Changes in 0.5.4-b1652
? indicates changes due to community feedback
Feeling Energized
- Renamed energy weapon archetypes
- Flux: Shotgun ➟ Railgun Splitter
- Curve: Sniper ➟ Plasma Seeker
- Dragon: Shotgun ➟ Railgun Repeater
- Pulse: Assault Rifle ➟ Plasma Repeater
- Charge: Cannon ➟ Plasma Launcher
- Trace: MMG ➟ Incendiary Repeater
- Added SFX for new energy weapons
- Added more VFX for new energy weapons
Going with the Flow
- More improvements to single-action melee
- ? Removed auto-scrubbing when placing a melee attack on the timeline
- Changed the colour of the strike trajectory to red
- Added a tooltip on the timeline to explain how to place a melee action
- Switched “melee” border when placing an attack to “location targeting”
- Simplified the tooltip for dash in the timeline
Tanks and Vehicles
- Updated Elevated Tanks to spawn with Railguns
- Vehicles can now overheat
Balance Tweaks
- Increased the stagger on Pulse
- Increased the heat on Dragon
- Increased the speed of Elevated Tanks to match that of AA Tanks
Misc. Updates
- Added UI to display accumulated stagger, heat, and concussion damage on a unit.
- Stagger debuff value will update as long as change in damage is larger than 0.05
- Toned down hills and valleys in terrain on various maps
- Lots of bug fixing!
Fixed Issues in 0.5.4-b1652
- Fixed an issue where melee attacks with Cutter weapons did not connect
- Fixed tanks and turrets not generating heat
- Removed Railgun debug line
- Fixed an issue where thrusters would stay on after a fallback melee attack
- Fixed an issue where melee queued at the edge of the attack radius would miss
- Fixed smoke from explosions and VFX from energy weapon trails shooting across the map
- Fixed inactive Elevated Tanks appearing in on various maps
- Removed the floating Elevated Tank from the tutorial
- Fixed invisible tanks appearing in the tutorial
- Fixed an issue causing shields to snap around when mechs are jumping across gaps in terrain
- Fixed units with shields holding them upside down when executing melee attacks