Mech Engineer news & patch notes

M:\Modding

• Create custom world maps with the restored in-game map editor. Press f6 then f10 on the global map screen 1-9 to change the draw type, ENTER to save to a file in your save folder.
• Choose what sound will your custom weapon play with the new parameter "base_gun"
• Bullets will mimic some of the mechanics of another weapon type with the new parameter "base_gun"
• Control walls default durability with the new parameter in the balance file

I:\Interface

• Hovering over weapon icons on mechs in engineering, hangar, and battles will show full information about the gun, including fire rate, accuracy, damage, and armor penetration.
• Improved the visibility of the switch(scroll wheel) for huge weapons in the production menu
• Various small fixes in RU and ENG localisations

B:\Balance

• ///Buffs
• Increased speed of Colubra's energy sphere by 10%
• Increased power of Colubra's energy sphere by 10%
• Improved loot in the cities, making it more viable mid-game
• All walls became 15% more durable
• Worry a little less about sending ordinary humans into infected maps with a lower chance of infection from 100% to 60% per hit
• Increased health of the Frog Boss from the Satellite crash site map by 30%
• ///Nerfs
• Ballistic projectiles will be 20% more slowed when passing through enemies
• Increased 5 times the cost of production of all internal components for reactors of the second and third tiers
• Lowered speed of drone's repair by 15%
• Rockets will have a delayed activation that will prevent them from exploding when contacting a wall too soon. The delay is constant so huge explosions can still reach your mechs.

H:\Hangar

• Remember each fallen hero with the new memorial wall in the pilots' menu. Click at the bottom to open it.

C:\Combat

• Rediscover the Flamethrower and Toxin Sprayer with proper damage-dealing registration
• The leader of the squad will be a little more responsive to your commands
• To better show that the enemy's projectiles aren't penetrating the mech's armor they will ricochet
• Fixed the wrong priority number of enemy turrets. They were marked as Ovums
• Annoying tornadoes won't spawn too close to your squad anymore
• You will have time to disable weapons with the removed delay before autopause at the start of the mission
• Satellite crash site map will have more open spaces

O:\Other_changes

• Fixed achievement "I SAY KILL THEM ALL". It now should properly count the last kills.
• Fixed the crash related to mod upload gml_Object_obj_controller_Other_69 (line 58)
• Ovums' tentacles got a new animation that changes their thickness depending on the length

B:\Balance

• ///Buffs
• Increased armor for Holo mechs from 1 to 6.
• Cyborgs will ignore the relation to the squad leader and always obey.
• ///Nerfs
• Lowered damage for fire pools made with the fire weapon mod by 20%.

C:\Combat

• To represent how armor works on bosses, an additional bar of armor value was added under their health bar.
• Tornado will no longer be able to pick up the orbital gun in its whirl.
• Turrets should no longer be able to stuck in the walls.
• Enemy turrets and Ovums that spawn during pause should keep their inertia and continue to move after unpause.
• Multiple fire pools made by the weapon's fire mod will properly deal damage to the entity at the same time. Before it sometimes didn't count damage if there was more than one pool.

F:\Fixes

• Fixed crash on the weapon testing screen, caused by too many projectiles.
• Fixed rare crashes in the volcanic areas.
• Fixed inability to select mechs in slots 5-8 by clicking on their cards on the interface during battle.
• Map destructions will be saved only on retreat or defeat. It should lower the save file size and prevent file corruption.
• For every last save will be created a backup file that should help you restore your save if something corrupts it during rewriting.
• Fast repair is no longer usable if you don't have enough resources.
• Fixed game freeze/slowdown for players, who use SteelSeriesGG or similar software. Resulted in slightly changed pilot's voice effects.
• Railgun should properly display heat from shots on the mech's side stats in the construction table.
• Fixed wrong time formatting in save file's titles
• Lowered amount of particles that appear from kinetic projectiles dealing damage to enemies. Too much railgun damage resulted in a decrease in fps.
• Fixed issue with not saving ammo ratio for mechs.
• Fixed display for found items after finishing a city mission
• Fixed the rare chance of the mech turning into a ghost after death if it had damage points before the start of the battle.

M:\Modding

• The following LUA functions are available within obj_battle_map battle_logic battle_retreat battle_end
• The following LUA functions are deleted from obj_battle_map battle_end_default_mechs_dead battle_end_default_win

F:\Fixes

• gml_Object_obj_FUI_render_Draw_0 (line 344) (winning with mods should be possible now)
• gml_Object_obj_pilot_sheet_Draw_73 (line 24)
• gml_Object_obj_content_hangar_Step_0 (line 2356)
• gml_Object_obj_first_menu_Draw_0 (line 63)
• gml_Object_obj_giant_worm_Step_0 (line 267)
• gml_Object_obj_piston_item_Step_0 (line 38) can't fix. Don't use the multi-click mouse button on the construction table
• gml_Object_obj_cabin_item_Step_0 (line 37) can't fix. Don't use the multi-click mouse button on the construction table
• You no longer lose your mechs and pilots from 5-8 battle slots when moving from the hangar menu.
• Removed the possibility of endless order disobeying caused by chance. Now pilots can disobey only one time per given order.
• The priority targets menu from the battle prepare screen should now work as intended.
• Fixed Steam screenshots feature.
• Fixed some Operarius stop walking for a short period after unpause.

QoL:\features

• Added sounds of putting pilots into mechs or back into the list
• Increased highlight for pilot's perks that you can choose
• Added sound for repairing district
• Enemies bullets and rockets will be more visible in darkness
• Hover over city stats to see which districts influence them
• The regular battle view will be automatically turned on after entering an enemy base to help you navigate inside it

M:\Modding

• Added sprite_collision_mask function
• The following LUA functions are available within obj_battle_map battle_end_default_mechs_dead battle_end_default_win battle_end_scout_mechs_dead battle_end_scout_win
• Make your own custom map with the help of an example mod that has been published to the workshop

I:\Interface

• Following an interface overhaul Mech Engineer has been localized into French, German, Polish, Portuguese Brazilian, Simplified Chinese, and Spanish
• Save slots from the main menu have taken on the appearance of punchcards
• Mouse over an installed mech, reactor or weapon when using the construction table to view a tooltip message
• Updated the image for the error message that appears when attempting to place a reactor that has not been properly tuned to better prompt players to assemble and ignite their reactors
• Turn on the testing chamber for a weapon or mech to hear the pleasant sound of a cathode-ray tube
• The sound of cogs quietly rotating plays when switching between artillery and order mode during a battle
• Added an effect for when a module is taken away from the construction table
• The reload stat in a mech's information sheet will take into account the processor program for accelerated reloading speed of kinetic weapons from available energy (press middle mouse button over a mech to bring up its paper information sheet)

B:\Balance

• ///Buffs
• Improved the slow effect of projectile weapons equipped with the slowdown mod on Aries by about 25%
• Doubled damage from rockets and explosions, but scaling has been lowered to keep explosion size the same
• Nuclear missile resource cost reduced from 400 Bjorn to 200 and 600 Munilone to 500
• Increased Toxin Sprayer base damage from 4 to 6
• Doubled the ammunition capacity of thermal-type weapons
• Doubled the health of Fulgur
• Watch out: the purple sword boss Titanus Monstrum has increased turn rate speed while each phase time has been increased by 15%. Caecilia will periodically spawn in when the boss enters its regeneration phase.
• ///Nerfs
• Increased the cost of ammunition to go into battle by 10%
• Doubled time between orders for pilots with low reaction stat
• Reduced chance of lightning appearing from 75% to 50%
• Reduced chance of tornadoes from 95% to 75%
• Reduced the frequency of Fulgur appearance
• The purple sword boss Titanus Monstrum has also received some nerfs: Colubras and tentacles spawn further away from the head, enemy artillery is less frequent during the scorching gaze phase, missile firing speed has been reduced by 30% and boss health has been cut from 1 million to 500 thousand.

E:\Engineering

• Excessive use of capacitators to get temperature resistance over 100% (this previously allowed you to freeze your reactor by firing lasers) now has diminishing returns with each subsequent capacitor
• Cheesing additional resources from disassembling weapons when large weapon creation mode is enabled has been nixed

H:\Hangar

• Brief descriptions of enemy abilities have stopped disappearing on the global map
• Increased the passive income of free nuclear warheads from 1 to 2 per week
• Tired of moving your mechs to the engineering section when you have enough Metallite? Use the quick repair button in the Hangar to fix any amount of damage

C:\Combat

• All pilots have their own personalized fully-voiced phrases and will scream horribly when you fail a mission
• Pilots will be more scared when if one of them dies
• Very high and very low values of stress resistance have less effect on stress during battle
• Pilots with high free will values will more frequently try to find the best position to shoot from
• Fixed inconsistencies in some messages when swapping between normal and fullscreen mode during battle
• Pressing the escape button during battle will pause the game
• Increased size of missile collision box so they stop flying through small targets at high speeds
• Operarius scatter around the battlefield when enemy artillery shots land
• Removed volcanic areas from underground bases

O:\Other_changes

• Added 15 achievements - can you take out one million Operarius?
• The number of underground bases that have been destroyed during a mission is properly reflected in the post-mission statistics
• Interface lightning supports different screen resolutions
• No more weapon card pop-ups overlapping when mousing over mech weapons
• Nuking a map cell adjacent to your city previously blocked the player from moving to that cell - you no longer have to skip a day, move elsewhere or capture a different cell to then move into the nuked cell
• Frequent alt-tabbing in and out of the game during battle should no longer result in the textures for red-colored slowdown zones taking on a weird appearance
• The crash bug involving empty pilot portraits after a victory has been fixed
• There used to be a rare game freeze when installing a city for the first time, but it's gone now

• Fully voiced Mech Pilots
• In-game localisations added to our existing English + Russian language options.
  • Simplified Chinese
  • German
  • Brazilian Portuguese
  • Polish
  • French
  • Spanish
• In-Game Achievements
• Various Quality of Life updates to the interface and more we’ll reveal on May 21st in our full patch notes.

M:\Modding

• The game can now load multiple mods at the same time and the loading of LUA states has been optimised
• Because of the updated system, you can't use the live_path variable to get the path. Now the path is stored in mod_info. v_modid is the second argument in every create() function.
• Removed the create function for obj_pilot_item.lua
• Removed the shoot function for test_mech.lua
• test_mech will use the shoot function from obj_ally.lua
• The maximum amount of Fulgur can be changed with a new parameter in the balance file
• Fixed a crash related to the presence of the Create function in the Draw event obj_test_mech
• Fixed copy/paste crash for mod id when updating mod

I:\Interface

• Resource numbers will start to abbreviate 1000s to a K if they get too high so as to prevent overlaps
• Tutorial message window increased in size to better fit large texts
• If the build days in the Production tab are impacted by a debuff, an animated flashing light appears to highlight its importance

B:\Balance

• ///Buffs
• The purple sword boss has been made more dangerous: its health has been doubled, its armor increased by 5 units, its turning speed upped by 33%, and its missile fire rate is 25% faster. However, the cost of spawning the purple sword boss has been increased from 600 to 650 biomass.
• Watch out: Fulgur’s AI and spawn rules have been redesigned.
• The Sagittarius is more likely to hit you as it will reposition better to avoid walls in its line of sight
• ///Nerfs
• Mech dig speed reduced
• Reduced biomass multiplier for infested zones from 5 to 4
• Reduced the cost of spawning the red sword boss from 300 to 250 biomass
• Mech stability is 20% less affected by storms in deserts or map cells inside the mega storm meaning you will not need as much impact resistance to enter a storm

E:\Engineering

• Bonus fire rate for kinetic weapons from the CPU program has been fixed and works as intended
• Remove all modules from a mech with one click via the button located on the bottom-left of the construction table

H:\Hangar

• At the start of the game, a zone of infested cells appears around the golden sword boss, so the red sword boss won't head in its direction
• The rules dictating the spawning of the sword bosses at the start of a new game have been changed to make it less possible for them to spot your city early
• See all city locations on the global map at any time
• Enemy pool rotation updated to change every in-game week, which will lead to players encountering more monsters that they don’t kill frequently (and fewer monsters that they do kill frequently)
• Cyborgs will remain in the city after completing the endgame mission

C:\Combat

• When fighting Flos, mechs are less likely to avoid its attacks if they have enough energy shield
• Fixed kinetic ammo not creating fragments with fragmentation mod during actual battle
• Mechs stop avoiding Colubra's beam if given a new command, allowing for better control of them
• See bosses' health all the time in underground bases
• The Caecilia snake monster can appear in underground bases making for a harder encounter
• Reduced collision size for missiles, which should reduce the chance of them hitting walls at launch
• Team up pilots with higher relations in order to improve the ally drone repair perk during combat
• Ally drone repair no longer repairs all mechs at the same time; they only repair one mech at a time
• Tornadoes should no longer appear on top of your mechs, but it is still possible to appear right next to them, so be careful
• Enjoy ten new map variations for each of the ten terrain types, increasing the total of regular maps available to 220.
• Watch out for the return of enemy turrets: maps with shuttle parts will contain 15 turrets whose type depends on the map terrain

O:\Other_changes

• Improved descriptions for the processor programs
• Fixed a bug with mechs disappearing when dragged from the battle preparation screen to the engineering menu
• Storm effects should no longer mysteriously appear in underground maps
• Fixed missing text popup in the underground base about nearby bosses
• Removed the ability to re-launch the shuttle for the endgame cutscene
• Removed the appearance of Titanus Centipeda in the underground base when re-entering the cell where it was destroyed
• Lowered the amount of effects generated from dealing high damage to Titanus Centipeda to reduce lag
• Fixed FPS drops in some rare situations like when too many enemies are grouped together behind a wall and a mech is trying to find the nearest visible target
• Removed the ability for red sword bosses to spawn on top of special missions and fixed the additional biomass coming from these cells even if the player already cleared them
• The global map should display coordinate numbers on the global map properly instead of shifting about
• Pilots should appear on the correct visual layer when clicked and dragged about the screen
• Alien cults should stop appearing in your city after completing the endgame
• Updated Castle mech texture for both its research node and combat
• Updated leg animations for mechs in combat
• Added four-legged animation for the Castle in combat
• Fixed red lines of the nuclear strike going outside of the global map screen

I:\Interface

• The repair minigame has been given icons that represent each pip of damage that needs repairing
• Increased the visibility of the "Do not show again" checkbox for tutorial popups
• Mouse over buttons in the post-battle statistics menu to highlight them
• Banner art showing the terrain of your next battle deployment will look more distinct since the blue-colored animated overlay has been removed

B:\Balance

• ///Buffs
• increased frequency of enemy artillery by 20%
• Operarius health value increased from 12 to 13
• Biomass growth on map cells with enemy bases increased by 25%
• Increased the explosive area of effect of enemy missiles by 70%

E:\Engineering

• Mouse over buttons when configuring a weapon for tooltip descriptions
• The fragmentation weapon module has been reworked. It no longer reduces the weapon's armor penetration stat. Projectile speed is reduced by 30%. Kinetic projectiles will no longer ricochet with this module if they fail to penetrate enemy armor. If kinetic projectiles penetrate, they will be destroyed to create fragments. Fragments have the same armor penetration as the projectile, instead of half the value as before.
• Placing wires in the power circuit menu plays a satisfying sparking sound

H:\Hangar

• Updated stats for the starter set of mechs in the Hangar to make fresh campaign runs slightly easier
• A new giant boss called Monstrum has appeared; it has its own purple sword icon on the world map
• Deploy up to eight mechs on missions – scroll through tabs with the wheel on the left in the battle preparation menu.
• A sound effect will play when dragging and dropping mechs into battle preparation slots
• Don't be reliant on your favorite squad – some pilots may take the weekends off forcing you to use crew that might not be as experienced
• When a district gets damaged, it also can kill pilots since they now travel across districts in real-time
• Always have some components for your city on hand – damage to your city is doubled when you have none
• Overall game time has been extended to make it more likely to visit unique map cells and encounter bosses. Each new space shuttle part will spawn further away from you.
• If you manage to reach the endgame by launching the shuttle, and you wish to keep playing, the following happens: scientists are capped at 999, engineers are capped at 25 (or in the form of robots if created beforehand), modules will no longer take up more than one slot in the production queue, and population from the city stats is removed.

C:\Combat

• Tornadoes disappear after reaching the edge of the map during battle
• Destroy tornadoes with artillery or missiles – a tornado has a 50% chance to disappear upon contact with an explosion
• Tornadoes change the flight direction of projectiles they come into contact with instead of shifting them
• Objects will no longer move inside a tornado when the game is paused
• The C-RAM aux module for mechs will no longer target enemy missiles behind walls
• Enemy missiles will create an explosive effect upon contact, much like player missiles. This effect can damage walls, mechs, aliens and tornadoes. They deal less damage underwater.
• Doubled the duration for how long battle screen notifications stay on screen
• Stealing resources from Colubra is harder because they only drop them on death, instead of at spawn
• Maps that start with 50 Ovum will try to maintain that number if the number of Ovum drops below 50 – another Ovum will spawn every three seconds if there are fewer than 50 of them.
• Underground enemy bases have been updated. You can instantly teleport to another cell if there are no enemies on the map and no bosses near your map cell. In addition, killing the equivalent of the purple sword boss in the center of the labyrinth will be considered a win condition. Doing so will clear this cell on the world map.

O:\Other_changes

• Robotization research node overhauled: instead of consuming 20% of the city's energy, you are given the ability to manually create engineers in Production
• Various spelling corrections and grammar changes in the base manual
• Added a mention of the weapon testing chamber in the base manual
• Fixed an issue where pilot cabin toy arrangements would disappear after reloading the game
• Gibs will have different flight speeds when created rather than a default value across the board
• Clicking RMB to clear away notes from after battle or inspecting pilots should no longer unintentionally leave exclamation marks on the world map
• For modders: function create() for obj_battle_map script has been moved to the last line, creating the opportunity to change starting values
• Empty slots between mechs in battle will no longer break the stats interface of all further slots
• The graphical bug associated with repeatedly saving a mech's paintjob has been squashed
• Incorrect text alignment issue when exiting from battle to the main menu has been resolved
• Select single mechs during battle by shift+number – this feature now works as intended

• Tail of Titanus Centipeda should no longer appear on top of your mechs after entering the room from top or bottom in the labyrinth
• Digging deep should become easier with added percentage damage to walls based on their maximum hp.
• Pathfinding changed so mechs will be less likely to turn away when reaching the last wall while digging
• Reduced the width of ballistic projectiles
• Shooting near walls should no longer be an issue
• Fixed a game crash associated with the use of the shrapnel weapon mod
• The picked-up reactor module will be centered on your cursor to avoid problems with its placing
• Colubra laser will gradually destroy walls instead of instant
• Fixed missing text in the eng ini file for the ammunition tooltip in battle. battle_ammo=””
• Added avoiding slowdown zones for AI in x2 time speed up

I:\Interface

• Language mods can use É, Ú, Í, Ó, Á, and Ñ characters that have been added to the game's Latin font
• Mod support has been added to the game but it is very early in development - a short guide.
• Resource counters at the top of the screen will update more quickly than before
• The art for the Castle mech has been given a new look
• See a mech's loadout with additional info by mousing over icons in the mech card not only during battles but also in other menus
• Not sure whether you should click on something during combat? Hover your mouse cursor over on-screen elements to see information pop-ups
• Check your current keybinds by pressing Escape
• Get more information on your city's needs by hovering your mouse cursor over the stats in Hangar > Calendar
• Allow cursor to go to another monitor in fullscreen and restrict the aspect ratio from the new launch menu options (previously you had to manually edit a settings config file)

B:\Balance

• ///Buffs
• Railgun spread reduced from 4 degrees to 1 degree, improving the accuracy
• Railgun damage and armor penetration gain from energy has been increased significantly
• Initial projectile speed of railgun has been doubled
• Increased the lifetime of explosive shells by 10%
• Reduced Tentacle mech's weight from 73 to 65
• Reduced Tentacle mech's base reload time from 4 to 1
• Explosive ammunition explosion damage doubled
• The speed limit for projectiles has been removed, which led to low damage and armor penetration when using a mod with increased projectile speed
• Rocket flight duration has been increased by 10% longer
• Kinetic and thermal projectiles will properly damage multiple enemies within the same game tick, which leads to increased damage against clusters of enemies
• Toxin sprayer damage increased from 3 to 4
• Toxin sprayer projectile speed increased from 7 to 9
• Removed gun recoil for all energy-dependent kinetic weapons
• Plasma gun research time reduced from 20 to 14 days
• Plasma gun projectile starting speed has been increased from 5 to 7
• Number of scientists required for Tesla node in Research has been reduced from 100 to 50
• Bjorn cost for a flamethrower has been reduced from 160 to 100
• Flamethrower production time reduced from 3 to 2 days
• Toxin sprayer production time reduced from 4 to 3 days
• Toxin sprayer production cost in Skalaknit has been reduced from 150 to 90
• ///Nerfs
• Railgun rate of fire reduced from 200 to 20
• Railgun weight increased from 24 to 40
• Railgun energy consumption increased from 30 to 50
• Railgun base damage and armor penetration has been set to 0
• Railgun rate of fire no longer depends on energy
• Increased Plate mech's reload time from 3 to 4
• Increased Plate mech's weight from 50 to 60
• Reduced Tentacle mech's base ammo amount from 1 to 0.5
• Reduced the knockback effect of explosions on Operarius
• Toxin sprayer spread increased from 5 to 10 degrees, reducing the accuracy
• Plasma gun production time increased from 4 to 5 days
• Plasma gun production cost in Munilon has been increased from 110 to 180
• Research time for Tesla node has been increased from 4 to 8 days
• Railgun production time increased from 3 to 5 days
• Tesla weapon production time increased from 3 to 5 days

E:\Engineering

• Dismantle any items in the production queue to refund resources with the new "Dismantle" button in Production
• Fixed the bug with armor disappearing after loading a punch card onto a mech that already had armor

H:\Hangar

• Resource grinders take note: the number of Brucus encounters available within one day persists across multiple encounters for each map type
• Changed the spawn behavior of red and gold sword icons on the map; they were appearing either too close to the city or to each other, leading to random difficulty spikes at the start
• Reduced District 4's production of artillery shells from 0.5-1-4-9-16 to 0.5-1-3-5-9

C:\Combat

• Depth charge research node added for city artillery - destroy enemies and open passages underwater
• Ovums have been given a tentacle texture that connects them to the ground
• Desert maps will always be affected by storms, similar to map cells affected by the global mega storm
• Storms have been upgraded - all objects caught up in storm-afflicted maps will be moved in the direction of the wind for two seconds with a break of 10 seconds
• Mech AI changed to be less likely to get stuck inside walls
• Walls get tougher the deeper they are within terrain
• Watch your step - volcanic meteorites have doubled in size
• Tundra maps have a snow texture that helps distinguish them visually from others
• Mechs will more often get into an optimal position for long-range shooting after reaching a destination
• Tornado size doubled to make them look more scary
• Both mechs and Operarius will circle inside bigger tornadoes
• Tornadoes will have a 50% chance of disappearing when changing direction, allowing mechs trapped inside to escape

O:\Other_changes

• Changed the weights of monsters in the bestiary to make them more believable
• Various spelling corrections in English localization
• Fixed a crash related to the Orbital Gun map and Fragellum trying to grapple the gun with their tentacles
• The rare error in line 2986 may or may not be fixed; let me know in the discord's #bugs channel if it reappears
• Returning a mech from the Hangar to Engineering should not reset the ammo ratio if the mech has an auxiliary C-RAM module installed
• Boss health will no longer extend outside the display circle in the regular battle screen view
• Fixed exploit with an endless buff for energy weapons: swapping weapon modules with another module will no longer save the temporary wiring settings from the weapon test chamber
• The hospital pipe texture is back; it disappeared due to a bug with cyborg research
• Improved memory and particle clean up after battles
• Fixed huge versions of weapons not receiving the correct increase in weight and energy consumption
• Adjusted the volume of gun sounds and order bark to better hear shots in the distance
• Corrected text on page 12 of the base manual about the type of damage received after blocking an attack with armor
• More tutorial popups have been added to the post-mission window and Calendar
• Fixed a bug with projectiles ignoring targets in front of the mech and teleporting behind them
• Reduced the number of gib spawns from artillery strikes that was affecting performance (this was purely a visual effect)
• Titanus Araneus' long range pull attack has been given a tentacle texture

• Armadillo should attack mechs more frequently with its new AI balances
• Fixed a rare game crash when fighting Flos
• District 15 no longer allows you to do missions indefinitely. Instead, the mech will be able to do two missions in one day.
• Mechs will no longer try to evade enemy attacks if they are in the process of completing new position command

I:\Interface

• Added a mouse icon underneath the arrow in the end-of-day stats menu
• Dispose of end-of-day information reports by right-clicking on them
• Compare the number of AUX mech modules between mechs when you select a mech in the Production menu
• Middle mouse click a mech in Engineering or in the Hangar to bring up a detailed information report about the model, such as reload times for each ammo type on the mech (right click to dispose of the report)
• Enjoy a scrunching up sound when disposing of information reports
• Added a picture of a drill to page 32 of the base manual
• Added monster icons for Brucus and Ovum to the bestiary
• The descriptions for research nodes DRONE, CYBORGIZATION and ATOMIC BOMB have been changed to better describe their mechanics
• Base manual has been updated to include information not previously mentioned, more specifically: mechs will not shoot through allies, power circuits raising the base reactor temperature for mechs, how mech evasion and stability works, and fire rate reduction during melee attacks
• Changed the order in which additional mech menus are mentioned in the manual to match the sequence in the UI
• District descriptions have been updated to fix some grammatical errors
• Plus sign at the top left of a weapon module in the weapon list will show you if it has unspent points
• See the current mod installed in weapons when they are inside a mech on the construction table, without removing them from the mech

B:\Balance

• ///Buffs
• Counter rocket module will add some kinetic ammunition
• Sagittarius attack range has been doubled
• Mechs will dig walls at twice the speed when the battle speed is also doubled
• Reduced toxin sprayer research time from 20 days to 5 days
• Fire pools created by the flamethrower have the weapon's initial damage instead of its end damage
• Reload time modifier for mech model "Holo" reduced from 4 to 2
• Increased the speed and duration of energy spheres from Colubra in infested map cells
• Decreased the lifetime decay rate of enemy kinetic projectiles
• Tripled the number of underwater currents
• ///Nerfs
• Increased flamethrower research time from 2 days to 5 days
• Lowered the initial amount of armor layers
• Removed endgame armor from the starting item pool
• Fire weapon module will create fire pools with 20% less damage
• increased fire damage reduction per point of enemy armor from 5% to 10%
• Added damage reduction for underwater fire created by the fire weapon module
• Reduced the starting number of engineers by 30%
• Projectiles from weapons without a slow module will cause a slow debuff at 20% less effectiveness
• Operarius armor and health is tripled in infested areas instead of quadrupled
• Additional reactor overcharge module multiplies overheat time debuff instead of stacking the debuff, which will greatly increase it the more you have it
• Bonus effect from District 15 on the number of engineers per day lowered from 3 to 2

E:\Engineering

• REACTOR OVERCHARGE research node moved to the beginning of the research tree - the additional reactor overcharge module can be accessed by all reactors after research is complete
• Set specific min/max engagement distances for each enemy type via the new menu to the right of the construction table when a weapon is placed there. For example, this will allow you to completely stop mechs from firing at certain enemy types that are out of effective range, or are too heavily armored to take damage from a particular weapon, so that mechs do not waste ammo or overheat.
• Added a limit to maximum repair cost based on the mech's cost
• Added an element of randomness for the optimal value of the damage repair cost, removing the ability to calculate the exact number of clicks required for optimal value
• NEEDLE BULLETS and TORPEDOES research nodes changed - you will need to add these as weapon modules via the construction table in order to use them in underwater battles
• ROBOTIZATION research node has been moved to allow access to cyborgs sooner

H:\Hangar

• The following changes have been made to the city: District 17 has lost its food and spare parts bonuses and depends on District 18; District 40 depends on District 18, and a fully-upgraded District 15 will remove maintenance after battles for mechs
• Changed the depth for minesweeper numbers on the world map, so you could see them over the mega storm
• All world map scan layers will show you bosses that are near your city, so the player always knows when danger is close
• A warning report will appear after skipping a day if bosses are near your city
• Bolster your city assault squads with cyborgs via the new CYBORG SQUADS research node

C:\Combat

• Tornadoes can be redirected by a rocket blast
• Colubra will destroy walls with its laser beam instead of firing over them
• The tutorial text telling the player how to control mechs will persist for two more battles before disappearing
• Added a transparent minimap to full-screen mode that includes a display of the camera's position
• Buttons in the battle menu will highlight when you mouse over them
• The special Bunker map cell now contains additional information about the huge weapons menu
• Improved the visibility of enemy turret attack range by adding internal stripes
• Added a message about unavailable artillery after trying to select it when it is unavailable
• Added enemy artillery in caves in the form of digging from the ground
• Increased turret attack priority radius by 20% from its attack radius
• The camera will always appear near your mechs at the start of a mission
• Boss HP has reappeared in the standard battle screen view

O:\Other_changes

• A settings config file is now available to manually edit (by default on Windows: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Mech Engineer\data) allowing you to keep the aspect ratio and lock the mouse cursor to the window - settings for these in-game will be added at a later date
• Tutorial settings are saved between play sessions
• Added transparency to target in the mech test chamber
• Various text corrections made to Research
• Limit set on the maximum stats ​​of pilots when they are training in real-time
• You can no longer pick up a pilot and a mech at the same time in the Pilots menu
• Buttons will no longer overlap information reports when the latter is clicked on
• The construction table used to show incorrect reload times - this has been fixed
• Mechs in the mech test chamber used to be able to perform simultaneous reloads without the necessary processor program - this ability has been removed
• You can no longer craft huge weapons until the technology is obtained from the special Bunker map cell
• City legs cannot be infinitely improved anymore
• Fixed a bug with the inability to reach the end of the weapons list if there are too many of them
• Loud weapon sounds should no longer play at the start of each battle
• Explosions change terrain textures and cause additional effects against walls
• Mechs will no longer automatically reload unequipped ammo at doubled battle speed
• Players should no longer accidentally select a mech when disabling weapons in battle
• Pilots with higher stats will no longer take more time to make decisions between orders
• Overlapping commands occasionally caused rare cases of disobedience by pilots - this was unintended
• The underwater modifier will no longer persist after closing the weapon test chamber
• Ovums spit out more large shards on death than before
• Added tentacle animation for Fragellum's attack
• Watch out: Fulgur have stopped spawning at the edge of a map cell meaning they no longer die instantly
• Particle creation for volcanic artillery during a pause now works as intended
• The starting tile of a labyrinth map cell should no longer spawn the player in next to enemies
• Colubra weren't interacting correctly with fire and explosion effects - this has been changed
• Colubra should gradually remove the slow debuff when attacking mechs
• Colubra energy balls will no longer cause particle buildup while paused
• Sagittarius used to be stationary but its AI behavior has been given a nudge
• The incorrect destruction of walls by Titanus Centipeda in the maze map cell has been addressed - it was previously causing pathing problems for AI even if there were no more walls
• Added adaptive direction for Titanus Centipeda when spawning in a maze based on past movement and mech position, so its tail won't appear on top of mechs
• Enemies should no longer regenerate armor when battle is paused
• Fixed persistence of slow zone grid over walls causing incorrect pathfinding after destroying walls
• Walls on the right and bottom edges of a map cell are no longer endless
• Various visual improvements - in particular when picking up nuclear reactor modules, when moving the city and how some textures appeared incorrectly at different resolutions
• Changed names for monsters in the credits to correspond to the bestiary

I:\Interface

• Buttons that you can interact with in the launch menu light up when you mouse over them
• Added a tooltip popup for tutorial lever #2 in the launch menu
• Tutorial popups and the base manual include mentions of the following: drawing paths for mechs and drill usage, the ability to disable weapons, and debuff effects to weapons while underwater
• Additional damage from fire is visible when testing weapons
• Updated the pilot phrase system for the latest AI changes so that they shout out more appropriate phrases
• The medal placement system has been reworked, allowing you to place them anywhere on a pilot's card (they will stick to the frame automatically)

B:\Balance

• ///Buffs
• When allocating stat points to weapons on the construction table, initial points given to both accuracy and reduced energy consumption now have greater effect, with diminishing returns kicking in as more points get allocated
• Stat increase from a weapon's size will be calculated before stat point allocation, meaning larger weapons will get better effects from allocated stat points
• Toxin sprayer weapon damage increased from 2 to 3
• Thermal damage is reduced by 5% per point of armor instead of the damage amount being divided by a target's armor value e.g. 10 damage vs 10 armor will deal 5 damage because 10 x 5% = 50%; previously the calculation would be 10 thermal damage divided 10 armor = 1 damage dealt. This change increases the potential damage output against targets with low armor.
• The weapon mod that adds fire will only reduce armor penetration and add weight
• ///Nerfs
• Toxin sprayers and plasma guns are less effective underwater after fixing the debuff to projectile lifetime while submerged
• Reduced damage buff from weapon stat allocation by 9%
• Reduced penetration buff from weapon stat allocation by 18%
• Reduced rate of fire buff from weapon stat allocation by 18%
• Each weapon mod now adds a percentage weight increase to the weapon (ranging from 10% to 30%)
• Reduced rate of fire of toxin sprayer from 500 to 250
• increased the total number of engineers required for mech repair by 20%
• Reduced bonus staff number growth per level of District 16 by 1 (engineers from 4 to 3 per level, scientists from 5 to 4 per level)

E:\Engineering

• Mechs placed in the testing chamber will use a maxed-out pilot's stats
• "ROBOTIZATION" node added to Research, which adds 100 engineers but takes 20% of your city's energy
• "CYBORGIZATION" node added to research, which adds the ability to transform your human pilots into cyborgs. Cyborgs are always ready to deploy and always have 75 in Reaction and the C.B.S. Test stats. Cyborgs are not affected by Stress and take half the damage human pilots do. Cyborgs can regenerate HP quickly without going to the hospital, and cure infections in one day. However, cyborgs cannot gain experience, levels or talents.

H:\Hangar

• Golden sword bosses will remain still, instead of performing random movements when neither the city nor red sword bosses are near it
• Pilots will change their facial expression after selection from the pilot list if stress resistance is lower than 50

C:\Combat

• Destruction within maps will persist across multiple encounters due to a new save system
• Mechs are better at digging, walking and waiting thanks to changes to their AI
• Mechs will turn toward the cursor if there are no enemies in sight
• Ammo that is not being used by a mech in battle has been hidden from sight
• The flight speed of an Operarius after an explosion depends on the explosion's damage
• Operarius are less likely to get stuck on walls or clip into them
• Set a new default priority target "Ovum" for your mechs in the slots near the "battle" button
• Watch your six in cave maps - the darkness is much harder to see through
• Artillery strikes reduce enemy armor and cause explosive damage
• Select one mech at a time with the new default hotkey combination of Shift + 1, 2, 3 or 4. Alternatively, select all mechs at once by pressing 5.

O:\Other_changes

• The free will control slider should no longer mysteriously disappear during battle
• Fixed a couple of issues related to selecting things when the mouse was pressed or released while off screen during battle
• Textures will now clear when quitting during a battle in order to stop memory leakage caused by frequent saving and loading
• Fixed pilot head bobbing when the mech is standing still or the game is paused
• Fixed issue with pilot stats going over their limits and rolling over to much lower values
• Added restriction on cooling the reactor so that the temperature cannot go infinitely negative
• The text of a pilot's talent description should no longer end up hidden under a pilot's stats comparison

I:\Interface

• Environmental icons have been added to the temperature slider in the mech test chamber to better understand performance in those conditions
• A new tutorial window will appear when accessing the pilot's menu for the first time
• Your mouse cursor's position is now highlighted as well as any relevant elements, such as when assembling a mech via the construction table
• The dropdown animation for the base manual and bestiary has been given a speed boost
• With the second tutorial switch enabled from the game's main menu, tooltips will now appear on some interface elements on mouseover. Such elements currently include the construction table for mechs and reactors in Engineering, a few tooltips in Production, and the city district upgrade menu.
• A description for ammo distribution has been added to the armor menu

B:\Balance

• ///Buffs
• Increased the influence of the pilot's C.B.S. skill on a mech's stability regeneration in battle by five times
• Increased mech stability regeneration by 25%
• ///Nerfs
• Doubled the rate of oxygen loss that can occur during underwater battles
• Reduced the movement speed bonus from stability regeneration by five times

E:\Engineering

• Test mechs faster - reactors now start at 50% of the reactor temperature in the test chamber
• The armor menu for mechs can now use the save/load punchcard system and can remember melee, self-destruct and energy shield parameters
• The formula for mech stability regeneration rate has been changed slightly - the regen is now affected by a percentage of its lack of stability. In addition, all mechs start recovering stability from zero at roughly the same speed.
• The evasion module has been reworked: stability regeneration has been buffed while the weight and armor penalties have been removed

H:\Hangar

• Pilots can now add random toys to their cockpits at a 0.1% chance every day
• Enjoy the wiggling effect for toys and medals when holding pilot cards with the mouse
• Several changes have been made to the enemy's biomass economy
• A red sword appears on the world map only when infested cells accumulate a huge amount of biomass and have noninfested cells near them
• A red sword will search for the cell with the lowest biomass without infestation and move toward it
• Map cells with infestation give a 5x increase to biomass growth
• Standard biomass growth in labyrinths has been reduced by 50%
• Ovums will now give a biomass growth
• The random infestation spread at the start of the game has been removed
• A golden sword moves randomly only if there are no red sword bosses in 12 cells close

C:\Combat

• Order your mechs to take tactical paths you have drawn by pressing and holding RMB on the battle screen while paused. Mechs that have a melee ability will dig through walls if ordered along these paths.
• Prevent any weapon from shooting by clicking on the weapon icon in the mech's card. You can also see which icon holds which weapon with a small popup after the mouse hovers over it.
• Research the new flechette ammunition node in the research tree to more effectively use kinetic weapons underwater
• Fully repairing a mech hull via drones in battle will now stop oxygen loss
• Knock back small bugs with the mech melee option
• Blocking an enemy melee attack with the melee option now returns 15% stability
• Added lighting effect to kinetic projectile death with shrapnel mod

O:\Other_changes

• Fixed wrong production menu name in different places
• Updated tutorial art for the Calendar sub-tab
• Updated tutorial art for the Engineering tab
• Updated tutorial art when installing mech
• Fixed an issue with mech selection if the cursor was outside the battle screen
• Removed speed reduction during x2 speed in battles to avoid issues with the new path drawing system
• Fixed mech bomb explosion animation
• The layout of city elements has been changed slightly for better navigation
• Added more details about the Battle interface to the base manual
• Added a simple lighting effect to the border of energy shields in battle
• Fixed an issue with adjusting the volume of both sliders via mouse wheel when hovering over any part of the top panel
• Fixed highlighting of module categories when hovering over them when a mech's additional menus are open
• Fixed crash regarding last mech death after a boss's death
• Fixed crash when an allied turret is hit by an enemy's energy waves
• Minor fixes in the winning text about Lagrange points

I:\Interface

• The Bestiary is now available - review intel on enemy alien forces by clicking the monster icon next to the Hangar tab
• The construction table in the Engineering tab now lights up to better indicate where to drag and drop a mech, weapon, or reactor
• Toggle the tutorial on or off inside the game in the Escape menu
• Additional information in the tutorial popup will inform you about weapon customization when installing a mech into the construction table for the first time
• One of the battle screen filters now reduces the sensitivity of lighting in battle, which stops the screen from being washed out when firing strong energy weapons

S:\Sound

• Added sounds for the railgun, teslagun, plasmagun and corrosive gun

B:\Balance

• ///Buffs
• Increased enemy turret rate of fire by 80%
• Increased enemy turret ammo capacity by 100%
• Increased Ovum's health from 1000 to 3000
• Increased Ovum spawner (from labyrinths) armor from 7 to 22
• Increased Titanus Araneus damage from 10 to 24
• Increased railgun armor penetration from 3 to 4
• Increased railgun rate of fire from 150 to 200
• Increased resource cost of deploying Kinetic weapons in combat (Bjorn from 6 to 8, Skalaknit from 3 to 4)
• Increased Kinetic shell duration by 1% for every 5 damage
• Increased resource cost of deploying Explosive weapons in combat (Bjorn from 11 to 15, Skalaknit from 6 to 8)
• Increased resource cost of deploying Thermal weapons in combat (Bjorn from 12 to 20)
• Increased penalty for sending mechs into battle from District 62 from 20 to 25 for every level the district remains unupgraded (zero penalty at max level)
• Increased the maximum number of city repair brigades from 3 to 5
• ///Nerfs
• Lowered Titanus Araneus claw damage to systems from 15 to 10 per attack (its armor penetration is still infinite)
• Area of effect for Titanus Araneus claw attack has moved slightly - you should no longer take damage when behind its back
• Reduced Colubra's starting damage to shields
• Reduced Colubra's additional damage over time to shields
• Reduced Ovum's armor from 22 to 0
• Reduced Gammarus damage from 24 to 15
• Flos now have 0 armor when attacking
• Reduced enemy turret armor penetration from 8 to 6
• Halved the reload speed of enemy artillery
• Increased the minimum distance for the enemy's artillery to shoot
• Reduced increased duration for the reactive projectile mod from 3 to 2
• Kinetic projectiles will slowly lose speed and duration for each second spent inside enemies
• Reduced the total amount of all Explosive ammo by ~15 %
• Reduced system damage from the sunbeam weather effect from 2 to 1
• Reduced number of damaged districts from a giant's attack from 10 to 5

E:\Engineering

• The Particle Emitter has been added to the arsenal. It launches a self-guided projectile that creates bolts of lightning along its trajectory that deal massive damage. Its damage also depends on supplied energy. Uses the Explosive ammo type.
• Energy weapons have been reworked - now all weapons that depend on supplied energy heat up the reactor with shots
• Processor programs saved to a mech punch card will no longer be forgotten
• Adjust the available ammo ratio for a mech by clicking the shield icon when a mech is on your construction table
• Damaged text on mechs will now no longer overlap with the program numbers
• The power circuits switch is now more visible in a mech's electricity menu

H:\Hangar

• Open the whole research tree by fully upgrading District 17 in the city menu
• Tutorial now highlights the pilot menu for a better navigation
• Starting a fresh save file will now only spawn two giants: one red and one gold. The world will also have a random spread of infested terrain cells.
• If you start on a city cell you will auto pickup a clue, instead of losing one as before.
• Colored squares have been added next to the city stats to better indicate the colors of the graphs

C:\Combat

• The experimental orbital Earth defense gun map has been added. It contains one new boss: Glyptodont which bears miniguns. The map also has one huge defense turret that can be captured, and a new weapon, the Particle Emitter, which is rewarded for killing the boss.
• The rocket barrage processor program now fires projectiles at the maximum rate of fire, instead of a one-time shot, for optimization reasons
• Explosion animation and damage over time now depend on the source of the damage
• Duration of fire zones now depends on the source of the damage
• Size of fire zones now depends on the source of the damage
• Explosions can now knockback Operarius
• Napalm projectiles now slow down faster the closer they are to disappearing
• Check how much a mech's systems have been damaged by mousing over the mech on the battle screen
• A mech's damaged systems icons now appear on top of each mech card during battle
• Allied turrets can now be damaged in the same way as mechs as by enemies
• Find and activate allied turrets on city maps
• Picking up a resource during battle will highlight the resource panel to show that it's been added
• Doubled cabin heat from reactor overheating - pilots will now be more likely to be damaged by reactor overheating if cabin safety stat is low
• Colubra act differently on infested maps - every few seconds they will launch a huge energy ball across the map at visible mechs. Colubra's energy dome also will not disappear until it has dropped to 25% of its total health, instead of disappearing at 75% on other maps.

O:\Other_changes

• Slowdown zones now render to one texture with a different sprite
• Broken cabin now can be spotted by the cracked glass effect inside the pilot's window
• Pilots shake their heads when they are panicking or the mech is walking fast
• Added laser particle and size-increasing effect for the Colubra attack
• Brucus now properly displays the turrets on its back
• Rockets now have a particle trail effect
• Fire zones and fire attacks now emit fire particles
• Slight performance improvement by turning off unnecessary calculations during battle
• Increased FPS during battle by getting rid of the second camera
• Fixed similar colors for the first four graph lines when viewing city stats
• City components obtained during a mission now correctly display
• The game should no longer crash when using more than one anti-missile system platform
• Water particles no longer endlessly stack when the game is paused
• Fixed a slight darkening of the map when minimizing and expanding the game during battle
• The frog boss no longer counts as a Gammarus in the final game score
• Fixed the spawn of resources by Titanus Centipeda when fleeing from it to another cell in the labyrinth
• Fixed a bug with not displaying the influence of the mech speed acceleration program on the displayed characteristics in various places
• Mechs will now continue to move diagonally over long distances
• You can no longer click the volume sliders after switching to fullscreen mode during battle
• The wrong tutorial popup no longer appears when accessing the mech test chamber
• Fixed a bug with not applying the projectile lifetime mod in the weapon testing room
• Fixed a bug with not applying the energy mod in the weapon testing room
• Fixed a typo in the underwater turbine research description
• Fixed formatting of Russian text in the manual for the first page
• Fixed displayed reload cooldown count
• It should now be easier to drag and drop a reactor inside a mech
• Fixed incorrect mention of available menus in the tutorial
• Fixed issue with capturing cells not clearing infestation
• Fixed issue with rendering minesweeper numbers on the map under infested cells - now you can properly see the numbers
• No more double clicking when changing mechs on the construction table after fixing a bug involving the second camera
• Added algorithm to automatically display mech resists in the components menu to fix incorrect numbers

S:\Sound

• Added sounds for the flamethrower and small laser gun
• Added sound when mousing over research tree nodes
• Added sound when pressing the BATTLE start button
• Added text typing sounds for the post-battle statistics screen

E:\Engineering

• Test your mech builds in different environments and temperature conditions on the construction table before deployment - click the crash test dummy icon next to SEND to access it
• Use the camera movement keys(WASD) and LMB in the mech test chamber to move and fire your mech, reposition the target with MMB, adjust the temperature with the slider, and switch to underwater conditions via the droplet button
• Previews of the resource needed for dispatching mechs to battle are now visible in UI (weapons mod menu and mech construction menu) – resources are only spent once dispatched to battle

H:\Hangar

• See how your city's stats have changed over the last ~20 days via the Calendar menu - a third stop on the dial has been added
• With this new submenu you can:
  • Get info on recently damaged districts
  • See differences in resources and city stats compared to the past day
  • View changes in pilots, science, and engineering teams
  • Check how many components are in production
  • Find out which research projects are in progress
• Mouse over each stat entry on the right side to individually highlight its production graph

C:\Combat

• Switch to and from full screen during battle by pressing T on your keyboard (this can be rebound in the loading screen menu at launch), or by clicking the dotted square icon below the combat display
• Reloading is now visualized via a bar above a mech's reactor temperature gauge
• Cursor lines on the combat display no longer disappear from view when zoomed out

B:\Balance

• ///Buffs
• Increased basic armor for the Triangle mech from 2 to 4
• Increased basic move speed for the Triangle mech from 0.2 to 0.3
• Increased impact resistance for the Triangle mech to 95%
• Reduced Triangle mech cost in Munilone from 564 to 464
• Engineer and science teams are no longer capped at 700 and 500 respectively
• The special Bunker map now additionally gives you 100 engineers and 80 scientists upon completion
• Lightning shooters' AI has been altered - they will try to escape properly after firing
• Starting pilots' stats are now always the same
• ///Nerfs
• Weapon size now doubles the cost of sending it into the battle
• Giant Centipede boss now shoots rockets at strict angles to its body
• Lightning shooters no longer get stuck inside each other
• Mech eaters no longer get stuck inside each other
• Energy shooters ("flowers") no longer get stuck inside each other

O:\Other_changes

• Slight performance improvement now that swarms no longer repeatedly call a shader
• Fixed the incorrect display of a mech's stress bar on the battle screen
• Fixed an issue with not clearing up weather effects in some situations
• Fixed the opacity for some text on the battle screen
• Fixed an error where the Calendar would default to Monday when saving and loading a file
• Added text to the manual stating that mountains stop your city from advancing to a cell with mountains

S:\Sound

• Added sounds for minigun, tank gun, both missile launchers, fast laser, and artillery. They should be clearly heard even with a large number of shots thanks to a new sound system for combat.

W:\Weapon_Test_Bench

• Simulate underwater combat conditions by clicking the droplet button
• Test how armor penetration works by changing the dummy's armor with the up and down arrows
• Try the thick wall with the new section in the type switcher, to see how bullets work inside enemies
• Explosions and effects will now render correctly in the test bench and cut outside of it
• Minimum and maximum distances are now properly visualized by circles and lined zones
• Test fire a single shot every five seconds with the 1 toggle in the controls

C:\Combat

• Select all mechs at once by pressing ` (backtick) on your keyboard
• You will now see a visual cue inside the battle screen when a combat order has been completed
• Your mechs now check their pathfinding around slowdown zones if the length to travel is not twice the regular path
• Mechs equipped with missiles will now check whether they are within 16 pixels of a wall before firing to avoid causing self damage

B:\Balance

• ///Buffs
• Armor reduction by white type weapons increased from 0.01 with 50% chance to 0.01 with 100% chance of applying
• Armor reduction from all weapons now also applies when it's penetrating armor
• Increased base swarm health from 11 to 12
• Underwater bugs should be easier to kill now that armor penetration values for ballistic weapons are rounded to the nearest whole number when compared with enemy armor
• ///Nerfs
• Power consumption of the first laser increased from 35 to 40
• Fast laser's weight increased from 22 to 24
• Armor reduction by blue type weapons decreased by 10 times
• Armor reduction by red type weapons decreased by 2.5 times
• Slow debuff from all weapons is now 5% less effective
• Reduced base swarm armor from 4 to 3
• The first 10 days should be easier now that the cost of creating eggs for the swarm economy increased from 20 to 30

O:\Other_changes

• Values in the combat viewer, manual, and weapon test screen have been fixed
• Fixed the visual bug with the rate of fire point strip on weapon cards
• Fixed the visual bug with keeping storm and ocean particles on the map after a battle
• Fixed the visual bug with resource caterpillars leaving their corpses after fleeing the map
• Ocean currents should no longer move enemy hordes when the game is paused
• Minor fixes to a leader's behavior when holding a position
• Values on reactor cards now round to the nearest whole number
• Aux mech module list should now scroll properly
• Fixed minor lighting visual bugs during a pause
• Fixed display of weight for some additional mech modules on the weight layer
• Fixed display of energy consumption for some additional mech modules on the energy layer
• Performance improved by changing all vertex drawings in the battle to raster
• For players with multiple monitors, the game will attempt to keep your mouse cursor within the game window when set to full screen mode

Awesome trailer:

• Damage x2
• Weight x2
• Power consumption x2
• Cost of materials x4
• Engineers x2
• Production time cost +3
• Occupies five production slots

• program_0="Multiplies the power of the energy shield by 1+ percent of the reactor's heating from its maximum temperature."
• program_1="Multiplies counterattack speed by stability recovery modificator."
• program_2="Multiplies cooling rate while overheating by 1+ percent of available energy."
• program_3="Multiplies movement speed by 1+ percentage of reactor's heating from its maximum temperature."
• program_4="Multiplies the reload speed of white weapons type by 1+ percent of available energy."
• program_5="Multiplies the rate of fire of white weapons type by 1+ squared percent of reactor's heating from its maximum temperature. Shots heat the reactor."
• program_6="Red type weapons fire all ammunition at the same time."
• program_7="Multiplies blue type weapons damage by 1+ percent of reactor heating from its maximum temperature."
• program_8="Yellow type weapons do not stop firing while reloading."
• program_9="Multiplies evasion by 1+ percent of available energy."
• program_10="Reactor overheating does not turn off the mech. Increases chance of damage from overheating to 100%."
• program_11="Makes it possible to reload multiple ammo types at the same time. Reactor heating from reloading multiple ammo types at the same time is cumulative."

• The red cell is now an open large room.
• In the center of this room is a new boss that spawns nests every two seconds.
• The boss shocks the nests with electricity (just effect for now)
• The boss is surrounded by a force field and turrets
• Turrets acquire a random type depending on the number of the cell's column.
• Boss (red cell) is a huge snake
• Removed monster spawn from walls
• Removed random nests spawning around mechs