Red Solstice 2: Survivors PC 1.4 Patch Notes (2021 July 15)

NETWORK

• Completely rewrote our lobby network infrastructure in hope that players will have better experience joining lobbies

STRATEGY

• Dropship now returns to the nearest outpost
• Fixed an edge case where mission could spawn and immediately expire
• Missions with no information in uncontacted regions will no longer spawn
• You can now see the regional Biomass growths from orbit
• Fixed an edge case where campaign investigation missions could get stuck

GENERAL

• Added daily challenges that are completable only on very hard difficulty and give additional experience
• Optimizations for host
• Added daily challenges
• Added new tooltips for infestation and intel
• Weapon can be used with jetpack
• Disruptor will no longer block monsters or players
• Followers will not use missile swarm inside buildings
• Power surge will activate door terminals now also
• Tungsten, Carapace, Shockwave show in-game as buff
• Explosive turret health increase from 600 to 3000
• Battle drone duration reduced from 40 to 30 seconds
• Red storm will spread wider with more players in game
• HASTAC shows correct radius
• Safety zones cannot be stacked next to each other anymore, there is distance of 3000 meters

ASSAULT

• High ex rounds activation cost reduced to 70-50

HEAVY

• Safeguard will not apply twice to owner
• Battle drone duration set to 30 sec, cooldown 75-55
• Heavy weapons add suppression damage, better reload, max mags

MEDIC

• Adjust values of medical steroids to fit the skills better
• Revive drone movement speed increased
• Monster that is neutralized during his attack will not instantkill player anymore
• Rescue costs 170 and adds 100 health

MARKSMAN

• Silent hunter reduced speed bonus to 25%
• Removed stealth from reaper
• Increased damage bonus for vital spot targeting by x2 and activation of the skill gives equal amount of initial stacks
• Sniper rounds slots reduced to 2, power cost to 70
• Each time reaper is activated it will assign (or not) a friendly unit for teleportation
• Silent hunter and stalker will not interfere with each other concealment anymore

RECON

• Flare gun taunt duration reduced to 14-18
• Speed mechanism cooldown reduced to 20-12, move speed changed to 5-13%
• Overhauled orbital autocannon skill, added a lot of suppression and duration
• Artillery duration increased by 1s per level
• Orbital targeting damage set to 2000-3000, amount 4-5, and armor shreds now
• GED Elpida does more damage and attacks only 1 target now, cooldown reduces with level
• Conceal now gives 2-6 MS and cooldown reduced to 42-30s

WEAPONS

• Rocket launcher now shreds 2 armor
• Reduced lightning/fluffy energy drain by 2 seconds and drain by 5 energy/sec
• Doubled Viking and Rhino AOE radius
• Frostbite gets 20 ammo per specialized clip and shoots 33% faster

DEMOLITION

• Increased suppression for Cryo pulse mine and placement radius
• Adjusted tooltip in Shrapnel bomb

FIXES

• Seismic resonator will now work same as skill resonator
• Fixed visual bug in power calibration buff tooltip
• Fixed problem where assault mission can have problematic location
• Cohesion now properly clamps min reload time to 0.5 sec
• Fluffy hunt challenge cannot be activated in campaign anymore
• Reaper now properly deactivates
• Heavy weapons and cleanse debuff will now properly save with loadout
• Fixed problems with stats displaying incorrectly on client
• Fixed double damage being applied from AOE sources from weapons on client

UI

• Added more tooltips on strategy layer

MAP

• Fixed some locations where items could spawn in unreachable locations
• Added more locations to support rescue specialist
• Fixed helipad props that were being destroyed when they should not be.

MISSIONS

• Assault nest failure to spawn should be fixed
• Defend the wall will spawn 2 reapers when player wins the mission
• Removed STROL lure from map and monster will act normally after mission is won

MISC

• Fixed problems with 3D mesh in armory
• Additional checks so that executor armor cannot be transferred to skirmish
• Improved followers AI with weapons
• Small inventory will properly sync
• Adjusted difficulty on waves 1-10
• Rebinded the keybind that would get followers stuck by accident
• Added information when events in game happen to chat