Servo 3.0 Beta Changelog

New Stuff

• Early Access care package - 20 parts, and a bunch of credits and scrap to spend. We love you guys!
• Drop buildings and Servos in any dropzone anywhere on the map.  All Servos now have a dropzone, as do Dropships and Beacons.
• Bloomwells no longer need to be captured to build on them, as long as they are in a dropzone.  IE your Servo is near them or they are near your Dropship.
• Balance changes to many things in the game, from gear to Turrets, to Bloomspawn.  Let us know what you think!
• More cool new parts including new abilities.  There's a Fist with the ability to convert enemy Drones and another to give a Shield to other units or buildings and more.
• Some maps have variable placement and amounts of resources.  All maps will in the future.
• Layouts of existing maps tweaked.
• New Map - Carnage Canyon.  A smaller map with variable resource placement, and possible neutral turrets.
• New CoOp map - Quagmire, work in progress.  Let us know what you think of how it plays.
• Changes to Tempered Jungle PVP and CoOp.
• Arranged games give rewards now.
• Blink's pilot ability changed to Teleport.
• Drones changed up to a core 3 drone RPS with 3 secondary drones.
• Trying out S-Con as the new Age name.
• S-Con4 removed. Techs available at S-Con3 (slightly more expensive).
• Flying units can fly where appropriate now.
• Melee weapons are very high damage now. More damage than ranged weapons.
• Typed armor is gone. Armor blocks any incoming damage.
• Armor parts are much better.
• Depleted Bloom Wells go away again.
• Big pass on cooldown timers. Single missile, in particular, is MUCH better now.
• Beams are not interruptible by damage.
• Beams that do "one event" are all in the timer model now.
• Heal Beams no longer work on units in combat AT ALL.
• Heal Beams all work faster.
• Health cores no longer have the "in combat" penalty applied.
• Drills are back and do mega damage now.
• Added Lab techs to decrease Servo respawn time.
• Drone vs. Building balance pass. Take out buildings with Behemoths or Bomb Drones.
• Behemoth, Soldier, and Mosquito drones lost procs. Simpler now.
• Destructible buildings added to Mission 1.
• Added increased yield techs to Bloom Refineries. They give you more Bloom out of the well.
• Bloom refinery sell price scaled by amount of bloom left.
• Turret shots are blocked by cliffs and big buildings.
• Allies and enemies are shown on HUD now.
• Health crates - they drop health cores.
• Hot and Cold state durations have been dramatically increased. 60 secs each.
• Kira and Jugg (the new Zeek) juggled in when they get unlocked.
• Jugg's Strip Mine power no longer nukes the well; just leaves it depleted.
• Rewards inserted for all Dropship levels.
• Added "this is out of range, but you can do it anyway" indicator to ranged powers. Enjoy the art. (that means it's temp art)
• Added good against strings for drones.
• Attack move is a UI mode now.
• Sword fatalities can work against any type of target now.
• Turrets no longer have a min range.
• Fire state gives you a 20% move speed bonus now. Lasts 60 secs.
• Freeze state gives you 75% damage reduction (instead of 50%).  Lasts 60 secs.
• Various part drop tweaks. Mostly, you get a part when you play a game now.
• Status buffs/wipes shown on both nameplate and selection panel.
• Selecting multiple same-type buildings spreads training out across those buildings.
• Dropship/Beacon healing moved to SCon2.
• Dropship and Beacon got a Wipe power.
• Dropship got some researches to add shields to it.
• Dropship/Beacon healing techs moved to Dropship.
• Beacon builds much faster.
• Tinker drone (Repair drone) got a Wipe power.
• Behemoth changed to do Fire damage.
• Deflectors got a big balance pass.
• Progression and difficulty scaling system redone.
• Pilot banter UI and text.  Voice over recording is on the way.
• Rally points can be placed on units.
• Pilot pet power has a timer bar.
• Towers and Bastions show max range when selected.
• Rank up researching can now be done at the top panel.
• Mini Medusa has petard behavior.
• Defend stance (unit won't move).
• Starting drones are consistent across all PvP and CoOp maps.
• New sounds.
• New Mother Medusa enemy (spawns mini Medusa over time).  Added to a few maps.
• Techs juggled/added. Generic drone techs moved to lab. New drone techs added to Factory/Airfield.
• WIP version of key remapper in options page.
• Added basic announce dialog when you get DLC.
• Pregame leader picker moved up next to Dropship level.
• New in-game UI.
• Command panel info shows more details now.
• Random map choice for solo and arranged multi games.
• Unified player color by relation (you are blue, enemy is red, allies are green, neutrals are yellow).
• Tips shown during matchmaking.
• Emerald Vale CoOp shows you how many meteors you did, or did not, get in the postgame.
• Creep Shops (appear on Creep Rock City map) now have more hitpoints.
• Immunizer cooldown now shorter.
• Can't sell Comfy Pilot Chairs anymore.
• Hauk takes less time to convert Pets now.
• Arena closed for the time being.

New Art

• Lots of new UI Art.
• New FX for Bloom Well and Bloom Depot that show how much stuff is left.
• Lab now has animations.
• New Turret animations.
• Drone Airfield building.
• New Beacon art and animations.
• Behemoth has new art.
• New Bomb Drone Art and animations and FX.
• More FX.

Bug Fixes

• Windows users should be able to set the "Constrain Cursor" option in graphics settings to lock cursor to game (in any mode). NOTE: It appears some of the rez resize bugs are back. If things go wonky, close the game and restart.
• Various crash fixes.
• Bunch of fixes to make sword and fist powers work correctly in the left hand.
• Difficulty labels on the challenge index slider.
• Fix off-by-one error in Dropship Level calculation.
• Fixed bug where orbital strike could be interrupted by stasis. Orb Strike is retaskable by design.
• Streamlined bug report flow for endusers.
• Juggernaut parts properly dropped out of loot crates.
• Lower end crates will never drop the highest rarity gear.
• Big pass to set proper camera limits for all the maps.
• Missile pod art fixes.
• Pets should stop attacking and stop being attacked by your allies whilst you are petting them.
• Fixed some bugs with Darksun CoOp where it might not have generated enemies on some waves.
• Fixed rally point bug provoked by selection order.
• Fixed bug where clicks in minimap would bork letterbox moments.
• Added code to make sure you have the things unlocked that you should (e.g. if you were over-leveled for a pilot unlock).
• Fixed bug where leader was not getting set visually in the UI when online.
• Add a confirmation dialog if you try to quit from not the main menu.
• Added warning that you are in emulated online mode.
• Fixed bugs with scroll list in part sell dialog.
• Improvements to building placement.
• Units should prefer enemies over neutrals during auto attacks.
• Letterbox chats should pause if the game is paused.
• Fixed exploit with fast target switching. Units forced to idle until "attack would have finished" when they try to attack again "too early"
• Modified "make sure there is a cheap part to buy" calculation to ramp with player level (so that you can get reasonable parts all the time).
• Attack move is reset-to-off after you issue an order with it on.
• Fixed some bugs with rally points and the minimap.
• Mine damage values shown in Hangar.
• Fixed bug where campaign dialog would not auto advance.
• Fixed one bug where short-ranged units could walk backwards during attack move.
• Fixed invalid invalid and locked states hanging around on Pilot selectors in hangar.
• Fix bug where you wouldn't get correct parts for Juggernaut at level 4.
• Flyoff some notifications when a proc is resisted/blocked.
• Turrets can no longer shoot crates.
• Turn off practice button (for now).
• Strip mine correctly gives "half your stuff" to your ally.
• Fix a bunch of FX orientations.
• Fix bug with creep hitpoint bars not showing up.
• Bug emails should be async sent now.
• Fixes to various mats and FX.
• Fixed cases where initial Servo on map did not get a hotkey automatically assigned to it.
• New pets move next to petter.
• Ignore hotkeys when the game is over.
• Resolution picker is a little better.
• Tweaked game speed option settings.
• Fixed several bugs with healthcores either not getting applied or preventing proper unit logic.
• Fixed timing bug that would prevent dialog skipping from working.
• Fixed bug where preferred auto attack could switch during certain min range circumstances.
• Player disconnects should be handled better now.