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'''NOTE''': ''IF YOU CONTINUE BETA 10 CAMPAIGN, SOME OF YOUR SOLDIERS MAY HAVE LOST THEIR HEAD BECAUSE OF A BUGFIX, WHICH COULD CAUSE CTDS. IF YOU HAVE INVISIBLE OR HEADLESS SOLDIERS, CHANGE THEIR CHARACTERISTICS IN THE BARRACKS SO THEY APPEAR. '' | '''NOTE''': ''IF YOU CONTINUE BETA 10 CAMPAIGN, SOME OF YOUR SOLDIERS MAY HAVE LOST THEIR HEAD BECAUSE OF A BUGFIX, WHICH COULD CAUSE CTDS. IF YOU HAVE INVISIBLE OR HEADLESS SOLDIERS, CHANGE THEIR CHARACTERISTICS IN THE BARRACKS SO THEY APPEAR. '' | ||
| − | === Beta 10 === | + | ===Beta 10 (June 21, 2014)=== |
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| + | * Fixed: You can now shoot down the Overseer instead of just blowing it up | ||
| + | * Fixed: Ghost Grenade, Psi Shield, Neural Gunlink will now be equippable by psis | ||
| + | * Fixed: Laser and Pulse carbine strat game texts | ||
| + | * Fixed: Borked Phalanx/Carapace and other decos | ||
| + | * Attempted fix: Altitude strings being buggy; shortened to NOE (old Low), Low (old High) and High (old Very High/Suborbital) | ||
| + | * Attempted fix: Intact UFO Power Supplies blowing up after a turn | ||
| + | * Fixed: Acidized rocketeer fires shredder rocket and gets shredded effect | ||
| + | * Fixed: You can't sell "rebuild SHIV" projects in the Gray Market | ||
| + | * Fixed: Bugged settings for alien upgrades; they should scale properly with difficulty now | ||
| + | * Attempted Fix: Rapid Fire does not work on Carbine weapons | ||
| + | * Attempted Fix: Certain items applying Alien Grenade charges | ||
| + | * Attempted Fix: Ammo Conservation failing sporadically with soldiers | ||
| + | * Fixed: Seekers re*strangling targets when they should be running away. | ||
| + | * Fixed: Seeker AI also trying to cloak repeatedly when in range of battlescanner. Reported CTDs possibly related to this (or vanilla bug) | ||
| + | * Fixed: Suppression bugfixes leaving space formerly occupied by suppressor closed off and interfering with sightlines | ||
| + | * Fixed: Should be able to equip advanced MEC weapons now | ||
| + | * Fixed: Soldiers should properly load saved loadouts during alien base assault | ||
| + | * Attempted fix: Satellites being randomly shot down with no visible hunt mission at end of month | ||
| + | * Attempted fix: Implemented updated pod randomization code to eliminate bad spawns and mix up the altitude an alien will appear at on multi*level maps | ||
| + | * Fixed: SCOPE upgrade bonus not appearing for SCOPES in crit line items (but is appearing for laser sights) | ||
| + | * Fixed: Rush*building a Foundry project initially displays the wrong (unrushed) time in the upcoming events list. | ||
| + | * Fixed: Rush*building a facility is confusing. In the upcoming events list, it displays the full time required to build, which then decrements twice as fast. In the facilities UI, it is displayed correctly. | ||
| + | * Fixed: Proportional meld on rush build projects not working | ||
| + | * Fixed: "Click to remove" option in gene lab (after picking a gene mod, and then trying to remove it) doesn't remove the gene mod from your queue | ||
| + | * Fixed: Covert operative loadout doesn't report hp bonuses from covert ops armor/plating items | ||
| + | * Fixed: You sometimes have a "build the arc thrower" objective after building an arc thrower | ||
| + | * Fixed: Removed Neural Damping from aliens (was causing lockups) | ||
| + | * Fixed: Animations firing at odd times when using certain carbines | ||
| + | * Fixed: Psi soldiers can no longer select neural damping | ||
| + | * Fixed: Too much psi training success | ||
| + | * Fixed: Removed ability to build alien grenades after they are made infinite | ||
| + | * Fixed: Panic bars for terror alerts and exalt propaganda should work correctly now | ||
| + | * Fixed: All new campaigns will automatically reset the map cycler, so there should be no more need to do this on your own | ||
| + | * Fixed: Bombardier and Grenadier perks will now properly increase range for MEC long*range weapons | ||
| + | * Fixed: Random stats on level up SW option was giving WAY TOO MUCH STATAGE, now fixed | ||
| + | * Fixed: Some work on malfunctioning psi*related AI that should make sectoids take flanking shots way more often | ||
| + | * Fixed: CTD on using Flush on a brainsucking seeker | ||
| + | * Fixed: Soldier mind*merge / heal issue | ||
| + | * Fixed: Vanilla*rooted exploit that gave you unlimited rocket launcher range | ||
| + | * Fixed: More work on psi*related AI so they are smart about when to shoot | ||
| + | * Fixed: Removed too*buggy launch ability from seraphim armor, and improved SA's mobility & defense stat instead | ||
| + | * Fixed: Disabling Shot can no longer cause critical hits | ||
| + | * Fixed: Mayhem bonus damage now applies to Head Shots | ||
| + | * Fixed: Repairing SHIVs with an Arc Thrower will now remove Red Fog penalties | ||
| + | * Fixed: Upsized aliens will remain upsized upon reloading tactical save games | ||
| + | * Fixed: VANILLA bug in which ITZ didn't trigger if kill was caused by bonus shredder or HEAT damage | ||
| + | * Fixed: VANILLA bug in which the Aim interceptor module DID NOTHING HELP YOU AT ALL. SERIOUSLY. THIS HAS NEVER WORKED. | ||
| + | * Fixed: Bug in which unequip all button gave SHIVs an assault rifle | ||
| + | * Fixed: Too*large MEC armor inventory images | ||
| + | * Lame Fix: Updated XCOM database text to explain that all construction and research stops during combat missions, as all personnel are busy providing mission support | ||
| + | BALANCING: | ||
| + | * Spaced out early Drone DR upgrades | ||
| + | * Spaced out EXALT trooper upgrades | ||
| + | * Scaled back pace of difficulty increase of Exalt missions | ||
| + | * Sniper Rifles and Marksman Rifles will have much greater aim falloff at close ranges | ||
| + | * Adjusted several perk trees | ||
| + | * Ignored UFOs raise panic by 2 (just like damaged ones), so there's no reason to game the system by quick*intercepting/retreating UFOs | ||
| + | * Adjusted panic rolling so the chances of catastrophic panic outcomes are lower, but panic remains a problem for longer in the campaign. You will now get some onscreen feedback about your panic rolls. | ||
| + | * HEAT Ammo perk now only applies to your primary weapon. | ||
| + | * Using training roulette means you no longer get stat bonuses from specific perk selections | ||
| + | * Eliminated multi*country Exalt clues, meaning it's gonna take awhile to find their base | ||
| + | * Lock N' Load now grants +1 ammo in all cases, and if you take it as a perk ability, using reload as your first action does not end your turn | ||
| + | * Adjusted Diminishing Returns SW option to be compatible with LW | ||
| + | * Red Fog aim penalty capped at *40 instead of *50. | ||
| + | * NSLW: Increased threshold for XCOM HQ Assault to occur | ||
| + | * Captured plasma weapons may no longer be used directly by XCOM; instead they are necessary for XCOM to construct their own plasma weapons of any type | ||
| + | * Significant increases in many mid/late game research times and engineer requirements | ||
| + | * Foundry buildable at start | ||
| + | * New foundry project to unlock air consumables, available at alien materials. UFO Tracking (Boost) unlocked with project; Aim and Dodge unlocked with project and prior techs. Some changes to costs of all consumables. | ||
| + | * EMP Cannon effectiveness at causing artifacts to survive a crash reduced to keep late*game economy from getting out of control. | ||
| + | * Increased engineer and scientist minimums to build more workshops and labs | ||
| + | * Reworked some council item requests to grant more engineers | ||
| + | * Rookies will equip alien grenades instead of HE grenades once you finish the alien grenades foundry project (when they randomly roll up that kind of grenade) | ||
| + | * Significant rebalancing of Not*So*Long*War SW option so the economy scales properly with reduced mission density; removed most time*related settings impacted by NSLW | ||
| + | * Improved Ethereal Psi Drain ability | ||
| + | * Abduction cash reward now scales a little with mission difficulty | ||
| + | * Removed short*range interceptor weapon quality entirely from the game; all interceptor weapons will now fire from the same (long) range. Balanced several weapon values and alien UFO upgrades in light of this increased capability for certain weapons. | ||
| + | * Interceptor experience now provides +3% to hit per kill (up to + 30%) and +1% damage per kill (with no top limit) | ||
| + | * Genemods now have variable timeouts that scale with their utility; Amount of extra timeouts for genemods and psi powers now described in perk texts (current +12 for all psi powers, +3 to +12 for genemods) | ||
| + | * Added condition that will force alien assault on XCOM HQ late in the game if you haven't had one yet. | ||
| + | * Smart Macrophages genemod now also confers complete immunity to poison and acid | ||
| + | * Repair Servos perk made more interesting, now heals up to half your HP at rate of 2 per turn (total healable amount goes down as you take more damage) | ||
| + | * In The Zone confers a cumulative critical hit % penalty after each successive shot | ||
| + | * Lotsa little stuff | ||
* Crash to desktop when covert operation completes. Fixed in beta 11. | * Crash to desktop when covert operation completes. Fixed in beta 11. | ||
| − | === Beta 9 === | + | ===Beta 9 (May 10, 2014)=== |
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| + | * Fixed: Some campaigns still lock up on start because of armor deco settings for reasons I can't fathom. Going forward, armor deco will be set to default (*1) to avoid this, but can be changed by players in DefaultGameCore.ini. | ||
| + | * Fixed: CTD Bug when alien regenerates when offscreen | ||
| + | * Fixed: Carbines now have armorkits, meaning you won't lose armor decos when equipping carbines | ||
| + | * Fixed: North America will supply proper number of scientists with 3 countries on Normal and Classic | ||
| + | * Fixed: Phoenix Coilgun unlocked by Gauss Weapons again (erroneously put under Advanced Gauss in B7/B | ||
| + | * Attempted fix: Changed text string "Suborbital" to "Very High" to address missing altitude text strings on hunts | ||
| + | * Attempted fix: Swapping weapons after activating run n gun initializes the regular set of ability options | ||
| + | * Fixed: CTD when finishing Tactical Rigging project | ||
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| + | Balancing: | ||
| + | * Larger pods will now be distributed over a wider area when spawned | ||
| + | * Adjusted starting cash ** Can now set starting cash bonus as specific to starting continent ... South America and Africa get a large relative boost; Asia a small one, Europe stays the same and North America a small reduction | ||
| + | * Rewrote mechanism that generates satellite hunts from scout missions; now damaging a scout and/or native country defense (the shield thingey) reduce chances of a hunt, while alien research increases it. This does not change whether a hunt is successful, or the direct generation of hunt missions without scout missions that can occur. Also slightly reduced conditions under which a destroyer will spawn on a hunt and increased conditions under which you'll get a fighter instead | ||
| + | * Swapped the effects/themes of pulse and beam lasers on the tech tree, with beam lasers doing less damage and pulse more. The aim*bonus*beam laser is available early (with lower overall damage), and the crit*bonus*pulse laser late (with higher overall damage), possibly making them more interesting alternatives to plasma. | ||
* Enemy tech progression difficulty inverted, so aliens on Normal teched up at Impossible rate and vice versa. Fixed in beta 10, Manual fix [http://www.reddit.com/r/Xcom/comments/25rzwz/long_war_psa_a_bug_was_discovered_that_makes/ here]. | * Enemy tech progression difficulty inverted, so aliens on Normal teched up at Impossible rate and vice versa. Fixed in beta 10, Manual fix [http://www.reddit.com/r/Xcom/comments/25rzwz/long_war_psa_a_bug_was_discovered_that_makes/ here]. | ||
| − | * Overseer UFO always explodes if sucessfully attacked. Fixed in Beta 10 onwards, workaround hex | + | * Overseer UFO always explodes if sucessfully attacked. Fixed in Beta 10 onwards, workaround hex*edit fix available in Nexus Forums. |
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| + | ===Beta 8 (May 8, 2014)=== | ||
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| + | * Fixed: CTDs on map selection for Fighter, Raider, Terror Ship and Assault Carrier UFOs. | ||
| + | * Fixed: Various typos | ||
| + | * Fixed: Psionic Alien AI should now weigh its situation differently and use psi powers in a more measured and dangerous way, rather than spamming | ||
| + | * Fixed: CTD when killing a mindmerger*sectoid | ||
| + | * Fixed: Randomized subclass selection option sometimes picking from the pair of subclasses you don't want | ||
| + | * Fixed: Regeneration always fully healing aliens; now it should just heal the proper amount | ||
| + | * Attempted fix: Some animation hangs when seekers try to stealth near a stealth*denying unit | ||
| + | * Fixed: On NSLW various projects that require an item to complete will no longer drop 1*item requirements (so rebuild SHIV projects will now properly require 1 SHIV chassis) | ||
| + | * Attempted Fix: Gave outsiders some movement related settings so they can jump off a UFO roof if necessary | ||
| + | * Damage when poisoned will now say "ACID" so it makes more sense when a robot takes this kind of damage | ||
| + | * Fixed: Panicking suppressor will now move to cover before hunkering down | ||
| + | * Fixed: Unlimited moves bug when swapping to pistol | ||
| + | * Fixed: Exploit in which swapping weapons transferred some bonuses that shouldn't be transferring | ||
| + | * Attempted Fix: Removed Vanilla EU Tutorial map from rotation to attempt to address Mid*mission CTDs | ||
| + | * Fixed: New Economy | ||
| + | * Attempted Fix: pawn weirdness in mission setup | ||
| + | * Attempted Fix: Removed a set of conditions that could generate a hunt mission in an attempt to address satellites randomly blowing up. | ||
| + | * Fixed: Hitting alt*O during a dash lets dashing soldier go into overwatch. You may now only hit alt*O and get results when the active unit isn't doing anything, and it will only apply to other units with moves left and aren't doing anything. | ||
| + | * Fix try 2: Dead officer billets not cycling back to availability after a few missions | ||
| + | * Fixed: Alien flags visible in fog of war | ||
| + | * Sorta fixed: Battlescanner showing poisoned if thrown through poison cloud (Attempting to address). Should now show "immune" | ||
| + | * Fixed: Put in LR adjustment code that was noted in Beta 7 (code was using Beta 6 version of Lightning Reflexes) | ||
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| + | Balancing: | ||
| + | * Alien Trophies and Mind Shield now grant "Steadfast" perk. Alien Trophies no longer provide will bonus; MS will bonus reduced to 25 from 30. | ||
| + | * New explosives damage falloff code will use a different calculation for how much damage at a given location. Net effect should be more damage near the center of an explosion. Lowered AOE of AP grenade so it's equal with HE; reduced base throw range of all alien grenades, so they max at visual range with grenadier+bombardier. Returned rocket launcher damage to Beta 6 levels. | ||
| + | * Acid (Poison) damage will be assessed no longer every turn; instead, it will ONLY be assessed when you take any action other than hunker down (head down for civilians). Skipping your turn and doing nothing will also prevent this damage. Alien AI trained to know this, as well. | ||
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| + | ===Beta 7 (May 4, 2014)=== | ||
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| + | Bugfixes: | ||
| + | * Fixed: Messed up decos on Phalanx, Carapace, Banshee and Corsair armor | ||
| + | * Fixed: Bug preventing sectoids from Mind*merging most of the time | ||
| + | * Fixed: Some interrogation texts, Experimental Warfare text, Chryssy autopsy text, Smart Macrophages description, Mec*1 and Mec*2 descriptions | ||
| + | * Fixed: Bug causing too much critical damage | ||
| + | * Fixed: Some behind*the*scenes bugs generating log warnings | ||
| + | * Fixed: Soldiers appearing on wrong plinth with expanded squads | ||
| + | * Fixed: SHIV items not displaying more detailed tactical text in engineering UI (when you hit the question mark) | ||
| + | * Fixed: Targeting Detail displays incorrect total crit % chance | ||
| + | * Fixed: Muton Elites showing up as Mectoid escorts | ||
| + | * Fixed: Some cases where tutorial*related code was triggering | ||
| + | * Fixed: Psi troopers should now be able to equip Mind Shield | ||
| + | * Fixed: Vanilla bug in which targeting a piece of cover granted perfect rocket accuracy | ||
| + | * Returned BattleScanner to default settings because we've been getting a bunch of reports about bugs related to battlescanner but I really don't know if this will do anything | ||
| + | * Fixed: Bug in RestoreBackedUpInventory which wasn't restoring your first small item | ||
| + | * Fixed: Text bug misreporting possible Mindfray damage | ||
| + | * Fixed: So Others May Live text | ||
| + | * Fixed: Bug in NSLW code that granted too little elerium from Power Sources | ||
| + | * Fixed: Bugged code for Site Recon mission preventing chryssalids from showing up in sufficient numbers | ||
| + | * Fixed: CTD when volunteer tries to change equipment | ||
| + | * Fixed: Psi Grenade animation & displacement issues | ||
| + | * Fixed: Bad leader assignments of Sharpshooter perk | ||
| + | * Fixed: Text bug when you don't have OTS prereqs | ||
| + | * Fixed: Some bugs with perks when tearing down/rebuilding OTS and Foundry; you can no longer remove those buildings once built | ||
| + | * "Fixed": Distortion Field not giving bonus to psi who has the ability, even in cover. We can't change this, so this is no longer a bug but a feature. | ||
| + | * Fixed: Superheavy Plasma inventory image. | ||
| + | * Fixed: In the Zone perk should work now | ||
| + | * Fixed: Core Armoring SHIV item should display correct inventory image | ||
| + | * Fixed: Holo*Targeter text | ||
| + | * Fixed: Basic and Pulse weapons should display proper images in HUD | ||
| + | * Fixed: Reaper Rounds will now work with Alloy Cannon | ||
| + | * Fixed: Text reporting various plating items don't help covert operative | ||
| + | * Fixed: Muton Elite late game tertiary escort options | ||
| + | * Fixed: Aliens not regenerating when out of view | ||
| + | * Fixed: CTD when you lose your 21st country (meaning you've retaken and lost several) | ||
| + | * Fixed: MECs sometimes showing up as eligible for Psi training, also added doublechecks to ensure officers and SHIVs aren't eligible | ||
| + | * Fixed: To Hit detail displays incorrect total %stun chance | ||
| + | * Attempted Fix: CTD when MEC panics | ||
| + | * Fixed: Some replacement soldier orders getting lost (when one is already queued up) VANILLA BUG, THANK YOU | ||
| + | * Attempted Fix of reports of MECs getting unearned wounds from first mission (set fatigued flag to false when MEC undergoes conversion) | ||
| + | * Attempted fix: Officer promotions not cycling back after soldier deaths in designed time frame | ||
| + | * Fixed: Red Fog display in target screen showing up as bonus instead of penalty | ||
| + | * Attempted fix: Nasty Vanilla suppression bugs when soldier becomes "unglued" from terrain | ||
| + | * Fixed: Outsider shard creates two distinct items in gray market (will no longer be available for sale) | ||
| + | * Fixed: Soldier can mind*merge with a battlescanner | ||
| + | * "Fixed": Updated psi*power text to better fit inability to use both mind*merge and psi inspiration on same soldier | ||
| + | * "Fixed": Lowered Cyberdisc death blossom preference to almost nothing (the attack wasn't working right, so this deals with the bug by preventing them from using it) | ||
| + | * Fixed: Bad pod support alien call when rolling up an elite operative, could be causing black screens on mission start | ||
| + | * Fixed: Losing or dismissing an interceptor or Firestorm wasn't decrementing correct item | ||
| + | * Fixed: Int and FS Maintenance costs incorrectly calculated | ||
| + | * Fixed: CTD bug when overseer blows up (no longer reachable in any case) | ||
| + | * Fixed: Balanced to get additional HP on level up with random stat increase SW option | ||
| + | * Fixed: Reversed Plasma Carbine and Plasma Rifle item requests | ||
| + | * Fixed: Alien plasma Weapon crit chances were zeroed out instead of being equal to crit chances of comparable XCOM plasma weapons | ||
| + | * Fixed: Mectoids unable to reload after being hit with Disabling shot | ||
| + | * Fixed: Swapping weapons on damaged fighters sometimes resets repair time | ||
| + | * Fixed: Adjusted AI governing psi powers so ethereals should use psilance more | ||
| + | * Fixed: Vanilla bug preventing mouse control from rotating geospace | ||
| + | * Fixed: Set a check and a default Armor Deco value of *1, meaning the game should ignore the special code for altering initial decos and go with vanilla default; you can still set it manually (in case this is causing first*mission lockups) | ||
| + | * Partial Fix: Airborne AI units sometimes freeze ** seen a suppressed floater and an unsuppressed drone appear to do nothing (we think this was a vanilla bug) | ||
| + | * Workaround: Setting starting armor deco to 67 (kevlar deco 0 ... sleeveless with no elbow pads) causes lockup: Set it to *1 (or 0 in Beta 6) | ||
| + | * Fixed: Pilots reverting from Cmdr. to Col. after 10th kill. | ||
| + | * Fixed: Leaders were upgrading defense and not aim from aim stat | ||
| + | * Fixed (I think) Weird pawn appearance on plinth before mission, related to cybernetic augmentation. Newly modified soldier maintains some elements of prior deco until deco modified when MEC suit added. | ||
| + | * Fixed: Furies unable to level up for Psis | ||
| + | * Fixed: Bug in which canister meld was granted when you fled mission | ||
| + | * Attempted fix: Finishing Tactical Rigging would overwrite (and destroy) whatever items were in your second slot | ||
| + | * Fixed: Perks assigned to SHIV AutoSentry Turret and Adapative Tracking Pods corrected to what text says the should be doing | ||
| + | * Fixed: Buggy assignment of Fire Rocket to Engineer subclass | ||
| + | * Fixed: Removed Rapid Reaction from list of perks exposed to Training Roulette because it was still showing up on trees with Sentinel | ||
| + | * Fixed: Soldier jumping genemod perk animation sometimes missing. This fix may fix some other perk*related animation issues as well. | ||
| + | * Attempted Fix: Continent bonuses not being properly restored upon liberation of base (satellite sometimes providing it over country before base is liberated) | ||
| + | * Fixed: Banshee armor inventory image missing, incorrect depleted elerium rounds inv image | ||
| + | * Fixed: Missing mission*based PsiXP for Psi Shadow | ||
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| + | Features/Gameplay changes | ||
| + | * You will now see chief soldier stats (Health, Mobility, Will, Aim, Defense) in most soldier lists | ||
| + | * Alien spawns will now be randomized on maps (thanks WGhost). Added a few maps back into various rotations. | ||
| + | * Significant overhaul of Grenade, Poison spit and Rocket launcher mechanics. New calculation method for rocket scatter, and a number of abilities (suppression, disorientation, poisoned, mindfrayed) apply penalties to range (for grenades, spit, Exalt rocket launchers) or accuracy (for XCom rocket launchers). | ||
| + | * You may now set rookie headgear in DGC.ini | ||
| + | * Included a list of candidate colors & decos in a text file for use in changing ini settings | ||
| + | * Gas Grenade is now a "chem grenade." Against unprotected targets, it applies a mobility penalty plus damage for every action you take, but hunkering down or standing still reduces the damage. Against all targets who aren't poisonous themselves (including robots, but not Thin Men, Zombies or Chryssies), it also acts as acid, reducing non*cover based damage reduction and conferring an aim penalty. This effect also applies to Chyrssalid and Thin Man poison (which is basically the same stuff). | ||
| + | * Soldier supra*class (Tactical, Weapons, etc.) will now tilt toward the class you have the least of, with a 50/50 chance of being that class; otherwise it will be one of the other three. Added ini setting so you can adjust chance of getting least common class. | ||
| + | * Progeny now activated by default | ||
| + | * Temple Ship mission should be quite a bit more challenging now | ||
| + | * Added Super Skyranger foundry project, which gives +2 squad size on alien base and Exalt HQ assaults, and +4 on the Temple Ship (max of 12, even if you mod the game to give a higher base) | ||
| + | * Surviving Blueshirts from base defense missions join XCOM as PFCs | ||
| + | * Deceased Blueshirts from base defense missions are honored on the memorial wall | ||
| + | * Added Alien Nucleonics foundry project to increase elerium extracted from UFO power sources | ||
| + | * Added Improved Salvage Techniques foundry project that increases Weapon Fragments from missions by 25% | ||
| + | * Added Fast Mover perk that functions as a half*power sprinter (but can be stacked with sprinter). This will generally be attached to items. | ||
| + | * UFO alerts now include an altitude indicator, providing a clue of the UFO's mission (and whether it will land) | ||
| + | * Landed UFOs will now infrequently be ambushes, with many, many extra troops than a normal landed UFO. This will become more likely if the aliens are suffering serious losses at the hands of XCOM. | ||
| + | * Rewrote critical hit code from scratch to fix vanilla issues with smoke grenade. Should mostly work the same, with following changes: Sharpshooter gives +10% crit in all cases. Executioner gives +10% crit when targeting a unit at 50% or less health. Foundry Scope upgrade gives +5% crit chance to laser sight. Squadsight*range shots face a severe crit penalty, but it isn't eliminated entirely. | ||
| + | * Four new primary weapons are available: Assault Carbine, Gauss Carbine, Pulse Carbine, Laser Carbine. They all get an aim bonus, crit penalty and do *1 damage relative to the equivalent rifle. They all (along with the plasma carbine) grant the "Fast Mover" perk. | ||
| + | * You may now use the F1*F7 keys in the Geoscape view to shift the camera to focus on your five interceptor bases, plus the north and south poles. | ||
| + | * Added a series of UFO class*specific UFO Analysis technologies that are unlocked by Alien Materials & a successful raid on a UFO of that class. It will provide +10% damage on all hits on UFOs of that class (as well as some guidance in the text about effective weapons against this particular UFO). They'll be quick research projects for the most part ** shorter than autopsies. | ||
| + | * Significant overhaul of seeker AI and capabilities. | ||
| + | * You can now build a skeleton key before orbiting a satellite over an occupied country. | ||
| + | * Aliens will now steadily introduce pod leaders with new capabilities, and higher*level leaders will grow more frequent in the late game and on alien base assaults. | ||
| + | * Aliens able to field monsters and other unique opponents on a few terror missions now. | ||
| + | * Exalt now has a true boss and some lieutenants. | ||
| + | * Damage popups now display Damage reduction effects (if any) | ||
| + | * Suppressing with an LMG*class weapon now temporarily grants Opportunist perk and bonuses if an suppressed target tries to move; removed Opportunist from Gunner tree | ||
| + | * Added New Combat Systems foundry project that unlocks some heavy* and assault* specific small items, such as Reaper Rounds, Alloy Bipod (with Alien Materials), Armor Piercing Ammo (with Alien Materials), Smartgun Kit (Gauss LMG also renamed Gauss Autorifle to avoid confusion) for Heavy and Breaching Ammo (with Alien Materials), Shredder Ammo With Alien Materials) and Impact Vest (with Mobile Power Armor) for Assault; Marksman's Scope, Illuminator Gunsight, and Laser Designator for Scout, and Chem Grenade (with Thin Man Autopsy) for everyone | ||
| + | * Added Walker Servos, an assault*only item granting Fast Mover perk, granted by Advanced Servomotors Foundry project | ||
| + | * Added Psi Warfare Systems Foundry project, necessary to unlock certain psi*only items that provide significant bonuses: Aurora Armor (with Improved Body Armor), Psi Grenade, Psi Screen (with Mectoid Autopsy), Neural Gunlink (with Alien Biocybernetics), Ghost Grenade (with Seeker Autopsy), Mind Shield (with Sectoid Commander Autopsy). Ghost Grenade is now Psi*only. Some Psi*only items temporarily draw down the soldier's will, while others raise it. | ||
| + | * Added Tactical Sensors MEC small item, conferring, you guessed it, Tactical Sense perk | ||
| + | * Added Shredder Ammo perk (reworked Shredder Rocket). Functions as before for Rocketeers; On other classes it adds shredder effect from hits from gun. Added to Gunner, Valkyrie and Jaeger trees. | ||
| + | * On Covert Ops Data recovery missions (not Capture and Hold), you may only bring a maximum of four soldiers. (Thanks to whoever suggested this! | ||
| + | * "ALT*O" key combo now puts all soldiers with moves remaining on overwatch (with no confirm, so be careful ** and remember snipers don't fire overwatch shots at squadsight ranges) | ||
| + | * Added ability to repair destroyed SHIVs via engineering projects. Adjusted SHIV build costs and reduced regular repair times. | ||
| + | * Explosive damage now scales downward from point of detonation (although it is still moderately randomized) to edge of area of effect. Adjusted some explosives stats to compensate. | ||
| + | * When leveling up rookies, you now have a third "random subclass" option if you want to go for something other than the pair presented. | ||
| + | * Added "Psychokinetic Strike" psi power that allows psi soldier to blow up cover | ||
| + | * MEC gear (except armor) will now appear in "vehicles" tab with SHIV gear instead in regular soldier gear tab. This allows us to combine a half*dozen small items to make them equippable by both MECs and SHIVs. | ||
| + | * Completion of rearming, refueling, repairing or transfer of an aircraft on a continent when a UFO is overhead will now pause the geoscape, allowing you to launch an interception | ||
| + | |||
| + | Balancing: | ||
| + | * UFOs that are to land on harvest and research missions will now head straight for their destination rather than fly around like a great big target, giving you less time to shoot them down. This means that you should see more landed small UFO missions (which have been too easy to miss because they are fairly easy to shoot down). In addition, larger UFOs on certain missions will fly in ways that give a clue to the nature of the mission and what's coming next. | ||
| + | * Hunter UFOs are now visible anywhere in the world, regardless of satellite or interceptor coverage. This gives you a mechanism to prevent undetected UFOs on hunts shooting down satellites as you launch them. | ||
| + | * Reduced array of conditions that will generate a Hunter UFO. | ||
| + | * Thin Man poison spit range reduced slightly; Suppression now reduces it by half, gave Thin Men access to perks that can increases its range | ||
| + | * Minor AI changes to sectoid and in a few other places | ||
| + | * Increased some perk bonuses when selecting on level*up. Taking Steadfast, for example, should give +5 will. Covering Fire will give better aim bonuses. | ||
| + | * Steadfast perk should now protect against chain panic | ||
| + | * Various grenade*throwing aliens no longer receive Bombard perk by default; instead it can show up as a leader or navigator perk. | ||
| + | * Significant rework of Interception Armor/Armor Piercing numbers. The intent (we'll see how it plays out) is to create smoother tiers of both weapons and ships | ||
| + | * Using a fatigued soldier on a mission deals 1 wound, not 2 | ||
| + | * Scaled down some damage upgrades for various aliens | ||
| + | * Aliens take research hit when they lose a base | ||
| + | * Gray market will offer 20% item value instead of 50% for non*artifact item sales; workshop rebates significantly reduced; cash rebates will be capped at 25% of item value (instead of total value * 1). This is to prevent exploit of selling items for more than their manufacture cost. | ||
| + | * Reduced outsider accuracy on Normal difficulty | ||
| + | * Stretched out many alien upgrades so they will happen over longer timeframe (general easing of difficulty) | ||
| + | * Reworked UFO encounter table some, should impact alien resource*gathering and frequency of raiders/destroyers in particular | ||
| + | * Blueshirts no longer receive will and HP nerfs | ||
| + | * Little more meld; little less in NSLW | ||
| + | * Increased cyberdisc frequency | ||
| + | * General increase in engineer requirements for many items, with a particular increase for mid* to late*game items | ||
| + | * Adjusted council requests for weaponry | ||
| + | * Engineer receives *1 mobility upon first promotion. (Solution: Use a carbine) | ||
| + | * Gene mods made cheaper again; extra timeout per genemod reduced to 6 hours | ||
| + | * Slightly reduced alloy recovery on normal (which I'd bumped in a prior Beta, but it's still more than other levels) and increased fragment recovery on all difficulties | ||
| + | * Adjustments to some research times | ||
| + | * Aliens marginally less likely to retreat, particularly in large pods that have taken losses | ||
| + | * Capped many council item request rewards at 2 scientists / engineers instead of 3 | ||
| + | * Reduced Infantry and Goliath aim bonuses on level up slightly, increased Guardian aim bonuses slightly | ||
| + | * Adjustments to some soldier armor stats; added an early armor tech for greater granularity in developing upgrades. Phalanx Armor is reasonably accessible early on; Carapace and Kestrel moved to "Advanced Body Armor." | ||
| + | * Chance of UFO blowing up versus crash*landing now scales with UFO size. Small UFOs slightly more likely to blow up; mediums the same as prior Betas; larger ones less likely. Overseer will never blow up, 'cause I think Insufferable Smartypants will blow a gasket when he finally kills an Overseer and it goes boom. | ||
| + | * MEC adjustments: Absorption Fields perk nerfed to cap at 40 percent damage reduction (vice 50), all MECs get +10 defense and 1 DR (2 DR if using One For All), and they get the Combined Arms perk, nullifying 1 point of enemy Cover DR; MEC*3 suit gets Tactical Sense perk automatically (see also new Tactical Sensors item for MEC*1 and MEC*2) | ||
| + | * Basic and Alloy SHIVs given +10 defense. (Hover SHIV gets +10 from new air evade bonus) | ||
| + | * Adjusted all MEC perk trees except Archer, removing Tactical Sense and Lock N' Load | ||
| + | * Adjusted Rocketeer tree to put Javelin Rockets at Master Sergeant | ||
| + | * Significant rewrite of Exalt mission code; elites should appear in a timely fashion and difficulty will ramp up as time goes on. Did some sprucing up of Exalt HQ raid, too. | ||
| + | * Set minimum damage on Neural Feedback to 1 (if it did 0 damage, it would appear it did nothing sometimes) | ||
| + | * Kinetic Strike Module now does variable damage | ||
| + | * Flamethrower now causes a panic roll, not auto*panic | ||
| + | * Railgun and Particle Cannon now get 3 ammo before reload is required (instead of 2) | ||
| + | * Lightning Reflexes now provides a 90% reaction fire to*hit penalty on the first shot, and 70% penalty on 2nd and additional shots | ||
| + | * Alien Neurology no longer requires so many fragements, but some sectoid corpses instead | ||
| + | * All environmental damage somewhat randomized; aliens now apply damage bonus to environmental damage as well. | ||
| + | * Defeating the Exalt base grants 25 meld | ||
| + | * You may sell SHIV chassis (from destroyed or dismantled SHIVs) on the gray market | ||
| + | * Alien AI will have a lower threshhold of determining a target vulnerable, which should making them a bit more shooty | ||
| + | * Telekinetic Field psi perk improved to not apply bonuses to enemies within field | ||
| + | * Neural Feedback now has a chance to protect nearby friendlies from psi attack | ||
| + | * Removed smoke grenade from TR exposed perks, added Vital Point Targeting in its place | ||
| + | * Medics and Scouts may now use shotgun*class weapons. Scouts may now use Sniper Rifles. Scout tree adjusted for Snap Shot at Gunnery Sergeant (and some other balancing moves). Scout won't have access to squadsight. This is to see if scouts can work as an optional "designated marksman" role that differs a bit from snipers. | ||
| + | * Lowered mission*based Psi XP from non*contested power | ||
| + | |||
| + | ===Beta 6 (March 29, 2014)=== | ||
| + | |||
| + | Bugfixes: | ||
| + | * Kinetic Strike Module, Electropulse will correctly have multiple uses (instead of 1) | ||
| + | * Aliens can now shoot down your satellites again | ||
| + | * Rookies are properly made ineligible for MEC conversion (and other fixes to MEC conversion candidacy) | ||
| + | * Fixed: Incorrect prompts for level 4 psi to finish game by entering gallop chamber. | ||
| + | * Fixed: Possibility for negative meld collection from containers. Also adjusted meld reward amounts to be more granular. | ||
| + | * Added missing text for Sectoid Commander prisoner transfer | ||
| + | * Fixed potential CTDs on most UFO missions after alien research gets particularly high (Thanks Minoitos and Teemredd31 for the savegames! ) | ||
| + | * Removed Combined Arms from showing up in Valkyrie perk tree and corrected with Packmaster | ||
| + | * Fixed: Aliens should use grenades again | ||
| + | * Fixed problem with Advanced Servomotors with workaround by creating new MEC small item that grants sprinter perk. Still applies general mobility bonus to all SHIVs. | ||
| + | * Reduced northernmost parts of UK and Germany slightly to see if that will reduce North Pole bug | ||
| + | * Fixed bug causing newly freed countries to be at max panic, should now be freed around 80 panic | ||
| + | * Fixed: You should no longer be able to access the vanilla MEC construction interface | ||
| + | * Attempted Fix: Using disabling shot on an alien in overwatch should no longer give the alien unlimited overwatch shots. | ||
| + | * Attempted Fix to CTD ** Suppressed sectoids will no longer try mind*merge | ||
| + | * Attempted Fix: Sending an interceptor after a landing UFO should abort interception after the UFO goes to ground | ||
| + | * Fixed: Prereqs for Alien Propulsion | ||
| + | * Fixed: Damage Control Pods should function now | ||
| + | * Fixed: Accidentally swapped SHIV Heal and Drone Capture requirements and tech tree position. | ||
| + | * Fixed: Alloy*Carbide Applique should show up as SHIV inventory item | ||
| + | * Fixed: Phoenix Cannon shows up under Gauss Weapons in line with posted tech tree (instead of Advanced Gauss Weapons) | ||
| + | * Fixed: Full list of unlocked foundry projects should appear when you complete a tech | ||
| + | * Fixed: Removed Suppression from candidate Training Roulette perks to avoid conflicts with class skills | ||
| + | * Fixed: Heavy Plasma tech now correctly requires Heavy Plasma items | ||
| + | * Reworked Rush build, adjusted some costs and bonuses (it should generally be better). Still one display bug, noted in Confirmed issues. | ||
| + | * Restorative Mist should show charges in equip UI now | ||
| + | * Set range of alien supply to keep things from getting out of hand (in either direction) and avoid weirdness of negative numbers | ||
| + | * Reduced size of largest big aliens to avoid graphical glitches | ||
| + | * Rewrote code that determines Exalt HQ assault forces | ||
| + | * Attempted to fix issues with multiple UFOs spawning simultaneously by randomizing their appearance time | ||
| + | * Psi icon will glow purple at level 1 sted 4 | ||
| + | * Fixed: Psi Training time should show correctly in barracks listing | ||
| + | * Fixed: Hyperwave should show correct alien counts | ||
| + | * Fixed: Bug in BuildPod preventing second main alien from being added | ||
| + | * Fixed: MEC suits will be available for use again if their driver is killed | ||
| + | * Fixed: Code to send best pilots to Firestorms should work now | ||
| + | * Rewrote tech credit code from scratch to better apply techs to credits | ||
| + | * Returned MEC weapon env damage to default | ||
| + | * Attempted fix: Reinforcements during base mission should show up properly now | ||
| + | * Fixed: Equipping multiple units of MEC large items now grant bonus charges | ||
| + | * Fixed: Each dead civilian on terror missions should be +3 panic in country, +1 on continent, instead of +4/+1 | ||
| + | * Fixed: You should properly get high mission XP from tough missions (such as terror missions) now, instead of zero | ||
| + | * Fixed: UFOs on certain types of missions will appear further away from their targets, giving you time to intercept them. | ||
| + | * Fatigued Soldiers defending against a base assault should no longer suffer exhaustion wounds, just more fatigue | ||
| + | * SHIVs may get called up for base assault defense | ||
| + | |||
| + | Features / Gameplay changes: | ||
| + | * Aliens now employ a UFO to assault XCOM's base. Losing the base mission does not mean the end of the game, but instead inflicts heavy damage on your resources. The aliens can now assault XCOM's base multiple times. | ||
| + | *Added ability that lets you set soldiers' initial armor deco and color via repurposed DefaultGameCore.ini entries, and one*time class*dependent color and headgear change upon promotion to specialist | ||
| + | * Added Alien Metallurgy Foundry project, which increases the alloys you recover from UFOs you shoot down | ||
| + | * Added small items: Alloy Belt for SHIVs (Alien Materials) and Alloy Hauberk for MECs (MEC Warfare) (provide bonus HP); Psi Grenade (enhanced Flashbang for Psi Troopers) | ||
| + | * Added some armor deco choices. Genemods will no longer be restricted to eight genemod*specific decos. | ||
| + | * You may now transfer damaged interceptors to other continents for repair. | ||
| + | * You may now rearm damaged interceptors, freeing up their weapon for other aircraft. Rearming an aircraft now takes 7 days for all weapons derived from alien techs; 12 hours for basic missile weapons. | ||
| + | * Interceptors and UFOs may now score (and suffer) from critical hits, in which a hit does double damage. Armor Piercing weapons increase the chance of critical hits, while armor (not hit points) reduces it. This may lead to interceptors being shot down more often. | ||
| + | * Using Steady Weapon ability now plays overwatch sound effect | ||
| + | * You may now sell captives directly on the gray market. The amount of money offered is low; the primary purpose for you to check your inventory of captives at any give time. (Thanks for the suggestion! | ||
| + | * Added a few of the larger abduction maps to the terror mission rotation | ||
| + | |||
| + | Balancing: | ||
| + | * Testing increased throw and scan range of battlescanner | ||
| + | * Mec*1 and Mec*2 get 1 extra small item slot | ||
| + | * Basic SHIV gets +1 hp and 1 extra small item slot | ||
| + | * Increased Meld recovered from canisters; when playing with Not*So*Long*War second wave option you should get A LOT more | ||
| + | * Reduced cost of some genemods | ||
| + | * Reduced timeout per genemod to 8 hours per | ||
| + | * Reduced cost of Alloy SHIV to $250 and Hover Shiv to $350, Increased Alloy SHIV engineer requirements and moved to Improved Body Armor as prereq | ||
| + | * Added Alien Materials as prereq for Alien Biocybernetics | ||
| + | * Significantly reduced chance to lose countries with max panic each month if you have a satellite there | ||
| + | * Reduced cyber's preference for death blossom | ||
| + | * Increased MEC trooper conversion time to 10 days | ||
| + | * It will take longer for aliens to begin accumulating significant "bonus" research; Also lowered somewhat multiplier determining when aliens level up on lower difficulties | ||
| + | * Tanks now get same defense bonus as XCom on lower difficulties | ||
| + | * Lowered build times but increased cost of mid*tier interceptor weapons | ||
| + | * Improvements and stronger upgrades for sectoid, thin man, outsider, Muton | ||
| + | * Rocketeer gets a more aim on level*ups, less hit points | ||
| + | * Spread out level*up will bonuses quite a bit more | ||
| + | * You now should generally have more time to engage UFOs on missions | ||
| + | * Cyberdisc Death Blossom should be more hurty now | ||
| + | * Increased panic chance when nearby soldiers panicking | ||
| + | * Aurora Armor now limited to Psis only | ||
| + | * Rework of HEAT and explosives damage code to provide more even bonuses | ||
| + | * Reduced base crit chance provided by gauss sniper rifle | ||
| + | * Reworked seeker AI | ||
| + | * Reduced some alien damage upgrades | ||
| + | * All MEC armors have +2 hit points | ||
| + | * Little more damage from EMP Cannon, little less expensive | ||
| + | * Significant reworks to Goliath (Damage*absorbing monster) and Guardian (not forced into medic path, best overwatch perks), with adjustments to most of the other MEC classes | ||
| + | * Mimic Beacon now psionic*only item and much cheaper | ||
| + | * Increased mectoid accuracy | ||
| + | |||
| + | ===Beta 5 (March 15, 2014)=== | ||
| + | |||
| + | Bugfixes | ||
| + | * Fixed: SHIV unloading Tread Deck after mission and equipping kevlar armor instead | ||
| + | * Fixed: Extra Conditioning should work with all armors now | ||
| + | * Fixed: Psis should no longer be locked out from all items | ||
| + | * Fixed: Tech report for Advanced Beam Lasers should display properly now | ||
| + | * Fixed: HEAT Ammo and Shredder Rocket text on damage bonuses | ||
| + | * Attempted Fix: CTD after alien grenades foundry project completed | ||
| + | * Fixed: CTD when Berserker uses Bullrush ability | ||
| + | * Attempted Fix: Hang when defeating second alien base | ||
| + | * Removed poorly performing terror maps (dam and fishing village) from terror mission rotation | ||
| + | * Attempted fixes to unimpressive enemy forces on Exalt missions | ||
| + | |||
| + | Features: | ||
| + | * Pilots (if you rename them) will now carry ranks commensurate with the number of kills they have achieved | ||
| + | |||
| + | Balance: | ||
| + | * Some adjustments to alien encounter table, net effect will be slight easing of difficulty | ||
| + | * Adjusted when council missions may occur | ||
| + | |||
| + | ==Beta 4 (March 13, 2014)== | ||
| + | * Rebuilt to work with EW Patch 3 (March 10, 2014 patch) | ||
| + | |||
| + | Bugfixes: | ||
| + | * Terror Missions should properly scale up now | ||
| + | * Game no longer freezes when you finish Iron Skin or Smart Macrophages projects (there will be no cinematic for these) | ||
| + | * Removed nonfunctioning Squadsight from Jaeger tree and reworked tree a bit | ||
| + | * Fixed: Medikits (and possibly other items) provide charges in Slot 2 regardless of loadout | ||
| + | * Rewrote malfunctioning supra*class selection code to just randomly pick after the one of each of the first four classes have been awarded | ||
| + | * Code to prevent alien grenades from being sell*able in the gray market once they are infinite | ||
| + | |||
| + | Gameplay/Features: | ||
| + | * Close and Personal renamed Close Encounters, because Hicks | ||
| + | |||
| + | Balancing Adjustments: | ||
| + | * Alien unit upgrades significantly slowed on lower difficulties. | ||
| + | * Alien Computers council request now for 2 instead of 5 units | ||
| + | * Alien Power Source council request now for 2 instead of 3 units | ||
| + | * Increased Sectoid Will gain over time | ||
| + | * Slight reduction in Pulse Laser, Xenopsionics, Xenogenetics and Alien Biocybernetics research time and resources required | ||
| + | * Slight increase in Advanced Aerospace Concepts research time | ||
| + | * Significant reduction in cost and maintenance requirements for psilabs | ||
| + | * Relative increase in drone pods after first few months | ||
| + | * Aliens will launch terror missions in a few more strategic situations | ||
| + | * HEAT Ammo, HEAT Warheads and Shredder Rockets made somewhat more effective | ||
| + | * Alien Grenades foundry project upgrades needle grenades by +2 damage | ||
| + | |||
| + | ===Beta 3 (March 9, 2014)=== | ||
| + | Fixed issues for Beta 3 | ||
| + | * Soldier deploys on cover on pier council mission. | ||
| + | * Bug in Assault perk tree (Close and Personal) | ||
| + | * Bug in Rocketeer perk*based stat upgrades (mobility) | ||
| + | * Training Roulette fixed | ||
| + | * A bunch of text fixes for items (including Phalanx and Aegis armors, also council item thank yous shouldn't overflow into reward line anymore) | ||
| + | * Certain MEC "items" that shouldn't appear in engineering won't appear in engineering | ||
| + | * Attempted fix: Installation fails when XCom isn't in primary Steam folder. Hex edit solution appended downforum. | ||
| + | * Probably fixed: Some users reporting rotating through a very small set of maps | ||
| + | * Fixed MEC Warfare Systems foundry project not initializing | ||
| + | * Fixed War Weariness. | ||
| + | * Fixed Results Driven. | ||
| + | * Fixed MEC equipping problems. | ||
| + | * Fixed bugged XP check for Psi level*ups. | ||
| + | * Fixed some problematic base assault code | ||
| + | * Fixed Xenopsionics not showing up in research archives | ||
| + | * Fixed SHIV Suppression and MEC Close Combat not appearing in Foundry list when tech tree says it should | ||
| + | * Fixed Sectoid corpse council item request (was requesting alloys for cash, should now request corpses for scientists). | ||
| + | * Fixed live Berserker and Muton requests | ||
| + | * Requests should now properly alert you that they include panic reduction as a reward | ||
| + | * CTD in genemod selection (occurs sporadically after several clicks on double*click of brain damping and maybe another mod) | ||
| + | * CTD when Exalt Heavy fires rocket; also issues with ranging | ||
| + | * Attempted fix to seeker staying stealthed indefinitely | ||
| + | * Attempted fix soldier not always leveling up when selecting Steadfast | ||
| + | * Attempted fix: Certain gear changes not being properly saved; Loadouts after missions should be saved; any changes made in barracks will overwrite saved loadout and generate new saved loadout | ||
| + | * Fixed: CTD in psi selection, and some other bad code | ||
| + | * Item cards should now display correct charge information (including perk info in equipping screen) | ||
| + | * Some inventory image fixes | ||
| + | * Fixed: Completing Armored Fighters project leaves fighters "injured" but not repairing | ||
| + | * Fixed: Game freezing when applying flush and panic*move effects on hunkered soldiers and aliens; hunker now provides immunity to any forced*moves | ||
| + | * Fixed: * Mind merge animation doesn't always disappear when sectoids get zapped | ||
| + | * Fixed some discrepancies in rush build code, not sure if was causing problems or not | ||
| + | * Attempted fix for mindmerge*Mectoid shield misbehavior | ||
| + | * Fixed bug that was providing wrong cash payouts for blowing up UFOs | ||
| + | * Attempted fix to Arc Thrower stun fails | ||
| + | * Fixed bug in which using keyboard to select soldiers allowed you to violate squad size limits | ||
| + | |||
| + | Added Features / Gameplay changes: | ||
| + | * Alt*F1 toggles HUD in tactical game | ||
| + | * Alt*F2 through Alt*F9 offers some new camera angles | ||
| + | * Grenadier now applies +1 greande to direct*damage grenades only | ||
| + | * Smoke and Mirrors now applies +1 grenade for all support grenades | ||
| + | * Lightning Reflexes now applies a severe aim penalty to all reaction/overwatch fire directed at the unit, rather than affording perfect defense against the first shot. This mean units activating LR can always be hit, but it should be pretty rare. | ||
| + | * When a unit is suppressed and breaks cover to run, the reaction shot now takes effect *after* the unit has left cover, making doing so more dangerous | ||
| + | * Fixed: Scatter Laser now properly becomes available with Advanced Pulse Lasers tech | ||
| + | * Attempted Fix: Covert Operative not fatiguing properly | ||
| + | |||
| + | Balancing adjustments: | ||
| + | * Made Phalanx Armor a little more expensive and removed defense bonus. | ||
| + | * Reduced initial Cyberdisc DR by 1. | ||
| + | * Reduced flashbang effect duration by 1/2 turn. | ||
| + | * Reduced Psi Training time | ||
| + | * Swapped Dense Smoke and Smoke and Mirrors on Engineer tree | ||
| + | * Reworked psi XP to avoid gamey opportunities to get more | ||
| + | * Rush*building any item costs a minimum of 1 meld | ||
| + | * Rush*building facilities costs 10 meld | ||
| + | * AP Grenade now ignores cover*based DR (and will do more damage) | ||
| + | * Blowing up UFOs entirely provides some alloy salvage | ||
| + | * Floaters now offer a little alloy salvage; Seekers now offer alloy and elerium salvage | ||
| + | * Aliens will be grow more annoyed at XCOM when they lose a big ship relative to losing a little ship | ||
| + | * Fighters and Destroyers a little better at initiating hunts | ||
| + | * NSLW: Officers have reduced requirement for missions in grade before being eligible for promotion to next officer level | ||
| + | * Gauss Sniper Rifle starts with one*round magazine | ||
| + | * Adjusted several level*up perks with bonus status to make them more enticing | ||
| + | * Slight increase in rocket accuracy | ||
| + | |||
| + | ===Beta 2 (March 2, 2014)=== | ||
| + | * Fixed bug in which soldiers never hit on normal difficulty. | ||
| + | * Fixed bug in World Diversity Code granting thousands of hit points. | ||
| + | * Fixed bug that was displaying AI debug code in objectives window. | ||
| + | |||
| + | === v3.0 Beta 1 (March 2, 2014)=== | ||
| + | First Beta release. | ||
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[[Category: Overview (Long War)]] | [[Category: Overview (Long War)]] | ||
Revision as of 12:47, 3 December 2014
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Confirmed bugs only please. New bug reports should go to the developers' feedback thread on the Nexus Forum.
Vanilla game bugs
Here are included bugs that have been deemed unsolvable by the Long War development team and have been present in the original game as well. As it stands, with the limited modding capabilities at hand, the Long War team can not resolve them.
- Loading savegames in tactical missions can cause problems, including: recheck of panic when a soldier is critically wounded and awaiting stabilize; cancelling hunker down status; resetting certain flags intended to prevent you from doing things like using Run and Gun and Close Encounters on the same turn, cars exploding on the same turn. These can be exploits and you should feel really, really bad for using it.
- Sometimes critically wounded soldiers have a bad z and can't be revived. Save and reload often fixes.
- Certain map errors. These are probably hard to tell from other errors, but if the problem is related to something in the map itself, we are unlikely to be able to fix it. This includes: 1) Doors failing to block visibility as you would expect (this includes a hang that occurs when overwatch fire goes through a closed door); 2) Line of sight issues; 3) Bad pieces of terrain you can't climb on or have weird cover interactions with; 4) preactivated pods; 5) Rare alien teleports to get out of bad positioning; 6) ladders blocking flanks
- Close Combat Specialist is flaky. We didn't change it; it's unlikely we can fix it.
- Rapid double-clicking (such as with a dying mouse that automatically does this inadvertently) can screw up your interactions with the engineering UI and charge you tons of cash for a single transaction.
- Periodically, the map script for the XCOM HQ assault mission will be interrupted. Reload an earlier save or (with ironman) use the dev console to restart the mission.
- Sharpshooter perk shows in soldier's active abilities list when soldier is in full cover (instead of when target is in full cover). Still WAD on targeting detail.
- Female weapon models not aligning with pawn correctly
- Flying creatures will sometimes stack on the same tile during movement
- Squadsight + flanked erratic behavior. Added note to perk text.
- For some mod users the game does not load, or loads and crashes in the main menu. Also it has been observed the unability to save the game (both manually and by autosave). This has been resolved by running the game in Steam Offline mode. It has been suspected that this is an error on Steam's side.
Beta 14g (Nov. 29, 2014)
Features:
- You may now select and equip your soldiers for the HQ defense, with some important limits: You will be required to equip 12 soldiers (this number is moddable in DefaultGameData.ini and LW default may change based on feedback), but only a random five will be available immediately, with three more as reinforcements (one automatic, the other two dependent on losses). The remainder were pinned down somewhere else and will not show up on the mission at all (and receive no fatigue or XP). Blueshirts will be largely unchanged from B14, although reinforcements will almost always arrive based on keep you at 6 XCOM soldiers and 2 blueshirts, so no more gamey sacrifices of those guys. Aliens will also sometimes bring leaders on the HQ Assault, which the leader level and frequency increasing with alien research. They will also work to protect their assault carrier better.
- Hangar ship list will contain an icon indicating whether aircraft is a standard interceptor or Firestorm
- Critical Wound will penalty now exposed as an ini variable for modding
- Added scroller to soldier equip UI allowing more 6 items (armor+weapons+items) to be equipped. Note for modders: Small items in slot 4+ may not supply charges in tactical game; we may try to address this in the future.
Fixes:
- CTDs and some other weird behavior at interception initiation (with short-range weapons and maybe Sparrowhawks)
- CTD when an ethereal psi-reflects twice in a turn (we think vanilla bug)
- Lockup when SHIV tries to reinforce a HQ assault and gets stuck in the door. Shivs will no longer go on these missions.
- Lockup when you have covering fire, sentinel and Neural Dampening all on the same soldier, you overwatch, and a mind control is used against you. (Fix: Being dazed cancels any overwatch shots)
- Bug in which randomized alien drop downs were not taking place
- Added explicit check for panicking in whether Close Combat Specialist triggers
- Incidents of zero damage will still do zero damage if targeted is shredded. This is to fix cases of shredded ethereals taking 1 damage when a psi reflect event occurs.
- Reworked how item discounts/rush costs are calculated so rounding issues don't make it advantageous to build a single item rather than several.
- Ready For Anything will now trigger when Adrenal Neurosympathy fires after a kill
- Combat Stims provide immunity to crits when not flanked or exposed
- Psi Abilities will no longer apply shredding debuff with Shredder Ammo
- Cyrillic font should look nicer now
- Officer bonus perks properly removed from MECs now
- Removed hyperwave beacon from list of salable items (due to bug in gray market); increased sale price of alien entertainment to compensate
- You shouldn't be able to co-equip Psi Grenades and Flashbangs now
- XCOM reinforcements in HQ Defense should spawn in order of barracks sorting now
- Sectopod AI won't try to clusterbomb airborne units
- Medikit preview blinkies will correctly take Smart Macrophages into account in all cases
- EMP Cannon should work properly in providing loot chances now; exposed its effectiveness to the ini
- You can change hairstyles on special soldiers now (Zhang, etc)
- Finishing a lab should correctly update time to completion of current research project in UI
- Added IsLocationOccupied check to prevent aliens from dropping on tiles already occupied by soldiers.
- Reverted Commander spawn points to default for Supply and Battleship UFOs, because of UFO volume not being determined properly for those ships.
- You should be able to train Rift before activating Gollop Chamber again if other requirements are fulfilled
- Some crit bonuses will no longer be displayed twice in shot detail when attempting precision shot
- Field commander rank should show up correctly in barracks now
- Drone self-destruct will actually entail them self-destructing and not just taking damage
- Panicking units will automatically unstealth, and cannot be stealthed with ghost grenades. This was to fix some buggy behavior but we're fine with the nerf to stealth, too.
- Some scrolling improvements
- Fixed bug in which abductor research missions were providing no alien research bonus
- Attempted Fix (again): Tried to remove Steady Weapon ability from EXALT AI possibilities in a second location in the AI code
- Attempted Fix: Found and eliminated case in which you could generate XCOM HQ assaults two months in a row, contrary to design intent for that not to happen
- Attempted Fix: Rare cases of units blocking tiles after death.
- Attempted Fix: Tile blocking after a suppression-caused reaction fire shot
Balancing:
- Lowered sectoid commander aim significantly so their AI decides to use psi powers more often.
- Removed brutal and boring Van Doorn map from terror mission roster. Added new gas station map in its place.
- Steadfast perk (and Alien Trophies and Mind Shield) now provides immunity to Muton Intimidate ability. Mutons will no longer intimidate XCOM soldiers that they can't see (so at squadsight ranges or hidden).
- Mind Merge provides greater DR (1 per 45 will)
- Adjusted spawn settings again to better spread out alien pods, but again raising the still-slight risk of a spawn appearing in visual range of XCOM LZ.
- Mayhem provides +4 damage (sted +2) for sniper and strike rifles
- Thin Men should show up more often in general encounters
- Reduced meld provided by mectoids (3 to 2) floaters (.5 to .4), Heavy Floaters (1 to .8 ) and Exalt Elite (1 to .8 )
- Slightly changed Commander Pod location randomization algorithm to produce more diverse results.
- Rapid Reaction now allows a third overwatch shot if the prior two hit
- Buffed will of Temple Ship Muton Elites
- Some aliens will have access to Neural Damping perk
- MEC-3 armor now has two small item slots instead of one. Removed tactical sense perk from MEC-3 armor. Increased engineer requirements for MEC-2 and MEC-3 armors slightly.
- Mimic Beacons now work on a caster will versus alien will mechanism, so aliens have to fail a will-based saving throw to be affected by it. Raised cash price and will penalty of MBs slightly.
- Scientist and Engineer Loss on defeat during HQ Assault will cap at 1/3 of current staffing
- Increased meld cost of some items and foundry projects
- Amped up alien base forces a bit. Aliens will have a higher chance of rolling navigator abilities, and "Itchy Trigger Tentacle" will be activated for the alien side during base assaults (representing them being on the defensive).
- Removed some sectoid automatic will upgrades, made some more powerful navigator sectoids instead (so the critters will vary more)
- New soldiers and blueshirts will equip assault rifle or assault carbine and tac armor or tac vest based on their aim and mobility rolls. You can set their ability score threshold for equipping them in DGC.ini.
- Soldiers will cost $25 on all difficulties.
- Increased damage caused by drone self-destruct for big drones.
- Increased costs significantly for Ghost Grenades, somewhat for Chem Grenades. You'll need more bodies.
- Increased elerium costs for flying and psi armors.
- Tweaked up frequency of interceptor base attack.
- Frontloaded some rocketeer aim gain to early levels, removing some from later levels.
Beta 14f (Nov. 4, 2014)
Fixes:
- Fixed: Major bug since 14d that broke alien resource-gathering
- Fixed: Typo in Supercapacitors ini entry that may have made it too cheap or possibly not available at all
- Updated Spanish translation
Beta 14e (Nov. 4, 2014)
Fixes:
- Fixed: Bug forcing you to reselect Fire In the Hole after each mission
- Fixed: Red Fog will apply movement penalties now
- Fixed: Shredded effect no longer enhances poison damage. This was causing suicidal AIs.
- Fixed: Covering Fire and Steadfast on Infantry tree will provide correct skill bonuses again (+3 aim and +5 will). DGC.ini update
- Fixed: Swedish last names not randomizing properly, also removed some special Swedish characters from defaultnamelist.ini that weren't showing up correctly on some machines and possibly bollixing array; updated some other namelists
- Fixed: Medikit ability UI will show savior bonus correctly now
- Fixed: Ship Weapon card will show correct to-hit for pilots with 11 or more kills
- Fixed: Removed Repair Servos from Seeker leaders, as it was showing repair popup while they were cloaked. Gave them Rapid Reaction instead. Wondered briefly how'd they do with Absorption Field.
- Fixed: Tactical Mission summary should report correct number of soldiers killed / lost on failed council missions. Suppressed the soldiers-killed report for covert extractions because it wasn't working correctly and we don't have a mechanism to fix it.
- Updated French translation
Beta 14d (Nov 2, 2014)
Features:
- Damaged UFOs (at 50% damage or greater) will show an explodey effect in the interception UI that will increase in intensity as damage increases. (XMarksTheSpot strikes again)
- Distinct name lists for Swedes, Canadians (French and Anglo), Australians, Spanish, Ukrainians, Nigerians and South Africans (thanks to freshman LW contributor Part Time Commie). Note: If you use non-LW custom name lists, you will have to reformat them in accordance with new file standards, which are explained in the file DefaultNameList.ini
- Removed some camera angles and replace ALT-F7, ALT-F8 and ALT-F9 keybinds with SLOMO commands (1.0, 1.15, 1.5 -- normal, slightly accelerated, significantly accelerated)
- Man of Bronze second wave option. This option enables tactical mission restart option on Ironman campaigns. E-299 SW option will no longer be available.
Fixes:
- Fixed: Bullrush CTD
- Fixed: Another barracks sort CTD
- Fixed: Linux CTD on Seeker behavior, was probably causing some goofy Seeker behavior in Windows
- Fixed: Obscure Geoscape CTD when council mission target being selected
- Fixed: Improved scrolling in Tactical F1 and on strategy game item cards
- Fixed: MedikitHeal/Stabilize abilities will no longer show up on MECs
- Fixed: Restorative Mist + Field Medic providing too many charges
- Fixed: Remove Steady Weapon entirely from EXALT's options; they're too stupid to use it well
- Fixed: Reworked officer promotion UI so it's purdy and doesn't have incorrect perk icons
- Fixed: Shredded no longer applies bonus damage to mindfray
- Fixed: UFO icon in Sit Room screen will now disappear after aborting landed UFO mission
- Fixed: Visual bug in which seekers strangled in incorrect location when strangling a suppressor
- Fixed: Bug in which soldiers 7 and 8 on HQ defense are apparently reverted to default loadout
- Fixed: Mind Control perk should work again
- Fixed: Bombard perk will show in icons stack in lower left corner in tactical missions
- Attempted Fix: Tried again to make it impossible for seekers to do double-stealth fail when up against battlescanner
- Attempted Fix: F2 camera angle not allowing certain camera movements with controls
- Attempted Fix: Small Scout map where soldier can spawn out of map bounds
- Adjusted a key spawning variable to spread out aliens on smaller maps a bit more and work around some failed pod placement issues. This slightly increases the still-small chance of seeing members of an unactivated pod upon landing, but the alternative is squishing the aliens into a highly restricted space on some maps.
- Sapper, Stay Frosty, Band of Warriors, Legio Patria Nostra, Into the Breach and Fire in the Hole, some others get better perk icons
- Some available resources information will appear in more places in the StrategyUI
Balancing:
- Made it harder to spawn battleships on hunt missions; a little easier on bombing missions
- Expanded conditions in which an interceptor base assault may be generated
Note: Our fixes to Mind Control involved some funny business with the Fire In the Hole perk. The upshot is that if you upgrade a 14/a/b/c campaign, your rocketeers with FITH will have to reselect that perk but also have Mind Control for free. This shouldn't happen with new campaigns or rocketeers who promote to take that perk as the campaign goes on. Obviously, using that perk is an exploit if you don't actually have that soldier up to level 5 psi.
Beta 14c (Oct. 26, 2014)
Fixes:
- Fixed: CTD when 'Serkers look for bullrush targets on pod reveal
- Fixed: CTDs due to barracks sort code, including CTD after FLIP
- Fixed: CTDs when covert operatives hits extraction LZ
- Fixed: Colors for hit points and armor points above pawn should be clearer now
- Fixed: HP Display can handle up to 80 hp now
- Fixed: Healing items will blink hp/ap when considered for use
- Fixed: Adjusted Pulse and Beam laser environmental damage so Pulse is higher as intended (relic of switching their roles several Betas back)
- Fixed: Civilians will no longer show armor HP
- Fixed: Vortex Armor description will note fatigue relief
- Fixed: Suppressors will return to cover now
- Fixed: Council will only request laser rifles once beam lasers tech is researched
- Fixed: Skyranger will automatically empty when a mission expires as long as it's not on a mission -- so soldiers aren't stuck in limbo until next mission pops
- Fixed: Field Surgeon will no longer bring back the dead
- Fixed: Dead Aliens killed without explosives will provide meld again. As a side effect, killing navigators will net more XP if the navigator has multiple bonuses.
- Fixed: Novosibirsk city name will show up now
- Fixed: VIPs can escape properly on yellow moves now
- Fixed: Durand won't get Close Encounters but instead a psi perk as intended
- Fixed: Laser pistol gets beam laser aim bonus
- Fixed: New scrolling works in Hangar now
- Fixed: Display bug suggesting hidden-but-equipped large weapon was providing mobility bonuses/maluses for covert operative (it wasn't, so no need to go into barracks and add SMG to CO thinking it will give you mob bonus)
- Fixed: Apparent longstanding bug in which some bonus ammo + Dr penetration we were granting MECs (via assignment of free Combined Arms perk) was getting removed from MECs after their first mission. This caused Rapid Fire and Collateral Damage to be unavailable when it should have been. To correct MECs on existing campaign, select the MEC and use the dev console command GivePerk 138 during a mission, or give perk 138 to all MEC weapon items in DGC.ini.
- Fixed: Gauss Machine Gun and Sentry Gun will have Reaper Ammo FX now
- Fixed: Covert operative will be fatigued after mission
- Fixed: Suppressors losing LOS to target when in high cover. We may have fixed a couple of other wonky LOS bugs at the same time by forcing a vision check in a certain place.
- Attempted Fix: Tried to delay Slingshot start by a couple of weeks in a second place
- Updated Spanish translation
Beta 14b (Oct. 20, 2014)
Fixes:
- Fixed: Freeze when Progeny mission fires
- Fixed: Bad offset when new council mission checked, potential freeze
- Fixed: Europe continent bonus will actually apply to OTS projects now
- Fixed: More bugs in whether covert ops mission awards intel
- Fixed: Van Doorn now says something when he fires a rocket
- Fixed: Removed two XCOM spawn points from Grand Cemetery maps that required grapples/flight to extract, which was a little unfair even for us
- Fixed: Some spawning issues on fishing village map
- Fixed: Corrected Fuel Cell and Cognitive Enhancer inventory images
- Fixed: Removed Van Doorn head from heads available to general soldiery (to fix bug where they wouldn't retain hair). Van Doorn's head is unique to that unit. Any soldiers with Male Caucasian Head 14 may need to perform temporary race swap to avoid CTDs.
- Fixed: Gauss Weapons should apply anti-DR correctly now
- Fixed: Gauss Rifle and a few pulse weapons weren't classified correctly, meaning weapon-tech based bonus items weren't help like they should
Beta 14a (Oct. 19, 2014)
Fixes:
- Fixed -- Finishing a covert extraction by escaping will award intel.
Beta 14 (Oct. 19, 2014)
Beta 14 notes: Beta 14 should not require a campaign restart; however, a new campaign is recommended for a balanced and less buggy experience.
Beta 13 to 14 known issues:
- Fix to soldier heads can cause CTD in the tactical game. IF A SOLDIER HAS NO PAWN APPEAR IN THE DROPSHIP SCREEN, THE WORKAROUND IS TO CHANGE THE RACE/ETHNICITY OF THESE SOLDIERS (and change it back if desired), WHICH RESETS THEIR HEAD TO A DEFAULT. IF YOU DO NOT DO THIS, YOU WILL GET CRASHES IN THE TACTICAL GAME.
- Changes to perk trees will not take effect for existing soldiers, as usual
- XCOM Soldiers with Mind Control perk will lose the perk (and get Fire in the Hole Instead). Currently unsure they will be able to retrain it, but they can add it with console command GivePerk 100 or GivePerk PsiControl.
- On normal and classic difficulties, new XCOM soldiers no longer get a defense bonus; instead all aliens get an equivalent aim penalty. This will mean existing soldiers will be very hard to hit (as they will maintain their defense, but the aliens will all lose aim). Player upgrading mid-campaign may want to adjust ini values to compensate.
Features:
- Most maps will now have start zones and escape LZs in new places.
- Aliens will now sometimes attack your interceptor bases, using a map previously available only to MP games. Failure to defend your bases will mean destruction of and damage to many of your aircraft.
- Soldier hit points display in tactical UI will differentiate between armor/item HP bonuses and permanent HP
- Added sort in engineering UI. Items will be categorized by size, then alphabetically.
- Reworked soldier sort in barracks menus; will now sort down fatigued status soldiers below active and above wounded soldiers, and sort primarily by XP and secondarily by officer rank within each status.
- Adjusted scrolling behavior in strategy game and savegame menus. Should be a lot easier to use now.
- For non-Ironman games, added "Restart Mission" option to pause menu (thanks Drakous79 for unocovering this). This offers a way to get out of bug-induced mission problems (like script interruption on the base assault) and also a perhaps somewhat more honest savescumming method, in that you take the mulligan on an entire mission rather than a single shot.
- More new inventory art. More unique HUD images from JCLewis. Art for the new techs and foundry projects.
- Added two new options to Interface Options Screen: 1) Default Zoom Level Slider, lets you adjust default zoom level from between 50% and 200% of normal, and 2) A checkbox that lets you activate an alternate set of camera controls, where you can click the middle mouse button to directly control camera yaw and pitch
- You may now recruit soldiers from two new countries: Honduras and Bosnia-Herzegovina! (Please don't ask why those two over other deserving countries like Turkey or Iran.) (Sigh. You asked, didn't you? Look, these are perfectly fine countries who want to fight aliens, so consider them representative of two important world regions: Central America and the Balkans.) (The real answer is technical. From what I understand, Firaxis coded in the Honduran and B-H flags in the texture that supplies flags to the back of soldier pawns, along with the 29 flags you are familiar with. These textures are prohibitively difficult to change, while changing all the other stuff to get these countries in the game was fairly simple.)
- Brazilian soldiers will now get Brazilian names, rather than Spanish-based ones. Combined English and Australian namelist (please don't hate me) and two Spanish namelists to make this and the new countries happen. Added a bunch of names to multiple nationalities for more variety.
- Alien Missions can now take place in a bunch of new cities in council countries
- Premission squads are loaded blank. Your premission squad will now be saved if you leave the dropship room and return.
- Completing the Exalt HQ assault will net three unique items, a really nice scope (an improved illuminator gunsight usable by any soldier; old IG no longer buildable) and items that respectively grant 20% bonus XP and PsiXP whenever carried on missions.
- Added French translation, now available as separate download
- Added Field Surgeon perk, which reduces wound recovery time after missions
- Gauss Weapons will now use Reaper Ammo sound and visual effects to differentiate them better from ballistics. Reaper Ammo will no longer cause special FX.
- Added Hit and Run perk, which allows a free shot against a flanked or exposed target (basically works like Close Encounters, except target status rather than proximity is the trigger). Will be available to scouts, assaults and probably MECs. No, it can't stack with CE (it uses the same resources, for one thing).
- Added Fire in the Hole rocketeer Perk, which grants 10 aim for purposes of reducing rocket scatter if your soldier has not moved. Grants 10 aim worth of additional range for blaster launcher.
- Added two cheap Base Security foundry projects, which will allow base security to automatically equip any spare laser rifles and phalanx armors during an XCOM HQ assault. Note these will only help if you have unequipped instances of these items in storage.
- Geoscape will pause when new recruits arrive.
- In rare cases you will get landed assault carriers. These will use battleship maps (which have fires and damage because we only have shot-down battleship maps available to us).
- Added ini settings to control likelihood of new soldiers coming from a given country
- Added ini settings to set costs (meld, money and days in the tank) for genemods. Also added ini settings to set extra fatigue timeout for individual genemods and psi powers, and fatigue timeout per officer rank.
- Added ini setting to set initial alien bonus research
- Added ini setting to increase/decrease meld from cans (multiplier)
Fixes:
- Fixed: Hang when alien panics
- Fixed: CTD/Hangup when MEC troopers forced into base defense mission without any available MEC armor to be equipped
- Fixed: Potential CTD bug with seeker AI
- Fixed: CTD when reloading mission with lots of aliens
- Fixed: CTD when reloading Exalt HQ assault*Fixed: Geoscape rarely becomes semi-frozen after missions (clock doesn't roll for item construction, Skyranger does not return from mission site). Apparently a vanilla issue that failed to give Skyranger return-to-base mission in some cases; it may be more likely to occur in LW for some reason; added an error check that should prevent it.
- Attempted Fix: Altered hardcoded defaultloadouts in attempt to catch versions of Sectoid Commander crash that isn't fixed by our prior fix for reasons we do not understand
- Attempted fix: Found bad local in CalcHitRolls that may have been messing up HEAT/Shredding damage modifiers when applied to Rapid Fire and In the Zone. We think this will fix the Rapid-Fire-2nd-shot-always-missing-bug.
- Fixed: Aliens sometimes start out in view of squad
- Fixed: Lock N' Load perk will now work for MECs; turn ends on reload
- Fixed: Lock N' Load perk will no longer allow a reload+turn for sidearms, as designed
- Fixed: UFO command pod sometimes spawning on UFO roof, which is a problem if spawn point is inaccessible or invisible
- Fixed: Can no longer sell Ethereal Device on Gray market. Increased price of Hyperwave Detector so it's worth selling after multiple base raids. Lowered alien entertainment price somewhat so base raids don't get that much better.
- Adjustment/Fix: Gave sectoids, sectoid commanders and seekers "Gunslinger" perk and reduced their plasma pistol damage by 1, effectively leaving their weapon damage unchanged but removing range penalties. Their AI probably isn't smart enough to know how to compensate for the range penalties.
- Fixed: Hi Cap Mags and Autoloader will no longer show "Lock N' Load" perk when equipped. These items and the +1 ammo from LnL will still stack.
- Fixed: Scatter Laser, Alloy Cannon and AP Grenade showing inaccurate damage in equipping UI card sometimes; cards for Grenade Launcher, Kinetic Strike Module and Flamethrower damage will now reflect bonuses from foundry projects
- Fixed: Precision Shot will not give crit bonuses to strike rifles (only sniper rifles) per design
- Fixed: Marksman's Rifle icon looks more impressive now in the HUD
- Fixed: Hyperwave and Gollop Chamber do not require Hyperwave/Ethereal Device to build on top of research requirement that consumes those items. Research requirement will consume items; after which you don't need them to build the facilities.
- Updated Spanish translation.
- Adjusted: MEC conversion will return to 9a mechanism: set to fixed stats (what you'd get with strict screening on the same difficulty level), except a measure of very high will will be retained.
- Fixed: Removed soldier heads of Ken, Sid and Carter from being available to random soldiers in the mod. These were bugged when combined with various headgear options.
- Attempted Fix: Exalts floating in during "fliers-only" part of HQ assault
- Fixed: Lightning Reflexes will now apply to reaction fire shots that otherwise have a 100% chance to hit. Vanilla issue.
- Attempted Fix: Last round of your clip with Ammo Conservation doesn't seem to allow to set overwatch. You can steady weapon, fire that round, can't overwatch with it. It's faded out and says "not enough ammo."
- Attempted Fix: RFA still allowing multiple overwatch shots on a berserker.
- Fixed: Dismissed officers do not see billet recycled back; vanilla bug manifesting (Recycling code in MoveToMorgue; not present in DismissSoldier)
- Fixed: Targeting Reticle now shows expected scatter instead of % when aiming with rockets
- Fixed, sort of: Getting some UFOs being spawned outside the range of designed ships, causing the "Independence Day virus" in which you get free kills on nameless UFOs. Can't figure out cause, but added some code to catch these errors and spawn mission-appropriate craft instead.
- Fixed: Blueshirts will properly level up and be assessed fatigue if they survive the base defense mission
- Fixed: Catching Breath (and probably freshly revived) soldier cannot draw sidearm.
- Fixed: Plasma Pistol no longer confers -10 aim.
- Fixed: Skeleton key now consumed by base assault
- Fixed: Removed Automated Threat Assessment from Alien perk list
- Renamed Rocketeer perk "Shock and Awe" to avoid confusion with class name
- Fixed: Missing to-hit percentage on sidearm
- Fixed: Text errors for Sniper Rifle series, Heavy Plasma Rifle, Plasma Mauler, Seraph Armor (which was also renamed), Titan Armor, Archangel Armor, Mind Shield, Alien Trophy, Shredder Ammo perk, Steadfast perk, Secondary Heart perk, MEC Close Combat foundry project, Smartgun Kit, Laser Pumper, Packmaster; Added armor mobility benes to text and clarified Sprinter perk
- Fixed/workaround: Firestorms stuck at zero hours repairing if you reduce ini setting INTERCEPTOR_REPAIR_HOURS to below 75 (or possibly even 168). Solution: Don't do this (added warning in ini). Fix manually by setting IRH to 800 or so, then switching back.
- Attempted Fix: Arc Thrower showing 0% or 1% chance when circumstances suggest it should be much higher (in the 40s or 50s); some reports that this is a display error only.
- Fixed: Touchpad + Expanded perk tree perk selection bug
- Fixed: Tactical Sense perk no longer confers immunity to being exposed/flanked (an unintended bonus)
- Fixed: Being suppressed and/or poisoned should properly apply scatter penalties to rockets
- Fixed: Aliens will no longer attempt reaction fire when hit by Disabling Shot
- Fixed: Soldiers with squadsight will no longer get a couple of squadsight-range tiles for their non-long-range-weapons (like sidearms).
- Fixed: Alien Entertainment council request unlocks with Hyperwave sted Sectoid Commander Autopsy*Added text to clarify Rift only works if you are wearing Aurora or Vortex armors
- Added text to clarify suppression doesn't cancel overwatch; it prevents reaction shots from taking place (so the eye is working correctly; overwatch is still there is suppression ends for some reason)
- Fixed: Psi Inspiration does not help allies on a different Z
- Fixed: Lone Wolf crit bonus always applied, instead of selectively
- Fixed: Steady weapon bonus maintained through grapple action when it should go away
- Fixed: DR popup not always appearing even when applied
- Fixed: A bunch of under-the-hood references that were generating log warnings but no known game effects; who knows, maybe we'll fix something*Fixed: Lock N' Load doesn't reset UI and refill ammo in HUD gun icon
- Fixed: MEC small items give IMG placeholder in select-squad dropship UI. The are fine in barracks equipping view. The same small items appear fine on SHIVs.
- Fixed: Paramedic use still not refreshing ability icons
- Fixed: Alien AI wasn't getting angry enough when you assault one of their bases
- Fixed: Plasma Sniper bonus crit put in line with other sniper rifles
- Fixed: Rework of Sitroom objectives display with a lot of corrections and clarifications on how to move the plot forward
- Fixed: Interrogation techs still being available even if you sold/lost your captives
- Attempted fix: Psi Inspiration should remove multiple mindfrays.
- Fixed: Soldier suppressing from high cover and taking reaction shot now returns properly to cover after shot. At long freaking last.
- Attempted Fix: Mind Control beginning and ending should clear all suppression
- Fixed: Mind Control beginning and ending should clear all panic
- Fixed: Will penalty from being Mind Mergee.
- Attempted Fix: Cyberdisc spin attack is sometimes at the wrong altitude, doing no damage. Vanilla. Attempted to teach CD AI that it only works on same altitude.
- Fixed: Mind Control not showing correct to-hit in some cases.
- Fixed: Suppressing pawn ends suppression with messed up (twisty) pose.
- Attempted Fix: Critically wounded soldiers not showing up as dead on post-mission popup in tactical game. Update: Occurs only on squadwipe.
- Fixed: You may no longer suppress using shotguns or sniper/marksman rifles. (The latter wasn't possible anyway by class setup)
- Fixed: Some bugs in Exalt cell placement AI that might lead to them selecting Russia over and over.
- Fixed: Having a VO underway when a council request registers will no longer oddly freeze the geoscape but instead popup the request.
- Attempted Fix: Pods should no longer spawn outside playable area on L-Shaped Highway 1 map. (Thanks WGhost for fix)
- Fixed: Added a series of restrictions for overwatch all button to work on an individual soldier, such as if it is panicking.
- Fixed: Tech image for Thin Man Autopsy
- Attempted Fix: Removed goofy death animations
- Attempted Fix: Vahlen should stop nagging about psi testing so much
- Fixed: Double Tap won't trigger when no targets in view, or you are out of ammo.
- Fixed: During extractions, Covert operatives now actually leave the map when finishing a mission, rather than just go invisible. (vanilla bug)
- Fixed: New MEC available descriptions popping up when armor tech completed but other key research isn't
- Fixed: A soldier throwing a battlescanner can no longer have her tile occupied by another soldier if she does NOT step out of cover to make the throw.
- Fixed: Battlescanners no longer occupy a tile and make it impassible.
- Fixed: Platform Stability no longer applies to second shot of LEM, consistent with Double Tap.
- Fixed: To-hit score on red heads now consistent with ability being considered for use, rather than always standard shot.
- Fixed: Mindcontrolled XCOM personnel no longer acquire "dead allies" debuff when an alien is killed.
- Fixed: Scientists will not float in weird places on the ant farm after an interrogation.
- Fixed: Mindfray targeting now blinks 1 hp off an enemy's HP bars, instead of 5
- Fixed: Unequip all will strip gear from fatigued, injured, psi-testing, augmenting in addition to active soldiers. These guys should have been stripped in most cases anyway.
- Fixed: Expired meld containers no longer provide cover when destroyed
- Attempted Fix: Rapid Fire shouldn't pop up extra "missed" if miss then hit occurs
- Fixed: Progeny characters should now get purple psi overlay on character cards
- Fixed: Non-damaging Psychokinetic Strike no longer triggers you-will-hurt-allies warning when friendly troops are in range
- Fixed: Rocket Launcher shot following Shredder rocket shot should now do proper damage through cover
- Fixed: Reactive Targeting Sensors will no longer trigger on Rift or Psi Inpsiration
- Fixed: Can no longer enter psi labs from covert operative selection screen, removing ability to be simultaneously on covert op and psi training
- Fixed: Geoscape should pause properly when a UFO is overhead and a fighter refuels or repairs
- Fixed: Reaction shots against drop-in aliens will now check weapon range
- Fixed: SHIVs will no longer count +1 for total ranks for OTS purposes
- Fixed: Item stat bonuses now show correct for covert operative
- Partially Fixed: On escort missions, the escortee suffers an acid hit and can't extract, and is instead treated like a regular soldier, and you get queries to abort mission (which you shouldn't do). WORKAROUND: Save and reload. Then move escortee out of Skyranger's LZ and back, and escortee should extract properly.
- Fixed: Mission debrief Promotion UI now displays promoted officers ranks correctly
- Fixed: Combat Stims no longer gives out of ammo message when used
- Fixed: Steady Weapon button suppressed when you are out of ammo for all weapons that can benefit from the ability (including rockets)
- Fixed: Bradford sometimes says "densely populated urban area" for UFO missions to rural places
- Fixed: Female Voice 6 plays "I'm suppressed" when she means "I'm suppressing."
- Attempted Fix: Mechtoid AI double-moving when firing is a much better choice (vanilla; I wonder if Mechtoids had a melee weapon at some point)
- Attempted Fix: Capped alien rosters at 50 on supply barges and alien base in a vain attempt to prevent the loadgame CTD. The two reproducible examples I have received, along with other anecdotal reports, suggest the CTD occurs when alien rosters are greater than 50, but I have no idea if this will be partially/fully effective.
- Fixed: Fixed loadgame CTDs in alien base assault.
- Attempted Fix: Tried alternate method of canceling phone-home for users reporting slowdowns during play. Until B14, solution is to play in offline mode.
- Fixed: Made sure AbsorbDamage was tested in KSM kill animation
- Fixed: Collateral Damage range limited to MEC Weapon range
- Fixed: Exalt shouldn't use steady weapon ability if they have no ammo.
- Attempted Fix: Mayhem perk should now work as advertised with proximity mine and grenade launchers.
- Fixed: Rift abilty icon suppressed if you have incorrect armor
- Fixed: Clarified Hunker Down info to say it doesn't mitigate crit penalties if you are flanked
- Fixed: Acidified aliens will no longer attempt to suppress in team-attack mode
- Fixed: Civilians on terror missions can not be randomly killed if they are within sight distance with one of your soldiers, regardless of whether that soldier can be seen.
- Fixed: Promotion available VO won't happen as much
- Fixed: Mayhem+Suppression properly costs more ammo now
- Fixed: So Shall You Fight has icon now
- Fixed: Failing / skipping a terror mission in a country you've already lost should no longer penalize your monthly income again for the lost country, but instead only incur continental panic
- Fixed: if you have low profile and psi shadow, reload or go into overwatch for the smidgen between the end of the running/crouching animation and the deactivation, the ghosting effect stays on for the rest of the mission (unless the soldier is moved to half cover again to 'reactivate' it): the soldier can now just stand invisible and unharrassed out in the open. But: Will drops like a rock (I think 15 a round).
- Lame Fix: SHIVS for some reason don't extract on mission aborts if they fire in the round they extract. Added warning to SHIV item text that they need extra time to load on the Skyranger and should not take any actions in extraction zone
- Fixed: Multiple mindfrays not wearing off in temple ship mission
- Fixed: Ethereal AI should be able to target Rift effectively at flying soldiers
- Fixed: Dodge consumable only appearing to provide 1 dodge. This was a display error; we fixed it by having aircraft formerly with short-range weapons (laser, phoenix, EMP) close distance to the UFO. We believe that those weapons don't lose any shots during the closing of the gap; their actual range remains as long as the other weapons.
- Fixed: Aggression and Lone Wolf crit bonuses should show up correctly at squadsight range.
- Fixed: Suppressors no longer get free shots at drop-down alienses
- Fixed: Goofy double pawn in barracks after soldier finishes augmentation
Balancing:
- Reworked Mind Merge again. For humans, it no longer will grant hit points, doing away with unlimited healing exploit. It instead grants damage reduction to the recipient of the merge, scaling upward with caster will (sort of like a shield). For aliens it will behave more or less like it did originally, with bonus hp scaling up with caster will (it's somewhat off in B13). This change addresses the reported issue of variable feedback damage on caster kill.
- Significantly increased opportunities to get reward soldiers from council requests, particularly in the late game
- Alien research bonus from dead and left-behind XCOM on mission failure sharply reduced (4 to 1 per), giving squadwipes and lost missions with heavy casualties less impact on alien progression
- Alien Grenades require foundry project to be completed before you are able to equip them. You can no longer sell alien grenades as loot.
- Neural Gunlink provides +10 crit
- SMG series granted "steady weapon" ability
- Reduced resources required to build phalanx armor, slight increase in resources for Advanced Body Armor, minor increase in research time for Mobile Power Armor and Pulse Lasers
- Reworked UFO mission panic and bonus research mechanics slightly; now you can eliminate alien bonus research from UFO missions if you reduce the UFO's hit points to below 50% of max, and only have a 50/50 chance of a bonus research if the UFO takes any damage at all. This also eliminates the last possible gamey bonus from engaging a UFO and fleeing immediately (previously, doing so always reduced change of bonus research to 50/50, regardless of whether you fired on the UFO or not). Damaging a UFO also can now reduce the panic it generates if it escapes. (Previously this only happened with air raid missions).
- Primary Weapon aim bonuses/penalties (like the +7 with carbine or -15 with heavy rifles) no longer apply to rocket launchers. All other aim bonuses (small items, steady weapon) still apply.
- Made Gauss Weapons generally cheaper and gave some more ammo; made pulse weapons slightly more expensive. Pulse weapons now require Alien Power Systems instead of Elerium as a tech prereq.
- Made Laser Cannon and Supercapacitors foundry project more expensive.
- Gave Phoenix Coilgun a bit more damage.
- MEC subsystems (Flamethrower, etc.) now all have a mobility penalty, while the mobility bonus granted by the armors have been increased to compensate. This means you can leave off subsystems for greater mobility.
- Removing many mobility bonuses from perk trees; between all the ways to gain mobility from armor and weapons this is growing unnecessary
- Rocketeers can now use Heavy Rifles
- Infantry, Medics, Assaults, and Engineers can now use Arc Rifles (along with snipers and scouts), gave Arc Rifles unlimited range for squadsighted soldiers
- Removed randomness from number of Steam Vents in campaign start; it's now exactly what the ini setting says it is. Changed ini setting to 2.
- Increased area of effect of Combat Drugs.
- Gauss tech weapons reduce enemy DR by 0.33. Exposed this amount to a variable in the ini
- Armor Piercing Ammo item now reduces enemy DR by 1.33.
- Chem Grenades and alien acid now nullify up to a maximum of 3 DR.
- Transports gain a few more resources from successful harvest missions.
- Reduced resource loss slightly when aliens lose various UFOs.
- Adjusted alien AI so that they will consider paying some resources to find a country without an XCOM satellite to send harvest missions. The chances of this increase when they perceive a greater threat from XCOM.
- Enhanced Plasma foundry project now grants +1 damage to all plasma-tier weapons in addition to unlocking Plasma damage enhancer item. Increased reqs to get project.
- Made hit and dodge interceptor consumables a bit cheaper.
- Adjusted some MEC / SHIV weapon combat values.
- Adjusted some UFO hit point / gain values.
- Adjusted some alien perks and level ups.
- Reworked Flamethrower panic chances to make it less than perfect; Elerium fuel now increases panic chances.
- Aliens' will will be generally be higher and will slowly increase during campaign. We've left low will a weakness on some species.
- Pistol I crit bonus reduced to +10%
- Increased primary alien research modifier on all difficulties, with a small increase on normal and larger increase on greater difficulties. Our observation is we significantly overcompensated for the error in this setting in B9a and earlier, as the aliens can't keep up with the humans.
- Dead Exalt Elites provide 1 meld as loot if you don't kill them with explosives. Floaters and Heavy Floaters provide a bit more meld.
- Defeating the Exalt base provides a lot more bonus meld
- Aliens will tend toward more dangerous UFOs once they develop sufficient research
- Wearing Vortex Armor eliminates all post-mission fatigue
- Aurora and Vortex Armor no longer requires meld
- Alien Operations tech now requires Xenopsionics as an additional prerequisite (along with any interrogation)
- Destroyers will get a late-game armor upgrade to ensure they remain a threat.
- Increased variance of most Hidden Potential rolls.
- Increased starting roster to 40 soldiers and cost of recruiting a rookie to $25 ($30 on advanced difficulties). (Working numbers; may alter these before release). New recruits now take nine days to arrive at base.
- Increased engineers needed to build each Nexus
- Sentinel Drone foundry project made significantly more expensive. It no longer provides unlimited healing but instead the Repair Servos perk.
- All Exalts lose 2 hp on Normal; 1 hp on Classic
- Initial country panic will now show more variance between countries; added ini setting to allow you to mod degree of variance
- Battle Computer can now be equipped by SHIVs
- Council missions won't always be Thin Men in regualr pods. Dynamic alien drop-downs on council/DLC missions now drop to randomized locations (thanks WGhost!)
- Using Psi Inspire on a panicked soldier will grant that soldier a yellow move only, like revive.
- Removed MoveLimited and Snap Shot from Marksman's / Strike Rifle series
- Gave aliens a small buffer within high panic to roll to capture a country (95+). This means a single UFO shootdown or abduction victory late in the month will not save a country at max panic from defecting, but launching a satellite still will. This is necessary because countries can't go above 100 panic.
- Adjusted aiming angles SW option so cover provides 120 degrees of full protection instead of 90.
- Added explicit warning to equip top soldiers if a UFO on an XCOM HQ assault mission is detected.
- Aliens get 50 days of free research if you incorrectly accuse an EXALT country
- PFCs (Rookies) may no longer be covert operatives
- Panicking units caught out of cover will no longer get free move to cover, eliminating advantage of panicking in those situations. Panicking units in cover will still hunker down.
- Increased cash reward from exalt missions
- Increased Zhang mobility
- Gave Annette level 2 psi power
- Gave Furies level 1 psi power
- EMP Cannon does less damage with higher ROF, increasing chance of shootdowns vice total destruction
- Messed around with oppo forces on EXALT missions; covert extractions will now often have a kind of singular guard / big QRF setup.
- Marksman's Scope item reworked to give Squadsight to scouts (useful only when they equip Marksman's/Strike Rifles). Will be available with Alien Weaponry tech.
- Soldiers who are injured get max fatigue timeout (144 hrs) instead of rolling 96+d48 like uninjured soldiers
- Field Medic perk now gives 1 free medikit charge and +1 charges for carried medikits. Packmaster applies bonus to free charge and each medikit. Field Medic unchanged for restorative mist (+2 charges, no freebies)
- AI: Made pod-level AI less likely to decide to flee. Robot pods will never flee at the pod-level AI.
- Psi Lab now provides lab adjacency bonus
- Eight XCOM soldiers and six security personnel comprise the HQ defense, rather than 6+8.
- Walker Servos now available to all soldiers. Made slightly more expensive to reflect increased utility.
- Battleships should show up a little more often
- In lieu of too-complex-to-code learning, Thin men have a 50/50 chance to avoid using acid spit on completely immune (genemodded) soldiers every time they consider spit targets. Also turned down freq of spit usage.
- Alien AI will consider overwatch perks in deciding whether to overwatch.
- Reworked the shooting/hasvulnerabletarget/team attack/haspotentialkillshot AI a bit to take into account improved cover and low aim, meaning some low-aim aliens will more likely to consider sub-50% shots a better option than overwatching yet again. Exposed a couple of AI variables to the ini in this regard. To help the aliens think, XCOM soldiers no longer will get a defense bonus on lower difficulties; instead the aliens all receive equivalent aim penalties. This will create oddities in normal and classic upgrades from B13 to B14 -- existing soldiers will keep their defense, but aliens will have worse aim, so you may want to edit these values back for the duration of your save.
- Mayhem perk now applies to grenades, offering +1 damage for frag and needle and +2 for alien. Mayhem perk added to Engineer tree. Sapper perk should now apply bonus regular (non-env) damage to grenade launchers and proximity mines.
- Civilians on terror missions will move around a lot more on their turn
- Psi XP reworked; you no longer gain psi xp for successful use of contested powers; instead, every psi power at the same level grants the same psi xp per mission as long as the mission is an Xcom success.
- Psi Panic attacks will be a bit more difficult now, controllable by ini setting
- AIiens with target only in squadsight range should now seek cover if they are still kinda close to the battle
- Savior heals more
- Thumper hurts more
- Precision Shot + Sniper Rifle series cancels -30% long-range crit penalty, in addition to +30 bonus crit and extra damage. So basically +30 crit when using PS at squadsight ranges with sniper rifle
- Bullrush: Does less damage, smashes through more stuff. OH YEAH.
- Adjusted Firestorm and Plasma weapon build requirements
- Berserkers all receive muscle-fiber density genemod
- Meld positioning now randomized on maps
- Uber Ethereal gets some help
- Toggling Flight Mode on a flying armor now costs 1 fuel. Increased fuel slightly available to those armors.
- Adjusted council mission rewards, including those from Newfoundland mission
- Various adjustments to perk trees and item and project costs
- Europe now provides discount to OTS projects. Asia no longer provides OTS discount.
- Progeny missions no longer trigger on XCOM HQ Assault. Will leave you to figure out new trigger.
- Chameleon Suit now scout only, provides +5 defense and helps reduce chance of getting hit when LR fires
- Danger Zone + Suppression covers wider area (and exposed area var to ini)
- EXALT will no longer spawn in target volume on Capture and Hold Missions
- Slight reduction in strength of mobility debuffs. Alien AI was cracking up when unable to move.
- Due to psychic strain, soldiers may now only carry 1 ghost grenade item. It still gains charge bonuses from S&M and Packmaster.
Beta 13 ( July 07, 2014)
Fixes:
- Fixed: Inventory/hp/fatigue bug. Known issue: Mind Merge will heal too many hit points.
- Fixed: Blowing up abductor or harvester causes CTD
- Fixed: Perk and related descriptions for Platform Stability, Double Tap and Snap Shot to change "without moving" to "without using a costly action" to clarify you lose bonuses by taking any action that consumes one of your actions, like the benefits that the Lock N' Load or Smoke Grenade perks provide. Also item descriptions for sniper rifles, strike rifles, and LMG weapons.
- Fixed: Removed all Vahlen nagging about outsiders/arc thrower
- Fixed (Reported): Jump Boots / Leg genemod animation gone screwy
- Updated Spanish translation
- Game can hang when an alien is panicked.
- CTD/Hangup when MEC troopers forced into base defense mission without any available MEC armor to be equipped
- Geoscape rarely becomes semi-frozen after missions (clock doesn't roll for item construction, Skyranger does not return from mission site). (Similarly: Scan for Activity will roll forward one minute then freeze with no event notice. Exiting and re-entering the Geoscape shows a country had made a resource request but the window saying as much was not being shown.)
- Aliens sometimes start out in view of squad
- Lock N' Load perk doesn't work for MECs; turn ends on reload
- Female weapon models not aligning with pawn correctly
- MEC small items give IMG placeholder in select-squad dropship UI. The are fine in barracks equipping view. The same small items appear fine on SHIVs.
- Reaper Rounds FX not working on Battle Rifle.
- Precision Shot gives crit bonuses to strike rifles (should be only sniper rifles)
- Marksman's Rifle looks a little small in the HUD
- Alloy Cannon showing 7-13 damage in inventory item detail, but showing correct 8 base damage in tactical mission.
- Dismissed officers do not see billet recycled back
- The UI for the Covert Operations is overlayed on top of the select soldier UI if you click too fast. image
- Very rarely, an AP grenade will be unable to damage a unit, regardless of whether they are in cover or not and regardless of the position of the thrown grenade. (Noticed when an EXALT operative did not glow red when free aiming the grenade, even though he was not in any cover.) image
- Removing all equipment on a trooper armed with a Sawed-Off Shotgun will display the IMG placeholder. (Visual bug only, does not prevent any secondary weapon from being assigned to the trooper.)
- Unable to overwatch using the last shot in a clip granted by Ammo Conservation project.
Beta 12 ( June 29, 2014)
Features:
- Inventory art for ammo variants by Obstbananae
- Unique HUD images for ballistic weapons
- ¡Spanish translation!
Fixes:
- Fixed: Plasma techs will be accessible. Overhauled how item requirements were processed; this may lead to some unexpected consequences, because certain intended item requirements for techs may not have been previously processed correctly.
- Fixed: Removed Gatling Laser meld cost
- Attempted Fix: Verified CTD on March Site Recon when prespawned zombie tries to birth a chryssie in view of a soldier
- Attempted Fix: Drone AI has gone stupid
- Fixed: Using AP, Alien and HE Grenades on successive turns on a soldier with Grenadier and/or Packmaster prevents the ability to employ one of those grenades for the rest of the mission even when charges remain.
- Fixed: Duplicate running pawn in barracks after Mec augmentation
- Fixed: CTD apparently due to Sectoid Commander loadouts. This will not fix tactical saves from B11 or earlier with SC's in them.
- Fixed: Laser Lance and Pulse Lance causes MECs to use normal soldier animations in mission. Unfortunatley, this required having the lance weapons revert to Railgun and Particle Gun models.
- Fixed: Gave into the silent masses and renamed the Saburai the Shogun
- Attempted Fix: Far-off Aliens occasionally appearing in LOS for squadsighted soldiers for no good reason
- Fixed: Clarified precision shot help text
- Fixed: Game hang when seekers are destealthed beyond range of battlescanner by battlescanner
- Fixed: Drone pod leader doing nothing on reveal
- Fixed: Removed limit preventing Sectopod from overwatching or using itchy trigger tentacle when pod activated
- Attempted Fix: Extended time allowed for Suppression animation to complete to 4 seconds, this will hopefully eliminate failed returned to original spot error.
- Fixed: Small item crit bonuses not showing up in list of bonuses in UI (but being applied correctly and appearing in total)
- Fixed: Using Paramedic and Smoke Grenade doesn't refresh abilities without switching to another soldier
- Fixed: Vahlen will no longer nag you about an Outsider after you already got one
- Fixed: Clicking one number key and then Double-clicking another in tactical game to rapidly activate ability should work again -- it may take an extra click.
- Fixed: Grapples should work again
- Fixed: New Economy, randomization isn't applied
- Mostly Fixed: Ammo fill in tactical HUD sometimes only gets 1/4 of image
- Fixed: Vanilla exploit that hamstrings Exalt's ability to run operations against you
- Fixed: Commercial Restaurant abduction will display clue correctly.
- Fixed: Bug in uninstaller that wasn't restoring vanilla executable. (Leftover changes to exe wouldn't disable regular gameplay, so people wouldn't notice any difference)
- Fixed: Mind Merge / inventory bugs
- Fixed: Ready For Anything (and maybe Covering Fire) interacts weirdly with Berserker charge
Balancing:
- Reworked pistol stuff again to include long-range penalties that are now negated by Gunslinger perk. Also, aim-bonus small items (SCOPE, Neural Gunlink, Laser Sight, Laser Designator) no longer provide aim bonuses to pistol-slot weapons. Removed other accuracy penalty from pistols and lowered machine pistol accuracy penalty to -10 (-3 for heaters).
- Reinforced Armor provides +1 hit point and noted in description.
- Scout perk tree adjusted to reemphasize scouting perks and gain squadsight at GSGT, Rocketeer gains opportunist
- Removed Laser Designator item, added Targeting Module item
- Battle Rifles +5 crit chance
- Scouts can no longer use sniper rifles
- Marksman's Rifles gain movelimited penalty and Snap Shot perk, so net effect is -10 aim when moving and firing.
- Increased flying creatures' flight fuel; they were running out while on patrol (this didn't happen when patrols teleported)
Beta 11 (June 22, 2014)
Features:
- Added capability to include unique HUD icons for new weapons. For now, we're using squashed/extended versions of regular icons but will be adding fresh icons in the future.
- New look for soldier character card in barracks - Unique Kestrel, Aurora, Tac, Phalanx and Corsair Armor Inventory images, and Alien Trophy image - Easier access to your psi abilities in barracks
Fixes:
- Fixed: CTD when EXALT mission fires. (Workaround until B11 out -- don't send covert operatives on missions.)
- Fixed: Slight relative will penalty on levelups with Hidden Potential (probably costing you 1 will relative to non-HP games)
- Fixed: Completing excavation will stop Geoscape again.
- Fixed: Head Shot (renamed Precision Shot) should work now. We've also given it a different capability for strike rifles ... it will instead allow you an infinite range SquadSight shot (like it was a sniper rifle), but with no damage or crit bonuses.
- Fixed: Sawed-off shotgun should reaction fire against aliens consistently
- Fixed: Interceptor stances should map correctly to buttons now
- Fixed: Adjusted the cyan glow for a few new items
- Fixed: RFA triggering multiple overwatches after every action
- Fixed: Sawed-off shotgun now only equippable by Infantry, Scout, Assault, Medic and Engineer
- Fixed: Aegis Armor inventory image has black background, rather than see-through
- Fixed: CTD after completion of soldier augmentation
- Fixed: Workshops providing massive rebates (looks like 1-x instead of x)
- Fixed incorrect engineering text about class-limited items
- Fixed: Fast build on certain (possibly aerospace) items not reducing time (at early engineers -- it works when cheating in 10k engineers)
- Fixed removed some duplicate heads
- Fixed again: Acid on a soldier with Shredder perk is still applying Shredded popup (and effect?) to that soldier
Balancing:
- Returned hard range cap on pistols, standard shotguns, and Machine Pistols to visual range. Gave pistols and Machine Pistols -10 and -20 aim penalties, respectively. Shotgun long-range aim falloff penalties have been increased by 50%. Gunslinger now gives +10 aim bonus for sidearms instead of increasing effective range (and still provides +1 damage).
- All SMG-class weapons have 1 less ammo.
- Reduced Sawed-off shotgun damage by one.
- Increased some early game engineer requirements
- Increased mobility bonus from covert ops armor, lowered defense bonus
- Adjusted SHIV rebuild project requirements so more engineers / rush-building can help
NOTE: IF YOU CONTINUE BETA 10 CAMPAIGN, SOME OF YOUR SOLDIERS MAY HAVE LOST THEIR HEAD BECAUSE OF A BUGFIX, WHICH COULD CAUSE CTDS. IF YOU HAVE INVISIBLE OR HEADLESS SOLDIERS, CHANGE THEIR CHARACTERISTICS IN THE BARRACKS SO THEY APPEAR.
Beta 10 (June 21, 2014)
- Fixed: You can now shoot down the Overseer instead of just blowing it up
- Fixed: Ghost Grenade, Psi Shield, Neural Gunlink will now be equippable by psis
- Fixed: Laser and Pulse carbine strat game texts
- Fixed: Borked Phalanx/Carapace and other decos
- Attempted fix: Altitude strings being buggy; shortened to NOE (old Low), Low (old High) and High (old Very High/Suborbital)
- Attempted fix: Intact UFO Power Supplies blowing up after a turn
- Fixed: Acidized rocketeer fires shredder rocket and gets shredded effect
- Fixed: You can't sell "rebuild SHIV" projects in the Gray Market
- Fixed: Bugged settings for alien upgrades; they should scale properly with difficulty now
- Attempted Fix: Rapid Fire does not work on Carbine weapons
- Attempted Fix: Certain items applying Alien Grenade charges
- Attempted Fix: Ammo Conservation failing sporadically with soldiers
- Fixed: Seekers re*strangling targets when they should be running away.
- Fixed: Seeker AI also trying to cloak repeatedly when in range of battlescanner. Reported CTDs possibly related to this (or vanilla bug)
- Fixed: Suppression bugfixes leaving space formerly occupied by suppressor closed off and interfering with sightlines
- Fixed: Should be able to equip advanced MEC weapons now
- Fixed: Soldiers should properly load saved loadouts during alien base assault
- Attempted fix: Satellites being randomly shot down with no visible hunt mission at end of month
- Attempted fix: Implemented updated pod randomization code to eliminate bad spawns and mix up the altitude an alien will appear at on multi*level maps
- Fixed: SCOPE upgrade bonus not appearing for SCOPES in crit line items (but is appearing for laser sights)
- Fixed: Rush*building a Foundry project initially displays the wrong (unrushed) time in the upcoming events list.
- Fixed: Rush*building a facility is confusing. In the upcoming events list, it displays the full time required to build, which then decrements twice as fast. In the facilities UI, it is displayed correctly.
- Fixed: Proportional meld on rush build projects not working
- Fixed: "Click to remove" option in gene lab (after picking a gene mod, and then trying to remove it) doesn't remove the gene mod from your queue
- Fixed: Covert operative loadout doesn't report hp bonuses from covert ops armor/plating items
- Fixed: You sometimes have a "build the arc thrower" objective after building an arc thrower
- Fixed: Removed Neural Damping from aliens (was causing lockups)
- Fixed: Animations firing at odd times when using certain carbines
- Fixed: Psi soldiers can no longer select neural damping
- Fixed: Too much psi training success
- Fixed: Removed ability to build alien grenades after they are made infinite
- Fixed: Panic bars for terror alerts and exalt propaganda should work correctly now
- Fixed: All new campaigns will automatically reset the map cycler, so there should be no more need to do this on your own
- Fixed: Bombardier and Grenadier perks will now properly increase range for MEC long*range weapons
- Fixed: Random stats on level up SW option was giving WAY TOO MUCH STATAGE, now fixed
- Fixed: Some work on malfunctioning psi*related AI that should make sectoids take flanking shots way more often
- Fixed: CTD on using Flush on a brainsucking seeker
- Fixed: Soldier mind*merge / heal issue
- Fixed: Vanilla*rooted exploit that gave you unlimited rocket launcher range
- Fixed: More work on psi*related AI so they are smart about when to shoot
- Fixed: Removed too*buggy launch ability from seraphim armor, and improved SA's mobility & defense stat instead
- Fixed: Disabling Shot can no longer cause critical hits
- Fixed: Mayhem bonus damage now applies to Head Shots
- Fixed: Repairing SHIVs with an Arc Thrower will now remove Red Fog penalties
- Fixed: Upsized aliens will remain upsized upon reloading tactical save games
- Fixed: VANILLA bug in which ITZ didn't trigger if kill was caused by bonus shredder or HEAT damage
- Fixed: VANILLA bug in which the Aim interceptor module DID NOTHING HELP YOU AT ALL. SERIOUSLY. THIS HAS NEVER WORKED.
- Fixed: Bug in which unequip all button gave SHIVs an assault rifle
- Fixed: Too*large MEC armor inventory images
- Lame Fix: Updated XCOM database text to explain that all construction and research stops during combat missions, as all personnel are busy providing mission support
BALANCING:
- Spaced out early Drone DR upgrades
- Spaced out EXALT trooper upgrades
- Scaled back pace of difficulty increase of Exalt missions
- Sniper Rifles and Marksman Rifles will have much greater aim falloff at close ranges
- Adjusted several perk trees
- Ignored UFOs raise panic by 2 (just like damaged ones), so there's no reason to game the system by quick*intercepting/retreating UFOs
- Adjusted panic rolling so the chances of catastrophic panic outcomes are lower, but panic remains a problem for longer in the campaign. You will now get some onscreen feedback about your panic rolls.
- HEAT Ammo perk now only applies to your primary weapon.
- Using training roulette means you no longer get stat bonuses from specific perk selections
- Eliminated multi*country Exalt clues, meaning it's gonna take awhile to find their base
- Lock N' Load now grants +1 ammo in all cases, and if you take it as a perk ability, using reload as your first action does not end your turn
- Adjusted Diminishing Returns SW option to be compatible with LW
- Red Fog aim penalty capped at *40 instead of *50.
- NSLW: Increased threshold for XCOM HQ Assault to occur
- Captured plasma weapons may no longer be used directly by XCOM; instead they are necessary for XCOM to construct their own plasma weapons of any type
- Significant increases in many mid/late game research times and engineer requirements
- Foundry buildable at start
- New foundry project to unlock air consumables, available at alien materials. UFO Tracking (Boost) unlocked with project; Aim and Dodge unlocked with project and prior techs. Some changes to costs of all consumables.
- EMP Cannon effectiveness at causing artifacts to survive a crash reduced to keep late*game economy from getting out of control.
- Increased engineer and scientist minimums to build more workshops and labs
- Reworked some council item requests to grant more engineers
- Rookies will equip alien grenades instead of HE grenades once you finish the alien grenades foundry project (when they randomly roll up that kind of grenade)
- Significant rebalancing of Not*So*Long*War SW option so the economy scales properly with reduced mission density; removed most time*related settings impacted by NSLW
- Improved Ethereal Psi Drain ability
- Abduction cash reward now scales a little with mission difficulty
- Removed short*range interceptor weapon quality entirely from the game; all interceptor weapons will now fire from the same (long) range. Balanced several weapon values and alien UFO upgrades in light of this increased capability for certain weapons.
- Interceptor experience now provides +3% to hit per kill (up to + 30%) and +1% damage per kill (with no top limit)
- Genemods now have variable timeouts that scale with their utility; Amount of extra timeouts for genemods and psi powers now described in perk texts (current +12 for all psi powers, +3 to +12 for genemods)
- Added condition that will force alien assault on XCOM HQ late in the game if you haven't had one yet.
- Smart Macrophages genemod now also confers complete immunity to poison and acid
- Repair Servos perk made more interesting, now heals up to half your HP at rate of 2 per turn (total healable amount goes down as you take more damage)
- In The Zone confers a cumulative critical hit % penalty after each successive shot
- Lotsa little stuff
- Crash to desktop when covert operation completes. Fixed in beta 11.
Beta 9 (May 10, 2014)
- Fixed: Some campaigns still lock up on start because of armor deco settings for reasons I can't fathom. Going forward, armor deco will be set to default (*1) to avoid this, but can be changed by players in DefaultGameCore.ini.
- Fixed: CTD Bug when alien regenerates when offscreen
- Fixed: Carbines now have armorkits, meaning you won't lose armor decos when equipping carbines
- Fixed: North America will supply proper number of scientists with 3 countries on Normal and Classic
- Fixed: Phoenix Coilgun unlocked by Gauss Weapons again (erroneously put under Advanced Gauss in B7/B
- Attempted fix: Changed text string "Suborbital" to "Very High" to address missing altitude text strings on hunts
- Attempted fix: Swapping weapons after activating run n gun initializes the regular set of ability options
- Fixed: CTD when finishing Tactical Rigging project
Balancing:
- Larger pods will now be distributed over a wider area when spawned
- Adjusted starting cash ** Can now set starting cash bonus as specific to starting continent ... South America and Africa get a large relative boost; Asia a small one, Europe stays the same and North America a small reduction
- Rewrote mechanism that generates satellite hunts from scout missions; now damaging a scout and/or native country defense (the shield thingey) reduce chances of a hunt, while alien research increases it. This does not change whether a hunt is successful, or the direct generation of hunt missions without scout missions that can occur. Also slightly reduced conditions under which a destroyer will spawn on a hunt and increased conditions under which you'll get a fighter instead
- Swapped the effects/themes of pulse and beam lasers on the tech tree, with beam lasers doing less damage and pulse more. The aim*bonus*beam laser is available early (with lower overall damage), and the crit*bonus*pulse laser late (with higher overall damage), possibly making them more interesting alternatives to plasma.
- Enemy tech progression difficulty inverted, so aliens on Normal teched up at Impossible rate and vice versa. Fixed in beta 10, Manual fix here.
- Overseer UFO always explodes if sucessfully attacked. Fixed in Beta 10 onwards, workaround hex*edit fix available in Nexus Forums.
Beta 8 (May 8, 2014)
- Fixed: CTDs on map selection for Fighter, Raider, Terror Ship and Assault Carrier UFOs.
- Fixed: Various typos
- Fixed: Psionic Alien AI should now weigh its situation differently and use psi powers in a more measured and dangerous way, rather than spamming
- Fixed: CTD when killing a mindmerger*sectoid
- Fixed: Randomized subclass selection option sometimes picking from the pair of subclasses you don't want
- Fixed: Regeneration always fully healing aliens; now it should just heal the proper amount
- Attempted fix: Some animation hangs when seekers try to stealth near a stealth*denying unit
- Fixed: On NSLW various projects that require an item to complete will no longer drop 1*item requirements (so rebuild SHIV projects will now properly require 1 SHIV chassis)
- Attempted Fix: Gave outsiders some movement related settings so they can jump off a UFO roof if necessary
- Damage when poisoned will now say "ACID" so it makes more sense when a robot takes this kind of damage
- Fixed: Panicking suppressor will now move to cover before hunkering down
- Fixed: Unlimited moves bug when swapping to pistol
- Fixed: Exploit in which swapping weapons transferred some bonuses that shouldn't be transferring
- Attempted Fix: Removed Vanilla EU Tutorial map from rotation to attempt to address Mid*mission CTDs
- Fixed: New Economy
- Attempted Fix: pawn weirdness in mission setup
- Attempted Fix: Removed a set of conditions that could generate a hunt mission in an attempt to address satellites randomly blowing up.
- Fixed: Hitting alt*O during a dash lets dashing soldier go into overwatch. You may now only hit alt*O and get results when the active unit isn't doing anything, and it will only apply to other units with moves left and aren't doing anything.
- Fix try 2: Dead officer billets not cycling back to availability after a few missions
- Fixed: Alien flags visible in fog of war
- Sorta fixed: Battlescanner showing poisoned if thrown through poison cloud (Attempting to address). Should now show "immune"
- Fixed: Put in LR adjustment code that was noted in Beta 7 (code was using Beta 6 version of Lightning Reflexes)
Balancing:
- Alien Trophies and Mind Shield now grant "Steadfast" perk. Alien Trophies no longer provide will bonus; MS will bonus reduced to 25 from 30.
- New explosives damage falloff code will use a different calculation for how much damage at a given location. Net effect should be more damage near the center of an explosion. Lowered AOE of AP grenade so it's equal with HE; reduced base throw range of all alien grenades, so they max at visual range with grenadier+bombardier. Returned rocket launcher damage to Beta 6 levels.
- Acid (Poison) damage will be assessed no longer every turn; instead, it will ONLY be assessed when you take any action other than hunker down (head down for civilians). Skipping your turn and doing nothing will also prevent this damage. Alien AI trained to know this, as well.
Beta 7 (May 4, 2014)
Bugfixes:
- Fixed: Messed up decos on Phalanx, Carapace, Banshee and Corsair armor
- Fixed: Bug preventing sectoids from Mind*merging most of the time
- Fixed: Some interrogation texts, Experimental Warfare text, Chryssy autopsy text, Smart Macrophages description, Mec*1 and Mec*2 descriptions
- Fixed: Bug causing too much critical damage
- Fixed: Some behind*the*scenes bugs generating log warnings
- Fixed: Soldiers appearing on wrong plinth with expanded squads
- Fixed: SHIV items not displaying more detailed tactical text in engineering UI (when you hit the question mark)
- Fixed: Targeting Detail displays incorrect total crit % chance
- Fixed: Muton Elites showing up as Mectoid escorts
- Fixed: Some cases where tutorial*related code was triggering
- Fixed: Psi troopers should now be able to equip Mind Shield
- Fixed: Vanilla bug in which targeting a piece of cover granted perfect rocket accuracy
- Returned BattleScanner to default settings because we've been getting a bunch of reports about bugs related to battlescanner but I really don't know if this will do anything
- Fixed: Bug in RestoreBackedUpInventory which wasn't restoring your first small item
- Fixed: Text bug misreporting possible Mindfray damage
- Fixed: So Others May Live text
- Fixed: Bug in NSLW code that granted too little elerium from Power Sources
- Fixed: Bugged code for Site Recon mission preventing chryssalids from showing up in sufficient numbers
- Fixed: CTD when volunteer tries to change equipment
- Fixed: Psi Grenade animation & displacement issues
- Fixed: Bad leader assignments of Sharpshooter perk
- Fixed: Text bug when you don't have OTS prereqs
- Fixed: Some bugs with perks when tearing down/rebuilding OTS and Foundry; you can no longer remove those buildings once built
- "Fixed": Distortion Field not giving bonus to psi who has the ability, even in cover. We can't change this, so this is no longer a bug but a feature.
- Fixed: Superheavy Plasma inventory image.
- Fixed: In the Zone perk should work now
- Fixed: Core Armoring SHIV item should display correct inventory image
- Fixed: Holo*Targeter text
- Fixed: Basic and Pulse weapons should display proper images in HUD
- Fixed: Reaper Rounds will now work with Alloy Cannon
- Fixed: Text reporting various plating items don't help covert operative
- Fixed: Muton Elite late game tertiary escort options
- Fixed: Aliens not regenerating when out of view
- Fixed: CTD when you lose your 21st country (meaning you've retaken and lost several)
- Fixed: MECs sometimes showing up as eligible for Psi training, also added doublechecks to ensure officers and SHIVs aren't eligible
- Fixed: To Hit detail displays incorrect total %stun chance
- Attempted Fix: CTD when MEC panics
- Fixed: Some replacement soldier orders getting lost (when one is already queued up) VANILLA BUG, THANK YOU
- Attempted Fix of reports of MECs getting unearned wounds from first mission (set fatigued flag to false when MEC undergoes conversion)
- Attempted fix: Officer promotions not cycling back after soldier deaths in designed time frame
- Fixed: Red Fog display in target screen showing up as bonus instead of penalty
- Attempted fix: Nasty Vanilla suppression bugs when soldier becomes "unglued" from terrain
- Fixed: Outsider shard creates two distinct items in gray market (will no longer be available for sale)
- Fixed: Soldier can mind*merge with a battlescanner
- "Fixed": Updated psi*power text to better fit inability to use both mind*merge and psi inspiration on same soldier
- "Fixed": Lowered Cyberdisc death blossom preference to almost nothing (the attack wasn't working right, so this deals with the bug by preventing them from using it)
- Fixed: Bad pod support alien call when rolling up an elite operative, could be causing black screens on mission start
- Fixed: Losing or dismissing an interceptor or Firestorm wasn't decrementing correct item
- Fixed: Int and FS Maintenance costs incorrectly calculated
- Fixed: CTD bug when overseer blows up (no longer reachable in any case)
- Fixed: Balanced to get additional HP on level up with random stat increase SW option
- Fixed: Reversed Plasma Carbine and Plasma Rifle item requests
- Fixed: Alien plasma Weapon crit chances were zeroed out instead of being equal to crit chances of comparable XCOM plasma weapons
- Fixed: Mectoids unable to reload after being hit with Disabling shot
- Fixed: Swapping weapons on damaged fighters sometimes resets repair time
- Fixed: Adjusted AI governing psi powers so ethereals should use psilance more
- Fixed: Vanilla bug preventing mouse control from rotating geospace
- Fixed: Set a check and a default Armor Deco value of *1, meaning the game should ignore the special code for altering initial decos and go with vanilla default; you can still set it manually (in case this is causing first*mission lockups)
- Partial Fix: Airborne AI units sometimes freeze ** seen a suppressed floater and an unsuppressed drone appear to do nothing (we think this was a vanilla bug)
- Workaround: Setting starting armor deco to 67 (kevlar deco 0 ... sleeveless with no elbow pads) causes lockup: Set it to *1 (or 0 in Beta 6)
- Fixed: Pilots reverting from Cmdr. to Col. after 10th kill.
- Fixed: Leaders were upgrading defense and not aim from aim stat
- Fixed (I think) Weird pawn appearance on plinth before mission, related to cybernetic augmentation. Newly modified soldier maintains some elements of prior deco until deco modified when MEC suit added.
- Fixed: Furies unable to level up for Psis
- Fixed: Bug in which canister meld was granted when you fled mission
- Attempted fix: Finishing Tactical Rigging would overwrite (and destroy) whatever items were in your second slot
- Fixed: Perks assigned to SHIV AutoSentry Turret and Adapative Tracking Pods corrected to what text says the should be doing
- Fixed: Buggy assignment of Fire Rocket to Engineer subclass
- Fixed: Removed Rapid Reaction from list of perks exposed to Training Roulette because it was still showing up on trees with Sentinel
- Fixed: Soldier jumping genemod perk animation sometimes missing. This fix may fix some other perk*related animation issues as well.
- Attempted Fix: Continent bonuses not being properly restored upon liberation of base (satellite sometimes providing it over country before base is liberated)
- Fixed: Banshee armor inventory image missing, incorrect depleted elerium rounds inv image
- Fixed: Missing mission*based PsiXP for Psi Shadow
Features/Gameplay changes
- You will now see chief soldier stats (Health, Mobility, Will, Aim, Defense) in most soldier lists
- Alien spawns will now be randomized on maps (thanks WGhost). Added a few maps back into various rotations.
- Significant overhaul of Grenade, Poison spit and Rocket launcher mechanics. New calculation method for rocket scatter, and a number of abilities (suppression, disorientation, poisoned, mindfrayed) apply penalties to range (for grenades, spit, Exalt rocket launchers) or accuracy (for XCom rocket launchers).
- You may now set rookie headgear in DGC.ini
- Included a list of candidate colors & decos in a text file for use in changing ini settings
- Gas Grenade is now a "chem grenade." Against unprotected targets, it applies a mobility penalty plus damage for every action you take, but hunkering down or standing still reduces the damage. Against all targets who aren't poisonous themselves (including robots, but not Thin Men, Zombies or Chryssies), it also acts as acid, reducing non*cover based damage reduction and conferring an aim penalty. This effect also applies to Chyrssalid and Thin Man poison (which is basically the same stuff).
- Soldier supra*class (Tactical, Weapons, etc.) will now tilt toward the class you have the least of, with a 50/50 chance of being that class; otherwise it will be one of the other three. Added ini setting so you can adjust chance of getting least common class.
- Progeny now activated by default
- Temple Ship mission should be quite a bit more challenging now
- Added Super Skyranger foundry project, which gives +2 squad size on alien base and Exalt HQ assaults, and +4 on the Temple Ship (max of 12, even if you mod the game to give a higher base)
- Surviving Blueshirts from base defense missions join XCOM as PFCs
- Deceased Blueshirts from base defense missions are honored on the memorial wall
- Added Alien Nucleonics foundry project to increase elerium extracted from UFO power sources
- Added Improved Salvage Techniques foundry project that increases Weapon Fragments from missions by 25%
- Added Fast Mover perk that functions as a half*power sprinter (but can be stacked with sprinter). This will generally be attached to items.
- UFO alerts now include an altitude indicator, providing a clue of the UFO's mission (and whether it will land)
- Landed UFOs will now infrequently be ambushes, with many, many extra troops than a normal landed UFO. This will become more likely if the aliens are suffering serious losses at the hands of XCOM.
- Rewrote critical hit code from scratch to fix vanilla issues with smoke grenade. Should mostly work the same, with following changes: Sharpshooter gives +10% crit in all cases. Executioner gives +10% crit when targeting a unit at 50% or less health. Foundry Scope upgrade gives +5% crit chance to laser sight. Squadsight*range shots face a severe crit penalty, but it isn't eliminated entirely.
- Four new primary weapons are available: Assault Carbine, Gauss Carbine, Pulse Carbine, Laser Carbine. They all get an aim bonus, crit penalty and do *1 damage relative to the equivalent rifle. They all (along with the plasma carbine) grant the "Fast Mover" perk.
- You may now use the F1*F7 keys in the Geoscape view to shift the camera to focus on your five interceptor bases, plus the north and south poles.
- Added a series of UFO class*specific UFO Analysis technologies that are unlocked by Alien Materials & a successful raid on a UFO of that class. It will provide +10% damage on all hits on UFOs of that class (as well as some guidance in the text about effective weapons against this particular UFO). They'll be quick research projects for the most part ** shorter than autopsies.
- Significant overhaul of seeker AI and capabilities.
- You can now build a skeleton key before orbiting a satellite over an occupied country.
- Aliens will now steadily introduce pod leaders with new capabilities, and higher*level leaders will grow more frequent in the late game and on alien base assaults.
- Aliens able to field monsters and other unique opponents on a few terror missions now.
- Exalt now has a true boss and some lieutenants.
- Damage popups now display Damage reduction effects (if any)
- Suppressing with an LMG*class weapon now temporarily grants Opportunist perk and bonuses if an suppressed target tries to move; removed Opportunist from Gunner tree
- Added New Combat Systems foundry project that unlocks some heavy* and assault* specific small items, such as Reaper Rounds, Alloy Bipod (with Alien Materials), Armor Piercing Ammo (with Alien Materials), Smartgun Kit (Gauss LMG also renamed Gauss Autorifle to avoid confusion) for Heavy and Breaching Ammo (with Alien Materials), Shredder Ammo With Alien Materials) and Impact Vest (with Mobile Power Armor) for Assault; Marksman's Scope, Illuminator Gunsight, and Laser Designator for Scout, and Chem Grenade (with Thin Man Autopsy) for everyone
- Added Walker Servos, an assault*only item granting Fast Mover perk, granted by Advanced Servomotors Foundry project
- Added Psi Warfare Systems Foundry project, necessary to unlock certain psi*only items that provide significant bonuses: Aurora Armor (with Improved Body Armor), Psi Grenade, Psi Screen (with Mectoid Autopsy), Neural Gunlink (with Alien Biocybernetics), Ghost Grenade (with Seeker Autopsy), Mind Shield (with Sectoid Commander Autopsy). Ghost Grenade is now Psi*only. Some Psi*only items temporarily draw down the soldier's will, while others raise it.
- Added Tactical Sensors MEC small item, conferring, you guessed it, Tactical Sense perk
- Added Shredder Ammo perk (reworked Shredder Rocket). Functions as before for Rocketeers; On other classes it adds shredder effect from hits from gun. Added to Gunner, Valkyrie and Jaeger trees.
- On Covert Ops Data recovery missions (not Capture and Hold), you may only bring a maximum of four soldiers. (Thanks to whoever suggested this!
- "ALT*O" key combo now puts all soldiers with moves remaining on overwatch (with no confirm, so be careful ** and remember snipers don't fire overwatch shots at squadsight ranges)
- Added ability to repair destroyed SHIVs via engineering projects. Adjusted SHIV build costs and reduced regular repair times.
- Explosive damage now scales downward from point of detonation (although it is still moderately randomized) to edge of area of effect. Adjusted some explosives stats to compensate.
- When leveling up rookies, you now have a third "random subclass" option if you want to go for something other than the pair presented.
- Added "Psychokinetic Strike" psi power that allows psi soldier to blow up cover
- MEC gear (except armor) will now appear in "vehicles" tab with SHIV gear instead in regular soldier gear tab. This allows us to combine a half*dozen small items to make them equippable by both MECs and SHIVs.
- Completion of rearming, refueling, repairing or transfer of an aircraft on a continent when a UFO is overhead will now pause the geoscape, allowing you to launch an interception
Balancing:
- UFOs that are to land on harvest and research missions will now head straight for their destination rather than fly around like a great big target, giving you less time to shoot them down. This means that you should see more landed small UFO missions (which have been too easy to miss because they are fairly easy to shoot down). In addition, larger UFOs on certain missions will fly in ways that give a clue to the nature of the mission and what's coming next.
- Hunter UFOs are now visible anywhere in the world, regardless of satellite or interceptor coverage. This gives you a mechanism to prevent undetected UFOs on hunts shooting down satellites as you launch them.
- Reduced array of conditions that will generate a Hunter UFO.
- Thin Man poison spit range reduced slightly; Suppression now reduces it by half, gave Thin Men access to perks that can increases its range
- Minor AI changes to sectoid and in a few other places
- Increased some perk bonuses when selecting on level*up. Taking Steadfast, for example, should give +5 will. Covering Fire will give better aim bonuses.
- Steadfast perk should now protect against chain panic
- Various grenade*throwing aliens no longer receive Bombard perk by default; instead it can show up as a leader or navigator perk.
- Significant rework of Interception Armor/Armor Piercing numbers. The intent (we'll see how it plays out) is to create smoother tiers of both weapons and ships
- Using a fatigued soldier on a mission deals 1 wound, not 2
- Scaled down some damage upgrades for various aliens
- Aliens take research hit when they lose a base
- Gray market will offer 20% item value instead of 50% for non*artifact item sales; workshop rebates significantly reduced; cash rebates will be capped at 25% of item value (instead of total value * 1). This is to prevent exploit of selling items for more than their manufacture cost.
- Reduced outsider accuracy on Normal difficulty
- Stretched out many alien upgrades so they will happen over longer timeframe (general easing of difficulty)
- Reworked UFO encounter table some, should impact alien resource*gathering and frequency of raiders/destroyers in particular
- Blueshirts no longer receive will and HP nerfs
- Little more meld; little less in NSLW
- Increased cyberdisc frequency
- General increase in engineer requirements for many items, with a particular increase for mid* to late*game items
- Adjusted council requests for weaponry
- Engineer receives *1 mobility upon first promotion. (Solution: Use a carbine)
- Gene mods made cheaper again; extra timeout per genemod reduced to 6 hours
- Slightly reduced alloy recovery on normal (which I'd bumped in a prior Beta, but it's still more than other levels) and increased fragment recovery on all difficulties
- Adjustments to some research times
- Aliens marginally less likely to retreat, particularly in large pods that have taken losses
- Capped many council item request rewards at 2 scientists / engineers instead of 3
- Reduced Infantry and Goliath aim bonuses on level up slightly, increased Guardian aim bonuses slightly
- Adjustments to some soldier armor stats; added an early armor tech for greater granularity in developing upgrades. Phalanx Armor is reasonably accessible early on; Carapace and Kestrel moved to "Advanced Body Armor."
- Chance of UFO blowing up versus crash*landing now scales with UFO size. Small UFOs slightly more likely to blow up; mediums the same as prior Betas; larger ones less likely. Overseer will never blow up, 'cause I think Insufferable Smartypants will blow a gasket when he finally kills an Overseer and it goes boom.
- MEC adjustments: Absorption Fields perk nerfed to cap at 40 percent damage reduction (vice 50), all MECs get +10 defense and 1 DR (2 DR if using One For All), and they get the Combined Arms perk, nullifying 1 point of enemy Cover DR; MEC*3 suit gets Tactical Sense perk automatically (see also new Tactical Sensors item for MEC*1 and MEC*2)
- Basic and Alloy SHIVs given +10 defense. (Hover SHIV gets +10 from new air evade bonus)
- Adjusted all MEC perk trees except Archer, removing Tactical Sense and Lock N' Load
- Adjusted Rocketeer tree to put Javelin Rockets at Master Sergeant
- Significant rewrite of Exalt mission code; elites should appear in a timely fashion and difficulty will ramp up as time goes on. Did some sprucing up of Exalt HQ raid, too.
- Set minimum damage on Neural Feedback to 1 (if it did 0 damage, it would appear it did nothing sometimes)
- Kinetic Strike Module now does variable damage
- Flamethrower now causes a panic roll, not auto*panic
- Railgun and Particle Cannon now get 3 ammo before reload is required (instead of 2)
- Lightning Reflexes now provides a 90% reaction fire to*hit penalty on the first shot, and 70% penalty on 2nd and additional shots
- Alien Neurology no longer requires so many fragements, but some sectoid corpses instead
- All environmental damage somewhat randomized; aliens now apply damage bonus to environmental damage as well.
- Defeating the Exalt base grants 25 meld
- You may sell SHIV chassis (from destroyed or dismantled SHIVs) on the gray market
- Alien AI will have a lower threshhold of determining a target vulnerable, which should making them a bit more shooty
- Telekinetic Field psi perk improved to not apply bonuses to enemies within field
- Neural Feedback now has a chance to protect nearby friendlies from psi attack
- Removed smoke grenade from TR exposed perks, added Vital Point Targeting in its place
- Medics and Scouts may now use shotgun*class weapons. Scouts may now use Sniper Rifles. Scout tree adjusted for Snap Shot at Gunnery Sergeant (and some other balancing moves). Scout won't have access to squadsight. This is to see if scouts can work as an optional "designated marksman" role that differs a bit from snipers.
- Lowered mission*based Psi XP from non*contested power
Beta 6 (March 29, 2014)
Bugfixes:
- Kinetic Strike Module, Electropulse will correctly have multiple uses (instead of 1)
- Aliens can now shoot down your satellites again
- Rookies are properly made ineligible for MEC conversion (and other fixes to MEC conversion candidacy)
- Fixed: Incorrect prompts for level 4 psi to finish game by entering gallop chamber.
- Fixed: Possibility for negative meld collection from containers. Also adjusted meld reward amounts to be more granular.
- Added missing text for Sectoid Commander prisoner transfer
- Fixed potential CTDs on most UFO missions after alien research gets particularly high (Thanks Minoitos and Teemredd31 for the savegames! )
- Removed Combined Arms from showing up in Valkyrie perk tree and corrected with Packmaster
- Fixed: Aliens should use grenades again
- Fixed problem with Advanced Servomotors with workaround by creating new MEC small item that grants sprinter perk. Still applies general mobility bonus to all SHIVs.
- Reduced northernmost parts of UK and Germany slightly to see if that will reduce North Pole bug
- Fixed bug causing newly freed countries to be at max panic, should now be freed around 80 panic
- Fixed: You should no longer be able to access the vanilla MEC construction interface
- Attempted Fix: Using disabling shot on an alien in overwatch should no longer give the alien unlimited overwatch shots.
- Attempted Fix to CTD ** Suppressed sectoids will no longer try mind*merge
- Attempted Fix: Sending an interceptor after a landing UFO should abort interception after the UFO goes to ground
- Fixed: Prereqs for Alien Propulsion
- Fixed: Damage Control Pods should function now
- Fixed: Accidentally swapped SHIV Heal and Drone Capture requirements and tech tree position.
- Fixed: Alloy*Carbide Applique should show up as SHIV inventory item
- Fixed: Phoenix Cannon shows up under Gauss Weapons in line with posted tech tree (instead of Advanced Gauss Weapons)
- Fixed: Full list of unlocked foundry projects should appear when you complete a tech
- Fixed: Removed Suppression from candidate Training Roulette perks to avoid conflicts with class skills
- Fixed: Heavy Plasma tech now correctly requires Heavy Plasma items
- Reworked Rush build, adjusted some costs and bonuses (it should generally be better). Still one display bug, noted in Confirmed issues.
- Restorative Mist should show charges in equip UI now
- Set range of alien supply to keep things from getting out of hand (in either direction) and avoid weirdness of negative numbers
- Reduced size of largest big aliens to avoid graphical glitches
- Rewrote code that determines Exalt HQ assault forces
- Attempted to fix issues with multiple UFOs spawning simultaneously by randomizing their appearance time
- Psi icon will glow purple at level 1 sted 4
- Fixed: Psi Training time should show correctly in barracks listing
- Fixed: Hyperwave should show correct alien counts
- Fixed: Bug in BuildPod preventing second main alien from being added
- Fixed: MEC suits will be available for use again if their driver is killed
- Fixed: Code to send best pilots to Firestorms should work now
- Rewrote tech credit code from scratch to better apply techs to credits
- Returned MEC weapon env damage to default
- Attempted fix: Reinforcements during base mission should show up properly now
- Fixed: Equipping multiple units of MEC large items now grant bonus charges
- Fixed: Each dead civilian on terror missions should be +3 panic in country, +1 on continent, instead of +4/+1
- Fixed: You should properly get high mission XP from tough missions (such as terror missions) now, instead of zero
- Fixed: UFOs on certain types of missions will appear further away from their targets, giving you time to intercept them.
- Fatigued Soldiers defending against a base assault should no longer suffer exhaustion wounds, just more fatigue
- SHIVs may get called up for base assault defense
Features / Gameplay changes:
- Aliens now employ a UFO to assault XCOM's base. Losing the base mission does not mean the end of the game, but instead inflicts heavy damage on your resources. The aliens can now assault XCOM's base multiple times.
- Added ability that lets you set soldiers' initial armor deco and color via repurposed DefaultGameCore.ini entries, and one*time class*dependent color and headgear change upon promotion to specialist
- Added Alien Metallurgy Foundry project, which increases the alloys you recover from UFOs you shoot down
- Added small items: Alloy Belt for SHIVs (Alien Materials) and Alloy Hauberk for MECs (MEC Warfare) (provide bonus HP); Psi Grenade (enhanced Flashbang for Psi Troopers)
- Added some armor deco choices. Genemods will no longer be restricted to eight genemod*specific decos.
- You may now transfer damaged interceptors to other continents for repair.
- You may now rearm damaged interceptors, freeing up their weapon for other aircraft. Rearming an aircraft now takes 7 days for all weapons derived from alien techs; 12 hours for basic missile weapons.
- Interceptors and UFOs may now score (and suffer) from critical hits, in which a hit does double damage. Armor Piercing weapons increase the chance of critical hits, while armor (not hit points) reduces it. This may lead to interceptors being shot down more often.
- Using Steady Weapon ability now plays overwatch sound effect
- You may now sell captives directly on the gray market. The amount of money offered is low; the primary purpose for you to check your inventory of captives at any give time. (Thanks for the suggestion!
- Added a few of the larger abduction maps to the terror mission rotation
Balancing:
- Testing increased throw and scan range of battlescanner
- Mec*1 and Mec*2 get 1 extra small item slot
- Basic SHIV gets +1 hp and 1 extra small item slot
- Increased Meld recovered from canisters; when playing with Not*So*Long*War second wave option you should get A LOT more
- Reduced cost of some genemods
- Reduced timeout per genemod to 8 hours per
- Reduced cost of Alloy SHIV to $250 and Hover Shiv to $350, Increased Alloy SHIV engineer requirements and moved to Improved Body Armor as prereq
- Added Alien Materials as prereq for Alien Biocybernetics
- Significantly reduced chance to lose countries with max panic each month if you have a satellite there
- Reduced cyber's preference for death blossom
- Increased MEC trooper conversion time to 10 days
- It will take longer for aliens to begin accumulating significant "bonus" research; Also lowered somewhat multiplier determining when aliens level up on lower difficulties
- Tanks now get same defense bonus as XCom on lower difficulties
- Lowered build times but increased cost of mid*tier interceptor weapons
- Improvements and stronger upgrades for sectoid, thin man, outsider, Muton
- Rocketeer gets a more aim on level*ups, less hit points
- Spread out level*up will bonuses quite a bit more
- You now should generally have more time to engage UFOs on missions
- Cyberdisc Death Blossom should be more hurty now
- Increased panic chance when nearby soldiers panicking
- Aurora Armor now limited to Psis only
- Rework of HEAT and explosives damage code to provide more even bonuses
- Reduced base crit chance provided by gauss sniper rifle
- Reworked seeker AI
- Reduced some alien damage upgrades
- All MEC armors have +2 hit points
- Little more damage from EMP Cannon, little less expensive
- Significant reworks to Goliath (Damage*absorbing monster) and Guardian (not forced into medic path, best overwatch perks), with adjustments to most of the other MEC classes
- Mimic Beacon now psionic*only item and much cheaper
- Increased mectoid accuracy
Beta 5 (March 15, 2014)
Bugfixes
- Fixed: SHIV unloading Tread Deck after mission and equipping kevlar armor instead
- Fixed: Extra Conditioning should work with all armors now
- Fixed: Psis should no longer be locked out from all items
- Fixed: Tech report for Advanced Beam Lasers should display properly now
- Fixed: HEAT Ammo and Shredder Rocket text on damage bonuses
- Attempted Fix: CTD after alien grenades foundry project completed
- Fixed: CTD when Berserker uses Bullrush ability
- Attempted Fix: Hang when defeating second alien base
- Removed poorly performing terror maps (dam and fishing village) from terror mission rotation
- Attempted fixes to unimpressive enemy forces on Exalt missions
Features:
- Pilots (if you rename them) will now carry ranks commensurate with the number of kills they have achieved
Balance:
- Some adjustments to alien encounter table, net effect will be slight easing of difficulty
- Adjusted when council missions may occur
Beta 4 (March 13, 2014)
- Rebuilt to work with EW Patch 3 (March 10, 2014 patch)
Bugfixes:
- Terror Missions should properly scale up now
- Game no longer freezes when you finish Iron Skin or Smart Macrophages projects (there will be no cinematic for these)
- Removed nonfunctioning Squadsight from Jaeger tree and reworked tree a bit
- Fixed: Medikits (and possibly other items) provide charges in Slot 2 regardless of loadout
- Rewrote malfunctioning supra*class selection code to just randomly pick after the one of each of the first four classes have been awarded
- Code to prevent alien grenades from being sell*able in the gray market once they are infinite
Gameplay/Features:
- Close and Personal renamed Close Encounters, because Hicks
Balancing Adjustments:
- Alien unit upgrades significantly slowed on lower difficulties.
- Alien Computers council request now for 2 instead of 5 units
- Alien Power Source council request now for 2 instead of 3 units
- Increased Sectoid Will gain over time
- Slight reduction in Pulse Laser, Xenopsionics, Xenogenetics and Alien Biocybernetics research time and resources required
- Slight increase in Advanced Aerospace Concepts research time
- Significant reduction in cost and maintenance requirements for psilabs
- Relative increase in drone pods after first few months
- Aliens will launch terror missions in a few more strategic situations
- HEAT Ammo, HEAT Warheads and Shredder Rockets made somewhat more effective
- Alien Grenades foundry project upgrades needle grenades by +2 damage
Beta 3 (March 9, 2014)
Fixed issues for Beta 3
- Soldier deploys on cover on pier council mission.
- Bug in Assault perk tree (Close and Personal)
- Bug in Rocketeer perk*based stat upgrades (mobility)
- Training Roulette fixed
- A bunch of text fixes for items (including Phalanx and Aegis armors, also council item thank yous shouldn't overflow into reward line anymore)
- Certain MEC "items" that shouldn't appear in engineering won't appear in engineering
- Attempted fix: Installation fails when XCom isn't in primary Steam folder. Hex edit solution appended downforum.
- Probably fixed: Some users reporting rotating through a very small set of maps
- Fixed MEC Warfare Systems foundry project not initializing
- Fixed War Weariness.
- Fixed Results Driven.
- Fixed MEC equipping problems.
- Fixed bugged XP check for Psi level*ups.
- Fixed some problematic base assault code
- Fixed Xenopsionics not showing up in research archives
- Fixed SHIV Suppression and MEC Close Combat not appearing in Foundry list when tech tree says it should
- Fixed Sectoid corpse council item request (was requesting alloys for cash, should now request corpses for scientists).
- Fixed live Berserker and Muton requests
- Requests should now properly alert you that they include panic reduction as a reward
- CTD in genemod selection (occurs sporadically after several clicks on double*click of brain damping and maybe another mod)
- CTD when Exalt Heavy fires rocket; also issues with ranging
- Attempted fix to seeker staying stealthed indefinitely
- Attempted fix soldier not always leveling up when selecting Steadfast
- Attempted fix: Certain gear changes not being properly saved; Loadouts after missions should be saved; any changes made in barracks will overwrite saved loadout and generate new saved loadout
- Fixed: CTD in psi selection, and some other bad code
- Item cards should now display correct charge information (including perk info in equipping screen)
- Some inventory image fixes
- Fixed: Completing Armored Fighters project leaves fighters "injured" but not repairing
- Fixed: Game freezing when applying flush and panic*move effects on hunkered soldiers and aliens; hunker now provides immunity to any forced*moves
- Fixed: * Mind merge animation doesn't always disappear when sectoids get zapped
- Fixed some discrepancies in rush build code, not sure if was causing problems or not
- Attempted fix for mindmerge*Mectoid shield misbehavior
- Fixed bug that was providing wrong cash payouts for blowing up UFOs
- Attempted fix to Arc Thrower stun fails
- Fixed bug in which using keyboard to select soldiers allowed you to violate squad size limits
Added Features / Gameplay changes:
- Alt*F1 toggles HUD in tactical game
- Alt*F2 through Alt*F9 offers some new camera angles
- Grenadier now applies +1 greande to direct*damage grenades only
- Smoke and Mirrors now applies +1 grenade for all support grenades
- Lightning Reflexes now applies a severe aim penalty to all reaction/overwatch fire directed at the unit, rather than affording perfect defense against the first shot. This mean units activating LR can always be hit, but it should be pretty rare.
- When a unit is suppressed and breaks cover to run, the reaction shot now takes effect *after* the unit has left cover, making doing so more dangerous
- Fixed: Scatter Laser now properly becomes available with Advanced Pulse Lasers tech
- Attempted Fix: Covert Operative not fatiguing properly
Balancing adjustments:
- Made Phalanx Armor a little more expensive and removed defense bonus.
- Reduced initial Cyberdisc DR by 1.
- Reduced flashbang effect duration by 1/2 turn.
- Reduced Psi Training time
- Swapped Dense Smoke and Smoke and Mirrors on Engineer tree
- Reworked psi XP to avoid gamey opportunities to get more
- Rush*building any item costs a minimum of 1 meld
- Rush*building facilities costs 10 meld
- AP Grenade now ignores cover*based DR (and will do more damage)
- Blowing up UFOs entirely provides some alloy salvage
- Floaters now offer a little alloy salvage; Seekers now offer alloy and elerium salvage
- Aliens will be grow more annoyed at XCOM when they lose a big ship relative to losing a little ship
- Fighters and Destroyers a little better at initiating hunts
- NSLW: Officers have reduced requirement for missions in grade before being eligible for promotion to next officer level
- Gauss Sniper Rifle starts with one*round magazine
- Adjusted several level*up perks with bonus status to make them more enticing
- Slight increase in rocket accuracy
Beta 2 (March 2, 2014)
- Fixed bug in which soldiers never hit on normal difficulty.
- Fixed bug in World Diversity Code granting thousands of hit points.
- Fixed bug that was displaying AI debug code in objectives window.
v3.0 Beta 1 (March 2, 2014)
First Beta release.