
  • full abilities;
  • every attacker carries a spike.
• Deathmatch:
  • free-for-all with 1.5 s respawns;
  • free weapons for 10 s after spawning;
  • a kill heals you;
  • 40 kills or 6 minutes.
• Team Deathmatch: two teams with agents and respawns, 100 kills or 9:30.
• Competitive:
  • ranks from Iron to Radiant, with 5 placement games;
  • RR based on result, performance (combat score) and team level gap;
  • leaving costs RR.
• Hosts pick the mode when creating a game. /vc map setmode <map> <mode> sets a map's default mode.

Agents (29 total)

• 13 new agents: Breach, Astra, Fade, Tejo, Clove, Deadlock, Veto, Iso, Chamber, KAY/O, Vyse, Yoru and Waylay.
• One new original agent: Miks (M-Pulse, Harmonize, Waveform, Bassquake).
• New status effects:
  • suppressed: no abilities;
  • hindered: lower fire rate, slowed;
  • jammed: no primary weapon;
  • immune: no negative effects.
• Two-step anchor abilities (Rendezvous, Gatecrash, Refract, Crosscut, Arc Rose): the first use places the anchor, the second uses it.
• First-person piloting for Sova's Owl Drone, Skye's Trailblazer and Tejo's Stealth Drone:
  • you become the creature, while your body stays behind and can be killed;
  • left click = creature action, right click = return to your body.
• Full agent skins: during a match, the player's whole skin becomes the agent's (not just a head). The original skin is restored back in the lobby (agents.full-skin).
• SkinsRestorer support (optional):
  • agent skins are signed through MineSkin, so the player also sees their own agent skin (F5 view, arms);
  • signed skins are created in the background on startup and cached in data/agent-skins.yml;
  • any agent's skin can be replaced with a skin image URL or a Minecraft username (agents.skins.<agent>).

Abilities

• Manual activation: keys 5–8 select the ability, and left click uses it. Nothing fires just by switching slots. controls.instant-abilities: true restores the old behaviour.

• White flashes: a full-screen white overlay that fades in 4 steps. You can't scope while flashed.

• Hold-to-throw with trajectory preview:

  • hold left click to see the arc (visible only to you), release to throw;
  • right click = underhand lob;
  • Sova's bolts go further the longer you hold.

• Visible cooldown: the signature ability icon stays in the hotbar with Minecraft's cooldown sweep while it recharges.

• Destructible utility: enemy bullets destroy deployed utility.

  Utility	HP
  Turret	125
  Spycam	70
  Leer, Interceptor	60
  Sonic Sensor, Chokehold, Trademark, Shear	40
  Alarmbot, Trapwire, Nanoswarm	20

• Enemy ultimates: enemy ult points are shown in the scoreboard, with a chat alert and a sound when an enemy ult is ready.

• More faithful kits:

  • Neon: energy gauge, High Gear toggles the sprint, and crouching while sprinting slides;
  • Viper: fuel gauge, Poison Cloud and Toxic Screen are emitters you toggle on and off;
  • Jett: Tailwind is prepared first, then the dash is triggered;
  • Iso: Kill Contract opens a 1v1 glass arena above the map;
  • Chamber: Tour de Force now has a full-screen sniper scope on right click;
  • Brimstone: smokes are orange.

• abilities.yml: price, charges, cooldown, kill recharge and damage per ability, ult cost per agent, global damage and duration multipliers. Applied with /vc reload, no recompiling.

Maps and loading

• On-demand map worlds:
  • map worlds stay on disk and are no longer loaded at server startup;
  • when a match launches, the server loads the world, preloads the spawn chunks and moves everyone in;
  • an unused world is saved and unloaded (maps.unload-check).
• The waiting room and agent select now happen in the lobby.
• Loading screen: a menu showing every player's card (banner), agent and title, red team at the top and blue at the bottom, while the map loads (game.loading-time).
• Player cards are now real banners: agent color plus a role symbol. They appear in the shop, on the loading screen and in the match summary.

Progression and cosmetics

• Battle pass:
  • 30 levels of 1,000 XP, with XP earned every match (win, loss, kills, assists, rounds won, MVP);
  • one reward per level, given automatically: Radianite, cards, titles, kill banners, kill sounds, sprays;
  • /vc pass menu. Changing battlepass.season resets everyone's level (unlocked rewards are kept).
• Kill banners: on each kill, your symbol is repeated once per kill this round, in your card's color. The victim sees your card and title. 8 styles.
• Kill sounds: the pitch rises with each kill of the round, with a special 5th-kill sound. 7 sets, which you can preview in the shop.
• Sprays:
  • crouch + F in a match to spray on the targeted wall, floor or ceiling;
  • text sprays or the emblem of any of the 29 agents;
  • one per round (every 30 s in respawn modes).
• Lobby leaderboards: holograms placed with /vc leaderboard set <type>, refreshed every minute. Types: rank, kills, wins, ACS, headshots, aces, battle pass.
• Shop additions: 14 knives, player cards, 12 titles, kill banners, kill sounds, sprays.
• Daily missions: 3 random missions per day, 150 Radianite each (/vc missions).
• Match summary:
  • combat score, damage, first bloods, ACE announcements;
  • damage report on death;
  • end-of-match menu with every player's stats (/vc resume).

Team play and social

• Weapon requests: clicking a weapon you can't afford asks your team for it. A teammate who has the money clicks [Buy for …]: they pay and the weapon goes straight into your inventory.
• Parties:
  • /vc party invite|leave|kick|list|chat;
  • the party follows its leader into games and stays on the same team.
• Team balancing based on a hidden MMR.
• Chat: rank and title in front of names. Messages starting with ! go to your team only.

Match flow

• Reconnect: a player who disconnects mid-match keeps their slot for 3 minutes and is put back in on return.
• Surrender and remake votes:
  • /vc ff: surrender, from round 5, 80% yes needed;
  • /vc remake: until round 3, if a teammate left.
• AFK: a player who doesn't move gets a warning at 45 s, then is kicked at 90 s.
• Lag compensation: shots are checked against where the shooter saw the target, up to 200 ms back.
• Footsteps:
  • running is audible to enemies, with a sound that depends on the block underneath;
  • crouch-walking is silent.
• Permanent radar: a map in the off-hand showing allies, spotted enemies, the spike, the sites and your team's smokes.

Admin

• /vc forcestart [map]: starts a match even with a single player. An empty team is never "eliminated", and the match doesn't count for ranked.
• /vc ult add|set <player> [points]: adds or sets ult points (set without a number fills the ult).
• /vc pass addxp <player> <xp>: gives battle pass XP.
• /vc leaderboard set <type> | remove | list: manages the lobby leaderboards.
• All agents unlocked by default (progression.default-agents: [ALL]).
• SQLite / MySQL storage (storage.type), with automatic import from stats.yml.

Fixed

• Ability icons:

  • Harbor's Cove showed a Gekko icon (missing entry in the resource pack);
  • Chamber's Trademark and Rendezvous icons were swapped;
  • KAY/O's FRAG/ment and FLASH/drive icons were swapped.

  The pack's ability icon table is now rebuilt from the textures that actually exist.

• Right click to leave a piloted drone or tiger now works (a dedicated remote item is used).

• Sniper scope: a real full-screen 16:9 scope carried by the helmet. It no longer flickers.

• Continuous fire:

  • holding left click now fires at the weapon's real fire rate;
  • weapons can "mine" the targeted block up to 64 blocks away (nothing is ever broken), so the client sends a signal every tick;
  • the arm swing animation is hidden.