NS2 Action Mod 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 onto alien:
  • Burning alien units receive 10% bonus damage from non-fire based attacks.

Damage dealt by alien onto 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 construction is not affected by build speed cap.
	- Only one MAC can work on a structure at a time.
	- MAC build rate increased to be the same as a marine builder.
	- MAC movement speed increased by 11%. MAC won't weld player armor for 1 second after the player has taken damage.
	- MAC player welding speed doubled to be the same as Welder rate.
	- MAC cost increased from 5 to 6. MAC repair rate increased from 50 to 90.


==== 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.
  • 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 01:33 UTC