v5.0

Combat Extended 5.0 “The Violence Has Escalated.”

Features

• Added support for Rimworld version 1.4.
• Added support for the Biotech DLC.

Fixes

• Prometheum soaked hediff now disappears on death.
• Fixed the patch for the broadshield pack.
• Loadbearing gear can no longer be desired by ideologies.
• ‘RangedStab’ no longer damages internal parts without damaging externals as well.

Compatibility

Add integrated patches for the following mods:

• [RH2] Faction: V.O.I.D.
• EPOE-Forked: Royalty DLC expansion
• Vanilla Animals Expanded - Royalty
• Vanilla Races Expanded – Saurid
  Updated integrated patches for the following mods*:
• [JDS] Exiled Dawn
• [JDS] The Forge – NCR Armory
• [K4G] Rimworld War 2
• [LF] Command and Conquer NOD Combat Armor
• [LF] Red Dawn
• [LTS] Military
• [O21] Out Rim Galaxies
• Alpha Animals
• Alpha Biomes
• Alpha Mythology / Magical Menagerie
• Ancient Blade Cyborg
• Androids
• Animal Armor: Vanilla
• Animal Equipment
• Anty the War Ant
• Apex: Rimworld Legends
• Arachne
• Archotech PowerArmor
• Astoriel Legacy
• Beast Man Tribes
• Bori Race
• Censored Armory
• Cossacks of the Rim
• Darkest Rim Core
• Dishonored Assassin Coat
• Dishonored Assassin Mask
• Doom Factions
• Dragonian Race
• Eisenhans Power Armor
• Epona Race
• Forgotten Realms – Lizardfolk
• Forgotten Realms – Minotaur
• Forsakens
• Gas Traps and Shells
• Genetic Rim
• Glitter Tech
• Half Dragons
• Halo UNSC Weapon Pack
• Idhale Race
• Kaiser Armory
• Kijin 2.0
• Kobold Factions
• Kurin
• Lemolim Race
• Littluna Race
• Mechanite Plague
• Mechanoid Bench 2
• Mechanoid Bench 3
• Mechanoids Extraordinaire
• Medical System Expansion – Revived
• Medieval Overhaul
• Miho Race
• Mincho, The Mint Choco Slime
• More Mechanoids
• Morganate Mafia Weapons Pack
• Moyo – The Cartel Arrives
• Moyo – From the Depth
• Moyo – Light in the Abyss
• Nakin Race
• Nanosuit
• Nearmare Race
• Neclose Race
• NewRatkinPlus
• Nyaron
• Outland – Eastborn Empire
• Outland – Motz Collection
• Outland – Redburn Pact
• Orassans
• Paniel the Automata
• Poleepkwa Race
• Pratt WWII Weapons Pack
• PsiTech
• RH2 Faction – The Rangers
• RH2 Rimmu-Nation 2
• Rabbie the Moonrabbit
• Race to the Rim
• RadWorld
• Ratnik-3 Prototype Armor
• Red Horse Factions
• Reinforced Mechanoids: Tyrikan-Line
• Revia Race
• Rim-Effect Collection
• Rim-Hivers!
• Rim-Robots!
• Rim-Skeletons
• Rimmu-Nation – Weapons
• Rimsenal Collection
• Rimworld-Style Pilas and Bows Strapped with Grenades and Shells Extended
• Saclean Race
• Save Our Ship 2
• Sergal
• Silkiera Race
• Solark Race
• Spartan Foundry
• Star Wars – Factions
• T’s Samurai Faction
• The Joris Experience
• Tsar Armory
• Ultratech – Altered Carbon Remastered
• Vanilla Animals Expanded
• Vanilla Apparel Expanded
• Vanilla Armour Expanded
• Vanilla Bionics Expansion
• Vanilla Factions Expanded – Classical
• Vanilla Factions Expanded – Mechanoids
• Vanilla Factions Expanded – Pirates
• Vanilla Factions Expanded – Vikings
• Vanilla Furniture Expanded – Security
• Vanilla Genetics Expanded
• Vanilla Storytellers Expanded
• Vanilla Weapons Expanded
• Vanilla Weapons Expanded – Frontier
• Vanilla Weapons Expanded – Heavy Weapons
• Vanilla Weapons Expanded – Tribal
• Xenn
• Xenoorca Race

Balance

• Reduced the damage reduction of the ‘Tough’ trait from 50% to 25%.
• Ranged weapons do slightly more or less damage based upon their quality, simulating higher muzzle velocities. Awful does 90%, Poor – Excellent does 100%, Masterwork does 105%, and Legendary does 110% percent.
• Decreased the overall spread of buckshot rounds.
• Decreased the radius of firefoam shells by 50%.
• Tac vests now require flak armor and complex clothing.
• Removed Shooting/Melee requirements for certain pawnkinds.
• The slug and autocannon turrets research projects now require Heavy Turrets.
• Increased the accuracy and health of the autocannon turret.
• Hoods now have a stuffable material thickness of 2.
• Increased the Simple Helmet bulk to 3 and set the wornBulk to 1.
• Increasing the workAmount of Armor Piercing ammo by 20%.
• Adjusted the melee chanceFactor of various melee weapons and melee attacks.
• Reduced the crafting material cost of the Minigun.
• Increased the mass of the Inferno and Thump cannons.
• Increased the cooldownTime of the big cats melee attack.
• Adjusted the Cassowary stun damage from 20 to 14.
• Increased the Cow’s bite damage from 1 to 4 and increase blunt damage from 0.1 to 0.4.
• Increased the Alpaca’s bite damage from 1 to 2.
• Gave the Megasloth a bite attack.
• Adjustments to armor penetration of various ammo types.
• Removed the extra gravity factor for grenades that made pawns throw them in a higher arc.
• Reduced the autocannon turret burst count and increased the magazine size.
• Renamed some Royality and Ideology patch files to avoid collisions with the LoadFolder system.
• Royalty: Adjusted mech turret names and slightly reduced recoil.

Misc.

• Multiple colonists can now reserve ammo from the same stack while filling their loadout. This will be expanded to other ammo handling in the future.
• Various defNames and textures have been given the “CE_” prefix to avoid colliding with content from other mods.
• Ammo dropped in to mechanoid sieges now use mech style drop pods.
• Bipods now make sound when deploying.
• New sound for the LMG.
• Incremented version numbers.
• Add ammo to weapons spawned as possessions.
• Bascinet renamed to Plate Helmet.
• The LMG has been changed from a DP-27 to a Bren machine gun with a pan magazine.
• Updated mech charged ammo for use by player mechs in Biotech.
• Removed screen shake from plasma projectiles.
• IEDs can now be set off if hit by bullets or arrows.
• New textures for pila, crossbow bolts, arrows, and mechanoid charged mortar rounds.
• New textures for charged ammo.
• New textures for blazebulbs.
• New texture for the Doomsday Launcher.
• New texture for the Explosive Bolt Launcher.
• New textures for the Psycho drug.
• New textures for the barbed wire.
• New textures for the bascinet/plate armor helmet.
• New generic mech ammo for Generic Ammo Mode.
• New ammo types: 5x16mm charged, 66mm thermal bolt shell, 8x40mm charged, 8.6mm Blackout, 50mm rockets, 90mm recoilless rifle, 10 and 16 gauge shotgun.
• Added new ammoset for .454 Casull without .410 shells.
• Added a new ammoset for 5.56mm NATO out of as short barrel.
• New airburst shells for 40x53mm VOG grenades.
• New ammo categories; Toxic, flame crossbow bolt, toxic crossbow bolt.
• Removed some unused UI textures.
• Tweaked some ammo labels for consistency.
• Removed old, commented out xml throughout.
• Removed the Turrets research tab and consolidated the projects on the main research tab.
• Moved the patches for the Cape from Royalty to Core patches.
• EMP cook-off now creates EMP blasts instead of conventional explosions.
• Revert to using the vanilla minigun weaponTag.
• Removed quality from the Charge Lance and decreased market value.
• Restore the needle gun as a high-AP ranged weapon.
• Changed fire arrow impact sound.
• Reduced the crafting quantity of musket balls from 500 to 100.
• Removed depreciated patch files for Genetic Rim and RH VOID.
• Royalty: Made the labels of melee bionics consistent with base game.
• Royalty: Switched mech autoturrets to 66mm thermal bolts.

Notes:

*These are mod patches that have seen file changes. There is no guarantee the patches are fully functional or even that the mods themselves currently work for Rimworld 1.4.
**Vanilla Factions Expanded: Classical no longer needs to be loaded after Combat Extended.