Summer Sale Art

Patch Notes

• Build Locations for Angel Island further improved to reduce the No Deploy/No build locations that were reported by our community
  
• Minor fix for Charon rotors.
  
• SMAW Rocket muzzle velocity increased to its real-life value of 220m/s.
  
• Fix for floating trees.
  
• Various Performance tweaks relating to the Spawning Logic
  
• Fixed some duplicated cars/bad collision
  
• Unit Construction reorder rate adjusted to remove jitter
  
• Made regular infected gain massively more threat towards structures that they are close to (to reduce situations where infected 'run into walls without hitting them' due to aiming for someone on the other side)
  
• Unit Card | Infection Status is now shown via a "red graphic" that will appears more visible as your unit is infected. To check their exact level go to the unit and inspect them in the world.
  
• Adding helicopter Rotor Wash effects.
  
• Minor change to Cerberus Recoil setup.
  
• Added new jump attack safeties to Chelsey (and LT) 'jump attack' AI, for dealing with helicopter attacks (I.E if Chelsey/LT is on a helicopter when its about to land in the water she will jump off to Safety)
  
• Fixed the Unit Card Groups to no longer go wider than 6 unit cards
  
• Fixed the Unit Card Groups to no longer 'spread out incorrectly' if you click+drag a card to swap its position within its own group
  
• Fixed the Unit Cards not properly playing their 'white glow' animation (from being directly clicked, swapping positions, or getting added to the group)
  
• Moved the 'keybind tips' from above the minimap of the HUD to the lower right of the pause screen
  
• Cleaned out several old widget pieces on the HUD that were unused/deprecated
  
• Updated the mission description text to be a bit more up-to-date and helpful
  
• Got rid of some non-user visible text that didn't need to be localized
  
• Improved safeties to prevent 'duplicate Winter spawns' from occurring
  
• Fixed some Spawn Nodes issues in the Military Barracks
  

New Versioning Number system

Letter from the Producer

New Roadmap system

Cepheus Protocol Anthology

First 40 Minutes of Cepheus Protocol Anthology Season 1

Summer Sale Art

Patch Notes

• Adjusted starting camera height in Horde Map 01
  
• Hid some assets that were incorrectly not removed
  
• Treasure Island Build Locations revised. More adjustments will be coming tomorrow into next week to improve building/deploy accuracy.
  
• Adjusted AI combat 'shoot check' logic to do the trace check last, after doing distance/angle checks as needed. It also will now try to 'drop threat' towards targets that we are currently unable to shoot for any reason (other than needing to reload), rather than only if they're beyond targeting range
  
• Removed the Vehicle's "share vision with garrison" logic, since that 'breaks' on the perception system (units 'think' they have something visible even if it's behind them due to Vehicle sharing, etc.)
  Result: Units should no longer do really weird 'long range vision lasers' when on helicopters (though their range on helicopters is slightly reduced: we likely need to add a 'vision range modifier' for helicopter garrisoning now, I think). Additionally, combat performance may see a slight improvement.
  
• Cut down on the 'startup delays' in the Master BP to reduce the time players have to wait for the startup popup. Expanded upon and used the 'Winter Ref Set' logic in the PC to ensure there's a 'safety' for the player startup in the Open World Master, so the faster startup should still be safe (without having the awkward four second wait until the Deploy screen pops up)
  
• Improved the 'packup team into vehicle' logic in the C++ as well (doesn't fully stop the bug reported on the public discord, but that bug shouldn't be encountered in the master anymore, at least, due to the streamlined startup)
  
• Made Buildings 'always tick' even when unrendered, to prevent 'unfold failing when offscreen'
  (this shouldn't cause performance concerns due to them shutting off tick after unfold completion)
  
• Adjusted several move proxies to better align with the new build location mesh setup
  
• Added a new 'move proxy doctor loop' to make units following the Move Proxy system re-check their move orders, to prevent navigation paths from going into odd places. This loop occurs every 10 seconds for CERC units, and 30 seconds otherwise Result: Solo CERC units can circumnavigate the main landmass now seemingly without getting stuck, though this fix needs to be ported to the formation move handler as well.
  
• Tracked down and removed an invalid build location mesh reference in G1Military (was massively bugging out the move proxy system)
  
• Also updated the build location mesh initialization to report when a mesh reference is invalid, and to 'reject' distance checks from invalid meshes, so it should no longer get freaked out by this happening
  
• Added a 'move proxy doctor loop' to the Formation Move Handler. Also improved its move proxy acquisition to function even if its 'move proxy unit' is not currently within a build location mesh
  Result: Proxy system is seemingly recovered, and should function far better than it did in the Tuesday patch
  

New Versioning Number system

Letter from the Producer

New Roadmap system

Cepheus Protocol Anthology

First 40 Minutes of Cepheus Protocol Anthology Season 1

Swag Store

New Versioning Number system

Some Summer Art to go with the Season!

Patch Notes

• San Francisco North was moved out of the Open World Master to reduce user confusion that it some somehow finished (It was added so people interested could track along on how it was shaping up and get a nice Vista in the distance) It will be readded in the future
  
• Logic Determining where you can and cannot build was tweaked to produce more reliable results this includes the Capture Truck ( There are still some problematic areas where extreme elevation changes is a problem we are still working this problem internally hope to have a final solution in the next few days)
  
• New UI relating to simplified Card system
  
• Cleaned up some bridge issues relating to navigation
  
• CERC threat system has been improved to make them more spatially aware of their surroundings and which threats should be targeted first
  
• (Hopefully) finally fixed buildings not 'unfolding' when loading saves
  
• Updated 'face direction after moving' logic (for right click held move commands, and a bit more) to better enforce the direction to face if the unit hasn't recently fired their gun
  (if they're actively shooting, they will still ignore it)
  
• Fixed the 'formation move handler' not having enough 'walkable floor angle' to navigation our world - it now has a proper 60 degrees value (along with some other fixes), preventing it from getting 'stuck' when trying to walk up certain sidewalks or other angle issues (pretty massive fix to several pathfinding issues)
  
• Updated the Helipad to use 'null nav' rather than obstacle nav for its 'unwalkable' areas, to prevent units from thinking they can 'walk up the sides'
  
• Resolved an issue with Engineers who are 'already in position to construct something' sometimes failing to do so (the 'overlap' was triggering before its signal was tied to 'start construction' - now, it's fixed)
  
• Updated the Tutorial Slides to no longer spawn since we will be doing newer tutorials in the future and they are outdated
  
• Fixed building construction points erroneously acting against the Guard Tower capacity
  
• Load Game / General Performance tweaks
  

Cepheus Protocol Anthology

First 40 Minutes of Cepheus Protocol Anthology Season 1

Swag Store

New Posters up

New Versioning Number system

Some Summer Art to go with the Season!

Guard Towers are coming soon!

Patch Notes

• Fixed Structures sometimes not "opening" when loading a save file from an optimization we applied last patch to help improve performance
  
• Updated the 'dropdown' weapon preset on the Recruitment Popup to use the new damage display
  
• Added a fix for the 'Capture Truck' button duplicating when loading saves
  
• Further Camera refinements for Horde maps so they never can get "stuck" and properly start at the correct height
  
• Light Scout Tower Guarding Unit switched to Assault Mesh
  
• You can now customize the gear of the unit inside the Guard Tower by clicking on them and then buying a weapon for them. We made available 3 Weapons to them. A sniper, LMG and Assault Rifle.
  
• Resized some of the elements of the main menu we will be tweaking this in the future more based on some community feedback we got
  
• Pathing Adjustments so units are less likely to get "caught" on each other and improved their fluidity of movements around other units for formation orders
  
• Adjusted nav preferences so vehicles should be less likely to favor roads stupidly
  
• Sniper Rifle Model updated for the M107
  
• Fixed speaker system Attenuation bug causing music to not play at the distance they should be
• 
  
• Added build version to main menu
  

Cepheus Protocol Anthology

First 40 Minutes of Cepheus Protocol Anthology Season 1

Swag Store

New Posters up

New Versioning Number system

Some Summer Art to go with the Season!

Guard Towers are coming soon!

Patch Notes

• Guard Towers & Turrets now have a new population system dedicated to them (Performance reasons since in some save games we were witnessed sometimes 50-80+ turrets which the engine cannot handle + makes the game literally mute to which no attack from Infected work anymore)
  
• Fixed a bug in Horde map 1 was resolved that was causing Infected to not user the other spawns on the map when you cleared a new section
  
• Fixed Horde map 1 odd collision that was causing units to float
  
• Camera tweaks to stop the "slowing down bug" with being unable to zoom in at times even though you clearly should be able to
  
• Reduced the Turret Ammo Widget's display range to 25,000 (from 30,000)
  
• Added night lighting to Guard tower.
  
• Range and damage values rebalanced for all Weapons
  
• Infection Structures have more resistance towards explosions
  

Cepheus Protocol Anthology

First 40 Minutes of Cepheus Protocol Anthology Season 1

Swag Store

New Posters up

New Versioning Number system

Some Summer Art to go with the Season!

Guard Towers are coming soon!

Patch Notes

• Various memory improvements to music loading and unloading for Speakers/Music mods
  
• Light Guard Tower added
  
• Fix to stop Engineers from getting stuck inside each other when mass ordering repairs/construction
  
• Improvements to CERC wall collision and nav
  
• Horde Maps now have a timeout to kill stuck infected
  
• Fixed a bug where units would, during construction, sometimes 'wander off' towards world zero
  
• Fixed snappoints on constructs 'defaulting' to sandbags (rather than matching the mesh of the thing they're snappoints for)
  
• Fixed the 'finished recruitment' text line in the C++ to no longer have an awkward 'dual comma' issue
  
• Adjusted the command buttons for the new Decorations to properly disable if you do not have enough funds, and to display 'Insufficient Funds' (w/ price) if so
  
• Anarchists & Police faction fixes so they properly hold weapons again
  
• Fixed speed modifiers (other than weather) failing to apply to units
  
• Horde Maps now allow restrictions like no helicopters or vehicles based on the "type" of map
  
• Made buildings' healthbar widgets 'collapse themselves' when their components are hidden, too (instead of just hiding the component), on the hopes that this will cheapen slate cost
  
• Speculative fix to an error with the Cerberus BP when loading them in Mortar configuration
  
• Cleaned out some unused parts of the Minimap POI Widget
  
• Updated Wires to no longer be visible unless you're in Wire Mode
  
• Updated the 'wire radius' mesh on buildings to not show itself unless you've selected that building as your wire source
  
• Updated the 'power radius visualization' for Power Components to not spawn until you use wire mode and click on the building in question (previously, every power component spawned and hid the mesh, which stacked up a lot of hidden meshes for no good reason)
  
• These also despawn when you are done with wire mode on that building
  
• Updated the Threat generation logic somewhat:
  
• Drastically dropped threat gain for enemies who are beyond weapon range
  
• Threat should now drop (rather than only raise) if the unit no longer can see the target in question and said target is at least a moderate distance away (this way we don't 'lose threat' towards things behind or beside us, if we're hit from behind or turning quickly)
  
• Various CERC building optimizations
  
• Civilian tweaks so they take up less performance
  
• Fixed units being able to 'walk through' holding cells
  
• Fixed civilians showing their join team widget even if infected or inside a holding cell
  
• Updated the player start in the master to face the islands (instead of the sea)
  
• Updated the player units in the master to auto-board the Sparrow when first starting up
  
• Infection Spawning for Defense and Attack optimized for better performance
  

Cepheus Protocol Anthology

First 40 Minutes of Cepheus Protocol Anthology Season 1

Swag Store

New Posters up

How do i opt in?

New Versioning Number system

Some Summer Art to go with the Season!

Patch Notes

• Radio System vastly improved to only "Index" all the music mods on initialization of the engine. It will now only "load" the music when its needed. This will reduce memory requirements of music mods by 99%.
  
• Radio System Main Menu memory leaked resolved
  
• Radio System Attenuation improved to make the falloff more realistic
  
• New Game option added to allow background sounds for when the game loses focus or you minimize on by default.
  
• Splash Art updated for SMAW and both Riot Shield versions
  
• Updated buildable signs to have color displays in the world of their current mode
  
• HESCO Walls prices greatly reduced
  
• Further Progress on SF North blockout in distance
  
• Updated the 'Disengage' (bored mode) logic for Chelsey and her LTs. No longer 'fails' to enable combat again if they're not inside their assigned location when the timer ends and you're still attacking them. Now, they will stay in combat mode for longer if you continue bugging them shortly after they've already retreated ('angry' mode). Should reduce 'stuckwarping' through walls
  
• Updated Chelsey and her LTs to properly be counted as 'infected' collision - they now no longer should be able to literally walk through player walls
  
• Fixed an issue with the 'DoMeleeAnimation' call failing to calculate additional Melee Cooldown time for some circumstances
  
• Infected no longer seem to 'get confused and stop attacking' if they target a structure or civilian, and melee cooldown times should be more accurate to their settings
  
• Fixed Operator not being able to walk in RTS mode
  
• Fixed Horde_02 nav issues reported on Discord
  

Guard Towers are coming soon!

Some of the new buildable items in this patch

Some of the new Weapons in this patch

New Maps in this patch

Cepheus Protocol Anthology

First 40 Minutes of Cepheus Protocol Anthology Season 1

Swag Store

New Posters up

How do i opt in?

New Versioning Number system

Some Summer Art to go with the Season!

Guard Towers are coming soon!

Some of the new buildable items in this patch

Some of the new Weapons in this patch

New Maps in this patch

Patch Notes

• Horde Map 1 & 2 Movement issues resolved
  
• Horde Map Minimaps updated
  
• Fixed incorrect foliage generation on Angel island.
  
• Minor adjustment to water VT to reduce memory usage.
  
• Fixed a rare loading issues where some constructed objects would turn into sandbags
  
• Fixed some Fog of War visual issues that were reported on Discord
  
• Updated Weapon Upgrade window to show how many pellets are fired from guns with pellets and their per pellet damage based on Discord feedback
  
• Fix for Display for the Helipad 'Toggle Evac Mode' button so it can say 'Chopper Incoming' when disabled (rather than a bugged out display that implies you need an unlock)
  
• Various performance & pathing issues
  
• Minimap regenerated for Open World Master
  

Cepheus Protocol Anthology

First 40 Minutes of Cepheus Protocol Anthology Season 1

Swag Store

New Posters up