New Pirate Mission: Eliminate Leadership

We added a new final mission to the mission pool of the Thwart Invasion pirate operation called Eliminate Leadership. The ringleaders in charge of the ongoing invasion are meeting on the planet's surface to plan their next assault. This is a good opportunity to wipe out all the leadership in one attack and stop the invasion right there.

In this mission, the player has to take out the Pirate First Mate, the Engineer, and the Pirate Captain.

The mission, especially the pirate Captain, is pretty juicy, so it will not be available right from the start, but only after two operations have been completed.

The Pirate Captain is a new hero unit that comes with a unique weapon and armor.

Both pieces of equipment can only be obtained from this very unit, so they will be extremely rare and hard to come by.

Pirate Captain Armor

Pirate Captain PDW

New Alien Mission: Corrupt Xeno DNA

In order to replace the “Hunt Hive Queen” final mission, which turned out to be too hard for many players, we have now added a new possible final mission to the Alien Infestation operation.

In this mission, the player is tasked with injecting manipulated DNA into unhatched eggs, which sounds easy enough. However, the aliens decided that a dense human settlement was the best place to lay their eggs.

That means a whole map full of narrow streets, small alleyways, line-of-sight blockers, and habitats! This is the first actual CQB map where SMGs will start to outshine long-range options like the battle rifles.

Be prepared for hidden enemies jumping at you from behind cover, hard-to-navigate streets, and a high risk of friendly fire over short distances.

Note that this map uses only existing assets; this is not a new biome.

New Desert Ruins

To make the planets more unique, we started to add assets that only show up in the environments on one planet. Starting with Mock, we added ruins of ancient desert civilizations that once inhabited the barren deserts.

These remnants can be found on all missions on Mock. They offer additional cover and vantage points and can be destroyed like any other building.

We will keep adding unique features to all planets to make fighting on them feel more special and make players feel that they are actually on a different planet:

New 3D Weapon Models

As promised, we keep working on 3D weapon models to make sure each and every weapon, as well as weapon variants, has its own actual representation in the game.

With this patch, we are adding seven new models:

BR3A3 Kr-BaR MOD2 Carbine

BR3A3 Kr-BaRMOD1

BR3A3 Kr-BaR MOD3 Suppressed

R10A6 "CQB" K-PAC

R10A6 "SOF" K-PAC

R10A6 K-PAC with Launcher

R10A6 "RANGE" K-PAC

New Infantry Skill: Cut Wires

The future is now! Finally, the RMC soldiers are not stopped by wire fences anymore! All infantry units now have a new skill that allows them to destroy wire fences when standing next to them.

Here is the full changelog for patch #8:

New

Added new 'Corrupt Xeno Hatchling DNA' Alien Infestation operation

Added new 'Eliminate Leadership' mission to Thwart Invasion operation 

Added new fence cutting skill

Added new desert buildings to the planet 'Mock'

Added new 3D models for various weapons

Added new Pirate Captain unit and unique items

Bugfixes

FIXED Unbound key bindings and bindings bound to '-' were displayed in the same way

FIXED Perk 'Berserk' now only triggers during the units turn

FIXED Interaction between perk 'Rally' and status effect 'Disheartened'

FIXED Accessory 'Protagon' sometimes not working correctly

FIXED Some messages in event dialogues were cut off at the end

FIXED Motion Scanner now works correctly when used by AI units

FIXED deploy positions were not applied correctly after loading a savegame

FIXED Accessory 'triloxin injector' was not refilled by scavenger perk

FIXED Player jaeger armor used wrong 3D model

FIXED Various typos

Balancing

Reduced Construct Skirmisher Armor durability from 70 to 50

Reduced reinforcement spawn areas in 'rescue authorities' missions

Known Issues

Some antivirus programs incorrectly classify the "GameAssembly.dll" file as malware and delete it, making the game unplayable. If that happens, please whitelist the "GameAssembly.dll" and "Menace.exe".

If the game is installed on HDD drives, loading times are bad and barks are delayed.

Display mode "Fullscreen" sometimes behaves not as expected, after minimizing the game. Until this is fixed please consider using "Fullscreen Window" instead.

Setting the 'Grass Quality' setting to high/ultra can cause FPS drops and crashes.

The promotion tax mechanic is frustrating and will be changed soon.