We are releasing the Endurance Update for Battlestar Galactica Deadlock!
It accompanies the The Broken Alliance expansion which will be released later today at 4 pm UK time.
We talked at length about it in our Developer Diaries, and it is here now!
Read the full changelog down below.
Update 1.0.35 Changelog
Features and General Updates
- Persistent Damage system, available when starting a new campaign; damage persists
between battles, and can be repaired in the war room; repair costs vary based on
location; additionally, units assigned to Fleet Group Daidalos are given an amount of
free repairs each round
- Damage visualisation on damaged units during battles
- New ship info UI in war room; includes ship repairs, battle history and slot management
- Wardriver squadron Jamming ability
- Raptor squadron Boarding ability, and Dock Target renamed to Boost Firewalls
- Fleet models on the war room table animate when moving to a new location
- Auto-assigning a squadron to a squadron group is now optional (configured in Options)
- New SIGINT advisories added to the Intelligence screen
- Ambient soundscape added to the Daidalos war room
- DRADIS sfx added to the tactical minimap
- Dialogue in cinematic scenes is skippable
- Blueprint screen shows significantly more information about unlockable ships
- Ship List in battle is more compact
- Right clicking ships in the Ship List will now open their ship action menu
- Ships can be renamed in Skirmish/Multiplayer by selecting from a (long) list of names
- Munition and squadron slot icons dim when a command has already been given
- Improvements to highlighting behaviour in the war room
- Planets are now highlighted by the current entry in the Battle Queue
- Quantity of flak explosions is based on Armoury subsystem health
- Supply costs mouseover tooltip during FTL Insertion
- Updated Planet Info UI elements for readability
- Fleet location added to Fleet List in war room
- New strategy layer barks
- Resolution slider added for recording autocam replays
- Performance improvements
- General AI improvements
Balancing
Economy
- All colony Steadfast and Concerned income increased.
Officers & Fleets
- Officer base Fleet Point cap raised to 4000. Each rank in the Command ability has been
reduced to +1000 Fleet Points.
- Higher chance to recruit rank 2 and 3 officers in Fleet Academy.
- Fleets now have a "support slot" to accommodate an eighth support ship. Daidalos and
Celestra units will automatically assign themselves to the slot.
- Quantity of Cylon fleets now capped by difficulty.
- Officers aboard a flagship have a higher chance of surviving auto-resolve.
Munitions
- Colonial Torpedo stack size increased to 60
- Colonial AP stack size increased to 21
- Cylon AP stack size increased to 35
- AP Missile speed increased to 65 (Colonial and Cylon)
- Deployment pitch range for mines increased to 400
EMP Mines
- Subsystem damage reduced from 7 to 6.
- Stack size reduced from 10 to 6.
- Trigger range reduced by 15%
Viper MkII
- Hull increased to 34.
- Cannon accuracy increased.
Wardriver
- New Jamming Mode ability decreases hostile squadron speed and evade, and has a
chance to redirect guided munitions.
Raptor
- Dock Target renamed to Boost Firewalls; units with boosted firewalls now show Firewalls
UI without needing to be hacked.
- New Board Target ability initiates combat with centurions. While aboard a hostile ship,
colonial ECM tech teams disrupt the ship's systems, reducing accuracy, subsystem
repair, and processing power.
- Raptors now automatically provide their Boost Firewalls bonus while docked on their
carrier.
Minotaur & Berzerk
- Minor adjustments to Fire Control subsystem values to increase effectiveness at higher
posture levels.
Jupiter
- Hull increased to 165.
Atlas
- Max speed increased from 0.75 to 0.85
- Medium turrets added to ventral sector
Sweepers
- Chaff lifetime decreased from 5 to 4 turns
Fixes
- Fixed a number of issues with restoring mid-battle saves
- Replaced the system used to capture videos during a post-battle replay, so crashes
should no longer occur
- Being awarded two Galacticas after Mission 12 should not longer occur
- Evolution achievement should unlock when DLC is active
- Correct markings and symbols for SDU Vipers and Rangers
- Squardon group settings are saved correctly, so they carry over to future missions
- Low pass filter fixed for all battle sfx
- Fleet models on war room table no longer overlap
- Sweepers stop deploying chaff when destroyed
- Edge panning now disabled when focus is on another application
- Cerastes AI updated to help prevent kiting
- Resupply costs are no longer shown as a negative value
- Selecting ships during a single turn replay no longer confuses selection
- NPC ships are now added to the bottom of the Ship List
- Ship List now ordered by Fleet Point value instead of build value
- More support for special characters on ship nameplates
- Using numeric keys in MP chat no longer selects ships