Balance
Watchman
Railgun
Removed 120ppd x 4 charge multiplier and replaced with 480ppd flat damage with no charge system.
Damage falloff improved to gradually reduce to 50% from 7,000m to 5,000m.
Projectile speed increased from 19,000m/s x 1.185s to 20,000m/s x 1.125s
Void Cannon
Range increased from 7,500m to 8,000m
Projectile Speed increased from 15,000 to 20,000m
Developers note: This Watchman change has received honest feedback, some positives can be taken but a fair amount of negatives. Whilst these balance changes are intended to improve its current position we will continue to look at how its kit performs and how to improve it going forward. Keep the feedback rolling in.
Catalyst
- Added a HUD element to indicate the distance of the Payload to base.
- Increased contrast on the radial resource component.
- Rebalanced the mode to increase the likelihood of the game ending before the 15 minute mark: -Increased the Payload max speed multiplier slightly from 1.25x at 10 mins to 1.5x at 13 mins. -Increased respawn times by a couple of seconds. Max respawn time at lvl9 is now 35s.
- Capture widget now only appears when inside mines.
Localization Changes
- Reduced the font size of the Recommend Player title in the Recommend overlay in Russian.
- Fixed an issue where None wasn't marked for translation in the Energy Mod list in Drafting.
- Fixed an issue where FLEET LOCATION font size in the Campaigns screen was too large in Russian.
- Adding a missing separator image to the info tab in the Hangar.
- Reduced the font size on the header of nameplate cards in the pack open view in Russian.
- Fixed an issue where the NEXT WAVE IN text that appears in the Last Stand wave widget would overlap with the timer in languages other than English.
- Fixed an issue where the translation for None was not appearing in the Energy Mods drop down in Drafting in other languages other than English.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue where closing down the lobby intro videos with ESC would cause the audio and subtitles to continue playing.
- When players purchase an Episode Pack that contains a hangar, they will be asked if they want to equip this as their current hangar.
- Fixed an issue where subtitles were not appearing in Drafting.
