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Playtest-III-20240427

Bugs Fixed:

• Generic:
  
  
  • Low-priority alt selection is bugged and did not work for Engineers and Harvesters
    
  • When capturing the opposing faction's war factories, you could not build their MCVs.
  
  
• Nod:
  
  
  • The Hatred Emitter from Lightbringer could affect air units
    
  • When killing Holograms, your units could gain XP
  
  
• Scrin:
  
  
  • Hover Tank could shoot over walls, which they should not

Visuals and Tooltips:

• GDI:
  
  
  • Added new production icon for Amphibious APC
    
  • Added new production icon for Mammoth Tank
  
  
• Nod:
  
  
  • Fixed: Flames on impact have a wrong color palette for Purifying Flames
  
  
• Mutants:
  
  
  • Rockets on top of the Lynx Tank are bigger now

Sounds:

• Generic:
  
  
  • Added a crushing sound to Tree
    
  • Added a sound for entering and exiting transports
  
  
• Mutants:
  
  
  • Fixed: Fiend's impact sound is global
    
  • Fixed: Falcon's attack sound is too loud
  
  
• C.A.B.A.L.:
  
  
  • Fixed: Reclaimer's attack sound is global
    
  • Added a new attack sound for Scrin Husk

Gameplay:

• Generic:
  
  
  • Veterancy:
    
    
    • Heroic selfhealing speed buffed from 75 to 50
      
    • PercentageStep heal from 2% to 3%
    
    
  • Tiberium:
    
    
    • Lifeforms able to heal on Tiberium now heal up faster
      
    • Selfheal speed buffed from 100 to 50 ticks
    
    
  • Permanent Selfheal:
    
    
    • Selfheal speed buffed from 100 to 50 ticks and includes assets like Epics
    
    
  • Hospital:
    
    
    • Selfheal speed buffed from 100 to 50 ticks
      
    • PercentageStep heal from 1% to 3%
    
    
  • Machineshop:
    
    
    • Selfheal speed buffed from 100 to 50 ticks
    
    
  • Barracks:
    
    
    • Heal radius from 5c0 to 6c0
      
    • Selfheal speed buffed from 100 to 50 ticks
      
    • PercentageStep heal from 1% to 3%
    
    
  • Engineer:
    
    
    • Vision radius from 5 to 6
      
    • HP from 95 to 100
      
    • Movement speed from 45 to 60
    
    
  • Vehicles:
    
    
    • Upon hitting 25% of HP (red HP bar), they will now lose 25% of their movement speed
      
    • Vision radius of most non-artillery vehicles is from 6 to 8
      
    • Artillery class vehicles vision radius from 5 to 6
    
    
  • Epics:
    
    
    • Vision radius from 8 to 10
    
    
  • Aircraft:
    
    
    • Vision radius of most aircraft assets from 9 to 10
      
    • Fighter class aircraft vision radius from 10 to 12
    
    
  • Construction Yard:
    
    
    • Selling it will only grant 1 engineer now
    
    
  • Harvester:
    
    
    • Vision radius from 5 to 8
    
    
  • MCV:
    
    
    • Vision radius from 5 to 6
      
    • Speed from 60 to 75
    
    
  • Weapons:
    
    
    • RifleWarhead:
      
      
      • Damage vs Defense Armor from 5% to 15%
        
      • Damage vs Concrete Armor from 3% to 5%
      
      
    • ArtilleryWarhead:
      
      
      • Damage vs Light Armor from 50% to 75%
        
      • Damage vs Concrete Armor from 35% to 50%
        
        
        • Affects units like Juggernauts, Specters, etc.
      
      
    • BombWarhead:
      
      
      • Damage vs Light Armor from 50% to 75%
        
      • Damage vs Concrete Armor from 20% to 35%
        
        
        • Affects units like Orca Bombers, Demo Bikes, etc.
      
      
    • AcidWarhead:
      
      
      • Damage vs Concrete Armor from 15% to 35%
        
        
        • Affects Corruptors and Ichor Waste Turrets
      
      
    • Proned Infantry:
      
      
      • Damage dealt from melee weapons from 100% to 70%
        
      • Sonic Emitter weapons from 50% to 70%
        
      • Bike explosion from 50% to 70%
        
      • Mine explosion from 50% to 70%
        
      • Abductor weapon from 100% to 70%
        
      • Cyborg Commando weapon from 350% to 70%. No typo, by the way. It actually dealt that much damage vs. prone targets
        
      • Wasp weapon from 70% to 50%
        
      • Stormrider weapon from 70% to 50%
  
  
• GDI:
  
  
  • Firestorm Generator:
    
    
    • Cost from $1000 to $1500
      
    • Build speed from 20 to 30 seconds
    
    
  • Sonic Emitter:
    
    
    • Vision radius from 8 to 10
    
    
  • Medic:
    
    
    • Vision Radius from 5 to 6
    
    
  • Disc Thrower:
    
    
    • Weapon Type changed from ArtilleryWarhead to BombWarhead
      
    • Damage vs:
      
      
      • Light Armor from 50% to 75%
        
      • Heavy Armor from 35% to 50%
        
      • Concrete Armor from 15% to 35%
    
    
  • Jump Jet:
    
    
    • Weapon Type changed from ArtilleryWarhead to BombWarhead
      
    • Damage vs:
      
      
      • Building Armor from 80% to 100%
        
      • Light Armor from 50% to 75%
    
    
  • Eagle Guard:
    
    
    • Buildtime from 25 to 20 seconds
      
    • Cost from $900 to $700
    
    
  • JJ Commando:
    
    
    • Damage vs:
      
      
      • Buildings from 10% to 100%. This weapon does not attack buildings, but it was adjusted for consistency reasons
        
      • Defences from 10% to 100%. This weapon does not attack defences, but it was adjusted for consistency reasons
        
      • Light Armor damage unchanged (100%)
        
      • Heavy Armor from 80% to 100%
        
      • Aircraft from 50% to 100%. Can only attack landed aircraft
        
      • Concrete Armor from 5% to 35%
    
    
  • Wolverine:
    
    
    • Buildtime from 10 to 15 seconds
    
    
  • Titan:
    
    
    • Build time from 25 to 20 seconds
    
    
  • Amphibious APC:
    
    
    • Buildtime from 15 to 20 seconds
      
    • Attackspeed buffed from 40 to 30
      
    • Attack range of ground weapon from 5 to 6
    
    
  • Mammoth Tank:
    
    
    • Selfheal, up to 50% speed, buffed from 100 to 50 ticks
    
    
  • Orca Fighter:
    
    
    • Cost from $1500 to $1200
      
    • Buildtime from 35 to 30 seconds
    
    
  • Orca Bomber:
    
    
    • Damage vs Light Armor from 80% to 75%
      
    • Damage vs Heavy Armor from 60% to 50%
      
    • Buildtime from 40 to 45 seconds
  
  
• Nod:
  
  
  • Obelisk of Light:
    
    
    • Vision radius from 9 to 10
    
    
  • Black Hand Trooper:
    
    
    • Damage from 24 to 25
      
    • Hologram Militant speed from 60 to 75
      
    • Buildtime from 25 to 20 seconds
    
    
  • Buggy BHT:
    
    
    • Burst from 4 to 5
      
    • Burst Delay lowered from 5 to 3
    
    
  • Attack Bike:
    
    
    • Attack speed buff from 70 to 50
    
    
  • Demo Bike:
    
    
    • Damage vs Heavy Armor from 35% to 50%
      
    • Damage vs Concrete Armor from 15% to 35%
      
    • Build time from 25 to 20 seconds
    
    
  • Specter:
    
    
    • Cost from $1400 to $1200
      
    • Buildtime from 35 to 30 seconds
    
    
  • Harpy:
    
    
    • Damage vs Light Armor from 50% to 100%
      
    • Cost from $1500 to $1200
      
    • Buildtime from 35 to 30 seconds
    
    
  • Banshee:
    
    
    • Cost from $1750 to $1500
      
    • Buildtime from 40 to 35 seconds
    
    
  • Paladin Cruiser:
    
    
    • Cost from $2500 to $2000
      
    • HP from 450 to 400
    
    
  • Explosive Mixtures have been removed
    
  • Added new upgrade: Cardinals Emerge
    
    
    • Takes 45 seconds to research
      
    • Costs $1000
      
    • Ability:
      
      
      • Calls in 3 Cardinals via Subterranean APCs
        
      • Cooldown of 4:00
        
      • Costs $1500
        
      • Hooked to the Radar
        
      • Ability disabled when Radar is destroyed/depowered
    
    
  • Cardinals:
    
    
    • Cardinals consecrate their fellow brethren, which increases their firepower by 30%
      
    • Cardinals are only crushable by Epics
      
    • Value: $400
      
    • Speed: 75
      
    • 250 HP
      
    • They take up one cell on the battlefield
  
  
• Mutants:
  
  
  • Skirmisher:
    
    
    • Vision radius from 5 to 6
    
    
  • Flak Station:
    
    
    • HP from 400 to 600
    
    
  • Battle Bus:
    
    
    • HP from 250 to 400
      
    • Cost from $700 to $900
    
    
  • Tunnel Network:
    
    
    • Now works like a superweapon:
      
      
      • Tunnel Network is revealed on the map. The tunnels themselves are not revealed
        
      • Ability has a global cooldown
        
      • It no longer costs money to cast
      
      
    • Increased buildup time of tunnels before they can be used. 5-second delay
      
    • Cargo size from 15 to 10
    
    
  • Tyrant:
    
    
    • Vision radius from 7 to 6
      
    • Damage vs Infantry buffed from 50% to 100%
      
    • Buildtime from 20 to 15 seconds
    
    
  • Carnotaurus:
    
    
    • ArmorType changed from Light to Heavy
    
    
  • Ravager:
    
    
    • Spread from 0c090 to 0c200
      
    • Ravagers deal splash damage now
    
    
  • Weasaurus Lord:
    
    
    • Melee weapon Spread from 0c090 to 0c256. Ravagers deal splash damage now. Same with Mini Weasaurus
    
    
  • Gargoyle:
    
    
    • Cost from $1500 to $1200
      
    • Buildtime from 35 to 30 seconds
    
    
  • Queen:
    
    
    • Cost from $1200 to $1100
    
    
  • Falcon:
    
    
    • Damage vs Light Armor from 50% to 100%
      
    • Cost from $2500 to $2000
    
    
  • Tiberium Infusion:
    
    
    • Selfheal speed buffed from 100 to 50 ticks
  
  
• C.A.B.A.L.:
  
  
  • Eye of C.A.B.A.L.:
    
    
    • HP from 750 to 500
    
    
  • Iron Saviour:
    
    
    • Vision radius from 8 to 6
    
    
  • Cyborg:
    
    
    • Buildtime from 8 to 10 seconds
    
    
  • Gladiator:
    
    
    • Buildtime from 25 to 20 seconds
    
    
  • Abductor:
    
    
    • Buildtime from 30 to 25 seconds
    
    
  • Cyborg Commando:
    
    
    • Vision radius from 8 to 10
    
    
  • Centurion:
    
    
    • Buildtime from 25 to 20 seconds
    
    
  • Drone Hosts:
    
    
    • Self-repair speed buffed from 150 to 50 ticks
      
    • Buildtime from 40 to 45 seconds
    
    
  • Minotaurs:
    
    
    • Self-repair speed buffed from 150 to 50 ticks
      
    • Buildtime from 45 to 50 seconds
    
    
  • Wasp:
    
    
    • Cost from $1600 to $1400
      
    • Buildtime from 40 to 35 seconds
    
    
  • Basilisk:
    
    
    • Cost from $1750 to $2000
      
    • Buildtime from 40 to 50 seconds
      
    • HP from 450 to 500
    
    
  • Devourers:
    
    
    • Self-repair speed buffed from 150 to 50 ticks
      
    • Cost from $2000 to $2500
      
    • Buildtime from 45 to 55 seconds
      
    • HP from 1500 to 2000
  
  
• Scrin:
  
  
  • Scrin Host Station:
    
    
    • Speed from 60 to 75
    
    
  • Wormhole Generator
    
  • Can now teleport enemy units onto terrain to kill them. Either sink them into water or teleport them onto cliffs
  
  
• Wrath of Creator:
  
  
  • Spread from 300 to 512
  
  
• Shield Generator:
  
  
  • HP from 400 to 600
  
  
• Pulsar Tower:
  
  
  • Vision radius from 8 to 10
  
  
• Razorshark:
  
  
  • Vision radius from 5 to 6
    
  • Damage vs Light Armor from 30% to 40%
  
  
• Colossus:
  
  
  • Buildtime from 25 to 20 seconds
  
  
• Hover Tank:
  
  
  • Cost from $800 to $900
  
  
• Guardian:
  
  
  • Buildtime from 35 to 30 seconds
  
  
• Stormrider:
  
  
  • Cost from $750 to $600
  
  
• Destroyer:
  
  
  • Vision radius from 7 to 8
  
  
• Assault Carrier:
  
  
  • Cost from $3000 to $2500
  
  
• Battle Cruiser:
  
  
  • Vision radius from 11 to 12

Maps Changes:

• Updated the following maps:
  
  
  • Industrial Strength

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• Feature: [#11512] Coloured usernames by group on multiplayer servers.
  
• Feature: [#21734] Park admittance price can now be set via text input.
  
• Feature: [#21957] [Plugin] Expose whether the game is paused to the plugin API.
  
• Improved: [#21728] “Fix all rides” cheat now also works if a mechanic is already fixing the ride.
  
• Improved: [#21769] Expose “animation is backwards” wall property in Tile Inspector.
  
• Improved: [#21855] Add a separator between “Load Game” and “Save Game”, to avoid accidental overwriting.
  
• Change: [#21715] [Plugin] Remove access to the internal owner property. Note: ownership is still accessible.
  
• Change: [#21855] Cheats menu dropdown no longer requires dragging.
  
• Change: [#21866] Hide the FPS Counter when the top toolbar/widgets have been toggled off.
  
• Change: [#21950] Construction and removal buttons can now be held down for repeated placement.
  
• Fix: [#866] Boat Hire boats get stuck entering track (original bug).
  
• Fix: [#10701] No reason specified when placing door over unsuitable track.
  
• Fix: [#18723, #21870] Attempting to demolish a flat ride in pause mode allows you to place multiple copies.
  
• Fix: [#19559] Custom rides with long descriptions extend into lower widgets.
  
• Fix: [#21696] Fullscreen window option not correctly applied on macOS.
  
• Fix: [#21749] Crash when loading park bigger than current limits.
  
• Fix: [#21787] Map generator heightmap should respect increased height limits.
  
• Fix: [#21829] When creating a new scenario, the default name contains formatting codes.
  
• Fix: [#21937] Build errors with the ORIGINAL_RATINGS flag.
  
• Fix: [objects#324] Cannot build Colosseum inside a turn or helix.
  
• Fix: [objects#325] Sloped castle walls are vertically offset by one pixel (original bug).

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This is a small patch that was released to fix the settings deployment bug. A few other things we were working on made it in, too.

• Fixed a recently introduced issue that caused particular settings to be overridden on launch.
  
• Units far from the epicenter of a Shockley impact are now stunned sooner to match the explosion visual. Which units end up stunned is unchanged.
  
• Added a cracked ground impact scar for Quake.
  
• Fixed inverted track stretching for, e.g., Paladin.
  
• Moving a block in a factory production queue no longer re-applies the multiplicative key modifiers.
  
• Fixed the commander selector ending up off the edge of the screen on particular scaling settings when shifting from windowed mode.
  
• Simplified window resolution switching code to try to make it more reliable.
  
• Fixed sun and water settings override being too persistent between maps.
  
• Fixed the sun on Tempest.
  
• Fix thumbnail and minimap images for maps containing unusual characters.
  
• Fixed a bug caused by map searches finding no maps.
  
• Fixed the player name tags widget, which was possibly being assigned incorrectly.
  
• Tweaked the draw order of name tags, health bars, and overhead icons.

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2024/05/04 ------------------ NOTES v2.40 ----------------------

--- Balance / Mechanics

• Auto-remove unsupported map features to improve compatibility with some maps from the BAR community

--- UI / Visual / Sounds

• Modified chat message and map marker sounds again

2024/04/28 ------------------ NOTES v2.39 ----------------------

--- Balance / Mechanics

• Fixed error when issuing #AI COMMORPH commands when the commander is already morphing
  
• SPHERE red artillery rockets were made slightly less precise within each burst
  
• SPHERE "Stout" AOE increased from 64 to 80
  
• Increased cost of units with non-L cannon weapons with the "near-miss-explosion-trigger" ability by 2-4%
  
• Reduced cost of relatively tough units, especially slow ground ones, by 1-4%
  
• Reduced cost of units with non-tracking and non-laser weapons by 1-3%
  
• Increased cost of air units, including fast-flying spheres, by 1-2%
  
• Air scout costs manually fixed at 70m
  
• Increased after-engagement range boost of lasers vs air units from 80 to 90

--- UI / Visual / Sounds

• Added distinct sound and visual effects for destruction of rocks/wrecks and tree features
  
• Modified chat message and map marker sounds
  
• Added matching sound effect for when the victory/defeat panel is displayed

--- AI

• Unit group tracking ignores units under construction
  
• Units regroup towards the beacon position and react faster
  
• Fixed issue which caused the AI to build too many power nodes too early and very rarely build comsat stations
  
• Added "Raider" and "Navy" strategies
  
• Removed "classic" AI modes

2024/04/13 ------------------ NOTES v2.38 ----------------------

--- New units

• GEAR "Wagon" : L1 Assault/Artillery Vehicle
  
• CLAW "Rapier" : L2 Medium Infantry Robot

--- Balance / Mechanics

• AVEN "Lone Trooper" got M armor and slightly increased speed, HP, damage, and regeneration, but the cost was increased by 70%
  
• AVEN "HEMG Trooper" got M armor but got reduced speed and added energy cost to fire and +5% cost
  
• AVEN "Racer" and "Skimmer" got slightly increased turn rate
  
• Fixed issue that could cause AVEN "Dervish" not to display the movement animations
  
• GEAR "Might" got cannon range increased from 1300 to 1450, and cost increased by 11%
  
• CLAW "Flail" gets HP increased by about 15% and speed increased by 10% but costs about 15% more
  
• SPHERE "Quad" got HP increased to 1250, slightly increased turn rate, and cost increased by 13%
  
• Improved behavior of drones following fast-moving units

--- UI / Visual / Sounds

• Slightly modified some AVEN and CLAW infantry bot 3d models to improve consistency
  
• Modified group selection and line-move sounds to be fainter and less "clicky"

--- AI

• AI beacon marker shows a specific message when used to set the AI start position
  
• Setting the AI beacon triggers an acknowledgment message indicating whether the associated behavior is "attack/engage" or "retreat/move"
  
• Significantly increased radius around the base where beacons trigger "retreat/move" mode and made the AI cluster the units more
  
• Slightly adjusted some strategies and early economy management
  
• Roaming commanders are less likely to get stuck patrolling in base forever

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14.0 (2024-04-13)
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• Update: New title game for 14.0
  
• Fix #12477: Crash when launching OpenTTD from within a Dropbox folder (#12478)
  
• Fix #12233: Mini order list overlaps vehicle group name (#12423)
  
• Fix #12114: Viewport coords of crashed aircraft not updated when falling (#12424)
  
• Fix #12395: Ensure president name widget is tall enough (#12419)
  
• Fix #12415: Incorrect payment for aircraft secondary cargo (#12416)
  
• Fix #12387: [NewGRF] Wrong tile offset passed to rail station CB 149 (slope check)
  
• Fix #12388: Autoreplacing train heads slowly made the unit number grow (#12389)
  
• Fix #12368: Incorrect offset for click position within industry chain window (#12370)
  
• Fix: Aircraft can float above the ground when crashed (#12425)
  
• Fix: Segfault when using -q without providing a . character (#12418)
  
• Fix: Wrong scrolling dropdown list position with RTL (#12412)
  
• Fix: [Win32] Force font mapper to only use TrueType fonts (#12406)
  
• Fix: "-q" displays NewGRF IDs in the wrong byte-order (#12397)
  
• Fix: Do not send chat to clients that have not authorized yet (#12377)
  
• Fix: [NewGRF] Label for fruit incorrectly changed to `FRUI` from `FRUT` (#12367)
  
• Fix: [Script] ScriptSubsidy::GetExpireDate should return an economy-date (#12372)
  
• Revert #11603: [Script] AI/GSTimeMode was not the best solution for economy/calendar support (#12362)

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In all those hours, you’ve found some bugs, and we’ve done our best to fix them.

The first maintenance release for OpenTTD 14 fixes a multiplayer desync bug and cleans up a few rough edges with the new ship pathfinder and the unbunching feature.

As always, there are plenty of other bug fixes, which you can find in the changelog.


14.1 (2024-05-03)
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• Add: Check if towns can build roads before generating a map (#12503)
  
• Fix #12228: Ships could get lost due to pathfinder not considering reversing in some cases (#12474)
  
• Fix #12433: The width of the unit number display was too narrow (#12534)
  
• Fix #12502: Desync related to vehicle replacement (#12512)
  
• Fix #12506: Desync after the new oil rig is constructed (#12511)
  
• Fix #12584: Crash on some tar files during tar scan (#12586)
  
• Fix: [SDL2] Keypad numbers did not function (#12596)
  
• Fix: Houses and industry tiles could accept incorrect cargo (#12547)
  
• Fix: Map generation stage strings were incorrect (#12549)
  
• Fix: [Script] Allow only 255 league tables, as 255 itself is the invalid id sentinel (#12545)
  
• Fix: Mark vehicle status bars dirty when a vehicle leaves unbunching depot (#12516)
  
• Fix: Do not show the train waiting for unbunching as waiting for free path (#12515)
  
• Fix: Smooth outliers in unbunching round trip calculations (#12513)

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New Features

• Saboteur has a new model and icon.
  
• The selection and production tooltip of units now show a DPS (Damage per Second) value. This has to be improved, though, as it is only accurate for units with only one weapon.
  
• The classic Minigunner (Tiberium Dawn) from GDI and Nod has a new model and icon and is separated for Nod (Adept) and GDI (Mercenary).
  
• The Rocket Infantry has a new model for GDI and Nod, Rocket Mercenary and Rocket Trooper.
  
• With the Pyramid of Nod built, the Adept is replaced by the Stormtrooper, and the Rocket Trooper is replaced by the Rocket Cyborg.

Balancing

• Tank Destroyer (Germany) now deals more damage.
  
• Chrono Tank can now shoot air units.
  
• Ivan bufffed (more HP).
  
• Obelisk Trooper buffed (more HP).

Bug Fixes

• Ion Mammoth still had the missiles from the normal Mammoth, these are now replaced.
  
• Voxel units now rotate with 32 facings (it was 64) to align with all other sprites, and the camera angle has been reduced in order to align with sprites.
  
• Ivan was broken and could not place any Dynamite. This is now fixed.

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The most experimental change of this patch gives Engineer Commanders the ability to build units out in the field. The goal is to make it more than the base building chassis. A much more normal change accentuates the speed of Strike Commanders by reducing the speed of the competing Recon Commander. Planes have been tweaked slightly, with the most notable change being Sparrow stealing Owl's radar jammer. Disco Rave Party has some ludicrous buffs since the newish spin-up requirement had a greater-than-expected impact on its power relative to Zenith.

For all its weird experiments, this patch is more about tech than balance. The engine has been updated with a new decal rendering system that performs better and will let us do more with explosion scars. Unit selections are drawn much faster, and many of their edge cases have been solved. A new ambient occlusion shader gives everything a bit more sense of depth. This is on top of a bunch of fixes and polish that built up over the last few months.

No Cold Take this week because there was a lot to do for the patch.


Balance


Engineer Commander can now pick a unit to build out in the field.

• Use the Copy Factory Blueprint command on a friendly functional factory to select a unit.
  
• The unit can be switched during the game.
  
• A unit is automatically selected from the plopped factory.
  
• Set your plop selection under Settings/Unit Behaviour/Default States/Misc/Blueprint.

Recon Commander is slower to let Strike have an identity as the speediest commander.

• Speed 43.5 -> 40.5 elmos/s
  
• Jump reload time 22/22/20/18/18/16 -> 22/22/20/20/18/16 s
  
• Jump speed 180 -> 135/135/142.5/150/157.5/165 elmos/s

Lightning Gun is better, particularly against swarms.

• Reload time 1.83 -> 1.73s

Owl no longer jams, by popular demand.

• Removed 700 range radar jammer.

Sparrow is now the radar jamming plane.

• Now has a 540 range radar jammer.
  
• Increased maneuverability slightly to make coverage more consistent.

Hacksaw deals more damage to catch up to Phoenix.

• Damage per volley 1000 -> 1400

Thunderbird has more health to escape Hacksaw.

• Health 1200 -> 1600

Disco Rave Party spins faster, also by popular demand.

• Increased spin cap by 50%, increasing its peak rate of fire from 1 to 1.5 shots/s.
  
• The spin bar has been rescaled, so 66% is the old maximum.
  
• Spin up to 66% is unchanged. It still takes the 90s to reach its old spin.
  
• Spin from 66% to 100% takes 40s.
  
• Aiming is quite slow, above 66%, so a fixed target is required to exceed the old spin cap.

Disco Rave Party is also deals more direct damage and is more accurate.

• Accuracy improved by 20%
  
• Red Killer damage 3000 -> 3500 (matches Eos)
  
• Orange Roaster damage 300 -> 250
  
• Orange Roaster duration 15s -> 8s
  
• Orange Roaster AoE radius 320 -> 400 (larger than static shields)
  
• Yellow Slammer damage 800 -> 1000
  
• Green Stamper damage 400 -> 600
  
• Green Stamper smooth radius 240 -> 300
  
• Green Stamper smooths more per hit
  
• Violet Slugger damage 450 -> 500
  
• Violet Slugger slow damage 4500 -> 5000

Aircraft can no longer fly so far outside the map.

• The external map border starts 400 elmos away, down from 800 elmos.
  
• The border is softer, so brushing it is less drastic.

Graphics

• Added new explosion crater scars to use the engine's new decal system. The new scars have better performance, stick to the ground properly, and have new features such as glow and variation by weapon type.
  
• Added a screen space ambient occlusion widget. Basically, it adds subtle shading to put shadows in every nook and cranny. The widget is enabled for hardware that supports deferred rendering, which is most hardware.
  
• Improved the walk animations of the Engineer and Recon Commanders.
  
• Disco Rave Party has firing dust and complains every time it tries to turn.
  
• Improved the look of Ogre missile explosions.
  
• Fixed jittery Detriment launch smoke.
  
• Improved Detriment and Jugglenaut stomp effects.
  
• Made a few effects that were simulation-limited run at >30Hz if able.
  
• Reaver aims more smoothly.

Interface

• Updated selection circle rendering (thanks moreginger, and Beherith, for the original shader). Selections look similar but render much faster and resolve a few graphical edge cases suffered by the previous widget. Selection visuals can be configured under Settings/Interface/Selection/Default Selections.
  
• Jumpleg units retain jump commands while in midair so they can jump as soon as they find the ground.
  
• Hermit auto skirmishes from slightly further away, making it better at dealing with Redback (thanks, Mach565).
  
• Improved replay controls (thanks, moreginger).
  
• Improved Athena and Newton selection volumes.
  
• Control groups now obey selection rank.
  
• Added an option for control groups to ignore some ranks.
  
• Autogroups can now be used for buildings.
  
• Autogroups no longer override manual groups set during production.
  
• Added incomplete French and Ukrainian translations.

Maps

• Added lava to Stronghold because it looks like it wants it.
  
• Added boxes for Ravaged Remake v1.2

Awards


Some awards show up in almost every game in nonsensical ways. To address this, the minimum threshold for a few awards has been raised.

• Spoils of War requires 3.3x more reclaim.
  
• Slow King requires 2x more slow damage.
  
• Peacemaker requires 4x more disarm damage.

Modding

• Add customParams.turn_accel_factor to control the angular inertia of units.
  
• Add Spring.Utilities.ConcatArrays to concatenate arrays.

Fixes

• Fixed split switching spectators to players in the split room.
  
• Fixed load order of replays so the most recent replays show up first.
  
• Fixed Bellicose Islands boxes (edge gap east).
  
• Fixed a rare issue with the external map grid (thanks to AntlerForce).
  
• Fixed Newton launcher auto-jump, sometimes causing jumps on the launch pad.
  
• Fixed Envoy overkill prevention.
  
• Fixed command insert not working with line formations.
  
• Fixed jumping units sometimes using their walk animation mid-air.
  
• Fixed shields sometimes do not activate when rapidly thrown out of the water.
  
• Units no longer move to clear the "entrance" of plane factories when a plane is built.
  
• Units that start retreating are no longer automatically deselected for spectators.
  
• Fixed the select damaged/healthy hotkey presets.
  
• Fixed Fire Once leaving Set Target applied.
  
• Fixed Restore is not working correctly on random maps and maps with changed water level.
  
• Fixed Sparrow's wingtip ribbons.
  
• Fixed teleportation sometimes leaves tracks.
  
• Fixed slow and Stardust heat rounding.
  
• Fixed missing ghosts for some campaign-only structures.
  
• Fixed orbital drops of ships trying to land ships on the sea floor.

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Features

• Smart casting for unit abilities (by default, only the closest unit to the target will fire & ctrl can be used to force all selected units to fire).
  
• New tech structure: Oil Refinery. Grants the owner a 10% production discount. Added to several team game maps.
  
• Added button in skirmish/multiplayer lobby to reset options to defaults.
  
• Added Fast Regrowth lobby option.
  
• Overhauled Mini Drone attachment (making them easier to attach and less glitchy).
  
• Improved support power targeting visuals.
  
• Vehicles/aircraft can be sold at Service Depots.
  
• Multi-Queue Scaled - Removed Optimized Production upgrades. Associated discounts are permanently provided by the relevant T2/T3 structures being built.
  
• Lowered selection priority for transport aircraft.
  
• 20 new 1v1 maps.
  
• 52 new team game maps (17x 2v2, 15x 3v3, 10x 4v4, 8x 5v5, 2x 6v6)
  
• Added Testing Grounds map.

Artwork & SFX

• New voice lines for many units: Chrono Prison, Battle Fortress, Mirage Tank, Cryo Launcher, Siege Tank, Sukhoi, Halo, Thief, Eradicator, Disruptor, Mammoth Tank, Titan, Juggernaut, Battle Drone, Mammoth Drone, X-O Powersuit, Comanche, Microwave Tank, Spectre, Venom, Acolyte, Templar and Heavy Flame Tank.
  
• New voice announcements for upgrades: Seismic Missiles, Railgun Titan, Ion Mammoth, Hover Mammoth, Battle Drone, Intensified Microwaves.
  
• Improved custom RA EVA voice line effects.
  
• Added/updated transport loading and aircraft takeoff/landing sound effects.
  
• Added IFV transform sound.
  
• Added additional visuals when units are upgrading.
  
• Added brass casings ejected from vehicles/aircraft with machine guns.
  
• New sound effects for the Vulcan weapon.
  
• Impact sound effects for Shard Launcher, Gun Walker, Shard Walker, Ravager, and Lacerator.
  
• Scaled down Stormrider/Venom/Enervator.
  
• The range circle for the radar jamming field is now player colored.

Balance & Faction Gameplay Changes
General

• Loaded transports are no longer immune to mind control. Loaded transports and harvesters take 4 seconds to mind control (Commando-type passengers provide immunity).
  
• Radar cost increased to $1800.
  
• Reduced Rifle/Minigunner/Warrior damage vs defenses by 10%.
  
• Increased tier 1 tank & Tank Destroyer damage vs defenses by 20%.
  
• Added health regen to commando units as standard. The rate doubles when elite.
  
• Increased Engineer/Assimilator mine detection range.
  
• Reduced basic defense power requirement from 25 to 15.
  
• Reduced amount refunded when selling basic defenses.
  
• Reduced mine defusal time for Engineers/Minelayers from 3s to 2s.
  
• Commando/Tanya/Boris can now shoot revealed mines.
  
• Lowered healing cap for commando units. It takes longer to wear off.
  
• Added healing cap to any infantry with 15k HP or more.
  
• Increased Commando/Tanya C4 cooldown a little.
  
• Reduced the distance from Service Depots where units can be upgraded at.
  
• Guarantee at least two rifles/warriors when selling buildings (if the value of the building is sufficient) to reduce RNG. Reduced Civilian value to 50.
  
• Allow infantry to detect cloaked units diagonally.
  
• Reduced time is taken for tib exposure to wear off.
  
• Static AA defenses no longer auto-targeted in defensive stance.
  
• Powered-down defenses have reduced vision.
  
• Added minimum distance to airstrike powers to prevent instant damage near map edge.

Allies

• New unit: Peacemaker - Heavy bomber available at T3 (Tech Center).
  
• New upgrade for Ranger: Advanced Optics - Gives Rangers an ability that extends their vision and detection range for a short time.
  
• Added new IFV turrets for the infantry of other factions: Yuri/Mastermind, Black Hand, Enlightened, Cyborg Elite, Mortars (Cryo/Sonic/Chem), Intruder, Ravager.
  
• Reduced SEAL movement speed. Reduced HP from 18k to 16k. No longer immune to mind control/chaos gas. Added a 4-second delay to C4 planting. Reduced C4 cooldown by 2 seconds. Will no longer place C4 automatically in the Attack Anything stance.
  
• Chrono Tank will prioritize ground targets over air targets.
  
• Increased Scout Tank vision from 6 to 7.
  
• Increased Chrono Prison damage vs heavy armor.
  
• Increased Sniper IFV damage vs vehicles. Concussion requires a Raufoss upgrade.
  
• Added Guardian GI IFV turret.
  
• Increased Battle Fortress damage with Rifle/Rocket passengers. Increased HP from 120k to 130k.
  
• Medic in Battle Fortress gives healing aura.
  
• USA drops require Barracks/Factory plus either radar or aircraft production (previously required radar).
  
• Reverted Nighthawk to normal selection priority. Default stance to Defend.
  
• Increased jamming field radius by 1
  
• Reduced Turret power requirement to 25.
  
• Reduced entrenched Engineer deployment time. Increased radius from 3 to 5.
  
• Longbow benefits from Cryo Rockets upgrade.
  
• Reduced Chrono Harvester upgrade cost to 1250.
  
• Reduced Advanced Ore Processing cost to 750.
  
• Reduced Nighthawk HP from 44k to 38k.
  
• Increased Veil of War cooldown from 4 min to 5 min. Reduce max radius by 1. Increase the minimum radius by 1.
  
• Reworked chill effect to have max ten stacks (up from 6).
  
• Damage penalty removed from IFV cryo rockets.
  
• Changed MGG/MRJ to light armor (increased HP from 22k to 25k).
  
• Allow spies to disguise themselves as Scrin. Added SEAL/Commissar icons when disguised.
  
• Sniper will one-shot upgraded Templar, Cyborgs, and Brutes. Reduced reload time.
  
• Increased Pillbox damage vs infantry, light armor, and heavy armor. Now, it tracks the target.
  
• Increased Raider APC damage vs light armor. Reduced vs defenses.
  
• AA Gun requires a War Factory instead of a Radar Dome.
  
• Reduce Harrier delay between salvos to match similar planes (MiG etc.).
  
• Allow fake Radar Dome to be powered down.
  
• Reduced Prism Tank damage vs heavy armor slightly.
  
• Reduced cost of Prism Cannon upgrade to 750.
  
• Increased Prism Tower cost from 1300 to 1350. Increased power consumption from 75 to 80. Reduced damage vs infantry.
  
• Increased Tank Destroyer range by 1. Reduced HP from 46k to 44k.

Soviets

• New unit: Floating Disc - Replaces Kirov for Psi-Corps.
  
• New unit: Commissar - T3 infantry that buffs nearby infantry (increases movement and rate of fire).
  
• New Upgrade for Psi-Corps: Gattling BTR.
  
• Increased damage radius of V3 missiles.
  
• Reduced damage and area of effect of V3 missiles when shot down.
  
• Yuri will no longer kill slaves when using the mind blast ability. Slaves are killed when released, either manually or by exceeding capacity.
  
• Iron Curtain now limits the speed of affected units.
  
• Increased turret turn speed of Mammoth Tank & Eradicator.
  
• Reduced radiation strength of Apocalypse Tank shells. Reduced damage against infantry with Flak Armor/Hardened Carapace upgrade. Reduced projectile speed. Increased damage vs buildings.
  
• Mammoth Tank and Apocalypse Tank will prioritize ground targets over air targets.
  
• Increased Siege Tank damage vs buildings and defenses. Increased concussion duration by 1 second.
  
• Replaced Psi-Corps Parabombs with Chaos Bombs.
  
• Increased MAD Tank HP from 100k to 120k.
  
• Increased Tesla Track damage. Reduced speed from 72 to 68. Increased cost from 1250 to 1350. Reduced HP from 22k to 20k. It no longer requires Tesla Coil.
  
• Increased Tesla Tank damage. Tesla Coil requirement can now be substituted with Tech Center.
  
• Reduced Iron Curtain damage vs infantry.
  
• Reduced Brute DPS vs infantry significantly. Reduced attack speed (DPS same except vs infantry). Reduce speed slightly.
  
• Desolator will one-shot upgraded Templar, Cyborgs, and Brutes. Increased damage vs light armor. Chem Tower requirement can now be substituted with Tech Center. Reduced deploy time. Slightly increased splash damage vs infantry.
  
• Increased Flame Tower/Chem Tower RoF slightly.
  
• Increased Shock Trooper HP from 7k to 7.5k.
  
• Thief can't be crushed when moving. Reduced selection priority.
  
• Reduced Heavy Hazmat Suits cost from $1k to $850.
  
• Flamethrower's Flame Tower requirement can now be substituted with Radar Dome. Increased damage vs infantry.
  
• Increase Yuri's mind blast damage vs. buildings.
  
• Increase Dog vision and cloak detection radius slightly.
  
• Increased Atomic Reactor HP from 100k to 110k.
  
• Increased Sukhoi projectile speed.
  
• Kirov will be disabled rather than killed by EMP.
  
• Dogs are now immune to mind control.
  
• Reduced Tesla Coil power consumption from 100 to 75.
  
• Increased V2 splash radius slightly. Reduced cost of V2 upgrades from 1000 to 500.
  
• Increased Katyusha cost from 700 to 750. Reduced splash radius slightly.

GDI

• New unit: Tomahawk Launcher - Available via research when Bombardment strategy is chosen.
  
• Bombardier upgrade is now available regardless of strategy.
  
• Titan railgun will always pass through the target to max range when fired at targets further than two cells away. Slightly reduced the passthrough damage.
  
• Increased turret turn speed of all Mammoth Tank variants.
  
• Increased Disruptor splash damage (mainly improves effectiveness against infantry).
  
• Reduced strategy upgrade cost from $1250 to $1000.
  
• (H)MLRS, Mammoth Tank, and Titan will prioritize ground targets over air targets.
  
• Slight increase in Surgical Strike splash damage close to the target. Damage is no longer reduced by prone.
  
• Reduced Sonic Tower concussion duration vs infantry from 6 seconds to 1 second.
  
• Reduced Carryall vision from 10 to 9.
  
• Increased Nanite Repair heal per tick from 3% to 5%, reduced duration from 30s to 25s.
  
• Increased X-O laser damage (but reduced vs light armor). Reduced range by 1. Increased turn rate by 33%. Now able to shoot while moving.
  
• Increased Juggernaut cost from $1500 to $2000. Increased range, HP, and damage.
  
• Reduced Hover Mammoth speed slightly (72 to 6.
  
• At elite rank, third damage level used by Vulcan vs ground targets.
  
• Increase TOW missile rate of fire and add TankBuster modifier.
  
• Increased Jumpjet/Bombardier speed from 99 to 108. Increased facing tolerance. Removed infantry target priority.
  
• Increase Bombardier damage vs. buildings, reduced vs. defenses.
  
• Reduced cost of Afterburner upgrade to 750.
  
• Increased (H)MLRS HP from 18/20k to 20/22k. Reduced damage vs heavy armor slightly.
  
• Increased Battle Drone cost to 800.
  
• Increased Guard Tower damage vs infantry, light armor, and heavy armor. Now, it tracks the target.
  
• Increased Supply Drop Zone income to $1k per 60 seconds. Reduce price to $1k.
  
• AA Gun requires a Weapons Factory instead of a Comms Center.
  
• Changed EMP Missile Launcher armor type to be the same as other minor superweapons.
  
• EMP Missile has three concentric areas of effect, which disable for 24/12/6 seconds (rather than two that disable for 24/12). Added target radius indicator.
  
• Increased Advanced Guard Tower cost from 1k to 1.1k. Increased power consumption from 50 to 70. Reduced damage vs infantry.
  
• Increased Sonic Tower cost from 1350 to 1450. Increased power consumption from 80 to 85. Reduced damage vs infantry.
  
• Changed Mobile Sensor to light armor.
  
• Increased Aurora cost from 2200 to 2300. Reduced splash radius vs infantry. Damage reduction is reduced from 20% to 10% when afterburner is active. The target must be an enemy unit/building to activate the afterburner.

Nod

• New upgrade for Buggy: Decoy Projectors - Gives Buggies an ability that creates two decoy Flame Tanks (or Heavy Flame Tanks for Black Hand).
  
• Marked air drop replaced with Subterranean Strike. Delivers 4 Acolytes/Templar via Subterranean APC.
  
• Chem Warrior gains targeted ability to rush towards their target to close distance.
  
• Reduced infiltrator cloak recharge delay.
  
• Infiltrator and stolen tech rework. Unique units for infiltrating each faction's barracks/factory/air structures, tech locked when infiltrating radars/tech centers/T4 structures.
  
• . Cryo Mortar unlocked by infiltrating Allied Barracks.
  
• . Reckoner unlocked by infiltrating Allied War Factory.
  
• . Black Eagle unlocked by infiltrating Allied Helipad.
  
• . Cyberdog unlocked by infiltrating Soviet Barracks.
  
• . Rhino Tank unlocked by infiltrating Soviet War Factory.
  
• . Kamov unlocked by infiltrating Soviet Airfield.
  
• . Sonic Mortar unlocked by infiltrating GDI Barracks.
  
• . Pitbull unlocked by infiltrating GDI Weapons Factory.
  
• . Shade unlocked by infiltrating GDI Airfield.
  
• . Chem Mortar unlocked by infiltrating a Hand of Nod
  
• . Mantis unlocked by infiltrating Nod Airstrip (or Legion Weapons Factory)
  
• . Vertigo unlocked by infiltrating Nod Helipad
  
• . Cyberscrin unlocked by infiltrating Scrin Portal.
  
• . Viper unlocked by infiltrating Scrin Warp Sphere.
  
• . Manticore unlocked by infiltrating Scrin Gravity Stabilizer.
  
• Increased Heavy Flame Tank cost from 1000 to 1100. Reduced speed from 68 to 60.
  
• Black Napalm reload time penalty increased slightly (for both Heavy Flame Tank and SSM).
  
• Reduced damage increase for Bikes with TibCore from +10% to +7.5%.
  
• Reduced Flame Tank splash damage.
  
• Reduced SSM splash radius.
  
• Slightly increased Microwave Tank RoF. Reduced splash damage (removed vs infantry). Reduced speed from 82 to 68.
  
• Upgraded Microwave Tank kills crews of vehicles below 75% HP (calculated after the damage from the MW zap itself).
  
• Slightly increased cyborg conversion time.
  
• Reduced Stealth Tank resistance to aircraft slightly. Reduced damage vs buildings.
  
• Reduced Venom damage vs buildings (with upgrade, no change).
  
• Reduced Turret power requirement to 25.
  
• Legion bonus changed to a 10% discount on stolen tech units.
  
• Increased Laser Turret rate of fire slightly. Increased damage per shot vs infantry. Reduced DPS vs light armor slightly.
  
• Increased Banshee damage vs vehicles. Slightly increased splash damage.
  
• Reduced Comanche damage vs buildings.
  
• Reduced Acolyte/Templar damage vs heavy armor slightly. The obelisk requirement can now be substituted with a Temple of Nod.
  
• Reduced time taken for Hackers to hack drones.

Scrin

• New support power: Fleet Recall - Available on Signal Transmitter, it teleports Devastators/Carriers/Mothership back to the Signal Transmitter.
  
• New upgrade: Hypercharge - Gives Seekers/Lacerators the ability to fire an uninterrupted barrage for a short time, after which their weapons are disabled, and their speed is reduced until the ability recharges.
  
• Mastermind will no longer kill slaves when using the mind spark ability. Slaves are killed when released, either manually or by exceeding capacity.
  
• Increased PAC damage.
  
• Increased Greater Coalescence damage/healing radius.
  
• Increased Atomizer splash radius.
  
• Stormcrawler with Ion Conduits generates ion clouds more frequently (every 4 seconds down from 6). Now able to shoot while moving.
  
• Increased Devourer damage. Also increased vs none/light when charged.
  
• Increased Darkener damage vs light armor and buildings. Can now crush infantry.
  
• Reduced PAC cost from $3000 to $2800.
  
• Added range circle when targeting Greater Coalescence & Storm Spike.
  
• Stormrider is now able to shoot in any direction. Reduced range vs ground very slightly (0.25).
  
• Mothership will charge nearby Stormriders/Enervators.
  
• Increase Atomizer range from 8 to 9. Increased cost to 1350. Prevent conditions applying to multiple targets from a single hit. Atomized debuff slows the target by 25%, up from 15%.
  
• Increased Devastator damage by 20% and splash radius slightly. Increased projectile speed.
  
• Increased Enervator damage from 10k to 13k and range by 1. Reduced rate of fire.
  
• Increased Leecher self-healing slightly.
  
• Increased Plasma Turret HP from 45k to 46k. Increased RoF slightly. Removed inaccuracy. Moved part of damage vs infantry to % damage warhead to better deal with high HP infantry.
  
• Increased Interloper damage vs light armor.
  
• Replaced Reaper-17 Fleet Shields discount with Ichor Seed 20% cooldown reduction.
  
• Increased Seeker/Lacerator cloak detection radius by 1.
  
• Increased Ravager HP to 8k. Increased damage vs light armor. Reduced damage vs defenses.
  
• Suppression Field highlights the units to be affected.
  
• Reduced Storm Column power consumption from 100 to 85.
  
• Reduced Ion Surge speed boost from +60% to +50%. Reduced radius by 1. Reduced duration from 15s to 12s. Show range circle when active.

Fixes/Misc

• Corrected Cyborg Mechanic salvage time to match Mechanic.
  
• Corrected range of Disruptor with Seek & Destroy.
  
• Campaign tooltip visibility corrections.
  
• Fixed empty warp damage bar appearing when units have very low health.
  
• Added directional targeting to infiltration airstrike and corrected building damage.
  
• Fixed Chrono Tank not firing at aircraft.
  
• Fixed upgrades tab not being shown when selecting Ore Purifier.
  
• Fixed Chem Warrior projectile being invisible when in Battle Fortress.
  
• Fixed map crashes (Calming Lakes, Utter Darkness, Jungle Boogie).
  
• Restored "I've got a present for ya" and "kiss it bye-bye" voice lines for Commando/Tanya when ordered to plant C4.
  
• Veil of War debuff no longer stacks with direct Gap Generator debuff.
  
• Iron Curtain on production building no longer pauses production from it.
  
• Fixed rare crashing bug caused by missiles effectively diving underground.
  
• Tracking beam weapons will be canceled on death.
  
• Fixed Mirage Tank disguise palettes.
  
• Fixed the condition where warheads do not apply to large actors with multiple targetable locations.
  
• Corrected Sniper/Raufoss prerequisites in mission 5.
  
• Fixed rare crash caused by force landing aircraft.
  
• Fixed Vulcan reinforcements not being in the same select group as normal Vulcans.
  
• Fixed some aircraft sprite facings.
  
• TNT will be removed if a unit is picked up by a Carryall or enters a transport.
  
• Range circle is now shown for enemy Veil of War.
  
• Fixed Yuri/Mastermind auto-targeting when in attack anything stance.
  
• Fixed cluster mines causing damage when defused.
  
• Extend IC structure selectable bounds to prevent misclick when attacking it.
  
• Fixed Yuri/Mastermind not having detection.
  
• Added "detects spies" to tooltips.
  
• Custom cursor for Mastermind building capture.
  
• Minor AI improvements.
  
• Minor mission tweaks.