Merc Changes

• Decreased G-17 cost from 18.000 to 10.000;
• Decreased Silencer G-17 cost from 9.000 to 4.000;
• Decreased Burnado RD (G-17 Scope) cost from 8.000 to 4.000;
• Decreased Magtorch FLGX (G-17 Flashlight) cost from 5.000 to 2.500;
• Decreased Sixty-45 cost from 15.000 to 6.000;
• Decreased .45 ACP cost (per bullet) from 120 to 30.

Alien Changes

• Scream Wave & EMP shared cooldown is no longer applied if there’s only one alien in a session;
• Aliens now spawn invisible;
• Scream Wave no longer locks item switching;
• Alien invisibility “shield” now only protects from 80% of the damage; the rest goes straight to HP;
• Melee Attack now instantly breaks invisibility without triggering invisibility cancel animation;
• The time when energy starts regenerating after taking damage is reduced to 5 seconds from 10;
• Invisibility now triggers a 4-second cooldown when it breaks from taking damage, using EMP, Scream Wave, or Attack.

General Changes

• Changed the way how contracts are randomized so players should have more variety of contracts during long gameplay sessions;
• Updated alien death hints & skill descriptions to reflect recent changes;
• Optimizing shadows for better performance.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue that allowed to stack effects of the same perk several times as merc;
• Fixed an issue where resetting to the default parameter in controls wouldn’t reset the mouse & keyboard tab;
• Fixed an issue where shotgun bullet count would display incorrectly in stash;
• Fixed an issue where error message tooltips would show under the UI;
• Fixed an issue where dogtags could break user UI;
• Fixed an issue where an incorrect error message tooltip would appear in inventory when moving items;
• Fixed an issue where “No escape bonus” for aliens would visually be rewarded even when humans would extract.

Please restart the game and install the patch.