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 healingcycle)

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)