Message from the Mothership
After observing many, many invaders, we've made a few changes to some weapons and a couple of bosses to bring you an even more finely-tuned experience. Read up on the knitty-gritty below, and please keep letting us know your thoughts!
Weapon Updates
How does damage work?
When the alien pulls the trigger, each bullet will be assigned damage within the given spread of numbers randomly. The numbers represented below are MINIMUM -> MAXIMUM damage per bullet.
1. Human Machine Gun
Human Machine Gun now has more oomph per clip, due to downtime of reloads.
Damage change on REGULAR SHOT:
Before: 5.25 -> 10.5 (x5 bullet)
After: 5.7 -> 11.25 (x5 bullet)
2. Lightning Gun
This weapon originally didn’t scale well in higher tiers and will now reward aggressive chargeshot + regular shot assault combos.
Damage change on REGULAR SHOT:
Before: 3 -> 4.5
After: 3.3 -> 6.0
Damage change on CHARGE SHOT ZAP:
Before: 1.65 -> 4.2 (interval 0.15/second)
After: 2.1 -> 4.95 (interval 0.13/second)
3. Energy Knife
Energy Knives, also known as swords, can no longer come with Fire Rate modifiers, as invaders couldn't swing fast enough to notice.
4. Minigun
Minigun now spins up faster, hits a little harder at maximums, and is a little easier to control on recoil.
Firerate Before: 0.20 -> 0.075
Firerate After: 0.10 -> 0.075
Maximum damage on a bullet:
Before: 8.70
After: 9.15
Range maximum change:
Before: 6.75 meters
After: 7.75 meters
5. Megashot
Megashot now applies its status effect on initial contact and third hit, has faster base speed bullets, and has a shorter chargeshot time.
Base Critical Hit Chance from -5% to 3%.
Apply-Status chance on REGULAR SHOT:
Before: 51% mega-acid1, 25% mega-acid2
After: 100% mega-acid1, 45% mega-acid2
SPEED change on REGULAR SHOT:
Before: 5.5 -> 7.5 meters/second
After: 6.5 -> 9.0 meters/second
CHARGE TIME on CHARGE SHOT:
Before: 1.40 seconds
After: 1.20 seconds
6. Sawed Off
When firing, the lucky high rolls of the damage for this weapon scaled incredibly with high tier gear. It should feel unchanged in most scenarios.
Damage change on each pellet REGULAR SHOT:
Before: 12 -> 28.5 (base crit chance 5%) x3 pellets
After: 10.5 --> 19.5 (base crit chance 2.5%) x3 pellets
7. Spreadshot
Needed a little more oomph. Got oomph.
Before: 3.9 -> 6.0 (x3 bullet)
After: 4.5 -> 6.45 (x3 bullet)
Boss Updates
1. Installball 2.0, Next of Spin
- Health reduced
- Eye projectile damage down
2. Bustletron, Spinner of Fists
- Health reduced
- Bustletron fist missiles now do less damage to invaders (10% health damage instead of 20%)
Other Changes
Update to Maximum # of Enemies
Aliens now add 0.75 additional enemy slots per player instead of 1.0 (4.0 maximum slots to 3.0 maximum slots). What this means in human terms is that there won't be as many maximum enemies in 3-4 player games.