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Create and control entire squads of puppets! They will form on you and shoot with you in unison. They're even smart enough not to fire anything that is of a different weapon class than the one you're using (ie no friendly fire from a trigger-happy grenade launcher guy!)
Read more about squad mechanics here
Scene Editor Changes
- ‘Test scene’ pie-menu option no longer crashes the game and start an ordinary Skirmish Defense activity.
- Units can be equipped in scene editor and build editor.
- Fixed scrolling bug in build editor.
- All user-created scenes now saved in Scenes.rte and MetagamePlayable is false by default.
- You can use objects and bunker modules from ALL .rte modules currently loaded in CC if your scene is located in Scenes.rte.
- Fixed an upper-left-corner graphical glitch in scene editor.
- Terrain frostings and debris are no longer duplicated when you save a scene.
Scenario setup changes
- You can select techs, set initial gold amount and turn fog of war on and off in scenario setup dialog.
- You can add multiple AI players to scenario activity.
New ini-properties
- HeldDevice: Loudness (a device is audible from ~Loudness*0.6*playerScreenWidth when activated). Default is 1.0 except tools where the default is 0.5
- Emissions: InheritsVel (a float value [0..1]). Default is 0.0
- MOPixels:
- MinLethalRange & MaxLethalRange, a float value [0..infinity]: ini-property for making pixels lose sharpness over range (for shotguns etc.)
- MOPixels from guns lose sharpness after travelling ~(SharpAim+ScreenWidth/2)*Random(MinLethalRange, MaxLethalRange)
- Other MOPixels e.g. gibs lose sharpness after travelling ScreenWidth*Random(MinLethalRange, MaxLethalRange)
- Default is 1.0 for both values.
- Round: AIFireVel and AILifeTime properties that override FireVel and projectile LifeTime when the AI calculate how to aim.
- Craft: MaxPassengers so the AI knows how many actors will fit in the craft.
Lua changes
- Scene: CalculatePath() and MovePath
- SceneMan: CastMaxStrengthRay()
- AHuman: EquipNamedDevice(), EquipDeviceInGroup(), EquipLoadedFirearmInGroup(), FirearmActivationDelay, Jetpack
- ACrab: EquippedItem, FirearmActivationDelay, Jetpack, Turret, LFGLeg, LBGLeg, RFGLeg, RBGLeg
- Actor: AimDistance, SetAlarmPoint(), GetAlarmPoint()
- ConsoleMan: Clear() - HDFirearm: ActivationDelay, DeactivationDelay, ReloadTime, ShakeRange, SharpShakeRange, NoSupportFactor, ParticleSpreadRange
- AEmitter: Throttle, BurstSpacing, GetEmitVector(), GetRecoilVector(), EstimateImpulse(), CanTriggerBurst()
- MovableMan: GetClosestEnemyActor()
- Added API for drawing graphical primitives.
- Added simple API for file access instead of Lua’s ‘io’ and ‘os’ libraries.
- Any MovableObject now has UniqueID property which is always unique for every MovableObject in the simulation.
- Terrain object can be placed via Lua scripts. No Scrap!
- Added RemoveInventoryItem function to remove an item from an actor’s inventory.
AI fixes and features
- AHumans in the "Snipers" and "Brains" group now spot enemies quicker and more reliably than other actors.
- The scripted AI now react to being hit, not just sounds.
- Humans equipped with diggers can now find a path through any terrain the digger can cut, instead of always trying to move around it.
- AI shooting skill is set by the activity difficulty slider.
- Improved AI path following by predicting the jump path when using jetpacks.
- MetaFight: AI teams get up to a 50% discount when buying units, based on difficulty.
- Made AI crabs better at using spin up weapons.
Other fixes and features
- Added a new Brain vs Brain activity that is playable both against the AI and other players.
- AI controlled actors now have less noticeable sharp aim dots.
- MovePointToGround(x,y) when x >= SceneWidth gave a funny value.
- Fixed AHuman:EquipDiggingTool so it only equips diggers.
- Fixed a wrap bug in the CastObstacleRay return value.
- Rockets can now use DrawAfterParent on thrusters.
- Made AHumans and ACrabs lift the fog all the way to the edge of the screen if Perceptiveness = 1.0.
- Improved an error messages caused by any non-existent copyOf.
- Fixed a bug when pie-menu sometimes lost its current selection when controlled with gamepad.
- Weapons with ActivationDelay now properly silenced when actor switches items.
- Fixed Settings.ini corruption bug.
- You can now specify CrabToHumanSpawnRatio property in your module to set the crab spawn ratio for your mod.
- Buy menu now loads default loadouts along with player’s presets in scenario activities.
- You can tell CC to load some modules earlier than others using the ‘LoadFirst’ module property.
- You can specify dependencies for your module using ‘Require’ module property. CC will abort anyway, but at least it will show a more informative error message.
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