This week's update introduces 3 new enemy types to add some extra enemy variety. Each new enemies has variants to appear across all escalation levels. Commanders will improve the targeting speed of their nearby allies. Marksmen will fire with far more accuracy and continue to track their target while firing. Artillery Granvir will fire from extreme range if their allies have spotted a target.
A big wave of adjustments have also been made to address recent new player feedback. The mech builder has been further improved to make it easier to use. The gap between tier 1 and tier 2 weapons has also reduced to match the gap between other tiers to ease the early game difficulty curve and increase the window to reach tier 2.
If you have been experiencing crashes recently please let me know if they continue. This update also moved to a newer engine version which should have some stability fixes.
2.33.0
Major Features
Added the Marksman Granvir enemy archetype. Marksmen are fast rifle wielding enemies with superior aim. Marksmen will continue to track your position up until firing and will track at an improved speed while firing. Marksmen are distinguished by their fully red paint scheme.
Added the Commander Granvir enemy archetype. Commanders are back line enemies that improve the effectiveness of nearby allies. Allies near a commander will complete targeting 25% faster. Commanders are distinguished by their red and gold paint scheme and periodic red pulse when boosting the performance of allies.
Minor Features
Added the TB04, TB05 and TB06 Grandine armatures, T2, T3 and T4 lightweight accuracy oriented armatures.
Added the AR01 Bombard, a T4 indirect fire cannon with extreme range and large AoE.
Increased the DPS weighting of Tier 1 to match the gap between other tiers and lower the urgency of acquiring T2 weaponry.
Updated engine version to attempt resolve engine level errors causing crashes. An in-mission benchmark also showed a 15% FPS improvement.
Added the porter to the Millennium Horizon Forest Settlement region.
Improved the clarity of the manufactorium towers being destroyed.
Added a setting for toggling damage numbers on and off.
Removed the road designation of the Campaign 3 Home Base testing area environment to prevent confusion about part performance.
Increased the size of the crushzone of infantry to be larger than their visuals.
Removed infantry spawns from village liberations so you are never required to kill them.
Removed the transfer parts button and improved the mech builder to handle parts in inventory that are not equipped.
Parts in the ship builder are now sorted by rarity and then alphabetically if rarity is the same.
Added a toggle for viewing incompatible parts for the selected port in the mech builder. Selecting an incompatible part will select a compatible port and install if that port is empty.
Changed the mech builder part stat display to use two columns to make more room for viewing your build.
Fixes
Fixed certain legs playing the wrong footstep audio.
Fixed control group bindings being randomly assigned when loading a campaign as a non-host.
Fixed continuous dashes activated with a toggle not untoggling their control group when the dash ends.
Fixed the purchase support and conscript support arrow icons appearing grey instead of cyan.
Fixed being unable to swap parts in holsters in the mech builder.
Fixed errors caused by losing an arm while firing a beam weapon.
Fixed vital effect tooltip information not displaying for certain tracks.
Millennium Eclipse Adjustments
Added the Artillery Granvir enemy archetype to Millennium Eclipse. Artillery Granvir are extreme range enemies that stay on the back line. Artillery Granvir will fire their long range cannons at targets their allies can see and reposition while there are no available targets. Artillery Granvir do not count towards wave completion and will not be marked on the compass when the wave is near defeat.
Added the Manufactorium, a new special region to Millennium Eclipse. Defending against all waves at the Manifactorium and keeping the facility operational will provide an increase to production stockpile and a small amount of production after each mission.
Added the Sea Bridge, a new special region to Millennium Eclipse. Defending against all waves at the Sea Bridge will provide additional Granvir part picks and pick options after each mission.
Added a dust cloud effect to turret placement.
Added a 5 second delay to the first wave of enemy spawns.
Fixed being able to place turrets on top of each other.
Fixed being able to see Granvirs that spawn as part of waves before they deploy.
Fixed back mounted beam cannons not lowering into firing position on computer controlled Granvir.