v1.7.0.9 Experimental

v1.7.0.9 Experimental

• Armament progression tree now available.
• Engine cooling rebalance on all PT boats.
• Doubled engine overheat damage.
• Elco 77' torpedo and resource placement minor fixes.
• Elco 77' minor performance buffs.
• Elco 77' refresh damage mesh.
• Fix engine HP not being set to new maximum after progression unlock.
• Fix Higgins base cost being counted in its loadout preset RP cost display.
• Fix new gun angle clamping causing issues with rear facing positions such as 81' Prototype utility weapons.
• Fixed cooperativeness bonus from gear not factored properly in character screen if crew is never physically spawned.
• Squadron boats that do not match any purchase options, like the ones granted at start, no longer refund 2000 RP.
• Removed titlescreen and challenge victory music.
• Added new campaign map music.

Campaign Balance

• Added progression XP gain rate difficulty setting.
• Atlanta made to be a lot more common.
• Reduced spawn weight of the smallest IJN supply groups.
• Furutaka possibility added to first carrier hunter group.
• Induced Assault Cooldown difficulty setting adjustments.

• x1 to x1.5 in Normal.
• x1.5 to x2 in Hard.
• x2 to x4 in Marathon.
• x2 to x5 in Realistic.

• Realism factor increased from 0.2 to 0.5 in Hard and Marathon.
• VP gain rate reduced from 1 to 0.5 in Hard.
• VP gain rate reduced from 0.25 to 0.2 in Marathon.