Update 28 changelog

Full changelog for Update 28:

Weapons:

The multiwrench should only trigger on gameplay-relevant destroyables
Reduced RID charge times by 0.5s
RID will now be allowed to fire without being fully charged (Requires at least 10% charge)
RID will scale the damage (0x to 1x) and penetration (0.5x to 1x) linearly depending on charge %.p
Realigned the land-vehicle and space-vehicle RID version to match the regular RID more
The vehicle railgun should now properly play FX when charging, and it have gotten a laser indicator to match the normal RID. RID lasers are no longer stopped by glass
Added LSP and TT4 to sturm passenger turret options
Added RID to Hare, and MLV to Silverbacks passenger turret options
The Ammo and healthkit should now behave better when held in hands (Visually)
Lowered the location projectiles are spawned on the EVR, when using ironsights (Should help with it not blinding you while firing)
Increased damage of the EVR by 5%
Re-ranged the falloff start for fighter primaries
C90 (fighter weapon) now have a proximity radius for exploding and more rounds in the magazine
Reworked how turrets works on capital ships - a lot of functional fixes to them, some are linked under the captain seat, some under a combined gunne seat
Interact prompts for seats have been updated to properly resolve the keys, and condensed to fit on the two lines
Not going through with deploying a deployable will make the deployable “fold back up” visually, rather than be stuck at wherever it was left at
The deployable sensor should now show a proper name in the equip-bar
Reload, cooling and ammo mods are available for a few more weapons
Reduced damage of frag mine-mods by 25%
Reworked the RID vehicle version to match the infantry
Bomber weapons (torpedoes, rails, plasma) are now affected by ammo modifiers
Added silencing mod for the knife; Reduces noise made from holding a charged knife
Fixed the Ackerson Red4 (Rockets) having finite ammo when being used on bombers’ turrets. They should now have infinite ammunition on-par with the other options for the slot
Fixed underslung muzzle-effects being unintentionally suppressed by a suppressor
Fixed weapons dropped, while the underslung firemode is selected, not being valid to pick up again
The TT4 should look less silly when dropped on the ground
Fixed the underslung flamer not stopping the fx when out of ammo client-side
Potentially resolved a number of issues when shooting weapons, that could cause desyncs in firing, either visually or functionally, such as from resupplying, dry-firing a non-reloadable weapon, desyncing amm-ocount, starting to re-fire again too quickly after reloading, etc, the fire happening despite the trigger being de-pressed during a reload, swapping from an empty firemode, weapons capable of reloading while inactive, last shots occasionally desyncing etc.
Resolved some desyncs with grenades
Fixed some desyncs with charge-based weapons
Picking up a weapon should more reliably tell you how much ammo is actually in it
Projectiles now have a minimum lifespan, that should make it much more likely that their effect happens on clients, despite having hit their target soon after being fired
The weapons carried on the back should now properly have camo as well
Implemented and enabled selectable camo on non-faction weapons too
Using the multiwrench’s leech-effect from support-spec should now properly update the armors visual damage
Shooting or repairing a neutral interface or turret will no longer grant points
You are now able to repair neutral interfaces
Deployables and explosives should now properly be destroyed when a ship explodes
Vehicle weapons should now converge better at the appropriate distance when pointing vaguely at a target
Turrets aim should be slightly more accurate
Nades should no longer explode if they are hit with indirect splash damage (If it had to penetrate to reach it). Should make nades a bit more durable
Optimized mines
Mines can now be out-run
Ion beams no longer overheat, and can begin recharging immediately. There is a delay between firing however
Adjusted what mods can be applied to spaceship weapons
Adjusted some of the positives and negatives for weapon mods, to generalize some of them (So they can be applied to more weapons). Couple buffs.
Medkits and ammocrates should now show the correct ghost-image for the rotation they are placed in
Space-RID should now properly stop the FX when done shooting
Fixed an issue with vehicle RID laser-effect being visible through meshes
Projectiles are now allowed to pass through water
Plasma projectiles now have a proximity detonation mechanic
Underbarrel shields should no longer activate while dropping a vehicle
Underbarrel shields should no longer be able to regenerate while affected by EMP
Fixed multi-slots (for instance having multiple grenades in the same slot) not being selectable, if the first is out of ammo
While holding a RID that is more than 10% charged, dodging and jumping is disabled
Fixed charge persisting after deploying a deployable
Fixed being able to have multiple deployables stick around above the given limit
Weapons that are supposed to be put away when empty, should now be properly put away in multiplayer (namely grenades and deployables)
Improved underslung shields: Their collision should now closer match the visual, and should move with the pawn, rather than being stationary in front in multiplayer
Deployed turrets should no longer get pushed while they are deploying from being shot
Excluded Ions from being able to have magazine-size mods
Underbarrel rockets have been changed to be reload-based. They will automatically start reloading once fired. The reload can however be cancelled by swapping firemodes - which will leave you with nothing in the underbarrel. Should allow underbarrel to be more flexible and give better feedback
Underbarrel should now have reload animations and sounds
Deployed flamers should now properly display EMP and hacking fx
Underbarrel shields should now be disabled when using a shipspawner, rather than float in the air
Countermeasure flares and drones are now free, and default in loadouts
Adjusted EVP’s falloff curve; It is now slightly longer range
Tuned down the distance-based scaling of impact effects a bit to make them less jarringly overscaled in terms of textures and particle density
NFC weapons now have camo customisation options available as-per faction weaponry
Minor adjustments to various FP overheat timing/sequences/audio to be more consistent with their durations
Several missing/bodged animation sequences from the majority of FP weapons added for consistency

Miscellaneous:

Initial spawning in incursion have been tweaked; The defending team can spawn during the cinematic, while the attacking team have had their cooldown reduced slightly, so they are typically able to spawn ~5s after the cinematic have ended, depending on map
Added a specific task “wait for introduction” to make it clearer what’s going on at the start
Tweaked message for being unable to spawn from “UNAVAILABLE FOR ” to “NEXT WAVE IN ”. Please provide feedback if this is more obvious or confusing.
Hacking CM power now have associated visuals
Dead pawns should no longer regenerate armour; Should make it clearer whether a body is dead and about to be removed, or bleeding out
Re-zeroed all scopes and tweaked their positions (etc). Should make the scopes more accurate
Attempting to swap firemodes have been changed to a sort of brute-force method; It will continue to try to swap until successful, or the player starts firing the weapon. Should make firemode-swapping more reliable - especially in MP
Reduced assaults effectiveness against Ion beams; It should no longer grant near-immunity during one salvo
Assault no longer protects against the same things as one-shot protection doesn’t apply to (Game-related things, such as incapacitation damage, environmental burning, etc)
Getting into, or out of bleedout will now clear assault’s stacks
Tweaked how overheating from incendiary works: It will now gradually build up heat, then gradually dissipate, leaving some room for actively shooting, if managed properly. If managed improperly, you will still kick the weapon into overheat. Intention is to give infantry a chance of managing heat, rather than guaranteeing you are locked out of your weapon for a while. It should effectively reduce the ROF
Changing teams should properly clear ownership of vehicles
Removed the sound and startup fx from NV for now
Fixed an issue that would deny using neutral seats
Fixed the currently selected camera on vehicles not being synced to the server, resulting in shots coming from wrong places, if changed
Double left-clicking on a Capitalship on the Tacmap will now take you to that interior. This will not work on non-boardable enemy ships, since their interiors aren’t viewable normally
Double right-clicking on nothing in an interior (on a space-map) will now take you (back) to space
Removed the legacy stat for recoil reduction from infantry body loadouts
GU34 and L9R should now display more consistent penetration stats for loadout info
Adjusted some 1st-person weapon arrangements to mitigate clipping with certain resolutions
Firerate calculations in loadout info should be considerably more reliable
The loadout-stat for shieldturrets should now reflect actual values
Fixed a couple other weapon-stats being off
Fixed the Salamander’s default MGA weapon being called twin
Reworked Assault Mod: Instead of reducing damage taken, it will now grant an additional nade-slot .Vehicle version increases turret aim-leniency (To match the reduction of recoil on inf. counterpart).
The stats on vehicle mods for armour and shield values should now actually reflect reality
Fixed being unable to hotswap off GU34 while reloading and underbarrel.
Spawning in the small interval between receiving a vehicle-offer and the vehicle-offer blocking your ability to spawn, will no longer mark you as not-interested in the vehicle. It will still decline the offer however.
The tagbox should now properly update its colour when the target changes ownership (Such as when an objective gets captured)
When looking at a capital ship, the hover-info will now better depict the subsystems actual hitboxes, and will prioritize what you are looking directly at
The out-of-range indicator should now be more reliable
Double-tapping alt (Free-look key), will now re-center the camera to the rotation of the vehicle
The message stating that “Their <> can be boarded” or that “ours <> can be boarded” should now only fire if it is actually possible for you or the enemy to perform this task on that station/ship
Bots should have a considerably easier time seeing mechs, and reacting to them
Bots rank 4 and above taking damage are now more likely to react to it, if they are fighting someone that aren’t really a threat to them currently
Bots rank 3 and above are more aggressive in their overall shooting
Bots rank 3 and above will react more to vehicles, and might make an attempt to not be run over
Bots might crouch more reasonably as infantry
Bots are now allowed to repair vehicles, even if they are just missing armor
Bots should be more capable at positioning themself and make proper use of their MW to revive and repair
Fixed an issue where bots would be unable to revive, if their targets chest was partially stuck in terrain
Bots should be more likely to respawn to reach their target
Bots should be less likely to repath back on themself
Bots have a chance to pick an appropriate fighter based on their current tasking
Bots have a higher chance to spawn in interiors related to what they want ship-wise, including dropships
Bots should be more likely to use dropships if relevant to their orders
Bots skill level 3 and above will now be a lot more insistent on shooting you in space
Bots are now quicker to shoot at new targets if they were previously shooting someone else
Fixed a rare issue where being downed with high armor would prevent you from being revived
Bots should no longer attempt to repair corrosive-damage
Bots should no longer try to resupply from medkits beyond their healths corroded value
Bots should be more likely to make haste if their objective is under attack (as both attackers and defenders), and generally be more likely to care
Bots should be more sensible in their nade-uses
Couple bot-optimizations
Somewhat improved bots driving abilities
Taught bots that they can use stationary turrets, if they are relevant to their current objective
Bots should no longer immediately re-enter a vehicle they just left
Fixed bots stacking on the same spot during following a target, in larger squads
Bots should now look a bit less silly when entering a vehicle
Bots being in a vehicle as passengers can now decide to bail from it, if they feel it is dangerous to be in. They will be smarter about this depending on their skill. They may also decide to be hesitant with getting into one in the first place
Squadmate bots will now attempt to spawn as close to their SL as they can, if they share the same objective as it
Bots will have an easier time entering a vehicle, if it is what they are following
Bots will stop trying to enter a vehicle, if it is not enterable
Bots should now be more capable of using the proper mode of the MLI and MLV; They should for instance no longer try to lock onto infantry
Bots will now have slight reaction-delays to being shot at. Should make them a bit less inhuman, and slightly less predictable
Bots will now always use detpacks in proximity mode
Bots should now be aware of shields being invulnerable, which should help them when attacking LZs
Bots have learned to communicate a bit with each other; They will tell nearby squaddies about an enemy at rank 3 or above. Kinda experimental
Bots should now be able to dock with friendly stations/carriers
Get in/Get out now works in capships. Get in will target the first-available squadmate, prioritizing anyone already in the interior. Get out will target whoever seated in the ship
Bots have learned the basics to being a crewmate of a capship. If they enter the co-pilot seat they will respond to downed subsystems if they deem them important, and otherwise co-pilot gun
Bots should no longer get stuck in an interior trying to go to space
Bots should be better at finding a ship to go to space with - even if that is in a different interior
Bots should now be able to respawn to reach their target, if it’s not reachable by normal means (Such as a non-carrier interior, moving between stations (etc))
Bots should be less likely to care about invulnerable targets (Such as the new protection-turrets on tannhauser)
Various tweaks to how bots treat stationary turrets
High level bots are likely to repair the objective they are defending, if they aren’t otherwise occupied
A number of tweaks to space/air pathing; Should generally help the bots to crash/get stuck less
Bots flying a capship should be less likely to ignore getting shot at by something threatening
Fixed some issues causing bots to repath too often
Bots should now be better at identifying if an order is in an interior, and what to do about that. They would in some instances try to path through OOB, or just generally be confused about how to handle it
Bots in capital ships ordered to an interior will try to attack the exterior, or do something else relating to the task. If they can’t, they will pick something else to do space-side
Bots can be ordered to take a seat in a capship
Squads should no longer be tasked with following themself in capital ships
Milnet should now consider all space-objectives, rather than just some
Milnet will try to distribute objectives more in space, in accordance to its current strategy
Milnet are more likely to care about defending non-primary-objective things in interiors
Milnet should no longer make “follow someone follow you” a valid auto-order
Milnet should be considerably less likely to make your team just crawl up in a corner
Milnet should now try harder to follow a strategy in space
Bots should prioritize resupplying their droppod higher
Handbraking in a hover-vehicle (Basta/Dhaka) will no longer make the body slowly rotate towards your aimpoint
Minor tweaks to smoothness of changing direction while running and sprinting
Vehicles are no longer offered based on your personal performance, but rather to your team as a whole, depending on your teams performance
Reworked all turret-constraints; Should be considerably less likely to be able to shoot the parent vehicle, and generally more logical
Tentatively made the Turtle amphibious
Entering water will now do a cute splash effect
Fixed an issue when exiting vehicles inside water
Entering and exiting water should be much smoother
Being in water should no longer result in an imposing T-pose; Instead basic swim animations have been added
Water should no longer inflict drowning damage: Suits are airtight
Fixed colors not being properly set in options (Sometimes lacking one or two selections behind)
Changing colors in options should now update most of the uses of them in the HUD
Reworked the default control scheme for controllers to include considerably more actions, and hopefully be more intuitive. One of the limitations are that you cannot do broadcasts while in vehicles, there’s no way to change camera-views or seats.
Added config variable ‘bControlsCenteredFighters’. If true, will center the crosshairs on fighters and gunships. Intended to be used with controllers
Added config variable ‘bUseNewCamSpeedEffect’. If false, will use the old space-particles (For anyone finding the new particles causing any degree of motion-sickness)
Added config variable ‘SortLoadoutsBy’, based on the value, it will sort the loadouts

Added config variable ‘RestrictToTeamNumber’. If specified, will restrict players to only picking this team (0 = ula, 1 = aia, -1 any). Might be helpful for PVE
Fixed contextual hint for acid to reflect reality
Fixed an issue on certain maps where ships would have intense lenseflare-like effects
Potentially fixed a visual desync when moving between seats
Vehicles that can be uprighted will now automatically attempt to do so, when the driver have been kicked from the vehicle twice within a short timespan to prevent vehicles that you can enter, and get kicked from again shortly
Sensornades and scout mod should now again properly award support points
Hackspikes should now again only be attackable when not affected by out-of-bounds
Fixed a couple corrosion related issues
Potentially resolved an issue where you could get re-offered a vehicle while already having one active
Cricket/Dragoon should now properly clear their corrosion stacks when resupplying
Order-related callouts (attack/defend/follow/moveto) made by a squadleader should no longer be sent to the commander. Additionally, they should now properly be sent from the commander to squadleaders
Somewhat reworked initial spawn-delay. Overall everyone spawns earlier, and the defenders setup-time can now be variable per-map. Generally reduced the spawndelay. Added UI messaging to support. Should make for a better overall experience, feedback welcome.
Fixed a resupply-issue that would sometime cause you to end up with less ammo than you had
Implemented a maximum timer for being in the ‘drop-vehicle’ screen of 120 seconds. After which the vehicle will be declined.
Dropped weapons with no ammo can now be picked up: No more losing your weapon by accident by exchanging it, or weapons that looks like you can pick up, but no prompt for it
Dropped weapons that doesn’t have any ammunition will now have “(empty)” appended after their name
Loadout doll:

Prestiging:

Fixed some issues with assigning orders on tacmap. Additionally should be better about showing current targets
Fixed some issues with players not showing up on tacmap occasionally
While trying to deploy on tacmap, the error message will be highlighted in enemy-colour, if it’s an issue you need to resolve (such as trying to deploy with a loadout that’s too expensive, looking at somewhere without a spawnpoint, the ship being in red-alert, etc)
Tacmap quality-of-life improvements:

Ships that will take you to space will now be shown on the tacmaps of that interior. This includes dropships which will have the owning-teams coloring
Changed setting TerritoriesStartingTicketsMultiplier value to 66, down from 100. This makes the duration of territories matches shorter (66% of the configured tickets). Should put their time-duration more in line with incursions
Adjusted the combat xp, so you get 10 more for the first 5 ranks. Fixes some default loadouts being unaffordable, and gives you slightly more flexibility early-game
Tweaked Partisan:

Tweaked mechs; among other changes, its arms will attempt to extend to reach over obstacles. It also features better IK solving. It should also be slightly more forgiving as to how run-over damage is dealt
Vehicles should now be informed that their driver is dead, and turn off; This will most notably make gunships fall to the ground if they are driverless
Shielded vehicles will no longer get a random amount of iframes once the shield is downed. It should go down immediately
Shock plating no longer applies to shields
Turtle mod no longer applies to shields
Exiting a vehicle should no longer allow it to place you inside level geom or under the level
Broadcasting "get in" within 15s of a vehicledrop will allow the first-available squadmember to redeploy on you to take the gunner-position
The ingame console will now show what team a bot joined, rather than generic “team”
When LZ’s dropships lands their pod, they will emit an EMP wave, blowing up any placed explosives, and EMP’ing anything else nearby. Same effect applies to boardingtubes
Replaced the “flying in space” debris effect: Note config ‘bUseNewCamSpeedEffect’ if this causes discomfort
Reworked default vehicle loadouts. Prior ones have been renamed “blank slate” for convenience. The loadouts should make it easier to jump into a vehicle without first configuring everything. Note that this only applies if you don’t have an AFFLoadout.ini file in the configs
Broadcast “get out” now have a chat message associated with it
Fixed some strings not resolving to their appropriate keybind in the alerts (Such as “redeploy to follow order”)
Fixed “station/ship can now be boarded” messages not showing up initially
Refined messaging for boarding a neutral station (ixion). They should now be more informative
Boarding-related messages now use the longer name, rather than generic for stations: for instance “Halifax trading station” instead of “station” - Some of these names might be wrong. Please do report any that strikes you as odd
Pressing tab or esc should no longer clear your current selection in scoreboard
Disabled freelook in loadout, scoreboard and serverbrowser, so alt-tabbing doesn’t clear your current selection
Tweaked loadout-list to not have your picked option be the first or last when possible, to highlight that you have options above/below, and making it easier to click your way through the list
Fixed various issues with spawn-shields in capships not working as intended
All turret-calculations have been moved engine-side, and fixed up. Additionally, all turrets have had their aim-restrictions reviewed
Potentially reduced the instability in turrets when they aim
3rdp camera (officially unsupported) no longer lets you shoot wherever you please

Spectating:

Fixed the text you receive when being moved to spectators for idling, not resolving the key to rejoin in the text to an actual key
Fixed pawns occasionally being left mindlessly behind when forcibly being moved to spectating for idling
Spectators are now considered non-voters as intended during votes for map changes
Clicking esc in the faction-select screen will now return you as spectator, if you have made your choice initially
RMB is no longer free-roam. This functionality have been moved to shift+RMB and shift+LMB, or holding alt
RMB now goes back to the previously viewed player
Q/E (leaning) will now move up/down similar to space/ctrl
Holding shift will now double the movement speed of your camera
Spectating a specific target should now follow it through deaths, vehicle drops (etc)
Spectating someone should now more reliably display their information on the hover-bar, regardless if the view is obstructed by someone else or geometry
Selecting spectator in singleplayer should now start the match
Spectators are now able to hotkey locations or players to quickly return to, by holding ctrl and clicking number 0-9. Later clicking that number will take you there (if you did it during free-roam) or to the player. By default there are some WIP locations of objectives on these keys. Note that the settings are not permanent
Spectators can now use a basic version of the scoreboard to view some information about players. Clicking their name on the list will bring you to them for spectating
Messages sent by a spectator can now be told apart from enemies in chat
Spectators can now tell the two teams messages in chat apart; AIA is always red, while ULA is always blue (Or whichever colours you have friend and foe set to)

Boarding:

The space-side boarding when using Crickets should now look a lot more sane, with the dropship approaching the ship, and leaving the pod in an attached-to-the-ship position
While near a boarding point in a non-dropship (fighter for instance), the message will now tell you the name of your factions dropships (Cricket / Dragoon) needed to board
Added a contextual hint for trying to board with a non-boardship
Fixed an issue that would make boarding points show up as valid, while they are not
Fixed the “dock with” objective not showing up in-world with a marker (visible if you are trying to reach a location that can be docked with)
Attached boarding pods will no longer be shot at by the ships AI turrets, and can’t be targeted by lock-on weapons originating from the ship (Safety overrides)
Refined a number of bits on boarding-related takeoff, space and boarding Crickets/Dragoons/boarding-tubes, such as better respecting the orientation you have, the objects being more aligned, etc. The transitions should be considerably smoother. Also potentially fixed being able to get stuck in the space-side pod during boarding
Before takeoff, the prompt for piloting in the back of a dropship will be visible. Once occupied, it will change to a box telling you the current status of the takeoff - including a timer
When waiting for launch clearance in a dropship, it will now tell you how long you have to wait with a timer
The Cricket pod should now look more proper when attaching and attached space-side
Updated Dragoon’s pod
Potentially fixed pods being hard-to-shoot for bots, or floating away from the ships

Performance/Engine:

Fixed switching between fullscreen and windowed sometimes outright crashing the renderer, especially in DX11
Fixed vsync and borderless mode not working consistently in DX11
Fixed resolution dropdown not working correctly after switching from fullscreen to windowed.
Fixed shader state cache getting wiped between frames, resulting in shader's InputLayout getting rebuilt every frame and hueg framerate chug.
Changed how visibility and LOD fading states are stored for primitives - further improves per-frame performance of heavy scenes, reduces memory footprints and fixes some tiny memory leaks.
Done a whole bunch more optimization on decal, culling and renderer in general.
Fixed a number of uncached stuff that’d cook during runtime
Various spaceship-related performance improvements
Various bot-performance improvements
Trace, pawn and camera performance improvements
Fixed an issue causing low-fps to spiral out of control

Models:

A number of collision tweaks and minor model updates, patching holes and similar; Mostly on Errah-related models
Optimized lightmap resolutions on many meshes across maps

Maps:

The AIA rocketplatform (Used on mirnoide) have been changed from having armor, to having more health total
Destroyables that are part of space-side objectives have had their health massively increased
Standardized how the assets available on a map is displayed in the briefingroom - It should now be more accurate, and show for ground-maps aswell
The briefingrooms’ lightrooms now allows you to shoot
Guards in the briefingrooms no longer holds their breath after seeing you
Fixed some misc issues with the background scenes played on the menu. Slight optimizations as well.
Fixed some issue with the core on carriers not being properly shootable and pathable by bots
Fixed various issues in ULA hangar, with floating stuff, bad collisions etc
Fortress:

Fortress Territories:

Mirnoide:

Anaster:

Lukather:

YTS:

Irega:

Lacroix:

Poranti:

Igneous:

Ascella:

Meudeverre:

Tannhauser:

Huginn:

Ranger:

Anubis:

Khamun:

Griphon:

NB3345:

Errah:

Errah territories:

Delta:

Ixion:

Mazikeen:

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