Behold the Spires!

Today Kali Spires will start spawning across the world. This will be our final static map through the conclusion of the test. As with Volcanyons, improvements and tweaks have been made to Kali Spires, but may require additional refinement as we learn what resources are too scarce, whether the designed activities are enough to keep people engaged, how walkers of all types are able to get around the map, etc.

We really sincerely hope that everyone has enjoyed the test, even with all of the bumps along the way. There are a few more weeks to go still, but this marks a sort of halfway point, so we wanted to provide the community an opportunity to provide feedback.

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New Features

• Kali Spires! And finally the appearance of Gogo for the first time on official servers.
• Added Artisan Soil Auger. Walker tool attachment that gathers soil-based resources.
• Added Volcano POI to volcano and volcanyons map. An erupting volcano provides large amounts of lava and/or obsidian, depending on which map.

Proxy Polish

• Proxy Claiming Mechanic polish
• Set proxy timers to be during region primetime
• Improved the logic for claiming to be reliable and consistent when driving around
• Lowered Proxy’s center of mass.
• Removed schematics, rigs, and meteor cores from being generated by the proxy
• Set Proxy to Heavily Damaged at 20% HP

Balance

• Reduced cost of ceramic bolts by 40%, iron and nibiran by 70%
• Scattershot damage reduced against medium, hard, and reinforced (50% decrease)
• Reduced Hornet turning radius and max speed.
• Made repeater projectiles storage increase with quality
• Reduced schematic relic hunter price
• Reduced HP scaling for quality walker wings/legs (+5/+10/+15/+20%)
• Rebalanced walker hull and leg HP. Most walkers increased HP by ~2.5x. T1 legs ~1/5th of walker HP. T2 legs +20%. T3 legs +20% of T2 legs. T3 legs armor reduced to medium
• Increase Firebolt, Hellfire Bolt, and Hardened Hellfire Bolt damage to offset the increased walker HP
• Increased cost of meteor core in charged boulders from 2 -> 3
• Reduced Rokker reload time 2s -> 8s.
• Disabled damage to structures on damage protected walkers
• Reduce torque effectiveness when wings are missing
• Remove torque battery from walker torque upgrades
• Reduced APT range from 20m to 12m

Trade Station

• Stop resetting walker timer after duel and trade interactions
• Protection timer is now persistent, which means it does not reset when being packed. It needs to “regenerate” time by being packed, like when you driver out of the Trade Station. Should help to clean up the walkers being left there not in active use.

Improvements

• Fully set up quality mob variants and created variations of them. Added loot tables (rigs, schematics, etc) to themAdded 3 “lives” for each player in Shaman’s Pit
• Walker leg collisions and optimization improvements
• Ancient City optimization pass
• Reworked Rupu Gates on Ancient City

Asteroids

• Reworked asteroid landing position logic so that it lands randomly around the tile, instead of at POI locations
• Set 3 minute delay to map icon of asteroid shards actors

Maintenance

• Added red warning light to maintenance chest when the base is decaying.
• Fixed maintenance calculation to update correctly

• Restored previous stamina regeneration for players
• Added projectile damage modifiers to popup widget

Fixes

• Respawned all POIs (should fix missing camps/POIs not spawning)
• Fixed remote weapon trajectories
• Added icon for Winged Helmet
• Fixed the Relic Hunter Widget being cut off
• Removed feathers from falco and raptor flag recipe
• Fixed a bunch of server crashes
• Fixed repair station UI widget being covered
• Set wingsuit stamina use update interval to 0.25s
• Added percentage info of foliage harvesting to in-game Wiki
• Changed Charged Boulder mesh to be a darker rock
• Fixed rupu sling shooting badly
• Fixed harvesting brine lakes
• Fixed Torque Battery and Pack Mule Modules
• Fix techtree location of steering levers and cage
• Fixed driver’s cage being destroyed on placement
• Fixed treasure maps not spawning correctly
• Fixed balang and silur platform collisions being too thin
• Fixed lava planes saying “Collect Toxic Water”
• Stop cobra movement when not in drive mode
• Fixed missing torque backpack in tech tree