Dystopia 1.5.6 is out now, led by automatic localization in 30+ languages and floating damage numbers. It also adds a credits screen a month before Dystopia's 21st anniversary, plus a broad set of interface, spectating, and server fixes.

Dystopia now follows your Steam language automatically across the interface, menus, HUD, scoreboard, options, cyberspace hacking programs, dialogs, in-world map screens, and mission briefings. Supported languages: Arabic, Bulgarian, Chinese (Simplified & Traditional), Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Spanish (Spain & Latin America), Malay, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Portugal & Brazil), Romanian, Russian, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, and English.

Floating damage numbers join Dystopia's hitbeep system. They're on by default and can be switched off in the options menu. Each hit places a number at the impact point, slides it clear of the body, then sweeps it up to gather above the head into a total that fades when you stop dealing damage.

• Enemy numbers match your IFF color; friendly-fire hits are flat grey so they don't look like scoring.
• Kills fold their damage into the "+N frag" text, showing damage dealt in the seconds before the kill.
• Numbers shrink and fade with distance, and scoped zoom is accounted for.
• Defaults are tuned, but every part is a per-client cvar exposed in the options menu through the dys_damagenumbers* family.

A credits window on the main menu lists everyone who has worked on Dystopia: 215 people over the years. A punyhuman.com/contact link at the top of the window is there for missing or incorrect entries.

• HUD fades out on death instead of disappearing in a single frame.
• Swapping weapons on the spawn pad no longer replays the spawn effect; changing class still does.
• The deploy panel no longer reappears when you open the loadout menu while alive.
• A new Interface tab replaces the old Advanced Multiplayer button; HUD and visual settings live on Interface, gameplay and input on Multiplayer.
• Crosshair color is now a full color picker instead of three RGB sliders.
• Corps turrets no longer stay grey when per-team IFF colors are enabled; the same 2019 color-key typo also made the corps TAC-scan blip end early, now fixed.
• IFF overlays no longer get cut off on ultrawide monitors, and kill scores no longer clip near the right edge on widescreen.
• Chat wraps while typing; the box is narrower and the font follows your resolution.
• The team/class/loadout menu (M) is centered at every resolution and team-colored in-game.
• Punk's ammo icon no longer turns corp blue while reloading; punk boltgun trails are red instead of blue.
• While in a server, the main menu leads with RESUME GAME, with DISCONNECT below it.
• The ammo dispenser animates properly again, mostly: spin-up, loop while dispensing, wind-down.
• Options > Keyboard has its buttons back after 1.5.5 broke them.
• Pickup feed redesigned: no more flat-yellow Half-Life 2 stack climbing into the radar. Pickups slide in along the bottom next to your ammo, are team-colored, and the full loadout (grenades included) flies in when you spawn.
• Server browser is now "Browse Servers" instead of "Search Servers."

• Round restarts (including map_restart) no longer freeze spectators; they carry on normally.
• Third-person spectate no longer tilts sideways after chasing a decker out of cyberspace; it stays level while keeping the intended tilt during cyberspace flight.
• The developer console is much cleaner.
• A new tickrate command lets servers report the tickrate actually in effect, and players see it next to their own effective rates, so a 128-tick server no longer looks like a 64-tick one.
• -tickrate on the command line is all a high-tick server needs: rate bounds are derived from it and reported at map load. Manual rate settings warn while that derivation is active; sv_rate_bounds_follow_tickrate 0 opts out.
• New players start at updaterate/cmdrate 128 and rate 196608, clamped by the server, so it costs nothing on a 66-tick server and just works on high-tick ones. Existing configs keep their values, and sv_minrate remains the server-side lever for dialup-era rates.
• Fixed two potential server crashes involving turrets taking damage from map hazards or without an attacking player.
• Fixed the music player logging an FMOD error every time a track ended.