General

• Fixed a frequent crash related to drawing the datapad graphics
• Fixed Archvile z-scope limit feature: player cannot be targeted when considerably above or below Z position of archvile
• Fixed bug where Archvile’s P_RadiusAttack was not doing any damage
• Fixed weapons carrying over between New Game restarts
• Fixed some preferences that were not being loaded from marshmallow.cfg
• Death messages are now working again
• Berserk/strength powerup now applies to single-key melee attack
• Moving barrels no longer requires pressing the use key
• Fixed bug where progressive weapons were not being given after a completed episode
• Fixed bug where bots were adding to the player’s ShotsFired and ShotsHit stats, causing player’s accuracy rating to exceed 100%

Sigil

• In E5M8, boss monsters from previous episodes no longer trigger end of game
• Dynamic music mode can be used while playing Sigil, however Sigil’s built-in music requires Vanilla music mode
• Sigil’s finale text screen now shows the proper tiled background graphic

Sandbox

• Sandbox battles can no longer be started when only barrels have been placed
• Cached sandboxes now properly store the original actor angle

Effects

• New variable blood/gore settings: Doom, Ludicrous, Groovy, and BRUTAL
• Particle-based boss explosions can now be enabled/disabled in marshmallow.cfg
• Barrels now emit smoke; this can be toggled in marshmallow.cfg by changing barrel_fx to zero
• Particles emitted from boss explosions no longer inflict damage

Bots

• New bot command menu: hold use to open/close menu
• New bot status widget shows every bot’s current state/behavior on the HUD
• New bot speed selection option (Fast, Moderate, Careful)
• Improved bot free roam behavior
• Bots ignore any detected path nodes that are out of reach

Deathmatch

• Major overhaul of enemy bot AI; bots are now much more human-like and better at navigating the map
• In Doom 2, story text screens are now skipped while playing deathmatch
• Deathmatch frags are now tracked by the player profile and shown on the profile screen while playing deathmatch
• Bot self-kills are no longer counted as frags
• Bots will use chainsaw when at point blank range from target
• Dropped items/weapons are automatically despawned after 15 seconds
• New command line parameters -timelimit and -fraglimit

Network Games

• Netgame stability/playability has been drastically improved
• Game settings are now handed down to each client from the server; now, the only command line parameters clients need to type is to specify IWAD (TIP: use -d1, -d2, -sigil, -tnt, -plut for IWAD selection)
• Network game preferences (such as FriendlyFire or gibmode) are now retrieved from a customizable server.cfg file
• Monster upgrades now work in netgame
• Random items now work in netgame
• Treasure now gives identical results to all players in netgame
• Barrel pushing now works in netgame 
• Fixed player chat messages in multiplayer
• Fixed numerous sandbox mode problems in network games
• When inventory is dropped in backpack, a separate weapon is no longer dropped
• Fixed the “gift” backpack in coop
• Fixed the inventory backpack in coop; when inventory is dropped in a backpack, only its dropper can pick it up
• Disabled datapad and keyboard help screen in netgame as this was causing crashes
• Sigil netgame now automatically warps to episode 5 if no -warp parameter is specified