v5.3

Combat Extended 5.3 “Part of a Balanced Breakfast!”

Fixes

• Corrected the steel cost for 20mm Hispano (AP) ammo.
• Assigned the correct projectile parent to the 90mm recoilless canister shell.
• Fixed a typo in the .410 shotgun ammo recipe label and description that showed the incorrect crafting amount.
• The loading bench now casts a shadow.
• Fixed a bug where, with the ammo system disabled, pawns would stow their weapon instead of reloading.
• Fixed a bug where berserk pawns would not reload their weapon properly and got stuck in a loop.
• Fixed a bug where telling a mech to reload would cause any ammo currently in the weapon to vanish.
• Fixed a typo in .22 short ammo, where the bulk and mass stats were reversed.
• Pawns will now prefer to switch to melee weapons or other weapons instead of grenades when running out of ammo for their equipped weapon.
• Cleaned up some save/load code that was sometimes creating errors when loading a save with airborne projectiles.
• Fixed an error that sometimes appeared when a burst is interrupted by the target going down.
• Fixed a visual bug where blindfolds and other ‘EyeCover’ layer apparel would also be rendered across the torso.
• Replaced an obsolete method for horizontal sliders on some GUI element.
• Biotech: Fixed a typo in the Paramedic operations that was preventing it from being assigned a bodyShape.

Compatibility

• Add integrated patches for the following mods:
  o Alpha Mechs
  o AOC The Cleanup Devil
  o Archotech Weaponry
  o Dusk Armory
  o High Tech Laboratory Facilities
  o Impact Weaponry
  o Industrial Melee Weaponry
  o Matter Manipulator
  o MH: Android Tiers
  o MH: Android Tiers Core
  o MH: Mechanical Biomimetics
  o MH: Military Tiers
  o More Medieval Helms and Armor
  o New Mech: Mini-Miner
  o SRTS Expanded
  o The Corporation - Mort's Factions
  o Vanilla Animals Expanded - Waste Animals
  o Vanilla Psycasts Expanded - Hemosage
  o Vanilla Races Expanded – Android
  o Vanilla Races Expanded – Sanguophage
  o Warhammer 40k - Genes and Psycasts
• Updated integrated patches for the following mods:
  o [JDS] The Forge - NCR Armory
  o [RH2] Rimmu-Nation 2 - Clothing
  o Alpha Animals
  o Alpha Genes
  o Android Tiers Reforged
  o AnimalCollabProj
  o Arachne
  o Bori Race
  o Cybernetic Organism and Neural Network
  o Darkest Rim Core
  o Dragon’s Descent
  o EPOE Forked Royalty DLC Expansion
  o EPOE Forked
  o Fallout New Vegas – Elite Riot Gear
  o Forgelings Race
  o Gas Traps and Shells
  o Gimmicks
  o Infinite Rim Ariadna
  o Miho Race
  o Morgante Mafia Weapons
  o MorrowRim
  o Moyo Cartel
  o Moyo From the Depth
  o Moyo Light in the Abyss
  o Nukes
  o Rim-Effect Collection
  o Rimsenal Collection
  o Star Crafter’s Armory
  o The Joris Experience
  o Thog’s Guns – More Brukka Pack
  o Vanilla Factions Expanded – Empire
  o Vanilla Factions Expanded – Insectoid
  o Vanilla Factions Expanded – Mechanoid
  o Vanilla Factions Expanded – Pirates
  o Vanilla Psycasts Expanded
  o Vanilla Races Expanded – Saurid
  o Vanilla Weapons Expanded
  o Xenohumans Expanded
  o Zombieland

Balance

• Implemented a new, non-linear conversion for projectile velocity. Broadly, this change normalizes projectile velocity. While most projectiles see very little change, especially fast bullets (sabot, railgun, etc.) see a modest decrease, while slow projectiles (arrows, rifle grenades) see a modest increase.
• Hard armor (like flak vests) now only takes 50% damage from non-penetrating hits, making them more durable against non-penetrating fire.
• Apparel shields (like the ballistic shield) now take only 20% of blunt AP from non-penetrating gunshots, simulating the lesser impulse of bullet impacts vs melee strikes. This should reduce the frequency of shield-wielding pawns having body parts destroyed by blunt damage.
• Applied a 50% modifier to the Bullet damage from HEDP launcher grenades.
• Increased the mechinator command distance from 24.9 to 43.9.
• Reduced the thickness of the Parka and its variants from a base value of 10 to 4. Also removed the increased crafting cost in favor of vanilla cost.
• NPC pawns now have a small chance of spawning with poison arrows/bolts.
• Decreased the sharp AP of .25 ACP (HP) from 2 to 1.5.
• Increased the spread of cannon grapeshot.
• Various small adjustments to the mass, speed, and damage of assorted arrows and crossbow bolts.
• Adjusted various stats of the pila, including bulk, market value, and melee stats.
• Various small tweaks to the value and crafting costs of some launched grenades to bring them in-line with the spreadsheet.
• Increased the mass, damage, and pellet count of blunderbuss shot.
• Added a mechanoid variant of the minigun. While largely identical, the mechanoid variant has reduced sway and recoil.
• Beanbag ammo now does only 25% damage to buildings and plants.
• Restored the Pikeman mech’s leg melee attacks to give it somewhat better odds in close-quarters combat.
• Implement crafting skill requirements for various weapons and pieces of apparel in line with vanilla requirements.
• Biotech:
  o Increased the shot spread of the mounted mech heavy charge blaster turret from 0.08 to 0.2.
• Royalty:
  o Reworked the Hand Talon melee tools, removing the stab and replacing the cut with a scratch, to match the base game configuration.

Misc.

• Removed the linger BaseBullet ThingDef overwrite, completing the transition to the new BaseBulletCE.
• Added a SuppressionMultiplier, to allow better fine-tuning of projectile suppression.
• Various structures and workbenches, like embrasures and barbed wire, are now paintable.
• Revised the descriptions of various power armor suits and helmets.
• Combined some partialArmor line items and other whitespace housekeeping.
• Updated the generic ShotgunRevolver ammo set with specialized ammo types.
• Adjusted category of advanced and explosive ammo for the 20x42mm. All ammo variants are crafted at the loading bench.
• 81mm mortar shells no longer have casing motes or drop casing filth.
• Added some additional keyed translation items for tooltips and patching related items.
• Removed the black powder ‘Trapdoor’ variant for 45-70 government ammo.
• Combined the ammosets of the SPG9 recoilless rifle and the 2A28 GROM to reduce redundancy.
• 30x64mm Fuel Cell ammo crafting is locked behind Advanced Launchers, and is now crafted at the machining bench.
• Adjusted the sprite positioning for the charge blaster turret.
• Added new art for archotech ammo.
• New art: loading bench, musket & blunderbuss ammo, and the human & mechanoid variants of the minigun.
• Removed ‘CombatExtended.AmmoThing’ from FSX and Prometheum, so they are no longer removed when playing in No Ammo mode.
• Removed the integrated patch for Fortifications – Industrial and Mechanite Plague. They are now patched on the mod’s side.
• Changed the unpatched weapon message from an error to a warning, improved handling of them, and attached a more useful translation key.
• Updated the mod target framework from net472 to net48.
• Improved the behavior of the danger tracker. This should allow pawns to make smarter decisions when running for cover.
• Restored various vanilla melee characters
• The density of black smoke is now taken in consideration by the danger tracker.
• Added various new ammo types.
• Updated reference package versions.

Notes:

• The Vanilla Expanded Onehandedness stat should no longer appear with Combat Extended active. This should help avoid confusion.
• Some major fixes were made to the patch for the Vanilla Expanded area shields. They should all work now—including those from Vanilla Psycasts Expanded.