VERSION 1.6.0 IS OUT
PROBABLY NOT SAVE SAFE
Truth be told, this Update probably isn't as big as the time it took to produce might indicate, but at least I figured out the balancing issues.
Here's the changelog:
- Massive and sweeping balance changes that affect the entire faction, based on observations during the last major AI tournament.
- The changes are too numerous to go over most of them individually, but in general, flux stats have been slashed, especially for the
frigates and destroyers, some ships have had flux stats shifted from dissipation to capacity, and
a few of them have had minor one-off changes to things like OP or mounts
- Deployment costs are now properly normalized to Maintenance costs, making the ships cheaper to operate overall.
- The ARS should now properly utilize and sell their domestic hullmods.
- ARS domestic hullmods now properly display their design type.
- The ARS now has Nex Diplomatic traits enabled.
- Some updates to the Edith's behavior when commanded by AI fleets.
- New Weapon: Lighthouse, an inaccurate 1OP burst-beam weapon mounted to ballistic slots, intended to be an in-house slot-filler,
technically capable of PD but not very good at it, passable light armor cracking given the cost.
- New Weapon: Needle PDM, Small, cheap point defense missiles, interception capabilities are a bit below-par compared to some other
point defense missiles in the modiverse, but Needles aren't reliant on ammo and are only 4OP, making them fantastic for fleet-support roles.
- Revised Weapon: The Rod missiles have been completely re-worked into spread-rockets with a pre-aim stage, allowing them to be fired from
any angle, unlike regular rockets.
- Revised Weapon: The Cone missile is now called the Can missile, and will launch a disposable launcher which will aim and then launch
limited-guidance kinetic missiles.
- The Osmond's mounts have been altered to fix an AI behavior where the ship would broadside with certain weapon loadouts
even though it would be considered detrimental to do so.
- The Thatcher (P) Now has Fast Missile Racks as its system instead of AAF, which was too strong for its new DP cost.
- New, custom hull style sounds for all ships, yes, all of them. Courtesy of MesoTroniK
- Probably some *** I am forgetting
- Maybe some *** you'll have to figure out on your own.