quark 1.7.0: everything that changed

The full notes for this version are its short notes: that was all that was written then.

Build your own modes in game: Host > Custom mode > NEW / EDIT.
- General: the mode it plays as, health, gravity, move speed, jump height, knockback, and dash / grapple / self damage / instagib / vampire / regen toggles. Time, score and round limits are also set here.
- Weapons: turn each weapon on or off and set its fire rate, damage and projectile speed.
- Maps: a map pool that rotates to the next map after every match.
Presets are saved to custom_modes/<name>.qmode. Pick one in the Host menu and host as usual.
Everyone who joins gets the server's rules automatically. Movement and weapon timing predict exactly, and the server list shows the mode as [name] server.
Map votes on a custom server stay inside its pool and its mode. Ranked always uses the standard rules.

The laser beam now comes out of the laser model's emitter and follows the HUD viewmodel position, depth and scale.
Jumping, falling, grappling or dashing into stairs carries you up them like walking does. You no longer bonk off the risers and lose your speed.
Switching weapons with fire or alt-fire held (e.g. scoped sniper) no longer fires the new weapon. Let go and press again.

Sniper: no spread when unscoped. Hip shots go exactly where the crosshair is.
Bubble gun: bubbles travel 20% faster (primary 15.6 m/s; the alt-fire stream 8.4 to 24 m/s).

The attackers take the map's points one at a time, in order.
Only the attackers capture. Standing on the point with no defender on it fills it, and more attackers fill it faster. A defender on the point holds it. A point left alone slowly drains.
Every point taken adds 90 s to the clock and moves both teams' spawns forward. The attack wins the round when every point falls; the defence wins if time runs out.
The sides swap after the round. More points taken wins, then the faster attack.
Maps define the points (point boxes, in attack order) and the spawns for each stage (spawn att2 ..., spawn def0 ...).

A working mine the size of four hamlets, two storeys deep.
- North half: a sunlit surface (the pithead, the mill, spoil heaps) over room-and-pillar workings, cut through by an open pit with benches and haul ramps.
- South half: two great caverns under the mountain, the shaft station and the crystal grotto with its underground lake. They're lit by a sun shaft, overhead lamps and glowing crystals.
Five points down the mine: A the pithead, B the pit floor, C the workings, D the grotto shore, E the mother lode.

Fire: heals you 1 hp every 0.1 s while held.
Alt-fire: throws it. A teammate it hits gets 30 hp at once and all their cooldowns reset (weapon, dash, grapple). The throw has a 2 s cooldown.

Every weapon's shots now start at its model's muzzle, wherever the HUD layout puts the model: tracers, beams and your own projectiles.
Rockets, sticky bombs and crossbow bolts have proper models (fins and flame, a spiked mine with a blinking core, a bolt with fletching).
HUD settings: the elements are in a dropdown, and the weapon model has its own button.
Weapon keys 9 (knife) and 0 (syringe) now work. Before, the knife's slot fell through to "next weapon".

One button, CHANGE MAP / MODE: pick the mode, then a map for it. One vote (or one change for the host) does both.
Bot levels shifted down one: expert is the old advanced, advanced the old intermediate, intermediate the old beginner. Beginner is a notch easier than before.

A LADDER button: one object you can move and stretch. Its rails and rungs are made from it, so they always fit.
Move arrows on boxes, zones and ladders. The face squares still resize.
Clicking selects whatever is under the mouse. It used to only work near the middle of the view.

Viaduct: buttress fins beside every arch, and a fifth spandrel wall. Hooking the middle of a wall and dashing along it to an arch no longer skips a section.
Walking up stairs: you could get stuck against a 0.5 m step when you stopped a hair short of it. Fixed.
Bot route finding: much faster on big maps.

A voice counts each round in ("three, two, one, fight!").
With ANNOUNCER: ALL CALLS (Settings) it also calls the mode's moments: bomb planted / defused, hill captured / lost, point captured / lost, round won / lost, overtime.
Set it to COUNTDOWN for the count only, or OFF.

Race now starts in practice: run the course untimed, with checkpoints. Nothing is timed or recorded, and it never starts by itself. Vote start (F4) and the race proper begins.
The race leaderboard only takes time trials on the shipped, unchanged Viaduct. The server only marks a run as a time trial there, and your client only sends (or counts as a personal best) a run on the official map.
Bastion, Foundry and Colosseum can also be played as multi point (their hill and bomb sites become the points).