NS2 Action Mode Change Log

Action NS2 (7758ef4a) -- a faster paced NS2 mode with balance and quality-of-life changes.


==== BOTH MARINES & ALIENS ====

———— RESOURCES ————

Initial resources at start:
• Each player: 10 pres.
• Each team: 50 tres (reduced from 60 tres).

Resource income base rate:
• Each team: +5 tres/minute.
• Each player (including commanders): +1 pres/minute.

Resource income from collectors:
• Each player: +1.0 pres/minute (reduced from +1.25 pres/minute).

Player personal resource refund upon death:
• Alien lifeforms refunded 33% of the base cost of the lifeform. (E.g., 37 pres fade regains 12.21 pres.)
• Marine exos refunded 10% of the cost (5 pres).

———— RESPAWN ————

• Respawn delay increases with game time. Every 3 minutes, an extra 1 second is added to the respawn delay, up to 5 seconds.
• If an IP/egg is destroyed in the middle of respawning a player, that player will gain spawn priority.

———— DAMAGE ————

• Armor damage absorption rate: 80% (increased from 70%). (I.e., 20% damage dealt through armor.)

Damage dealt by marine to alien:
• Burning alien units receive 10% bonus damage from non-fire based attacks.

Damage dealt by alien to marine:
• Alien crush now increases the damage dealt through the armor, to up to 41% (armor absorbing 59% of the damage).
• Corroding marine units receive 10% bonus damage from non-corrosion based attacks.


==== MARINES ====

• Marine armor increased to 40.
• Marine backward walking speed penalty reduced to 50% (from 60%).
• Marine sprint speed increased to 6.5. Sprint speed builds up over 1.0 second. Sprint acceleration and friction tweaked.
• Sprinting gains greater speed from cat pack: 1.725 (increased from 1.125).
• Cat pack reload and melee haste increased to 40% (from 25%).
• Med pack, ammo pack and cat packs now persist for 2 seconds after being picked up.
• Marine construction speed on the same building is soft capped with more than one builder to 170% speed with 2 marines and 25% gain per additional marine. (Note: MAC construction is not affected by build speed cap.)

———— MARINE STRUCTURES & ITEMS ————

Infantry portal:
• Functions without power, but at half the speed.
• Supplies: 30 (increased from 0).
• Respawn timer per marine decreased from 9 to 5 seconds.

Observatory:
• Scan duration: 7 seconds (decreased from 10).
• Phase tech research cost: 30 tres (increased from 20).
• Phase gates:
├─ Build time: 20 seconds (increased from 12 seconds).
├─ Supplies: 30 (increased from 0). (Prevents more than 2 PGs in most cases.)

Armory:
• Shotgun
├─ Research time: 60 seconds (increased).
└─ Player cost: 18 pres (reduced).
• Mines:
├─ Research time: 60 seconds (increased).
├─ Mines can be moved by their owner.
├─ Mine thickness increased and width reduced.
├─ Mine damage reduced to 140.
├─ Explosion radius increased from 5 to 5.5.
└─ Health reduced to 48/0.
• Heavy machine guns:
├─ Player cost: 25 pres (increased from 20 pres).
└─ Reload time: 3.5 seconds (decreased from 5 seconds).
• Hand grenades:
├─ Marines can now carry two hand grenades.
├─ Player cost: 4 pres (increased from 2 pres).
├─ Pulse grenade damage increased from 50 to 60.
├─ Pulse grenade damage radius increased from 3 to 4.
├─ Hitting a marine player/structure with a pulse grenade creates a larger explosion around them. Electrifying!
├─ Hand grenade deploy animation is skipped for faster throwing.
├─ Cluster Grenade fragment timing and pattern improved for consistency.
└─ Cluster Grenade burn duration increased to 3 seconds.

Prototype lab:
• Exo armor increased to 360 (450 max).
• Minigun exo:
├─ Damage reduced to 8.
├─ Continuous fire duration: 4.2 seconds (increased from 3.3 seconds).
└─ Cooldown rate: 0.5 (increased from 0.3).
• Railgun exo:
├─ Damage changed to 35 + 30 charging.
├─ Charge time: 0.5 second (reduced).
└─ Both guns can be fired simultaneously.

Robotics factory:
• Sentry battery cost: 4 tres (reduced).
• Sentry turrets:
├─ Cost: 4 tres (reduced).
├─ Quantity limit: 2 turrets per battery (reduced from 3).
└─ Supplies: 15 (increased).
• ARC:
├─ ARC speed increased to 2.5 (2.0 in combat).
└─ Supplies: 40 (increased from 25).
• MAC:
├─ MAC cost: 6 tres (increased from 5)
├─ MAC build rate increased to be the same as a marine builder.
├─ MAC repair rate increased from 50 to 90.
├─ MAC won't weld player armor for 1 second after the player has taken damage.
├─ MAC construction is not affected by build speed cap.
├─ MAC movement speed increased by 11%.
├─ Only one MAC can work on a structure at a time.
└─ MAC player welding speed doubled to be the same as handheld welder rate.


==== ALIENS ====

Cloaking:
• Redesigned to camouflage better, and has a new shader.
• Prevents sentry and mines targeting aliens (touching a mine will still uncloak alien).

Skulk:
• Movement:
├─ Speed increased to 7.5.
├─ Bunny hop speed increased to 9.0.
├─ Leap vertical force reduced by 18.5%.
└─ Maximum speed soft capped to 12.5.
• Skulk base health: 80 (increased from 75).
• Bite parasites target for 4 seconds.
• Parasite:
├─ Parasite duration reduced to 15 seconds.
└─ Parasite energy cost reduced from 30 to 25.
• Xenocide:
├─ Now explodes if the skulk is killed within 3 seconds, and has a 2 second cooldown.
├─ Xenocide increases bite damage by 20% (to 90 damage).
└─ Xenocide explosion damage changed to 180 structural, radius reduced to 10.
• Vampirism heal on skulk reduced from 15 to 12.

Gorge:
• Each heal spray reduces burn duration by 1 second.
• Gorge health adjusted (reduced), with health shifted to self Babbler shield (increased from 21 to 72 HP).
• Gorge per upgrade cost increased to 2 Pres.
• Babbler has a 20 second limited lifespan when detached from an alien.
• Spit damage type changed to Structural.
• Bile Bomb damage reduced by 10%.

Lerk:
• Umbra prevents burning.
• Umbra cloud is not burnt by flamethrower (but still burnt by cluster grenade).
• Lerk biomass health: +3 health/biomass (increased from 2).

Fade:
• Speed increased to 6.5.
• Fade blink energy upkeep cost reduced from 32 to 25 per second.

Onos:
• Onos cost increased to 66 pres.
• Onos starts with a weaker version of charge, with research to improve speed and damage.
• Onos charge damage increased to 35 (with research).
• Stomp damage changed to 50 structural.

———— ALIEN STRUCTURES ————

Hydras:
• Damage: 5 (reduction)
• Attack rate increased by 33%.
• Hydra spikes are more accurate.
• Hydras parasite targets hit.

Crag:
• Healing frequency and healing amount doubled to once per second.

Harvester:
• Mature harvester armor: 640 (increased from 320).

Hive:
• Healing reduced by 25%.
• Decreased mature hive health by 16.67% (-1500 hp).

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Revision: 2020-02-24 02:22 UTC