Combat Update now live in Desynced!

• Added flying, ground values
• Added Defense block Building

• Pulse laser increased range/damage
• Added shoot while moving parameter
• Added various turrets

• Added dot and slow effects weapon effects
• Added beam weapon type (railgun)
• Added turret damage types
• Added two extra tier trilobites and wasps
• Add damage type to tooltip
• Added pulse attack pattern to tooltip
• Added proper handling of pulse style weapons
• Added shield worm
• Improved leading on targets for delayed attack weapons
• Added instructions "Get Unit Type", "Is Unit A", "Is Empty", "Attack Move", "Loop Nearby Resources", "Deploys held unit"
• Improved weapon component tooltips (show more stats of the various weapon components)
• Unit upgrader WIP (Ctrl-V on a unit to reconfigure to the currently copied unit blueprint)
• Versus Scenario
• Tower Defense Scenario

• Allow hotkeys 1-4 in Tower Defense scenario for placement of towers
• Allow showing build cursor in Tower Defense scenario even if you don’t have enough to build a tower
• Added new challenges

• Added Alliances to faction window (Shared Visibility)
• Added "Hold Position" feature (default to H key)
• Docked units now interact with the power system (power components like batteries or generators will use and contribute)

• Added new foundations

• Adding black background to visual registers
• Show damage numbers
• Added custom icon to blueprints (shown in build menu)
• Simplified library view
• Show enemies as red on minimap

• Show map state download progress bar on loading screen
• Show where items are being produced in the faction item view
• New Gate graphics

• Added animation to Robotics Assembler
• Added general power icon for component displays
• Color behavior nodes by category in the behavior program editor

• Added Attack-Move by putting coordinate into turret register (default bound to Q)

• Pause running behavior controllers on the Command Center bot and restart them on the deployed Command Center building
• Copy parameter values on behavior controllers from the Command Center bot to the deployed building
• Added register for power components (can be linked to visual)
• Better support for loading UI mods on dedicated servers:

• Added "Select Dock" context menu button to docked units
• Quick set (default E) to open up first component with action (works on hovered or selected unit)
• Ask to set from and storage location when turning on transport route
• Make ctrl+left-click and double left-click select all entities of the same frame type (holding shift will add to selection)

• Remember "Mute in background" setting
• Allow the land button to recover lost satellites
• Undocked drones scatter around the building instead of all on the same tile

• Blueprints now support units with integrated components (used by library blueprints, unit copy/paste, and building upgrading)
• Support entity references in faction blueprints and building upgrade window (but not in “My Blueprints”)
• Remember behavior stopped state in blueprint, add toggling of stopped/started behavior to blueprint editor
• Copy parameter values on behavior controllers from the Command Center bot to the deployed building

• Changed tutorial message on first start to be clearer
• Moved factory representation in explorables to the title bar, added progress circle for production
• Remove 60 kb limit for actions by sending them over a custom data transfer channel instead of using actor RPCs
• Always prefer an order source with 'High Priority' set inside the same logistics network, even if it is far away or the provided amount is lower than required

• Support for multiple levels of folders in the library
• Uploading/downloading entire library folders
• Added "Select all units with this behavior" to library context menu
• Added "Run behavior on all selected units" to library context menu
• Enable changing of structure when editing a blueprint in the library
• Make components that automatically link to visual register (production and mining) also make that link in the blueprint editor
• Added a warning 'The new structure is unable to hold all components.' when switching to a not fully compatible structure in blueprint editor or building upgrade

• Added host settings to lobby screen 'Allow New Players Joining' and 'Allow Faction Switching'
• Disable sidebar hotkeys such as L, F or X while in the lobby
• Added AI controlled player (still a work in progress)
• Added game over if the resimulator gets destroyed
• Various map tweaks

• Increased shield capacity
• Scan instructions now use visibility when no radar component is equipped
• Hide "Center Camera" context menu button for units not on map
• Disable satellite "Land" button while not in space
• New model for "Building 2x1 (1M)"
• Weapon component icons updated
• Reduced scale worm hp, slightly decreased spawn rate earlier on
• Reduced cost of "Building 1x1 (1M)" building
• Randomly rotate bugs when they are spawned from a hive
• Shields now have a delayed charge when hit
• Tweaks to weapon component damage, power usage and ranges
• Remove movement slowdown on the plateau during winter
• Increase 1x1 building health

Gameplay Mechanics Fixes

• Skip turrets auto attacking walls first if there is an enemy nearby if controlled by a player
• Changed wall build time and health to 100 virus/blight(300/500)
• All bugs hives in the vicinity will be triggered when a large bug hive is triggered
• Mothership repairs now require items to be put inside the satellite
• Don't allow teleporting to another teleporter unless they consider you an ally
• Aggressive mode fix, prevent enemy waves spawning when a Faction has activated "Passive Bugs" cheat
• Use entity power efficiency when terraforming
• Fix aggressive bugs attack-move
• Various changes and tweaks to damage types/health/damage
• Make aggressive bugs attack-move
• Adjustments to bug behavior and aggressive mode
• Reduce aggressive mode spawns
• Fix bugs sometimes returning back to its hole before finishing attacking an enemy

UI and Display Fixes

• Clearer apply button in options menu
• Add minimum range to tooltip
• Fix damage number display when units are destroyed
• Fix QuickAction (default bound to E key) for multiple selected units
• Fix ctrl- shift- hotkeys for disconnect and power
• Show extra effect name in tooltip
• Lock lobby faction in Versus scenario when game starts
• Show blueprint icon on blueprints in register selection
• Show integrated components that have been unlocked via tech under a "Integrated Component" category in the register selection
• Hide integrated components from the "Request Item" list
• Fixed Laser Mining Tool showing as regular Miner component in the blueprint editors 3D preview
• Make FPS limit slider snap to steps of 5 and auto apply when changed, improve numerical input to apply when unfocused after clicking the number
• Fix "Drop Off Items" / "Pick Up Items" instructions sometimes not showing the drop down option
• When upgrading a building, keep the construction site selected so the frameview UI stays open all the way through the upgrade process

Bug Fixes

• Fix downloading mods when joining a server
• Remove right click move/attack context menu
• Don't try to read the signal of dropped items
• Fixed manual targeting of immortal objects
• Don’t remove resources from the resource bar if they are 0
• Fix resource bar throwing errors when switching faction
• Fix for blueprint sorting where order was a floating point
• Fix for incorrect building boost
• Fix for function def causing error
• Fix LUA error when editing a behavior that had a call to a now deleted sub-behavior
• Fix for miner delivering resources to shared storage when it is full even if it has "Deliver Items" disabled
• Fix for “Is Moving” instruction
• Fixes for unit upgrader
• Fix for build menu not showing some blueprints
• Fixes for Tower Defense
• Fixes inconsistencies with Internal and Integrated components
• Fix upgrading construction sites to drop any already delivered ingredients onto the floor
• Fix for unit upgrader overwriting buildings
• Fix for Drop Off instruction to work with components on construction
• Fix for nomad challenge, give 5 data cubes from the start
• Fix for dot being applied twice on the same tick
• Fix for foundations not completing
• Fix for bugs already undocked trying to undock
• Fix loop instructions to not clear values at the end of the loop
• Shields now regenerate properly
• Fixed “Get Shield” instruction
• Don't allow turrets to shoot if the unit is powered down
• Fix for some weapon effects at larger coordinates
• Disallow building upgrading if the building is damaged
• Don't show a frame that has no movement but also no construction recipe (Satellite) under "Last Copied" in the build menu
• Show error "Copied unit was not a building" when trying to paste a construction site for a blueprint without a frame set or for a frame that has no movement but also no construction recipe (Satellite)
• Fix to use the correct version after editing a Faction Blueprint
• Add "Duplicate" function to library item context menu
• Library UI fix when showing a blueprint with not components
• Avoid error when deleting a blueprint that is currently being edited in the library
• General fixes for Lua errors

AI and Behavior Fixes

• Get the parameter names from the faction library when hovering over a component register
• Fix import of library item (either from local library or clipboard) not restarting behaviors until save game reload
• Don’t allow upgrading damaged units
• Don’t allow upgrading units you don’t know the recipe for potentially losing it
• Fix for anomalies mining into a process so it shows in the item graphs
• Don’t allow using deployer on anything that isn’t your own faction
• Fix for “Is Moving” instruction
• Fix for laser mining tool showing as regular miner in blueprint preview
• Allow the instruction order_transfer to work with docked units
• Fix for foundations not completing
• Fix a components on_update being called twice when activation was set to "Always"
• Don’t reserve entities for transfer when using STORE register

Miscellaneous Tweaks

• Tutorial tweaks
• Blight Magnifier tweaks
• Don’t reset work when requesting movement in a component with the force movement flag set
• Fix for blueprint sorting where order was a floating point
• Modified some used input strings to not localize in the UI
• Reset effect counter when getting with an extra_effect
• Allow overriding damage table (but it’s gonna change…)
• Added Scout Range instruction which will move in a random direction a specified distance
• Ignore holding ctrl (building upgrade) when building foundations
• Various fixes for docking drones inside drones
• Fix for repairing requiring charging

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