- ASF no longer have issues gaining targets when just given move orders
- Satellite works with 'no-air' restriction again
- Remove 'no sc1 units' restriction that would make the game unplayable
- UEF buildbots no longer explode after being built with 'no-air' restriction enabled
- Commanders no longer explode immediately with the 'no-land' restriction enabled
- Upgraded hives are no longer invincible
- Beam weapons will no longer keep firing their lasers after designated targets have died
- Nukes will always penerate personal shields again
- Paused units which start work on a building will no longer consume resources
- Units with sonar no longer have it enabled while on land
- Added 'no T3 air' restriction
- "More unit info" mod integrated and improved
- Incompatible mods and old maps are now blacklisted
- AI now works again
- Unpausing engineers works again
- Units currently being built no longer hang around when transferring or reclaiming the factory the were being built in.
- Seraphim units render correctly on medium fidelity
- Jammer field from crystal now stops working when the crystal is reclaimed
- Jammer crystal reclaim increased to (5000e, 50bt)
- Fixed issue with half built units from naval factories
- Fixed issue with sometimes being unable to quit the game
- Cybran and UEF buildbots / drones no longer explode with the no air restriction
- Fixed issue with being unable to reclaim mexes that are being upgraded
- Seraphim ACU minimum range for normal gun and OC adjusted to be the same as other ACU's
- Seraphim destroyer surfaces itself after building again
- Seraphim T2 transport no longer allows active shields on board
- Seraphim ACU restoration field now works for allied units
- Aeon T3 battleship TMD is no longer completely unable to stop TML's
- Added ability to see unit data (xp/regen rate) as observer
- Firebeetles can no longer detonate in the air
- Upgrade hotkey now works for T2 naval and air support factories
- CodingSquirrel
- Crotalus
- Gorton
- Sheeo
- ckitching
- ggwpez
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- Obsidians and titans die to overcharge again
- Instant crash exploit partially fixed
- No longer possible to give away units in progress of being captured
- No longer possible to bypass unit restrictions with sneaky UI mods
- Fixed being able to remotely destroy wreckage anywhere on the battlefield
Hitboxes
- Seraphim sniper bot is able to hit Cybran MML again
- Fixed SCUs not being hit properly by laser weapons
- Fixed units aiming too high on the UEF and Aeon SCUs
- Torpedo/sonar platforms no longer confuse surface weaponry
Visual
- Fixed shield structure glows and rotations not playing
- Fixed bug with capture progress bar not being synced if using multiple engineers
- Optimised the range-rings shader to reduce the way FPS falls off a cliff
- Fixed bug with instantly disappearing wrecks due to garbage collection
- Fixed wrong regen values being reported on UI-side
- Disable build effect beams on sinking engineers
- Reload bar refill rate now scales with RateOfFire buffs
- Legacy checkbox UI code working again
- Fixed Engineers spawning the wrong tarmacs when building Seraphim buildings
- Engineering stations no longer exhibit a model bug when rebuilt by an assisting SCU
- Fuel indicator no longer falls off the unit detail window
- Seraphim ACU and SCU no longer show the tac missile counter if they don't have the upgrade
Physics
- Projectiles no longer collide with sinking units
- UEF T3 Transport now leaves wreck in water
- Cybran ACU can now fire the laser when standing in water
- Fixed Seraphim T1 Mobile Artillery not firing at fast targets properly
- Yolona Oss now deals damage to itself
- Flares and depth charges no longer draw in friendly projectiles
- Fix shots sometimes going right through Walled PD
- Increased Aeon T3 Artillery MuzzleVelocity to allow it to fire at its maximum range
Other
- T3 Torpedo Bomber can use Attack-Move properly again
- Units with weapon range upgrades now stop at maximum range when using attack-move
- Shield disruptor now works on personal shields
- Fixed wrong consumption when repairing ACU after an upgrade finished
- Support factories no longer lose progress if they are damaged during upgrade
- Aeon SCUs with nano + vet now get correct regen rate
- Fixed share until death bug with dual-given units
- Mini map now remembers whether to show resource icons or not
- Current command mode no longer reset if an engineer dies in the current selection
- Fixed bug with chat messages having wrong recipients in replay
- Seraphim shields can now pause while upgrading to T3
- Fixed RateOfFire buffs not being applied correctly
- SCUs will no longer rebuild buildings they lack to ability to build
- Upgraded buildings rebuilt by assisting SCUs will now cost the correct amount
- FAF no longer blows up if the game hasn't first been launched to create a profile
Visual
- Scathis now has Amphibious build icon
- Attack and Nuke reticles now scale with impact radius
- TMLs now show the splash damage radius in targeting mode
- Cybran Engineers now display a build beam to clearly show what they're tasked to
- Cybran factories now have red build beams
- Number of Cybran build bots scale with buildpower of the engineer, to a maximum of 10
- Ping values under "Connectivity" (F11) now update during game stop/stall
- Added Yolona Oss to Mavor/Salvation/Scathis build restriction and renamed it Super-Game-Enders
- ASF effects tweaked for performance (less effects on low fidelity)
- Cybran engineering build bots now crash when their owner dies rather than just vanishing
- Quantum Gateways now can assist each other
- Enhanced Seraphim tarmacs
- Beams originating inside Fog of War will no longer be invisible
- Cybran buildbots are no longer invisible to other players
- MEx, T1 PD, and Radar strategic icons will appear above other building icons when zoomed out
UI
- New option: Show reclaim value of wreckage on map by pressing Ctrl-Shift (need to enable it in Options / Interface and restart game)
- Smart selection feature allowing hotkeys to select units by category
- Remove owner-check on text pings so anyone can delete them
- Reclaim/second now shown
- Reclaimed mass now counts towards the score table
- UEF ACU and SCU drones now have an on-drone button to toggle if they are rebuilt at death
- Now possible to pause units to make them pause execution of queued up orders
- Debug window: Searching for units now supports unit name and substrings
- Cybran engineering build bots no longer display the heads-up consumption overlay
- "Commander under attack" now plays for shielded ACUs
- 34 new taunts
- Added a button to unbind key mappings
- Drop shadow for chat messages
- Chat Option: Add background to chat messages when chat window is closed
- Chat Option: Allow chat to timeout normally in the feed after closing window
- Reclaim window merged with main resources UI
Other
- Engineering Station units now pause on transfer from one player to another
- Cybran build bots now can assist next build project without respawning
- The least valuable units are destroyed at unit transfer if unitcap is hit
- Absolver shield disrupter now hovers higher, so it's less likely to hit the floor with the very low mounted gun
- UEF SCU Drone can now capture, the same as the ACU ones
- Tiny changes to make Fatboy/Megalith/Spiderbot weapons symmetrical in behaviour where they should be
- Added templates for all support factories. AI in coop missions is now able to rebuild support factories
- Assist now prioritize building over repair
- Share Until Death is now default
- Mod size reduced by about 30 MB
- CodingSquirrel
- Crotalus
- DukeOfEarl
- Eximius
- IceDreamer
- ResinSmoker
- Sheeo
- Speed2
- anihilnine
- bamboofats
- ckitching
- quark036
- shalkya
- pip
- zock
Special Thanks To
- Softly
- Exotic Retard
- Nyx
- Adress an issue that causes the game to crash with core dumps in long games
General changes
- Christmas presents for reclaim have been removed
- Score viewing:
- Score button no longer exits the game forcefully
- Viewing of score screen when scores were set to off is re-enabled, but the statistics are not particularly useful
Exploit fixes
- Fixed a regression of the free ACU upgrade exploit
Game improvements
- Cartographic map previews are now being generated even for maps that do not contain colour information for them.
Bug fixes
- Fixed air wrecks floating mid air on certain maps
- Fixed air wrecks sinking to bottom of water, then jumping back up to surface
- Fixed continental not dying to nukes
- Improved GuardScanRadius:
- Scouts no longer engage at long range, value was set to 10
- Harbinger will automatically engage at range again
- Range tuned down a bit so units will not run off too much
- Fixed Seraphim T3MAA targetbones (Units will no longer aim above it)
- More mod compatibility
- Give Eye of Rihanne restriction a new description
- Fixed hoplite not firing at landed air units
- Added BOMBER category to Ahwassa, Notha
- Added FACTORY category to Megalith, allows queuing of units while being built
- Improve new unit share code (Units dying after being transferred multiple times)
- Fixed sinking wrecks blocking projectiles where the unit used to be
Lobby changes (Version 2.6.0, also shown in game)
- Fix the rating not showing up for observers
- Font-size for observers reduced
- Chat font-size adjustable from options
- Remove debug messages
- Connection dialog no longer appears below lobby slots
- Fixed issue with players not being removed from slots on disconnect
- Fix integrated replaysync
- Clan tags are shown in game
- 'Set ranked options' button works again
- Tooltips for various buttons fixed and text revised
- More detailed large map preview
- Seraphim icons normalized
- Both players get ready flag cleared on swap
- Removed extra space around Rerun CPU benchmark button
- Made 'Random faction' skin load the chosen faction skin (Before it would always be UEF)
- Fixed a problem preventing player colours from being updated correctly
- Prevented CPU benchmark from running once the game starts
- General performance improvements
Thanks to pip, briang and Alex1911 for translations
Contributors:
- ChrisKitching
- Crotalus
- IceDreamer
- Partytime
- Santa Claus
- Sheeo
- Xinnony
- Added christmas presents for reclaim
Big thanks to ozonex for this contribution!
Bug fixes
- Selection Range Overlay works for multiple units again
- Score no longer flickers when watching replays
- Targeting issues, especially related to the seraphim ACU have been adressed
- Compatibility with certain mods restored
- Lobby 2.5b included (Changelog shown in game)
Notes:
- On some maps air wrecks may still appear in midair
- It's still likely that there are incompatibilities with mods. Please let us know your exact setup of the game when reporting issues
Exploit Fixes
- Fixed infinite economy exploit
- Fixed free ACU upgrade exploit
- Security exploits with simcallbacks
- Fixed UEF Drone upgrade exploits
Bug Fixes
- Continental Fixes:
- Fixed units firing from transport
- Fixed Continental not dying to Nukes with the shield up
- Improved fix for units being transported taking no damage while the shield is up
- Fixed UEF T3 Mobile AA being able to fire from Continental, and reduced projectile number
- T3 Seraphim Mobile Artillery given proper 'ARTILLERY' designation
- Fix adjacency buffs working when unit is turned off
- Fixed Cybran ACU with Laser upgrade being unable to ever fire the weapon after being transported, and improve targeting further
- Fixed Cybran ACU with Torpedo upgrade firing at the floor after being transported
- Fixed Cybran ACU Torpedo upgrade firing while the ACU's feet are only just underwater
- Fixed Cybran ACU being unable to be shot by Torpedoes with only its feet in the water
- Fixed Seraphim ACU dying when dropped from Transport after being picked up while firing
- Fixed Seraphim ACU shot being visible through FoW
- Fixed invalid preview range of SMDs
- Fixed Aeon T1 Bomber targeting subsurface units
- Given units now get correct experience points
- Given units are returned to their original owner in share until death
- UI-mods are now refreshed before launch
Game Improvements
- Shield Fixes:
- Personal Shields now protect units also under bubble shields
- Personal Shields now protect units properly from splash weaponry
- Bubble Shields now interact with splash weaponry properly
- Replay sync support
- Hotbuild 'upgrade' key now takes engy-mod into account
- Attempt to fix bomblet spread on bombers such as UEF and Cybran T1 Bombers
- Attempt to fix Seraphim T1 Mobile AA's aim
- Improved autobalance with random spawns in lobby
- SMD can be paused
- New "No Walls" Unit Restriction
- Improved the Unit Restrictions menu descriptions, including localisation
- Improved the Attack-Move feature (Factory Attack-Move Engineer behaviour left alone)
- Made factory queue templates more accessible, the save button was hidden when the factory wasn't paused
- Show replay-ID in score
- Less UI-lag
- Some sim-speed improvements
- Remove ACU score bump, ACU kills now score 5000
Contributors:
- Sheeo
- a_vehicle
- Crotalus
- Pip
- IceDreamer
- thygrrr
- PattogoTehen
- RK4000
- Eximius
- Xinonny
Special Thanks:
- Navax
- Alex1911
- Preytor