Version 11 Full Changelog

Difficulty Tweaks

• Reworked how assaults scale up over a heist.
• Grenadier tear gas damage per tick normalized to 6 damage for all difficulties.
  • Grenadier gas will feel more threatening on low difficulties, but marginally less punishing on Death Sentence.
• Slightly increased bot HP. They now have 200 HP per difficulty increase (previously 175). They felt a bit too squishy to be reliable.
• Normalized multiplayer scaling between difficulties.
• Blue SWATs will now spawn with M4s (or their faction equivalent.)
  • This was an idea presented to give them some much needed firepower on Hard and Very Hard. They will still use Mp5s on Normal.
• Lowered the damage grace values on Normal and Hard to 0.4 (from 0.45).
• Lowered the damage grace on Very Hard to 0.35 (from 0.4).
• Increased the Taser tase delay to 0.75 (from 0.5).
  • This was done to not only allow it to be better communicated as it now syncs with the taser charge sound, but also allow a reasonable amount of time for a player to react to a Taser.
• Changed the tactics for Reinforce groups on all difficulties.
  • This was done so that they properly behave defensively and act as a buffer zone for besiege groups during assaults.
• Changed the Stealth silent alarm thresholds to change between difficulties in increments of .05 vs .1.
  • This led to difficulty in stealth being incredibly difficult quickly as you scaled up but also incredibly easy on lower ones.
• Increased pager counts on DW and DS to 3 and 2 respectively.
  • This was done to allow a bit more leniency in stealth as the former 2 and 1 values felt too mean.
• Removed Noise Radius as a concept. All silenced guns now have 0 noise radius when firing and all loud guns will have a fixed 25 meter noise range when in stealth. Restored threat being displayed.
  • Cute idea but ultimately confusing and frustrating to deal with.
• Increased the headshot multiplier of the GenSec FTSU agent to have roughly the same head health as GenSec reds.
  • This was done to make have them properly serve the role of punishing bodyshots in stealth as was intended.

Skirmish

• Implemented part one of the Skirmish rework.
  • HRTs are now the only unit that will actively go for the hostage. The hostage being rescued is still an instant failure state.
    • This was done to allow HRTs to have a properly defined role in the gamemode and improve overall clarity.
  • Waves now end based on the number of kills. This value grows with the number of players and as you progress through the waves.
  • Enemy health and damage will slowly grow to Death Sentence values from Wave 1 up to Wave 6.
  • Enemy types will now scale as you progress through the waves:
    • FBI will spawn on waves 1 and 2.
    • GenSec will spawn on waves 3 and 4.
    • Zeals will spawn on waves 5 and onward.
  • Special and other enemy types will slowly be introduced as waves progress.
    • Wave 1 will consist of just Light and Heavy SWATs with Shield and HRT support.
    • Wave 2 introduces Medics, Tasers, and Grenadiers
    • Wave 4 introduces Black Bulldozers.
    • Wave 5 introduces Green Bulldozers and Cloakers.
    • Wave 6 has the full unit composition and behaviors as normal Death Sentence.
    • Wave 7 allows a 50% chance for Bravo units to replace regular Zeal Units.
    • Wave 8 has Bravos completely replacing their Zeal counterparts.
    • Wave 9 will spawn a random Captain with appropriate support.
  • Certain waves will introduce modifiers to increase difficulty
    • Wave 2 makes enemies 50% resistant to stagger effects.
    • Wave 4 increases the heal speed of Medics by 50%.
    • Wave 6 increases the aim speed of Snipers by 100%.
    • Wave 8 increases the chance of a Titanshield spawning by 15%.
  • Heisters can now enter custody in a skirmish without triggering an instant fail state, but cannot be traded.

Crime Spree

• Added a new mid-tier modifier
  • Snipers will now aim their rifles 100% faster.
• Removed the modifier that allowed Cloakers downing players on a jump kick (instead of cuffing).
  • Replaced with Cloakers being able to cuff players on a melee strike.
• Removed the +Titancloaker modifier.
  • Replaced with having Cloakers now having a chance to drop a flashbang when they dodge.
• Removed the +Titan Shotgunner modifier.
  • Replaced with allowing Titan Snipers to fire their rifles on full auto at close range.
• Reduced the effect of the +Dozer modifier to be +1 per tier (from +2).
• Reduced the effect of the +Medic modifier to be +1 per tier (from +2).
  • These ended up making both of these caps for these units at a massive 7 each. This should make it feel more reasonable.
• Removed the changes to the stealth modifiers and reverted them to a near vanilla like state as the changes were never finished to be in a working state.
  • Set the Less Concealment modifier to only work in stealth as to not destroy dodge builds in loud.
• Removed the changes to the Dozer rage modifier. Instead it now adds 10% extra damage to a dozer with a broken visor. Stacks with Dozer Rage from playing on the Death Sentence difficulty.
  • Never finished or worked properly.

Heists

• Re-introduced a mildly updated version of our Firestarter edits.
• Hoxout day 1 infinite assaults restored. Spawn caps adjusted instead.
  • Whoops
• Reduced spawn caps on No Mercy.
  • The meat grinder should be slightly less meat grindery.
• Doghouse now takes place in Mexico.
• Reduced the favor cost of the Sniper Vantage Point asset in preplanning to 1. (from 3)

Visuals

• Brightened the lighting on the Bomb: Dockyard night time of day.
  • While Restoration does have stronger flashlights, having an RNG dark environment notably increases difficulty in a less than intended manner.
• Added an option to restore the hit flash effect from earlier versions of the game- for masochists.
• Replaced certain low resolution textures in the Alpha Hud with higher resolution ones.
• Reworked lighting on Doghouse.

Restoration HUD

• Improved Big Lobby compatibility.

Skills and Perk Decks

• Grinder
  • Armor penalty increased to -80 from -70.
    • This means that your armor will only eat 1 rifle shot at close range, rather than 2, assuming no other survivability skills.
    • Grinder was getting a tad too consistent relative to its raw sustain.
• Stoic
  • Health regen reduced to 250% of DOT from 300% of DOT.
    • The perk deck was still a bit overtuned with decent flask usage.
• Ex Presidents
  • Max Stored Health Values Adjusted
    • Very slightly increased on heavier armors (up to +10 in ICTV), while decreased on lighter armors (down to -20 with the suit).
  • Health stored per kill decreased to 8 from 10.
    • This is to compensate for the next change.
  • Only stored health that actually heals you is consumed.
    • The last set of adjustments to the deck left it on the weak side, and made wasted healing feel excessively punishing.
• Inspire
  • Now usable in stealth.
• Sixth Sense Ace
  • No longer required for Bodybag Cases and Expert Driver.
  • Now required for Vault Keys on Bank Heist variants.
  • Now required for the Sniper asset.
    • Snipers are often a very strong, thematically fitting, low cost option in many heists. This gives the skill more balanced utility between stealth and loud.
• The Protector bot boost now grants 10% bonus armor, rather than a flat 15 bonus armor.
  • No longer turns the suit in a dodge build into being absolutely insane.
  • It makes more intuitive sense that the armor bot boosts benefits armor builds more (ICTV gets 20 armor now, armorer ICTV gets 25!).
• The Invigorator bot boost now grants 15 stamina from 25.
  • Brings it more in line with other options. It now ranges from a 30%-50% bonus instead of a 55-83% bonus.
• The Concealer bot boost now grants 2 concealment from 1.
  • Temporary bump up until a better replacement can be worked out.

Weapons and Equipment

• Increased the damage of fire pools (left by Incendiary Grenades, Fire Trap enhanced Trip Mines, and Molotovs).
  • They previously felt a bit too underwhelming, requiring far more effort than a normal grenade for questionably better rewards.
• Dragan's Cleaver and Cleaver Knife:
  • Damage and knockdown increased by 1.5x.
  • Overall speed increased by 25%.
  • Headshot damage reduced by 50%.
    • Think of cleavers as inverse picks. They offer consistent body shot damage, but limited benefits from the head.
• Chainsaw and Kazaguruma
  • Can no longer parry enemy melee attacks.
    • It felt awkward when this occurred, since that was rarely the intent when these were drawn.
    • Also serves as a bit of a nerf since they're still a tad nutty. Mostly with Infiltrator.
• Enabled tactical reloading (+1 in the chamber) on the Repeater 1874 and Bernetti Rangehitter.
  • Felt like something was missing from these.
• Added support for the optics added with U201.
• Updated VMP2 support.
  • Added stats for the Hammer 23.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed angled sights on Bernetti Rangehitter.
• Captain death lines now play correctly.
• Shooting patrol caps or other non-metal hats no longer generates metal hit effects.
• Fixed the loading screen tip for dozers dealing more damage when their visors are broken to now say the correct % increase.
• Added a fallback to english if users are using an unsupported language to avoid error string spam.
• Fixed a crash relating to statistics manager.
• Fixed incorrect reload timers with the Benelli.
• Fixed spawns on the Harvest and Trustee South Branch custom heist.
• Fixed difficulty skulls being cut off in the lobby screen and Crimenet.
• Removed the 'producing fdasfdsfasdffasdfsa' logspam.
• Fixed the upgrade_value crash.
• Fixed Titan Snipers still having normal VO.
• Fixed Titan Shields still having normal VO.
• Fixed a missing package on the Skirmish edit of Heat Street that would cause instant crashes.
• Fixed a jobmanager related crash.
• Fixed friendly AI (such as Hoxton on Hoxton breakout) sometime acting in a bizarre manner.
• Fixed issues with the Armor Flash Fix option when using the alpha hud.
• Implemented the ambient cubemap fix by Fuglore.
• Fixed Deflection reducing damage from Tear Gas.
  • Tear Gas is intended to ignore all forms of damage reduction.
• Fixed the Halloween dozer sword being unlocked at level 0. It will now properly unlock at level 50.
• Fixed clients crashing in CrimeSpree at the end of heists.
• Fixed enemies equipped with buzzers not actually tasing players.
• Fixed Saws and Throwables not correctly piercing Veteran Cop's dodge ability.
• Fixed the Breaker 12g, Mosconi, and Joceline having less stability than intended.