Red Solstice 2: Survivors (PC Steam) Patch 2.8 (2022 October 25)

Modified on Tue, 12 Sep, 2023 at 1:01 PM

Added new tooltip display to MoveHQ tooltip, to display about how long in game time it will take the HQ to reach that region's destination
Added a new options setting for changing cursor sizes
Fixed a lot of skill descriptions
Fixed interaction wheel getting stuck visible on clients
Fixes for monster health and armor text. Should now always display armor if there is any
Marines will no longer involuntarily fire their weapons while confirming skill in manual firing mode
Overall UI polishing and small details
Added functionality to double click a widget to copy text to clipboard
Added a new language selection display to main menu
Removed large "community" text from session list
Removed mission waypoint arrows from the Marine. Created a new actor that will follow the marine and display mission arrows
Gamepad camera controls added to the main HUD

OPTIMIZATION

Network optimization
Monster animation optimization
General model optimization
Optimized lights in some prefabs
Body parts optimization
Improved game loading times
Optimized UI
Minimap optimization
Reduced hitches when saving and loading a game

RECON

Added new T2 sensors skill
Added new Adaptive Concealment skill
Reworked Orbital Targeting
Reworked artillery

RECON OVERHAUL

Adaptive conceal - adds permanent visibility to recon as long as they stick near X range of team
T2 sensors skill added > shows legendary and normal items
Changed artillery skill
Changed orbital skill
Changed loot drone to have more items

GAMEPAD

Adjusted vehicle aiming and driving while using a gamepad
Cursor can no longer move outside max range
Directional skills (melee, buckshot) do not use cursor mod, they are now always in twinstick mode
Fix for interactions - Left arrow selects previous interaction instead of next
Fix for sliders in Options and Bestiary when using Analog Stick
Vehicle - Removed autorotate toggle and instead placed camera controls to allow adjusting your view
Vehicle - Fix for not being able to interact with vehicles after leaving them, without moving away and back to the vehicle
Vehicle - Fix for gamepad cursor being always visible
Vehicle - Fix for vehicle aiming - holding shoot no longer raises aim
Interactions changed on WASD and controller [Experimental, Needs testing]
- Interactions change based on priority
- Vault has most priority, non-pickups next and pickups lowest priority
- If arrows are used to select an interaction that interaction is locked and won’t change until unselected or not available

MONSTERS

Improved damage simulation on health component to reduce number and amount of server corrections
Boler - Fix for small Boler rotating in place after spawn on Mining Colony
Boler - Fix for Boler Acid bypassing player immunity
Bolers - Bolers should ignore invisible units now and should switch targets after current target goes invisible
Door Hunter - Fix for Door Hunters not attacking players
Fluffies - Fix for range spike attack not doing any damage and applying no debuffs
Ghouler - Fix for Ghouler trying to respawn decomposed monsters
Gore - Fixed an issue where Gore would stop moving and attacking when on low health
Gore - Fix for Gore getting stuck being invisible
Gore - Fix an issue with Gore teleport causing him to end up in some weird spots
Hatchling - Fix for hatchling not entering buildings
Holer - Fix for range poison attack not targeting players properly
Hunter - Fix for hunter not having proper suppression stats in the bestiary
Hunter - Fix for hunters being stuck trying to attack incapacitated follower
Hunter Queen - Removed from boss group type
Hunter Queen - Fix for Hunter Queen not being able to attack
Ker / Sandworm - Adjusted damage so that they don’t destroy vehicles with 1 hit
Mastermind and Babymastermind - Fix for wrong body parts being spawned after death
Ripjaw - Fixed an issue where poison icon was constantly displayed under the mesh
Ripjaw - Fix for Ripjaw not chasing and attacking players correctly
Ripjaw - Fix for Ripjaw attacking even to there are no players around him
Sargon - Fix for range poison attack not targeting players properly
STROL Marine - Fix for Monster STROL Marine not being able to vault over barricade
Zombie Fat - fix for zombie Ground Pound attack
Zombie Fat - fix for zombie fat being able to knock down immune marines
Fix for monsters not attacking Sentry Turrets
Fix for Fluffy, Thanatos and Specimen not attacking players when they use their skill while low HP
Fix for monsters with negative destructive resistance gain resistance on debuffs for that resistance
Fix for monsters with negative kinetic resistance gain resistance after using Designate
Fix for Lyganesh and Behemoth monsters being pulled by Reality Mixer skills inside of buildings
Fix for monster armory information not being displayed on the main monster widget
Fix for issues with burrowers not showing particle on some maps
Fix for suppression and stun being applied to dead monsters
Fix for monsters running into walls and getting stuck
Fix for issues on doors where navmesh was broken and monsters never attacked it
Killing STROL Substance gives global XP now

MISC

Added a loadout export/import functions in the armory so players can copy and paste other player builds
Added detailed description to some engineering items that were lacking it in campaigns
Added a tooltip to all interactable Turrets saying that they can be refilled
Added a Hatchling monsters to the player statistics list - Kills and captures
Added Leviathan and Mastermind into the bestiary and player stat kills and captures
Fix for engineering mission items UI showing wrong equipped numbers in the mission setup tab
Fix for skill descriptions being duplicated
Fix for dialogues not being displayed on the screen during cinematic sequences
Fix for campaign cinematics not finishing correctly
Fix for reload times and ammo size are not being colored correctly
Fix for debuffs ticking while using an UBAS
Fix for clients not being able to see Vivian's head during certain missions
Fix for Infinite shell casings falling from weapons after changing graphic settings which causes lower FPS
Fix for blank lines in monsters wave profile
Fix for a lot of issues with Abilities / items / guns / vehicles / interactions with controller
Fix for players not being able to skip Elysium tutorial cutscene while using gamepad
Fix for player being unable navigate on the tutorial widget with gamepad (Widget removed if gamepad is used)
Fix for M.E.R.C.S. campaign difficulty skulls not being symmetric
Fix for buff tooltips staying on the screen while hovering over it and using alt tab
Fix for Fat Zombie being able to knockdown marine with a crusader in hand
Fix for incorrect medal rank being displayed to other players
Fix for weapon colour and skin not being imported after copying another players loadout
Fix for players not gaining correct region deployment bonuses (deployment, will work with new campaigns only)
Fix for an issue where there were two MERCS campaign on the new campaign tab
Fix for EVAC not working at times (any evac)
Fix for Demolition skill mines being placed on top of objects like flame pipes
- Leaper, seismic, magnetic pulse, directional charge, cryo, shrapnel, chain explosives
Fix for recon getting adaptive concealment invisibility from friendly A.I. (test with Defcon alpha)
Fix for alt fire weapon mods mouseover in armory showing gar stats
Fix for M.E.R.C.S. skin head was appearing on the side of default recon skin.
Fix for client players getting no reward for completing tasks
Fix for secondary weapons having broken models in the weapon workbench tab
Fix for weapon mods and skills having an executor class displayed while hovering over them
Fix for weapon mods character bonus stacking issues after equipping 2 same mods and unequipping one of them, on both weapons
Fix for stats calculation that can show capacitors to have 0 energy after equipping and unequipping them
Fix for equipping Mods with the same name result in subsequent penalties not being applied (Related to the two above)
Fix for mission setup for client’s desyncs making clients unable to see the wave profile, map and other parameters
Fix for players being able to aim lock on dead target when the monster was targeted at the moment of death
Fix for client desync - where he appears as if he is firing his weapon. Happens after switching between two-barrel targets
Fix for client desync - where player appears as if he is holding secondary weapon after leaving UBAS, instead of primary
Fix for the supply box that would flatten vehicles if a player is able to park their car under the location of the drop zone
Fix for reloading Reaper Turret - where it did not adjust remaining primary mags properly (Client)
Fix for hotbar skills being re-ordered randomly after deploying to a match and/or rehosting a session
Fix for saving and loading a loadout build where a non-proper loadout would be loaded, after load
Fix for UBAS not being able to shoot after someone rams it with a vehicle
Fix for enemy marines being unable to run towards at a player that is in a vehicle. They would shoot but won’t go towards it
Fix for enemy UBAS not going towards players after spawn, instead they were wandering around the map
Fix for Iron Hawk Enemy Marines not firing on STROL
Fix for strategy layer where traveling to a mission and ignoring it will result in time being accelerated
Fix for players not being able to switch between interactable actors in WASD mode
Fix for loadout menu, when a player selects a vehicle and changes combat suits after that, vehicle will not spawn on map
Fix for various taunt issues
Fix for UBAS being difficult to aim with while in RTS mode
Fix for UBAS not being able to step over barricades
Fix for infinite shell casings spawning and falling from weapons after changing graphic settings which causes lower FPS
Fix for Elysium cars flickering after changing graphic settings
Fix for Fire Immunity skills not overwriting existing duration
Fix for Stun particle effect showing up on dead bodies
Fix for player being unable to pick up items while in WASD mode
Fix for client players being unable to hear some interaction sounds like picking up items
Fix for players being able to shoot while using an ability
Fix for train wagons not getting destroyed with the locomotive
Fix for game starting text going under 0
Fix for stationary powernode where energy widget was not hidden while in FOW
Fix for follower mech randomly meleeing
Fix for biomass not being respawned correctly
Fix for Chemical bomb being able to damage players while they are inside of a vehicle
Fix for M.E.R.C.S. HQ not granting initial region's colony bonus
Fix for coercing ability target location into max range while the character is rooted
Fix for WASD camera lerp, will no longer be always at maximum, interpolation should always correspond to the mouse distance on the screen
Fix for players not being able to use MERC skin after purchase
Fix for campaign save not applying the loadout you had at the time of saving when loaded
Fix for hero ammo counter not updating correctly when reloading a turret
Fix for some engineering buffs not being displayed correctly
Fix for interaction item pickup sounds between server and client
Fix for interaction target not clearing properly from hero controller in certain cases.
Reduced destructible vehicle hitbox size
Removed Hunter Queen from fixed waves
Removed unnecessary empty spaces in Medals widget

ITEMS

Antivenom - Fix for antivenom not removing Boler Acid
Artillery - Added missing armor shred description
Breach Shotgun System - Added range increase description to the item tooltip
Explosive Turret - Fix for name now showing when hovering over the pickup item
Explosive Turret - Fix for popup tooltip not opening correctly
Nyx System - Fix for damage not being displayed when blast hits enemy units
HASTAC - Fix for HASTAC being unable to target biomass centre
Repair Station - Increased the size of the repair area
Repair Station - Descriptions on pickup actor and inventory widget should match now
Revive stick - Should be easier to place now
Savage Burners - Fix for Savage Burners displaying incorrect buff information
Seismic Thumper - Added missing suppression description
Smoke Artillery - Fix for skill not slowing down enemy units
STROL Lure - Added missing duration description
Fix for Vehicle Batteries item spawn on the map no matter if there is a vehicle present or not
Fix for Leaper Mine, Emergency Evac and GED Elipda tooltip descriptions
Fix for mission items being able to be destroyed

VEHICLES

Added an energy bar above the vehicle
Added simultaneous interaction mode used by vehicles where each instigator can complete interaction separately
Adjusted vehicle interactions - Interaction with vehicles will now abort if the vehicle drives out of range
Fix for vehicles moving in a specific direction even though they have no energy
Fix for players not being able to enter the vehicle right after ejecting from it while using controller
Fix for where exiting a vehicle would reset skill cooldowns
Fix for upon leaving / re-entering the vehicle or changing seats the players get massive cooldowns
Fix for vehicle pilots names not being displayed for hot joined players
Fix for vehicle's not having artillery turret visual appearance on the tank
Fix for players being unable to deploy with a vehicle on levels where players spawns in VLAK
Fix for tank turret not being attached to the tank for client players
Fix for Breaker Turret description that said it fires 2 projectiles that trigger 2 AoE effects but, you only trigger 1 AoE
Fix for vehicle's having less energy consumption while driving in reverse. Should be the same as going forwards now
Fix for vehicle's local file being edited to get conflicting mods and read normally.
Fix for Hot joined clients not rendering existing players who were inside vehicles at time of join.
Fix for skirmish menu if you select vehicle in loadout and click host, vehicle setup disappears, and slot is empty
Fix for vehicles not recovering to the edge after destroying a bridge that they are on instead of pushing them up into the air instead
Fix for an issue where ramming into the extraction bridges would explode the vehicle
Fix for client player that were able to interact with any vehicle from a long-distance during gameplay
Fix for multiple players trying to enter a vehicle that would cause anomalous behaviour, fix for regular entering
Adjusted aiming and driving while using a gamepad
Fix for missing brake control option

SKILLS

Agility Exhaust - Fix for skill not giving proper movement speed % on max stacks
Ammo Generator - Fix for skill description
Ammo Link + Ammo Saver - Fix for skill combination giving semi-infinite ammo.
Ammo Link - Fix for player being able to generate infinite ammo while deleveling the skill
Apportation - Fix for where skill would take players health after selecting a monster, instead of after teleporting
Artillery - Fixed artillery damage description and armor shred description
Assault Banner - Fix for skill only giving buff to the instigator instead of every player in skill radius
Assault Drones - Fix for skill description
Battle Drone - Fix for skill tooltip
Bilocation - Fix for skill dealing wrong type of damage. Should deal energy damage now
Buckshot - Aiming with the controller should be easier now
Buckshot - Fix where marine would rotate after using the skill as a client causing it to be inaccurate
Buckshot - Fix for Buckshot range
Bond - Updated skill description. It now shows resistance info
Charged Bash - Fix for skill not stunning suppressed enemy units
Cohesion - Fix for cohesion skill duration
Communications - Fix for clients not seeing circles under enemies when skill is active unless that enemy is shot by someone
Conceal - Fix for players being concealed after entering a vehicle
Conceal - Fix for conceal skill not working at times
Consumption - Fix for automatically switching to secondary aim mode after using all secondary ammo with the skill
Decoy - Fix for skill not applying correct amount of resistance reduction
Designate - Fix for skill tooltip
Directional Charge - Will now display damage numbers
Disarm - fix for skill not being able to disarm mines placed by vehicles
Dropship - Fix for players being unable to move dropship to a new location after entering Dropship using WASD Controls
Ensnare - Fix for skill not ensnaring enemy units
Flame Burst - Fix for skill not matching its range cone
Flare gun - Added missing taunt description
Flare - Fix for not being able to target biomass centre
Forcewall - Added missing description
Gunship - Fix for gunship targeting issue
Gunship Drone - Fixed visuals
Harpoon Trap - Adjusted grab range so it matches its description
Harpoon (System skill) - Fix where harpoon skill would only deal damage and not pull enemies
Heal Drone – Cleansing aliments fix (every 10 seconds instead of 15)
Hellfire Clinch - Fix for clinch duration
Hellfire Clinch - Fix for not taunting monsters properly
Hellfire Guardian - Fix for skill not showing resilience in the description and max stacks description
Hellfire Guardian - Fix for not taunting monsters properly
Hellfire Harpoon - Fix for where monsters would stop moving when a player uses Hellfire Harpoon and Thrusters
Hellfire Harpoon- Fix for harpoon duration and skill description
Hellfire Thruster - Fix for not taunting monsters properly
Hellfire Thruster - Added missing armor shred description
Kinetic Spear - Fix for visual indicator staying on screen after explosion
Kinetic Spear - Fix for missing description while hovering over the spear after placing it on the ground
Magnetic Pulse Mine - Added missing description regarding activation range and radius
Maelstorm - Fix for Maelstorm not firing correct numbers of lightning strikes
Melee - Fix for melee skill not damaging monsters in range
Nanite Stick - Fix for skill spawning dead sticks that wouldn’t revive players
Orbital Autocannon - Added missing description regarding firing radius
Orbital Autocannon - Added missing description regarding sight radius
Orbital Targeting - Added missing description regarding sight radius
Personal Flare - Added missing description regarding sight radius
Phase Reaper - Removed movement speed cap
Plasma Discharge - Fix for plasma discharge not shredding armor on levels 3-5
Pull and Throw - Added missing description
Pulse - Fix for skill tooltip description
Rapid Fire - Fix for skill not refilling ammo while shooting enemy marines
Revive stick - Revive stick should be easier to place now
Rapid Response - Fix for skill not giving the correct suppression debuff duration
Rapid Response - Fix for where skill didn’t increase turret damage
Repair - Fix for skill description
Repeller - Fix for "no build" area not displaying properly
Road Flare - Added skill description regarding sight radius
Safeguard - Fix for skill not granting any RPM at any level
Scan Area - Added missing description regarding skill duration
Scan Area - Fixed the range of the skill to match the description
Seeker Mines - Fix for skill not applying full debuff stacks on hit
Sentry Turret - Fix for firing particle not being in correct place
Sentry Turret - Fix for turret not being attacked after being placed
Sentry Turret - Fix for Flame Turret not showing damage to owning player or counting towards owning player's damage stats
Shocktroopers - Fix for Shocktrooper not spawning while using the skill inside of VLAK
Shocktroopers - Added missing description
Shoulder Turret - Fix for shoulder turret losing RMB while marine is moving left and right
Smokewall - Fix for smokewall not applying suppression
Spike Strip - Updated tooltip description to make it more clear
Stalker - Fix for skill stealth timer description
Team Thrusters - Fix for player being unable to use team thrusters while target landing area is near an ally or monster
Tissue Scanner - Fix for buff not applying stacks correctly
Tracker Pulsar - Fix for pulsar not designating targets for the first 5 seconds after activation
T2 Sensors - Fix for AoE indicators persisting if the skill is used multiple times
T2 Sensors - Fix for T2 not revealing any items in FOW
T2 Sensors - Fix for skill not unburrowing burrowed monsters and not giving them debuff while they are burrowed
UBAS - Fix for UBAS infinite energy regeneration after instantly destroying the charger
UBAS - Fix for players being able to move while entering UBAS
UBAS - Fix for skill description
UBAS - Fix for client players being able to hit themselves after leaving UBAS
Wall Breaker - Fixed tooltip description

LEVEL

All levels - Fix for building windows being rendered as closed but are open
All levels - Fix for window mesh not removed after destruction
All levels - Fix for Red Storms not properly syncing with clients
All levels - Added Missing Power Relay top of lot_square_mining_administration
All levels - Resolved a lot of issue with door terminals on multiple levels
All levels - PF_lot_central_paradise fixed a spot that could be abused by fortify and rebuild skill
All levels - Fix for Firebase prefab not providing the adaptive system buff when you are inside the building
All levels - Fix for PF_lot_central_firebase where sometimes a vehicle would spawn underneath it
All levels - Fix for bridges being partly transparent if got infected by biomass
All levels - PF_lot_square_whale_biomass, PF_lot_square_whale_biomass_02 fix for navmesh being under the pref.
All levels - Fixed various map border issues
All levels - Fix for roof collision on warehouse and shield generator prefabs
All levels - Fix for tree collision
All levels - Fix for Colony Door not updating animation when needed
All levels - Adjusted lights on almost all prefabs
Arcadio - Fix for various texture bugs
Big City - Fix for invalid navigation mesh patches on the roads around central prefab and various texture bugs
Big City - Fix for mission blocker where convoy took a wrong path
Big city - Fix for Howell marines not being on the correct team by adding correct team ID number
Broken Oath - Fix for player being able to place 'Safety zone' inside a particular building
Commercial sector - Fix for various texture bugs
Campaign levels - Fix for players spawning in a wrong location, caused by deploying with vehicles
Facility - Fix for UBAS actors being unusable (Probably spawned by mission)
Facility - Fix for enemy UBAS being unable to open doors resulting them in being stuck
Facility - Fix for various texture bugs
Facility - Fixed various door terminals that weren’t opening doors
Mining Colony - Fix for various texture bugs and invisible walls
New War - Fix for invisible walls
Night shift - Fix for some textures being wrong , fixed invisible walls
Shadow War - Fix for friendly UBAS being unable to shoot at enemy
Shattered Home - Fix for various texture bugs and invisible walls
Snow Colony - Fix for various texture bugs
Wasteland - Fix for monster not attacking the blast doors on some locations
Underground maps - Fix for lots of loot spawning at the evac zones

MISSION

Air supply - Monsters should not ignore friendly dropship mission actor anymore
Ascending Chaos - Fixed an issue with sniper fire marker being the wrong colour
Big Sister Is Watching You - Fix for enemy targets running around the map instead towards the player
Brighter Horizon - Fix for monster Hunter being stuck during the mission
Crimson Storm III - Added a description to SUI mission actor
Crimson storm III - Fix for light posts being underground, fix for some wall textures being wrong
Darkening skies - Fix for mission failing if a player has reduced the number of vehicles to 0 prior to deployment
Defcon alpha - Fix for safety beacon objective not spawning at Hell on Mars objective
Echoes of fear - Fix for cutscenes bugging out on client player screen
Echoes of fear - Various fixes for Saffron visible under the level and bots shooting actors during cutscenes
Echoes of fear - Various minor mission adjustments
Future Planning - Fix for biomass being spawned under the floor on Industrial level
Gathering Storm - Fix for bots being able to destroy the beacon mission actor during building
Gathering Storm\Standing Firm - Fix for mission description not telling players that they must group up at an objective loc.
Into the Breach - Various minor mission adjustments
Living Soil - Various minor mission adjustments
Mechanized Force - Mission will now increase reaper turret damage
Meltdown - Fix for meltdown mission spawning on wave 1
Minefield - Mines that are a part of mission objective should lose their mission markers after being disarmed
Minefield - Mines can now be disarmed by the Disarm skill
Nest mission - Fix for nest mission spawning Holers on facility levels (added new mission Nest.Facility)
Police Action - Fix for the mission timer that kept counting down even when player has reached the convoy (Client)
Rescue Civilians - Fix for mission being able to last forever even though it failed. Various minor mission adjustments
The way Home - Fix for harpoon mesh and animation while capturing Mastermind
Traveling to Beacon - Various minor mission adjustments
To Infinity - Fix for Hunter queen being blocked by UBAS after spawn
Troubling Times - Fix for mobs not attacking mission actors most of the time
Under the Surface - Small mission adjustments
Weather report, Roaming Horde, Besieged, Repair Station can now spawn in all campaigns
Fix for missions with subobjectives not cleaning up their tasks properly upon completion.
Fix for client players being unable to switch between the objectives on hot joining a server
Fix for multiple missions where reach location fails timer didn’t go away properly for clients
Fix for incorrect objective icon is displayed. instead of Primary objective icon, secondary icon was displayed for Hot join client

WEAPONS

Added gameplay tags to all weapons. Weapons and upgrades now use tags instead of weapon classes
Arclite - Fix for gamepad, cursor mode no longer active in primary firing mode
Crusader - Fix for gamepad, cursor mode no longer active in primary firing mode
Crusader - Fix for player not being able to attack with Crusader
Crusader - Fix for players being able to drop ammo after deploying with crusader (drop ammo hotkey)
Grenade Launcher - Fix for under-Barrel Grenade launcher not being able to shoot grenades
Harpoon MK II - Fix for an exploit where monsters would stop attacking after being hit by MK II
Rivnik - Rivnik's buff should now be displayed in strategy view tooltips where it shows the max stacks of 4
Stinger - Fix for player being able to increase DPS of the stinger by swapping fire mods
Fix for firing mode swap on weapons being able to get you stuck with particle effects from both firing modes.
Fix for weapons being coloured by decals while player is running over them during gameplay
Fix for not being able to use skills while manual aiming
Fix for the under-barrel flamethrower mod that did not do any damage or apply burning stacks
Fix for tooltips for all upgrade components in armory that were showing up as light weapons
Fix for autocannon and rivnik primary not benefitting from any source of RPM
Fix for weapons with a controller where camera is always locked on you even if the weapon has a base big range
Fix for weapons being able to fire faster by clicking LMB instead of holding it
Removed 0% stacking turn rate modifier for aiming on various weapons. No gameplay effect, just removes it from the tooltip

SOLDIER

Added an interaction wheel icon above friendly bot
Fix for Bots not being able to pick up items while player is giving orders from UBAS
Fix for client players being unable to see the correct bot levels/rank until in-game
Fix for MM Bot having issues obeying commands and shooting targets, will ignore target while in snipe mode
Fix for loading a game with friendly bot weapon mods set and saved will revert their loadout to default
Fix for follower bots not hiding all their components when player enters a vehicle
Fix for engineer bot placing Turrets and Advanced Chargers too close and/or on top of each other

CRASH

Fix for game crash after resizing game window and equipping a support module
Fix for crashing 100% of the time when trying to use secondary weapons
Fix for crashing on loading of any saved game from Condatis campaign
Fix for crashing on leaving mission in Elysium campaign "Echo Of Fear"
Fix for crash that occurred on Insurgents campaign Final Dawn mission