Patchfix: "Red Line"

Knights and mercs, we are spinning out an urgent set of patches tonight to address some recent issues. If you're having issues with red lines scattering across your screen, this one is for you. If you've seen headless Brave Star on the loose, this one is for you. And a number of other hot topic F10s too!

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[h2]Red Lines / Missing Heads[/h2]

It turns out the recent forehead reduction surgery for some characters broke Head #17. This made the head disappear in the one place it appeared, on Brave Star Swat-X characters. And worse, if you tried to enable Highlight (H) while these enemies were on screen, the screen went crazy with red lines.

We have fixed their face.

[h2]Low Recruit Display[/h2]
In the last update, we adjusted the recruit level calculation math to be based on team average Level and to turn out much higher-level recruits (in most cases). Unfortunately, while we wired it up, the final value fed into the text formatter for the Underworld Hub was the old value. Woops! This is now fixed and the correct value is displayed in the UHUB.

[h2]Brain Worm vs. Talents[/h2]
We've fixed another small but important issue with Brain Worm. Sometimes they were using Talents or Items, which could allow them to still harm you or even worse, throw a grenade at you. Now, Brain Worm enemies cannot use any Talents or Items at all (not healing, buffing, debuffing, grenades, etc).

[h2]Daedaelus Bloc Fixes[/h2]

We fixed an issue where the VIP Diato might incorrectly appear in your next bodyguard mission. Also, we resolved some issues with the slides in retirement, including that characters you dismissed or skipped recruiting were appearing.

[h2]And other F10s[/h2]
We fixed a bad map code name (Blue-Gold Choke) to Hovertruck Repair Depot and resolved a Contact Trait that was showing as Paranoid when it was really Bellicose.

Thanks to everyone submitting such awesome F10s!

[h2]v1.10.21 - Patchfix: "Red Line" - 4/20/2025[/h2]
- Fixed issue with red lines all over screen when fighting Brave Star and turned on Highlight
- Fixed missing heads for some Brave Star SWAT-X enemies
- Fixed issue with Underworld Hub reporting low recruit levels (not updated to #237)
- Fixed issue where Brain Wormed target could still use some Talents, such as throwing grenade
- Fixed incorrect codename for map "Hovertruck Repair Depot"
- Fixed Contact Trait Bellicose appearing as Paranoid incorrectly
- Fixed issue where Daedalus Bloc VIP "Diato" would sometimes re-appear as VIP in another mission
- Fixed issue in Retirement where some skipped recruits or other non-team members were getting retirement slides