Patch 0.6.9

General Changes

• Added rate of fire to item properties in the weapon description tooltips;

Merc Changes

• Reduced M4F1 damage against humans from 15 to 14;
• Increased M4F1 damage against aliens from 5 to 6;
• Reduced MP7S damage against humans from 12 to 10;
• Reduced MRX damage against humans from 13 to 12;
• Increased MRX damage against aliens from 4 to 5;
• Increased RD-704 damage against aliens from 6 to 7;
• Reduced Scorp-5 damage against humans from 13 to 11;
• Reduced LAR’s damage against humans from 16 to 15;
• Increased Sixty-45 damage against humans from 20 to 25;
• Increased SR-32 damage against humans from 16 to 25;
• Increased Tryzub damage against aliens from 10 to 15;
• Increased SR-32 damage against aliens from 6 to 14;
• Increased Malyuk’s damage against aliens from 5 to 6;
• Reduced SR-32 rate of fire by around 50%;
• Increased Vector’s damage against aliens from 4 to 5;
• Increased UV Emitter activation animation speed by 40%;
• Increased suit flashlight double tap’s blind duration from 1 to 1,7 seconds;
• Increased UV Emitter’s damage from 130 to 150;
• Increased Drone’s UV light damage from 30 to 35;
• Added new item - UV Flare, which works like a regular flare but does UV light damage to aliens and can be doused by Slime Spit;
• A new UV Flare has been added to the basic kit, works the same as regular UV but also does damage to aliens, and can be doused by spit;
• Renamed UV Glowstick’s name to UV Emitter to better reflect its electric nature;
• UV Emitters can be bought in the shop for 3000;
• UV Glowsticks (similar to blue/yellow/green) were added to the starter kit.

Alien Changes

• Acid Cloud now spawns almost instantly after use;
• Acid Cloud movement speed reduction increased from 50% to 60%;
• Invisibility now changes visually depending on how far the alien is from merc’s eyes - the farther the alien is, the less visible that alien is;
• Increased “damage” to the energy that UV lights do to invisible aliens by around 100%, so invisibility breaks faster;
• Returned global cooldown for abilities (1 second).

Research Facility Map Changes

• Added several new safe zones with UV lights around the map;
• Changed electric wire spawners to spawn evenly across different map zones.

Caves of Turion Map Changes

• Added several new safe zones in the Warehouse.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue with animations that caused the game to crash occasionally;
• Fixed an issue that sometimes caused the game to crash when hovering over Alien skills in Alien UI.

Please install the patch and restart the game.

❗ IMPORTANT INFORMATION ❗
This patch requires testing, and all balance changes may be adjusted in future patches. We need a few days to see how the changes impact gameplay and to allow players to adapt to the update.

Known remaining issue:
We haven't yet identified the cause of the camera jitter and are still working on it. We've discovered a few issues that could be affecting the camera, but we're not confident that this will fully resolve the problem. We apologize for the inconvenience.