Prestige

New scoreboard

• Prestige (rank resetting) functionality
  
• Loadout costs rebalanced to better utilize the entire pool of loadout points, at the same time the acquisition of ranks has been sped up
  
• Rewritten the scoreboard screen
  
• Refactored logic of individual bots that resulted in them being less responsive than expected while moving
  
• Stopped AI from deploying dropships where they shouldn’t be allowed
  
• Reduced the amplitude of ship interior impact shakes
  
• Reduced SM54 minimum inaccuracy (sighted) to pistol default to make it a tad more predictable
  
• Gunships knocked down a health grade, now similar to mechs in terms of health and mod slots
  
• Removed legacy passenger weapon assignments on dropships and replaced with equivalent faction-specific weapon variants
  
• Further tweaks and optimizations to the new master server
  
• Added a cover overpass to Igneous phase 1, plus some miscellaneous meshing around that area
  
• Moved Irega phase 2’s spawn back a tad and added a shield, fixed a bunch of collision problems there
  
• Fixed glitchy phase 3 spawn in Irega, adjusted team protection volumes
  
• Fixed some oddities in the dropship and fighter launch animations inside the Huginn
  
• Fixed some lighting glitches on Fortress’ droppods and Ixion’s fighter launchers
  
• Fixed some mangled interaction labels on ship components
  
• Fixed a bunch of effects needlessly spawning off the vehicles on the server
  
• Fixed inconsistent handling of passworded games when joining from the server browser
  
• Fixed the map voting, hopefully for good this time, and adjusted some formatting on the end-game screen
  
• Fixed the operations menu still not letting you host online games when Steam was down, despite the fact we don’t need Steam’s master server anymore
  
• Fixed some instances of getting stuck at “connecting” in the server browser
  
• Fixed sort-by-map in the server browser
  
• Fixed C30i shells sometimes proxy-detonating past deployable shields
  
• Fixed C30i shells proxy-detonating on droppod turrets
  

Team balance

Soundtrack extended

Custom protocol integration

• Team balance functionality changed again
  
• Added "afflink" protocol that lets you run the game/join a server from a URL
  
• C30 maximum range matches RID and MLI now
  
• C30 magazine now holds 8 instead of 9 shell but the gun got one extra mag
  
• RID primary charge time reduced 25%
  
• Increased multiwrench repair speed 30%
  
• Disabled leaning while incapacitated. Aww.
  
• Optimized some more stuff in the master server
  
• Fixed infantry camouflage colours resetting on opening the loadout
  
• Fixed the Irega point A fail and rebuilt some lighting, adjusted some killzones down in the chasm
  
• Fixed C30 item name when picking it up
  
• Fixed ammo mod effects on P8, C30 and bomber torpedoes
  
• Fixed flipping counters on the map voting screen
  
• Fixed AI stalling on Yin Tao Shan
  

C30i

Master server

Performance boost

Armour re-balance and gameplay changes

Soundtrack DLC for the charity

• Added Sigurn-Fost C30i portable anti-vehicle cannon
  
• Implemented a custom master server to make server listing more reliable and responsive
  
• Reworked suit mods, there’s no empty slot option anymore, everything’s either armour or a functional mod:
  - light suit: 3 helmet slots, 1 body slot, 50-130 armour, 286-310 speed
  - medium suit: 2 helmet slots, 2 body slots, 150-310 armour, 244-286 speed
  - heavy suit: 1 helmet slot, 3 body slots, 330-570 armour, 191-244 speed
  - standard armour mod: free, +90 armour
  - heavy plating mod: +130 armour, - 4% speed
  - servo mod: +50 armour, +4% speed
  - regeneration mod: +70 armour, +30% regeneration rate
  - ammo reserves mod: +80 armour +30% ammo
  - insulating mod: +100 armour, +20% elemental resistance, -20% ammo
  - blast protection mod: +110 armour, +20% AOE damage resistance, -20% regeneration rate
  
• Jump height bound to total armour value, no longer affected directly by servos/heavy plating
  
• Vehicle and fighter body mods and stats rebalanced to reflect infantry
  
• Re-ranged all vehicle regeneration delays to be a bit longer
  
• Reduced vehicle drop offer timeout to 60 seconds
  
• Friendly rearming points show ammo icons rather than transition icons
  
• Removed reload mods from ship weapons that don’t actually reload
  
• Buffed fighter mine speed and acceleration
  
• Gunship rocket pods made more viable
  
• Fixed and refactored the default mods system for loadout items. Tightened the verification process of loadouts in online game.
  
• Fixed the weapon accuracy interpolation when going into aim-down-sights, should feel more responsive now
  
• Fixed vehicle weapon inaccuracy math which was keeping them all pinned to maximum accuracy rather than blooming as expected, adjusted accuracy and damage values on vehicle and fighter weapons accordingly
  
• Rebalanced starfighter weapons, TT18s now fills a space assault rifle niche rather than an MG niche, mirrors DK11a
  
• Flechette overheat removed, ammo slot enabled and mirrors P4
  
• Re-normalised land passenger weapons versus their infantry counterparts
  
• Tuned some incendiary impact effects on infantry that looked too much the victim got set on fire but actually wasn’t
  
• Slightly buffed RID damage and primary lockon time
  
• Detpack trigger doesn’t detonate tripmines anymore
  
• Grenades now have friend- or foe-coloured trails instead of all being blue
  
• EMP disables vehicles’ capability to deploy countermeasures (shields) now
  
• Underbarrel shield health now visible on the HUD when active
  
• Added the ability to access the loadouts screen from the main menu
  
• Added a zoomed sensitivity multiplier
  
• Added missing “need repairs” and “get in my vehicle” callouts
  
• Some preliminary progress on more talkative AI
  
• Changed homing missile miss-detonation check to stop them from veering off and circling the target ad infinitum
  
• Frigates meltdown timer back down to 45s
  
• Ship boardable and boarded alerts made more prominent on the HUD
  
• Frigates are now the first-free-offer ships in Space Territories, to take the edge off the initial mad boarding rush
  
• Player balancing on the faction selection screen now primarily based off rank, for example 1 level-25 player equals 5 level-1 players
  
• Map vote screen will now exclude previously played maps until at least half the maps on the list are played - as an experiment in making maps more evenly played
  
• Implemented a server-wide meta-game manager, currently taking care of the map list. Commence speculation what its future purpose is!
  
• Delta updated:
  One less tank for each faction
  Added sniper catwalk/overlook near pipeline nexus overlooking Objective B
  Added more cover to the approach to Objective C from no man's land side
  Corrected some missing collision on tarps
  
• Adjusted lighting on several maps
  
• Added alternative route near the meatgrinder exit, adjusted cover and collision near terrain edges in Mirnoide
  
• Fixed more shadows around droppods on a few maps
  
• Moved the defender spawns in the 2nd and 3rd phases of Irega Incursion
  
• Moved ULA spawn and most objectives on Irega Territories
  
• Optimized several decoration meshes in space maps
  
• Added extra cover to NB3345 and Eye Of God
  
• NB3345 description changed to carriers-only
  
• Briefingroom ready-up klaxons edited to be less annoying
  
• Squadmates should see their squad leaders’ order (the one given to him by the commander) if the squad leader left them with no explicit order assigned
  
• Fixed land vehicles’ close camera drifting over time
  
• Limited outer cameras’ roll to world-up for less nausea (close camera is still vehicle-locked)
  
• Small adjustments to bot navigation and responsiveness
  
• Added missing “extending” and “retracting” animations to the RID when viewed in 3rd person
  
• Fixed grenades exploding when flying through any kind of flame
  
• Fixed grenades and detpacks not getting detonated by enemy grenades/explosives
  
• Fixed bots sometimes assigned to incorrect squads after traveling to a new map on the server
  
• Optimized the netcode of squad and team assignments a lot
  
• Optimized the number of network channels and replicated objects across the board
  
• Fixed pawns remaining in vehicles after the player has redeployed/changed team/left, in case of passenger seats online was blocking the seat completely
  
• Fixed noisemaker crash
  
• Fixed massive stacking of underbarrel flamer’s flames on a single object causing slideshows
  
• Fighter and passenger turret LSP variants now get modulated FX per-charge just like the handheld one
  
• Small optimizations to weaponfire code
  
• Slightly optimized replication of destroyed ship chunks
  
• A bit more Dhaka health, a bit less Locust health
  
• Corrected magsize mod description to state 15%
  

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• Tutorial, plus making the game more friendly and legible to new players
  
• Performance improvements, especially server-side
  
• Our own master server - yes, it’s the thing that lists game servers. We’re very thankful we could use all the Steam features from the beginning, it’s super convenient for small developers like us. But we’ve been having some major reliability issues with Steam’s master server recently so we’re rolling out our own to improve the functionality.
  
• Local stats storage so that the players can see and earn ranks even when the connection to Steam is offline.
  

Mirnoide boarding areas

Average engagement times

Server performance

• Mirnoide adjustments:
  - Reconfigured the meatgrinder
  - Defender spawns in biodomes now properly turn off when the station is captured
  - Cargo containers in space relocated to avoid being in the way of ships warping in
  - Added a missing puddle
  
• Moved the spawns in phase 2 of Fortress and modified the building surrounding them a bit
  
• Lukather’s objective C moved outside of the concourse and visible sensor stations added to indicate where the capture objectives are
  
• Some tweaks to collision in Lacroix, Irega and Meudeverre
  
• Added spawn protection volumes to almost all defender spawns and ship spawns
  
• NB3345’s warp-in points moved a bit
  
• Adjusted and rebuilt lighting on a few maps to make them look better
  
• Added clearer elements to lock-on icons which will immediately pop up once you start locking on (whenever you start holding LMB to lock on)
  
• Mech speeds and jump heights increased, plus some tweaks to their strafing animations
  
• Gunship primary weapons’ damage bumped up 25%
  
• Reduced the health of all destroyables (droppods, core lockouts etc.) by about 25%
  
• Rebalanced DK31 altfire to have less spread the more its charged but more recoil
  
• Buffed the health of the static defense platforms to be that of about half-a-lineship
  
• Torpedoes now the selected default for the bomber bays
  
• Knocked half a second off MLI and RID lock times, fixed MLI missiles tracking really badly
  
• Increased headshot damage multiplier from 2x to 2.5x, reduced helmet armour mod effectiveness by half
  
• Disabled a long-forgotten balancing function that made new players more resistant to damage
  
• Greatly reduced log sizes written by the servers plus some optimizations to the dedicated server package plus fixes to how spectators are handled server-side
  
• Patched some issues with pads/joysticks plugged in affecting the menus, should get rid of some instances of the settings menu selection glitching out
  
• No longer possible to put the armour display in negative values by playing with specs on interceptors
  
• Fixed the outside view in Ixion’s hangars flickering in and out near the hangar exits
  
• Fixed being able to run through the drill of the boarding tubes while it’s still playing the drilling animation
  
• Tweaked the server browser queries a bit, perhaps will help a bit with Steam being flaky about returning the full list of servers
  
• Fixed the invisible walls that popped up inside the Anubis
  
• Fixed vehicle passengers not getting correct animations on clients and getting stuck in seated animation after exiting the vehicle
  
• Fixed on-demand operation change menu in singleplayer
  
• Fixed missing connection error pop-ups in the main menu
  
• Skipping the briefing in singleplayer game’s settings will no longer immediately start the match and therefore go through the commander vote without the player’s interaction if the player takes too long to pick a faction
  
• Commander vote should no longer incorrectly disappear in subsequent maps in singleplayer
  
• Fixed ship request consoles (fighter spawners) getting stuck for a player that hits ESC during the launch loadout screen
  
• Fixed some issues with auto-turrets on droppods sometimes not attaching correctly
  

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• Added HUD icons for incoming missiles
  
• Reduced progress decay rate on uncontested objectives
  
• UDP now using the double-shot firemode by default
  
• Tweaked AI a bit again to be a bit sharper across all difficulty levels
  
• Tweaked suit mod armour penalties, deepened armour spec cost variation a bit more, tweaked infantry armour and speeds down a bit everywhere
  
• Removed vehicle armour mod and tweaked armour costs of the other vehicle mods for parity with the infantry options
  
• Renormalised land vehicles’ armour regeneration times
  
• Removed some EMP effects on infantry that weren’t known/obvious (disabling of speed multiplier, sensors)
  
• Infantry scrambler spec reduces turrets’, sensor nades’ and tripmines’ detection radius
  
• Added a +15% turret AI sensor range cockpit mod (base ai view radius down 70% on vehicles to which the mod can apply)
  
• Moved vehicle systems hardening mod to cockpit slot, regeneration spec to body slot
  
• Tweaked capital ship health/armour/regeneration - corvettes and destroyers 2x tougher so corvettes should now be less susceptible to warp-exit ambushes and destroyers pose more threat to frigates and battleships
  
• Removed Locust’s unused passenger seat from code
  
• Buffed MNL’s damage 50%
  
• Slightly erroneous ammocount/firerate on EVR turret corrected
  
• DK31 now has an alternative firing mode that charges up with time. Slow, inaccurate, but deals significant anti-vehicle damage when fully charged, time your shots well!
  
• Errah tweaks:
  - Replaced the old, buggy antenna array meshes
  - Optimizations to building meshes for better performance in the town area
  
• Lukather Incursion tweaks and fixes:
  - Fixed AI pathing around the droppods
  - Added alternative entry point for concourse (walkways placed over containers)
  - Made minor tweaks to bollards and pathing around them
  - It’s no longer possible to drive vehicles through the control tower’s windows
  - Fixed the floating "C" sign, at last. Probably.
  
• Added missing spawn protection to the static command modules in Fortress Territories and Yin Tao Shan Territories
  
• Adjusted AI pathing in Yin Tao Shan around the grav cradles to prevent the bots getting stuck
  
• Tweaked and optimized AI pathing algorithms in space a bit
  
• Rescaled all Cricket launchers to space interior scale, rescaled some fighter launchers to proper scale, improved Cricket launch cinematic a bit, rescaled docked Griphon in Lukather
  
• Tweaked most boarding sequences and boarding pods for slightly smoother experience
  
• Chons and Heimdall destroyers renamed to lineships for now
  
• Clicking on the post-match maplist in singleplayer will now immediately select that map, without having to wait for 60s
  
• Initial intel button in the main menu now points to the guides thread on the forums, until we can get that tutorial going for real
  
• A bunch of optimizations to visual effects
  
• More agile Sturm
  
• RID now deals damage with a shockwave around the actual shot, for dealing with fast aircraft in a more sensible manner. The less damage the further away from the core of the shot, so accuracy is still very much a factor if you want to be effective with it
  
• Reduced the zoom level on the RID’s sights for a wide field of view, adjusted firemode names
  
• MLI and RID lock time increased to 2.5 and 3s respectively
  
• MLI missiles slightly faster
  
• Locking onto infantry disabled, for real this time
  
• All land vehicles HP increased by 1000
  
• All bullet types deal 50% more damage to vehicles
  
• Tweaked EMP factor on bullets to compensate for more damage done vs vehicles
  
• Increased torpedo speed slightly
  
• Increased magazine sizes and base damage ~50% for all bomb bay weapons on bombers
  
• Adjusted vehicle crosshair so it doesn’t jump about while cycling muzzles and respects weapon gimballing, fire from multiple barrels should converge properly at the distance of the target lead indicator
  
• Adjusted the Locust’s turrets to behave a bit better when aiming
  
• Projectiles no longer go right through certain actors (like space defense platforms)
  
• Fixed a dumb mistake where the deployable shield turrets were not protected from area damage by their own shields
  
• Fixed grenade throws sometimes utterly failing (especially online) due to inheriting negative velocity from the thrower
  
• Fixed incorrect thread release order causing a rare crash on exit
  
• Fixed infinite online dropships
  
• Fixed an ancient bit of code crashing on searching/joining LAN games on some network setups
  
• Fixed loadout reporting incorrect armour values
  
• Fixed and upgraded the mutiny against commander mechanic, with brand new messaging and sensible voting rules
  
• Fixed spectator mode bugging out when travelling to a new map with the server
  
• Fixed incorrect bot counts being displayed when players in spectator mode would leave the game
  
• Fixed issues in damage relay between ship exterior and interior component consoles, causing them to die too early
  
• Optimized some ship interior logic
  
• Fixed scrambler spec
  
• Scrambler spec add 20% lockon time rather than 30%
  
• Weapon targeting spec decrease lockon time by 10% not 5%
  
• Fixed fighter primary guns not triggering armour regeneration delay on other fighters correctly
  
• Fixed wrong light/medium/heavy HUD icons showing for infantry based on armour values
  

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• Team balance server option added - when enabled it will only let the players joining the server pick only the faction with the lower playercount (doesn't include bots of course)
  
• Gave all deployable turrets sensible names both as weapons and when mouse-overing on their deployed form
  
• Grenades will now explode upon touching enemy vehicle shields just like on the deployable ones
  
• Capture and hack objective progress decays back to 0 over time if uncontested
  
• Tweaked AI loadout selection to be less pure-random and more situational
  
• AI should now choose more anti-vehicle weapons on the land maps with vehicles
  
• Raised turret AI heat management threshold for better burst control
  
• AI can now manage charging the L9R better for maximum damage sniping
  
• Slashed medkit and ammopack weapon-switch and deploy times
  
• AI should no longer try to throw a medkit or ammopack when nearby threat levels are high, was getting them caught defenseless a lot
  
• Reworked AI weapon selection per distance curves
  
• Bots will prioritise killing turrets a bit higher
  
• Destroyables (droppods, hackspikes) no longer take explosion shockwave damage through walls
  
• Destroyables twice as resistant to flame damage
  
• Incendiary grenades will do slightly more damage-over-time to everything that's not a static destroyable
  
• Reduced underbarrel flamer contact damage slightly
  
• MGA overheat spin-up should no longer affect underbarrel flamer firing rate
  
• Gun bullets damage falloff increased from 200m to 300m, to match the maximum weapon range stated in loadout
  
• Reworked infantry suit mods:
  - All 6 slots available on all suit types
  - Removed armour mod, suits default to max armour which is then affected by other mods you pick. Overall range of armour values unchanged, 50 to 600
  - No overlap of suit stats possible
  - Trying out another movement speed re-arrangement, was 0.74 to 1.44, now 0.88 to 1.32 times base 5m/s (heavies significantly faster, mediums a bit faster, lights slightly slower)
  - Servo mods +0.2m/s speed, -50 armour
  - Ammo mods +30% ammo, -5% explosion resist
  - Shock mods 20% explosion resist, -0.2m/s speed
  - Regeneration mods -0.5s regeneration delay, +10/s regeneration rate, -30 armour;
  - Insulation mods -20% status effect triggering chance, -0.1m/s movement speed;
  - Moved regeneration mod to body slot
  - Removed EM sensor mods (useless) and vehicle motion sensor mods (helmet sensor mods work while driving and vehicles don't become un-spotted anyway)
  
• Reworked the point costs of just about everything to fix the misalignments in loadout availabilities for infantry and vehicles
  
• Made vehicle shields free and equipped by default, removing flares and orbit-drones from play for now as they were just an inferior option. Pending better implementation.
  
• Popping countermeasures (i.e. the shield now) no longer breaks everyone's lock attempts, which was leading to much confusion and frustration
  
• Added weapon select keys (1, 2, 3 etc) to the keybinding menu
  
• Added HUD icons for your own deployed turrets
  
• HUD icons no longer displayed while flashbanged
  
• Turret controls no longer locked during freelook
  
• Made capship turrets slightly more accurate
  
• Doubled point-defense beam fire rate and disabled angle restrictions on those
  
• Increased point-defense beam beam length on corvettes
  
• Significantly boosted medium plasma and vulcan projectile speed and firerates, to the great benefit of corvettes as they have 4 of them
  
• Following the above change, removed capital ship anti-fighter flak for now, its implementation made it completely ineffective anyway
  
• Decreased capital-ship-grade AFX missiles' reload time from 6 to 4s
  
• Changed P6i mag size from 34 to 36 and SAR's from 65 to 66 to match burst sizes.
  
• Number of grenades a character can carry lowered from 4 to 3
  
• Swapped the torpedoes on the Rejkhart destroyer for rockets
  
• Core lockouts and drop modules have about 20% less HP now
  
• Setting an enemy on fire can now eliminate him completely instead of just ticking his health down to 1HP
  
• Implemented loadout copying feature and fixed a bunch of bugs in creating, renaming and deleting of loadouts
  
• Slightly nerfed the knife, now requires a backstab to kill an un-modded medium suit
  
• Disabled anti-vehicle weapons locking onto infantry
  
• Knocked half a second off RID and MLI lock time
  
• Removed annoying aim assist from railguns and constrained the lock acquire angle to require more precision
  
• Normalised weapon locking aim tolerances (stops lock from immediately dropping off on temporary occlusion etc.)
  
• Changed LSP alternative firemode to a 4-round charge-shotgun-ish mode as an experiment for now (should also deal increased anti-vehicle damage)
  
• Tweaked vehicle armour regeneration delay so it can be triggered by anti-vehicle-grade infantry weapons again
  
• Land vehicle boost now aligned along world plane rather than raw vehicle rotation for less low-g flying tanks
  
• 5 degrees of extra downward deflection on Partisan's main turret
  
• Dhaka and Basta 20% less strafe thrust
  
• Improved the primary weapons on gunships of both factions for a better dog-fighting experience
  
• Flying lateral input now camera-relative rather than ship-relative, let's see how that handles in practice
  
• Pushed team's commander to the beginning of the queue when offering the initial battleship in a space territories map
  
• Delta fixes and improvements:
  - Wrapped spawn rooms in team protection volumes
  - Improved AI pathing
  - Remade the TacMap view
  - Fixed improper material application on some boxes
  - The laser drill now properly accredits kills to whoever activated it
  
• Added missing terrain to the TacMap in Fortress
  
• Increased capture objectives' radii in Eye of God
  
• Implemented new droppod protection volumes that'll stop AOE and roadkill-based spawncamping, those will be gradually integrated into all maps
  
• Mostly fixed WEAPONFIXME and added some preliminary statistics gathering based on weapon performance in matches
  
• Tweaked how the AI handles some faction-specific guns based on the newly gathered performance statistics, should improve the balance between teams with a lot of bots
  
• New standardized UPNP implementation, auto-port-forwarding should now reliably work on a much wider range of routers
  
• Suppressed erroneous command rank medal popup
  
• Fixed a bunch of collision desynchronizations online around droppods
  
• Fixed bot priority to enter empty land vehicle, was leading to clusters of fixated AI
  
• Fixed a network state desynchronization that'd stop a gun from firing right after deploying an underbarrel shield
  
• Fixed decals (bulletholes, scorchmarks) being shown on shields
  
• Fixed some cases of grenade explosion damage going through deployable shields
  
• Fixed fast projectiles phasing through small vehicle shields and causing damage directly to armor
  
• Fixed underbarrel shields, flashlights and holstered weapons not hiding properly when driving a vehicle
  
• Likely fixed end-match camera drifting away
  
• Fixed legacy engine code overriding numpad and a few other keys - can now keybind them again
  
• Likely fixed spawn exploit and irregularities in AI spawning before players
  
• Fixed bots' ironsight usage (and nerfed them using ADS below AI difficulty level 3 as it makes them a lot more effective in direct gunfights)
  
• Fixed an issue where anti-vehicle damage multipliers versus destroyables were being applied twice
  
• Fixed some issues in command mutiny functionality
  
• Fixed loadout menu resetting camouflage offsets on open
  
• It's Christmas again! Christmas can be disabled in the settings menu ;)