Patch Notes

Red Solstice 2: Survivors
Patch 3.0 (2nd September, 2024)

Full Patch Notes:

Horror mode

• Monster health increased by 200%.
• Monsters have 30% more damage.
• Monsters have one additional armor block.
• Monsters are overall depending on threat slower by up to 25%.
• Speed boost from monster off the map reduced from min 1% to max 5%.
• Driveable vehicles are disabled
• Biomass matures now and when matured it will explode and spawn a boss

CLASS IMPROVEMENTS

• Support slots increased from 9 to 11.
• Offense slots increased from 5 to 6.
• Defense slots increased from 5 to 6.

• Offense slots increased from 9 to 10.
• Defense slots increased from 6 to 7.

• Offense slots increased from 7 to 8.

• Defense slots increased from 5 to 6.

• Defense slots increased from 3 to 4.

• Offense slots increased from 9 to 11.
• Support slots increased from 8 to 9.

• Offense slots increased from 7 to 9.

• Offense slots increased from 8 to 9.
• Support slots increased from 9 to 10.

GAMEPAD IMPROVEMENTS

• Fix for gamepad radial not overriding interaction selection widget's controls.
• Fix for rare gamepad pointer disappearing on credits/game over screen.
• Fix for gamepad pointer disappearing in strategy menu.
• Fix for cursor issues during gamepad aim tutorial.
• Fix for some interaction issues.

ENGINEERING ITEMS

LEVEL

• Fix for an issue with vehicles and their path.

• Fix for an issue where movable vehicles would attack doors even though they were open.

> Fix for vehicles getting stuck on dead end streets.

• Various Missile Turrets will no longer destroy explosives.

• Fix for player getting stuck in a particular location using 'WASD' controls.

• Added collision on walls and stones, and in a few other locations.

• Fix for an issue where client players saw Sam Sites incorrectly on all levels.

• Removed unnecessary barricades.
• Removed “Defend The Wall” skirmish level.
• Reduced cloud speed.

• Fixed issue with pipe network.
• Each level will now have limited instead of infinite loot.
• Closing one window will close all windows in 1k radius. Interaction time reduced from 1s to 0.5s.
• Toxic Barrels will damage Enemy Marines now.
• Tornado colour tweaks.
• Fix for an issue where Sam Site turrets would spawn at the wrong location.
• Fix for various texture, navmesh, destruction, pathfinding issues

MEDALS

• New medals have been added: “Aetriden Medal of Honor” and “Commendation for Past Service.”

MISSION

• Fix for few Condatis campaign critical strike missions having issues with deployment.
• Fix for missions not spawning enemy marine and/or monsters that were a part of a mission objective if the monster cap was reached. They will be force spawned now.
• Fix for taunts on Allied Defense and other missions.

MISC

• Added sounds while going through language buttons in options.
• Achievement fix for Nightfall, Elysium campaign mission.
• Train - Navmesh generation around Train doors has been improved.
• Fix for an issue where Missile Turrets would damage itself.
• Fix for an issue where electric particles were not destroyed after they were done filling up the UBAS.
• Fix for Biomass spawning inside of a Whale actor.
• Fix for issues with minimap moving camera in WASD/Gamepad mode.
• Fix for Range Particle staying forever when mission base terminals were activated.
• Fix for missing stats in loadout after changing class.
• Fix for clients missing weapons in the garage.
• Fix for marine skins sometimes appearing faulty.
• Fix for marines sometimes being invisible after exiting a driveable vehicle.
• Fix for campaign setup picking wrong difficulty.
• Fix for player's profile showing when selecting a bot's name.
• Fix for UBAS missiles destroying each other.
• Fix for suppression component being able to get stuck at Suppressed if something temporarily reduces it's regen to 0.
• Fix for game difficulty causing wrong modifiers on suppression, fixes things like Sonic Grenade not altering the suppression regen correctly.
• Fix the tiling on marine shoulder plate.
• Fix for various issues with localization.
• Poison Barrel will now do 1000 damage to biomass centres for its duration.
• Removed invite friend button from showing in single player armory.
• Minimap fixes for some pixelated textures and added legend icons that were missing.
• Possible fix for marine click to attack getting stuck on dead monster

MONSTERS

• Destructive resistance set to 60.
• Energy resistance set to 40.

• Will now attack players with hellspawn spikes that are in a building.
• Slam does kinetic damage and will damage UBAS now.

• Fix for player being invisible after being ejected from the creeper.

• Fix for melee attacks.

• Fix for Devourer monster sliding in mushroom state.

• Animation and charge tweaks.
• Kinetic resist reduced from 85 to 75.
• Fluffy will do frenzy triple attack when he goes below 35% health.

• Kinetic resistance set to 35.
• Explosive resistance set to 60.
• Energy resistance set to 50.

• Fix where Hellspawn would randomly damage players with foot stomp.
• Fix for an issue where Hellspawn wouldn't unburrow.
• Grabber monster will now spawn on Biomass creep.
• Holer projectile speed reduced to 1500.

• Kinetic resist set to 90.
• Energy resist set to 65.
• Suppression set to 300.
• Damage reduced from 300 to 275.
• Can not be influenced by skills like harpoon, clinch...

• Kinetic resist set to 80.
• Energy resist set to 60.
• Damage reduced to 225.
• Will now attack players with Hellspawn spikes that are in a building

• Will no longer regenerate armor.

• Fix for a rare bug that caused the game to crash in rare situations.

• Removed armor regen.

• Health reduced to 8,000.
• Stomp damage increased to 100 and will now slow marines for 3 seconds.

• Destructive resistance set to 75.

• Destructive resistance set to 60.
• Suppression regen increased from 12 to 20.

• Destructive resistance set to 55.

• Zombie marine kinetic resistance buff increased from 20% to 40%.
• Monsters will now be able to use their skills after being hit with Bellator Harpoon gun.
• Monsters will not be suppressed as long as they have any armor left.
• Monsters are unable to destroy windows anymore.
• Fix for monsters having wrong skill cooldowns.
• Fix for monsters sometimes not aggroing player at all.
• Fix for monsters using Burrow when casting a skill.
• Fix for a crash that was caused by animsharing.
• Biomass max monsters alive now set to 5.
• Reworked monster movement behaviour. Monsters should not get stuck anymore and their overall movement should be better.

• Basic AI Marine - Tweaks regarding roam to player behavior
• Follower skill Reconaissance will now add ammo to bots.
• Fix for Follow me command sometimes not working. They now have 9 formations.
• Fix for drop pod marines hovering in air after they deploy.
• Fix for Followers not being able to use teleport and strong signal beacon.
• Fix for Followers not always detecting monsters.
• Fix for Followers where they were being teleported to vehicles that are nota part of the assigned hero.
• Dead Followers will no longer be teleported when player exits vehicle
• Recon bot tactical scout item should work properly now.

• Fix for Condatis assault class not being able to equip stratagems.
• Fix for stratagem engineering buffs counting towards campaign HasNotViewedItem checks

• Ajax - Fix for Ajax missiles endless flying.
• Ajax - Fix for targeting indicator not working properly.
• Grenade Launcher - Increased swapping speed between primary weapon and Grenade Launcher
• Launcher type weapon projectiles wont be blocked by Tentacle collision anymore
• Stinger - Swapped initial and final spread on Stinger so that it would function correctly

WEAPON MODIFICATIONS

• Should now properly reduce overwatch range.

• Damage module increased damage from 10 to 12%

SOUNDS/MUSIC

UI

• Changed match summary to display a player's stats as red if they did not evac
• Moved Health Bar and name widgets on characters from the capsule to the mesh to avoid jitter on client.
• Removed "Online/Offline" buttons from main menu.
• Removed "Add Friend" button, as it was redundant to the "Profile" button.
• Fix for clients not always having a correct mission displayed in the armory.
• Fix for "Add Soldier" button
• Fix for utility slot tooltip in armory.
• Fix for pickup items sometimes leaving widgets on the screen for too long.
• Fix for NetworkSettings screen remaining when map travelling.
• Fix for some issues with mission waypoint arrows.
• Fix for workbench sometimes having blank dropdown name.
• Fix for non pickup explosives showing an interactible widget when marine walks over it.
• Fix for player name sizing in armory.
• Hid "Mod Weapon" button for some weapons to reduce confusion.
• Mission location markers box tweaks.

QOL

• Added a "Return To Main Menu" button on the Game Over screen. Now clients will be able to return to Main Menu after the game, instead of going to the armory first.
• Added an autosave after returning to strategy from a campaign mission, after the dropship is returned to hq and the last mission is cleaned up.
• Added Offline game call when leaving campaign setup.
• Added cancel buttons to some notification popups.
• Armory widget optimization.
• Complete fix up and overhaul to the optimization system.
• Damage display, dissolve component, damage numbers and weapon shot firing improvements and optimizations.
• UI optimizations.
• Game performance optimization.
• Enabled stratagem button in offline skirmish mode.
• Friendly skills will now have a blue radius instead of a red one.
• Major overhaul of Campaign's save system to use Unreal's default save style.
• Major overhaul of all saved data. Majorly user profile, saved loadouts, saved weapons and saved vehicles.
• Major overhaul of UI gamepad navigation handling.
• Fix for various translation issues.
• Fix for various issues regarding invites, join via friend, private and public sessions.
• Fixes for session joining, player block list, player friend list.
• Fix for campaign save/delete confirmation not always showing.
• Fix for infinite loading screen if session fails to create.
• Fix for campaign session initial data.
• Fixed and optimized FOW Hide component
• Reworked platform save manager's loadout delete to not remove the cached version unless it successfully deletes the file. Also added a safety check and some logging.
• Vaulting - Updated vault detect locations.

NEW FEATURES

• Added new marine skin
• Added skin patterns that can be equipped and dyed.
• Added vibration for gamepads.
• Added horror mode.
• New Main Menu interface.