Changes:
- Elite biters now appear from league 800 in Easy and Normal difficulties (In Hard and Nightmare difficulties, elite biters appear from league 40). Previously, in Easy and Normal difficulties elite biters never appeared at all.
- Elite biters now also explode and spawn 4 non-elite biters.
Changes:
- Biters around biter boats will now be sent to attack the ship every minute.
- Biters from biter boats now don't immediately attack the player ship upon arrival.
Changes:
- Nerfed flamethrower dmg by 15%.
- Increased evolution scaling from leagues by 15%.
- Doubled the chance for elite biters to spawn in hard and nightmare difficulties.
- Reduced amount of iron/copper plates found in chests, but the amount now scales with leagues.
- Reduced the chance to find speed modules from chests.
- Fixed an issue where players would require launching silo in Red desert and Mysterious caves island to escape.
Changes:
- Fixed an issue where if captain and all officers were afk (or captain would leave the game), some other crew member would get captain role.
- Fixed an issue where the crew would lose, if boat would leave the island when there was ~10 secs left until auto undock in >800 leagues on hard+ difficulty, even when requirements were fulfilled.
- Attempt to fix some desyncs.
Changes:
- Some biters in hard and nightmare difficulties have a chance to become elite. Elite biters have 5x more health in hard difficulty and 10x more health in nightmare difficulty.
- Increased uranium-235 requirement for late game Radioactive islands. The amount required remains the same for the first occurrence of this island.
Changes:
- In hard and nightmare difficulties, spawners have a chance to become elite.
- Biter boats now can arrive at any time, instead of only arriving within few minutes of crew ship's landing.
- Fixed memory leak with healthbars.
Previous change update:
- Allowing ore to spawn on top of another in walkways.
- Disabled boat steering in Mysterious Caves island.
CHANGES:
- Prevented situation where biter wave could spawn immediately upon revealing it in Mysterious Caves island.
- Fixed "All biter bases destroyed — escape cost removed." message appearing when arriving at Mysterious Caves island.
- Fixed GUI showing resource cost to leave Mysterious Caves island. It won't need any resources to undock in late game.
- Fixed Mysterious Caves island letting you stay infinitely in late game.
- Sandworm Caldera island now has auto undock timer.
- Sandworm Caldera island now doesn't have launch rocket as resource requirement.
- Reduced maximum amount of time you can stay in Sandworm Caldera island by 20%.
- Reduced maximum amount of time you can stay in Mysterious Caves island by 20%.
- Revealing a spawner in Mysterious Caves island, reveals nearby area and spawners around it.
Changes:
- Radioactive island now has green water (as well as small green brightness that's only seen at night slightly).
- Reduced base amount of resource count quest item requirement by 10%.
- Fixed research tech unintentionally printing to discord when crew disbands.
code restructuring along with:
v1.2.3
• Rework of 'quest buildings' that appear on islands.
• Fixed stutter when loading certain maps, such as swamp.
• Various new player-friendly visual renderings.
• Mod prepared for translation into other languages.
• Expanded Gourmet's sense of taste.
- small adjustments to wave spawning
- cannon resistance buffed
- biters now deal bonus damage at night (up to a maximum of 10%)
- uranium ammo is now properly researchable
- modular armor/equipment slightly less rare
- ship and silo pollution slightly decreased for larger player count
- kraken fire rate increased for larger player count
- kraken kill reward buffed
- ship power upgrade made cheaper
- fixed exploit of bots being able to repair cannons
- Smoldering class disabled for now
- other fixes and improvements
- biters produced per unit of pollution produced by vanilla methods now scales with difficulty
- fuel cost of major upgrades decreased
- coin reward from killing spitters doubled
