Quality of Life Changes

• Partially full magazines are now displayed in base storage.

• Updated hover information for ammo stored in base storage.

• In Manufacturing, ammo is now placed in the same row as its corresponding weapon to reduce clutter.

• Direct rearrangement of items in the manufacturing and research queues is now allowed.

• Remaining exact ammo for NPCs is now displayed in Tactical.

• New UI for Aircraft and Flying Pandorans that makes their weapon information easily accessible.

• No need to open Haven Info to trigger a “Steal Aircraft” mission.

Geoscape Changes

• Pandorans no longer gain bonus research points for losing bases or battles.

• Threat level on Haven Defence missions now depends on attacking vs. defending force strength.

• Increased Haven Defense strength bonuses from:

  • Training Zone: 4 → 6

  • Elite Training Zone: 6 → 8

  • TW Fortress: 6 → 8

• Faction-vs-Faction haven attack frequency (during war) reduced.

• All Phoenix research times reduced by ~20%.

• Ammo costs reduced by ~20%.

• Base building costs reduced by ~20%.

• Factions’ Final Building time reduced by 50%.

• All grenade production times set to instant.

• Manticore and Masked Manticore range increased 2500 → 2600

• Cybernetics repair cost reduced by 50%.

• Removed the requirement to control a Processing Site in order to use gathered Ancient Resources.

• Removed Processing Site POIs from the Geoscape.

• Removed excavation time and resource cost for excavating Ancient Sites.

• The Behemoth now attacks Havens only if one of its flyers has visited and returned to it.

• Additional Behemoth disruption points awarded for:

  • Destroyed Nest: +1

  • Destroyed Lair: +2

  • Destroyed Citadel: +3

  • Behemoth attacks a haven: +1

  • Behemoth corrupts a haven: +1

  • Behemoth destroys a haven: +2

• Berith weapon count reduced to 3.

• Abaddon weapon count reduced to 4, HP reduced to 1100.

Tactical Changes General

• Rescue Soldier Mission adjusted to prevent rescued soldiers from being immediately wiped out mid/late game.

• Ambush missions now give 120 SP and include several loot crates.

• Goo Duration: 3 → 2 turns.

• Danchev MG: now applies 3 shred per bullet and range increased 9 → 17.

• Umbras now instantly die from fire weapons.

• Ancient Processing tactical maps merged into Ancient Mining map pool.

• Acheron default target point adjusted to be around the husk instead of the head.

• Resurrect Corpses no longer spawns Pandorans hosting Umbras.

• Medkits can now remove Bleed, Poison, and Paralysis from Mutoids.

Pandorans Balancing Changes 

Chiron’s Blast Abdomen

• Range 40→28

Chiron’s Crystal Abdomen

• HP 800→600

• Range 40→28

Scylla’s Sonic Blast

• AP 1→2

• WP 2→10 

General Umbra Rules

• Umbras now instantly die from fire weapons

Arthron Umbra 

• Damage 90→70

• Piercing 20→10

• Speed 26→25

Triton Umbra 

• Damage 90→Syphon 70

• Piercing 20→0

• Speed 26→29

• AP 1→2

Myrmidon (all types)

• Total HP 180, WP 18

• Speed 8 (12 with intact wings)

• Perception 20→30

• Torso: HP 180, Armor 10; no stat bonuses

• Wings: HP 65, Armor 10; +2 Speed per wing; proper flight-loss indicators

• Abilities : Take Flight range 20→23

• Other: Myrmidons are now capturable

Acid Myrmidon

• Acid damage 50→20

• Death explosion 50→20

• Gains Acid Immunity

Poison Myrmidon

• Gains Poison Immunity

Acheron (Base)

• Removed Call Reinforcements

• Husk: Confusion Cloud; HP +40; Armor 10→0

• Corruptive Spray: Range 15→30, +Acid 10, mist cone, 2/turn

• Leap: 1/turn

Acheron Prime

• Total HP 900→870

• Removed Call Reinforcements

• Husk: Confusion Cloud; Removed Armor Restore; HP +40, Armor 10→0  

• Arms: Corruptive Spray +Acid 20, range 30, mist, 2/turn

• Leap: 1/turn

Acheron Achlys

• Total HP 900→970

• Removed Call Reinforcements

• Husk: Pepper Cloud; Removed Corruptive Cloud

• Resurrect Corpses: AP 2→3, WP 10→12,  

• Husk HP 600→720, Armor 20→0,  

• Arms changed to Goo Spray: Damage 10→30, Goo 10→1, +Acid 10, +Poison 20, 3/turn, HP 150→200 

Acheron Achlys Champion

• Total HP 900→870

• Removed Call Reinforcements

• Head: HP 1200→1180 

• Husk: Pepper Cloud; Removed Corruptive Cloud;

• Resurrect Corpses: AP 2→3, WP 10→12

• Husk HP 750→870, Armor 20→0

• Arms (Goo Spray): Damage 10→30, Goo 10→1, +Poison 30, 3/turn

Acheron Asclepius

• Total HP 900→910

• Call Reinforcements: AP 1→2, WP 5→12

• Husk: Removed Resurrect Corpses; HP 600→720, Armor 20→0

Acheron Asclepius Champion

• Total HP 1200→1120

• Call Reinforcements: AP 1→2, WP 5→12, Endurance 13→12

• Husk: Removed Resurrect Corpses + Corruptive Cloud; HP 750→870, Armor 20→0

• Torso Endurance 15→14

• Arms swapped to Neurotoxic Spray: WP requirement 2→0, 3/turn, HP 200→150, Armor 20→0

Bug Fixes

• Fixed bug preventing players from using character skills and causing enemies to skip turns when loading a tactical save.

• Fixed auto-loss bug when defending a Phoenix Base from a faction attack.

• Fixed a bug where players were unable to extract a vehicle during a specific Rescue Soldier mission

• Fixed characters taking excessive damage when moving vertically in fire (jumping/falling through flames).

• Fixed bug making Ambushes extremely rare after loading a save.

• Fixed a bug where actors could move into walls in certain Alien Base maps

• Fixed missing exit zones in a Disciples of Anu Elite Training haven defense mission and in the “Second Initiation”.

• Fixed bases not automatically powering on after repairing a damaged Energy Generator.

• Fixed a bug where Instil Frenzy played the wrong sound on activation 

• Fixed Cyclops freezing on death.

• Fixed Legacy of the Ancients final cinematic not playing.

• Fixed Umbra sometimes spawning even when its host dies from fire.

• Fixed Umbra Triton inventory icon and description.

• Fixed all Acheron types unlocking at the same time instead of progressively during the campaign.

• Fixed incorrect % value in Confusion Cloud description.

• Fixed Corrosive Cloud affecting Acheron allies.

• Fixed Corrosive Cloud applying corruption incorrectly.

• Fixed Corruption Cloud not applying corruption.