Category: News

This stable exists to fix some compatibility issues with Spring 95.0+. However as I was making a stable release and seem to be the most active balancer I decided to do some balance tweaks as well. People like to know about these sorts of thigs

= Balance =

Large Shields:
* Regeneration rate 57 -> 50 charge per second.

Brawler:
* Cost 800 -> 760

Banshee:
* Turret tolerance 180 -> 90 degrees
This makes it worse at fly-overs and at shooting aircraft.

Stiletto:
* Cost 600 -> 550

Vandal:
* Damage 70 -> 80

Panther:
* Speed 3.9 -> 3.6
* Normal Damage 160 -> 180
* EMP Damage 800 -> 1600
* Reload Time 2.5s -> 3s
* Max Paralysis time 1s -> 2s

Reduced debris damage 50 -> 20. This is mainly because debris damage was previously 0 and Blastwing became ridiculous.

= Other Things =

Fixed fixedwing and bomber unit type detection in gadgets for 95.0+. This was causing the “bombers fail to shoot” issue and probably some others but nobody noticed those.

Fixed Tick ejection from transports.

Amphibious units now automatically float when a transport is told to load them.

– Updated Bloom shader to use in-shader Gaussian distribution. This allows for
resolution-independence, and seems to perform better, at least on 2-year-old or
newer graphics cards.

– Removed Blur and Glow Amplifier settings, and Dilate pass setting from Bloom
shader. Added Maximum Highlight Brightness setting, which sets the maximum
brightness that will be added to the scene.

– Modified bloom thresholding to smoothly threshold. Pixels near the threshold
add nearly nothing, and it scales linearly to Maximum Brightness.

Following the success Orbital Sniper Technique in recent field trails, our top engineers have been hard at work designing a large scale Orbital Sniper Base to protect us from the impeding Chicken Threat. Disaster struck when, early in construction, a crippling issue was discovered with with a pivotal component to the design. After thoroughly checking their results our top scientists concluded that Surfboard is no longer transportable. Leading theorists suggest that a recent change to the Laws of Physics is at work. With this roadblock the entire Orbital Sniper Project has been scrapped.

Licho responded to this with the following statement:
* AoE 256 -> 192
* Damage 2500 -> 2000

Also:
* Brawler cost 850 -> 800
* Multi-Stunner, +12.5% AoE, +25% spread, +100% duration, +8.5% damage
* Disintegrator Gun, ~10% more reload time
* Shock Rifle, 5% less range * SLAM, +43% reload time, +35% damage