Airmen 1.11.10 adds a series of new parts. Single auto turrets expand your armament options. The single auto turrets use only one cannon but can rotate 360 degrees compared to their double counterpart's 40 degrees. These turrets will help highly mobile ships take better advantage of their mobility and help lower mobility ships keep up with higher mobility ones.
Ballast balloon options are both expanded and reworked. Their mass and ballast force is increased to match volume costs of normal ballasts. The new ballast rod balloons also follow this relationship and scale it down in size. Regular ballasts have also had their mass decreased to compete with the ease of using the ballast balloons.
If you've grown tired of your ship disintegrating at the hands of laser drones, it can now be demolished by the new Demolition Drone. Demo drones charge directly at their target engine and attempt evasive maneuvers by bobbing up and down along the way. Unlike laser drones, demo drones will be instantly destroyed by any firearm hit. You can encounter the demo drones across the archipelago and in hunt contracts.
Finally, to ease the learning curve of the airship building system, parts preventing placement are highlighted in red. Building hitboxes are a slow part of the game to learn but an incredibly important one. This system helps a lot with the new single auto turrets as their 360 degree rotation creates a large hitbox.
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1.11.10
Major Features
- Added demolition drones. These drones have 20 HP and a larger hitbox but will bob up and down in an attempt to dodge.
- Added a new variant of auto turret with one cannon and 360 degree rotation.
- When parts are blocking placement, the obstructing parts will be highlighted in red.
Minor Features
- Added two hybrid rod balloons.
- Reduced laser drone hp from 220 to 100. Increased laser drone spawn time to 15 seconds. Increased laser drone bay HP by 500.
- Drones will not deploy if the drone would immediately crash back into the bay.
- Added 9 AI ships equipped with demo drones.
- When attempting to return scrap to a scrap box with no scrap or to a full box, it will be taken instead.
- Reduced the firepower of autoturrets from 3600 to 3000.
- Increased breach cannon magazine size from 3 to 5.
- Utility pressure is not counted in the max draw and max draw percent stat in the hangar.
- Decreased the mass of ballasts from 50 to 40.
- Increased the amount of base thrust provided by sails when misaligned from 14% to 30%.
- Increased the mass, pressure cost, and ballast force of the hybrid balloon.
- Reduced size of the siege storm.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed a bug that prevented the weather from being clear.
- Fixed the thrust value in the hangar for the twin propeller.