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Discovery 5.0 Hotfix 5
ART
- Added: New, custom visual and sound effects for Solaris (capital) turrets.
- Added: New visual effects for Unione Corse gunboat turrets.
- Added: Ship dealer icon for the Coalition Heavy Transport.
- Added: Icons for the AWES- and =CR= official faction IDs.
- Changed: Order / Liberty Battlecruiser Turrets now use a much smaller turret model.
- Changed: Hogosha Gunboat cockpit from the Kusari Gunboat cockpit to a Generic Capital cockpit.
- Changed: Samura Liner cockpit model changed from the Bretonia Freighter cockpit to a generic capital cockpit.
- Changed: Upscaled the Outcast Heavy Transport engine's effects.
- Fixed: Cruise charge sound cutting off too early on CNO-U and CNO-X Heavy Transport Engine.
- Fixed: Heavy tanker engine hardpoint names, giving the ship the correct number of engine nozzles.
- Fixed: Extra Asteroid Miner (Hegemon) engine burning the pilot alive.
- Fixed: Barracuda using the Hammerhead's ship dealer icon.
- Fixed: Heavy Lifter engine nozzle count now matches number of engines on the ship.
- Fixed: Flipped UVs on the Samura Liner's hardpoints.
- Fixed: Blood Dragon "Yari" Freighter now has red cockpit glass so that its cockpit interior is no longer invisible.
- Fixed: Blood Dragon "Yari" Freighter overlapping HpHeadLight hardpoints; now also includes a second HpHeadLight in its ship dealer package.
BALANCE
- Added: Salepoints for Battleship Siege Cannons.
- Changed: Supernova Antimatter Cannons now deal +40% damage to Cruiser, Battlecruiser & Battleship shields.
- Changed: Bomber Shield adjustments: increased anti-fighter weapon weakness from 50% to 100%. Regular bomber shields' recharge/capacity increased from 228.75/6860 to 309.33/9280; Heavy bomber shields' recharge/capacity increased from 285.9/8580 to 388/11640.
- Changed: Increased Bombers' shield battery counts (now equal to nanobots^1.175 instead of nanobots^1.115).
- Changed: Mistral (Noir) upscaled by 15%. Shield class increased from 1 to 2.
- Changed: Made the Camera Ship and Scanner, Mining and Repair drones class 0 so they're seen as light fighters.
- Changed: ROSETHORN codename stats revamped.
- Changed: SILVER STAR codename stats revamped, name changed to QUASAR.
- Changed: Shirogane armor & nanobot count reduced.
- Changed: Gallic Frigate rebalanced: Armor increased from 580000 to 670000; Shield Battery count reduced from 4000 to 0; Powercore capacity reduced from 1080000 to 720000; Powercore recharge increased from 26250 to 35000.
- Changed: Improved the position of the Heavy Lifter's thruster hardpoint.
- Changed: Increased the turn rate of Battlecruiser Primary Turrets (Pulses included) from 25-30 to 75 degrees per second.
- Changed: Jumpdrives, Hyperspace Matrices, Survey Modules & Docking Modules can no longer be destroyed using explosion damage.
- Changed: Cloaking Devices now have similar hitpoint values as Countermeasure Droppers, making them more robust against explosion damage (but less robust against direct hits, should those occur).
- Changed: Claymore Missile Launcher ammo increased from 800 to 4000. Ammo cost reduced from 7 to 2 credits.
- Changed: Claymore Forward Guns that were lacking in efficiency are now vastly more efficient.
- Changed: Hellfire Rocket Pod velocity decreased from 550ms to 450ms, dispersion increased to 3 from 2.75. Ammo cost reduced from to 5 to 2 credits.
- Changed: Abbadon dispersion angle increased from 2 to 2.5.
- Fixed: The Gaian "Panther" Bomber having a second HpEngine where there should have only been a thruster hardpoint. Also did some slight clean-up of the mesh itself.
- Fixed: The Hawk can now mount Fighter Heavy Weapons.
- Fixed: Bases no longer sell 'fake' jump drive batteries.
- Fixed: Hagane now comes with a VHF shield.
ECONOMY
- Changed: Reduced the material costs of a variety of PoB factory construction recipes.
- Changed: Atka now sells Pharmaceuticals.
- Changed: Increased the value of Prototype Components from 25 to 520 credits.
- Changed: Changed the prices of various fighter missile launchers and their ammo to be a little more uniform.
- Fixed: QUAKE Gunboat Turret factory recipe now actually produces a QUAKE Gunboat Turret.
ENCOUNTERS / NPCS
- Changed: Reduced the number of CMs NPCs have, so fewer drop in space.
- Changed: Reduced the range at which NPCs drop mines.
- Changed: Added a Boss Battleship to the Hessian encounter.
- Changed: Corsair encounters updated & difficulty increased.
- Changed: Bretonia encounter is now more unique and difficult.
- Changed: Adjusted the armor upgrades on some encounter's heavy battleships.
- Changed: Increased the hitpoints of the Corsair base in the Omega-5 encounter.
- Changed: NPC bomber torpedo explosion radius reduced from 77 to 40.
- Changed: Removed Cruise Disruptors from most NPCs.
- Changed: Increased encounter profitability.
- Changed: Encounter bomber AI updated.
- Fixed: Rheinland Carrier not spawning in RM encounter.
- Fixed: Liberty Carrier not spawning in Liberty encounter.
INFOCARDS
- Added: Toulouse Orbital Debris Field infocard.
- Changed: Cruisers, Battlecruisers and Battleships's statistics infocards now list how far they strafe in 2 seconds, rather than 0.5.
- Changed: Improved the Base Construction Platform's infocard.
- Fixed: Mislabeled Gallic missions stating they are against Gallic Navy ships when instead they are missions against Royalists.
- Fixed: Highly physically improbable Omega-41 neutron star mass and radius.
- Fixed: Federalists removed from a few Rheinland IDs referencing them.
- Fixed: Liberty Light Gunboat Turret's infocard claiming to use less power than regular turrets while in reality consuming more power.
- Fixed: Incorrect faction names in missions for a variety of factions.
SYSTEMS
- Added: Omega-41 flavor wreck.
- Added: Gaian women.
- Added: Tau-37 - Alpha debris field exclusion zone.
- Changed: The Asteroid Miner (Hegemon) can now be bought in Bretonia on Redcarr Production Facility & in Kusari on Isehara Refinery.
- Changed: Adjustment to Newcastle's red nebula lane exclusion zone so fewer asteroids are in the way.
- Changed: Luxury Liner Hubble given loot.
- Changed: The Malta Docking Ring can no longer be destroyed by dealing damage to it, and instead is destroyed immediately upon being spotted or undocked from.
- Changed: Reduced the amount of Prototype Components dropped from static wrecks.
- Changed: Tau-37 - Alpha jumphole given an exclusion zone.
- Changed: Secundus Outpost now sells AI equipment.
- Changed: The Eagle (Damaged) is now available on Bornholm Depot.
- Changed: Removed Shonan Base trader fixture.
- Changed: Shuffled around various ship salepoints to improve ship availability.
- Changed: Re-added LD-14 lane exclusion zone.
- Fixed: Pilgrim salepoints displayed incorrectly in FLStat.
- Fixed: Languedoc nebulae and fields' infocards.
- Fixed: Undocking a Barge from Mecklenburg should now be easier.
- Fixed: Leeds planet smog infocard.
- Fixed: New Tokyo navmap issues.
- Fixed: Updated Magellan system information.
- Fixed: Updated various systems' system information.
- Fixed: Sigma-17 to Sigma-19 jumpgate IFF changed from Samura to GMG.
- Fixed: Omega-52 is no longer labeled as Edge World, now labeled as Omega Edge World.
- Fixed: New London Atmosphere is no longer labeled as being in 'Unknown', now correctly labeled as being in Bretonia.
- Fixed: Tau-61 is no longer labeled as being a Border World, now labeled as being a Tau Edge World.
- Fixed: A number of System infocards updated to 2023.
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