v1.5.6.2.0

Combat Extended 6.2 “Randy-Claus is Coming to Town!” 

Features 

• Significant performance improvements related to pawn rendering, repairing mechanoid armor, suppression, and line of sight calculations. Most noticeable when dealing with large raids or colonies. 
• Sieges can now be supplied with any kind of shells, instead of being restricted to the vanilla shell types, providing support for a much wider variety of siege weapons. 
• New conditional patch operations Generic Ammo mode only xpath patch operations. 
• Faster Subsequent Shots in now enabled by default, significantly increasing the effectiveness of single-firing weapons in combat in the hands of a skilled shooter. 
  • This can be turned off in the mod options, if desired.

Fixes 

• Fixed a bug where ammo would still be consumed despite the burst being interrupted by moving CompAmmoUser from Verb_LaunchProjectileCE to ShootCE. 
  • Mod authors with custom projectiles will need to recompile against the latest version of Combat Extended. 
  • A placeholder has been added to hopefully prevent issues on release, but this will be removed during the upcoming dev cycle. 
• Fixed a JobGiver error caused when pawns tried to reload using a stack of burning ammo. 
• Reverted a pawn rendering change causing weapons to “jitter” while firing. 
• Puddles of prometheum will no longer endlessly burn on water. 
• Addressed a vanilla bug that meant turrets in dropdown menus ignored research prerequisities. 
• Fix armor values incorrectly appearing as zero on the equipment tab. 
• Fix an inventory issue hiding cargo in a caravan animal’s inventory if they did not have an armor value. 
• Fixed a bug that caused firing mode options to disappear on underbarrel weapons. 
• Mech siege ammo beacons will now correctly drop ammo once the mech cluster is awake. 
• Fixed odd visual behavior from overhead projectiles like mortar shells. 
• Added additional null checks to loadout behavior to avoid colonists refusing to pick up any meal. 
• Various fixes to artillery shelling retaliation behavior. 
  • Fixed errors associated with retaliatory bombardment trying to spawn on maps that no longer exist, like caravan ambush sites. 
  • NPC bases of different factions are now more likely to cease firing, instead of endlessly counter-shelling each other to oblivion if the player bombards them from their base site. 
  • NPC bases of the same faction will no longer counter-shell allied NPC bases, and will instead always send a raid. 
• Heavy Auto Turrets research project no longer requires the Multi-analyzer. 
• Fixed various mechs not having armor coverage on a few body parts such as the sight and hearing sensors. 
• Removed an old harmony patch that caused an error when a pawn with an empty weapon tried to automatically attack a nearby hostile. 
• Fixed some insects not having armor coverage applied to their legs. 
• Fixed various typos. 
• Non-cased artillery shells no longer spawn empty shell casings when firing. 
• Melee attacks will no longer cause walls to spawn fragments. 
• Fixed mech high shields not stopping incoming mortar shells. 
• Slightly increased the tribal penitent’s weaponMoney to prevent them spawning weaponless. 
• Anomaly 
  • Fixed a typo in the pain shock threshold of various entities and fleshbeasts which made it 10x higher than intended. 
• Biotech 
  • The 164x284mm demo shell is now craftable at the fabrication bench with Biotech active.

Compatibility

• Add integrated patches for the following mods:
  • [AV] Work Queen
  • ABF Civil Synstructs
  • ABF Martial Synstructs
  • ABF Synstruct Biomimetics
  • ABF Synstructs Core
  • ABF Utility Synstructs
  • Beliar Xenotype
  • Diverse Mechanoid War Procedure
  • Epoch - Pyrinth
  • GREG
  • Grimstone Beasts
  • Grimworld 40,000– Talons of the Emperor
  • Hyena (Continued)
  • Ion Weaponry
  • Mantis Race
  • Personal Warcasket Weapons
  • Rimrats
  • Robotic Servitude
  • Spacer Arsenal
  • Spacer Pack
  • Warhammer 40k Factions
  • Valorant Weapon Pack
  • Vanilla Psycasts Expanded – Runesmith
  • Xen’s Spirit Wolf
• Updated integrated patches for the following mods:
  • [K4G] Empires of Old – Core
  • [K4G] Empires of Old - The Alekeepers
  • Alpha Animals
  • Alpha Genes
  • Alpha Mechs
  • Altered Carbon Ultratech Unleashed
  • Archotech PowerArmor
  • Big and Small Genes & More
  • Biomes Caverns
  • Dragon’s Descent
  • EPOE-Forked: Expanded Prosthetics and Organ Engineering – Forked
  • Expanded Prosthetics and Organ Engineering
  • Expanded Materials – Metals
  • Grimworld 40,000
    • Angels of Death
    • Core Imperialis
    • Hammer of the Imperium
    • Imperial Vehicles of Grimworld
  • Outer Rim
    • Droid Depot
    • Galactic Empire
    • Mandalore
    • Rebel Alliance
  • Profaned
  • Rimsenal Core
  • Rimsenal Federation
  • Rimsenal Feral
  • Vanilla Animals Expanded
  • Vanilla Arsenal
  • Vanilla Base Generation Expanded
  • Vanilla Factions Expanded
    • Ancients
    • Classical
    • Deserters
    • Insectoids 2
    • Mechanoids
    • Settlers
    • Tribals
  • Vanilla Furniture Expanded – Security
  • Vanilla Races Expanded - Lycanthrope
  • Vanilla Weapons Expanded – Frontier
  • Warcaskets – Adeptus Astartes
  • Warhammer 40k Genes

Balance

• NPC bases are now less likely to counter-shell the more damaged they are.
• Buffed the Flak Gun. It now provides full cover and takes reduced damage from explosions and bullets.
• Removed wildness reductions made to various combat animals.
• Replaced the power claw’s moving stat penalty with penalties to dodge and move speed.
• New texture for the revolver, and adjusted stats to suit a model with a slightly longer barrel.
• Gave the radio pack wornBulk of 2.5.
• Anomaly
  • Inhumanization now reduces suppressibility by 50%.
• Biotech
  • Increased the magazine size and rate of fire of the Toxic Needle Gun.
  • Removed adjustments to the pikeman mech’s combat power.
• Royalty
  • Replaced moving stat penalty of the drill arm and field hand with penalties to dodge and move speed.

Misc.

• Added generic ammo for various mortars and artillery shells.
• Adjusted the textures and offsets for various weapons.
• Removed uses of ‘CombatExtended.Graphic_StackCountRanged’ by generic ammo types.
• Add tools to melee dinfo.
• Various small changes to improve Multiplayer stability.
• Tweaked some labels and descriptions for the NVG research projects.
• Added and updated various new shared ammo types for use by 40k mods.
• Added new ammo sprites for Soviet Battle Rifle calibers.
• Reduced the volume range for the battle rifle and slow assault rifle firing sounds.
• Removed unused Natural armor entry and display stat in the pawn info window.
• The grenade launcher now only produces casings while reloading.
• Updated the Simplified Chinese and Russian translations.
• Miscellaneous housekeeping and whitespace clean up.
• Moved the static method from launching CE projectiles out of the vehicle compat assembly into the core mod to make it more accessible.
• Warning messages for retaliatory raids now state their target site, in case the shelling originated somewhere other than the player’s base.
• Switched the weapon graphicData to use vanilla scaling.
• Biotech
  • Removed the Armory Durability comp from the Legionary and Tesseron to avoid duplication, they now inherit it from their parent.

Notes:

• Removed a few outdated patches for mods that aren’t available for 1.5: Android Tiers – TX Series, Android Tiers SM7 Overhaul.