Changes/Balancing
-SRM Decay rail no longer scales linearly and now has diminishing returns
-Flexlight Bow shield delay increased
-Reduced Drone Flock fire rate penalty (15%, was 20%)
-Successfully using Blood Sacrifice now counts as taking one tick of damage and triggers on-damage effects (one time)
-Jet-Black Mirror Paint now also makes you deflect all photon attacks for 1 second after it activates
-Jet-Black Mirror Paint is tier 3 now (was 2)
-Piercing comes with stronger damage reduction on subsequent hits now (35%, was 10%)
-Piercing damage reduction no longer applies to melee
-Dmg vs Massive multiplier no longer applies to thrown melee
-Starfire weapon prefix now grants higher damage bonus if the affected weapon already uses photon attacks
-Rocket Drone attack rate buffed
-Rocket Drone now try to go on a suicide run after they have been killed
-Photon Juggler Drones now eject one last barrage of photon shots when they die
-Cealaformer beam attack now scissors inwards
-Cealaformer photon shot attack is now aimed more towards the player and can cover deadzones to the sides
-Photon Cealaformer (elite) beam attack now covers a larger cone faster but fires less beams (6, was 8)
-Bosses with missile phases now generally switch to other attacks faster if they have few vls attachments or none remaining
-Rival melee passives now affects how fast it goes into CQB mode
-Rival Mass Ammo shot speed penalty reduced
-War Room now destroys and respawns all it's shield units during defense phase
-War Room Shell emp range decreased (should no longer fire when you are already entering tunnels)
-War Room beam pulse turns speed while firing decreased
-Drone spawns on war room elite variant are now capped
-[redacted] is less capable of avoiding collisions now
-A certain speed related technophage now also enables redout
-Iron Dog now increases boss elite chance by 100% and also increases overall enemy spawns by 100% (within caps)
-Lowered Iron Dog regular enemy elite chance (20%, was 50%) and wave heart drop chance penalty (10%, was 25%)
-Decimate wave goal is now shown as completion percentage instead of actual enemy kill values
-Boss death DMZ effect no longer affects anti-matter storage balloons
-Boss flawless unlocks no longer requires bosses to be previously defeated
-Non explosive enemy shots no longer spawn rock particles
-Low damage player shots no longer spawn rock particles
-Added float text for melee shatter
Bug Fixes/Optimization
-Optimized how flock drones convert enemies
-Optimized how flock drones and other allies check for shot collisions
-Damage from Blood Sacrifice and Stim-Sixpack no longer resets coolness and no longer counts against flawless
-Vertice shield now needs to regenerate all damage it takes instead of resetting to 0hp on final hit
(previously it would reactivate immediately if shields are off cooldown)
-Changed speedrun clock text position to avoid clipping with changing intermission text
-Added safeguards to prevent a potential crash related to shard shield shot count calculation
-Fixed large amounts of deflection on a single player shot/melee block causing excessive redout
-Fixed shots deflected by H-Roll Barrier causing excessive hitlag (?)
-Fixed casualty count not rounding on jet stat sheet
-Fixed a problem causing enemy beams to not extend correctly while player is in jump state
-Fixed some enemy caps not increasing correctly in speedrun mode
-Fixed a problem preventing unlock sound from playing if a shot impact is currently in progress
-Fixed a problem where a discontinued cheat would still trigger cheat mode save lock
-Fixed bounty hunter database failing to activate when eliminating speedboat targets
-Fixed bad unlock icon on Photon Splitgun
-Fixed Fragmentation weapon prefix not overwriting fixed scatter patterns correctly
-Fixed two stray gear unlocks triggering repeatedly
-Fixed bad attach pos for angular attack tells on specific frames of armored suit (?)
-Fixed some typos
1.178b (No Masters)
-Guided Ammo now only affects shots fired from player craft (excluding certain active shots and deflects)
-Fixed a scenario where Sector/Vertice Shield would go offline for very long if it take excessive damage (now resets to current shield delay)
-Ultraviolet Chainlaser fire rate increased
-SRM decay rail now has a small jet weight penalty
-Increased Iron Dog enemy elite chance to 30%
-Fixed Iron Dog only increasing initial wave spawns