_PLAYER-CONTROLLED MECHANICS_
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-You can now jump from ladders.
-You can now lean over edges, as in System Shock.
-You can now pick up objects that have other objects standing on top of them, providing they aren't too heavy.
-You can now attempt to jump from water even if there is no reachable ledge to grab.
-Mantling has been improved considerably.
-You can now zoom in/out with the binoculars.
-You can now mantle low-standing objects if both legs are crippled.
-Right clicking while looking through a weapon's scope will stop looking through the scope as opposed to holstering weapon.
-When throwing objects with a normal right click throw, throw accuracy is precise (vanilla had very noticable randomization, resulting in it being difficult to get a basketball in the hoop for example).
-The GEP Gun's remote controlled rocket steering is no longer inverted on the Y axis & pressing the left mouse button will boost the remote rocket.
-With nothing in hand, left clicking on doors will put either a lockpick or nanokey ring in your hand.
Doing the same for hackable electronics will put multitools in hand.

_PHYSICS_
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-Rotational velocity is applied when throwing objects with the Microfibral Muscle augmentation.
-Exploding fire extinguishers will send nearby objects flying, making use of the version 8.0 physics system expansion.
-Push carts now roll along when shot/whacked etc.
-Dropping stacks via the inventory results in the dropped items spread out over a slightly wider area, to prevent immersion breaking towers.
-Standing on objects that cannot be stood on will throw you off more realistically.
-Player Buoyancy is more realistic.
-Items will reset pitch rotation when landing on the ground, much like the decorative objects always have done in Deus Ex.
-More types of fragile objects break when something heavy lands on top of them.
-Fine-tuned other physics elements.

_ENHANCED ARTISTIC DIRECTION_
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-Considerably sharp and faithful level detail.
-Many new high resolution textures.
-A bunch of new 3D models.
Note: some models and textures are HDTP/New Vision/Vanilla replacements, others are entirely new. All based on context, of course.
-Created some new dynamic corona/lighting effects.
-New decals to diversify the game's environments.
-Considerable focus on better implementation of lighting and shadow-casting.
-All fragments now use high resolution textures.
-Fixed a modern renderer lighting issue where all meshes didn't blend into their environment well.
-Set all translucent water to "low translucency" mode, as default was far too clear.
-Fixed LOD issues with HDTP's Trashcans and Barrels.
-General optimization of HDTP and New Vision's design + consistency.
-The speed at which clouds pan in the sky is slowed down to a more realistic rate, for all skyboxes.
-Flares light up the ground more realistically and effectively.
-Exploding fire extinguishers have new visual effects.
-Added a new optional realistic headbobbing effect.
-Gore effects toned down very mildly and further polished.
-Exploding grenades no longer cause the screen to flash if not nearby or looking at the source of the explosion.
-The laser dot is only larger when emitted by weapon laser sight, not laser triggers.
-The UNATCO boats sway in the sea more subtly.

_WEAPONRY_
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-More weapons accept a wider variety of modifications than even v8.0.
-Throwing knives can now be retrieved from the bodies of organic enemies.
-Heavy weapon sizes are reduced from 4x2 to 3x2, taking up 6 slots as opposed to 8, making heavy weapon builds a little more viable.
-Improved new recoil handling system further.
-Sabot rounds now do 30% less damage VS organic targets as the ammo's description indicates.
-Retored the GEP gun's Lock-on guidance functionality. The GEP gun now has THREE individual guidance systems in total.
-Weapon damage displayed in the inventory now changes based on the ammo type currently loaded.
-Improved dynamic cover animations.
-Explosions ignore geometry at a radius of 20% the explosion's blast radius.
-Reduced collision radius of all dart types -- now they'll not hit the corner of walls you're leaning round.
-Improved a large number of vanilla technical flaws with the Assault Rifle.
-The standing still accuracy bonus doesn't IMMEDIATELY drop off as soon as you start moving, but rather gradually decrements over ~five seconds.
-The assault rifle now accepts rate of fire mods.
-Improved camera firing effects.
-Crossbow darts are not visually present in the weapon until halfway through the reload process.
-Ejected shell casings are no longer visually different if you attach a silencer, as in GMDX shell casings differ based on ammo type. //perhaps re-add as it represents sub-sonic rounds despite that ammo type not existing in DX
-Improved flamethrower handling effects.
-New simulated reload movement effects.
-Dynamic crosshairs no longer are drawn while the laser sight weapon mod is on.
-Optimized the new flamethrower flame effects for better performance.
-The laser sight attachment no longer automatically turns off when mantling.
-New rare custom variant of the assault gun

_User Interface/HUD_
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-The health and augmentations screens now display a variety of general statistics (can be disabled).
-Added a number of functional & cosmetic improvements to the augmentation screen.
-ATM windows now enable you to withdraw all available credits at the press of a button providing your skill level is Advanced or greater.
-With the real time UI option enabled only one toolbelt is displayed when browsing the UI.
-The perk window now features stylistic aesthetic additions such as icons.
-Minor audio design additions.
-Improved dynamic crosshair behaviour.

_AUDIO DESIGN_
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-Climbing ladders now has sound effects.
-Added some new subtle UI audio effects.
-Three more new groups of footstep sounds.
-Added a variety of new collision sounds when thrown objects hits walls etc.
-Landing from height while crouched will play the appropriate footstep/land sound you'd get when falling while standing.
-Movers will play the appropriate footstep sounds as opposed to defaulting to concrete sounds.
-Additional location-specific audio ambience.
-Hitting corpses with melee weapons will play the appropriate body hit sound as opposed to the sound of hitting the floor underneath them.
-Security Bots no longer play scanning sound when idle.
-Security Bots play their unused critical damage sound if health is less than 20%.
-Restored two unused music tracks.
-Various new weapon sounds.
-Cloak up/down sound effect no longer conflicts with footstep sounds.
-Gunther's movement sounds now sounds different to the bot's.
-Various other miscellaneous tweaking and additions.

_AUGMENTATIONS_
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###Microfibral Muscle###

-Drains bioenergy when power-throwing objects.
-Improved physics
-General Polish

###Vision Enhancement###

-Full Screen display
-Now amplifies light.
-Improved graphical effects.

###Targeting###

-Now displays the player's current accuracy in percentage.
-The Target Augmentation's scanning text has now been moved to the location of the target window so as to not distract the player.

###Cloak and Radar Transparency###

-New visual effects each.
-Player can see themselves turn invisible in mirrors.

###EUAS###

-Light level HUD readout now represents how visible the player is more accurately.

###SpyDrone###

-The spy drone now bounces off of level geometry upon collision, rather than losing all velocity.
-The spy drone now requires 3 bioenergy points to detonate.
-Reduced Drone size by 25%.
-Removed v8.0 cloaking effect.

###Combat Speed###

-Independent from combat strength.
-Influences melee speed and weapon swap speed only.

###Combat Strength###

-Now independent from the combat speed augmentation.
-Same aug as in vanilla.

###Environmental Resistence###

-Can be upgraded into an AUTOMATIC augmentation.
-Description now displays defense values in percent (%).
-Reduced screen flash when protected by the aug.
-Altered values.

###Ballistic Protection###

-Reduced screen flash when protected by the aug.

###Energy Shield###

-New Visual shielding effect is present at any upgrade level.
-Reduced screen flash when protected by the aug.

###Speed Enhancement###

-Crouch-walking with speed enhancement enabled now produces slightly louder footsteps.

###Aqualung###

-Can be upgraded into an AUTOMATIC augmentation.
-Regenerates stamina at a faster rate.

###Energy Transference###

-New Passive augmentation that transfers bioenergy and stamina from hostiles upon death or KO by melee weapon.
-Stealth kills grant more energy and stamina.

MAPS & MODES
Tweaked scoring values for capturing flags in Conquest. Capturing gives less score now, however more capture ticks have been added and the team controlling more than 3 flags than the other team will be awarded Conquest Control bonuses.
Decreased the percentage of contribution to flag capture/neutralize from 50% to 30%.

VEHICLES
Fixed the airplanes throttle input mapping in Lefty buttons + Legacy Southpaw stick combo.
Fixed wrench repair health status indicator freezing while repairing.
Stopping the firing sound of the repair tool when the vehicle is fully repaired.
Moved weapon components for St Chamond equipment from under the vehicle to near the top to allow them to be used in shallow water.
•Increased AA cannon blast damage multiplier against planes:
Fighter: 0.8 from 0.7
Attack Plane: 0.75 from 0.7
Bomber: 0.65 from 0.6
Fixed incorrectly low damage of rockets against other planes.
•Increased sniper rifle damage multiplier against planes:
Fighter: 1.2 from 1
Attack Plane: 0.9 from 0.75
Bomber: 0.375 from 0.3125
Increased inner blast radius of AA cannons from 4 to 6 meters when the detonation is triggered by a vehicle.
Removed impact impulse from plane MGs.
•Ranken Darts:
Increased reload time from 12 to 15 seconds
Decreased blast damage from 20 to 16.7
Decreased blastradius from 3 to 1.5 meters
Direct damage no longer hurts soldiers

WEAPONS
Fix for Martini Henry Sniper firing the SP bullet in MP.
Increased magazines for smoke grenades from 1 to 2 set passive replenish limit for grenades to 0.
Fixed position of rib sight for 12g Auto.
Added folded bayonet to Automatico when no bayonet is equipped instead of completely removing it.
Wrong weapon skin can sometimes appear on the killcam.
Reduced damage of AT Grenades against standard soldiers by 10%.
•Grenade changes:
Added a 0.3 s throw delay to all grenades
Reduced the outer blast radius of the following grenades:
Frag/Stick: 6.3 from 7.0
Impact/Min/Light ATi: 5.6 from 6.0
•Increased fuze timings on the following grenades:
Mini/Frag/Stick: 1.4 s minimum delay from 1.3 s, 0.85 s fuze from 0.7 s
Impact: 1.2 s minimum delay from 1.0 s
Incendiary: 1.4 s minimum delay from 1.3 s
Rifle Frag: 0.8 s fuze from 0.7 s
Fixed Hellriegel Muzzle VFX.
Fixed scope DoF overlay issue on the Martini Henry Sniper.
Fixed incorrect gunsway modifiers for Huot Automatic Optical.
Do not let grenades collide with team mates within 10m.

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MARCH 28 2017 UPDATE

After over three months of countless posts of forum feedback, numerous surveys and tournaments, and over 10 mod iterations, the final changes put forward in the Winter Balance Preview are ready to be released into the live game.

A massive thank you goes out to community members Mr. Smith, Callum from GeneralsGentlemen, and Miragefla that put in countless hours to make the following balance changes possible. But of course, they did not do it alone. Community members such as Nacho, Cruzz, Le Saucisson Masqué, Capiqua, Osinyagov, and Planet Smasher were instrumental in identifying and helping fix bugs as well as implementing multiple QoL features, top players in the community were crucial for providing high level balance critique and of course the constant vigilance of the entire community that playtested the mod and provided ongoing feedback over these past few months made the iteration process possible. For all your efforts and dedication, we thank you.

As a refresher, the changes below were designed to target specific dominate meta in order eliminate default build orders and promoting strategic diversity. The scope of this patch was focused around two primary pillars: Light Vehicle Play and Infantry Scaling, as well as, two secondary areas of Dominate Meta: Soviet Guards and Penals, and the USF Mortar. Finally, a number of Quality of Life changes such as Squad Formations and “Ghosting” have been targeted to improve gameplay and feel.

GENERAL

Reinforcement Half Tracks/Transports

We wanted to make using these units less frustrating as a reinforcement platform and more reliable in order to better supplement Wehrmacht field presence.

Reinforcement Half-tracks now have shared veterancy from infantry squads and weapon teams
Load Times for all Half-tracks standardized to 2.
Given a handbrake ability to prevent unwanted movement
251 Half-track can now carry mortar teams

Shared Veterancy
The following unit types will contribute to shared veterancy to nearby officers/halftracks at the following rates:
5% mortars/indirect fire
10% HMGs
50% infantry
0% anything else

Snipers

We feel that the Sniper’s cloak ability is over performing, making them extremely difficult to counter with infantry. To address this issues we have made the following changes:

When firing a shot or using an offensive ability when not camouflaged, the unit will be unable to become camouflaged for 10 seconds
Snipers cannot cloak until out of combat for 3 seconds

Stealth Changes

To bring other stealth units in line with the cloaking changes made to Snipers, we have applied the following re-cloaking restrictions:

Anti-tank gun/Tank stealth changes

Tanks (e.g., JP4) and anti-tank guns cannot re-cloak until out of combat for 5.5 seconds

Neither type of unit can re-cloak within 10 seconds of having fired a shot

Non-sniper stealth infantry changes

Stealth (infiltration) infantry cannot re-cloak until out of combat for 4 seconds

Stealth infantry cannot re-cloak within 10 seconds of having used an offensive ability (e.g, grenades)

Veterancy Rates from Infantry-Based Anti-Tank

Anti-tank infantry squads were attaining veterancy disproportionately fast compared to anti-infantry squads. This was allowing blobs of infantry to scale versus armour too easily. This also allowed anti-tank-equipped squads to outpace dedicated anti-infantry squads and trade more efficiently than they should. With this change we aim to streamline the speed of veterancy gain or all squads.

Panzerschrecks/Bazookas/PIATs/PTRS/BOYS AT Rifles now award 3 times less experience when damaging a target. This change does not affect the British Sniper

M17 Quad

We wanted to tone down the performance of the Quad to be in-line with Light Tanks and other suppression platforms. In order to make infantry counters to this unit viable, the M17 can no longer suppress enemy squads on the move.

Moving Burst reduced from 1 to 0.5
Moving accuracy reduced from 0.4 to 0.25
Near rate of fire reduced from 1.24 to 1.15
Accuracy reduced from 0.5/0.3125/0.125 to 0.34/0.28/0.1
Near Cooldown modifier increased from 0.5 to 0.75
Cannot suppress units while moving.
Increased the chance for the Quad to take down an airplane (from 30 in 10000 to 10 in 100)
Munition cost from 120 to 100

Mortars

The escalation of mortar power has made them over perform compared to other types of more costly artillery pieces that had not received this bonus such as Pack Howitzers and Mortar Half-tracks.

Vet 3 no longer grants range increase to auto attacks.

SOVIETS

Penals

The combination of the raw amount of bonuses Penal Battalion squads receive with the power of their flamer upgrade made the squad capable of winning nearly all engagements vs infantry, in almost any situation, creating very limited avenues for counterplay. To address this, we are removing some of the raw power of Penal battalions. At the same time, we are giving Penal Battalions access to some anti-tank utility to give Soviet T1 some tactical versatility, which it previously lacked.

Popcap cost increased from 7 to 8
Penal Veterancy 3 received accuracy from 0.77 to 0.85
Veterancy 3 reduces cost of satchel charges from 45 munitions to 35 munitions.
No longer gains access to the Oorah ability.
No longer have access to the flamethrower upgrade
Now gain access to a (2x) PTRS upgrade
PTRS x2 upgrade

Cost 60 Munitions
Same damage as Guards PTRS (refer to Guards changes)
Accuracy lowered from 0.69/0.575/0.253 to 0.15/0.105/0.06
Has 0.33 drop-rate

Satchel charges

Penal satchel charges can now also behave as vehicle snares:

Damage vs vehicles reduced to 240 (same as AT satchel)
Friendly fire multiplier increased from 25% to 50%
Causes engine snare on targets with 75% HP or lower (after the damage is applied)
Satchel will stick to vehicles if it hits them on its trajectory to the target
Satchels can be targeted directly on enemy vehicles. However, the throw will abort if, at any time, the target leaves the range of the ability (unlike other snare abilities that will fire regardless)

Guards

Guards were proving to over perform in ratio to their cost, appearing to supplement any strategy, thus, limiting variation in Soviet commanders.

Manpower cost increased from 330 to 360
Damage vs non-vehicles reduced from 27 to 20
Damage vs vehicles on penetration remains 40
Damage vs vehicles on deflection increases from 13 to 20
Guards can now re-buy lost items and equipment
Vet 2 accuracy bonus reduced from 1.3 to 1.14
Vet 2 received accuracy bonus decreased from 0.83 to 0.88
Vet 3 now grants a further 1.14 accuracy (1.3 total)
Vet 3 now received accuracy bonus increased from 0.77 to 0.75, total received accuracy at vet 3 has been reduced from 0.6391 to 0.66.
RGD-33 Fragmentation Grenade (Affects Partisans, but not Shocks)

AOE far damage reduced from 0.5 to 0.25 (Same as MK2)
Ready aim time increased from 0.125 to 0.625 (to match MK2 overall delay)
Munitions cost reduced from 45 to 35

T-70

We feel that the T-70’s high damage and AOE allowed it to wipe infantry too effectively, not giving the opposing player sufficient time to react, particularly if units are clumped in cover. The changes below will make it so that the T-70 loses its characteristic pinpoint accuracy on the move while maintaining its ability to flank teams weapons and push back infantry squads.

Manpower cost increased from 200 to 260
Health increased from 320 to 400
Crew repair removed
Reload speed increased from 1.8 - 2.2 to 2.1 - 2.5
AoE damage reduced from 1/0.35/0.05 to 0.8/0.35/0.15
Scatter Max increased from 1.7 to 2.5
Distance scatter offset reduced from 0.25 to 0.15 (this improves targeting)
Veterancy 3 decreases weapon scatter by 20% (accuracy vs infantry)
Coaxial MG cooldown decreased from 5 to 3
Coaxial MG cooldown multiplier changed from 0.5/1/1.5 to 0.75/1/1.25
Coaxial MG accuracy changed from 0.38/0.33/0.28 to 0.38/0.355/0.33
Coaxial MG reload duration reduced from 4-6 seconds to 3 seconds
T-70 Recon Mode now also allows the T-70 to capture territory with veterancy 1.
Capture Point ability removed.

WEHRMACHT

Medkits

To give Wehrmacht more staying power on the field, Medkits will now fully heal up a squad. We are also giving some QoL improvements to the ability.

Medkits duration increased from 10 seconds to 20 seconds (will now heal to full)
Cost reduced from 20 munitions to 15 munitions
Squads can now use the medkit ability on themselves
It is now possible to interrupt the casting of OST Medkits

Pioneers

We felt that pioneer damage output was under-performing and proving ineffective in combat.

Near accuracy increased from 0.403 to 0.463
Mid accuracy increased from 0.23 to 0.27
Population reduced from 6 to 5
Assault Grenadiers

Whilst they have an initial impact, their damage fall off, manpower bleed, grenades and veterancy scaling made them not scale well into the late game. Therefore, to improve their scalability, we have made the following changes:

Reinforce cost lowered from 28 to 26
Grenade Assault munitions cost lowered from 45 to 30.
Grenade Assault aim-time and ready-aim time reduced by half to allow faster throwing.
Squad leader armour reduced from 1.5 to 1.
Medical kits removed.
Veterancy 1 now Grants -10% received accuracy and reduces recharge on sprint by 25%.
Fixed an issue where interrupting the Assault Grenadier grenade ability early enough would immediately reset the cooldown

Panzer Grenadiers

Panzer Grenadiers are a strong unit but their timing means other factions already have veterancy on their infantry making it difficult for PGs to scale in veterancy vs their opponents.

Vet 1 now grants 0.84 received accuracy bonus
Vet 2 received accuracy bonus reduced from 0.71 to 0.84 (~0.71 total)
G43 Package (Also affects Stormtroopers but not Grenadiers)

Far aim time multiplayer reduced from 3.5 to 3. (Boosts long range DPS)
Now increases sight range by 20%
Fixed an issue with the G43 package interrogation ability that would not reveal all enemy units in a sufficiently-large map.

Elite Doctrine Stormtroopers now have access to Panzergrenadier G43s, and can upgrade G43’s in enemy territory

222 Scout Car

The 222 also wasn’t scaling with veterancy as well as other light vehicles and suffered from inconsistent damage output preventing it from tracking infantry properly. We also felt that the auto-cannon was too reliant on AOE for damage. Another concern with the 222 was that it was too cheap relative to its performance,

Manpower cost increased from from 210 to 250
Fuel cost increased from 15 to 30
Veterancy requirements increased from 480/960/1920 to 720/1440/2880
Acceleration increased from 2.4 to 3
Spotting Scopes Sight bonus reduced from 2 to 1.4
Veterancy 1 improves received accuracy to 0.889
Veterancy 3 awards 20 extra HP

Autocannon

Autocannon accuracy from 0.06/0.04/0.02 to 0.05/0.04/0.03
Autocannon AOE Near damage reduced from 1 to 0.6
Autocannon Rate of fire multiplier from 1.4/1.2/1 to 1/1/1
Autocannon penetration increased from 35 to 40
Autocannon Mid range distance from 15 to 20

MG42

MG42 now properly tracks infantry
MG42 accuracy reduced from 0.6/0.425/0.25 to 0.44/0.385/0.275
MG42 accuracy increases with veterancy: +10%/+15%/+15%
MG42 range distance near from 10 to 0
MG42 0.75 accuracy modifier versus Snipers (down from 1.5).

Stug E

The Stug E was proving to be overly effective for its cost, especially as a call-in tank that could bypass tech requirements. Furthermore, Target Weak Point allowed the Stug E to have strong anti tank utility even though it's primarily an anti-infantry vehicle.

Manpower cost increased from 200 to 260
Health reduced from 540 to 480 (Now Destroyed in 3 ATG shots)
Reload from 4.8 to 6
Recharge time between successive Stug-E call-ins increased from 30 seconds to 60 seconds
Damage vs garrisons increased from 0.25 to 0.5
Fires a slow-moving projectile in a 20-degree arc
Weapon type changed from ballistic to big explosive (building damage readjusted)
AOE damage reduced from 1/0.15/0.05 to 0.75/0.35/0.15
AoE distance from 1/1.5/2.25 to 1.5/2.5/3
AOE Radius from 3 to 4
Scatter Max increased from 2.15 to 3
Scatter Angle increased from 5 to 5.5
Distance scatter ratio reduced from 1 to 0.075
Scatter offset turned to 0.

Target Weak Point (TWP)

TWP now applies Stuart Blind (5 seconds: no vision, guns disabled)
TWP damage reduced from 80 to 40
TWP Always penetrates

Puma

The Puma serves the role of a anti-vehicle and soft counter to tanks, however, the Target Weak Point’s ability to stun even the heaviest of tanks made it over perform for its cost and mobility.
Target Weak Point (TWP)
TWP now applies Stuart Blind (5 seconds: no vision, guns disabled)
TWP Damage reduced from 120 to 60
TWP always penetrates
TWP munitions cost reduced from 40 to 35 to match other TWP variants