Lowered RAM usage, more coilbeam improvements, and other fixes.
Enjoy!
5.850 Changelog
General
- Fix a bug with the FoE mod
- Fix a bug with ironman saves
- Preview total metal/energy income change in tech and fleet upgrade tooltips
- Count Sidekick players toward the Superterminal hack's response-strength multiplier.
Efficiency
- About one gigabyte of RAM is saved by adjusting how things are set up with our models, and some secondary maps on some textures. In preparation for the upcoming fourth DLC that Badger has been building, various art changes are in progress, and some of them are aimed at saving RAM while others (upcoming) are aimed at making things look nicer.
Stack Balance
- Stack kill cap off-by-one fixed: a hit on a stacked target could kill one ship more than its kill cap allowed, but only when the overflow damage landed exactly at the cap. That meant tougher ships sometimes died faster than weaker ones. A hit now never kills more than its cap.
- Overkill no longer applied twice to stacks: when a hit killed part of a stack, the surviving top ship also took the damage that had already killed the others. That left it at 0 HP and gave a free extra kill a moment later. The survivor now takes only the leftover damage.
- Damage dealt to stacks now reported correctly: shots that killed several stacked ships at their kill cap used to report only one ship’s worth of damage. The full amount is now counted for fleet metrics, lifesteal, self-damage weapons and reflected damage.
- Beam-array coil beams fixed: coil beams firing from several emitter points split their secondary damage by −1, so the targets behind the primary took negative damage. They now split it normally across those targets. No base game coil beam was affected; one RadiantFleets mod unit was, and so was the ClassicFusion copy of the code.
DLC 1
- Some tweaks to the spire beam visuals
Full release notes [https://wiki.arcengames.com/index.php?title=AI_War_2:Post_Completion_Part_III#5.850_Coiled_Efficiency]here[/url].
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