Patching up the fleet some more

Hey there AFF Community!

More feedback from you naturally means more tweaks to the game - so here’s another patch with quite a sizeable list of adjustments, fixes and a couple new mechanics.

We’d also like to mention there are some very exciting AFF-related news and things we’re working on right around the corner. Be sure to check this space very, very soon.

Changelog:

• Added HUD icons for incoming missiles

• Reduced progress decay rate on uncontested objectives

• UDP now using the double-shot firemode by default

• Tweaked AI a bit again to be a bit sharper across all difficulty levels

• Tweaked suit mod armour penalties, deepened armour spec cost variation a bit more, tweaked infantry armour and speeds down a bit everywhere

• Removed vehicle armour mod and tweaked armour costs of the other vehicle mods for parity with the infantry options

• Renormalised land vehicles’ armour regeneration times

• Removed some EMP effects on infantry that weren’t known/obvious (disabling of speed multiplier, sensors)

• Infantry scrambler spec reduces turrets’, sensor nades’ and tripmines’ detection radius

• Added a +15% turret AI sensor range cockpit mod (base ai view radius down 70% on vehicles to which the mod can apply)

• Moved vehicle systems hardening mod to cockpit slot, regeneration spec to body slot

• Tweaked capital ship health/armour/regeneration - corvettes and destroyers 2x tougher so corvettes should now be less susceptible to warp-exit ambushes and destroyers pose more threat to frigates and battleships

• Removed Locust’s unused passenger seat from code

• Buffed MNL’s damage 50%

• Slightly erroneous ammocount/firerate on EVR turret corrected

• DK31 now has an alternative firing mode that charges up with time. Slow, inaccurate, but deals significant anti-vehicle damage when fully charged, time your shots well!

• Errah tweaks:

• Replaced the old, buggy antenna array meshes

• Optimizations to building meshes for better performance in the town area

• Lukather Incursion tweaks and fixes:

• Fixed AI pathing around the droppods

• Added alternative entry point for concourse (walkways placed over containers)

• Made minor tweaks to bollards and pathing around them

• It’s no longer possible to drive vehicles through the control tower’s windows

• Fixed the floating "C" sign, at last. Probably.

• Added missing spawn protection to the static command modules in Fortress Territories and Yin Tao Shan Territories

• Adjusted AI pathing in Yin Tao Shan around the grav cradles to prevent the bots getting stuck

• Tweaked and optimized AI pathing algorithms in space a bit

• Rescaled all Cricket launchers to space interior scale, rescaled some fighter launchers to proper scale, improved Cricket launch cinematic a bit, rescaled docked Griphon in Lukather

• Tweaked most boarding sequences and boarding pods for slightly smoother experience

• Chons and Heimdall destroyers renamed to lineships for now

• Clicking on the post-match maplist in singleplayer will now immediately select that map, without having to wait for 60s

• Initial intel button in the main menu now points to the guides thread on the forums, until we can get that tutorial going for real

• A bunch of optimizations to visual effects

• More agile Sturm

• RID now deals damage with a shockwave around the actual shot, for dealing with fast aircraft in a more sensible manner. The less damage the further away from the core of the shot, so accuracy is still very much a factor if you want to be effective with it

• Reduced the zoom level on the RID’s sights for a wide field of view, adjusted firemode names

• MLI and RID lock time increased to 2.5 and 3s respectively

• MLI missiles slightly faster

• Locking onto infantry disabled, for real this time

• All land vehicles HP increased by 1000

• All bullet types deal 50% more damage to vehicles

• Tweaked EMP factor on bullets to compensate for more damage done vs vehicles

• Increased torpedo speed slightly

• Increased magazine sizes and base damage ~50% for all bomb bay weapons on bombers

• Adjusted vehicle crosshair so it doesn’t jump about while cycling muzzles and respects weapon gimballing, fire from multiple barrels should converge properly at the distance of the target lead indicator

• Adjusted the Locust’s turrets to behave a bit better when aiming

• Projectiles no longer go right through certain actors (like space defense platforms)

• Fixed a dumb mistake where the deployable shield turrets were not protected from area damage by their own shields

• Fixed grenade throws sometimes utterly failing (especially online) due to inheriting negative velocity from the thrower

• Fixed incorrect thread release order causing a rare crash on exit

• Fixed infinite online dropships

• Fixed an ancient bit of code crashing on searching/joining LAN games on some network setups

• Fixed loadout reporting incorrect armour values

• Fixed and upgraded the mutiny against commander mechanic, with brand new messaging and sensible voting rules

• Fixed spectator mode bugging out when travelling to a new map with the server

• Fixed incorrect bot counts being displayed when players in spectator mode would leave the game

• Fixed issues in damage relay between ship exterior and interior component consoles, causing them to die too early

• Optimized some ship interior logic

• Fixed scrambler spec

• Scrambler spec add 20% lockon time rather than 30%

• Weapon targeting spec decrease lockon time by 10% not 5%

• Fixed fighter primary guns not triggering armour regeneration delay on other fighters correctly

• Fixed wrong light/medium/heavy HUD icons showing for infantry based on armour values

For feedback, discussions or just a friendly chat, post on AFF's Steam forums or contact us directly through our Discord!

Onwards and upwards!