Build 26339266

Update — the research tree, rewritten and refundable

Research screen

- Terms like pierce, armour, blast and burning are underlined where the text uses them and explain themselves on hover. The separate TERMS block is gone.
- Any research can now be refunded, a rank at a time or all of it, with every point back. Where other research depends on it, the form shows each item that goes with it, drawn as it appears on the map, and asks in plain words before it refunds.

New mastery

- Hellfire now has two masteries, either/or: Weapons Free, as before, or Fire at Will, which fires Hellfire itself at the biggest crowd nearest an exit whenever a volley is ready. While Fire at Will is on you cannot fire Hellfire by hand. Switching one on switches the other off, and the strike card's lamp shows which is live. Note that Fire-and-Forget and Laser Designation change this behavior even further! So make sure you experiment.

In battle

- Rest the pointer on a placed gun, in deployment or in battle, and its card opens beside the pointer: the gun's picture, which of its kind it is, why it is out of the fight if it is, its position bonuses such as lane, flank and high ground, and a key legend of what the mouse does. The card replaces the badges that floated over guns.
- The kills and damage panel has a switch between this battle's figures and the campaign's totals.

Balance

- Floodplain's second-half flood comes 30 seconds later and its first-half flood is eased.

Leaderboards and Steam

- A score Steam refuses because the client has logged off is held until it reconnects rather than dropped.

Fixes

- Saves are written fully to disk before replacing the old file, so a power cut can never leave an empty save. Settings writes blocked by a scanner or sync client are retried.
- Incendiary research that places burning effects now applies only when a projector is actually placed.
- A refund that breaks a mastery's group switches that mastery off instead of letting it come back on unasked when you buy the group back.
- The mastery hotkey no longer follows a mastery that a map bans or a refund has closed.
- Drone launcher description corrected: three drones, five with Swarm Launch.