Angels Fall First

Released: Jul 11, 2026
Platforms: Windows
Last updated: 05 Sep 2026, 03:18 GMT

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22 Aug 2026Developer post
Angels Fall First 1.01 Patch Preview
Incoming Update: The Fight Goes On 1.01 Hey there, AFF community! We’re still hard at work on cleaning up the rubble from the 1.0 launch, and wanted to share some of the next patch’s highlights ahead of time. We still have more content plans cooking and will share our REDACTED pl
Incoming Update: The Fight Goes On 1.01
Hey there, AFF community! We’re still hard at work on cleaning up the rubble from the 1.0 launch, and wanted to share some of the next patch’s highlights ahead of time.
We still have more content plans cooking and will share our REDACTED plans with you all at some point in the near future, as we have some really cool (at least we sure think so) stuff we still want to add to the game. There’s still a lot of love for the game from us and we want to be more consistent with communicating where we’re at with its development and what you all can expect in the future.
Onwards to the meat and potatoes of this upcoming patch. We have map changes, balance changes, network performance improvements, some UI changes, and a whole slew of bugfixes awaiting deployment. This is just a preview of what we have in store for you all.
We even have a fun little melee addition we’re working on that is geared towards improving Heavy suit users’ ability to retaliate as we still see the knife out there going strong, so we’re looking at more counterplay and adjustments. Note that it may not be present in the closed test build. Pugilists rejoice!
As a big big big side note: We are coordinating a series of 64 player stress tests on our closed test branch. If you’re up for it, we’d love to get your help during our usual Saturday Community Event time around 7pm Eastern Time (23:00 UTC)!
Some of these changes are also on the closed test branch if you wanna get your feedback shared with us before deployment.
Whether you’re playing offline or online, we hope you like these changes.
If you’re interested, opt into the beta branch on Steam:
Go to your Steam Library, right click on Angels Fall First, click Properties, then go to Game Versions & Betas and enter this code: saltmustflow into the Private Versions access code section. It will start a download afterwards.
Now, onto the patch notes, minus all the bugfixes we've done since the last patch (there's a lot). There may yet be more content included in the patch that's not listed here but all the big stuff we are for sure getting in the next patch is in the post.
Performance
Network
Numerous networking performance tweaks and optimizations to enhance server performance under the strain of high player counts in a match. (Ongoing)
Balance Changes
General Changes
Respawning is restricted if you have recently taken damage (2s)
Helmet Mods
Design Team’s Notes: In the live build, Light Suits with Agility and Infiltrator spec mods still dominate the gameplay space and Assault spec is overtuned to say the least, leading to a lot of complaints about TTK and the light suit bouncy boys flying all over the place. We also want to give new players a better experience with the process of gaining experience. We’re trying to avoid hurting skill expression but also need to find harmony somewhere in between.
Agility Spec Rebalance
Agility spec will now work based on charges (3 charges, 1 recovered every 2s)
Assault Spec Rebalance
Assault spec has been rebalanced. It is generally a nerf, though the stacks decay slower. New reduction is roughly *3 hits = 20% reduction, 9 = 40%, 21 = 50%... "max" 60%*
Leveling Spec Changes
Costs reduced to 0/0/0 for equipping this mod.
Infiltrator Spec Rebalance
One-shot protection will now force a minimum of 3s recovery time on armor on break, and armor must be fully regenerated for another charge of one-shot protection. (This may be tuned a bit further, pending feedback)
Maps
Lukather Starport Overhaul
Level Designer’s Notes: Lukather, Lukather, Lukather. This map was one of the first maps I ever touched and prepped for launch back when I joined the team. It has sat untouched for quite some time and when we finally got an audience, they helped me find all sorts of problems with its design. Gunships dominate the space largely unopposed because of how flat the map’s tarmac is and how limited the infantry choices are for hiding from the terrors of the skies. I aim to make it a better overall experience to play, so I added six new underground infantry paths, repositioned or added cover, and added more spawn points to help against spawn camping. There were also some cheese strategies that needed fixing.
Both Variants
Added the Y13 Novagare Civilian Transport ship, which is floating above a grav cradle. For clarity, this ship is strictly a static prop, and functions as a major line of sight interruptor.
Added six brand new underground maintenance access tunnels, five of which are infantry-only.
Two of these pathways run between grav cradles.
One of the pathways leads right into the ATC tower from the nearest grav cradle.
Another one of the pathways goes directly to the baggage area in the main concourse.
The largest pathway, which was designed for vehicle usage, connects to the grav cradle underneath the Griphon Corvette to the grav cradle underneath the newly added Y13 Novagare.
The sixth and final pathway connects a stairwell from the large underground vehicle pathway to the fuel tank area topside.
A check-in area has been added to gates 1 through 3 in the main concourse, providing cover in a much-needed location.
Lots of little additions and set dressing done throughout the map.
Incursion Variant
Added a second AIA drop pod in Phase 1.
The ATC tower is out of bounds until Phase 3, and has doors to indicate it is blocked off, which open up at the start of Phase 3.
Added a Turtle for the ULA.
Added an extra gunship for both teams for Phase 3.
Territories Variant
Relocated Objective Bravo to the new underground vehicle pathway.
Relocated Objective Alpha and Echo to new underground pathways.
Added an additional spawn room for both teams.
Relocated the AIA and ULA drop pods to opposite sides of the triangular building next to the car park.
Added an IFV, one for each team.
Added a second gunship for both teams.
Irega Incursion Changes
Raised large tank to block LoS from AIA spawn in Phase 3 against LZ C2
Added set dressing to block LoS from the Phase 3 tower's upper floors to LZ C1
Relit interior spaces on left side of tower in Phase 3 for better visibility
Reopened stairwell on right end of the phase 3 building, near LZ C2
Territories Maps Changes
Level Designer’s Notes: It’s really not fun to get boxed in when the other team has map control, so I’ve gone through and looked at several of our ground territories maps under a microscope to make lockouts less likely, spawn camping less likely, and just generally more fun to fight on as a result of some additional changes I've made.
Errah Territories Changes
Added secondary spawns for both teams.
Closed off some sightlines from building interiors directly to AIA and ULA spawns.
Moved LZ capture points and landing zones slightly because of new spawn sightlines. Both teams have a 'gimmie' LZ now because of the extra spawns. Relocated the central capture point to a slightly more protected space and added some cover.
Added new cover near new spawn points to help with leaving spawn and reducing spawn camping capabilities.
Added more cover around the central capture point.
Fortress Territories Changes
Added secondary spawn locations for both teams.
Moved LZ capture point to a median point between the two new spawn rooms.
Moved AIA and ULA drop pods to safer locations.
Added new infantry bridges between the outer wall and the inner wall, allowing for better flow between the lower and upper areas, and providing safer routes for infantry to take between the two zones.
Added additional landmark near AIA spawn zone B.
Added two more capturable sensors, tied to each capture point on the map. Previously there were only 3, now there are 5.
Irega Territories Changes
Added a second spawn room for both teams. The ULA gets one in cargotown, and AIA gets one at the starport terminal. The AIA’s safe capture point is Obj. Charlie and ULA’s safe capture point is Obj. Bravo.
Relocated cargotown LZ capture point to a more protected and closer area to the actual dropship spawn location.
Majuro Changes
Level Designer's Notes: Due to community demands, Strangelet capitulated and added the much-requested fish.
Added fish.
Added two new spawn points, one for each team, located roughly equidistant from the team's two objectives on their side of the tracks. These spawn points are slightly more exposed.
Added cover on approaches from new spawns.
Added field gun emplacements to all spawn points.
Added a new path through the garage tunnel under the long hill that runs between the server bunker and the radio mast bunker.
Optimized bot navmesh to ensure better pathing and to prevent them from pathing out of bounds.
Meudeverre Changes
Changed the Rejkhart Destroyers for the Heimdall Lineships to match the Chons Lineships in combat.
Spacecraft
Design Team’s Notes: Crippling corvettes in one fell swoop with a dropship was an oversight on our part so we corrected it. Sorry to any of those that were loving the dropship mines!
Dropships have had their mine type changed to the anti-fighter variant.
Vehicles
General
AIA drone (PD) can now target mines (To make up for them generally being squishier than ULA counterpart)
Mines have had their damage reduced. Mine base damage has been reduced from 300 to 250 and the frag payloads damage from 225 to 200.
Gunship
Design Team’s Notes: Initially we wanted to keep this bit of asymmetry between the Locust and the Sturm, but it wound up being too problematic to keep in the game because of how easily it could delete hackspikes from a position of safety.
Removed surface penetration from the Sturm’s main guns.
Handling Improvements and Top Speed Increases
Design Team's Notes: We weren't exactly happy with where vehicle movement was, and adjusted handling and top speeds partly based on their real-world counterparts. It isn't fun to be holding the W key for what feels like a full minute on Delta and barely reach one of the objectives in a big ol' tank. The Turtle was living up to its name all too well, so we’ve buffed its top speed and boost strength a lot. We've also tweaked the LAV handling for both teams, with the Silverback having slightly better base acceleration than the Hare.
LAVs should now be less slippery while driving, less bouncy, and slightly less prone to flippage
LAV acceleration increased slightly across the board
LAV top speed raised to 120km/h, up from 100km/h
LAV boost consumption rate increased and recharge rate increased as well
LAV boost power slightly reduced
LAV turn rate reduced slightly
Turtle top speed raised to 86km/h, up from 60 km/h
Basta top speed raised to 72km/h, up from 60km/h
Turtle boost power increased
Basta friction slightly increased to improve control
Dhaka top speed raised to 57 km/h, up from 43 km/h
Dhaka friction slightly reduced to maintain momentum (It is, after all, a hover tank)
Partisan top speed raised to 64 km/h, up from 57 km/h
Tank and IFV Health Pool Buffs
Design Team’s Notes: This is a 12.5% increase to base EHP for Tanks and IFVs, individually. For clarity, these values are before any armor plating is added. The current ecosystem favors fast and mobile vehicles over slower, more durable vehicles currently. Allows for more time to react to bad positioning. Regeneration rates and timing unchanged.
Basta
Old Values: 2350hp/250armor/1000shield (3600 total)
New Values: 2350hp/700armor/1000shield (4050 total)
Dhaka
Old Values: 2600hp/200armor/1500shield (4300 total),
New Values: 2600hp/750armor/1500shield (4850 total)
Partisan
Old values: 4100hp/1700armor (5800 total)
New Values: 4100hp/2300armor (6500 total)
Turtle
Old Values: 3350hp/1250armor (4600 total)
New Values: 3350hp/1850armor (5200 total)

Weapons
Anti-Vehicle Weapons
C30i Anti-Vehicle Improvements
Design Team’s Notes: The C30i has lagged behind other AV options by quite a bit when facing off against vehicles. This is intended to give it a much greater punch against vehicles while avoiding boosting its anti infantry strength. This new damage modifier brings its total damage per magazine vs. vehicles up from 2,240 to 3,600, compared to the RID's 3,600 damage per magazine and the MLI's 4,500 damage per magazine. As you can see, the disparity was pretty extreme. This puts it in a better spot.
C30i Proxy Explosion Maximum damage values increased from 160 to 180 (A 12.5% increase)
C30i Proxy Explosion Minimum damage values increased from 143 to 150 (Close to a 5% increase)
C30i Proxy Explosion Vehicle Damage Multiplier increased from 2.0 to 2.5 (A 25% increase)
C30i Shell speed increased from 4000 to 4400 (A 10% increase)
MLI Shift and Ease of Use Changes
Design Team’s Notes: The MLI already feels pretty good to use but there are some quirks to its design which made it less new-user friendly. We've removed the extra mod slot and made the lock on time shorter to reduce effective budget costs. We also sped up its missiles and submunitions to make hits more reliable and tightened up the initial deviation for the MLI's submunitions to make it easier to use in general.
Lock-on Time from 1.5s to 1.25s to partly account for mod slot removal.
Increased dumbfire missile base speed from 2000 to 2250 (A 12.5% increase)
Reduced submunitions deviation from 0.5 to 0.4 to tighten the cluster slightly (A 20% improvement)
Increased submunition speeds from 3000 to 3500 (A 16.67% increase)
Removed the third mod slot. This is also to help close the gap between new and veteran players.

RID Shift and Ease of Use Changes
Design Team’s Notes: We had previously gotten feedback that the RID felt terrible to use against vehicles in general, especially from newer players. We shifted its use cases a bit so it feels a lot better to use against vehicles while simultaneously leaving its anti-infantry capabilities slightly worse off. We've also reduced its effective budget costs. It still retains the same damage per magazine pre-buff vs. vehicles, resulting in a 25% increase in DPS vs. vehicles.
Charge time base amount reduced from 4 seconds to 3 seconds (25% faster charge times)
Max base damage decreased to 150 from 200 (25% damage reduction)
Minimum base damage decreased to 135 from 160 (25% damage reduction)
Anti-Vehicle Damage multiplier increased from 2.25 to 3.0 to still deal 900 damage on a fully charged shot, a net increase in DPS against vehicles.
Removed the third mod slot. This is to help close the gap between new and veteran players.

Detpacks
Design Team’s Notes: Arguably one of the strongest explosives in the game by far, thanks to a combination of high damage and area of effect, we felt it necessary to curb its current usage methods.
Detpack proxy mode arming time increased from 2 to 3 seconds
Detpack frag charge damage reduced from 800 to 600
Detpack ammo count reduced from 4 to 3
Handguns
Design Team’s Notes: We noticed that the handguns were performing worse than their other in-slot sidearm options, so we wanted to buff them. The SM-54 especially needed a buff with its shot pattern being very random. Even in their own range bracket, they seemed to be overshadowed by the SMGs, so these changes aim at making them generally better to use while strengthening their identity as lightweight, quick, panic button options.
SM54
Reduced the inaccuracy of hipfire from (Min=0.38,Max=0.7) to (Min=0.34,Max=0.55)
Sighted inaccuracy from 0.32 to 0.17
Reload speed from 3.2 to 3.1
EVP
Reduced the inaccuracy of hipfire from (Min=0.34,Max=0.48) to (Min=0.3,Max=0.4)
Max damage has been increased by 20 (from 157 to 177)
Reload speed from 2.23 to 2.03
UDP
Max damage has been increased by 10 (from 81 to 91)
Reload speed from 2.23 to 2.13
Quality of Life & Polish Changes
Bots
Improved bot targeting.
Improved bot firing.
Orders from the Commander are now only delegated to Squad Leaders, which have their own set of decision-making processes.
General
Issuing orders through tacmap will now have the voicelines as if done through the command-wheel.
Hints will mention the ability to mute players through the scoreboard.
Pressing the key of an unused loadout slot will make it pick the next instead.
Reduced default match times and reduced the default relative scaling of territories time.
UI
Previously we didn’t have access to tools that would allow us to make changes, so we’re pretty lucky we found a way to work with the arcane, esoteric ways of Scaleform. We only recently found this artifact again so it may be some time before we’re able to resolve a lot of the issues that we are now capable of fixing with the UI’s current deficiencies. We have a whole internal tasklist of requests from you guys to address!
Added a toggle for the Profanity Filter.
Removed the unused VOIP keybind in settings.
Potentially better feedback for fighter and dropship availability.
Added a Random Map option in the map vote screen.
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18 Jul 2026Developer post
1.0 Hotfix #1
Hey there AFF Community! First hotfix for 1.0 is out! A whirlwind of fixes, tweaks, map improvements and balance changes, all in response to Your awesome feedback! It's been an amazing week! The servers haven’t exactly gone up in flames after release either but you’ve undoubtedly
Hey there AFF Community!
First hotfix for 1.0 is out! A whirlwind of fixes, tweaks, map improvements and balance changes, all in response to Your awesome feedback! It's been an amazing week!
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The servers haven’t exactly gone up in flames after release either but you’ve undoubtedly noticed we keep most of them capped to 32 players - that’s largely because the networking layer started hammering their CPUs after so many new people showed up and we can’t exactly get a building full of NASA supercomputers. We have however identified all the bottlenecks and we’re working on optimising the servers, so expect them to start coming back to full 64 players capacity over the coming weeks.
Balance
Sonic Knife
The knife everyone’s been talking about will likely be receiving another, more nuanced pass soon, possibly with updated animations, but to address current issues quickly we nerfed the slash attack rate by about 22% and reduced the damage by close to 25%. The reason the attack times were originally changed was to address some animation quirks of the knife, but that wound up having unforeseen consequences. We don’t like seeing matches turn into a blender of knives and neither does the Community, but we also don’t want to hurt genuine skill expression, so to incentivise a more deliberate usage of the knife we also increased the charged secondary attack damage.
GU-34 Gauss Rifle
One of our veterans brought up a major discrepancy with time to kill with the GU-34. Its TTK, even when tapfiring as it is designed to do, was roughly 30-40% longer than other heavy weapons like the DK31 and the EVR. We buffed its effective range and damage, which should help it compete with other weapons in its range brackets. This simple change simultaneously makes tap fire more effective and makes the weapon less hamstrung when the EMP proc is applied to it.
SGZ Special 4-Gauge Shotgun
The SGZ Special is a really fun weapon to use but its efficacy in close quarters is hampered by its long reload time, meaning it’s often easier to just switch to another weapon instead of reloading, especially if the double barrel blast doesn’t get the first target. We’ve decreased the reload time by around 20%, so where you’re vulnerable while reloading is less of a drawback for this weapon while engaged in combat.
Gunships
They are generally considered one of the more oppressive vehicles in the game by the Community. We’ve reduced their regen rates and increased their regen delays to make deterrents more effective without harming direct survivability. We will be looking at gunship and infantry interplay closely over time.
Vehicle Shields
The shields, and vehicles as a whole, are purposefully resistant to small-arms fire. The shields did exhibit behaviour of being practically impervious to this damage source, so we have guaranteed that sustained fire is no longer completely useless, but can very ineffectively chip away at a vehicle, or at least act as support for others with anti-vehicle weapons. Previous behaviour had shields immediately regenerate once broken, while the new iteration forces them down for at least 3 seconds regardless of source.
Server browser
With the greatly increased number of servers popping up, both official and player-hosted, the in-game server browser started taking a good while to refresh. We’ve updated it to be way more responsive and not wait on every server’s ping response before updating the list.
Profanity filter
Exceptionally naughty server names should be gone now, as well as the profanities in the in-game chat. Let’s keep it civil.
More stability fixes
We’ve been hard at work all week hunting down some rare client-side crashes too - at least a couple of them - on reconnecting and refreshing the server browser as well as traveling to another map - have been squashed.
Watch this space for more stuff in the coming days, as always come talk to us on Discord and have a lovely weekend!
Onwards and upwards!
Changelog:
Fixes:
Fixed a number of garbage-collector-related and online-connectivity-related crashes
Hackspikes can now be damaged by the multiwrench
Vehicles (except mechs) can no longer plant hackspikes
Fixed some instances of the Last Man Standing condition happening unintentionally in Space Incursion maps, leaving no spawn points available to use immediately after match start
Server Browser optimized to handle many, many servers
We have added a profanity and slur filter for both in-game text chat and server names
Several Dropship animation desync instances were resolved
Trying to bind “Enter” as a key no longer removes it as a confirmkey (would remove the ability to use it to send chat for instance). If the key was already changed, you must bind "Enter" to something and back again
Quality of life:
Changed Commander Vote text to clarify that it’s Opt-In
Milnet will assist with providing orders for Commanders with a CMD rank of 5 or less if they have not issued orders after 5 minutes of not ordering commands. There is a hint to indicate this as well.
Bots
Fixed an issue in bot memory that wasn't making them stick to priority as intended and not considering some targets
Allowed bot memory to redo priority if the new target would double the current priority
Bot memory no longer cares about current enemy priority if it is none
Reduced sight-delay by .2s if we were hit by them
Holding short-range weapons like knives or the multiwrench no longer forces bots to ignore the target if outside its current range
Bots should not consider squadhints for the duration of their weapon fire, rather than just relative to its start (punishing longer-firing weapons)
Bumped current weapon rating if it is currently firing to discourage them from swapping too frequently, especially if they are in the middle of using it
Bots should be more likely to fully deploy a deployable
Bots planting, or part of planting, a hackspike will no longer hesitate after it gets planted with reacting
Bots should generally be better at spreading out at objectives
Maps:
Errah:
Large line-of-sight blocker added to protect ULA drop pod from defenders
Increased the drop height for several vehicle droppers and modified the rotation angle to avoid clipping through terrain
Irega:
Fixed missing collision boxes on bridges and ramps behind Objective Delta in Cargotown
Added collision to techjunk near Sleazy Street and opened up fences for extra paths for both variants
Irega Territories - prevented sniping via turret against the droppod
Lukather (both variants) - added line-of-sight blocker to reduce ease of hackspike sniping from the ATC tower
Tannhauser:
Relocated Velius drop points for defenders to safer locations
Added vehicle blocking volume around Objective Delta hackspike and its tunnels
Added/relocated LoS blocker to better protect AIA lower deck drop pod
Added LoS interruptors to address anti hackspike RID cheese against Objective Charlie from ULA spawn
Prevented bots from walking off along a very long strut and getting lost
Cleaned up bot pathing in Phase 2 near Obj. Golf
Darsalaam - fixed area naming
Delta Territories - added collision to baseplate object near extraction laser
Fortress - fixed floating flares
Majuro:
Added missing blocking volumes around generators near Obj. Foxtrot near AIA spawn
Fixed snag near Obj. Golf inside bunkers near ULA spawn
Mirnoide - obscured space park terrain
Fighter Bases now should have the correct animations for the dropship
Minor collision fix in the Khamun engine room
Original post
14 Jul 2026Developer post
The Morning After
Hey there AFF Community! So the release went surprisingly smoothly given how scrappy of an endeavour this is! There's still obviously a bunch of things we'll have to hotfix - but a lot of people seem to be having fun with the game and we're eternally grateful for all your input a
Hey there AFF Community!
So the release went surprisingly smoothly given how scrappy of an endeavour this is! There's still obviously a bunch of things we'll have to hotfix - but a lot of people seem to be having fun with the game and we're eternally grateful for all your input and reactions and reviews and how much the Community is growing right now! The online matches have been awesome, we've had our share of fighting all of you in space and on the ground, had the laughs and the drinks and now we're back to work!
The release period was so busy we didn't manage to write a proper changelog up for the 1.0 post, so you'll find it below. Most importantly - we managed to fix a large number of server crashes and it totally wouldn't be possible if you guys and gals haven't turned out in force before the actual release day - even if we had the budget, running QA on a 32+ players servers would be a nightmare without such a dedicated Community :)
Things to address
DX11 vs DX9 - so at the absolute last second we decided to roll back the change that makes the DX11 renderer the default - now you'll again get the choice to launch in DX9 or optionally DX11. The DX11 version still runs a tiny bit faster (although admittedly it doesn't matter on 99% of PCs, outside of some anomalous cases AFF is barely taxing in terms of rendering) and allows for the very pretty MSAA, but we've seen a lot of people still getting annoying UI glitches with it, far more than we were aware of in internal testing. We'll revisit the renderer some time after the release, see if we can clean those up once again.
Steam Server Browser - did you know that thing existed? We kinda forgot! And people made us aware after the release it doesn't show playercounts on our servers at all (it still shows the list of servers though, and you can join from it). We'll look into the issue but for now do rely on the in-game server browser or the one on our Discord, those are absolutely fine.
Things coming shortly
In-game server browser improvements - we've noticed with the large number of servers now the browser has become a bit slow to refresh. And also lacking in a couple QOL features and general responsiveness. We're working on improving that.
The Knife - currently a hot topic in balance discussions. Some of you are exceptionally good with the knife, especially when paired with the light suit and agility spec. You know who you are! ;) We don't like to knee-jerk balance changes but this is something that absolutely needs to be addressed.
We'll start with a 25% nerf to the refire rate of its primary attack which we'll make it a bit less of a dumb slash-around weapon and if that doesn't change the impression enough we have several other ideas how to make it more deliberate and less OP (swing speed reduction, diminishing returns on hit, cooldown after a successful hit etc.) Let's test it together over the next few weeks!
Profanity filter - oh yeah, a few of you have been naughty with the server names and we've noticed! If you know us you'll know we're the first to curse like sailors at a pub but some phrases are unacceptable, especially in a game our kids might play too.
Even more stability - we're aware there's at least 2 rare client crashes, an even rarer no-audio issue and some performance hitches on some hardware configurations. We're investigating and fixing them as the reports keep coming in.
Bot tweaks - we've adjusted a bunch of logic around how the bots behave and position themselves when capturing and defending objectives, should result in more organic and evenly spread-out encounters.
So those changes, alongside a bunch of other balance and map tweaks, will probably come out in a patch within the next couple days. We got to time the updates a little more sensibly now so we don't kick all of you from the server at peak hours ;)
Furthermore, expect another post like this in a couple days - with a little bit of history, a little bit of how and why we are where we are and more about the future of AFF - both the very nearest and the possibly very distant.
And once again, huge thanks to all of you, enjoy the game, spread the word and see you next time!
Onwards and upwards!
The changelog from the 1.0 build:
Maps:
Added multiple new and improved mission briefings across several maps
Reworked objective layout and attack routes a little on Ascella
Major navigation overhaul, more cover, adjusted landing zones layout and prevented vehicles from entering unintended interiors on Fortress
Added new infantry routes around Objective D on Irega
Improved collision and prevented vehicles from entering the terminal on Lukather
Improved collision across Majuro, namely around tracks and turbines
Fixed some lighting glitches in multiple interiors, and the briefingroom
Gameplay fixes & improvements:
Fixed several server crashes with more than 32 players and on map transitions
Reduced unnecessary network update frequency for several replicated actors (ship interior consoles, subsystems, destroyables
Bots now spread out more effectively when capturing objectives
Improved Instant Play matchmaking logic
Added support for resetting all custom loadouts back to their defaults
Improved boarding exit behaviour for dropships and stations
Added a new "Lava" damage type and corrected related achievement tracking
Fixed space-fighter killstreak incorrectly tracking in gunships
Corrected the Basta burst-fire weapon descriptions
Server browser now trims pasted addresses automatically
Fixed deleting loadouts occasionally selecting an empty entry
Fixed various menu and frontend presentation issues
Improved vehicle materials and multi-material rendering
Balanced texture brightness across multiple assets
Improved loadout preview scene lighting
Added additional AISN voice work
Fixed several missing audio triggers
Balance:
Gunship rockets - Increased maximum damage, reduced splash radius, adjusted damage falloff
Rebalanced Locust and Sturm main cannons - shorter effective range, higher close-range damage
Increased bomblet explosion radius
Some of you also asked for a detailed changelog from before 1.0, all the little things that went into Update 30. We posted highlights back then because the full thing was really way too long to fit into a Steam post, but you can click HERE for the full document.
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11 Jul 2026Developer post
Angels Fall First 1.0 !
Hey there AFF Community! The wait is over, after 10 years of Two Weeks ™ Angels Fall First 1.0 is here! Ten years ago, we launched Angels Fall First into Early Access with a ridiculously ambitious goal: build the large-scale combined-arms sci-fi shooter we always wanted to play o
04 Jul 2026Developer post
More stability
Hey there AFF Community! Thanks to Your efforts in the last few days we've managed to identify and fix a bunch of nasty crashes - mostly on the side of the dedicated servers, but also a couple client-side ones. We can't overstate how helpful you guys and girls have been in making
26 Jun 2026Developer post
Update 30, The Final Early Access One
Hey there AFF Community! So we're almost there! The Big Day! Our Discord won't stop laughing at us for this silly joke but AFF is actually coming out of Early Access in Two Weeks ™ Angels Fall First will hit 1.0 on July 11 2026! Over the years AFF has grown into something enormou
Hey there AFF Community!
So we're almost there! The Big Day! Our Discord won't stop laughing at us for this silly joke but AFF is actually coming out of Early Access in Two Weeks ™
Angels Fall First will hit 1.0 on July 11 2026!
Over the years AFF has grown into something enormous, and as we prepared for 1.0 we found ourselves with pages and pages of changelogs - improvements that simply deserved to make it into the game before launch, also to minimize the risk of something going up in flames spectacularly on the launch day.
Does it mean AFF will suddenly be an incredibly polished AAA game on July 11? Nope, and we're not hiding the fact it's an old-school passion project that will always come with some degree of jank - but also tons and tons of cool content. Fully expecting some hotfixes being necessary post-1.0 as well.
This update also contains the extensive tutorial our Community has been testing on a beta branch, covering a wide range of topics:
Infantry combat
Commanding your squad on the battlefield
Vehicle controls and requisition
Spaceflight and boarding
An introduction to gamemodes
It also features practice arenas in which you cannot take damage, perfect for learning and trying out the more complex aspects of the game.
And if you've been there, you know there's also 2 new missions coming with 1.0. Let's say the resort they take place on is undergoing some final maintenance before summer and will be open to the public on the 11th ;)
Phew, it's been a long, long journey. We're very aware it shouldn't have been this long. There's a million stories, happy and sad alike, around the development process of AFF and why it took so long. Perhaps we'll share some of them post-release as well?
And whether you've been here since the mod days, joined us somewhere along the Early Access way, or discovered the game only recently, know that we couldn't have made it without you all! We would also like to award some little special in-game cosmetic to all of you who got the game during Early Access, we'll see what we can do about it.
Onwards and upwards!
Update highlights:
Tutorial! Or rather 4 of them! Covering infantry, vehicles, ships, command. Plus condensed sandbox maps to try all the guns, vehicles and ships out!
Modern DX11 renderer now fully functional and set as the default
Even smarter and more reactive bots
New loadout items - Mech Flamer, Infused Armour Countermeasure, on ground vehicles, Twin-linked guns for fighters and bombers
Tons of weapon balancing and gunplay responsiveness improvements across the board
More improvements to maps in terms of layouts, cover, collisions, visuals and navigation than a Steam post could hold, tons of polish including new intro sequences
Patched up collision holes and snags inside many of the ship interiors, redesigned parts of the smaller ships' interiors, made the ambient audio inside them more consistent, added extra damage variations
Better performance both in terms of GPU (could probably run on a fridge at this point) and CPU cost of big singleplayer matches
Improved controller support, radial menu now usable on a gamepad, better button layout to match modern FPS standards
Vehicle controls refined, including improved bailout and exit behaviour
Added audio cues for when capital ship subsystems are disabled, switching between flight modes, for when dropship attaches its pod to a capship, added boarding alarm sound that plays for the driver of a boarded capship, plus a lot of improvement soundscape for deployables
Ship weaponry balanced and in some cases renamed to be consistent and distinct, lock-on weapons should be less likely to prioritize disabled subsystems, a bunch of more telling status updates on the HUD when it comes to ships' subsystems
A few utility functions around loadouts that might've flown under the radar before: you are now able to mirror a loadout to the other faction, generate a random loadout, copy and paste loadouts, sort them, also the cosmetic appearance should now properly save when clicking on the different sliders, instead of only when moving the indicator. Various items' loadout descriptions have been adjusted to fit better in the UI
Various UI quality-of-life fixes, pressing the menu button (esc) during match-end voting will now open the scoreboard/voting menu if it's closed, server Browser will now sort servers displaying “versions-out-of-sync” to the bottom of the list, the tacmap should highlight selection arrows for the correct destination (contextually dependent on your orders), improved capturing/neutralizing/stalemate messaging in objectives - should be more accurate/consistent, especially in multiplayer
Original post
01 Mar 2026Developer post
Pre-release Tutorial Testing
Hey there AFF Community! As we’ve mentioned before, AFF is approaching the 1.0 release and for that we needed one final element to fall into place: The Tutorial . AFF can be quite a complicated and opaque game to the first-time player, so we needed to make sure there exists a pro
Hey there AFF Community!
As we’ve mentioned before, AFF is approaching the 1.0 release and for that we needed one final element to fall into place: The Tutorial. AFF can be quite a complicated and opaque game to the first-time player, so we needed to make sure there exists a proper on-boarding process. And to effectively cover all the aspects of the game, the tutorial has grown into quite a sizeable experience.
Therefore we would like to ask you, guys and gals and pals from our Community, to try and break it as much as possible - so we can polish it before unleashing it on the general public. Our Discord has already been taking it for a spin for a couple weeks, but the more the merrier!
If you’re interested, opt into the Beta branch on Steam:
Go to your Steam Library, right click on Angels Fall First, go to Betas, and enter this beta code: [c]saltmustflow[/c] into the Private Betas access code section.
We are most especially interested in any soft-lock states where you cannot progress the tutorial or parts that really take you out of the experience. Just tell us what we've missed and we'll fix it!
What you can expect:
The Tutorial and Practice Modes
A four-part walkthrough of the game’s core mechanics, the AFF tutorial can be picked up and left off at any point, and it’s of course completely optional.
Infantry Basics
How to target
Issue squad commands
Heal squadmates
Vehicle Basics
How to redeploy
How to launch a vehicle
How to issue turret commands
Space Combat Basics
How to repair subsystems
Fighter flight and targeting
Boarding
Destroying subsystems
Core lockouts
Game Mode Briefing
Objective types
Objective progress
Game modes
Afterwards, players can go directly into the safe environments of practice matches (where you cannot take damage) or specially prepared "wargames" sandboxes - to play around with weapons, vehicles, and other equipment - or they can go right into the deep end of the pool: online matches.
Additionally, this Beta branch also contains some new content we’re preparing for 1.0:
Dar Salaam
A two-stage Space Incursion map, offering a sprawling station to fight around and a gilded resort to rampage through.
Dar Salaam Territories
This Territories variant of Dar Salaam bathes the carnage surrounding the station in the light of the nearby star passing through the atmosphere of the planet which the Dar Salaam Station orbits. A fantastic space-scape to fight over, this Territories map takes place exclusively around the station’s exterior.
Major updates to Majuro
Capture Points A, B, and C allow for the owning team to spawn near them, a LAV spawnpoint becomes available for the team owning a point making the map control extremely powerful. The Maglev Cargo Train now has a proper warning system, sound, lights, signs and all. A lot of collision, cover placement, lighting and visuals in general have been polished.
Arsenal Additions
Mech Flamer - a close-quarters weapon to incinerate your opponents with chemical napalm
Harden Countermeasures - a countermeasure to harden your vehicle against damage temporarily. Decreases damage taken from the front, but makes you vulnerable from behind
Twinned Primaries (fighters, bombers) - new weapon linkage equipment for fighters and bombers. This takes up your secondary weapon slot, mirroring your primary. It overheats faster but increases short-time damage output.
So hop on the beta branch, take the new tutorial and the new maps for a spin, come let us know what bugs we still missed on our Discord and hopefully see you in 1.0 soon!
Onwards and upwards!
Original post
13 Mar 2025Developer post
Update 29 hotfix #2
Hey there AFF Community! A quick patch today to squash some remaining bugs as we inch towards the 1.0 release. For safety and convenience we decided to put these smaller fixes out now, so that everyone who might come onboard during the incoming sale has a smoother experience with
Hey there AFF Community! A quick patch today to squash some remaining bugs as we inch towards the 1.0 release. For safety and convenience we decided to put these smaller fixes out now, so that everyone who might come onboard during the incoming sale has a smoother experience with the game: Less derpy turrets, less in-your-face-grenade-duplication, less jank around prestige and achievements, fixes to map visuals and collision We will follow this up with a release of the tutorial section of the game, which required some bigger changes and needs at least a couple more weeks of internal QA. And after that, well, the main event - the end of Early Access. Very likely with some new content, although we’re still finalizing the list of what will actually go into the 1.0 version and what might be introduced afterwards. Watch this space to know more! As usual - for feedback, or just a lovely chat with the devs, hop on our Discord server! Onwards and upwards! Hotfix changelog:

Fixed deployable turrets (MG/flame/plasma) being nearly unresponsive, flipping between targets and rarely deciding to actually fire at one
Fixed nearly-overcooked grenades exploding in your face twice
Fixed the USN briefingroom spawn point rotation - would start players looking at a corner of a wall instead of into the briefingroom
Prestige and player stats check (cmd/cmb/sup) on main menu launch and after prestiging on the loadout screen (would only happen on map-end before)
A more telling message for when you have multiple camos pending for prestiging
Prestiging now correctly saves the resulting stat levels (seemingly did not happen if done without completing a match afterwars, crashing, doing it from the main menu etc.)
Fixed some boarding tubes having incorrect material and lighting
Using incendiary/shock/corrosive ammo in vehicle weapons will now also correctly count towards related achievements
Rerouted how awarding kills for destroying boardingpoints is done
Fixed a number of cases where explosives wouldn't attribute hits to the owner
Fixed some logspam and glitches when trying to swap weapons
Changed the Headcount achievement to be 100 headshots, at 200+ meters range (down from 200 at 250+)
Fixed the B2 point spawn on Lukather
Miscellaneous collision fixes across maps, especially around droppods
Original post
09 Jun 2024Developer post
Update 29 hotfix #1
Hey there AFF Community! While we’re wrapping things up for the tutorial and the upcoming 1.0 release, here’s a smaller patch to mend some of the issues left over from the previous update: Fixes to player stats and achievements A few of the 100+ achievements introduced in Update
Hey there AFF Community! While we’re wrapping things up for the tutorial and the upcoming 1.0 release, here’s a smaller patch to mend some of the issues left over from the previous update:
Fixes to player stats and achievements
A few of the 100+ achievements introduced in Update 29 didn’t quite register correctly and needed some touching up. But more importantly, a pesky bug creeped in alongside the achievements which made the game not read player stats (levels) correctly from Steam every other match. That should be fixed now.
Input and UI cleanup
Passenger seats in vehicles and secondary turrets in spaceships had problems with their controls freezing completely, that’s no longer the case. Furthermore a number of UI issues and oddities got smoothed out along the way.
Map polish
Both the recently-released Majuro map and the older levels received a number of fixes to weird collision and visual glitches. As usual - for feedback, or just a lovely chat with the devs, hop on our Discord server! Onwards and upwards! Hotfix changelog:

Fixed player stats not getting read properly from Steam on dedicated servers (and even less so on listen servers)
Fixed achievements not always gettings their status properly read from/written to Steam
Fixed a thread synchronization crash on quitting a listen server with additional players
Fixed a rare crash on match end due to out-of-state timer function not existing
Fixed the use key ("F”) interfering with password dialog confirmation
Fixed passenger seats not being able to move the camera at all when using mouse instead of a controller
Fixed a few shader compilation oddities in DX11 mode
Fixed some instances of the death-screen sometimes showing negative values for player stats
Fixed some instances of map-specific achievements not registering on clients
Enlarged the deployed dropship collision so frogs can’t jump over it no more
Random player loadouts should now respect budgets (Note: in “unranked” games, it should respect the custom rank value set)
Achievements preview menu (“P”) can no longer be opened while in the loadout menu, config menu or server browser. It is additionally blocked from opening while chat is open so that it doesn’t interfere with other inputs
Touched up a bunch of UI buttons and their controller-specific bindings to make them more responsive and intuitive
Fixed the wonky Majuro tracks and seawalls collision
Fixed a bunch of collision issues around Majuro's bunkers and stations
Removed some floaty rocks on Majuro
Fixed some artifacts in Majuro’s shadows
Added a piece of an artificial platform to get over some annoying terrain collision on Ascella
Fixed AI pathing out of the Stage 2 spawns on Lukather
Fixed the tiny pool of water on Errah having a broken material in DX11 mode
Fixed stairs collision on Fortress
Original post
04 Apr 2024Developer post
Update 29
Hey there AFF Community! Update 29 is live! Yes, it’s finally here! It wasn’t an April Fools joke at all, despite the timing! Here’s what’s new: Majuro Brand new map for the Territories gamemode, set on a beautiful, tropical atoll and focused on fast-paced infantry and light-vehi
Hey there AFF Community!
Update 29 is live!
Yes, it’s finally here! It wasn’t an April Fools joke at all, despite the timing! Here’s what’s new:
Majuro
Brand new map for the Territories gamemode, set on a beautiful, tropical atoll and focused on fast-paced infantry and light-vehicles combat. But remember, mind the gap!
Controller support
Previously only the space part of the game was controllable with a gamepad, and not very well either. We’ve made the entire flow of the game support controller inputs, a word of warning though: this isn’t a typical console user experience, in the menus you’ll basically have to use the controller sticks to steer the mouse cursor. It works well enough to make AFF playable on a couch and unfortunately we can’t do much more about it - the middleware AFF’s user interface was made in is long gone and doesn’t support assigning controller actions to UI elements easily.
Performance, AI and gameplay
A lot of systems and gameplay elements have been tweaked to not only run faster (both in terms of CPU- and GPU-performance, we’ve even gone as far as recompiling the engine with more modern tools) but also work better with bots. They should be even more aware of their surroundings and work more coherently in squads, both in space and on the ground. There’s also a lot, and I mean a lot, of balance and general quality of life improvements across the entire game - in the UI, in the gunplay, in how the capital ship combat is presented. As usual we’re striving for the most fair and fun experience so let us know if something feels out of whack. Full changelog can be found below.
Achievements
We added 100+ achievements to the game, some more obvious, some pretty tough to find. We know a lot of you like to hunt these down and it encourages some variation in playstyles so have at it!
What's going on then?
There is so many changes spanning such a long period of development in this update that something's gotta break, there's no way around it. So firstly there will likely be a hotfix of some sort coming in the nearest future with whatever needs smoothing out. Now, the elephant in the launch bay - what the heck happened, why such a long pause in updates? Truth is, most of us just weren’t able to dedicate hours to AFF in these tumultuous times so what you’re seeing in this update is the total sum of us touching it up on and off for the last two years. We haven’t gone anywhere though, the team is still here and we figured it’d be unfair to leave the game in limbo like that. Keep in mind that AFF, as cliche as it sounds, is first and foremost a labour of love, love for games, for scifi, for giant exploding spaceships, so we'll always come back to it in one form or another. But the main point is - we’re here to wrap this party up now. So now officially: Update 30 is going to be the 1.0 version of AFF, the end of Early Access. Will it be completely bug-free and jank-free? Probably not. A lot of the tools AFF was made with got old and deprecated and it makes it hard to implement changes to the game. We’re bringing back the tutorial section of the game though, for better on-boarding of new players, some more general fixes and tweaks, perhaps even a couple content surprises too. There's even more we'd like to talk about to our Community, as well as some additional announcements coming real soon, so come hang out with us on our Discord! Changelog:
Ships:
The explosion effects of capital ships should be far less likely to persist after death
Fixed various effects leaking from one capship interior to another
Fixed issues with stations being destroyable unintentionally (damage bleeding over from shooting components) - Most notably Ixion station
Fixed Ixion stations components being misconfigured
When a capship enters red-alert, it should now make sure to kill the ships shields and engines to make it clearer that it’s dead in the water
Fixed misconfigured Griphon consoles
Fixed Chons plasma using the wrong weapon
Fixed map-specific instructions not reliably applying to shields and engines of capships
Fixed a number of capship-destruction interior effects not playing properly, missing or otherwise
Dropships now have hyperjump effects in interiors like all the other capships
Potentially fixed capships not reliably triggering their exterior blowing-up effects
Spectating someone, or spectating in, a capship that is blowing up should move spectators to a new target
Capship weapons should now display a ( ) indicator for where the closest weapon are to the aimpoint for better feedback
Tweaked seat-interactions on most ships to be more friendly to use
Interior windows should be better about emulating the outside level
Potentially fixed the visually seated infantry in capship turrets being unreliable. It should now properly show up and be damageable, etc. Additionally, weapon attachments should no longer be visible unintentionally
Reworked Anubis and Huginns death effects from firing immediately, to being a gradual collapse that follows the actual functional destruction timer
Fixed capship death effects being very jittery at times Bots:
Reduced chance of bots picking “best ship for order”, since it resulted in far too little variation, which in turn resulted in them performing poorly overall in combat
Bots will now generally try to pick a warp-in point closest to their assigned objective
Bots will try to wait for squadmates respawning before using fighters, so they will have a bigger chance of entering space in squads for better combat-effectiveness
Bots should be better about spreading out after planting a hackspike, rather than effectively sitting in the same spot
Bots should be less hesitant to plant hackspikes
Bots should be better about responding to objectives under attack
Bots should no longer stick around in dropships if there’s nothing to board, after they have made their dropship ready for next boarding-action
Fixed issues with bots thinking they fired their MW when they haven't (Making them fixating at a wrong point, not letting them swap, etc)
Bots will be more aware that they have scored a kill, and not focus on the dead body at rank 2 and above
Fixed an issue causing bots that have been revived to always be stuck to looking in the same direction
Bots should be better about repair objectives; especially when attacking them
Bots should be better about determining who’s actually attacking an objective
Milnet will now also consider boarding action for defend-objectives (applies to some maps like Ixion Territories, Kerrat)
Milnet should be better about making sure about panic-objectives being relevant and reachable
Fixed a number of issues with Kerrat’s phase 2 objective-type
Bots should be better about not respawning unless they have to
Bots should be better about utilizing capship weapons, rather than doing very short bursts
Bots should change their mind about their pathing less on ground, hopefully leading to less cases of them being indecisive and running back and forth in the same area for a while
Bots might decide to try to bail from a ship blowing up, instead of sitting in the seat accepting their faith. Additionally taught bots that entering a seat while the ship is blowing up is a bit silly
Vehicle AI are now allowed to target and shoot neutral things if ordered to. They should additionally prioritize their ordered target over whatever else they’d be shooting at
Potentially improved bot ability to pathfind in space - especially for capships.
Bots should no longer try to swap weapons when they start sprinting, unless they are not engaged and not currently reloading. Additionally they will not do so instantly if they have recently been engaged
Bots should be better about swapping weapons on ground and space in general
Bots rank 3 and above might be more likely to use AV weapons against clustered enemies
Potentially fixed an issue sometimes causing bots following another to end up with an invalid move-to location, causing unnecessary respawns
Bots should be more decisive in which ship they wish to bring into space
Potentially fixed an issue that would cause bots to remain in a capships interior after being booted out of a seat
Bot-vehicle-loadouts should now strive to use all the slots (Previously, especially on capships, a number would never be attempted populated)
Bots will be more likely to use nades against squads
Bots will have a slightly larger desired range for using deployables
Tweaked how bot-shared-squad-vision works further; Will care less if they have recently fired at something
Taught bots how to deal with being tasked to attack objective-less destroyables, and added task-descriptions to it (used to be just “freelance”)
Fixed some issues with how bots determine whether they can hit a destroyable, and expanded on their checks, so they don’t need to see its centerpoints
Potentially improved bots ability to recover vehicles when they get confused pathing
Milnet’s logic has been refactored, and should hopefully be considerably more performant. It was causing small lag spikes when running
Optimized bots logic for throwing stuff
Optimized vechwepAI a bit
Bots will linger looking in the direction of their last target a bit, to de-cheese effectiveness of popping in/out of cover
Tweaks to how bots determine who to attack. They will generally prioritize their current target higher, but will also consider their weapons effectiveness more
Optimized bots sight-checks somewhat
More tweaks to bots spaceship flying/pathing, most notably should help them in small spaces
Tweaked how bots approach ship-interfaces (like weapons, shields, etc). They can now be tasked to repair them, or will repair them if they run past them. If tasked, they might also go deal with others in that capship. Additionally taught them how to deal with the task as a whole better
A number of tweaks to when bots desire to sprint or crouch. It will be a lot more dependent on their weapon, and general circumstances. Should make for a more dynamic experience, and better utilization of their weapons, as well as making them more aware of their helmet mods. Bots rank 5 will additionally be less predictable with these choices. They should also be more aware of not to sprint if it impacts their ability to shoot
Bots will be smarter about using the MNL
Bots rank 4,5 can now use underslung rockets against enemy pawns, and will generally be smarter about using it
General tweaks to when bots thinks its ideal to use weapons based on ranges
Tweaks to bots firemode-choices
Fixed bots effectively being incapable of using the GU34 at times
Tweaked how bots reacts to smoke. The higher their rank, the more they should be able to recognize “transparent areas” of the smoke. Additionally higher ranked bots will keep firing at you, although with a sizeable aim-penalty, if you are dancing around the smoke (takes a bit before they fully forget about you)
Tweaked automatic gun AI on vehicles a bit; Should be better at using charge-up weapons, and will generally keep their target. Additionally fixed some issues where it could end up without targets, despite having some.
Bots should generally be less snappier with their movements
Bots reloading might try to find a safe-ish spot
Added a penalty to bots for how quickly they realize they have something to shoot, if they were told about you, rather than saw you directly
Bots should be more conscious about colliding with something in vehicles (And try to recover)
More bot vehicle-pathing tweaks
Bots might try to drive a vehicle owned by another bot out of the way if it is obstructing an objective
Bots should now be more aware of vehicles when it comes to pathing
Fixed some issues with when bots want to enter or leave vehicles. They should now additionally be more aware of vehicles left because it got stuck
Bots should respond more to underslung flamers
Tweaked bots desirability towards weapons; If they have recently been hit, they will not prioritize deployable or grenades, and should prioritize their current weapon more
Bots will remember who hurt them last, and prioritize them slightly higher. This persists through death for rank 3-5 bots
Bots might use sensorballs in decoy mode
Improved bots ability to aim with vehicle-weapons
Rank 4,5 bots will be better at aiming weapons that might not be ideal against their target
Bots might react to proximity nades, spring nades and detpacks. Their chance depends on skill and whether they have a helmetsensor
Bots might react to decoys
Bots in space using charge-up weapons should be more aware of how they work, and be less likely to turn away from their target while using them
Bots flying might decide to roll and otherwise do small evasive moves
More flying Bots stuck-behavior tweaks
A lot of tweaks to flying bots combat behavior; Including added two new types of attack-move. They should overall be far more competent foes, be better about using boost, facing their enemies, acquiring enemies, etc, and ideally more reactive
Bots in gunships should prioritize fighting other gunships higher (for air-superiority first), and vehicles second
Some flying-pathfinding fixes for bots; They should also far more rarely decide to ram terrain
Higher level bots have gained various improvements over lower in spacecombat, such as taking hints from their squad for enemies
Bots should laser-focus a bit less on destroyable-objectives
Bots will have some awareness of landed projectiles that might hurt them, like MNL/Nades/bomblets
Some performance improvement to some of the bots general taskings Weapons and vehicles:
Fixed various desync issue with reloading guns in multiplayer
Rebalanced vulcans on TI/Griphon/Khamun/Huginn; More shots till overheating, longer cooldown. Intent is encouraging maxing out their heat and swapping to another weapon
Fixed RID always unintentionally granting 50% charge for the next shot. It should now only give back 50% charge when fired with more than 70% charge
Added a slight grace-period to RID where you can release the trigger without firing immediately after a shot
Reduced base-damage of the RID, but increased anti-vehicle modifier. Less infantry damage, same vehicle damage
Fixed an issue where the RID’s laser would stick around for a while during reloading
RID should now properly show its final shot client-side
RID should now properly play the firing-animation again
MNL should now show its final shot properly (if using charge-up) client-side
Burst-fire weapons should now more reliably fire their last shots client-side
Underbarrel shotgun can now shoot twice per reload. How? Space magic!
Underbarrel flamer is no longer affected by burst-firemodes on the main weapon. Additionally fixed it unintentionally having gotten a second “magazine” to reload from
Fixed dropped weapons not having their scopes properly applied to them
Fixed dropped weapons having wrong ammo-count when picked up in MP
Fixed exploit of dropping a weapon in a different firemode resulting in the picked up version having full ammo
Mines should now be more reactive to mechs
Infantry should no longer slowly push mines through geometry by trampling over them
Mines should no longer inflict damage if they blow up because their associated vehicle was destroyed (to put them on-par with detpacks as intended)
Mines should no longer randomly explode in multiplayer (they would look exploded, but still exist visually and functionally)
Dramatically decreased fire-rate of all capship weapons, except Rail and Rockets. Rail damage is dramatically reduced. The intention is to make the fights slightly longer, while still roughly keeping the current feeling
Rebalanced gunship’s rockets and bomblets to do less damage against infantry, but the same amount against vehicles. Intention is to still have them be viable, and reward skill, but hopefully reduce the feeling of getting completely obliterated by a gunship. Additionally increased direct-hit damage of bomblets
Mechs should no longer always have a rocket launcher on their right arm if left blank in loadout
Slightly lowered AoE area for EVR’s heavy shot, and slightly decreased base-damage for the light shot
Increased the lifespan of underslung rockets. They will now be more likely to reach their targets
Decreased base-amount of mines spawned by 1
Corrosive effect provides +20% damage taken against armour from all sources while active
Decreased the explosion-trigger-radius on c90 shots from 300 to 200
Detpacks should now end up with the detonator when the last have been thrown in multiplayer to match singleplayer behaviour
Detpacks and nades have had some animation and visibility issues fixed when swapping/throwing/interrupting while held
Detpacks should be more sensibly go to detonator, even if you have mixed the firemode-variants thrown
Fixed a number of inconsistencies with DK31; Should also better support underslung, and fixed it not working with the underbarrel shotty at all
Decals forming from shooting at surfaces will not be added too close to an existing from the same shot (shooting through multiple objects that are very close together)
Slightly increased accuracy for hipfire/sighted EVP
Slightly increased accuracy of sighted SM54 Quality-of-life:
Fixed profiles tab showing scores instead of profiles when outside games
Spectators are now allowed to view stats and profiles in games
In briefing rooms: Declining ready should now work as intended. Additionally, players leaving the game should no longer hold up game-starts
Fixed the vote-menu in singleplayer not accepting clicks early on
Main menu, faction selection and a few more now support keyboard inputs to go between the options and select.
Tacmap: - should now be better about using keybinds instead of hardcoded keys - Location arrows, and spawn arrows are now hidden if there’s nothing to cycle to (For a more obvious UI) - Redeploying should no longer immediately re-open the tacmap - Zooming out in a capship interior will gradually change the color of the map to the owning team, and transition to the main-space map, centered on the vehicle - You can now double-click a spawn, or warp-in point to use it directly - The “controls” button will now flash until clicked for the first time, to draw attention to how to use the tacmap
Improved priority of hackspikes over picking up weapons
Fixed being able to multi-vote on end-map screen
Equipment stats screen should now more accurately reflect the actual properties of the guns and ships, especially on capital ship and gunship weaponry
Added specific icon for capship co-pilot seat to differentiate from the driver-spot
Disabled seats in capships should no longer show up or be usable
Multiwrench should no longer look like they are repairing internal ship consoles that are completely destroyed (unrepairable)
Implemented C and V menus for spectators; C lists all ULA, V lists all AIA. It lists the most relevant-to-the-match spectator targets. capships > vehicles > fighters > infantry, to quickly jump around. These lists ignore deployed turrets, and driverless vehicles.
Fixed prestige not actually counting if done during briefings
Added task descriptions for being ordered to attack un-piloted vehicles
YTS terries should now properly be listed as Territories in chat
Rebinding “tab” should function properly. Additionally fixed an issue where trying to rebind “tab” to something would always fail.
Rebinding esc should now immediately take effect
Fixed some rebinding not being re-bound with all the same functionality
Added hint on how to open the new Achievement Menu (Default P)
Added functionality to mirror a loadout in a bit roundabout way because with Scaleform being dead we can’t really modify the UI much; Clicking copy, and prefacing the name with the opposite team (for an AIA loadout, calling it “ULA somename”) or prefacing it with the keyword “mirror” will attempt to make a version of that loadout on the opposite team. Swapping weapons to corresponding variants. This should work for both infantry and vehicles.
Added functionality to make random loadouts. Clicking new loadout, and prefacing the name with “random” or “bot” will generate a random loadout, somewhat appropriate for your current rank
Added functionality to copy loadouts. Using the hotkeys “Ctrl + C” will copy it into your clipboard; You can share this with others as you please. Using the hotkeys “Ctrl + V” will attempt to paste the contents of your clipboards. If it recognizes a valid loadout, iit will attempt to paste it, giving you a prompt to (re)name it
Added functionality to copy appearances externally. Using the copy button or “Ctrl + C” will place it in your clipboard. You can similarly import appearances using “Ctrl + V” from your clipboard
On the long-description of equipment, it will now state the faction-opposite variant for convenience and greater transparency
Added functionality to the scoreboard - if you have your own squad selected, the move button will now allow you to step up / step down as squadleader, assuming this action is valid (you can’t step down if there’s noone to replace you, you can’t step up if the SL is a human)
Added variations to “Move to squad” to better explain why you can or can’t move (already on squad, currently commanding, pick a team first)
Added variations to mutiny button to better explain why you can or can’t mutiny (pick a team first, wait for match to start, match ended)
Added variations to defect button to better explain why you can or can’t change team (select team first, match ended)
Changing squads will now select the new squad in the UI
Opening scoreboard will now select yourself from the get go (to easier find you, your squad, and better expose the options you have available on the scoreboard)
Scoreboard should now keep the last-clicked squad selected, even when the score of that squad changes (would previously keep the selection, so if you selected squad#3, and that squad got higher points to becoming #2, you would have the new #3 selected. This should limit misclicks and be more consistent with the player-list behavior)
Being tasked to attack or follow something, and that something dying, will now change the task-description to “freelance”
Hitting an unimportant destroyable with an AV weapon will now produce hitmarkers
Friendly destroyables will now draw the friendly-marker (like hackspikes on your team, stuff you are tasked to defend, etc)
Updated the spectating-info box: Will now reflect your actual keybinds, will provide considerably more information, and is updated to reflect the changes to how the spectating works
Clicking “,” in spectating-mode should now cycle the mode as expected (Was not working on ground vehicles)
Fixed a number of issues that would not tell you about who killed you
Added config InventoryAlwaysVisible. Will change behaviour of how the inventory-bar is visible. 0 = current behaviour (visible only for a little after changing weapons) 1 = always visible. Can be toggled with console command “ToggleHUDWeaponsAlwaysVisible”
Added config bForceDefaultsDoesntAffectSelf. If true, will show camo on own weapons, vehicles and pawns for yourself, while you have default camo enabled. Can be toggled with console command “ToggleDefaultCamoAffectsPlayer”
Receiving a new order should make the order-description flash and notify you of such, to make it more obvious
Fixed cursor-coloring for enemy/friend persisting through respawns
Swapping weapons should now be hidden during times where the pawn isn’t relevant, such as picking loadouts, launching a fighter, in menus etc
Potentially fixed late-joiners ending up with weird camera-angles (on some maps under the ground), until picking a team
The glowey-outline-hint when hovering a destructible objective should now play when it is your currently-assigned objective aswell
Hackspikes should no longer remain tagged after the spike have been destroyed
Capture objectives should give better messaging-feedback, telling you if you are gaining/loosing/stalemating the objective
Fixed some destroyable’s tacmap visuals being wrong
Added basic reconnect feature to main menu (Hold CTRL to force it back to quickplay)
Fixed the knife causing lagspikes in loadout menu
All weapons that have more than one firemode can now be assigned which to use by default (For instance, underslung rockets if equipped), or set to remember the last one you picked for this weapon for this loadout for the current session
Slightly buffed medium missiles
Nerfed medium and heavy plasma space damage
Slightly nerfed rails damage
Heavy missiles are now a lot scarier; Dramatically buffed their damage (pair of two are fairly easy to shoot down. Now actually different (better?) than medium variant) General fixes and optimization:
Precached even more stuff for less physics-shape-caching-spikes during play
Fixed last-man-standing-phase on a lot of maps not working as intended (messaging, actually triggering, etc)
Implemented achievements, and corresponding ingame-window where you can view progress (default P)
Wiped the legacy VOIP implementation more. It was intended to be fully disabled many patches ago. The current version of “send to all, but don’t tell who’s speaking” isn’t favorable to anyone
LZ’s will be assigned a slight penalty for next capture, that decays the longer it has been vacant. Intention is to make it more viable to blow up droppod-spawns, rather than having them almost immediately get re-captured
Vehicle shields might provide better feedback for re-activating and fully going down
Fixed LZ turrets not rotating in multiplayer
Taking out-of-bounds damage should be more impactful against vehicles
Shield regen is more affected by damage in general (Small-arms fire having some contribution)
The effect on the screen for taking damage should take more into account than just the strength of the shot. Instead it should be better about informing you of “dangerous damage”. Additionally fixed burning not triggering it at all
Fixed kill-credit on vehicle not actually assigning the credit to the last-hit, but rather the hit-before-last
Fixed weapon-attachments unintentionally being visible when driving a vehicle
Fixed changing seats in MP detaching the driver from the actual vehicle
Turtles passenger turret should now again be configurable in loadouts
Fixed all Javert loadouts being invalid
Fixed Rakshasa and Scimitar not getting default torps
Added console command “SetLoadoutSorting”. Sets the loadout sorting you wish to use (Previously only accessible by manually changing config files). See auto-complete for possible variants
Added console command “FixupLoadouts”. Will try to fix any broken loadouts you have. Primarily relevant for older players who have been around since before the fighter-weapon rework. It is expected to have it return 13 fails due to default loadouts for opposite factions. It is recommended to backup /AFFGame/config/AFFLoadout.ini before running it.
Fixed some issues relating to keeping a client-side reference to your old pawn when changing teams (should make for a better experience when changing teams during multiplayer matches)
Changed how respawning works. It should now queue everyone desiring, and pop them as the last one has fully spawned. Should prevent lagspikes from respawning without any noticeable differences.
Infantry running one-shot protection have had the FX for blocking the damage fixed, so it no longer shows bleeding, and the FX for “breaking the protection” have been made slightly bigger
Moved some console commands onto the cheatmanager that wasn’t supposed to be usable on servers
Fixed cascaded shadows misbehaving on some maps in DX11 Maps;
Ascella - Fixed hilltop bunker in Phase 2 not being properly reachable by bots
Poranti - Fixed various issues in the hangar bay Phase 3/Phase 4 area; You should no longer be able to enter ships from underneath (or having that prompt conflict with planting a hackspike); Additionally fixed some collision issues in that area
Kerrat - Fixed various issues with pathing and second phase - The pilot seat of Huginn should now be disabled during Phase 1 to avoid confusion
Huginn interior - Fixed some snagging issues with ramps around the hangar area - Bots should no longer consider destroyed debris as pathable (getting them stuck) - Swapped Ranger’s power coupling colour to blue and added them for the Huginn.
Dragoon interior - Removed some unused FX pieces and put the viewport back in place where it belongs.
Khamun interior - Fixed an issue causing certain effects (like underslung flamer) to not behave properly
Irega - Added missing mesh in Phase 1 staircase - Fixed some z-fighting and clipping near Phase 1 right AIA spawn - Fixed some weird collisions - Bit of a cosmetic cleanup, like a staircase sticking through a wall - Phase 3 area: Cleaned up some floating stuff
Eye of God - Fixed some issues with the hangars, where you could hide inside the meshes unintentionally
Errah: - Tweaked pathfinding a lot. Bots should be better at using the full map, notably the bridge in Phase 1 - Fixed some issues where bots would try to path through fences in Phase 1, Phase 2
Briefing Rooms - Slight performance tweaks
Lukather - Fixed spots of missing collision
Errah - Fixed some walls in Phase 3 structures lacking collision
Lacroix: - Fixed some geometry you could unintentionally penetrate
Ixion - Fixed some missing collision on interior hangar pieces
Onwards and upwards!
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01 Apr 2024Developer post
Overdue Easter Miracle
Hey there AFF Community! The day after tomorrow, Update 29 will be upon us as a tiny bit late Easter present! Slightly uneasy to come back to you like that, after another few months of having to postpone this massive update… BUT. It is finally packaged and ready to go! We appreci
12 Jul 2023Developer post
Something big is coming
Hey there AFF Community! It might be a tiny bit unexpected after this prolonged period of silence but AFF is still very much being updated! In fact, there is a massive update on the way that not only fixes a lot of bugs but also: Reworks a number of systems, making the gameplay s
Hey there AFF Community! It might be a tiny bit unexpected after this prolonged period of silence but AFF is still very much being updated! In fact, there is a massive update on the way that not only fixes a lot of bugs but also:

Reworks a number of systems, making the gameplay smoother
Makes the AI even smarter so that the game forever remains enjoyable with or without human players
Adds a big, beautiful, new map, Majuro. Here's a small teaser:
It doesn't end there either. AFF is still being developed for fun and giggles so it's not exactly possible to set any deadlines in stone but here's the rough plan for the nearest future:

This big update comes out in the next 2-4 weeks, we're already wrapping things up. Likely followed by a small hotfix or two if something falls over after it goes public.
Another update in the next couple months, including an in-game tutorial to finalize the scope of the game we initially planned and to ease the onboarding for new players a bit. Plus a few completely new pieces of content too, which are already being made but which we'll keep as a surprise for now.
After that tutorial update we hit the big red "1.0" button. AFF comes out of Early Access. Is it going to be absolutely bug-free at that point? Unlikely. Is it going to look more modern than it does now? Definitely not. It's still, however, going to be a fully-fledged combined-arms sci-fi shooter with an insane amount of content enjoyable both in single- and multi-player.
And then? Do we ride off into the sunset? If you hang out with us on our Discord you're likely aware that the whole AFF team (and the Community!) still sticks together for the sheer joy of playing and making video games so that's not going to change anytime soon. We'll likely still update AFF here and there post-release - but more importantly all the long years doing other more-or-less gamedev-related jobs professionally enable us to potentially do something new and shiny... Watch this space, it will get exciting!
By the way. the Summer Sale is still going on so it's a pretty good time to grab AFF at 50% off if any of your mates haven't yet. No worries though, we'll try to organize some discounts around the updates as well. https://store.steampowered.com/app/367270 Onwards and upwards!
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11 Jun 2022Developer post
Update 28 hotfix #1
Hey there AFF Community! Predictably the massive update came with some new bugs so here’s a patch to squash those. The game should be more stable online, Ascella doesn’t outright crash anymore, the objectives on Kerrat work properly again. A whole slew of things have been rebalan
Hey there AFF Community! Predictably the massive update came with some new bugs so here’s a patch to squash those. The game should be more stable online, Ascella doesn’t outright crash anymore, the objectives on Kerrat work properly again. A whole slew of things have been rebalanced as well, especially in terms of capital ships - we obviously fixed the insane fire rate on their railguns but we’re also trying something different regarding their missiles. To give them a unique spot in the balance between spinal cannons and other turrets, the big capital-ship-grade rockets will now bypass enemy capitals’ shields - they’ll fly straight through them, just like fighters do. We’re curious to see how that’ll change the approach to capital ship combat at various ranges now. We also felt a bit bad about releasing only a bunch of fixes and balance changes, so we threw some new features in:
Underbarrel shotgun attachment
All guns sporting an underbarrel hardpoint can now be equipped with a shotgun attachment. It works the same as the other fire-able attachments, can be toggled to by switching firemodes and provides some extra emergency oomph (at the cost of a pretty hefty reload time) when your assault rifle suddenly becomes inadequate in an extremely-close-range fight inside an enemy ship.
Emote gestures
The AFF characters might come off as super serious gruff space marines under those suits but even they must sometimes communicate by means other than tactical gestures and screaming “argh my leg my leg”. So we gave them a set of more casual gestures the player can perform using the V key. And as usual - for feedback, or just a lovely chat with the devs, contact us here on the Steam forums or directly through our Discord! Onwards and upwards! Full hotfix changelog:

Added an underbarrel shotgun option to all underbarrel-capable weapons
Fixed non-carrier capships having finite mines
Fixed an issue with Huginn’s railguns having essentially infinite rate of fire
Quality of life changes to capship railguns; The trigger can be held to continue firing, rather than having to click each time
Added secondary firemode to capship railguns - cycle. Cycles through the guns, and consumes partial charge with each shot. Inspired by the unintended Huginn rails
Reduced range of Ranger’s railguns
Increased range of Ranger’s ion cannon
Changed Khamun’s plasma guns from medium to heavy and decreased their range
Increased range of Khamun’s ion cannons
Decreased damage of heavy plasma guns in general
Decreased range of Chons’ plasma
Increased damage and slightly increased firerate of Heimdall's rockets
Fixed capship railguns’ visuals not reliably being played in multiplayer
Capital ship railguns now work based on ammunition - Ranger got a magsize of 10, Huginn of 40, both with a 10s reload-time. Intention is to make room for other weapons in the player’s rotation
Heavy plasma weapons will generate slightly more heat
Tweaked RID. It can now continue firing once it has fired a shot. The next shot will start at 50% charge. It didn’t quite feel competitive enough to the MLI, and was near-impossible to kill aircraft with. Additionally, increased ammo by 1 (from 3 to 4), and slightly reduced per-shot damage
Clicking a weapon that’s completely out of ammo will play a dryfire sound for better feedback
Capship-fired missiles can now bypass capship shields. The intention is to make them more viable at contesting sub-systems, and give them more of a defined role
Potentially made mech-RID and space-rails more synced with the charge-bar
Added emotes. As infantry, they are tied to your V menu. Purely for fun.
Repaired repair objectives not being repairable (Kerrat Phase 1)
Bots should be more clever about repairing and responding to threats while doing so
Bots should be more likely to actually deploy medkits/ammokits again
Fixed an issue causing bots to practically get stuck reloading
Fixed an issue with damaging a not-fully-repaired objective not updating the progress of it
Fixed some issues with getting out of vehicles
Fixed an issue with locally hosted games, restricting team choice to ULA
Territories UI timers should be more accurate to real-time (generally shows a higher number)
Bots should be quicker to realize a hackspike have been planted
Mannable turrets on maps should no longer be enterable through geometry
Potentially resolved an issue with Tis not getting proper interiors
Potentially fixed free-look being sticky in multiplayer
Resolved a bunch of crashes when server-travelling to a new map
Bots should be more aggro when defending a destroyable objective overall, notably in space
Defending bots should be slightly less doomstack-ey, and slightly more energetic
Rank 4+ Attacking bots will focus slightly less on where the last target was
Potentially resolved issues where bots would effectively be stuck looking in a direction
Clicking MMB in spectating mode should toggle nameplates
Clicking R while in spectator-freeroam-mode, and looking at a valid target should make it your spectating target, as if you had cycled to it normally
Fixed an issue where you would get re-targeted to someone once they respawn, despite having entered free-roam-spectator
Fixed entering spectator-free-roam while in temporary free-roam (waiting for your target to respawn) not clearing your target
Messages for “dropship launched”, “<> has been boarded”, “(objective) completed” should now all mention the team for spectators
Direct-IP field on server-browser field now properly supports select, cut, copy, paste as well as a port number being appended to the IP (like 1.1.1.1:1111). Additionally supports pasting AFFLinks in their entirety.
Briefing Rooms: - Guards in briefing rooms should also relax a little in multiplayer, rather than holding their breath - Adjusted “step away from door” message to maybe be a little more logical
Errah: - Slightly increased the initial defender-setup time, so the first two objectives should be more contested
Meudeverre: - Upped health on Phase 2 objectives - Added a ramp at one of the walkways where you could stub your toe
Irega: - Fixed some stairs snagging players - Enabled missing collision on staircase leading to Phase 3 - Fixed bots not navigating most of the Phase 3 staircases
Irega territories: - Fixed an issue allowing players to enter the opposite teams spawn - Fixed some stairs snagging players
Poranti: - Fixed an issue causing the match to potentially end immediately
Anubis interior: - Fixed some floating weapons in armory - Changed the size of how far one of the screens for exterior view would be active, on the screen near one of the objectives in Kerrat territories. During fighting, it would often be turned on/off as you moved around, causing small performance hiccups
Tannhauser: - Fixed missing collision on the trolleys - Fixed some lighting issues
Lukather: - Fixed some lighting issues
Ascella: - Fixed an issue causing the map to crash - Fixed an issue causing eager-people to be stuck in the introduction camera
Mirnoide: - Bots should be more conscious about lava being harmful to their skin
USN hangars: - Fixed dropships not rendering properly when taking off
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03 Jun 2022Developer post
Update 28
Hey there AFF Community! It’s been a while, hasn’t it? You’re all probably wondering what happened, what caused this almost-2-years-long hiatus in AFF’s updates. Truth be told, there’s no single reason - some team-members got more busy at day-jobs, some switched jobs, some got co
24 Jul 2020Developer post
Update 27 hotfix #2
Hey there AFF Community! We’ve prepared another small patch to tie up loose ends for this update. Changelog: Khamun: Tweaked some of the turret seats, so using them will make the operator look correct in the spaceship’s interior Exiting turret seats inside ships should now work m
Hey there AFF Community! We’ve prepared another small patch to tie up loose ends for this update. Changelog:

Khamun: Tweaked some of the turret seats, so using them will make the operator look correct in the spaceship’s interior
Exiting turret seats inside ships should now work more reliably and place the players in more sensible locations
More RID balance - damage split 50/50 into separate “slug” and “shockwave” passes in order to de-power near misses and allow some passthrough on shield and infantry with infiltrator spec. Slightly reduced charge-time.
Fixed Poranti’s exterior windows not behaving as expected and resolved an issue that would end the match immediately
Tweaked mechs some more: - Improved their driving-collision, so it should no longer be possible to get them into unintended spots - Tweaked their animation system some more; Their turning-in-place didn’t look quite right among other issues
Resolved a hitch with the HUD markers for vehicles
The minimal damage field should now show the correct values again on the loadout screen
Fixed Yin Tao Shan’s Phase 3 objective not showing up properly as a main objective on the HUD
Mirnoide: - Resolved some lighting issues - Hackspikes should now be properly placed again
Resolved an issue with hack-objectives not showing the proper UI information in online games
Resolved an issue that allowed hack-spikes to be placed during OOB stage-change
For feedback, or just a lovely chat with the devs, post on AFF's Steam forums or contact us directly through our Discord! Onwards and upwards!
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22 Jul 2020Developer post
Update 27 hotfix #1
Hey there AFF Community! Here’s a quick patch to address some of the issues from the last update and to release a few more fixes that didn’t quite make it in before. Changelog: Tweaked nightvision a bit, including its activation sound Allowed the minimum match time slider in the
Hey there AFF Community! Here’s a quick patch to address some of the issues from the last update and to release a few more fixes that didn’t quite make it in before. Changelog:

Tweaked nightvision a bit, including its activation sound
Allowed the minimum match time slider in the custom game menu to go as low as 5 minutes. Someone requested that and there’s no reason we shouldn’t offer it.
Soldiers can now be properly ran over and die from extreme fall damage regardless of suit specs
Mounted turrets now unable to turn if they are disabled by hacking - since turning is effectively their driving
Infiltrator spec now shows the sensor ranges of enemy proximity-activated explosives (mines, detpacks, spring nades) instead of making the player not activate those explosives at all.
Lowered the frequency with which corrosion mines add a stack of corrosion from .3s to .5s and reduced amount of corrosion applied each time
Nerfed mine count on larger vehicles and reload time of mines all round (9-15s)
Tweaked bots’ weapon-switching behaviour so they commit to using deployables, grenades and mines better now
Corrected the math behind penetration values displayed in the loadout screen
Loadout stats for the GU and the L9r now list "max penetration" value (full charge) for consistency
Ammo packs, medkits, detpacks, sensor, spring, gyro and regular grenades should now have proper descriptions in the loadout
Mines, grenades and their payloads should now show something akin to proper stats in the loadout menu
Halved the damage on the frag payload for mines. Ooops.
Fixed a bug with elemental mines, where the first would get 1 instance of a payload, the second would get 2 instances, third would get 3 (which instead of triggering the effect once per payload per mine, would then do it up to 3x per payload per mine resulting in utter destruction of everything ever)
Optimized and tweaked lock-on logic again and fixed some instances of it targeting friendly/neutral targets
Undid some failed attempts at adjusting boarding pod offsets
Disabled the third cockpit mod for Gheist (both mechs have 2 now)
Fortress Territories updates: - Fixed a number of holes in the tower meshes and general collision/visibility issues - Terraformed a bit near the satellite dish - Tweaked position of team-blocking volumes for the LZs, so you can't cheekily jump on top of them and get inside the pods
Across most ship and station interiors: - Breaching tubes should now have more smooth and reliable collision - Patched up some holes in the breaching tubes, tweaked collision where you could partially hide in meshes and cheese the people coming out the tube - Re-routed some of the scripting for the breaching tubes sequences so that they don’t block or kill you when they shouldn’t - Added some missing screens and tweaked the lighting around the breaching tubes and boarding pods
Irega updates: - Fixed vents pointed out by the community and a lot of other miscellaneous collision issues nearby (and politely asked a few stupid blocking volumes to go away) - In the Incursion variant, fixed right-side Phase 3 LZ being unintentionally out-of-bounds - Fixed a place where the bots were apparently getting stuck near the docks
Ixion interior: sped up the dropship landing sequences a bit, fixed the huge borked piece of collision that’d make deployables and bodies have a really bad time
Lukather: removed collision on majority of splines (all but the pipes) - lots of them being used for decoration resulted in tons of unwanted collision
Commander shields are now cleared on match end to not interfere with the end-game cinematics and stuff
Fixed the hack objectives in Yin Tao Shan, tweaked collision
Fixed some more pathing, collision and straight-up holes in the walls inside the Huginn
Fixed Poranti’s space AI pathing, replaced Phase 2’s spawn with a drop pod, optimized the lighting, added a dropdown hole to the objective in Phase 1
Fixed some incorrect scripting in Kerrat Territories, likely explaining the odd reported "AIA won, despite ULA actually won" situation
Fixed objectives not being properly marked as “under attack” with a hackspike present
Fixed some instances of bots not wanting to board a station with multiple dropships despite multiple access points being available
Fixed seated turret operators and pilots inside capships being non-corporeal - should be possible to tag and shoot them now
Fixed spring nades desyncing their explosion effect between server and clients
Performance improvements to bots driving vehicles
Fixed rearming-through-warping-out nuking server performance
Fixed some instances of the commander-ability-spawned shield domes being invisible
Fixed sensor grenades not showing team-specific trail colours
Fixed the “Hack” commander ability not changing shield team allegiance properly if executed by the MILNET AI
Fixed hacked turrets not getting correctly removed from the parent weapon's deployed list
Fixed some space fighter camera angles that got weird in the last update
Fixed some instances of the tagged target always showing “out of range”
Fixed some instances of warp points not showing up properly for late-joiners
For feedback, or just a lovely chat with the devs, post on AFF's Steam forums or contact us directly through our Discord! Onwards and upwards!
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07 Jul 2020Developer post
Update 27
Hey there AFF Community! New update is here, with a lot of tweaks, fixes and new mechanics. As we mentioned last time, we continue to polish the game to a state in which we can start promoting it. We can already say the next update will contain the long awaited tutorial, as well
Hey there AFF Community! New update is here, with a lot of tweaks, fixes and new mechanics. As we mentioned last time, we continue to polish the game to a state in which we can start promoting it. We can already say the next update will contain the long awaited tutorial, as well as more optimization and quality-of-life changes. That’s not all, though - we have a couple cool things to announce before that next update so watch this space in the coming weeks. In the meantime though, AFF is still on sale for a couple more days! Tell your friends and family there’s an awesome space shooter out there to get at 40% off: https://store.steampowered.com/app/367270 As for the contents of this update:
Commander abilities
To give the commanders more of an active role other than issuing orders we’ve added the first batch of commander abilities. When used intelligently they are a very effective way to support your team. They will likely be tied into meta-game mechanics in the long run - for now, they are available to the attacker team’s commander in Incursion and to both teams in Territories. They will come online after a set amount of time into the match and then work on a cooldown basis. Of course, as with anything in AFF, if the commander role is not taken by a player the MILNET AI will be able to make use of these abilities as well: Area Hack ability - Order your faction’s local MILNET AI to focus on hacking enemy gear. Any enemy vehicle caught within the radius of the hack will be temporarily disabled and any deployable turret will change its allegiance to your team. Area Scan ability - Focus your faction’s fleet sensors to temporarily reveal every enemy in the target location (on ground, in open space, in a particular ship or station). Will even highlight enemies usually hidden by infiltrator suit mods. Area Shield ability - Project a shield covering a large area, similar to deployable turret shields but much more potent and without the singular vulnerable central point, to protect your fellow soldiers from enemy gunfire.
Ship combat and vehicle improvements
We’ve done a lot of incremental improvements to space combat mechanics. Thanks to netcode upgrades the fighters should now be more pleasant to pilot and be more reliable in terms of steering online. We have also corrected a bunch of long-standing issues with the lead indicator and target-leading-related mechanics. Dogfighting should be much more enjoyable now, especially in multiplayer matches. Ground vehicles have received plenty of attention as well, with their physics and handling tweaked to be less prone to snagging on level geometry. In addition, the mechs should now be able to strafe in a less dubious manner and be less prone to lock you inside when you’re trying to escape. We’ve also re-enabled vehicles taking damage from collisions which, thanks to the physics tweaks, should be less of an annoyance and more of a genuine gameplay feature now.
Shooting through enemies
We’ve finally formalized the feature of bullets penetrating enemy infantry. Simply put, it means that guns with high penetration capability (taking ammo types into account, of course) will now be able to punch through enemies, even multiple ones. This is governed by the same rules as wall penetration - subsequent hits will deal less and less damage. The likelihood of going through depends on a few additional factors - the type of suit the enemy is wearing, whether the shot is the final blow and the location of the hit - heads are squisher, although we’re avoiding any kind of complex penetration calculations, often found in mil-sims, here - hitting a hand in front of a head will still count as a hand hit.
Map tweaks
A big part of our continuing efforts to push the game towards full release goes into improving the maps. Over the past weeks we’ve done a tremendous amount of polish to all aspects of maps - collision, pathing, decoration placement.
Weapon balance
Included with this update are a number of changes to weapons across the board. Whilst these are detailed in full within the changelog some key changes to note are a reduction in recoil for all infantry weapons, reduction in flinch from being hit and quite a radical redesign of the RID to mitigate the need for locking on to name a few. Full changelog:

Formalized pawn penetration - you can now shoot through multiple players reliably. The amount depends on the type of gun, ammo, where you shoot (head is squishier) and the type of suit.
Added Commander abilities for the incursion attacker team, or both teams in territories. Area Hack: Disables vehicles caught in the radius, and turns all deployed turrets to the user’s faction. 240s of cooldown. Targets in the area get a 6s warning. Area Scan: Reveals the whole tacmap-location it is used on for 12s. Including infiltrators. 180s cooldown. Area Shield: Will spawn a shield on the location that functions like a shield from a deployable, but more health, and without originating from a device. 300s cooldown.
Slightly improved loading times of all maps
Reduced flinching while sighted slightly
Reduced recoil from all handheld weapons by 20%
Charged GU34 shots "cost" slightly less charge now
Being hit on the underbarrel shield should no longer trigger flinching
Increased damage of the RID and MLI primaries
Vehicle cockpit mods rework: - Turtle: 50% armor regeneration increase while not accelerating (no active inputs) and 50% reduced momentum and viewshakes - Scout: Reveal enemies for team based on proximity, 50% reduced boost-consumption - Infiltrator: Invisible to enemy sensors and proximity explosives, covered in ablative armour (no damage bleedthrough to health on armour depletion)
Radical RID rework: - No longer requires a target - Once fully charged, will always fire - Only primary firemode - Stopping charging will drop the progress to none - Charging it will dramatically decrease your movement speed - Slow chargeup in exchange for massive damage - Will now display a warning to everyone in the expected splash area, once the RID is 50% charged
Mines: - Will now have a visual trigger-radius - Increased the number of mines deployed per use - Tweaked fire rate and deployment spread - Improved their tracking. They are now considerably harder to outrun.
Experimentally changed dodging from the semi-reliable double-tapping to replacing jump (spacebar by default); Jumping forwards will still be a normal jump, but otherwise it will dodge in the direction you are moving. Dodge can no longer be used mid-air.
Dodge nerfed a bit, so sprint is still preferable
Taught bots how to use dodge. Run for the hills.
Interacting with the UI, such as tweaking loadouts, should contribute to not marking you inactive in online games)
Knifes will now show their chargeup animation for others properly (so you can see if someone is running with a charged knife)
Fixed the knife not always playing its attack animations for others when spammed
Fixed not being able to hit anything in fighters, especially online - improved the lag compensation in space and the way it interacts with space weapons and the lead indicator. Fixed a bunch of oddities with the lead indicator in general, improved lead calculations to include angular velocity to an extent.
Lead indicator will no longer be visible if the target is an objective without something to shoot or if the target is out of range
Grenades will now convey that they are being cooked in 3rd person
Throwing grenades will look less janky for others
Overcooking a grenade will now display a specific animation in response to the detonation
Weapons will now properly play overheating anims and effects for others
Putting a weapon away while it was overheating would occasionally leave an awkward effect on the ground. Should now properly restart the effects again when re-equipped, if it is still overheated.
Slightly reduced damage taken from the bleedout timer; bleeding out takes roughly the same time as it did before the last update (note that corrosion lowers this, since less initial healthpool, but the rate of bleeding out is slower, as before)
Fixed an issue with reviving pawns affected by corrosion - more than one stack of corrosion would lead to them being impossible to revive. Corrosion will also no longer interfere with the time needed to revive someone, it will take the same time to revive regardless of the amount of corrosion.
Replaced the flashlight with an experimental nightvision mode. Maybe there to stay, maybe not, we’ll see.
Reduced armor gained from heavy plate suit mods from 40 to 30
Reduced armor lost from speed suit mods from 40 to 30
Reduced base-armor for heavies from 180 to 160
Reduced movement speed of lights and heavies slightly
While having the support spec equipped, the multiwrench will now enable you to repair yourself by assisting another player regardless of that player being hurt.
Reduced the magsize of rockets on gunships
Experimental tweak to mech cameras to make them centered on the models, to bring them in line with all the other vehicles. Should also make determining whether a weapon will be blocked by level geometry easier.
Better animation blending and a bunch of fixes on the mechs, as an effort towards making them less janky visually when strafing or transitioning from strafes: - Fixed very small steps not producing sound - Fixed last step not producing sound - Fixed velius backwards-running not producing sounds when expected, but rather when it felt like it - Fixed issue where crouch wouldn’t consistently happen, or be broken unintentionally - Crouching now reduces the sound of the footsteps produced by 20% - Updated physics a bit; Now possible to run between the legs and not be pancaked, but the legs should now properly pancake you. - Fixed both mechs having spectator camera awkwardly placed at their feets - Fixed mechs often failing to find a place to let you exit - Fixed mechs occasionally struggling to jump (common occurrence on Lukather)
Reworked vehicle shields versus some types of damage: EMP (not bullets), colliding with another vehicle or level geometry, environmental fire, flamer (underslung and turret), knives and multiwrench now ignore shields and deal damage directly to the vehicle
Weapons with a laser pointer (like the RID) should now look more accurate for other players
Removed multiwrench purge mod. Clearing status effects is now again built into the multiwrench by default.
Increased firerate of TA by 15% in exchange for 15% less damage-per-shot
Dropped weapons: - Fixed MW not being dropped when exchanged for something else, and not being eligible to be dropped on death - Fixed dropped weapons not being thrown in the direction looked but rather always in some arbitrary direction - Fixed dropped weapons being randomly placed on the ground; They should now land where it would make sense compared to where they were tossed from with a tiny bit of randomness - Fixed prompt “Switch to” (If you have another weapon type equipped, like a knife and what you want to pick up is a primary) not working. It will now swap to that weapon.
Fixed running-and-gunning not properly lowering weapons while in the “no weapons” areas of the briefing rooms
Fixed fighters ion weaponry dealing more damage than intended against capships
Fixed ion and RID vehicle weapons not having any chargeup sound or FX
Underbarrel shields will no longer show up as a firemode on the loadout page for stats
Fixed overheat-progress not showing up properly in multiplayer if triggered from being on fire
Fixed wrong UI weapon image for the C90
Using an underslung with the GU34 should no longer attempt to charge the weapon (When the underslung is current firemode)
Improved accuracy of locking on to targets and keeping the lock
Increased lock-on target priority for destroyables and tagged targets
Re-added the “out of range” text under the tagbox. If you have a lock-on weapon out and your target has active countermeasures enabled it will now display “ECM active”
Fixed some lighter lock-on missiles thinking it had considerably larger range than it actually had, fixing some incorrect “out-of-range” markers
Standardised timers for respawn waves; Should be more reliable with giving you the proper time it will take before being able to respawn.
Updated medal names from “CMB” to “CBT” for consistency
Detpacks, mines and spring nades will now display their trigger-radius visually to the team who placed them
Vehicle point-defense will no longer target mines, nades, sensors or detpacks, and will only shoot projectiles heading towards the owner
Found and resolved another instance of the freelook key persisting when tabbing
Added a hint displayed during briefing-time describing directional damage on vehicles
Fixed typo in acid damage contextual hint
Added contextual hint for when entering a dropship without a droppod; Informs you to go rearm
Added config setting “TerritoriesStartingTicketsMultiplier” to servers for scaling territories timers; Default is current, but can be used to make the territories timer longer or shorter. Format is 100 = 1.0x based on the incursion timer.
Fixed a general problem with boardingpoints being destroyed not triggering all events correctly, often leading to odd issues like meshes or turrets being left behind etc.
Fixed boarding points glitching out for late-joiners (Would render the Ixion territories station unboardable among other issues)
When using z-zoom on tacmap (holding spacebar while zooming), the amount zoomed on the z-axis will now be variable to your zoom level
Improved general performance on maps using any sort of damaging volumes
Bots displaced from driving (by a player taking the wheel) will now respawn when necessary, rather than hang around doing nothing
Improved air/space bot pathing
Interaction description for enterable turrets on capital ships will now display the turrets name, when available, to give you a better idea of what you are entering, and making it easier to use the correct interaction if there are multiple turrets nearby
The visuals for “you can board this” will no longer show up if the point you are trying to board is already boarded
Cricket and Dragoon breach tubes should now properly look attached to the ships/stations. If they don’t, please report individual cases on a per-map basis
Made fighter spawners visible inside enemy carriers - as long as you are allowed to use a fighter, it will mark it on your HUD, such as when your task is in space while you are on a hostile carrier, or if the station is blowing up
Fixed hackspikes being occasionally invisible
Added a distinct material for AIA-placed hackspikes
Bots should totem less when defending an objective
Bots will now spread-out to defend a hackspike as soon as one is planting, rather than stack up and wait for a full plant. The planter will also move about more while planting naturally
Bots will be more willing to flank objectives
Objectives will now again remain on the top-right once they are completed, rather than disappearing
Fortress’ Phase 2’s third objective will now be visible again before being activate
Fixed repair-objectives not being taggable
Refined messages from planting a hackspike; The planter will now get a “You are planting the spike” message while others will get “Spike is being planted”. Should make it clearer if you are planting it, or it is being done by someone else standing right next to you
Fixed an issue with the vehicle deployment timer, where it would force you to sit through a new timer, despite being allowed to respawn already
Redeploying to accept a vehicle drop will now grant a free respawn, so you won’t have to sit in the timer, if you accept it quickly after deploying
Reduced the active-time for the AIA point defense and flares
Fixed issue where shields being down would interfere with capitalship point defense
Point defense now works on a cumulative damage-per-projectile basis again; Can be overwhelmed by swarms
Vehicles will no longer show up on tacmap if they are not spotted
Tweaked the vehicle cameras’ distance changes based on speed
Tweaked Sturm’s handling to be more flexible
Recessed the physical representation of the wheels on Hare and Silverback a fair bit; Makes them a bit more reactive to terrain, and should prevent them from glitching out when driving near the sides of objects.
Hare and Silverback collision and mass tweaks
Locust will now change its shieldsize when deployed, to properly accommodate the model; There should no longer be parts of the hitbox that bypassses the shield
Upscaled Dhaka’s shields to properly fit the barrels, tweaked driving and collision some
Upgraded the torque on Basta some, to make it a bit more agile. Tweaks to driving and collision as well.
Partisan got its wheels and steering tweaked to snag and glitch less. Hopefully. Who knows with the Partisan.
Vehicle shield-regen delays have been adjusted; Should take longer to restart
Vehicles can now be affected by elementals regardless of their shield status if shot underneath the shield - previously it would block any elemental effect from triggering, as long as the shields were up. Shooting the shield directly will still prevent the elemental effect.
Fixed Javert’s passenger ion turrets being wobbly; Fixed two of the passenger turrets not being enter-able in one of the Javert variants
Fixed characters in capital ship seats not being properly replicated to clients - they should now do the proper animations for everyone
Fixed Anubis and Huginn having trouble accelerating from a complete standstill
Improved what “rear” is on some vehicles (for when to deal additional directional damage)
Upped delay for in-map mounted turrets; They will now respawn in 1m 30s, rather than 30s
Fixed warping in/out after initial warp not doing the proper effects
Vehicles will again be affected by collision damage from hitting other vehicles or level geometry at speed
Fixed the preview not working as intended in the loadout
Fixed some issues with warnings not being displayed as intended when picking loadout in a vehicle drop
When driving a vehicle, opening up the loadout to change will now start on the vehicle, to easier make adjustments you think of for next time you use the vehicle.
Moved torpedo slot before mine slot on bombers; Order should now match the other fighters (primary, (primary), lockon/missile, mines)
Inverted order of the primaries on the mechs; 1 should now correspond to the left weapon, and 2 to the right, as would be expected
Tweaked behaviour of unique mods; Should no longer be possible to glitch-double-equip them
Changing faction on the loadout screen will now attempt to pick the opposite factions variant; For instance if on Turtle’s loadout page, and changing the faction to AIA, it should display the Basta’s loadout page
Improved the collision shapes of all consoles across the maps
New model variant for the Cricket breaching pod in space - fixes issues with not being able to shoot AIA breach pods attached to ships/stations by aiming at the actual thing.
Fixed issue with all the AIA ground LZs using a Cricket: The front would have weird meshes around the turret, and you could see the turret floating from the inside. They were also using wrong materials.
Tweaked and assigned even more physical materials on many objects across all maps
Spline meshes (pipes, cables, ducts) now have collision. Will make a lot of pipes that were previously shoot-through and pass-through properly solid.
Adjusted the friction property of ice. Deployables and ragdolls should no longer slide nearly as much on icy surfaces.
Tweaked the launch and restocking animations for the fighters and dropships in the generic faction hangars
Tweaked the boardingpoints in most carriers. They should now all properly let bots path, while remaining solid when no pod is attached, and properly be deadly when destroyed.
It should no longer be possible to consistently go out-of-bounds inside the main rock of Anaster
Tweaked a lot of collision in the Khamun interior; Should address a lot of the spots where you can hide in geom, and hopefully make it a little nicer to navigate
Anubis interior: - Fixed a number of holes that would lead out-of-bounds, meshes you could hide in and places you could actively get stuck in - Tweaked the dropships; They now look slightly more natural - Tweaked the blockers in the hangar area to be more flexible to move around - Resolved an issue where bots would struggle pathing through the center of the ship
Ranger interior: - Tweaked the boardingpoints same as in the rest of the carriers - Tweaked collision in the launch bay, it should now be friendlier to navigate
Huginn interior: - Lots of miscellaneous collision tweaks - Tweaked the blockers in the hangar area to be more flexible to move around - Resolved some holes in the roof - Tweaked some meshes that were clipping through walls - Fixed being able to hide in the damaged-state meshes in the hangar bay
Ascella updates: - Fixed in-menu description and thumbnail picture - Fixed the end-match message to point at the correct winning team - Tweaked a lot of collision - Mounted a floating screen near the central Phase 2 objective - Fixed area behind the central Phase 2 objective not being solid - Fixed some z-fighting in the central Phase 2 building - Areas near Phase 1 objectives atop of the cliffs are now correctly marked as out-of-bounds - Added a few ramps to highlight some less obvious paths in Phase 1 and Phase 2 - Fixed one pool of the freezing liquid not dealing damage as intended - One of the pools leading out-of-bounds was not out-of-bounds - should now reliably stop you from going there - Fixed a spot on the bridge going over a pool where you would be affected by the freezing liquid - Grounded some floating objects - Fixed some issues in the Phase 2’s cliffside building - Fixed bots being unable to path down to the Cricket Phase 3 objective from the ULA spawn via one of the roads - Added glass to the few windows lacking it for consistency - Tweaked the look of the glass windows - Tweaked the intro to be smoother - Added some décor to the Phase 1 and 2 AIA spawns
Poranti updates: - Potentially fixed Poranti crashing after finishing a map and loading into the next online - Replaced a lot of ULA tech with AIA tech where appropriate - Hopefully resolved a rare issue where completing objectives a bit out-of-order would cause issues - Added some objective-protection when they are inactive - Resolved the bots being unwilling to board Phase 4 - Added an out-of-bounds volume covering Phase 2 - Phase 1’s turret will now start in the close camera mode - ULA droppods should now be properly protected - Khamun should now be required to progress to Phase 4 - Increased the healthpool of Phase 1 objectives
Mirnoide updates: - Moved some killvolumes that had gotten a little overly excited about the ULA breachpoint in the lavadome station - Added fighter restocking animations to both biodomes - Removed some restrictions from bot pathing, and fixed an issue where they weren’t reliably able to get out of one of the boarding tubes - Tweaked some collision and improved performance - Moved some trees down to be properly grounded, fixed the “pump” mesh being very visually blurred depending on distance, fixed some glass, added some water sounds, fixed some water visuals and the river magically eating bullets in the desert dome station.
Yin Tao Shan updates: - Fixed improper collision on a destroyable on the road: The collision would persist after the destroyable was destroyed - In incursion, moved Phase 2’s out-of-bounds volume back a bit, so the “most obvious path” from the ULA vehicle-dropping is no longer blocked and makes the secondary AIA spawn inside the play-area - General collision and z-fighting tweaks on rocks, trees etc. - Replaced AIA tech with ULA in the ULA spawn-huts - Adjusted the Phase 3 out-of-bounds volume, so that the left-side ULA LZ is in-bounds as intended
ULA briefingroom: - Fixed missing collision on the “quarters” door - There are no longer floating lights in the briefing-area - Fixed a few ways to get out of bounds - Added a killvolume underneath, to prevent anyone from being stuck, should they get out of bounds - Tweaked collision on armory-area; There is no longer an arbitrary invisible roof that you’d hit your head on - Fixed being able to get yourself stuck near the weapon-racks - Added more weapons to the rack, so there’s a few duplicates to pick from - Fixed multiple objects visibly culling in and out when moving through the briefing area. All meshes should now be properly visible as intended - Added some red/black/green screens slightly out of bounds; Use the “ghost” consolecommand and fly to the right of the spawn; Should allow those interested to get screenshots that are easier to cut out
AIA briefingroom: - Fixed some floating and semi-see-through objects in the kitchen area - Fixed the roof not being solid; Could be used to climb out of the area - Added a killvolume underneath, to prevent anyone from being stuck, should they get out of bounds - Added some red/black/green screens slightly out of bounds; Use the “ghost” consolecommand and fly to the right of the spawn; Should allow those interested to get screenshots that are easier to cut out
Lacroix updates: - Added fighter-restocking and takeoff animations as was done to the ULA hangar previously. - Adjusted a lot of collision and fixed some z-fighting - Fixed some places you could get out-of-bounds - Properly grounded all cover - Fixed an area that had gotten a placeholder texture assigned - Inner ULA spawn and AIA LZs should now be properly protected - Added some effects, and revised collision, around the middle objective; Should now be more flexible to fight around
Meudeverre updates: - Fixed ugly skybox scaling - Tweaked a lot of internal collision on cover, walkways, etc. - Added restocking and takeoff animations to fighters - Protected ULA LZs - Fixed destroyables leaving behind collision after they were destroyed - Reduced the healthpool of Phase 2 objectives
Ixion updates: - Fixed some parts being see-through and partially fly-through in the inner parts of the station - Fixed some tubes not being fully connected, but vaguely hanging in space - Fixed some weirdness with the stations turrets - All LZs should now be properly protected and functional - Added an out-of-bounds volume covering Phase 3 - Trash in the bins is now visible from all angles - Tweaked a lot of collision; Greatly reduced places you can cheesily hide or get stuck in, or fall out of bounds - Added some meshes around the interior to finish up areas that looked barren - Properly grounded meshes, and made sure any destroyables wouldn’t leave floating meshes or bad collision
Delta updates: - Slightly increased the time it takes for the water to turn your screen black, to feel a bit more natural, and tweaked when it affects you, to match with the visual water better - Fixed some cases of z-fighting - The medbay in one of the AIA huts should now look like it belongs - Replaced AIA tech with ULA variants inside ULA spawnhuts - Widened all bridges, to make it easier to drive vehicles over
Tannhauser updates: - Fixed a lot of cover not being rendered from a distance - The LZs should now be properly shielded and protected - Fixed missing collision on some consoles - Tweaked the doors: They should now be easier to deal with while opening, and to walk past - Added blocking volumes to the caps of the fans under the platform; Would allow players to move gunships in them, or jump into them, despite being visually obstructed by the fans
Kerrat Territories updates: - Tweaked previous fix intended to stop the capital ships from drifting and desyncing boardingpoints; The capital ships would unintentionally become fly-through at times
Lukather Territories updates: - Updated the tram in the Territories variant as was previously done to the incursion variant - Replaced AIA tech with ULA in the ULA spawnhut - Added some supporting meshes to the “hotel towers”, so they aren’t awkwardly semi-transparant from the air - Tweaked collision on the parking lot and terminals - Fixed some of the windows on the main towers somehow not blocking vehicles or sucking them in - Fixed the initial landed dropship being visible as a glitch for a second during the intro
Fortress updates: - Slightly moved ULA LZs so they are properly grounded - Moved right-side Silverback and Basta vehicle drop spots back a bit, to give the defenders a better chance of making use of them during Phase 2 - Removed some weird blocking volumes from Phase 3 area - Another pass of terraforming to blend everything better - Added sandbags to second level of Phase 2 towers to make them more relevant - Turrets in Phase 2 towers will now start you in zoomed-in view to make them more usable - A bunch of collision tweaks, most notably on rocks and railings - Fixed spots in some of the towers, walls and spawn areas where you could shoot and see through the floors to the level below - Slightly recessed Phase 2’s mounted turrets, so they actually fit on their platforms - Added some blockers between the towers and the wall itself, since some players managed to get themself stuck in the gap - Replaced AIA tech with ULA in the ULA spawn
Igneous updates: - Added two ending cinematics which will play depending on who wins - Fixed some collision - Fixed some pathing, where bots would struggle with using the scaffolding towers to ascend and descend and get stuck under the Phase 1 platform - Added a bit of cover to the overpass coming from ULA Phase 3 spawn; It should be more doable for attackers to contest a sniper-nest there
Irega updates: - A lot of miscellaneous collision improvements and tweaks - Fixed some spots in the trash heap where you could get stuck or get out of bounds - Properly protected the spawns in the Incursion variant - In the Incursion variant, adjusted the Phase 3 out-of-bounds volume, so that the left-side ULA LZ is in-bounds as intended
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02 Apr 2020Developer post
Update 26
Hey there AFF Community! It’s April 1st guys and girls but it’s not exactly laughing matter this year, is it? We did include something more light-hearted in the update for this occasion but first and foremost in these difficult times... stay safe, everyone. Stay at home, wash you
Hey there AFF Community! It’s April 1st guys and girls but it’s not exactly laughing matter this year, is it? We did include something more light-hearted in the update for this occasion but first and foremost in these difficult times... stay safe, everyone. Stay at home, wash your hands, act responsibly. We’ll try to offset the boredom of this planet-wide quarantine a bit with some cool AFF updates, so here we go:
New map - Ascella
Set on an icy moon, this map sees ULA infantry storming subsequent emplacements and taking over an AIA research station hidden among the frozen cliffs. It’s also the first map to feature our new dynamic weather system - it’s not its final form yet but when finished all the maps will benefit from it the same way Ascella does. No spoilers on the screenshots, go check it out yourself, just be sure to wear something warm under your armour!
Helmet mods and spotting mechanics
Infantry loadouts now feature helmet mods which let players further specialize in different roles on the battlefield if they wish to. Consider this a set of perks you can pick in your loadout to get certain unique situational bonuses. Spotting mechanics have also been reworked, to constitute more of a conscious enemy identification tool than a persistent wall-hack. Details can be found in the extremely sizable changelog below.
Big balance changes and experiments
We’re polishing a lot of aspects of AFF at the moment but we also want to make sure the game plays as we envisioned it for the final release. This update brings in some significant changes to gameplay mechanics and balance: The majority of weapons have been rebalanced to better fit into their intended roles, with drastic changes to how damage is modulated per distance. Most fighter ships can now pick 2 different primary weapons and switch between them. We reworked how reviving works, with the players getting up with less health the longer they were bleeding out instead of always having full HP. Incapacitated players are also more vulnerable now and we fixed an issue that would give players invulnerabilty frames while getting up from the incapacitated state. There are also quite a few experimental features in this update - like the 3D target display on the HUD. Those will not necessarily look like that a few updates from now but they’re tests of new features we want to have in the final release - and the new pieces of rendering tech we need to realize our final vision.
Map polish and material penetration
A lot of the maps got fixed up in terms of cover, collision, objectives etc. We’ve also done a significant pass on what objects on the maps are “made out of”. Everything in AFF should have a physical material description assigned, which determines how easy it is to shoot through it, what effects are displayed upon hitting the object, what footstep sounds play etc. Up to this point there were quite a few omissions in this department, now most of those oddities should be sorted out. Still, please do report any cases of bullet penetration misbehaving on objects if you manage to encounter those though!
Networking improvements
We’re also working around the clock on optimizing the game for its final release and this month we ironed out some pesky issues in the multiplayer connections. Playing on multiple accounts behind the same router should work reliably now, LAN game discovery should be more robust. We also improved the mechanisms responsible for checking and reporting why the player couldn’t connect to a particular server. All the details of the changes in this version can be found below. It’s a massive list this time, we picked up the pace quite a lot these past couple months. Not sure how the current state of the world will affect us but so far we’re on track for full release later in the year. Stay tuned for more updates!
Full changelog:

Fixed the idle-kick / idle-move-to-spectate functionality being unintentionally disabled
Tweaked the size of player names printed on armor and vehicles. Shouldn’t get clipped as often
The spotted HUD marker on infantry is now raised slightly when crouched (Should make them be less likely to end up hidden) - doubly so if they're moving crouched
The spotted HUD marker for hostile infantry now takes a slightly darker color when out of line-of-sight (occluded by walls etc.). Note, it’s based on the enemy’s center of mass, so they may not be fully occluded
NAT punchthrough should now correctly support connection attempts from behind the same NAT and generally work in more cases of exotic network setups
Updated default loadouts to include helmet mods
Fixed being unable to open the tab-menu but not the tacmap in the period immediately after commander vote
Added a 3D target-info display to the right side of the HUD, instead of the elaborate healthbar near the target bracket (can be scaled or turned off completely in the settings menu). This display will also have information about helmet mods, target’s name, how fast they are going and a representation of their model
Revive rework: - Multiwrench no longer heals incapacitated pawns; Only repairs armor - When revived, you no longer start with full HP, but whatever you had left in incapacitated state - You can now be shot while being helped up - Bots will more aggressively use their multiwrench - If taken considerable overkill damage, a straight death is guaranteed - Removed reduction in damage taken for pawns bleeding out - Taking explosive damage as the killing blow should no longer disallow going into bleedout - Starting health when incapacitated now respects any corrosion value
Tacmap - Tilting the camera too far down should no longer invert the forward/back control - Zoom amount is now scaled to the current zoom-level; Less volatile zooming - Movement (Forward/back/left/right) is now scaled to the current zoom-level; Less volatile movement - Some destroyables (Like objectives, boarding points and LZs) are now visible on the tacmap
Helmet mod rework - removed all current helmet mods, and replaced it with: - Agility spec * - Allows shooting sidearms while sprinting * - Adds dodge move (double tab in a direction) - Support spec * - Multiwrench repairs own armour at 50% of output * - Unlocks 2nd support item slot to loadout (currently always available) - Assault spec * - 30% reduced recoil (currently modulated by armour amount) * - Adaptive armour, increased resilience to repeated damage of the same type; (reduces damage taken by 0.9^number-of-hits-of-same-ammo-type, the number-of-hits factor will decay by 1 every second) - Turtle spec * - 50% armour regen delay while crouching * - 50% reduced flinch/viewshake on hit/radial - Infiltrator spec * - Scrambler (invisible to sensor nades, doesn’t trigger proximity explosives) * - Ablative armour, no damage bleed through armour - Levelling spec * - Redirects all experience gained to your lowest ranked channel
Spotting rework: - Enemies get identified marker while tagged and in team's sight - Enemies get identified marker while in sensor radius and in team's sight - Enemies get tracking “eye” blip while in sensor radius and out of team's sight, unless sporting the infiltrator spec - Enemies firing loud weapons get temporary minimap “?” blip, unless using knife, multiwrench, throwing grenade, silencer or deployable Vehicles
Changed some flight handling; Spacecrafts should be more responsive
Gunships and spacecrafts should be less jittery
Land vehicles will now take 50% less damage from the front, in addition to the current 50% additional damage to the rear
Added significant spread to the Basta and Turtle’s main weapons
Changed dropships from being “Use to exit” to “Hold use to exit”, like gunships, in order to avoid accidentally getting out of the seat from missing boarding-points or rearm points
Tweaked capital ship components; They can now always take damage. If they have been downed, they cannot be fully destroyed again until restored, but damage taken sets back the process
Increased damage-induced regeneration delays for land-vehicles and gunships
The fighters that visually had two weapons, now have two seperate weapons (you can equip two primaries on Sword, Katana, Scimitar, Firefly, Salamander and Rakshasa)
When looking at someone in a seat (for instance in a dropship), their name should now be displayed correctly, rather than show the name of whatever you last looked at
Components that are not active (like shields, engines and core-lockouts in Kerrat) will no longer be displayed as such. Their physical console(s) or objects will no longer have a mouseover popup, they will no longer act as objectives or be damageable - and if they have text, they will now explicitly tell that they are disabled.
Fixed EMP/acid/fire having infinite lifespans if triggered on something with no armor value (such as LZ turrets)
Fixed driver position in vehicles being off if entered crouching in multiplayer
Dropships will depart faster after boarding; When the pod is attached, it will take off, rather than hang around for an additional ~5seconds
Fixed dropships showing up as belonging to the wrong team if driverless while boarding; It will now be shootable regardless of a driver being present
Added slight shield boost to dropships while boarding to make them more likely to succeed if they have initiated boarding
Fixed being unable to repair driverless neutral vehicles (such as stationary turrets)
Shields on defensive platforms and stations have been removed, as they were unintentional
Crouching while boosting should no longer cancel boosting, if piloting a jetcraft or spaceship (consistent with jump key, or rather “go up”, not cancelling it either)
Vehicles are now harder to be afflicted with elemental effects, and the duration of the effects got reduced
Vehicles can now be accepted or declined while dead in the UI in a more convenient fashion. If accepted, you will be able to tweak the loadout of the vehicle until you are able to spawn as usual. Vehicles without loadouts are spawned immediately
Added timer to the vehicle-award-offer prompt, counting down the time left on the offer, untill it expires (until it is auto-declined) Weapons
Corrected error in SAR's reload animation timing
Reduced MNL screenshake significantly
Reduced C30i shell damage by 10%
Added flinching when zooming and being shot at
Removed flamer’s ability to headshot
Adjusted flamer’s damage output to be variable based on distance to target (intensity), and slightly lowered their maximum damage output
Reworked infantry weapon falloff models; Damage will now be more variable over distance, where certain types will perform better at certain ranges
Removed various hidden damage modifiers. The damage stat of the weapon should be more accurate to the actual damage you deal
Increased the damage of MLIs primary slightly
Slightly tweaked all vehicle weapons to follow the new falloff model. Minimal impact.
Slightly reduced the effective radius of the flare countermeasures
Tweaked the FKR ᵘⁿᶠᵏ'ᵈ ᵗʰᵉ ᶠᵏʳ
Fixed decoy nades callouts misbehaving and hijacking the squad broadcasts (and changed their audio from "sent to squad over net" to what you'd expect to hear (said out loud)
Fixed module weapons (for instance turrets on LZs) not being valid lock-on targets; Should allow locking onto a droppod when aiming at their body.
Added deployables (turrets) as icons visible on the HUD; Will now show up with friendly-color for teammates, and task-color for your own. Will always show your own, and teammates if nearby, or if you have the deployable tagged. Should help with identifying if a turret is friendly or hostile.
Moved the behaviour for multiwrench’s purge-elementals effect from default, to a mod
Fixed some grenade types not passing correctly through shields
Decreased price of all multi-wrench mods
Fixed picking weapons up occasionally leaving you with nothing
Reduced base headshot multiplier to 2x, down from 2.5x. Note that the multiplier is increased by having helmet mods equipped
Improved handheld weapon weight mod
Significantly reduced hip-fire spread penalties on sidearms
Increased magsize of TA to 36
Reduced reload time of TA by 0.3s
Increased reload time of A420 by 0.1s
Reduced fighter flechette spread in-line with infantry gun changes
Increased radius of sensor grenades detection from 15m to 20m
Fixed some lockon missile types having different range and lockon range when used on Ti/Gryphon/Javert/Chons/Heimdal instead of on the fighters
Fixed underbarrel smoke grenades’ name on the HUD
Reworked knife somewhat; It should now be more forgiving to hit with. Slightly increased the range.
Removed the GU34’s lights Objectives
Fixed hack objectives displaying the wrong objective to defenders in MP
Out-of-bounds volume damage should no longer persist if you were inside the volume as it got deactivated
Objectives inside an out-of-bounds volume will now be delayed from activating for the attacking team by 20s
Out-of-bounds volumes will now persist for 20s longer to further discourage ninja-capping objectives on phase-changes
Mapvote timer has been decreased by 20s
Between stages, while waiting for the next to start, it will now display "INCURSION, AWAITING NEXT STAGE" as the stage-description
When starting a map, the stage-description will now display "INCURSION, INTRODUCTION" or "TERRITORIES, INTRODUCTION" during the introduction cinematics
Fixed "Phase N completed, timer extended" message not showing up when completing Phase 1
Added a soundcue for objectives being activated on phase-progression (Should make it clearer when a stage is completed, and you have new objectives available)
Destroyables linked to another (Such as the turret on LZs or dropships attached to carriers) should now properly sync their damage and healing
Fixed drop module weapons (Such as the turret on LZs) not taking explosive damage
Increased health of capital ships that are marked as objectives by 20%
Tweaked space-related objective-helpers to better guide you to perform your objective. Will now properly tell you to use fighters/dropships or docking depending on your goal. AI
Bots will somewhat slow down when near a “Need a ride” callout
Bots are now able to use boost in ground-vehicles
Bots will now react to the callout “Get in” from a larger distance, if they are part of your squad
Bots should now be a little more considerate about changing their weapons
Fixed an issue where bot would cycle their weapons needlessly when not having a target
Reduced AI response time to already-identified enemies
Bots should now better understand the range of their multiwrench, and move accordingly when trying to revive
Bots should now better understand the range of deployable ammo and healthkits Maps
New Map: Ascella - snow/ice themed infantry-only Incursion map
Pass on physics materials - what can be shot through, how it looks when you shoot it; Some materials will behave differently than previously as a result. Feel free to provide feedback on any objects you think behave oddly in this context.
Mirnoide changes: - Refined all collision in both biodomes; Fixed holes where it was possible to fall out of the map, better collision near all objects, each dome now extends out to where it visually looks like they end - Tweaked various stuff to be AIA themed - Polished a ton of objects that were partially see-through, Z-fighting, floating or otherwise out of place - Spawns are now properly protected - Fighters now have launch animations - A lot of terraforming to fit the new larger domes, and add additional paths - Adjusted both sides of the biodomes in space; They should now have proper collision and no longer snag ships - If you jump out of the biodomes somehow, you will now be killed - Added cover in various locations to interrupt line of sight and make reaching the objectives more feasible and fair in the desert biodome - Added major line-of-sight blockers to reduce cross-map sniping and make getting out of the chokepoint more fair - (Desert biodome) Added stairwell to give more path options for the attacking players - (Desert biodome) Fixed the water plane's weirdness with being over-extended beyond where the water should be - (Desert biodome) Water should now act as water - (Lava biodome) Refined all environmental hazards to better fit their visuals - (Lava biodome) Added additional bridges around the place - (Lava biodome) Terrain should now be more intuitive to navigate
Tannhauser: - Added larger side walkways outside the hangar - Added additional ramps to the roof inside the hangar - Added more cover on the outside areas of Phase 2 - Attempted to allow mechs to reach more locations - Improved accessibility in yellow girder walkways in Phase 3 - Addressed missing collision on elevated platforms above the deck - Re-added out of bounds volume to prevent girder camping/repairing with gunships - Added out of bounds volume to prevent misuse of area behind ULA Phase 3 spawns - Implemented phased out-of-bounds volumes to prevent crafty ninjas from getting to objectives before defenders can set up - Fixed Phase 3 spawns not being properly protected - Modified ramp towards AIA side of Phase 2 to allow for mech traversal on both ends - Added arrows to indicate optional pathways up to the roof - Fixed some issue with getting snagged on geometry, when trying to enter the huts
Yin Tao Shan: - Addressed anomalous blocking volume in front of Phase 1 stairwell to objective - Resized spawns to fit better, and ensured they are properly protected - Renamed ULA LZ that didn’t comply to the naming of other LZs - Fixed flora being floaty - Added collision to the bridge pillars - Fixed some meshes being partially see-through and floaty on the bridges - Water should now act as water - (Phase 1 area) Sorted some z-fighting and misalignment on lower columns and platforms - (Phase 1 area) Sorted collision on downstairs desks in building - (Phase 1 area) Sorted lacking collision on wall leading into building - (Phase 1 area) Added collision to the lamps and parts of the “railing” - (Phase 2 area) Sorted rock without collision near old AIA spawn, and three others that didn't block gunfire - (Phase 2 area) Sorted a few pillars without collision - (Phase 3 area) Fixed piping in middle building being floaty and some collision there
Ixion: - Addressed missing collision on some pillars/columns in the interior of the station - Fixed a slightly incorrect introduction timing
Lacroix: - Fixed incorrect introduction timing that would actively open and then close the tacmap while still going
Poranti: - Addressed missing collision on blue barrels - Addressed some snags in Phase 4 hangars near fighter platforms - Fixed issue with some AI pathing on Phase 4’s catwalks
Delta: - Fixed floating pebbles - Tweaked rocks collisions to maybe be more accurate
Fortress (Incursion): - Fixed floating flora - Moved hovercars in garage down to the ground (since they're clearly inactive) - Terraforming pass to properly ground all the buildings - Fixed a few z-fighting incidents on the wall - Slightly tweaked the location of the Phase 3 AIA vehicle drop points
Lukather: - Addressed missing collision on the tunnel walls - Fixed water towers having two holes in the walkway - Fixed up the Incursion train a little; Should follow the path better, have better collision, and no longer snag on the pillars; Also is partially bulletproof where it is logical that it would be; It's now also technically a map hazard - Added vehicle-blocking-pole-meshes to all entrances to the tower; Should properly convey that vehicles can't enter - The collision in the Phase 3 terminal should now be more intuitive - Properly sealed entry to the building coming off the Phase 3 terminal - Sorted a few z-fighting cases - Polished the Phase 3 tower; Fixed misalignments, z-fighting, added another walkway in the center going up; Added exterior pathway for the final level; Added a bit of additional cover; Enabled collision on consoles - Tweaked size of shields on ULA spawn-huts - Replaced AIA tech with ULA tech near train and in the spawn-huts
Igneous: - Patched exploitable missing collision in Phase 3 which allowed for players to drop down and snipe from the building with impunity - Added grates to one of the Phase 3 up/down tunnels that was missing it (looked strange and hitched movement) + moved 'door mesh' down a bit, since it was snagging collision - Fixed Phase 2 spawn being enabled in Phase 1 - Phase 3 tweaks: Ramp should no longer have bits sticking out, should no longer have arbitrary collision, all rails have been moved a bit to better fit the walkway, round collisions for the meshes near ramp have been downsized to be more accurate - All spawns should now be properly protected - Added out-of-bounds volume to cover objective D - Tweaked a hut to be more easily enterable near first objective - Fixed some strange collision on commonly used objects like toolboxes - Changed all AIA tech to ULA aesthetic
Cricket dropship interior: - Tweaked collision of everything to feel more natural - Fixed some z-fighting and misalignments - Turned the seats to both be facing forward to make it easier to navigate from the middle - Replaced mis-used ULA tech meshes with AIA aesthetic
Dragoon dropship: - Same as cricket, but also extended triggers for doors so they should be more responsive
Irega territories: - Fixed having to jump over a set of stairs at street level plus misc. collision improvements
Meudeverre: - Fixed floating bits of cover, z-fighting, some parts of the floor lacking collision and lack of collision on hack consoles in the interior - Fixed bad collision on a ramp near final objectives and added out-of-bounds volume to Phase 3 - When the station gets boarded, the AIA spawn in the hangar will be disabled and replaced with one that is properly protected inside the wall - Slightly tweaked tunnel from interior AIA spawn towards Phase 3 objectives, so bits of the AIA spawn aren't glitching through the wall - All the huts in ULA hangar have been tweaked slightly so they don't hamper movement; Also some meshes have been moved about a bit to prevent see-through spots and z-fighting; And a bit of mesh-painting to blend the segments slightly better - Fixed a slightly incorrect introduction time
AIA Briefingroom: - Fixed some lacking collision on map-columns - Fixed infinite resupply point that was broken near the shooting range - Tweaked lighting on the central tables in the eating area - Removed ULA tech that had snuck in - Polished shooting range; The heads should now be inside the models, heads are slightly larger, and the models should overall be better aligned with the rails
ULA Briefingroom: - Fixed some Z-fighting and collision issues in the kitchen area. Also returned a vent that had gone on a journey - Polished shooting range; Increased size of heads, and overall be better aligned with the rails; Tweaked position of shooting range triggers to make them easier to activate - Removed AIA tech that had snuck in - Slightly moved one of the briefing rooms "play briefing" triggers to match the console - Changed material of the shooting ranges buttons to be ULA blue, rather than orange - Fixed weapon table not having collision - Fixed floating light fixture - and added collision to it - Fixed a guy holding his rifle funky - Door wasn't properly covering doorway, bit of "look through the world"; Resized to fit
Khamun interior: - Added missing team-blocking-volume to bridge spawn - Tweaked collision on turret seats
Ranger interior: - Fixed one of the two boarding points (left) not functioning properly as a spawn point
Kerrat territories: - Upscaled shields slightly, to better fix the ships - Potentially fixed the desync of the capital ships happening over time (should allow for them to be boarded entire match)
Anubis interior: - Fixed one of the boarding points not functioning properly
Huginn interior: - Fixed some collision issues (some ceiling issues, and being able to fall out of the map) - Fixed issue with passengers in the dropships being killed as they leave the hangar
AISN hangar: - Added fighter-restocking animation
USN hangar: - Fixed some collision and z-fighting issues around the place - The Katana should now look more natural - Animated ladders and improved the fighter-restocking animations - Added another set of blockades on the floor, for the fighter that didn't have one - Sorted a number of look-through meshes (mainly ceiling)
For feedback, or just a lovely chat with the devs, post on AFF's Steam forums or contact us directly through our Discord. Onwards and upwards! Stay safe everyone!
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24 Dec 2019Developer post
Merry Christmas!
Hey there AFF Community! We’d like to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year full of awesome games! Of course the Holiday Season wouldn’t be complete without The Winter Sale. You can grab AFF at %40 off until the 2nd of January: For the Christmas period the char
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Tweaks and fixes and Discord
Hey there AFF Community! Here’s a new update with a bunch of much-needed bugfixes and adjustments, plus some convenience features: Discord integration We’ve added Discord’s Rich Presence features into the game. You can now see what faction, map and server your Discord friends are
Hey there AFF Community! Here’s a new update with a bunch of much-needed bugfixes and adjustments, plus some convenience features:
Discord integration
We’ve added Discord’s Rich Presence features into the game. You can now see what faction, map and server your Discord friends are playing on and join them or invite them to join you. We will definitely tweak this some more in the future but, since the majority of our Community is present in the AFF Discord server, this should already make organizing games more convenient.
Fixes, balance and quality-of-life changes
A few rather critical issues crept into the game with the last update and hotfix so here we are getting rid of those. We’ve also made the elemental effects (incendiary, corrosion, EMP) more consistent and rebalanced certain weapons and items, again - for example decoy grenades should be more useful now and the RID less unpredictable in terms of locking onto targets. Ordering earned vehicles will now drop them in a more predictable spots now as well, resulting in less instances of those poor LAVs being stuck on roofs. Full changelog:
Discord Rich Presence implemented, displays basic game session information and enables joining players in an online match
Shielded vehicles no longer allow elemental effects to be triggered on them
Capship point-defence should now work similar to the point-defence drone
Vehicle drops have received some improvements - vehicles should now land in more predictable locations and not get stuck on level geometry as much
Reduced the hitpoints of capital ships’ subsystems by 30% (shields, point-defence, engines etc.)
Infantry and vehicles are now blocked from regenerating anything, be it shields or armour, if on fire
Vehicles are now blocked from regenerating shield if affected by EMP
Standardized how elemental effects are handled for mines, detpacks, underslung rockets and grenades
RID heavy rework: - Lockon will no longer break when firing the weapon, allowing for consecutive shots faster - Lockon and charge is now properly separated; mods should now function properly - It’s now harder to maintain a lockon - Reduced delay between firing a shot, and being able to charge the next - Base lockon time have been upped to 2s (perfect lock-time), chargetime is 1.5s - Should no longer drop charge when zooming
Bots should no longer try to swap weapons when they are incapacitated
Tweaked how bots handle their new firing-rate behaviours - should be more aggressive when in close proximity again
AI turrets should now prioritize bombers a bit less obsessively
Bots are now able to callout “in position” for move-to orders too
Bots will no longer callout “under fire” if they are shooting at a destroyable objective and not really in danger
Vehicles are now immune to their own splash-damage unless friendly-fire is enabled
Underslung flamers have experimentally received a tweak to how they deal damage: rather than only hitting what you are pointing directly at, it will now apply it to all targets in a cone shape, originating from the weapon
Added fake callouts “Regroup on me”, “Move to” and “Need a medic” to decoy grenades, as alternatives that can trigger to gunfire
Decoy grenades gunfire is now repeating a little to better simulate actual gunfire
Fixed AIA-specific gun sounds for decoy grenade
Detpacks, mines and spring grenades will no longer deal damage if detonated from their owner dying
Spring grenades and gyronades are now named n8s and n8g, with the base grenade being called n8d. Should make it easier to determine what you are using in-world
SAR have gotten a larger magazine - 90 up from 66; takes more shots to overheat - 40 up from 25, but takes longer to reload
Increased the number of carried sensor grenades from 2 to 3
TT4 firerate increased, and damage reduced, by roughly 15%; overheats at 80 rounds, up from 60
Removed reload mods from the P8 and Partisan/Dhaka tank turrets
MGA magsize reduced to 160, down from 300
Removed collision on the “projector” on Khamun’s bridge - should no longer soak bullets
Fixed Poranti sometimes causing clients in multiplayer to crash after finishing the match
Fixed lock-on issue introduced in last hotfix - locking onto targets should again work reliably and properly show associated visuals
Fixed corrosion not being applied correctly to vehicles from mines/detpacks/grenades/underslung and certain cases where incendiary effect wouldn’t be triggered either.
Fixed in-world painvolumes (areas inflicting environmental damage) not affecting vehicles and standardized elemental effects on those
Fixed turret AI not always being properly disabled when affected by EMP
Mines should no longer collide with the driver/passengers of the vehicle they originated from
Fixed radial damage not reaching destroyables through team-blocking volumes (droppods for example)
Fixed ship debris in outro scenes of several space maps jittering all over place
Removed some legacy Steam VoIP functionality in preparation for custom VoIP library
For feedback, or just a lovely chat with the devs, post on AFF's Steam forums or contact us directly through our Discord! Onwards and upwards!
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Updates & announcements

Incoming Update: The Fight Goes On 1.01

Performance

Network

Balance Changes

General Changes

Helmet Mods

Maps

Lukather Starport Overhaul

Both Variants

Incursion Variant

Territories Variant

Irega Incursion Changes

Territories Maps Changes

Errah Territories Changes

Fortress Territories Changes

Irega Territories Changes

Majuro Changes

Meudeverre Changes

Spacecraft

Vehicles

General

Gunship

Handling Improvements and Top Speed Increases

Tank and IFV Health Pool Buffs

Basta

Dhaka

Partisan

Turtle

Weapons

Anti-Vehicle Weapons

C30i Anti-Vehicle Improvements

MLI Shift and Ease of Use Changes

RID Shift and Ease of Use Changes

Detpacks

Handguns

Quality of Life & Polish Changes

Bots

General

UI

Hey there AFF Community!

Balance

Sonic Knife

GU-34 Gauss Rifle

SGZ Special 4-Gauge Shotgun

Gunships

Vehicle Shields

Server browser

Profanity filter

More stability fixes

Onwards and upwards!

Things to address

Things coming shortly

Onwards and upwards!

Angels Fall First 1.0 is here!

Darsalaam

Enjoy the game, help us spread the word, come talk to us on Discord!

Onwards and upwards!

Angels Fall First will hit 1.0 on July 11 2026!

Update highlights:

The Tutorial and Practice Modes

Dar Salaam

Dar Salaam Territories

Major updates to Majuro

Arsenal Additions

Fixes to player stats and achievements

Input and UI cleanup

Map polish

Update 29 is live!

Majuro

Controller support

Performance, AI and gameplay

Achievements

What's going on then?

Underbarrel shotgun attachment

Emote gestures

Hey there AFF Community!

Capital ship turrets rework

AI upgrades

Boarding improvements