2.9.9 Achievements and the usual fixes :)

26 Oct 2020Developer post

Hey Depthians!

A quick sneaky update and a new addition...Achievements xD

Changelog

Added a stats and achievement viewer, accessed from the main menu single player tab
Added achievements (32 of them) for defeating faction HQs in Quest for Neter on various difficulties.
Added an achievement for building up 1 million explosive combo damage (in campaign/adventure/missions of built-in planets with standard game constants)
Added an achievement for doing high damage per second in a campaign battle
Added an achievement for getting a unit with maximum radar range in campaign
Added an achievement for getting into a 3-way battle in campaign
Added an achievement for going 150m/s under 500m in designer, in your own vehicle
Added an achievement for killing 20 planes in the campaign, story mission or adventure mode (in built-in planets with standard game constants)
Added an achievement for RTG usage
Added an achievement for Scarlet Dawn kills in campaign and adventure
Added an achievement for shooting down 1000 missiles in built-in campaigns/missions/adventures with standard physics
Added an achievement for winning a battle in the campaign where you bring approximately an x10 smaller force and defeat the enemy with approximately 60% of your force intact
Added in achievement for saving a huge sub-object (i.e turret)
Added in two achievements for creating and gifting commodities in campaigns
Added in two achievements for killing large and small godlies in (fixed difficulty) campaigns/missions/adventures in built-in planets

Lua missile transceiver cost to 100 (from 2000). Lua missiles are now affected by ECM unless they have an intact cable connection

Damage difficulty for all preset difficulties is now 1 (easy was 0.4, hard was 2, godly was 4). You can still edit this slider in ‘custom’ if you want.
In the campaign, the kill to death ratio used to adjust difficulty is now only calculated for blocks destroyed on a vehicle with >85% health. This should get a better estimate as below 85% health the fate of most vehicles is sealed.

CIWS damage multiplier down from 2.5x to 2x
Flak damage up from 50% of HE to 85% of HE. Increased armour effectiveness bonuses against flak and the customizer tooltip now shows that flak is weak against armour
Kinetic projectiles now do not check the angle of impact against missiles and CRAM shells. Damage is noticeably higher/more consistent, performance increased

Frag AP up from 3 to 4. The buff paired with ricochet changes was not enough to keep frag close to HE damage
HE mechanics adjusted so it does less damage with lower variance, and smaller HE is comparatively better. Geometry is more important(hits on flat walls relatively weaker, in tight places stronger)
HE scaling adjusted to make huge explosions slightly stronger
Missile impact damage done for each m/s speed up by ~11%

Base AP without frequency doublers up from 20/30 to 40/60 AP (pulsed/continuous)
Frequency doublers give 1 AP if there are 100/150 pumps in the system, down from 180/270
Laser cavity capacities down to 5/6 the previous value
Non-armoured optic variants have 300 health and 60 armour, up from 250/40
Pumps convert 30 power into 24 cavity energy/second, down from 30
Short-range combiner armour up from 50 to 60

All old leaderboards wiped
Leaderboard UIs updated and added, where applicable, to the debrief screen and mission launch screen
Missions and campaigns with leaderboards will now frequently check to see your game configuration constants are standard and offer you the choice to reset them or opt-out of the leaderboard
New leaderboards added for all DWG and SS missions. Quest for Neter retains it’s four leaderboards

Mission allied units are now all configured so they spawn full of material but you cannot resupply from them, build on them, scrap them or retrofit them. This is an optional setting, should custom campaigns need different settings for allies.

Fixes to board section capture locations, many of which were erroneously on land, sorry about this

The old ‘fleeing’ check that would kill a unit that was deemed to be running from battle has been removed, now that the out of control check is in for problematic faction vehicles.
You are alerted when you AI thinks it is out of control

The system that migrates your selected custom vehicle from one mission to the next (where appropriate) has been fixed

Fixed a bug where the youtube plugin would spam error messages. All old error messages will now be deleted