TLDR of Community Balance Mod vs. Vanilla: (9/11/2025)

• Reworks to marines structures (sentry and sentry battery)
• New marine commander units (SPARC and A-MAC).
• Modular exosuits with new exo arms (plasma launcher and blowtorch) and upgrades.
• Scaling structure damage with weapon upgrades.
• Extension to electrify debuff (works on PvE).
• Reworks and balance of some alien traits (carapace and aura) and trait swapping.
• Rework to stomp and new gorge ability (babblerbomb).
• New khammander units (Fortress crag, shift, shade, and whip) with powerful abilites.
• Major rebalance of alien PvE.
• Massive improvements to MACs and drifters.
• New map icons for alien and marine structures and units.
• Various QoL, game improvements, and bugfixes.
• Custom skins and cinematics for new content.

Version 2.7.3 vs. Vanilla: (9/X/2025)

MARINE

Modular Exosuits

• Exosuits changed to have swappable arms and cores (pres refunds disabled when swapping arms/cores).
• Base kit thruster replaced with jump (exos can no longer sprint by default).
• Base Armor is 200 (+40 per armor level) and base speed is 6 m/s.
• Additional armor/weight(inverse of speed)/pres cost is dependent on selected arms:
  • Railgun: 25/0.1/20
  • Minigun: 100/0.2/25
  • Plasma Launcher: 50/0.125/15
  • Blowtorch: 0/0.05/15
  • Claw: 0/0.0/5
• Cores - Optional Upgrade:
  • Ejection Seat: Auto-ejects marine on exosuit reaching 0 armor (+0.025 Weight / Costs 5 pres).
    • Requires valid ejection spot.
    • Empty exosuit will spawn with 50 armor upon automatic ejection (minus overflow damage).
    • Empty exosuit must have >50 armor to enter exosuit after automatic ejection.
  • Thruster: Increases movement speed and allows for flight at the cost of energy (+0.05 Weight).
    • Min 25% activation energy required.
• Setting to make duals fire both arms upon primary attack (options -> mods -> CBM: Accessibility Options)

Railgun

• Railgun reworked to be more forgiving and less “bursty”.
• Firing cooldown set to 1s from 1.4s.
• Charge time to 1s from 2s.
• Shots can be stored for 2s.
• Base damage range is now 35 (0% charge) to 70 (100% charge) from 10/150.
  • Maximum burst is 140 (280 for structures) at W0. Down from ~170 (340) in vanilla.
  • Maximum DPS is 70 (140 for structures) at W0. Down from ~88 (176) in vanilla.
• Maximum range set to 30 m and falloff removed.
• Dual railgun now allows simultaneous firing of both arms.
• Target highlighting now works on all lifeforms and alien structures (red).
• Target highlighting now matches maximum range of railgun.

Claw

• Reintroduced into the game.
• Deals 50 structural damage.
• Range is equal to 2.6.
• Pierces through multiple targets in range.

Plasma Launcher

• Energy based weapon. Energy regens over time (20%/s).
• Plasma bomb projectile:
  • Costs 80% energy per bomb.
  • Direct (35) and DoT Damage (25) in size 4 AoE.
  • Fires one plasma ball in an arc.
  • Pulse debuff for 5 seconds.
  • Hitbox size of 0.495.
  • Shot speed of 15 m/s.
• Has custom cinematics and materials.
• Applies the pulse effect to aliens (reduces animation speed).
  • Pulse effect does not apply to structures.
• Projectiles spawn on each weapon and are fired towards the crosshair target.
• Projectiles have dual projectile controller (one for geometry and one for entities) to reduce geo clipping.

Blowtorch

• Heat based weapon.
  • Heat buffer is 10s.
  • Cooldown is 5s.
• Blowtorch welds marines and burns aliens within cone.
  • Damage and welding is SPLIT between all targets.
• Welds at 1.0x weld rate.
  • 90 eHP/s for structures.
  • 20 eHP/s for marines.
• Base damage is 8 eHP/s.
  • Flame damage type (bonus damage to structures and flammables)
• Has custom cinematics and materials.
• DOES NOT IGNITE ALIEN PLAYERS, STRUCTURES, OR ABILITIES (NO BURNT MARINES ALLOWED)!
• Target highlighting on all aliens (red) and weldable marines (blue) including structures.

Prototype Lab

• Advanced prototype lab upgrade required to unlock modular exosuits and cores.
• Protolabs while researching exotech will show a rotating exo hologram.
• Protolabs with exotech available will show a static exo inside an orb.
• Exotech is tied to the specific protolab it was researched on.
• Exotech will be lost when the protolab gets destroyed or recycled.

Arc (Robotics) Factory

• New skin
• Has two new units to construct:
  • SPARC
  • A-MAC
• Research time decreased to 15s from 20s.

ARC

• Build time is now 12.5s from 10s.

SPARC (ARC Variant)

• Commander unit built from the ARC Factory.
• Has purple map icon, custom cinematics, and custom skin.
• Has 2600 health and 400 armor (same as ARC).
• Moves at 2.5 m/s speed unless in combat (2.25 m/s in combat).
• Does NOT deal damage (deals 5 damage for map indicators).
• Has higher range (30 vs. 26).
• Can see through fog of war and ink to target alien structures.
• Applies electrify to alien structures in small AoE.
• Build time is 10s.
• Cost 10 tres.

MACS

• Macs move 20% faster and have half the line of sight as a drifter.
• Allow MACs to be welded while taking damage.
• MACs are 25% smaller (model size).
• Rollout speed multiplier increased from 2 to 5.
• MACs can be recycled.
• MAC repair rate reduced from 50/s to 30/s (matches MAC build efficacy).
• MAC combat repair rate reduction (90%) removed.
• AI Changes: (Applies to AMAC as well!)
  • Taking damage no longer prevents MAC from welding.
  • Marine and Exo can request busy MACs for weld with “use” key.
  • MAC won’t try to circle behind a Marine who has a welder, or if MAC is far from its leash anchor.
  • MAC stops following marines who phased.
  • Auto search new target to follow if the original died or isn’t available.
  • Added Hold position order.
  • Reduced default order search radius to 10m. Hold position order reduces it to 3m.
  • MAC now prioritizes its closest target first.
  • Reduced follow order secondary job search radius to 6m.
  • Changed several local functions into class functions.
  • Enabled battle MAC basic order commands such as Move, Stop and added Hold position.

A-MAC (MAC Variant)

• Commander unit built from the ARC factory.
• Has purple map icon and custom skin.
• 400 Health.
• 200 Armor.
• Cost 15 tres.
• 20 Supply.
• Has 100 energy cap (starts at 50).
• Repair is 60/s and construction efficiency is 60%.
• Regerates 3 energy / sec.
• Has Four Commander Abilities:
  • Healing Field: Heals players in AoE over duration (~50 HP total).
  • Catalyst Field: Catpacks players in AoE.
  • Shield Field: Nanoshields players in AoE.
  • Speed Boost: Speed boosts the AMAC by 50%.
• Healing Field: (Green Cinematic)
  • Cost 20 energy.
  • 10 sec cooldown.
  • Lasts 5s.
• Catalyst Field: (Red Cinematic)
  • Cost 30 energy.
  • 10 sec cooldown.
  • Lasts 5s.
  • Requires Advanced Assistance.
• Shield Field: (Blue Cinematic)
  • Cost 70 energy.
  • 10 sec cooldown
  • Lasts 3s
  • Requires Advanced Assistance.
• Speed Boost:
  • Cost 20 energy.
  • 10 sec cooldown
  • Lasts 5s

Sentry

• Attack cone increased to 360 degrees from 135 degrees.
• Requires room power instead of sentry battery.
• Outer build range cannot overlap with another sentry.
• Two sentries can not be placed in the same room.
• Sentry supply cost reduced from 15 to 10.
• Cost 6 tres.
• 8s Buildtime.
• Limited to 2.
• Removed weld override (welds at same rate as other structures).

Power (formerly Sentry) Battery

• Provides power to nearby marine structures.
• Provided power does not require room power.
• Power battery supply cost changed from 25 to 10.
• Power lines drawn to all potentially powered structures before placement.
• Health/Armor increased to 1000/250.

Structure Damage Rework

• Buffed clogs, hydras, harvester, tunnels, and upgrade chambers eHP by ~15%
• Balanced hive and support structure eHP (see alien section for details).
• Buffed Arc Damage by 15%
• Buffed Gorge Structure Healing by 15%
• Every weapon upgrade does +20% structure damage (instead of + 10%)
  • W1 → +10% to lifeforms / +20% to structures
  • W2 → +20% to lifeforms / +40% to structures
  • W3 → +30% to lifeforms / +60% to structures
• FT and GL scale at 10% (20% structure) instead of 7%
• W0 GL → 65 Player / 260 Structure from 74.4 Player Damage
• W0 FT → 9 Player / 18 Structure from 9.9 Player Damage
• Cluster damage type modifier increased from 2.5 to 2.875.

Electrify Debuff (pulse/plasma/SPARC)

• TLDR: Disables passives, reduces movement speed, and slows alien attacks and abilities.
• Electrify slow on players increased to 30% from 20% (vanilla).
• Electrify now works on structures (including fortress variants):
  • Whips: Prevents slapping / bombarding, reduces movement speed.
  • Hydra: Prevents spiking.
  • Crag: Prevents healing and douse, reduces movement speed.
  • Shift: Prevents energize and stormcloud, reduces movement speed.
  • Shade: Prevents cloaking and sonar, reduces movement speed.
  • Hive: Reduces healing by 33%.
  • Shell: Prevents healing.
  • Spur: Prevents movement.
  • Veils: Prevents cloaking.
• NOTE: Active abilities still can be used if electrified!

Advanced Support

• Advanced support to 15 tres, nano shield cost reduction to 2
• Catpacked marines now build and weld faster 12.5% as well
• Nanoshield cost reduced to 2 (from 5)

Misc Changes

• Pulse grenade debuff range increased by 50%, based damage set to 40, and given a 10 damage DoT.
• Cluster grenade range and fragment range reduced by 20%.
• ARCs dont deal damage to other ARCS anymore.
• ARCs can manually target hydras and cysts.
• Don’t exploit to get more than 5 arcs. You have been warned…
• Selfdamage reduced by 66% (grenades/mines).
• Dropping mines cost 5 tres (from 7 tres).
• Dropping welders cost 2 tres (from 3 tres).
• Autopickup for welders reduced from 5 to 1 second.

Status Icons

• New status icon for webbed status (web, stomp, whip webbing).
• New status icons for fortress structure passives.
• Display status icons even with minimal hud elements.

ALIEN

Hives

• Based eHP decreased to be +7.5% of vanilla.
• Gains +2.5% eHP per hive biomass returned to current value after final biomass upgrade.

Veil/Spur/Shell

• Veils: Cloaked
• Spurs: Moveable (50% movement speed)
• Shells: Selfheal (1% each healingcycle)

Rage

• Replaces Heat Plating
• Increases energy regeneration rate for 3s after taking damage (+16.67% per shell).

Aura

• No longer reveals health information (moved to Fortress Shade)
• Icon is always yellow.

Camouflage

• Shaders completely reworked to ensure camo is competitive with other upgrades.
• Cloaking reveal range, and rate depend more heavily on veil amount.
• Onos are silent when crouching with cloak.
• UI icon only appears when fully cloaked.

Support Structures

• Reduced cost to 8 tres from 13 tres.
• Base speed increased by 25%.
• eHP changed to better unify TTK
• eHP for Shift/Crag/Shade/Whip is now 600/600/600/750 at 0% maturity.
• eHP for Shift/Crag/Shade/Whip is now 1100/1100/1100/1100 at 100% maturity.
• GUIs updated to accommodate new passives.
• Crag
  • Healwave replaced with Shieldwave.
  • Shieldwave applies full overshield to aliens over duration.
• Whip
  • Fully matured whips attack without infestation.
  • Increased turning speed before moving.
• Shift
  • Reduced energy regenerate rate by 50%

Fortress Structures

• Starting eHP reduced to 1400/1400/1400/2800 at 0% maturity and 1 biomass.
• Starting eHP reduced to 2000/2000/2000/3400 at 100% maturity and 1 biomass.
• Fotress whip gains 50 HP per biomass and has a max of 200 armor.
• Fortress structures move 25% slower than regular PvE on infestation (2.9 m/s).
  • Fortress structures gradually slow to 1.45/1.45/1.45/2.175 m/s off infestation.
  • Fortress abilities do not work while moving.
• New passives when specific hive tech is researched.
• Fortress structure passives are only active when structure is stationary.
• New UI element for passives and updated tooltips.
• Fortress upgrade costs 20 tres
• Fortress Shift:
  • Stormcloud now auto-casts every 5s.
  • Stormcloud’s buff now lasts 5s outside of Fortress Shift range.
  • Stormcloud gives a flat speed buff (+1.5/1.5/1.25/0.75 m/s) depending on spur level (0/1/2/3).
  • The max possible net speed depending on spur level (0/1/2/3) with stormcloud is 1.5/2.0/2.25/2.25 m/s.
    • Fade, skulks, and lerks capped at +1.5 m/s.
  • Spawns eggs around Fortress Shift when Shift Hive is researched.
  • Will only spawn eggs if less than 3 FShift eggs exist.
• Fortress Crag:
  • Applies douse every 2s which grants immunity to fire debuffs on alien players and structures.
  • Douse applies a 5% structure damage reduction and lasts 3s.
  • Douse is applied in inner fortress crag radius.
  • Douse has custom magenta shader and stacks with umbra.
• Fortress Shade:
  • Hallucinations ability is now free (does not auto-cast) and has a 60s cooldown.
  • Hallucinations no longer provide vision and move slowly.
  • Blights (reveals eHP and location) marines in range for 6s every 5s when Shade Hive is researched.
  • Highlight is colored blue, magenta, or red depending on number of PRIMARY attacks (accounts for focus and crush) or eHP.
  • For players: >2 blue, 2 to 1 magenta, <=1 red
  • For structures: >66% blue, 66% to 33% magenta, <33% red
• Fortress Whip:
  • Bile frenzy spawns three bile bombs and temporarily increases whip movement speed.
  • Crag Hive: Siphoning Slaps (75 eHP gained on player slap hit)
  • Shift Hive: Whip Webbing (bile splash, slaps, and bombard slows targets for 3.0s duration - works on exos too!)
  • Shade Hive: Ocular Parasite (all attacks parasite targets and whippy will self-camo)
  • Bile splash made free and only avaliable on fortress whip.

Gorges

• Babblers
  • Babblers will now detach around the gorge instead of everyone at same location above the gorge.
  • Babblers will stay out for at least the duration of the babbler ball.
  • Babblers are now affected by crush upgrade.
• Babblerbomb
  • Bio 7 gorge ability researchable on hive (15 tres).
  • Gorge spews out babbler filled egg that explodes on impact.
  • Egg filled with 6 independent babblers that die after 5s.
  • Limited to 3 charges that fill over 10s each.
• Hydras and Bilemine cost 30% less energy
• Bile damage accelerates weapon expiration
  • 1 Bile ~ 5 seconds

Stomp

• No longer knocks marines.
• Applies web debuff.
• Damage increased from 40 to 50 heavy damage.
• Improved terrain pathing.
• Added proper check for marine jumping.

Focus

• Properly affects Stab ability now.
• Fixed bug which slowed Gore by 57% instead of 33%.
• Gorges now get a 1.5x damage buff instead of a 1.33x buff.

Stab

• Stab research cost reduced from 25 to 20 tres.
• Stab energy cost reduced by 16%.

Swapping Trait Cost

• Swapping to another trait from the same chamber costs less:
  • Skulk: 0 (Same as vanilla)
  • Gorge: 1 (Same as vanilla)
  • Lerk: 2 (Changed)
  • Fade: 3 (Changed)
  • Onos: 4 (Changed)

Bonewall

• Buffed eHP per biomass from 115 to 140 (~25% increase).

Drifter

• Increased mucous area of effect to the same size as enzymes.
• Doesn’t follow echoed unfinished structures over the entire map anymore.
• Doesn’t autobuild hydras or bilemines anymore (khammander QoL).
• Cloaking Haze (Replaced Hallucination Cloud)
  • Cloaks players, eggs and drifters (including those in combat) for up to 5 seconds.

QoL / General Improvements

• Player and structure highlight shader made more pronounced to improve visual acuity.
• Changed point rewards for building structures from 4 points to be tied to the buildtime.
• Removed point reward for building hydras.
• Rerouted techs to illustrate proper tech and structure requirements.
• Replaced babblertech and webs with nutrientmist at bio 1.
• Improved nanoshield surface shader so that it more clearly appears on all entities.

Minimap

• Players are able to see if a hive is at <34%, <67% or <=100% maturity
• Added Icon for occupied Hive/Chair
• Added Icon for Jetpackers
• Added Icon for matured Whips
• Added Icon for Drifter Eggs
• Added Icon for deployed ARCS
• Added Icon for Advanced Armory
• Added Icons for Fortress PvE
• Alien Commander is able to see parasited mines

Vanilla Bugfixes

• Web variant nil value console spam should no longer occur.
• Electrify no longer applies energy regeneration debuff.
• ARC trigger effect triggering on EVERY live entity in the game instead of just applicable damage targets.
• Fixed ARC error / crash when manually targeting clogs.
• Armslabs while researching will show a rotating hologram.
• Fixed various visual bugs with updating tech.
• Jetpackers will no longer be affected by stomp when slightly above the ground.
• Alien PvE bounces/glitches less during and after moving.
• Flying flamethrowers in rare cases should not crash the server anymore (vanilla bug).
• Rollout crash fixed.
• Fix to cinematics of projectiles desyncing.
• Fix to pistol shot queuing not registering inputs.

Revision 2.0.3 (2023/12/23)

ALIEN

Hives

• Reduced the additional 10% HP buff for maturity hives to 5%

Stab

• Stab research cost reduced from 25 to 20 tres
• Stab energy cost reduced by 16%

Fortress Shade

• Hallucinations time duration removed
• Able to transform into a random different structure
• Added HP bars on hallucinations

Whips

• Increased turning speed before moving
• Decreased rooting, unrooting time under frenzy
• Reduced the cost of bile splash from 3 to 2 tres

Fortress Structures

• Converted 50% of their armor into HP (nerf to healing)
• Increased cooldown for all fortress abilities from 10 to 15 seconds
• Reduced the cost of all fortress abilities from 3 to 2 tres
• Fixed a bug which allowed abilities to being cast while under fire
• No longer take 3x the damage off infestation in comparison to normal structures

Drifter

• Increased mucous area of effect to the same size as enzymes
• Doesnt follow echoed unfinished structures over the entire map anymore

MARINE

Bugfixes

• Flying flamethrowers in rare cases should not crash the server anymore (vanilla bug)
• Bot Commanders will research Exos, Weapon 3, Armor 3 again (balance mod bug)

Revision 2.0.2 (2023/11/28)

ALIEN

Crag/Shift/Shade/Whip

• Changed fortress PvE upgrade time to 25 seconds, up from 10
• Shift energy regen nerf is now 50% the vanilla value (from 66% nerf)

Onos

• Onos with camoflague will be silent while crouch walking
• Stomp particles reduced (this should improve performance)

Heatplating

• Changed heatplating description in evolve menu to “Reduced damage from mines, grenades, flames and railguns”
• Gas grenades now deal reduced damage with heatplating to match other hand grenades

Hallucinations

• Increased lifetime from 120 seconds to 600 seconds
• Added ability to change hallucination into a copy of a valid target

MARINE

Advanced Support

• Advanced support to 15 tres
• Catpacked marines now build and weld 12.5% faster as well
• Nanoshield cost reduced to 2 (from 3)

MACs

• Increased the MAC Playchatsound cooldown - MACs will talk less when selected (from 2 to 10 seconds)
• Allow MACs to be welded while taking damage

Hand Grenades

• Cluster grenade range and fragment range reduced by 20%

Revision 2.0.1 (2023/10/21)

ALIEN

Crag/Shift/Shade/Whip

• Reduced cost to 8 tres from 13 tres
• Reduced modelsize by 20%
• Reduced HP by 20%
• Changed Whip/Shade movement speed to be in line with Crag/Shift
• Increased Speed by 25%

Fortress Crag/Shift/Shade/Whip

• Upgradeable version for 24 tres research cost
• Normal modelsize
• Increased HP to 300%
• Reduced Speed by 25%
• Cannot be echo’d
• Restricted to max 1 of each kind
• Are able to use ink, echo and healwave without a hivetype
• Access to a new ability with the corresponding hive type (3 tres, 10 sec cooldown)
  • Umbra(Crag): Cast Umbra for 5 seconds on all Structures in healrange
  • Hallucinations(Shade): Create 6 moveable hallucination Structures (whip or shade likelier) for 120 seconds
  • Stormcloud(Shift): Increase alien movement speed by 20% for 9.5 seconds
  • Frenzy(Whip): 2x attack speed and 2.5x movement speed for 7.5 seconds (no hivetype needed)

Whips

• Fully matured whips attack without infestation
• Added Bile Splash Ability
  • Available without any hivetype or upgrade
  • Splash nearby enemies with bile (3 tres, 10 sec cooldown)
  • Deals between 1.25-2 full bilebomb damage based on distance

Shift

• Reduced energy regenerate rate by 66%

Structure Damage Rework

• Buffed all Alien Structures HP by 15%
  • Hives receive an additional HP buff of 10% at full maturity for a total of +25%
• Buffed Arc Damage by 15%
• Buffed Gorge Structure Healing by 15%
• Every weapon upgrade does +20% structure damage (instead of + 10%) W1 → +10% to lifeforms / +20% to structures W2 → +20% to lifeforms / +40% to structures W3 → +30% to lifeforms / +60% to structures
• FT and GL scale at 10% (20% structure) instead of 7%
• W0 GL → 65 Player / 260 Structure from 74.4 Player Damage
• W0 FT → 9 Player / 18 Structure from 9.9 Player Damage

Veil/Spur/Shell

• Veils: Cloaked
• Spurs: Moveable (50% movement speed)
• Shells: Selfheal (1% each healing cycle)

Focus

• affects Stab ability now
• fixed bug which slowed Gore by 57% instead of 33%

Gorge

• Hydras and Bilemine cost 30% less energy

Marine

Structure Damage Rework

• Buffed all Alien Structures HP by 15% - Hives receive an additional HP buff of 10% at full maturity for a total of +25%
• Buffed Arc Damage by 15%
• Buffed Gorge Structure Healing by 15%
• Every weapon upgrade does +20% structure damage (instead of + 10%) W1 → +10% to lifeforms / +20% to structures W2 → +20% to lifeforms / +40% to structures W3 → +30% to lifeforms / +60% to structures
• FT and GL scale at 10% (20% structure) instead of 7%
• W0 GL → 65 Player / 260 Structure from 74.4 Player Damage
• W0 FT → 9 Player / 18 Structure from 9.9 Player Damage

Equipment Balance Changes

• Dropping mines cost 5 tres (from 7 tres)
• Dropping welders cost 2 tres (from 3 tres)
• Autopickup for welders reduced from 5 to 1 second
• ARCs dont deal damage to other ARCS anymore
• Selfdamage reduced by 66% (grenades/mines)
• Bile damage accelerates weapon expiration
  • 1 Bile ~ 5 seconds
• Macs move 20% faster and have half the line of sight as a drifter
• Pulse gernade debuff range increased by 50%

QoL

• Marines start with 2 IPs at 7+ players instead of 9+ players
• Alien PvE bounces/glitches less during and after moving
• Jetpackers will no longer be affected by stomp when slightly above the ground

HUD

• New Advanced Option (HUD) “STATUS ICONS”
  • Display status icons even with minimal hud elements

Minimap rework

• Players are able to see if a hive is at <34%, <67% or <=100% maturity
• Added Icon for occupied Hive/Chair
• Added Icon for Jetpackers
• Added Icon for matured Whips
• Added Icon for Drifter Eggs
• Added Icon for deployed ARCS
• Added Icon for Advanced Armory
• Added Icons for Fortress PvE
• Alien Commander is able to see parasited mines

Revision 1.5.2 - (2023/08/05)

ALIEN

Cloak

• Cloaked units’ minimap and model visibility based upon proximity corresponding to amount of veils (8m/6m/4m)
• Player and drifter eggs are now invisible while under the effect of cloak
• Cloaking-in rate is now fixed at 3 (over 0.33s)
• Cloaking at 40.1% effectiveness is considered Fully Cloaked, no longer show on enemy minimap and evade AI targetting
• Combat-passive alien units partially decloak, and have shorter cloaking delay (1.5s instead of 2.5) after taking damage, scanned or touched
• Cloaking effect is applied normally again
• Cyst uncloak proximity radius change reverted
• Whips and Harvester no longer turn fully invisible

Onos

• Stomp
  • Marines that are hit by Stomp are able to jump again

Gorge

• Web
  • Marines that are hit by Web are able to jump again

Revision 1.5 - (2023/07/19)

Alien

Onos

• Boneshield
  • Changed so if boneshield is broken it will display even if other weapon is active
• Stomp
  • Increased damage from 40 to 50 heavy damage
    • This will increase damage against exos from 80 to 100
  • Marines that are hit by Stomp will not be able to jump for the duration of the debuff

Gorge

• Babblers
  • Babblers will now detach around the gorge instead of everyone at same location above the gorge
  • Babblers will stay out for at least the duration of the babbler ball
• Web
  • Marines that are hit by Web will not be able to jump for the duration of the debuff

Upgrades

• Resilience
  • Replaced with Heat Plating
• Heat Plating
  • Reduce damage from flamethrower, grenadelauncher, mines, hand grenades and railguns (10% per shell)
  • Decreases duration of fire tick damage from flamethrowers by 33% per shell
• Cloaking
  • Cloaking at 40.6% effectiveness is considered Fully Cloaked, and sneaking aliens longer show blips on enemy minimap, and evade AI targetting
  • Moving Alien players drop below Fully Cloaked threshold when their default max speed is reached
  • (UI) Changed alien cloak status icon to show only when Fully cloaked
  • Combat-passive alien units partially decloak, and have shorter cloaking delay (1.5s instead of 2.5) after taking damage, scanned or touched
  • Cloaking effect is applied faster, and fades slower
  • Camouflage upgrade slows decloaking rate per level
  • Cloaking shader tweaked to be more consistent across different backgrounds. It now darkens as it decloaks and includes high frequency distortions to visually camouflage better over distance.
  • Cyst uncloak proximity radius reduced from 8 to 6
  • Lerk speed scalar (used to scale cloaking and sound) tweaked
• Swapping Trait Cost
  • Swapping to another trait from the same chamber costs less:
    • Skulk: 0 (Same as vanilla)
    • Gorge: 1 (Same as vanilla)
    • Lerk: 2 (Changed)
    • Fade: 3 (Changed)
    • Onos: 4 (Changed)

Shade Hive

• Hallucination Cloud
  • Replaced Hallucination Cloud with Cloaking Haze, cloaks players, eggs and drifters (including those in combat) for up to 5 seconds
  • Hallucinated Hive and Harvester will still spawn in their allocated positions
  • Ink Cloud (& Lesser Ink Cloud) provides enhanced cloaking for 1 second, removes sighted status, and gives improved visual camouflage (minimum 20%) even when in combat
  • Cloaked Whips are more visible (same as players)

Marines

Grenades

• Pulse Grenade
• Increased damage from 50 to 60

Protolab

• Exotech
  • Exotech is tied to the specific protolab it was researched on
  • Exotech will be lost when the protolab gets destroyed or recycled

Fixes & Improvements

Armslab

• Hologram
  • Armslabs while researching will show a rotating hologram

Protolab

• Hologram
  • Protolabs while researching exotech will show a rotating exo hologram
  • Protolabs with exotech available will show a static exo inside an orb

Scoreboard Points

• Changed point rewards for building structures from 4 points to be tied to the buildtime
• Removed point reward for building hydras

Techtree Map

• Fixed various visual bugs with updating tech
• Rerouted techs to illustrate proper tech and structure requirements
• Replaced babblertech and webs with nutrientmist at bio 1

Revision 1 - (2023/03/24)

Alien

Onos

• Stomp
  • Stomp will no longer knock Marines over, instead Marines that are hit by a Stomp shockwave will have the full web debuff applied

Upgrades

• Carapace
  • Replaced with Resilience
• Resilience
  • Increases duration of positive status effects and decreases duration of negative status effects
  • Positive status effects duration will increase by 33% per shell
  • Negative status effects duration will decrease by 33% per shell
  • Positive status effects include umbra, enzyme (drifter ability), and mucous membrane (drifter ability)
  • Positive status effects like umbra will not be removed when players are set on fire with resilience
  • Negative status effects include nerve gas dot, flamer dot, and pulse slow
  • You must have resilience to receive the increased duration of buffs

Marine

Weapons

• Railgun
  • Added falloff to the Railgun
    • Railguns will deal full damage to targets 15 meters or closer
    • Damage will drop off linearly until a max distance of 30 meters
    • The maximum damage reduction is 50%

Fixes & Improvements

Onos

• Stomp
• Implemented Stomp fixes for edge case issues (Link to original mod)