v5.6

Combat Extended 5.6 “War Never Changes.”

Features

• Overhaul of the system for projectiles producing motes, supporting rocket flame and smoke trails.
• Overhauled the area shields systems, improving performance and interception. Pawns inside shields are no longer suppressed by projectiles outside the shield.
• Improved AI behavior related to area shields. AI are less likely to enter hostile-occupied shields when seeking cover while suppressed.
• Area-of-Effect weapons now display the explosion radius, as in vanilla.
• New graphics for flamethrower projectiles.
• Added air-bursting mortar and artillery shells, shredding scattered or entrenched enemies with shrapnel.
• Added framework for a new discrete projectile system, allowing our code to support more dynamic projectiles.

Fixes

• The debuffs from wearing a gas mask can no longer be “cured” by administering a mech healer serums.
• The unfinished arrows item is no longer stuffed, preventing errors when crafting some specialized types of arrows.
• Fixed an issue with beam projectiles and removed some obsolete xml that was causing errors.
• Fixed a bug where hitting a piece of armor that had 0% flammability with a flame-type attack would instantly delete it.
• Fixed an issue with vehicles where our ammo per shot override was causing issues in No Ammo Mode.
• Pawns should no longer grab meals for their loadout that are forbidden by their meal restrictions.
• EMPs no longer stun manned and non-powered turrets.
• Fixed a Generic Ammo Mode bug with some mech charged ammo caused by their assigned similarTo ammoset not having the appropriate ammo type.
• Pawns will no longer drop the downed pawn they’re carrying to set up the bipod on their weapon.
  Biotech:
• Genes affecting flammability now include Flame_Secondary and PrometheumFlame damage types.

Compatibility

• Add integrated patches for the following mods:
  o Dark Ages: Medieval Tools
  o Det's Energy Weapons
  o Medical Supplements
  o Pulse Weaponry
  o Rim-Elves
  o Rimsenal - Spacer Faction Pack
  o Royal Arsenal
  o Royal Arsenal - Specialty Weapons
  o Stoneborn – Delights
  o Thrumbo Plushie
  o Vanilla Factions Expanded – Tribals
  o Vanilla Races Expanded – Archon
  o Vanilla Races Expanded – Fungoid
  o Warhammer 40.000 - Imperium Materials
  o Warhammer 40,000 – Imperium Weaponry
• Updated integrated patches for the following mods:
  o [FSF] Advanced Bionics Expansion
  o [K4G] RimWorld War 2
  o [RH2] Doom
  o [RH2] Faction: The Rangers
  o [RH2] Metal Gear Solid
  o Alpha Genes
  o Alpha Vehicles
  o Ancient Arsenal: Warcaskets
  o Ancient Eastern Armory
  o Animal Collab Project Vanilla-Style
  o Apex – Rimworld Legends
  o Archotech Weaponry
  o Astra Militarum Regimentum – Krieg
  o Big and Small Genes
  o Biomes! Caverns
  o Combat Enthusiast's Collection
  o Divine Order
  o Glitter Weaponry
  o Grimworld Autoguns
  o Grimworld Lasguns
  o HALO: UNSC Armoury
  o Jernfalk's Skeletal Legion
  o Miho Race
  o Orassans
  o Thog's Guns - More Brukka Pack
  o Vanilla Factions Expanded – Deserters
  o Vanilla Factions Expanded - Mechanoids
  o Vanilla Ideology Expanded - Hats and Rags
  o Vanilla Vehicles Expanded
  o Vanilla Vehicles Expanded - Tier 3
  o Vanilla Weapons Expanded – Coilguns
  o Vanilla Weapons Expanded – Frontier
  o Vanilla Weapons Expanded – Laser
  o Vanilla Weapons Expanded – Quickdraw
  o Vanilla Weapons Expanded – Tribal
  o Vehicles Framework Expanded – Classic Mechs
  o Warcaskets: Adeptus Astartes

Balance

• Increased the chance of NPCs spawning with Ion charged ammo in Generic Ammo Mode.
• Adjusted the balancing of the night vision quality stat, generally making all qualities slightly better.
• Casing filth is slightly less ugly and dirty.
• NPCs will now fire Heavy Charge Blaster and derivatives in Suppressing Fire mode instead of Snapshot.

Misc.:

• New textures for the great and recurve bows.
• Add textures for ammo and projectile of base bleed artillery shells.
• Add textures for charge tox ammo of various sizes.
• Improved the ammo pick up behavior for ranged weapons without a magazine (like bows).
• Minor grammar fixes in some descriptions.
• Add 5x100mm caseless low-velocity.
• Added separate ammo category for lasers.
• Updated the Brazilian Portuguese translation.
• Vehicle Framework now generate casing motes and filth.
• Added an ammo category for lasers.
• Consolidated some common ammo categories used by mods into the core CE Defs.
• Added a Def folder for common mod ammo types.
• Some whitespace and formatting housekeeping.
• Revised some grammar and spelling.
• Took first step in migrating ammoConsumedPerShot from the weapon to the ammosetDef.
  Biotech:
• Mechanoid weapons no longer user human-made generic chargedd ammo in Generic Ammo Mode.
• Added crafting recipes for various mechanoid ammo types that previously didn’t have them.