Greetings, pilots!
The Dragon's Awakening event has been successfully finished. You all did a great job, and it's now time for awards!
Every special medal earned within the event will give you a unique thematic Chinese camouflage.
We also would like to ask how did you like the event? What did you like most of all? What should we improve next time? Help us to make every next event better than the ones before!
Heliborne 0.96.8
Great news for Co-op players: we have added several new types of Co-op objectives and improved Co-op overall. We've also made scout helicopters more valuable, but a bit shortened their markable area range.
More Co-op updates will follow soon!
Changelog:
- Difficulty settings for Co-op now affect accuracy and target contact range both for AA guns and vehicles.
- Health of AA guns on III and IV generation maps has been increased.
- New Co-op objectives have been added: insert operation under fire, reconnaissance group evacuation from ambush, medevac, and reconnaissance operation.
- Appearance logic of several objectives has been changed: less objectives deep behind enemy lines, less objectives which lead to spawn of enemies in close vicinity to player's helicopter, etc.
- 50-seconds enemy spawn delay has been added to "engage enemy convoy" objective.
- Time limits for objectives on easy and medium difficulty levels have been slightly increased. Several new options for number of simultaneous objectives have been added.
- Chance of positive event after successfully carried out objective has been slightly decreased on all difficulty levels.
- Air-to-air and Manpad missiles have received guaranteed damage depending on their power. Overall, air-to-air missiles became more effective, but will not inflict more damage than before.
- MANPAD's missile smoke trail is now starting higher from the ground.
- Shooting accuracy and range of RPG soldiers have been slightly increased.
- Also, group of RPG soldiers now communicate with each other and does not make double shot in the same target.
- Fixed RPG grenade bug which incorrectly lowered its damage.
- RPG grenade rules for damaging helicopters have been changed: now it inflicts guaranteed damage.
- Enemy RPG and MANPADS in Co-op now have unlimited number of shots.
- Targets marked by scout helicopters now have additional "request for attack" icon above them.
- Markable area range for scout helicopters has been decreased from 100 to 70 meters. As a result, markable area size has been decreased around two times, but it's still enough to cover any landing zone.
- Target auto-lockon for cannons has been improved. It's now being activated much more often. Hence "mark target" button for scouts has been moved from B to E by default, while manual lockon has been moved from E to B.
- Improvements of Chinese localization (thanks to Danyu-Tom, Pvt.Petrenko, and Chinese players group).