changelog.md

Patch 3650 (August 19, 2015)

HTML-version of this balance oriented changelog available at: http://content.faforever.com/patchnotes/

Seraphim and UEF ACU TML

• Missle hitpoints: 3 hp → 2 hp
• Flying height: now similar to normal TML
• Mass cost: 1000 → 1500
• Minimal range: 5 → 15
• Muzzle velocity to 7
• Only for Seraphim:
• Area of effect: 3 → 2
• The flying arc at close range will now be similar to the UEF ACU TML

Cybran TML

• TMDs (except Aeon) will now survive a single cybran tactical missile if they have full HP

TML friendly Fire

• TML missiles no longer deal friendly fire

sACU changes

• Hitbox: lasers can now hit SCUs more reliably
• SCUs now leave a normal wreckage with 81% of their mass value when destroyed
• A RAS preset for UEF, Cybran and Aeon is now available for production from the Quantum Gateways.

Aeon SCU

• Reacton Cannon (Gun upgrade) energy cost: 36000 → 46200, build time: 5040 → 6048
• Heavy Personal Shield hitpoints: 35000 → 40000, mass cost = 1500 → 1800

UEF SCU

• Personal Shield Generator HP: 32000 → 26000 HP
• Heavy Plasma Cannon (Gun Upgrade) rate of fire x2.5 → x1.82 (DPS 750 → 546), AOE: 2.5 → 2
• Radar Jammer mass cost: 600 → 300, energy cost = 18000 → 8000
• Bubble shield energy cost: 400000 → 360800

Cybran SCU

• Nano-Repair System regeneration rate: 400 hp/s → 375 hp/s, mass cost: 2000 → 2200
• Focus Convertor (Gun upgrade) adds damage: 250 → 200
• Nanite Missile System (SAM Upgrade) DPS: 272 → 400
• EMP duration for Tech1/Tech2/Tech3/SCU: 4/4/4/0 → 4/3.5/3/0.3
• Stealth upgrade mass cost: 600 → 400, energy cost: 18000 → 7400
• Cloak upgrade energy cost: 500000 → 382200

Seraphim SCU

• Overcharge: now tracks (like ACU overcharge)
• Overcharge reload time: 5 seconds → 7.5 seconds
• Overcharge damage: 12000 → 10000
• Overcharge DPS: 2400 → 1333
• Shield mass cost: 1500 → 1200, shield hitpoints: 25000 → 20000

Seraphim (Yenzyne)

• Build time: 880 → 1050
• Speed on water: 4.3 → 3

Aeon (Blaze)

• Build time: 880 → 1050
• Speed on water: 4.3 → 3

UEF (Riptide)

• Build time: 1320 → 1600
• Speed on water: 3.7 → 3
• Mass cost: 362 → 360
• Energy cost: 1980 → 2000

Hover flak (Seraphim and Aeon)

• Speed: 3.6 → 3

Seraphim Tech 2 bot and Tech 3 Tank Changes

• We are carefully toning down both areas while keeping the idea behind it intact. Ilshavoh becomes weaker, and Othuum becomes stronger.

Ilshavoh

• Turret turn rate: 180°/s → 70°/s

Othuum

• Speed: 2.5 → 2.6

Harbinger

• Will now take longer to make, making it harder to spam them so fast and allowing opponents slightly more time to bring counters into play.
• Veterancy: 15/30/45/60/75 → 18/36/54/72/90
• Build time: 3600 → 4500
• Can no longer fire while reclaiming

Sniper bots (Seraphim and Aeon)

• It is annoying when sniper bots lose all their damage while moving and trying to shoot. They will hit more often now, even - though using them stationary will still lead to the best results.
• Firing randomness when moving: 0.8 → 0.5

UEF T3MAA

• Other faction’s T3 MAA were hitting much better than the UEF one. This change is improving its accuracy to similar levels.
• Slight tracking added with small turn rate (20)
• Muzzle velocity: 100 → 110

Navy

Summit

• Is now more expensive, giving other factions more time to beat them before they are able to gather a critical mass.
• Mass cost: 9000 → 10500
• Energy cost: 54000 → 62000
• Build time: 28800 → 33000
• Area of effect: 3 → 2

Aeon frigates

• Will now be more effective vs hover, but not vs ships.

• Hit points: 1800 → 1850

• Damage per shot: 140 → 50

• Reload time: 5 seconds → 1.7 seconds (DPS: 56 → 58)

• MuzzleChargeDelay: 0.5 → 0

• Anti-torpedo weapon reload time: 10 → 12.5

Air

Strategic bombers (all factions)

Increasing the energy cost of strat bombers to avoid the ability to rush a strat them so easily.

• Energy cost: 105000 → 144000
• Build time: 8400 → 9600

Corsair

• Reducing the speed of their projectiles to make them as easy (or hard) to dodge as they were before the range decrease.
• muzzle velocity: 35 → 30

Torpedo bombers

• We made several adjustments to allow torpedo bombers to actually deliever their torpedoes more often.
• Reload time for all torpedo bombers: 12.5 → 10

Uosioz (Seraphim Torpedo Bomber)

• Torpedos get now dropped in front of the bomber (like all other bombers)
• Range: 42 → 35
• Amount of volleys: 2 → 3
• Now ignores torpedo defence (like all other torpedo bombers)
• Multiple adjustments to torpedos make them less likely to crash on the ground in shallow water

Skimmer (Aeon T2 Torpedo Bomber)

• Depth charges get now dropped in front of the bomber (like all other bombers)
• Range: 42 → 35
• Amount of volleys: 2 → 3
• Multiple adjustments to depth charges make them less likely to crash on the ground in shallow water

Solace (Aeon T3 Torpedo Bomber)

• Range: 42 → 32
• Projectile turn rate increased

Awhassa

• Added armour to ASF to guard them from the bomb, reducing their damage taken to 10%
• Veterancy: 50/100/150/200/250 → 100/200/300/400/500
• Reload time: 10 → 12

Other

Quantum Gateway

• We are reducing the adjacency bonus for massfabs next to Quantum Gates to a more normal level.
• Tech 2 mass fabricator: 2.5% → 0.75%
• Tech 3 mass fabricator: 15% → 2.25%
• Tech 3 power generator: 18.75% → 5% Preset names improved

T3 Land HQ

Build time: 9400 → 11000

Sonars

T2 sonar

• Mass cost: 120 → 150 (sera stays 180)
• Energy drain: 100 → 150

UEF/Aeon T3 sonar

• Mass cost: 400 → 1000
• Energy drain: 100 → 250

Cybran T3 sonar

• Mass cost: 480 → 1200
• Energy drain: 250 → 400

Energy/Mass overflow

The bug, that caused resources to disappear when they got shared to several teammates and one of them had full storage does not exist and is a FAF urban legend. If a teammate has full storage, the resources get properly shared to a different teammate instead. It is not needed to use any mods to prevent resources from getting lost or to inform others about this "bug".

• No change required

Patch 3648 (August 13, 2015)

Bugs

• ASF no longer have issues gaining targets when just given move orders
• Satellite works with 'no-air' restriction again

Enhancements

• Remove 'no sc1 units' restriction that would make the game unplayable

Patch 3646 (August 11, 2015)

Bugs

• UEF buildbots no longer explode after being built with 'no-air' restriction enabled
• Commanders no longer explode immediately with the 'no-land' restriction enabled
• Upgraded hives are no longer invincible
• Beam weapons will no longer keep firing their lasers after designated targets have died
• Nukes will always penerate personal shields again
• Paused units which start work on a building will no longer consume resources

Enhancements

• Units with sonar no longer have it enabled while on land
• Added 'no T3 air' restriction

Patch 3644.1 (August 5, 2015)

Enhancements

• "More unit info" mod integrated and improved
• Incompatible mods and old maps are now blacklisted

Patch 3644 (July 27, 2015)

Bugs

• AI now works again
• Unpausing engineers works again
• Units currently being built no longer hang around when transferring or reclaiming the factory the were being built in.
• Seraphim units render correctly on medium fidelity

Enhancements

• Jammer field from crystal now stops working when the crystal is reclaimed
• Jammer crystal reclaim increased to (5000e, 50bt)

Patch 3643 (July 24, 2015)

Bugs

• Fixed issue with half built units from naval factories
• Fixed issue with sometimes being unable to quit the game
• Cybran and UEF buildbots / drones no longer explode with the no air restriction
• Fixed issue with being unable to reclaim mexes that are being upgraded
• Seraphim ACU minimum range for normal gun and OC adjusted to be the same as other ACU's
• Seraphim destroyer surfaces itself after building again
• Seraphim T2 transport no longer allows active shields on board
• Seraphim ACU restoration field now works for allied units
• Aeon T3 battleship TMD is no longer completely unable to stop TML's

Enhancements

• Added ability to see unit data (xp/regen rate) as observer
• Firebeetles can no longer detonate in the air
• Upgrade hotkey now works for T2 naval and air support factories

Contributors

• CodingSquirrel
• Crotalus
• Gorton
• Sheeo
• ckitching
• ggwpez

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Patch 3642 (July 13, 2015)

Bugs

• Obsidians and titans die to overcharge again

Patch 3641 (July 12, 2015)

Exploits

• Instant crash exploit partially fixed
• No longer possible to give away units in progress of being captured
• No longer possible to bypass unit restrictions with sneaky UI mods
• Fixed being able to remotely destroy wreckage anywhere on the battlefield

Bugs

Hitboxes

• Seraphim sniper bot is able to hit Cybran MML again
• Fixed SCUs not being hit properly by laser weapons
• Fixed units aiming too high on the UEF and Aeon SCUs
• Torpedo/sonar platforms no longer confuse surface weaponry

Visual

• Fixed shield structure glows and rotations not playing
• Fixed bug with capture progress bar not being synced if using multiple engineers
• Optimised the range-rings shader to reduce the way FPS falls off a cliff
• Fixed bug with instantly disappearing wrecks due to garbage collection
• Fixed wrong regen values being reported on UI-side
• Disable build effect beams on sinking engineers
• Reload bar refill rate now scales with RateOfFire buffs
• Legacy checkbox UI code working again
• Fixed Engineers spawning the wrong tarmacs when building Seraphim buildings
• Engineering stations no longer exhibit a model bug when rebuilt by an assisting SCU
• Fuel indicator no longer falls off the unit detail window
• Seraphim ACU and SCU no longer show the tac missile counter if they don't have the upgrade

Physics

• Projectiles no longer collide with sinking units
• UEF T3 Transport now leaves wreck in water
• Cybran ACU can now fire the laser when standing in water
• Fixed Seraphim T1 Mobile Artillery not firing at fast targets properly
• Yolona Oss now deals damage to itself
• Flares and depth charges no longer draw in friendly projectiles
• Fix shots sometimes going right through Walled PD
• Increased Aeon T3 Artillery MuzzleVelocity to allow it to fire at its maximum range

Other

• T3 Torpedo Bomber can use Attack-Move properly again
• Units with weapon range upgrades now stop at maximum range when using attack-move
• Shield disruptor now works on personal shields
• Fixed wrong consumption when repairing ACU after an upgrade finished
• Support factories no longer lose progress if they are damaged during upgrade
• Aeon SCUs with nano + vet now get correct regen rate
• Fixed share until death bug with dual-given units
• Mini map now remembers whether to show resource icons or not
• Current command mode no longer reset if an engineer dies in the current selection
• Fixed bug with chat messages having wrong recipients in replay
• Seraphim shields can now pause while upgrading to T3
• Fixed RateOfFire buffs not being applied correctly
• SCUs will no longer rebuild buildings they lack to ability to build
• Upgraded buildings rebuilt by assisting SCUs will now cost the correct amount
• FAF no longer blows up if the game hasn't first been launched to create a profile

Enhancements

Visual

• Scathis now has Amphibious build icon
• Attack and Nuke reticles now scale with impact radius
• TMLs now show the splash damage radius in targeting mode
• Cybran Engineers now display a build beam to clearly show what they're tasked to
• Cybran factories now have red build beams
• Number of Cybran build bots scale with buildpower of the engineer, to a maximum of 10
• Ping values under "Connectivity" (F11) now update during game stop/stall
• Added Yolona Oss to Mavor/Salvation/Scathis build restriction and renamed it Super-Game-Enders
• ASF effects tweaked for performance (less effects on low fidelity)
• Cybran engineering build bots now crash when their owner dies rather than just vanishing
• Quantum Gateways now can assist each other
• Enhanced Seraphim tarmacs
• Beams originating inside Fog of War will no longer be invisible
• Cybran buildbots are no longer invisible to other players
• MEx, T1 PD, and Radar strategic icons will appear above other building icons when zoomed out

UI

• New option: Show reclaim value of wreckage on map by pressing Ctrl-Shift (need to enable it in Options / Interface and restart game)
• Smart selection feature allowing hotkeys to select units by category
• Remove owner-check on text pings so anyone can delete them
• Reclaim/second now shown
• Reclaimed mass now counts towards the score table
• UEF ACU and SCU drones now have an on-drone button to toggle if they are rebuilt at death
• Now possible to pause units to make them pause execution of queued up orders
• Debug window: Searching for units now supports unit name and substrings
• Cybran engineering build bots no longer display the heads-up consumption overlay
• "Commander under attack" now plays for shielded ACUs
• 34 new taunts
• Added a button to unbind key mappings
• Drop shadow for chat messages
• Chat Option: Add background to chat messages when chat window is closed
• Chat Option: Allow chat to timeout normally in the feed after closing window
• Reclaim window merged with main resources UI

Other

• Engineering Station units now pause on transfer from one player to another
• Cybran build bots now can assist next build project without respawning
• The least valuable units are destroyed at unit transfer if unitcap is hit
• Absolver shield disrupter now hovers higher, so it's less likely to hit the floor with the very low mounted gun
• UEF SCU Drone can now capture, the same as the ACU ones
• Tiny changes to make Fatboy/Megalith/Spiderbot weapons symmetrical in behaviour where they should be
• Added templates for all support factories. AI in coop missions is now able to rebuild support factories
• Assist now prioritize building over repair
• Share Until Death is now default
• Mod size reduced by about 30 MB

Contributors

• CodingSquirrel
• Crotalus
• DukeOfEarl
• Eximius
• IceDreamer
• ResinSmoker
• Sheeo
• Speed2
• anihilnine
• bamboofats
• ckitching
• quark036
• shalkya
• pip
• zock

Special Thanks To

• Softly
• Exotic Retard
• Nyx

Patch 3640 (Jan 6, 2015)

• Adress an issue that causes the game to crash with core dumps in long games

Patch 3639 (Jan 5, 2015)

General changes

• Christmas presents for reclaim have been removed
• Score viewing:
  • Score button no longer exits the game forcefully
  • Viewing of score screen when scores were set to off is re-enabled, but the statistics are not particularly useful

Exploit fixes

• Fixed a regression of the free ACU upgrade exploit

Game improvements

• Cartographic map previews are now being generated even for maps that do not contain colour information for them.

Bug fixes

• Fixed air wrecks floating mid air on certain maps
• Fixed air wrecks sinking to bottom of water, then jumping back up to surface
• Fixed continental not dying to nukes
• Improved GuardScanRadius:
  • Scouts no longer engage at long range, value was set to 10
  • Harbinger will automatically engage at range again
  • Range tuned down a bit so units will not run off too much
• Fixed Seraphim T3MAA targetbones (Units will no longer aim above it)
• More mod compatibility
• Give Eye of Rihanne restriction a new description
• Fixed hoplite not firing at landed air units
• Added BOMBER category to Ahwassa, Notha
• Added FACTORY category to Megalith, allows queuing of units while being built
• Improve new unit share code (Units dying after being transferred multiple times)
• Fixed sinking wrecks blocking projectiles where the unit used to be

Lobby changes (Version 2.6.0, also shown in game)

• Fix the rating not showing up for observers
• Font-size for observers reduced
• Chat font-size adjustable from options
• Remove debug messages
• Connection dialog no longer appears below lobby slots
• Fixed issue with players not being removed from slots on disconnect
• Fix integrated replaysync
• Clan tags are shown in game
• 'Set ranked options' button works again
• Tooltips for various buttons fixed and text revised
• More detailed large map preview
• Seraphim icons normalized
• Both players get ready flag cleared on swap
• Removed extra space around Rerun CPU benchmark button
• Made 'Random faction' skin load the chosen faction skin (Before it would always be UEF)
• Fixed a problem preventing player colours from being updated correctly
• Prevented CPU benchmark from running once the game starts
• General performance improvements

Thanks to pip, briang and Alex1911 for translations

Contributors:

• ChrisKitching
• Crotalus
• IceDreamer
• Partytime
• Santa Claus
• Sheeo
• Xinnony

Patch 3638 (Dec 24, 2014)

• Added christmas presents for reclaim

Big thanks to ozonex for this contribution!

Patch 3637 (Dec 12, 2014)

Bug fixes

• Selection Range Overlay works for multiple units again
• Score no longer flickers when watching replays
• Targeting issues, especially related to the seraphim ACU have been adressed
• Compatibility with certain mods restored
• Lobby 2.5b included (Changelog shown in game)

Notes:

• On some maps air wrecks may still appear in midair
• It's still likely that there are incompatibilities with mods. Please let us know your exact setup of the game when reporting issues

Patch 3636 (Dec 12, 2014)

Exploit Fixes

• Fixed infinite economy exploit
• Fixed free ACU upgrade exploit
• Security exploits with simcallbacks
• Fixed UEF Drone upgrade exploits

Bug Fixes

• Continental Fixes:
  • Fixed units firing from transport
  • Fixed Continental not dying to Nukes with the shield up
  • Improved fix for units being transported taking no damage while the shield is up
• Fixed UEF T3 Mobile AA being able to fire from Continental, and reduced projectile number
• T3 Seraphim Mobile Artillery given proper 'ARTILLERY' designation
• Fix adjacency buffs working when unit is turned off
• Fixed Cybran ACU with Laser upgrade being unable to ever fire the weapon after being transported, and improve targeting further
• Fixed Cybran ACU with Torpedo upgrade firing at the floor after being transported
• Fixed Cybran ACU Torpedo upgrade firing while the ACU's feet are only just underwater
• Fixed Cybran ACU being unable to be shot by Torpedoes with only its feet in the water
• Fixed Seraphim ACU dying when dropped from Transport after being picked up while firing
• Fixed Seraphim ACU shot being visible through FoW
• Fixed invalid preview range of SMDs
• Fixed Aeon T1 Bomber targeting subsurface units
• Given units now get correct experience points
• Given units are returned to their original owner in share until death
• UI-mods are now refreshed before launch

Game Improvements

• Shield Fixes:
  • Personal Shields now protect units also under bubble shields
  • Personal Shields now protect units properly from splash weaponry
  • Bubble Shields now interact with splash weaponry properly
• Replay sync support
• Hotbuild 'upgrade' key now takes engy-mod into account
• Attempt to fix bomblet spread on bombers such as UEF and Cybran T1 Bombers
• Attempt to fix Seraphim T1 Mobile AA's aim
• Improved autobalance with random spawns in lobby
• SMD can be paused
• New "No Walls" Unit Restriction
• Improved the Unit Restrictions menu descriptions, including localisation
• Improved the Attack-Move feature (Factory Attack-Move Engineer behaviour left alone)
• Made factory queue templates more accessible, the save button was hidden when the factory wasn't paused
• Show replay-ID in score
• Less UI-lag
• Some sim-speed improvements
• Remove ACU score bump, ACU kills now score 5000

Contributors:

• Sheeo
• a_vehicle
• Crotalus
• Pip
• IceDreamer
• thygrrr
• PattogoTehen
• RK4000
• Eximius
• Xinonny

Special Thanks:

• Navax
• Alex1911
• Preytor