Update 27 hotfix #1

Hey there AFF Community!

Here’s a quick patch to address some of the issues from the last update and to release a few more fixes that didn’t quite make it in before.

Changelog:

• Tweaked nightvision a bit, including its activation sound

• Allowed the minimum match time slider in the custom game menu to go as low as 5 minutes. Someone requested that and there’s no reason we shouldn’t offer it.

• Soldiers can now be properly ran over and die from extreme fall damage regardless of suit specs

• Mounted turrets now unable to turn if they are disabled by hacking - since turning is effectively their driving

• Infiltrator spec now shows the sensor ranges of enemy proximity-activated explosives (mines, detpacks, spring nades) instead of making the player not activate those explosives at all.

• Lowered the frequency with which corrosion mines add a stack of corrosion from .3s to .5s and reduced amount of corrosion applied each time

• Nerfed mine count on larger vehicles and reload time of mines all round (9-15s)

• Tweaked bots’ weapon-switching behaviour so they commit to using deployables, grenades and mines better now

• Corrected the math behind penetration values displayed in the loadout screen

• Loadout stats for the GU and the L9r now list "max penetration" value (full charge) for consistency

• Ammo packs, medkits, detpacks, sensor, spring, gyro and regular grenades should now have proper descriptions in the loadout

• Mines, grenades and their payloads should now show something akin to proper stats in the loadout menu

• Halved the damage on the frag payload for mines. Ooops.

• Fixed a bug with elemental mines, where the first would get 1 instance of a payload, the second would get 2 instances, third would get 3 (which instead of triggering the effect once per payload per mine, would then do it up to 3x per payload per mine resulting in utter destruction of everything ever)

• Optimized and tweaked lock-on logic again and fixed some instances of it targeting friendly/neutral targets

• Undid some failed attempts at adjusting boarding pod offsets

• Disabled the third cockpit mod for Gheist (both mechs have 2 now)

• Fortress Territories updates:

• Fixed a number of holes in the tower meshes and general collision/visibility issues

• Terraformed a bit near the satellite dish

• Tweaked position of team-blocking volumes for the LZs, so you can't cheekily jump on top of them and get inside the pods

• Across most ship and station interiors:

• Breaching tubes should now have more smooth and reliable collision

• Patched up some holes in the breaching tubes, tweaked collision where you could partially hide in meshes and cheese the people coming out the tube

• Re-routed some of the scripting for the breaching tubes sequences so that they don’t block or kill you when they shouldn’t

• Added some missing screens and tweaked the lighting around the breaching tubes and boarding pods

• Irega updates:

• Fixed vents pointed out by the community and a lot of other miscellaneous collision issues nearby (and politely asked a few stupid blocking volumes to go away)

• In the Incursion variant, fixed right-side Phase 3 LZ being unintentionally out-of-bounds

• Fixed a place where the bots were apparently getting stuck near the docks

• Ixion interior: sped up the dropship landing sequences a bit, fixed the huge borked piece of collision that’d make deployables and bodies have a really bad time

• Lukather: removed collision on majority of splines (all but the pipes) - lots of them being used for decoration resulted in tons of unwanted collision

• Commander shields are now cleared on match end to not interfere with the end-game cinematics and stuff

• Fixed the hack objectives in Yin Tao Shan, tweaked collision

• Fixed some more pathing, collision and straight-up holes in the walls inside the Huginn

• Fixed Poranti’s space AI pathing, replaced Phase 2’s spawn with a drop pod, optimized the lighting, added a dropdown hole to the objective in Phase 1

• Fixed some incorrect scripting in Kerrat Territories, likely explaining the odd reported "AIA won, despite ULA actually won" situation

• Fixed objectives not being properly marked as “under attack” with a hackspike present

• Fixed some instances of bots not wanting to board a station with multiple dropships despite multiple access points being available

• Fixed seated turret operators and pilots inside capships being non-corporeal - should be possible to tag and shoot them now

• Fixed spring nades desyncing their explosion effect between server and clients

• Performance improvements to bots driving vehicles

• Fixed rearming-through-warping-out nuking server performance

• Fixed some instances of the commander-ability-spawned shield domes being invisible

• Fixed sensor grenades not showing team-specific trail colours

• Fixed the “Hack” commander ability not changing shield team allegiance properly if executed by the MILNET AI

• Fixed hacked turrets not getting correctly removed from the parent weapon's deployed list

• Fixed some space fighter camera angles that got weird in the last update

• Fixed some instances of the tagged target always showing “out of range”

• Fixed some instances of warp points not showing up properly for late-joiners

For feedback, or just a lovely chat with the devs, post on AFF's Steam forums or contact us directly through our Discord!

Onwards and upwards!