PC V2.6 EXP - updated b14

[meganoth]

Hey TFP my dudes, can we get a Server IP block ability on the search function? All I get are fake Chinese servers. So many that I can't even find local things I know exist because the search reaches its limit on finds on pure bs chinese servers. Region is set to africa but these pigs don't care, here to hack PCs prolly. Noticed they all use the same server IP. Can the game not be made to recognize server locale? Maybe have it in the server code to report its region.

Someone said in another thread you can easily remove them by filtering for language.

 

[ZehMatt]

I believe AnimatorCullingMode not animating can break things in some cases. Not looking for any new bugs right now.

Also something I have in my recompiled binary set by default, can't say it adds any issues, all it does is just stop animating them when not visible, it does help the FPS quite a lot actually when all of them are off-screen, what I forgot to mention is that for ragdolls I kept it on always animate maybe that is the difference.

You should not be able to death spiral past all of them updating at the same time as it used to do. I will review it when I get a chance.

What I mean by that is that the idea of doing this is essentially broken, you might as well update them all in one tick which is what I ended up doing which simplified the entire logic quite a bit. A downside of this "optimization" is also that sometimes zombies just stand there for a while before anything happens, if you really want to keep something like this just use a slow iterator and only ever update 10 or more entities in a single tick, don't base this on framerate, that is horrible.

Edit: I also have quite a long list of optimizations I did in the recompiled binary, I achieved to get 30 more FPS on the average baseline, I can keep posting more of what I've done or send you DM's if you are interested. Given the complexity of some code changes I unfortunately can't do those as mods and just releasing the recompiled binary as a mod doesn't seem like a good choice, but happy to provide it if you want to compare how much it gains or if it introduces any bugs.