Servo Beta 4 Changelog

New Stuff

• Player data has been reset - there have been many changes to progression in the game such as bigger rewards and gear after every completed game.  We'd love to get feedback on how players feel about the speed of progression now, leveling up your Dropship and getting new gear.
• A piece of gear is awarded after every completed game but none if you quit a game.
• We've converted the old stasis drone (Paragon Drone) into the Supply Drone. You get a couple at the start of each game and train more out of your Dropship. Use it to boost the rate of Bloom Well production. It's also fast, so it can zip around to collect bloom pods. Additionally, in SCon2, it gets the stasis beam.
• Bloom Refineries still produce resources but more slowly than before, task Supply Drones on them to speed up production.
• Dropship provides 5 drone pop.
• Dropship has a rally point.
• Adjusted crate values and strip mine percentage for new econ.
• New Map - Degrees of Ire.  Capture the Labs to unlock special technologies and two unique Servos to fight with.  Can also be played CoOp, destroy eight meteors to win.  Feedback welcome.
• Hot/Cold Lab on Degrees have a star minimap icon.
• New Map - Gates.  Blast your way through barriers to get to your opponent or fight your way through the center.  Work in progress map, let us know what you think of it.
• New Map - Sandstorm, ok the name isn't new.  Start with just one Servo, choose where to place your Dropship.  Work in progress, let us know what you think of it.  Also playable CoOp, survive waves of enemies to win.
• New Map - Quagmire PVP.  Each player controls two Dropships which both need to be destroyed in order to win.  Feedback welcome.
• Grenade parts can go on the right shoulder now!
• New Hangar UI
• New Vendor (Korso Drek) UI
• More Leg parts!
• Zoom in/out is faster.
• You can see commands for other player's units when you select them.
• Drone RPS balance changes and Soldier Drone renamed to Gladiator Drone.
• Creeps are less strong.
• New, optional tutorial flow in the game. Actual tutorial level still a WIP.
• Changed how the pilots are unlocked. You start with Nexx2 and Nexx9 as actual pilots. You just swap them out later when you get better pilots.
• Pistols added a burst power (more damage plus a bit of knockback).
• Lots of new sounds.
• CPAI quality vs. difficulty changes to even things up at Normal and finally vary CPAI Servo quality with the Challenge Index.
• Reece and Kip get their final pilot power bonuses now.
• All PvP levels have multiple sites with multiple bloom wells now.
• CoOp Meteor Kill moved to Degrees map.
• Drek's Den has 20 parts to choose from now (instead of 4).
• Campaign missions are considerably more generous with loot and credits on Normal difficulty.
• Orbital Strike is no longer 'detected';)
• SCon3 cost reduced a bit.
• More XP for winning games in early Dropship levels.
• Dropship and Beacon can heal in S-Con1.
• Manual powers are allowed to skip the "finish waiting out your auto attack" timeout. I.e, It's more responsive when doing powers.
• New champion sword power.
• More specific error messages when powers will not fire.
• Blink and Hauk are unlocked by XP and/or by campaign progress.
• Powers granted by parts sorted in more consistent manner (pilot, arms, backs, other).
• Mines and Medusa Minis given an arming time and delayed fuse/blow up time.
• Orbital strike and other AOE damages should blow up mines and Medusa Minis.

New Options and Hotkeys

• Enemy servo pane can be collapsed should its space usage bother you, also backgrounds can be turned off via an option.
• Option added for verbose roll over text.
• Hotkeys added to verbose rollover UI.
• Verbose error messages added to player options.
• Adding HUD display for number of refineries and number of idle supply drones. On a player option if the text bothers you.
• Z only selects military units - excludes Supply Drones.
• More options for Key Binding added including function keys.
• Idle Supply Drone button (.).
• Double tap on Idle Supply Drone key centers on the next idle drone.

New Art

• Art pass on Creep Rock City map
• Art pass on Degrees of Ire
• Lots of new FX
• New slower, more mech-y fist and sword anims.
• More "weighty" melee anims for Champ. Better sound sync (though not final).
• Scale pass on the drones.
• Lots of new power icons.
• Pistol burst power animation.
• New range indicator. Non final test art though.
• New, slower Kraxx attack anims.Low attack variant anims hooked up for fists, drills, swords, pistols, rifles.
• Low attack variant anims hooked up for fists, drills, swords, pistols, rifles.
• New Creep Shop model hooked up.

Bug Fixes

• Various in game UI fixes.
• Various fixes and tweaks for Quagmire CoOp.
• Behemoth now fully color transforms.
• Low-level pathing fix to fix units walking partially into impassable areas.
• Units should switch from auto-targeted, non-attacking targets to targets that are attacking them.
• Fixed rogue spinner location on the wait popups.
• Low level sim performance improvements.
• Fixed missing servo in opposing player panel for AI players.
• Crash fix for AI.
• Bulletproofed teleport from being accidentally interrupted.
• Fixed bug where ranged units could be commanded while being summoned.
• Fixed AI-related crash (e.g. on CRC CoOp).
• We have perhaps fixed the intermittent "dropship won't heal" bug.
• Mega Bore works on meteors now.
• Various crash fixes.
• Blink's teleport power will show invalid if it's over invalid terrain.
• Fixes for a bunch of different parts.
• Various bug and string fixes for pilot unlocks.
• Fixed bug where lists of items would register clicks/rollovers outside of their windows.
• Non-control player paths will no longer show up on the minimap.
• Postgame rendering order cleanup.
• CRC CoOp rally points set correctly when the Creep Shops convert players.
• Various bugfixes with building construction.
• Mini Medusae don't blow each other up anymore.