NPC FACTIONS.
- Changed: MND IFF is now Rheinland Federalists IFF, allied to Bundschuh and hostile to Rheinland lawfuls except ALG.
- Changed: Rheinland Federal Police is now Rheinland Imperial Police.
- Changed: Republican Shipping is now Imperial Shipping.
- Changed: Removed Corsairs from list of Enclave allies.
SYSTEMS
- Added Rheinland Federalist NPCs to Munich, Frankfurt, Thuringia, New Berlin and Hamburg.
- Changed: Virginia has been completely overhauled and now has a jump gate connection to Alaska.
- Changed: Rheinland corporate NPCs removed from western Gallia.
- Changed: Gallic corporate NPCs removed from western Rheinland.
- Changed: Confederal Gallic Defense Force NPCs added to western Cologne.
- Changed: Red Hessian NPCs added to Zurich.
- Changed: Exeter: Moved Planet Sidmouth, Lanzarote base to G5, moved Dublin JH to FB, Poole JH to D2, Omega 52 JH to F2/3.
- Changed: Trade Lane from Planet New London to Kensington Shipping Platform fixed.
- Changed: Core NPC patrols given the new ship line.
(Player Request) - Changed: Planet Gran Canaria, Porto Novo changed from Corsairs to Neutral, allowing all parties to dock.
(Player Request) - Changed: Planet Curacao docking ring no longer on fire.
- Changed: Munich Aluminum ore mining zone moved to Frankfurt, into the Hausenfeld, sector F-5. The new zone is equidistant between Imperial and Federal dockpoints, factoring tradelane traffic.
BASES
- Added: Battleship Zuschen (Hessians) in Stuttgart.
- Added: Rokslide Research Station (Hessians) in Omega-55.
- Added: Atmopsheric entry point to Saarbrucken (Hessian) in Cologne.
- Changed: Battleship Schwerin (Rheinland Military) moved to Frankfurt.
- Changed: Battleship Altenberg (Rheinland Military) moved to Stuttgart.
- Changed: Battleship Karlsruhe (Rheinland Federalists) moved to Zurich.
- Changed: Battleship La Fierte (Defense Forces) moved to Zurich.
- Changed: Battleship Fes (Corsairs) moved to Omicron Gamma.
- Changed: Battleship Koblenz (Rheinland Military) destroyed.
- Changed: Olpe Border Station (Rheinland Police) destroyed.
- Changed: Viernheim Base (Red Hessians) destroyed.
- Changed: Battleship Bayern changed to Federalists IFF and moved within Thuringia.
- Changed: Cruiser Schwarzwald moved within Thuringia.
- Changed: Ingolstadt Station changed to Junkers IFF.
- Changed: Passau Outpost changed to Federalists IFF.
- Changed: Raubling Station changed to Federalists IFF.
- Changed: Tholey Station changed to Hessians IFF.
- Changed: Wuppertal Refinery changed to Junkers IFF.
- Changed: Planet Tangier changed to Coalition IFF.
- Changed: Krefeld Base received a new model.
- Changed: Planet Nuremburg made undockable due to dark matter storm.
- Changed: Elbe Border Fortress model added.
- Changed: Border Station Konstanz destroyed by Federalists.
(Player Request) - Changed: Added ship dealer to Morioka Base.
- Fixed: Syracuse (Cryer) having no turrets.
SOLARS
(Player Request) - Added lights to mark at least one quickdock point on all bases.
- Added mooring points to the unused test_nomad_dockport model.
SHIPS
- Added: New Core shipline, Silvertip (LF), Sawback (HF), Requiem (VHF) and Bonnethead (Bomber). Ships have own tech cell and old ships are no longer for sale (though remain usable).
- Added: Standardized weapon and equipment hardpoint hulls were added to VHF hitboxes.
- Changed: Shield bubble size standardized for VHF, removing discrepency between ships which either had small shields (e.g Lynx) or huge shields (e.g Guardian).
- Changed: Rabisu (Nomad MK2 VHF) hitbox remade from ground up
- Changed: Iris handling: maximum turn speed increased from 64.33° -> 68.02°;
response time improved from 0.4794s -> 0.4417s. Maximum banking speed has been increased from 77.73° -> 93.46°.
- Changed: Manta handling: Maximum banking speed has been increased from 69.98° -> 113.45°.
Maximum bank angle increased from 30 to 45.
- Changed: Manta armor and bb increased to 11600 and 67/67.
- Changed: Eagle handling: maximum turn speed increased from 69.87° -> 70.00°; response time improved from 0.4717s -> 0.4674s.
Maximum banking speed has been increased from 76.39° -> 114.59°.
Its maximum bank angle has been increased from 30 to 40. Its camera position and camera behavior has also been adjusted.
- Changed: Starblazer handling: maximum turn speed increased from 66.50° -> 67.03°.
Maximum banking speed has been increased from 77.42° -> 97.11°.
Its maximum bank angle has been reduced from 40 to 35.
Its camera position and camera behavior has also been adjusted.
- Changed: Sutinga handling: Maximum bank speed increased from 71.61° -> 114.59°.Bank angle increased from 25 to 35.
- Changed: Titan handling: maximum turn speed reduced from 65.04° -> 64.82°; response time improved from 0.5386s -> 0.4810s.
Maximum banking speed has been increased from 73.14° -> 102.11°. Its maximum bank angle has been reduced from 30 to 25.
- Changed: Wraith handling: Maximum banking speed increased from 78.78° -> 128.91°.
- Changed: The Iris has been rescaled from 135% of its original size to 115%.
Gun hardpoints have been redistributed around the hull.
- Changed: The Sutinga has been rescaled to 90% of its original size.
- Changed: The Sichel has been rescaled to 90% of its original size.
- Changed: Sichel handling: Maximum bank speed increased from 76.39° -> 143.23°. Bank angle increased from 30 to 35.
- Changed: Nephthys Armor reduced from 14200 to 13600.
- Changed: Nephthys Nanobot / Shield Battery count increased from 73/73 to 74/74.
- Changed: Raven's Talon handling: Maximum banking speed has been increased from 77.42° -> 112.34°. Its maximum bank angle has been reduced from 40 to 35.
- Changed: Raven's Talon Nanobot / Shield Battery count increased from 65/65 to 69/69.
- Changed: Templar Powercore reduced from 1300/13400 to 1240/12400.
- Changed: Recentered Greyhound torpedo hardpoint.
- Changed: Recentered Wraith torpedo hardpoint.
- Changed: Celestra stats adjusted slightly to make it more combat oriented, cargo hold reduced from 650 to 600.
- Changed: Bustard Civilian Carrier model replaced.
- Changed: Ishtar Nomad Dreadnought powercore capacity reduced from 16,000,000 to 9,000,000.
(Player Request) - Changed: The Bottlenose and Sturgeon's firing arcs have been improved.
(Player Request) - Changed: Stork Cargo increased to 5000, B/B count dropped to 200/200.
(Player Request) - Changed: Bretonia Carrier renamed Bretonia Dreadnought.
- Fixed: Falcon hitbox lead indicator being completely outside the ship.
- Fixed: Crosshair positions for the Avenger, Bastet, Lynx, Lynx NG and Odin have been improved.
- Fixed: Missing pieces of geometry (fins; mining equipment) in the Nepthys, Scraper and Sutinga hitboxes have been added.
- Fixed: VHF hitboxes BHV (Boundary Volume Hierarchy) recalculated enabling previously non-colliding hitbox hulls.
- Changed: Reverse speed of Siris Nomad Cruiser changed from 0.33 -> 0.20 to fit the rest of the class.
- Changed: Reverse of Geb, Obstinate and Adamant changed from 0.20 -> 0.33 to fit the rest of the class.
- Changed: Odin handling: maximum turn speed increased from 66.03° -> 66.75°; Response time improved from 0.4835s -> 0.4663s. Maximum banking speed has been increased from 71.61° -> 114.59°. Its camera position and camera behavior has also been adjusted.
- Changed: Ranseur model replaced.
EQUIPMENT
- Fixed: Syracuse equipment dealer.
(Player Request) - Fixed: Nomad Greater Cloak now supports up to 950 cargo.
- Added: The Moonblast, a class 8 2.00 refire gun, is now universally available.
- Changed: Radford Research Station sells Avenger, Guardian, Upholder.
- Changed: Oder Shipyard sells Rheinland Battleship, Battlecruiser, Carrier.
- Changed: The Ring sells Rheinland Cruiser, Rheinland Gunboat, Heavy Tanker, capital equipment.
- Changed: Large Train moved from The Ring to Planet Holstein.
- Changed: Vandal Gunboat Missile changed from 50,000 hull damage to 50,000 shield damage.
- Changed: Neutral Gran Canaria entry point ships sell Jackdaw, Marauder and Sunrider,
- Changed: Exeter changed to Havok Mk2, Waran and Warhammer.
- Changed: Lichtenfelde Complex: now sells the Griffin, Eagle and Spatial instead of the Adad, Labraid and Rabisu.
- Changed: Battlecruiser Trier: now sells the Bayonet, Sabre and Cutlass instead of the Bergelmir, Phantom and Wraith.
- Changed: Shonan Base: now sells the Marauder, Raven's Talon, Waran instead of the Chimaera, Umibozu and Wyvern.
(Player Request) - Changed: Annihilator Gunboat Torpedo power usage from 260,000 -> 195,000. Damage from 200,000 -> 150,000.
- Changed: ARCHANGEL damage reduced from 2000 -> 1450. Refire increased from 1.00 -> 2.00.
Power usage increased from 283 -> 326.
- Changed: Adapted Nomad Blaster damage increased from 650 -> 720. Velocity reduced from 700 -> 600.
Power usage increased from 134 -> 146.
- Changed: Adapted Nomad Cannon damage increased from 944 -> 980. Velocity increased from 600 -> 650.
Power usage increased from 189 -> 226.
- Changed: All Nomad fighter guns now have a nomad-specific weapon type, rather than no type at all.
ECONOMY
- Added: Modular Base Supplies added to standardize and simplify the POB FOW supply chain.
- Added: POB commodity Critical Temperature Alloy added to Ingolstadt and Mainz.
- Added: POB commodity Fusion Diodes given an unlawful sell point (Kreuzberg Depot).
(Player Request) - Added: POB commodity Hull segm and Heat sinks added to Issoudun.
(Player Request) - Added: POB commodity Industrial Hardware to Evreux Research Facility.
(Player Request) - Added: POB commodity Armaments and Gravity field stabilziers to Lausanne Complex.
(Player Request) - Added: Homesteaders buy point on Exeter.
(Player Request) - Added: Gaian wildlife sell point to Planet Bordeux,
- Fixed: commodities still being bought/sold on the Mackinac, which was destroyed almost half a year ago.
- Fixed: Fenlands econ set with Bristol,
(Player Request) - Fixed: Brixtons set given to Trafalgar.
INFOCARDS
- Added: 5 News articles for Imperial Rheinland, 1 news article related to Omega 47 battle.
- Added: Infocards for wrecks Koblenz, Veirnheim and Gerlingen (Stuttgart cruiser marking battle)
- Added: Infocard for Battleship Zuschen
- Added: Infocard for Rokslide Research Station
- Added: Federalists Faction infocard
- Added: Core snub line infocards, Core Gunship/Gunboat infocards, infocards for PPAC, Hellbore, Mons Meg and Breaker, also added infocards for some ships that lacked them (Hasta, BBC, Kaiser).
- Changed: Planet Gran Canaria, Porto Novo renamed to Planet Gran Canaria, and given different infocard to Exeter.
- Changed: Schatten experimental shipyard
- Changed: Elbe Station renamed Elbe Border Fortress and infocard updated
- Changed: All house planets have population numbers shown in the statistics section, main infocards edited to remove mention of population, some planets have more than just population listed to reflect the lore.
- Changed: Infocards updated for:
> Battleship Kassel, Battleship Fes, Carrier Alvin Katz, Planet Tangier, Battleship Karlsruhe, Battleship Altenburg, Battleship Bayern, Battleship Schwern, Battleship La Fierte, Planet Stuttgart, Planet Hamburg, Planet New Berlin, Fort Sommerda, Alster Shipyard, Altona Station, Tholey Station, Wuppertal Refinery, Planet Saarbrucken, Planet Stuttgart, Wildau Station (as well as a basically all police bases mentioning Federal police), Cruiser Sachsenwald, Krefeld Base, Ingoldstadt, New Augsburg Colony, Raubling, Planet Nuremburg, Mainz, Oerlikon Stellar Observatory, several asteroid fields also edited.
- Changed; Augsburg Wreck renamed to Fort Augsburg (Federalists) and given updated infocard.
- Changed: Adapted Nomad blasters/cannon infocard changed.
(Player Request) - Changed: GC VHF/Bomber infocard changed.
- Changed: Overhaul of faction infocards, allies/enemies updated. This is a WIP and may need adjustments.
- Changed: Messages for system names (when entering a system or undocking) have been given flavor text to better present the systems.
Enclave Systems, Hessian systems, Leeds/Exeter, Federalist systems, Texas and Chugoku were given flavor.
- Fixed: Centurion infocard referring to it as a VHF
- Fixed: GC NPC names having ""Golden chrysanthemum""
(Player Request) - Fixed: Promethene/Prometheum infocard as per dev request.
- Fixed: Some questionable Xeno rumors were replaced.
PvE
- Update: PvE Overhaul Phase 1 (see information thread).
- Added: PvE Controller
- Added: Kills scored on hostile NPCs now pay credit rewards based on NPC difficulty.
- Added: High level NPCs may rarely drop additional rewards.
- Changed: Mission reward info now mentions per-kill rewards.
- Changed: NPCs no longer fire infinite statistically near-perfect streams of countermeasures.
- Changed: NPC armour values in each rank bracket standardized across all factions.
- Changed: Credit card and captain drops on capital ships replaced with group- and difficulty-scaled NPC bounty payouts.
GM CHANGES:
- Changed: LWB fighter cell added as 90% to Freelancer ID (Sichel, Sense).
- Changed: Current Core tech cell renamed to "The Core Ships (Deprecated)". All factions with current access to the Core cell now have access to this one.
- Added: New Core snubs + previous gunship / gunboat added to a new tech cell called "The Core Ships". Access added to The Core exclusively.
- Changed: Hessian ID amended to include Zurich ZOI.
- Changed: Confederal Gallic Defense Forces ID amended to include Cologne ZOI.
- Changed: Region rules updated to make Frankfurt Rheinland House Controlled Space instead of House Sovereign Space.
- Changed: Region rules updated to make Cologne and Thuringia Rheinland House Outer Region instead of House Controlled Space.
- Changed: Region rules updated to add Exeter as an Omega system as well as Bretonia House Controlled Space.
- Changed: Nomad Vagrant independent ID amended to bring it in line with Nomad independent ID. Can no longer leave ZOI without supervision of appropriate official faction ships.
- Added: Wild Pawn ID for independent players. Restarts enabled for KuWild and RhWild to help set characters up.
CREDITS
- @jammi - Infocards, news, economy
- @Markam - Infocards, news, various
- @Thexare - Infocards
- @Reeves - Infocards, news
- @Xalrok - Various
- @Enkidu - Systems
- @Omicron - Systems
- @Geoffacake - infocards
- @Unseelie - Infocards, story, systems
- @Kaze - Infocards, story
- @Kazinsal - Coding, QA, Systems, PvE
- @Alex. - Coding, QA
- @Haste - Balance, QA
- @Lex - Balance
- @Wesker - Balance
- @pillow - Balance
- @Lucas - Balance, Art
- @"Bakugandenis2013" - Cap Balance
- @Black Smoke - Cap Balance
- @Thunderer - Cap balance feedback
- @Treewyrm - Art, Balance (hitboxes)
- @Felsvar - Art
- @"Goddess Iris" - Art
- @Swallow - Core ship line, Bustard replacement
- @Karst - Guns
- Probably a lot more.
