Combat Extended 6.0.0 “Anomalous Signals”

Features

• Support for Rimworld 1.5 and the Anomaly DLC.
• Mod compatibility patches now use the LoadFolder system, significantly reducing loading time.

Fixes

• Fixed the 30x64mm FC mass and market value.
• Grapeshot no longer drops empty shotgun shells.
• 90mm Recoilless canister shells no longer explode in a massive torrent of fragments when they cook off.
• CE_Laser now has ‘Bullet’ as its ParentName, instead of its Name.
• Fixed projectile shadow layering.
• Fixed air burst mortar shells detonating off-target.
• Mechanoids no longer always adapt to stun damage.
• Stuffable autoloader buildings now appear the correct color.
• Fixed an issue where artillery support could not be called in on ambush maps.
• Fixed a bug where sieges would constantly receive more shells, even when they had ammo available.

Compatibility

• Add integrated patches for the following mods:
  o Biological Warfare
  o Edge of Descension – Vanguard
  o Edge of Descension - Hovercraft
  o Maru Race
  o Matter Manipulator
  o Moyo 2
  o ReBuild – Corners and Doors
  o Roren Race
  o Vanilla Races Expanded – Insector
• Updated integrated patches for the following mods:
  o All of them, basically.
  o Alpha Memes
  o Alpha Animals
  o Alpha Biomes
  o Caste Walls Reborn
  o Doom Factions
  o EPOE Forked
  o Metal Gear Rimworld-Gekko
  o More Utility Packs
  o ODZ Stalingrad – Uniforms
  o ReGrowth – Extinct Animals
  o Rimsenal Collection
  o Save Our Ship 2*
  o Vanilla Factions Expanded – Mechanoids
  o Vanilla Factions Expanded – Pirates
  o Vanilla Vehicles Expanded – Tier 3
  o Vanilla Armour Expanded
  o Vanilla Furniture Expanded – Security
  o Vehicle Framework

Balance

• Biotech
  o Adjusted the toxic needle gun, increasing accuracy and decreasing power.
  o Reduced the accuracy of the War Urchin and Militor.
  o Increased the accuracy of the Warqueen and Diabolus.
  o Increased the bulk capacity of the legionary by 50%.
  o Increased the range of the thermal bolt launcher.
• You now must have a pawn present with a radio pack and binoculars to call in artillery fire from off-map.
• Melee attack armor penetration now increases with Melee skill, up to an additional 25%.
• Decreased the spread of 12 Gauge Charged ion shot.
• Increased the Sharp AP of 5x53mm Charged from 30 to 33.
• Reworked 5x100mm Caseless into 5x50mm Caseless.
• Decreased the bulk and mass of 66mm Thermal bolts, and adjusted the cost accordingly.
• Slightly increased the mass and blast effect of 80x256mm FC.
• Slightly decreased the Blunt AP of HEDP for 35x32mmSR, 40x46mm, and 40x53mm grenades.
• Reduce the fragment count of canister rounds for 90mm Recoilless to more performance-friendly levels. Buff the fragments to compensate.
• Reduce the damage for RPG-7 thermobaric rounds from 300 to 275.
• Various heavy artillery shells now require both mortars and heavy weapons research to craft.
• Increased the armor of mechanoid eyes from 10 to 25% of their base armor.

Misc.

• Royalty
  o Imperial cataphract can no longer spawn less than 18 years old.
  o Elite imperial fighter pawnkinds will no longer charge into battle without a helmet, just because the weather is cold.
• The OutsideSquishy tag, used to determine in bullets can over-penetrate a given body part, is now assigned to BodyPartDefs instead of BodyPartGroupDefs, reducing the number of patches required.
• Significant performance improvements to the loadout panel.
• Artillery shells suitable to be used for sieges are now assigned a ‘spawnAsSiegeAmmo` tag,
• Various black-powder ammo types will now explode if damaged by fire or explosions.
• Barbed wire now requires Smithing.
• Now using the vanilla Stunnable comp to handle turret stunning, instead of custom code.
• New ammo types:
  o Added low-velocity variant of 7.62x39mm Soviet.
  o Added HEDP rounds to the 30x29mm grenade launcher.
  o Added 8 new ammo types for 84x246mmR.
  o Added APCR rounds to 75x350mmR and 76.2x539mmR cannon ammosets.
  o Added AP and APRC to 90mm and 76.2x385mmR cannon ammosets.
• Miscellaneous text and whitespace housekeeping.
• Fixed a typo in the file name of the 57x483mm Bofors shell.
• Added new ammo recipe bases for mortar and artillery shells.
• CE research projects now support schematics.
• The ‘Give ammo to’ float menu now identifies the target pawn.
• Added mod icon.
• Apparel items that function as radio packs are now only logged on startup if Dev Mode is enabled.
• New textures for the RPG-7 and rifle grenades.
• Adjusted the alignment of some projects on the research tree.

Notes:

• Removed the Manifest.xml file used by the Fluffy’s Mod Manager, as that mod is largely obsolete.
• Various patches will still need to be updated or fixed as the associated mods are updated by their authors. Please report them to the team to help us identify and keep track of them, but please also be patient.

Release candidate for Rimworld version 1.5, with support for the Anomaly DLC.

Known Issues:

• When using Generic Ammo mode, merchants will still spawn with non-generic ammo in their inventory. (This isn't likely to be entirely fixed until the new loader is implemented in the release following the initial 1.5 release).

Combat Extended 5.8 “But What About Second Release?” 

Fixes 

• Added some getters and caches for mods compiling against older versions of CE, resolving some issues being experienced with custom projectiles.  
• Fixed an error with generic mechanoid ammo caused by an incorrect ammoClass. 
• Fixed an issue that was causing mortar fragmentation to spawn inside of the ground on impact. 

Compatibility 

• Add integrated patches for the following mods: 
  • Big and Small – Heaven and Hell 
  • Big and Small – Vampires and the Undead 
  • Outer Rim – Droid Depot 
• Updated integrated patches for the following mods: 
  • [RH2] Doom 
  • [RH2] Faction – Task Force 141 
  • [RH2] Faction – The Rangers 
  • [RH2] Metal Gear Solid 
  • [RH2] Rimmu-Nation 2 – Clothing 
  • [RH2] Rimmu-Nation 2 – Security 
  • [RH2] Rimmu-Nation 2 – Weapons 
  • Big and Small – Genes & More 
  • Outer Rim – Chiss Ascendancy 
  • Outer Rim – Core 
  • Outer Rim – Galactic Empire 
  • Outer Rim – Galactic Republic 
  • Outer Rim – Mandalore 
  • Outer Rim – Rebel Alliance 

Balance 

• Adjusted the WorkToMake cost of both vanilla and CE turrets, bringing them more on par with one another. 
• Adjusted the bulk, value, and crafting cost of generic Mech Charged ammo. 

Misc. 

• Added a trivial amount of armor to some piece of headgear that otherwise had none to prevent them throwing an armor penetration error message when shot. 

Combat Extended 5.7 “April Fools!”

Fixes

• Resolved some lingering issues with the projectile height and rendering systems that were remedied in the 5.6 hotfix. Projectiles now cache most values, instead of recalculating them on the fly, which should improve performance in large firefights.
• Fixed the 40mm Bofors airburst shell not working properly.

Compatibility

• Add integrated patches for the following mods:
  • [K4G] Empires of Old Collection
  • [K4G] Equipment of the Weimar Republic
  • All-Tech Melee
  • Better Wool Production – C# Edition
  • Big and Small Weapons
  • Charge-Loading Lee-Enfield
  • Civilization Beyond Earth Armor Sets
  • Eccentric Militors
  • Outer Rim – Core
  • Outer Rim – Galactic Empire
  • Outer Rim – Galactic Republic
  • Outer Rim – Mandalore
  • Outer Rim –Old Republic
  • Outer Rim – Rebel Alliance
  • Outer Rim – Seperatists
  • The Vanity Project – Shiba Inu
  • VFE Pirates unofficial add-on: Warcasket Melee Armory Continued
  • VRE Android Factions
• Updated integrated patches for the following mods:
  • [K4G] Rimworld War 2
  • [SYR] Naga
  • Alpha Genes
  • Alpha Mechs
  • Android Tiers Reforged
  • Big and Small Genes
  • DD House Sanguin
  • Divine Order
  • Forsakens
  • MH Androids Tiers
  • NewRatkinPlus
  • Rambo Weapon Packs
  • Reinforced Mechanoid 2
  • Rim-Effect - Asari and the Repears
  • Rim-Effect – Core
  • Royal Arsenal
  • The Corporation – Mort’s Factions
  • Vanilla Animals Expanded
  • Vanilla Armor Expanded
  • Vanilla Factions Expanded – Deserters
  • Vanilla Factions Expanded – Empire
  • Vanilla Factions Expanded – Mechanoids
  • Vanilla Factions Expanded - Settlers
  • Vanilla Persona Weapons Expanded
  • Vanilla Vehicles Expanded
  • Vanilla Vehicles Expanded – Tier 3*
  • Xenohumans Expanded

Balance

• Doubled the Range Error penalty from shooting in the dark.
• Most laser weapons now use ‘CE_Laser,’ which inflicts burns but is measured against Sharp Armor value instead of Heat Armor.
• Decreased the WorkToMake of the flare gun from 6000 to 4000.
• Rebalanced the Sharp and Blunt values of various mod and core leathers.
• Made it more likely for NPCs to spawn with a flare gun as a sidearm.
• Decreased the warmup time and burst count of the Heavy Charge Blaster. Changed AI firing mode from Suppress to Aimed.
• Increased the magazine size of the Charge Lance and decreased the sway.
• Rebalanced 5x35mm Charged, slightly increasing damage, Blunt penetration, and crafting costs.
• Slightly increased the velocity and Blunt AP of .277 Fury.
• Increased the velocity and damage of fragments.

Misc.:

• Centralized some ammo categories for Star Wars weapons.
• Implemented new projectile graphics for various shells: 57x307mmR, 762x539mmR, and 75x350mmR shell.
• Added a new ‘Neuralizer’ damageDef for Star Wars/spacer stun rounds.
• Added new keyed phrase for applying patches during load.
• Removed some hard-coded Def references, replacing them with alternatives that are faster/more flexible.
• Fixed some typos.

Notes:

• *The update for the Vanilla Vehicles Expanded patches are included as-is. The artillery vehicles from do not fully work as intended, and the Burya tends to blow itself up. Given the choice of leaving them either completely unsupported or partially broken for 1.4, we picked the latter. You’ve been warned.

Hotfix addressing the below issues:

• Revert changes to the projectiles to remedy broken projectile height and rendering.
• Fix a typo in the suppression handling of PawnUnsuppresableFromCallback instead of PawnUnsuppressableFromCallback.
• Fix a patch error in the VFE - Settlers patch.

Combat Extended 5.6 “War Never Changes.”

Features

• Overhaul of the system for projectiles producing motes, supporting rocket flame and smoke trails.
• Overhauled the area shields systems, improving performance and interception. Pawns inside shields are no longer suppressed by projectiles outside the shield.
• Improved AI behavior related to area shields. AI are less likely to enter hostile-occupied shields when seeking cover while suppressed.
• Area-of-Effect weapons now display the explosion radius, as in vanilla.
• New graphics for flamethrower projectiles.
• Added air-bursting mortar and artillery shells, shredding scattered or entrenched enemies with shrapnel.
• Added framework for a new discrete projectile system, allowing our code to support more dynamic projectiles.

Fixes

• The debuffs from wearing a gas mask can no longer be “cured” by administering a mech healer serums.
• The unfinished arrows item is no longer stuffed, preventing errors when crafting some specialized types of arrows.
• Fixed an issue with beam projectiles and removed some obsolete xml that was causing errors.
• Fixed a bug where hitting a piece of armor that had 0% flammability with a flame-type attack would instantly delete it.
• Fixed an issue with vehicles where our ammo per shot override was causing issues in No Ammo Mode.
• Pawns should no longer grab meals for their loadout that are forbidden by their meal restrictions.
• EMPs no longer stun manned and non-powered turrets.
• Fixed a Generic Ammo Mode bug with some mech charged ammo caused by their assigned similarTo ammoset not having the appropriate ammo type.
• Pawns will no longer drop the downed pawn they’re carrying to set up the bipod on their weapon.
  Biotech:
• Genes affecting flammability now include Flame_Secondary and PrometheumFlame damage types.

Compatibility

• Add integrated patches for the following mods:
  o Dark Ages: Medieval Tools
  o Det's Energy Weapons
  o Medical Supplements
  o Pulse Weaponry
  o Rim-Elves
  o Rimsenal - Spacer Faction Pack
  o Royal Arsenal
  o Royal Arsenal - Specialty Weapons
  o Stoneborn – Delights
  o Thrumbo Plushie
  o Vanilla Factions Expanded – Tribals
  o Vanilla Races Expanded – Archon
  o Vanilla Races Expanded – Fungoid
  o Warhammer 40.000 - Imperium Materials
  o Warhammer 40,000 – Imperium Weaponry
• Updated integrated patches for the following mods:
  o [FSF] Advanced Bionics Expansion
  o [K4G] RimWorld War 2
  o [RH2] Doom
  o [RH2] Faction: The Rangers
  o [RH2] Metal Gear Solid
  o Alpha Genes
  o Alpha Vehicles
  o Ancient Arsenal: Warcaskets
  o Ancient Eastern Armory
  o Animal Collab Project Vanilla-Style
  o Apex – Rimworld Legends
  o Archotech Weaponry
  o Astra Militarum Regimentum – Krieg
  o Big and Small Genes
  o Biomes! Caverns
  o Combat Enthusiast's Collection
  o Divine Order
  o Glitter Weaponry
  o Grimworld Autoguns
  o Grimworld Lasguns
  o HALO: UNSC Armoury
  o Jernfalk's Skeletal Legion
  o Miho Race
  o Orassans
  o Thog's Guns - More Brukka Pack
  o Vanilla Factions Expanded – Deserters
  o Vanilla Factions Expanded - Mechanoids
  o Vanilla Ideology Expanded - Hats and Rags
  o Vanilla Vehicles Expanded
  o Vanilla Vehicles Expanded - Tier 3
  o Vanilla Weapons Expanded – Coilguns
  o Vanilla Weapons Expanded – Frontier
  o Vanilla Weapons Expanded – Laser
  o Vanilla Weapons Expanded – Quickdraw
  o Vanilla Weapons Expanded – Tribal
  o Vehicles Framework Expanded – Classic Mechs
  o Warcaskets: Adeptus Astartes

Balance

• Increased the chance of NPCs spawning with Ion charged ammo in Generic Ammo Mode.
• Adjusted the balancing of the night vision quality stat, generally making all qualities slightly better.
• Casing filth is slightly less ugly and dirty.
• NPCs will now fire Heavy Charge Blaster and derivatives in Suppressing Fire mode instead of Snapshot.

Misc.:

• New textures for the great and recurve bows.
• Add textures for ammo and projectile of base bleed artillery shells.
• Add textures for charge tox ammo of various sizes.
• Improved the ammo pick up behavior for ranged weapons without a magazine (like bows).
• Minor grammar fixes in some descriptions.
• Add 5x100mm caseless low-velocity.
• Added separate ammo category for lasers.
• Updated the Brazilian Portuguese translation.
• Vehicle Framework now generate casing motes and filth.
• Added an ammo category for lasers.
• Consolidated some common ammo categories used by mods into the core CE Defs.
• Added a Def folder for common mod ammo types.
• Some whitespace and formatting housekeeping.
• Revised some grammar and spelling.
• Took first step in migrating ammoConsumedPerShot from the weapon to the ammosetDef.
  Biotech:
• Mechanoid weapons no longer user human-made generic chargedd ammo in Generic Ammo Mode.
• Added crafting recipes for various mechanoid ammo types that previously didn’t have them.

Combat Extended 5.5 “Special Effects”

Features

• Added support for new autoloader buildings that can automatically reload adjacent turrets that fire the appropriate caliber. These containers can currently only be set to a single ammo type in xml, but can be configured to be manned or automated, and can be set to work with or without power.
• Caliber/Projectile details can now be viewed from the AmmoSetDef info panel.
• The origin and angle of casings ejecting from guns can now be manually offset via the ‘GunDrawExtension’.
• Overhauled the ProjectileFX system, adding visual effects to projectile impacts against surfaces and targets. These can be toggled in the mod settings.
• Weapons and turrets now visually recoil when firing. This can be toggled in the mod settings, or can be manually disabled for individual weapons via xml.

Fixes

• Turrets will now be reloaded from the interaction spot or from somewhere along the edge of the turret, instead of pawns trying to reach the middle of the turret.
• Fragments from air-burst shells now cast shadows.
• Melee attacking slaves now correctly increases their suppression, matching vanilla.
• Added a check to catch a rare error that broke the dev command pallet.
• Pawns, like mechs, having their natural armor repaired by another pawn will wait in place, preventing them from wondering off and leaving the pawn fixing open air.

Compatibility

• Add integrated patches for the following mods:
  • Alpha Vehicles – Neolithic
  • Ancient Aresenal: Warcaskets
  • Erin’s Valheim Cratures
  • ESCP – Spriggan
  • Gestalt Engine
  • Imperial Arsenal: Royal Warcasket
  • Machines of War
  • Metal Gear Rimnworld – Gekko
  • Pphhyy Expanded Scythers
  • Protoswords
  • Rim Gnoblins
  • The Wild Fields – Apparel and Weapons
  • Vanilla Factions Expanded - Deserters
  • Vanilla Vehicles Expanded – Tier 3
  • Vehicle Framework Expanded – Classic Mechs
  • Waster Toxic Breather
• Updated integrated patches for the following mods:
  • [RH2] Rimmu-Nation 2 - Clothing
  • [RWY] Dragon's Descent: Void Dwellers
  • Alpha Mechs
  • Alpha Biomes
  • Altered Carbon: Ultratech Unleashed
  • Dragon’s Descent
  • Mechanoids Extraordinaire
  • Pulsefire Turrets
  • Reinforced Mechanoid 2
  • Rim-Effect: Asari and Reapers
  • Vanilla Factions Expanded - Empire
  • Vanilla Factions Expanded – Pirates
  • Vanilla Psycasts Expanded
  • Vanilla Vehicles Expanded
  • Vulpine Pack
  • Warcaskets – Adeptus Astartes
  • Zombieland

Balance

• Increased the base sight efficiency of thrown weapons and bows from 0.65 to 1.
• Thermobaric shells now do +60% damage when used to bombard on the world map.
• Decreased the carry weight of the Centipede and Termite to 150.
• Rebalanced hyperweave; increased stuff mass and heat armor stuff. Reduced stuff flammability to 0.
• Increased the damage of fragments by 30%.
  Biotech:
• Increased the carry weight of the Legionary and the Apocriton from 60 to 75.
• Increased the Centurion shield recharge and HP, decrease carry mass from 100 to 50.
• Decreased carry mass of the War Queen and Diabolus.
• Decreased the mass and sway of the Inferno Cannon, increase the recoil.
• Decreased the mass of the Thump Cannon, increased the warmup and sway.

Misc.

• Added sprites for various cannon ammo types and projectiles and updated several existing ones. Some texture folder names were also revised.
• For artillery shell properties, the manually defined world map damage is now a direct override instead of a multiplier on the automatically calculated damage.
• Various changes to the area shield backend, improving performance and hit detection.
• EMP shotgun projectiles are now blue-white.
• Various improvements and fixes to Multiplayer.
• Added various new cannon and heavy weapon ammos: 76.2x539mmR, S-5 rockets.
• Flamethrower projectiles no longer cast shadows.
• Minor tweaks to the sprites of the loading bench and the human and mechanoid miniguns.
• Various improvements to world bombardment damage handling.
• Shortened some ammo item labels and made some other minor revisions.
• Fixed the capitalization on the Generic ammo folder name (finally), preserving a shred of my sanity.
• Added translation keys for bipod and armor durability strings.
• Add generic ammo types for light and heavy shells.
• Add explosive bomblet to fragment types.

Notes:

• Removed obsolete for Turk’s Guns at the author's request, as the mod is no longer available.

Hotfix addressing the below issues.

• Fix for turrets without mixed ammo types spawning extra ammo when ordered to unload.
• Minor fix for the RimAtomics patch.
• BlockerRegistery is now public static.

Combat Extended 5.4 “Death from Afar.”

Features

• New long-range artillery system! You can now destroy faction bases and quest locations by bombarding them with artillery fire and support your caravans by spotting for artillery with binoculars and a long-range radio. Beware! Other factions may retaliate with return fire or raids!
• Added support for compatibility with Vehicle Framework vehicles. A tremendous thanks to SmashPhil for his help throughout the process! Additional improvements will follow and mod vehicles will still need to be patched, but weapon, ammo, and armor systems can now be patched in xml.
• Substantial updates to Multiplayer compatibility (Thank you, Sokryan!).
• Implemented natural armor durability for vanilla mechanoids, as well as mechs and armored animals from various mods. Similar to worn armor, the condition of natural is now degraded by incoming damage. This armor condition can be repaired manually for some pawns, but must heal naturally over time for others.
• Added a new ‘ammocount’ field to ammo items, allowing for ammo items that reload more than one shot each.
• Stabilizing wounded pawns now creates medical filth.
• Can now use ctrl, shift, and ctrl+shift to modify amounts when assigning mech ammo loadouts.

Fixes

• Fixed a .500 S&W projectiles having slightly too much velocity.
• Fixed a bug where giving a pawn ammo did not obey inventory capacity limits.
• Fixed a bug creating “unreachable” conditions for melee attacks under some circumstances.
• Mechanoids can no longer be commanded to drop their weapons via the inventory tab.
• Improved handling of dialogue boxes and other mech loadout elements in the event mechs are killed or despawn.
• Fixed an xml implementation error that prevented some turrets from having night vision.
• Added a missing tech level node to the plate helmet.
• Added a specific unfinished apparel item to resolve issues with material selection.
• Fixed a bug with underbarrel weapons where the weight of the loaded ammo wasn’t added to the weapon mass.
• Fixed a map audio bug that could prevent melee sounds from playing if a structure was destroyed with a single attack.
• Non-colony mechanoids will now die when downed, matching vanilla behavior.
  Biotech:
• Added missing NPC loadouts to mechinator and sanguophage pawns.
• Fixed issues with the centurion’s shield recharging.
• Fixed a bug that caused pawns to freeze when trying to use an ability to fires an explosive projectile.
  Royalty:
• Fixed some issues impacting the skipbarrier shield and other shields including instant recharging and doubled incoming damage.

Compatibility

• Add integrated patches for the following mods:
  o [UEM] More Mechanitor Mechs
  o Alpha Mythology
  o Anima Animals Combined
  o Appliances Expanded
  o Big and Small Collection
  o Biomes! Caverns
  o Biomes! Core
  o Call of Cthulhu - Cosmic Horrors
  o Divine Order
  o ESCP – Trolls
  o Erin's Auronya
  o Erin's Shisune
  o Gloomy Dragonian race
  o Grimworld: Autoguns
  o Grimworld: Melee
  o Medieval Tailor
  o More Archotech Garbage Continued
  o Possessed Weapons
  o pphhyy Sanguinary Animals
  o pphhyy's Demigryphs
  o Recon Mechanoid
  o Regrowth: Core
  o Urbworld Weaponry SDS
  o Vanilla Plants Expanded - Mushrooms
  o Vanilla Races Expanded – Highmates
  o Vanilla Vehicles Expanded
• Updated integrated patches for the following mods:
  o [1.4] Odz Suits
  o [1.4]Idhale Race
  o [1.4]Littluna Race
  o [1.4]Nearmare Race
  o [1.4]Neclose Race
  o [1.4]Saclean Race
  o [1.4]Silkiera Race
  o [1.4]Solark Race
  o [1.4]Xenoorca Race
  o [K4G] RimWorld War 2
  o [RWY] Advanced Mechanoid Warfare
  o [RWY]Dragon's Descent: Void Dwellers
  o ↁ House Sanguin
  o Alpha Animals
  o Alpha Genes
  o Alpha Mechs
  o Animal Equipment
  o Arasaka Corporation
  o Biotech Expansion - Mythic
  o Dragonian Race
  o Dragonian GaramRace
  o Call of Cthulhu - Cosmic Horrors
  o Communicable Diseases [1.4]
  o Feles - Felines of the Rim [1.4]
  o Gloomy Dragonian Race
  o Impact Weaponry
  o Kurin, The Three Tailed Fox [Deluxe Edition]
  o Miho Race
  o Medieval Overhaul
  o MorrowRim - Bloodmoon
  o Moyo from the Depth
  o Possesed Weapons
  o Rabbie the Moonrabbit
  o Soviet Armory [1.4]
  o Spartan Foundry
  o Star Crafter’s Armory
  o Vanilla Apparel Expanded – Accessories
  o Vanilla Factions Expanded – Mechanoids
  o Vanilla Psycasts Expanded
  o Vanilla Weapons Expanded – Makeshift
  o Vanilla XCOM Weapons
  o Zombieland

Balance

• Overhauled flashbangs to cause a custom hediff, rather than directly causing a stun effect. This should prevent them being used to stun-lock foes.
• Reduced the market value of FSX from 10 to 7.5.
• FSX and Prometheum now deteriorate outdoors.
• Reduced the FSX shear yield from Boomalope.
• Reduced the material cost of the bandolier and increased its HP.
• Reduced the industrial component cost of charged weapons for spacer components at a radio of 6:1.
• Reworked the explosive power and fragmentation count for HEDP grenades.
• Added Heat armor to various mechanoids. Flamethrower and boss mechs received 50% while some heavy mechs received 25%. This will make them somewhat more resistant to AP-I rounds without rendering them invulnerable to incendiary weapons.
• Added some base damage to incendiary IED traps to improve their effectiveness.
• Set the Greatbow research to Neolithic tech level and reduced the cost.
• Creatures will Scaria now feel 50% less pain.
• Increased the pain caused by bruises and crush injuries from 0.0125 per severity to 0.0175.
• Rebalanced the cost of charged weapon ammo to use less components, with cascading changes to value and crafting cost.
• Various ammo types now have a crafting skill requirement; 4 for shells, rockets, and launched grenades, 6 for advanced ammo types, 7 charged ammo, and 8 for mechanoid charged ammo.
• Reduced the setup time of the LMG bipod from 300 to 240 and the range bonus of the DMR bipod from 15 to 10.
• The tuque is now once again an OverHead item, matching vanilla.
• Frostbite damage from attacks (but not ambient sources like hypothermia) are now calculated against apparel’s heat armor value.
• Gave tortoises 50% partial armor on their legs.
• Increased the batch size and reduced the value of some medieval explosive types.
• Reduced the component cost of the machine pistol.
• Slightly increased the sharp AP of pilum.
• Adjusted the fragmentation count of various shells.
• Added HE Time-Fuzed shells for 40mm L/70 Bofors.
• Reduced the spread of grapeshot to more accurate levels.
• Reduced the ammo loadouts of Various vanilla and modded mechanoids.
• Biotech:
  o Slightly increased the bulk and reload time of the militor’s shotgun.
  o Reduced the ammo loadouts of the Militor, Scorcher, and Apocriton mechs.
  o Increased the damage and blunt AP of the Constructoid mech melee attack.
  o Increased the Tunneler’s parry and crit chance.
  o Slightly increased the parry, crit, and dodge change of light mechs.
  o Removed shooting and melee hit penalties on the mechlord suit.
• Royalty:
  o Empire Champion pawns will now spawn wearing plasteel armor and a plate helmet, significantly improving their protection and survivability.
  o Increased the money available to Empire Champion pawns for shields and apparel.

Misc.

• Added a variety of new textures for ammo, casings, flecks and filth textures. (Thanks, Keshash!)
• Hovering over a stabilized wound now displays the effectiveness and duration of the stabilization effect.
• By default, pawns without an assigned loadout will now only pick up 4 magazines of ammo for their equipped weapon, rather than an entire stack. This will also factor weapons’ mag override factor.
• Updated Brazilian Portuguese translation. (Thanks, Yuri!)
• Added more in-depth stat descriptions for melee weapon toughness and blunt and sharp armor values.
• Improved the behavior of ingesting food/drugs from inventory, making better allowances for pawn traits, addictions, food preferences, and factors from DLC.
• Tweaked gas mask and minor blood loss hediff labels
• The bandolier is now in the same apparel filter category as packs and tac vests.
• A bunch of file indentation standardization and housekeeping.
• Added new shells for vehicle cannons: 105x607mmR, 57x307mmR, 75x350mmR.
• Added crafting recipe for 15x65mm Diffusing Charged ammo.
• Removed .45 Schofield ammo from other ammosets.
• Rebalanced the default Bomb attack damage and armor penetration values, to prevent oddities in cases where it’s used.
• Can now toggle projectile shadows in xml.
• Made orbital bombardment attacks use their own set of default damage and armor penetration values, since having them share the defaults with Bomb damage created difficulties balancing the values.

Notes:

• Removed obsolete patches of MorrowRim – Trolls and Vanilla Animals Expanded – Vehicles.

Combat Extended 5.3 “Part of a Balanced Breakfast!”

Fixes

• Corrected the steel cost for 20mm Hispano (AP) ammo.
• Assigned the correct projectile parent to the 90mm recoilless canister shell.
• Fixed a typo in the .410 shotgun ammo recipe label and description that showed the incorrect crafting amount.
• The loading bench now casts a shadow.
• Fixed a bug where, with the ammo system disabled, pawns would stow their weapon instead of reloading.
• Fixed a bug where berserk pawns would not reload their weapon properly and got stuck in a loop.
• Fixed a bug where telling a mech to reload would cause any ammo currently in the weapon to vanish.
• Fixed a typo in .22 short ammo, where the bulk and mass stats were reversed.
• Pawns will now prefer to switch to melee weapons or other weapons instead of grenades when running out of ammo for their equipped weapon.
• Cleaned up some save/load code that was sometimes creating errors when loading a save with airborne projectiles.
• Fixed an error that sometimes appeared when a burst is interrupted by the target going down.
• Fixed a visual bug where blindfolds and other ‘EyeCover’ layer apparel would also be rendered across the torso.
• Replaced an obsolete method for horizontal sliders on some GUI element.
• Biotech: Fixed a typo in the Paramedic operations that was preventing it from being assigned a bodyShape.

Compatibility

• Add integrated patches for the following mods:
  o Alpha Mechs
  o AOC The Cleanup Devil
  o Archotech Weaponry
  o Dusk Armory
  o High Tech Laboratory Facilities
  o Impact Weaponry
  o Industrial Melee Weaponry
  o Matter Manipulator
  o MH: Android Tiers
  o MH: Android Tiers Core
  o MH: Mechanical Biomimetics
  o MH: Military Tiers
  o More Medieval Helms and Armor
  o New Mech: Mini-Miner
  o SRTS Expanded
  o The Corporation - Mort's Factions
  o Vanilla Animals Expanded - Waste Animals
  o Vanilla Psycasts Expanded - Hemosage
  o Vanilla Races Expanded – Android
  o Vanilla Races Expanded – Sanguophage
  o Warhammer 40k - Genes and Psycasts
• Updated integrated patches for the following mods:
  o [JDS] The Forge - NCR Armory
  o [RH2] Rimmu-Nation 2 - Clothing
  o Alpha Animals
  o Alpha Genes
  o Android Tiers Reforged
  o AnimalCollabProj
  o Arachne
  o Bori Race
  o Cybernetic Organism and Neural Network
  o Darkest Rim Core
  o Dragon’s Descent
  o EPOE Forked Royalty DLC Expansion
  o EPOE Forked
  o Fallout New Vegas – Elite Riot Gear
  o Forgelings Race
  o Gas Traps and Shells
  o Gimmicks
  o Infinite Rim Ariadna
  o Miho Race
  o Morgante Mafia Weapons
  o MorrowRim
  o Moyo Cartel
  o Moyo From the Depth
  o Moyo Light in the Abyss
  o Nukes
  o Rim-Effect Collection
  o Rimsenal Collection
  o Star Crafter’s Armory
  o The Joris Experience
  o Thog’s Guns – More Brukka Pack
  o Vanilla Factions Expanded – Empire
  o Vanilla Factions Expanded – Insectoid
  o Vanilla Factions Expanded – Mechanoid
  o Vanilla Factions Expanded – Pirates
  o Vanilla Psycasts Expanded
  o Vanilla Races Expanded – Saurid
  o Vanilla Weapons Expanded
  o Xenohumans Expanded
  o Zombieland

Balance

• Implemented a new, non-linear conversion for projectile velocity. Broadly, this change normalizes projectile velocity. While most projectiles see very little change, especially fast bullets (sabot, railgun, etc.) see a modest decrease, while slow projectiles (arrows, rifle grenades) see a modest increase.
• Hard armor (like flak vests) now only takes 50% damage from non-penetrating hits, making them more durable against non-penetrating fire.
• Apparel shields (like the ballistic shield) now take only 20% of blunt AP from non-penetrating gunshots, simulating the lesser impulse of bullet impacts vs melee strikes. This should reduce the frequency of shield-wielding pawns having body parts destroyed by blunt damage.
• Applied a 50% modifier to the Bullet damage from HEDP launcher grenades.
• Increased the mechinator command distance from 24.9 to 43.9.
• Reduced the thickness of the Parka and its variants from a base value of 10 to 4. Also removed the increased crafting cost in favor of vanilla cost.
• NPC pawns now have a small chance of spawning with poison arrows/bolts.
• Decreased the sharp AP of .25 ACP (HP) from 2 to 1.5.
• Increased the spread of cannon grapeshot.
• Various small adjustments to the mass, speed, and damage of assorted arrows and crossbow bolts.
• Adjusted various stats of the pila, including bulk, market value, and melee stats.
• Various small tweaks to the value and crafting costs of some launched grenades to bring them in-line with the spreadsheet.
• Increased the mass, damage, and pellet count of blunderbuss shot.
• Added a mechanoid variant of the minigun. While largely identical, the mechanoid variant has reduced sway and recoil.
• Beanbag ammo now does only 25% damage to buildings and plants.
• Restored the Pikeman mech’s leg melee attacks to give it somewhat better odds in close-quarters combat.
• Implement crafting skill requirements for various weapons and pieces of apparel in line with vanilla requirements.
• Biotech:
  o Increased the shot spread of the mounted mech heavy charge blaster turret from 0.08 to 0.2.
• Royalty:
  o Reworked the Hand Talon melee tools, removing the stab and replacing the cut with a scratch, to match the base game configuration.

Misc.

• Removed the linger BaseBullet ThingDef overwrite, completing the transition to the new BaseBulletCE.
• Added a SuppressionMultiplier, to allow better fine-tuning of projectile suppression.
• Various structures and workbenches, like embrasures and barbed wire, are now paintable.
• Revised the descriptions of various power armor suits and helmets.
• Combined some partialArmor line items and other whitespace housekeeping.
• Updated the generic ShotgunRevolver ammo set with specialized ammo types.
• Adjusted category of advanced and explosive ammo for the 20x42mm. All ammo variants are crafted at the loading bench.
• 81mm mortar shells no longer have casing motes or drop casing filth.
• Added some additional keyed translation items for tooltips and patching related items.
• Removed the black powder ‘Trapdoor’ variant for 45-70 government ammo.
• Combined the ammosets of the SPG9 recoilless rifle and the 2A28 GROM to reduce redundancy.
• 30x64mm Fuel Cell ammo crafting is locked behind Advanced Launchers, and is now crafted at the machining bench.
• Adjusted the sprite positioning for the charge blaster turret.
• Added new art for archotech ammo.
• New art: loading bench, musket & blunderbuss ammo, and the human & mechanoid variants of the minigun.
• Removed ‘CombatExtended.AmmoThing’ from FSX and Prometheum, so they are no longer removed when playing in No Ammo mode.
• Removed the integrated patch for Fortifications – Industrial and Mechanite Plague. They are now patched on the mod’s side.
• Changed the unpatched weapon message from an error to a warning, improved handling of them, and attached a more useful translation key.
• Updated the mod target framework from net472 to net48.
• Improved the behavior of the danger tracker. This should allow pawns to make smarter decisions when running for cover.
• Restored various vanilla melee characters
• The density of black smoke is now taken in consideration by the danger tracker.
• Added various new ammo types.
• Updated reference package versions.

Notes:

• The Vanilla Expanded Onehandedness stat should no longer appear with Combat Extended active. This should help avoid confusion.
• Some major fixes were made to the patch for the Vanilla Expanded area shields. They should all work now—including those from Vanilla Psycasts Expanded.