5.2.0.9

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Discovery 5.2.0.9, released on Jan 19th.

- Added: New event-only lifter model carrying a Kusari BC engine, with the commodity icon to match.
- Changed: Made patch notes reference the actual Freelancer version number again, starting with this patch.
- Changed: Gunboat primaries now do energy damage at 25% of hull damage, bringing their shield damage up to 75% of their hull damage.
- Changed: Fighter and Bomber mass and strafe force increased by 33%. Example: the Defender previously weighed in at 150 mass, and now 'weighs' 200, with a strafe force of 20,000 instead of 15,000.
- Changed: Fighter gun balance pass: (very) low efficiency class 1 and 2 guns and class 5 turrets' damage has been reduced, improving their efficiency. Codenames and class 4 (heavy weapons) damage unchanged.
- Changed: Fighter gun balance pass part 2: fighter/bomber gun efficiency formula updated, reducing overall power usage. The guns least affected by this buff are low-refire 'shotguns'.
- Changed: Fighter and Bomber power plant recharge increased by 90.
- Changed: Both Nova and Incapacitor bomber torpedo models have been upscaled by 20% (including hitboxes).
- Changed: Nova and Incapacitor bomber torpedo HP increased from 1,250 to 2,500.
- Changed: Rage torpedo model now also uses a larger size model (like Novas and Incapacitators before it), and its HP has been increased from 900 to 3,000.
- Changed: Swatters damage and radius reduced, but detonation distance increased and the mine can now move and seek. Ammo decreased by 20 (50->30).
- Changed: Gunboat railgun hull damage reduced by 3250 (7000->3750), armor pen increased by 50 (150->200).
- Changed: Daisychain missiles now have a 200ms arming time.
- Changed: Shield adjustments:

• Shield Battery shield restore amount increased from 180 to 250.
  
• Shield Battery counts adjusted: larger ships like transports, gunboats and capital ships have had their battery count reduced proportional to the amount shield batteries themselves were buffed by -- meaning their overall amount of shield capacity 'stored' in batteries remains the same.
  
• Light Fighters also have slighter reduced numbers of shield batteries.
  
• Fighter and Bomber shield capacity & recharge increased by 10%.
  
• Fighter, Bomber and Freighter shield boosts now last a little longer per expended shield battery, but reduce damage by significantly less than they did before: Graviton: 75% -> 45%; Molecular: 65% -> 40%; Positron: 50% -> 35%.
  

- Changed: Nanobot repair quantity reduced by 100 (600 -> 500). Ships larger than freighters have had their nanobot counts increased to maintain the same amount of total effective hitpoints. Light Fighters have slightly more nanobots (mostly to ensure they can 'fuse').
- Changed: Battlecruiser Penitence has made it to the Tripoli drydocks for repairs. It is undockable for the duration. Its infocard reflects its latest adventure.
- Changed: Dresden updated to update Penitence's departure.

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