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Heliborne 0.45 "Synergy" Update is Live!

1. Mortar Troops

- 2 man mortar squad with 20 mines
- costs 8 points per squad
- can be deployed anywhere on the map
- has firing range of 300 - 3000 meters, radio contact range of 5000 meters
- has proper mine travel time - do not expect mines to be fast
- receives targetting from any recon helicopter with "Mortar Observer"
- one recon helicopter can control up to 6 mortar teams at once

2. AA changes

- all AA now significantly more accurate
- it tries to predict your flying pattern
- the more you are in its sights - the more accurate it becomes, it takes ~20 seconds to reach maximum accuracy
- spotting formula introduced: the smaller your helicopter is and the lower you fly - the harder it is for AA to spot you
- with the new spotting formula you can sneak around AA positions on lower altitudes, but if you are flying high - it will spot you much earlier
- it has morale now - shooting at AA now makes it shoot less accurate and less frequently

3. Special soldiers

- now you can direct your special soldiers upon landing, just point where you want them to run, before deploying them
- directed deployment radius is 50 meters
- MANPAD's behaviour changed: from now they will include spottinng formula in target search, they wont shoot at you on sight, but wait small amount of time till you move closer to them
- MANPAD missile speed increased
- MANPAD targetting range increased by 100 meters
- you can see your soldiers positions on minimap from now on (look for small orange dots)

4. Enemy spotting

- from now on helicopters of different classes will spot enemies on different distances: recon helicopters can spot enemies from further away then attack helicopters and transport helicopters
- to spot vehicles or AA positions you need line of sight now
- recon helicopters are able to share spotted targets with their team using radio spotted message - binded to 'V' by default

5. Radio messages

- added 7 basic radio messages
- you can send them via F2-F8 shortcuts
- or via '`' menu and 1-7 afterwards

6. Spectator mode

- you can choose to spectate your teammates when you lost or changing your helicopter

7. Other changes

- decreased price of first Ka-52 variant and increased price of second and third variant
- friendly helicopters marked by type above them in combat, triangle is recon, rombus is attack and square is transport
- changed several ammo hit effects
- changed armor hit effect for most higher-caliber guns
- added ricochet effect for all bullets
- some visual fixes on Nguyen map