Mech Engineer News

The update may be not stable. Tested it a lot for a week, but I'm still not sure, because of the amount and size of code changes.
The previous update is in "oneversionback" branch.


Added sound when mouse hovering over main buttons
Added sound on mouse movement
Added sound when scrolling sliders
Added sound when spending resources
Added sound when hovering over a module card
Added sound for research screen movement
Added sound for research screen zoom
Added sound "REEE" for unable to select research
Added sound to navigation labels in the book

Added labels text to the victory screen
Added overall stats display to the defeat screen
Added an effect when the reactor overheats in the construction menu
Added ability to place marks with the right mouse button on the global map
Added description of the mechs stats displayed in battle to the book
Added description of additional camera movement to the book
Improved the display of the quick repair menu in the hangar (icon)
Added mentioning the shield bar from the construction menu to the book
Reduced by 20% the time of extra activities of pilots
Added mentioning of evasion to the book
Reduced the trigger area for moving mechs from the hangar to the assembly room
Added slight effect of spitting eggs by a resource caterpillar
Added turret highlighting effect
Improved visibility of the reloading animation
Changed how enemy turret radiuses are displayed
Added additional text to the battle screen about mechs are not selected
Added effect for a projectile with the pilot's crit bonus
Added more specific description of the reactor system modules to the book
Moved available cells rendering layer to the background on the global map

Fixed a bug with sounds when the reactor is installed
Fixed bug with being able to fire when out of ammo while reloading another weapon
Fixed not being able to issue individual orders at the start of a battle during x2 time
Fixed walls moving outside the weapon testing room
Fixed the inscriptions on the cabin cards in the Russian version
Fixed the display of artillery shells in the hangar
Fixed medal type change after picking it up

Added different turrets radius to AI mechs for firing priority calculation
Added weak armor regeneration (0.01) to almost all enemy creatures
Reduced damage to armor with ballistic weapons by 10 times when not penetrating (now 0.01)
Increased the chance of taking damage when overheating
Removed enemy artillery in the first 5 days
Lowered the temperature of the wasteland
Slightly Increased the maximum temperature of the first reactor with better modules
Reduced the total research time to receive the atom reactor by 8 days. Focused research on its branch will now take 20 days.
Increased the time to research the thermonuclear reactor by 8 days.
Increased rocket ammo reload time by 4 times
Added the ability to save and load mech blueprint
Reduced enemy energy projectiles by 25%
Increased the mechs shield regeneration rate by 10% by its maximum size
Increased the resource pickup time by double
Decreased stability recovery bonus from free weight by half
Added passive stability recovery bonus
Pilots CBS now affects stability not as a percentage depending on free weight, but as a plus bonus
The bonus from the amount of stability has been inverted. Now the more it is, the faster it recovers.
Added a small global delay for special monsters to spawn during combat
Map difficulty (number of monsters and turrets) is no longer tied to the number of the day
The maximum number of monsters now depends on the number of labyrinths nearby and it is the maximum on the labyrinth map
Additional biomass distribution system on the global map
Each cell on the map can contain a biomass resource
Each cell on the map contains its own values ​​of spawners and turrets
Each labyrinth cell produces a certain amount of biomass
At the end of each day, each cell gives 15 percent of its biomass to one neighboring cell that has less of it.
Then each cell spends 5 biomass to create 5 spawners. Max 30
Each cell then spends 5 biomass to create 5 turrets. Max 20
Spawner and turret values ​​are now saving during the battle
Added saving legs damage for giants when attacking continually on the same day
Increased snake health and damage
Reduced snake armor
Reduced spawner armor
Spawners health increased
Increased the retreat radius of spawners when losing half health
Slightly increased mech stability reduction when hit by enemy projectiles
Increased mech stability reduction by slowdown areas
Changed tornado mechanic to pulling inside

Discord: https://discord.gg/TXJckyg5uD

Fixed random crashes caused by new camera controls code
Fixed wrong calculating for pilots position when you give medals

Added alternative camera controls in the combat
(Numpad 7 to activate. Then Numpad arrows +page up/down)
Removed the display of the danger value (the number of labyrinths next to the cage) during the battle
Added additional effect on rocket explosion
Added an effect to the death ray
Added additional particle effect for tornadoes
Added underwater map effect
Updated undercurrent effect (now it's a circle)
Added minor display of the firing radius of enemy turrets
resource tracks can no longer drop turrets indefinitely
Added a restriction on the use of the pilot during some of his activities
Added game speed change on [O] [P] keys
Needs a lot of testing for incorrect timings.
This is a possible option to change the speed of combat for convenience.
Acceleration is ineffective.
Added the ability to reward medals. Decorative thing
Added minor performance improvements for ballistic and missile weapons
Added displaying the amount of artillery ammunition in the hangar
Improved win animation (still WIP)
Added background ambient between music tracks
Added a minor update to the description of the controls in the battle section of the book
Added small animations for reactor and motor module slots

Increased Wasteland temperature to 125
Reduced Desert temperature to 149
Map temperatures are moved to separate constants (may help in the future)
Taking damage from overheating is now a 50% chance - mech pilot skill divided by 2
Increased overheat damage by one
Reduced the number of turrets at the start of the game
Changed the attack range for tentacle turrets and rocket turrets
Replaced ballistic turrets with tentacle turrets in mountains
Added additional resources on each map next to the boss Snakehead.
Removed the limitation for repairing gameplay.
With the limitation, no extra resources are wasted and the whole repair gameplay turns into meaningless extra mouse clicks...

Discussions, ideas, suggestions, minor news ->
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Highly recommend starting a new game.

Added a range of sight limit for enemy turret priority
Added limited effect of stability loss on evasion (max 50%)
Added individual stats for turrets
Increased self-defense priority radius
Increased the impact of full stability on mech speed
Increased health of all turrets
Reduced the possible number of enemy turrets at the beginning of the game
Removed the spawning of monsters on distant spawners behind the walls
Added highlighting of pilot list sorting buttons
Added grappler/tentacle_turret stun after severing tentacles by a melee weapon
Limited all mech resistances to 95%
Reduced firing range of crabs that shoot bullets
Added configurable fire range limit to weapon menu
The progression of the number of monsters has been changed to geometric. The maximum remains the same.
The white bar above mechs in battle now only displays a percent of mech stability
Increased stability regeneration per percentage lack
Loss of stability now fully affects the percentage of effective passive armor
Added a maximum limit of 45 degrees to start shooting at a target. Now mechs less lose their ammo.
increased the health of the monster "bull". The medium one that eats mechs
Reduced damage of the standard swarm by one
Added one assembled mech at the start of the game
Improved mech rotation code when targeting
Increased by 5 times the damage from the self-destruct bomb

Updated art for several weapons
Improved display of some monsters and their limbs
Added melee icon to mech card
Added constant wall highlighting

Added description near the A and B points in the first mission
Improved several texts in the tutorial book and popouts
Added a more detailed description of mech controls to the tutorial

Fixed appearing a lot of snakes on the second map after killing the Giant.
Fixed non-restoring stability bug
Fixed display of additional enemies when selecting a mission below the equator
Fixed display of recommended resistances when choosing a mission
Optimized tornado rendering
Improved overall optimization
Minor optimization of base enemy hordes
Fixed obscuring goals on different layers on the global map
Fixed display of the reactor when painting mech
Fixed a bug in issuing individual orders before issuing general at the beginning of the missions

Highly recommend starting a new save file

Discord server for quick bug reports, complaints, help, and suggestions
https://discord.gg/u7HxQsvs

Changes:
Spawners are no longer create a swarm due to the mech getting too close
Added new ability to spawners. At half health, it grows legs and runs away from the closest mech.
Doubled the reload time of all mechs.
Changed the characteristics and cost of cockpits
Small changes to the rendering of shells of the white weapon type
Increased grappler attack range
Increased the health of all monsters of the third type
Added display additional information about stability in the mech weight layer
Added one overall formula for resistance from grapplers, rammers, frogs, and tornadoes
Changed dependence of the impact resistance on the percentage of stability
Changed an additional resistance to impact to the weight of the mech
Removed damage resistance to rocks and rammers
Added dependency of stability on free weight percentage
Increased weight influence on evade chance
Decreased the rate of oxygen loss in damaged cockpit underwater
Increased the amount of damage that goes to the pilot if the cockpit is damaged
Added pilot stats reduction at full stress bar
Added dependence number of resource worms on the number of monster types
Added dependence number of turrets on the number of days
Reduced the total number of turrets
New types of turrets. The type of turrets depends on terrain type and weather.

• Energy (volcanoes and storms)
  
• Missile (fields)
  
• Grapplers (swamps and mountains)
  
• Ballistic (all others)
  

Added limit to the reload speed buff to 95%
Added particle effects for installing modules and connecting power circuits
Increased dependency damage on energy for blue weapon type
Increased the energy debuff for the weapon module
Giants no longer die after attacking the city
Reduced giants' damage to the city
Added a new special giant worm. The only one on the map. Looking for red swords to eat. Immune to nuclear missiles.
Added dependence of the cost of improvement districts on their levels
Artillery shells are no longer limited in number.
Decreased number of shells coming every day/two.
Fire-type projectiles disappear faster underwater
Added new ability for the resource worm. After taking damage, sprays eggs with two turrets around it once.
Added a percentage boost to the size and regeneration of Energy Shield based on the percentage of free energy.
Added energy shield strength display to build menu
Increased size of the display reactor system parameter in the card
Added a new aux module for the third reactor that increases the number of power circuits
Updated characteristics of the third reactor

Fixed calculation of the cost of ammunition in the fourth slot
Fixed incorrect determination of the slot number when a slot is skipped
Fixed missing pause for enemy artillery
Fixed missing pause for timer until next command
Fixed an inconsistency in checks when quickly repairing mechs in the hangar, leading to a write-off of resources without repair.
Fixed a bug with the property of rockets underwater and in a storm, as well as the impact of researching torpedoes.
Fixed infinite fire weapon damage with minimal enemy armor
Reduced the shell speed of enemy energy attacks