This hotfix for Milestone 5 fixes a serious gameplay issue, so we're launching it straight onto the normal branches without letting people test it for a few days on the Experimental branches first. There's therefore a higher chance of stability issues than normal - we'll be watching the bug report forums closely over the weekend, so please let us know if you encounter any issues!
The critical bug we're fixing can cause soldiers to suffer permanent stat loss if you're saving / loading during combat, as well as potentially getting stuck in the wounded state on the strategy layer. However, we're also toning down Mind Control and fixing an issue with night missions getting out of sync with the Geoscape night shadow.
Changes:
- Mind Control for Psyons no longer uses squad sight, so Psyons need to get direct vision on a Xenonaut before they can cast the ability (Eternals can still cast Mind Control using squad sight).
- Added new art for the Alien Antigravity Unit research project.
- Added new injury / death sounds for the Eternal.
Bugfixes:
- Fixed a bug where soldiers could permanently lose stats if a player loaded a tactical save in which their units had temporary debuffs from being Suppressed (Reflexes) or taking HP damage (Accuracy), as this caused the temporary debuffs to incorrectly become permanent. Unfortunately it's not possible for us to fix soldiers that have suffered from this issue - sorry about that!
- Fixed the day / night status of a mission on the Geoscape being set when it first spawns, rather than the time when the player actually begins the mission.
- Fixed a bug where smoke tiles and doors would sometimes appear invisible to the player, but still be present in gameplay terms.
- (Hopefully) fixed combat shields sometimes not disappearing when destroyed by enemy fire.
- Fixed the UOO Bridge Assault mission not allowing you to attempt it a second time if you abort the mission.
- Fixed soldiers getting stuck in the "airborne" state if you abort the Bridge Assault mission.
- Fixed the Geoscape objective text going off the edge of the screen on non-16:9 screens.