December 15th Patch

15 Dec 2014Developer post

Gameplay:

Added 10 scrap/power cost to mountable turrets (all powerful pulse weapons have scrap/power cost)
Reduce rate at which Vortigaunt can summon Antlions
Add maximum number of 30 Antlions a player can summon by using Vortigaunts
Increased Strider health to 2000 and cannon damage from 200 to 600 (it's a cannon, after all, long cooldown but the punch should be proper!)
Changed Claw Scanner mine cost from 15 req to 5 power.
Increased Vortiguant Dispel range from 400 to 1000.
Increased C4 damage from 300 to 400.
Reduced sniper rifle damage from 120 to 100.

Updated:

Fixed:

Slow rendering of html UI on some system (and general performance improvements)

Removed deferred lights from or_trapped due causing texture corruption issues

Reduced console messages regarding ENTITY_CHANGE_NONE on server

On Swarm Keeper bonus map, creatures not behaving correctly and added missing particle effect (causing red crosses)

Spanish menu/UI text not shown because of wrong file encoding

Clamp too long player names from breaking the main menu top bar

Long player names (> 32 bytes) with trailing unicode characters breaking game

Unicode characters not displayed in unit and ability descriptions

Error model appearing at map origin when throwing a grenade

Units getting stuck around Rebels barricade/mountable turret

Units unable to shoot Combine Synth factory building

Maps:

sp_abandoned:
- Re-enabled deferred lighting and added flora.
- Enemies spawn dynamically now, fixing low framerates.
- All items can now be selected and target fired.
- Replaced production structures with text based unit buying.
hlw_synth - Stopped Striders from walking between bases.
hlw_mine - added 2 scrap points.
hlw_abandoned - Replaced rock barricades with new stone wall barricades.
hlw_meltdown - Fixed missing map boundary