NS2 Beta Balance

SteamWorks Mod ID: 6ba7131e

This mod contains various balance changes based on various ideas of the NS2 balance team.

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HOTFIX

• Alien
  • Fade
    • Added back the auto crouch feature.

Latest Changes (Revision 3)

• Alien

  • The "Heal" sound is no longer played when aliens get another shell built.
  • The Umbra shader no instantly removes when umbra expires instead of slowly trickling away.
  • Fade
    • Blink's initial cast (when you first activate ability) will now cancel All velocity across all axis' (used to only cancel Up/Down velocity)
    • Blink initial cast speed set to 16.25 (up from ~15.6)
    • Removed spurs reducing Air friction for fade. Originally this reduced 0.01 air friction per spur. Fade air friction is 0.17.
    • Energy regen rate of adrenaline reduced from 80% to 30%
    • Blink "boost" feature (successively tapping blink ability to build up speed) now only works in the same direction your momentum is. You can't do a 180 and build up speed. The speed boost tapers based on the angle your second blink is with respect to your current momentum.
  • Lerk
    • BUG FIX: Increased carapace armor from 10 to 20

• Marines

  • The "Heal" sound is no longer played when marines finish an armor research.
  • Supply
    • Sentry Battery supply increased to 15 from 10
    • Increased observatory supply to 40 from 30
  • Commander
    • Power Surge
      • Removed damage (was 25)
      • Removed "electrify" debuff (slows aliens by 25%)
  • Grenades
    • Reduced pulse grenade damage to 50 (from 140)
    • Reduced pulse grenade damage radius to 3 (from 6)
  • Tweaked Shotgun:
    • Removed damage falloff.

All Changes (Compared to Vanilla Build 328)

• Alien

  • The "Heal" sound is no longer played when aliens get another shell built.
  • The Umbra shader no instantly removes when umbra expires instead of slowly trickling away.
  • Supply
    • Drifter supply reduced to 5 (from 10)
    • Whip supply increased to 30 (from 5)
    • Crag supply increased to 25 (from 5)
    • Shift supply increased to 25 (from 5)
    • Shade supply increased to 25 (from 5)
  • Khammander
    • New Ability: Consume. Allows a Khammander to recycle alien structures and return the supply cost. Structures do not return team resources.
      • Ability is cancelled if orders are given to units that are being consumed.
      • Consume ability cancels any existing orders for the unit.
  • Upgrades
    • Camouflage
      • Now de-cloaks completely at max speed
    • Carapace
      • Decreased armor bonus for skulks to 15 (from 20)
      • Decreased armor bonus for lerks to 20 (from 30)
  • Gorge
    • Webs no longer appear in the kill feed
  • Lerk
    • Changed hp to 190/20 from 150/45 (shifting more hp to health)
    • Spikes
      • Increased spread to 3.6 radius (from 3.1)
      • Deceased spike diameter to 0.045 (from 0.06)
    • Umbra
      • Now requires biomass 6 (up from 5)
      • Decreased damage reduction to 20% (from 25%)
      • Decreased umbra cloud life time to 2.5 seconds (from 4)
    • New Ability: Roost. When a lerk is perched on a wall, they will heal 5HP per second.
      • Roost costs 10 Team resources to research
      • Roost unlocked at biomass 2
      • Research takes 30 seconds
  • Fade
    • Blink
      • Blink's initial cast (when you first activate ability) will now cancel All velocity across all axis' (used to only cancel Up/Down velocity)
      • Blink initial cast speed set to 16.25 (up from ~15.6)
      • Removed spurs reducing Air friction for fade. Originally this reduced 0.01 air friction per spur. Fade air friction is 0.17.
      • Energy regen rate of adrenaline reduced from 80% to 30%
      • Blink "boost" feature (successively tapping blink ability to build up speed) now only works in the same direction your momentum is. You can't do a 180 and build up speed. The speed boost tapers based on the angle your second blink is with respect to your current momentum.
  • Onos
    • Decreased base health to 700 (from 900)
    • Increased biomass health bonus to 50 (from 30)
    • Increase Boneshield Movement Speed to 4.5 (up from 3.3)
    • Boneshield is now available on Biomass 5 (down from Bio 6)
  • Cyst & Clogs
    • Receive 7x direct damage from welders, flame throwers and cluster grenades (up from 2.5x)

• Marine

  • The "Heal" sound is no longer played when marines finish an armor research.
  • Supply
    • Sentry Battery supply increased to 15 from 10
    • Increased observatory supply to 40 from 30
    • Mac supply reduced to 5 (from 10)
    • Armory supply reduced to 0 (from 5)
    • Arc supply reduced to 25 (from 35)
    • Robotics factory supply reduced to 0 (from 5)
  • Commander
    • Power Surge
      • Removed damage (was 25)
      • Removed "electrify" debuff (slows aliens by 25%)
  • New Ability: Dedicated Grenade Throw (soon will become "quick throw"). Default button "B" will instantly deploy and throw any grenades the marine has purchased.
    • Can rebind the button in menu options.
    • Button can be held to hold the cooked grenade.
  • Grenades
    • Cluster
      • Now deals 5x damage vs. flammable structures, 2.5x vs. all other structures.
      • Now sets targets on fire
      • Burns away umbra, spores and bile bombs
    • Nerve Gas
      • Decreased cloud life time to 4.5 seconds (from 6)
      • Decrease grenade max life time to 7.5 seconds (from 10)
    • Pulse
      • Decreased damage to 50 (from 110)
      • Damage radius reduced to 3 (from 6)
      • Decreased detonation radius decreased to 0.17 meter (down from 3)
  • Machine Gun
    • Decreased player target damage to 12/13/14/15 from 12/13.2/14.4/15.6
  • Shotgun
    • Change the spread pattern to 13 (1/5/7) pellets total with variable calibers and damage values:
      • 1 pellet in the very center causing 20 dmg and a caliber of 16 mm
      • 5 pellets with a center offset of 0.5 (inner ring) dealing 16 dmg and and a caliber of 16 mm
      • 7 pellets with a center offset of 1.5 (outer ring) dealing 10 dmg and and a caliber of 16 mm
  • Mines
    • Damage type changed to Normal (from Light)
    • Damage increased to 150 (from 125)
    • HP increased to 50 (from 30)
    • Mines should no longer detonate when killed while deploying
  • Ammo and Cat Pack
    • Now use the same snap radius as the med pack
  • Nano shield
    • Decreased snap radius to 3 m from 6
  • ARC
    • Damage reduced to 530 (from 630)
    • Changed hp to 2600/400 fromm 3000/200 (shifting more hp to armor)
    • Fixed that ARCs didn't save and restore their previous armor value properly when changing their deployment state.
    • Changed ARC's radial damage falloff to use XZ distance (ignore Y (height) axis). So ARCs total damage is consistent and doesn't depend on the height of the main target's model origin.