Please find the patch notes for the game balance changes in the March 4th patch.

This patch rolls out across the base game and is not part of, nor does it require the Blood and Titanium DLC.

Release notes for Blood and Titanium will follow later.

Armor Changes

Acid damage application now works like poison (the acid damage is subtracted from the armor each turn and then the amount of damage is reduced by 10). This increases the potency of acid by a lot but is still not a one shot mechanic.

Re-adjusted acid values on different items to match the new damage application.

Shred on weapons is increased across the board with notable mentions of Assault Rifles having base shred of 1 so that they are no longer ineffective against armor. Grenades will now have 10 Shred up from 3. Shred for the Pandorans is not increased but this change will affect human enemies.

Weapon Rebalancing

Odin Grenade - Shredding changed from 3 to 10

Purification Grenade - Added 5 Shredding

Ares AR-1 - Added 1 Shredding

Hel II Cannon - Shredding changed from 10 to 20

Goliath GL-2 - Shredding changed from 4 to 10

Gemini V - Shredding changed from 4 to 20

Bulldog AR-50 - Added 1 Shredding

VDM Defender - Added 1 Shredding

Deceptor MG - Shredding changed from 2 to 3

Fury-2 - Shredding changed from 4 to 10

Watcher AT - Shredding changed from 2 to 3

Hailstorm GT - Shredding changed from 2 to 5

Thor AML - Shredding changed from 6 to 20

Archangel RL1 - Shredding changed from 5 to 15

Mjolnir Grenade - Shredding changed from 20 to 30

Destiny III - Damage changed from 60 to 80

Ragnarok - Shredding changed from 30 to 40

Dagon’s Tooth - Damage changed from 100 to 120

Scion of Sharur - Damage changed from 80 to 100

Marduk’s Fist - Damage changed from 140 to 160

Imhullu Grenade - Acid changed from 50 to 20

Nergal’s Wrath - Added 10 Shredding

Redeemer - Viral changed from 3 to 5

Subjugator - Viral changed from 6 to 10

SDeimos AR-L - Added 1 Shredding

Hera NP-1 - Paralysing changed from 5 to 7

Yggdrasil Grenade - Virophage changed from 40 to 60

Gungnir SR-2 - Virophage changed from 60 to 110

Athena NS-2 - Paralysing changed from 15 to 20

Yat AR - Added 1 Shredding

Uragan MG - Shredding changed from 2 to 3

Venom Torso Arm Mutation- Changed Damage from 30 to 40 and changed Poisonous from 40 to 50.

Evolution System

The evolution system progression was advancing too rapidly from tactical battles and less from with time - we are changing this to be weighted more towards the time component making the whole progression a bit smoother.

We are adding a difficulty component to evolution progression effectively slowing down Pandoran evolution (encountering elite units) for easier difficulties.

ODI

We have made changes to the ODI to increase the pressure on higher difficulties. If the player does nothing to stop the pandorans: Easy - The game should end in 6 months ingame Normal- The game should end in 5 months ingame Hard - The game should end in 4 months ingame Very Hard- The game should end in 3 months ingame



Dynamic Difficulty

Changed the way mission success/fail is evaluated.

Change the expected outcome in favor of the player. These changes mean that the player performance during missions will need to be higher (fewer casualties) for the difficulty to increase.

Changed the effect of Dynamic Difficulty based on game difficulty (On Easy it will be much more forgiving).

Training and Soldier Progression

Soldiers will gain fewer Skill Points (SP) when they level up (20 down from 50) but will gain 10 SP for every successful mission. This will make soldiers levelled solely with training facility less efficient then battle experienced soldiers.

Soldiers will continue to receive SP even at max level making maxing out a souldier possible (it will still take a lot of missions to do so).

Pandorans

Tritons will be able to use Priest weapons (Viral Weapons).

New acid mortar Chiron body part.

New normal/elite acid grenade launcher bodypart for Arthrons.

New normal/elite viral machine gun launcher bodypart for Arthrons.

Phoenix Base Attacks

You will now have a minimum of 12 hours to prepare and respond to an attack on one of your bases.

Stealth

Enemies are revealed in 5 tile radius (if they’re in LOS).

Attacking without a silent weapon reveals the actor if in LOS.

Factions and Missions

New subfaction - The Forsaken Appears after Anu researches the mutation tech . Can have all classes Anu have unlocked. Can have all weapons Anu have unlocked.

Missions Forsaken can appear in Havens attack missions of all factions. Forsaken can appear in scavenging missions and ambushes. Anu/NJ/Syn can appear in scavenging and ambush missions if at bad relations with the Phoenix Project and if they Havens close to the site.

Factions War Reduced the rate of attacks.



Controls

Enabled rebindable keys.

Bug Fixes