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 Action NS2 (7758ef4a) -- a faster paced NS2 mode with balance and quality-of-life changes.
 
 Thanks to Glitch for the beautiful text formatting!
 
 ==== 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.
+Additional periodic income:
-• Each player (including commanders): +1 pres/minute.
+• Each team: +10 tres every 2 minutes.
 • Each player (including commanders): +2.4 pres every 2 minutes.
 
-• Each player: +1.0 pres/minute (reduced from +1.25 pres/minute).
+
 • Each player: +1.2 pres/minute (reduced from +1.25 pres/minute).
 
-• 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).
+• Alien lifeforms refunded 33% of the base Pres cost of the lifeform. (E.g., 10 pres Gorge regains 3.3 Pres. Commander dropped lifeforms are not refunded.), Except Onos.
 • Onos is refunded 14.49 Pres on death (21% of base cost).
 
 ———— RESPAWN ————
-• Respawn delay increases with game time. Every 3 minutes, an extra 1 second is added to the respawn delay, up to 5 seconds.
+
 • Respawn delay increases with game time. Every 4 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 and COMBAT ————
 
 • 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.
-• Alien crush now increases the damage dealt through the armor, to up to 41% (armor absorbing 59% of the damage).
+• Burn damage scales with maximum health of the target, from 12 to 36 DPS.
 • Weapons upgrade now only applies to damage dealt to structures.
 • Weapons upgrade damage bonus increased to (level 1/2/3) 16.7/33.4/50%.
 
 Damage dealt by alien to marine:
 • Corroding marine units receive 10% bonus damage from non-corrosion based attacks.
-• Marine armor increased to 40.
+• Corrosion effect reduced from to 2 seconds, reduced from 4.
 • Armor corrosion damage from infestation increased from 30 to 60 DPS. Power Node takes triple damage (180 DPS) from infestation.
-• 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).
+• Exit combat time reduced from 3 to 2 seconds.
-• Cat pack reload and melee haste increased to 40% (from 25%).
+
 ———— SUPPLY ————
 
 • Each additional command structure increases Supply cap by 40.
 
 ==== MARINES ====
 Health:
-• Functions without power, but at half the speed.
+• Marine armour increased to 55.
-• Supplies: 30 (increased from 0).
+• Armour per upgrade level reduced from 20 to 10 (max 85).
 Movement:
 • Marine backward walking speed penalty reduced to 50% (from 60%).
 • Marine air control reduced from 11 to 10.
-• Scan duration: 7 seconds (decreased from 10).
+• Sprint:
-• Phase tech research cost: 30 tres (increased from 20).
+├─ Marine sprint speed increased to 6 (Unburdened speed increased to 7.5, increased from 6.72).
 ├─ Sprint speed builds up over 0.5 second, reduced from 1.5 sec. Ground acceleration and friction reduced.
 ├─ Smoother sprinting transition after landing from Jetpack flight.
-├─ Supplies: 30 (increased from 0). (Prevents more than 2 PGs in most cases.)
+├─ Sprinting gains greater speed from cat pack: 1.5 (increased from 1.125).
 └─ Sprinting marine won't auto pick up weapons.
 • 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.)
 
 Drop Packs:
-└─ Player cost: 18 pres (reduced).
+
 • Med pack
 ├─ Heals until timed expiry, healing does not stop once marine reaches full health.
 └─ Pickup delay increased from 0.45 to 0.99 second.
-├─ Mine thickness increased and width reduced.
+• Pickup range increased from 1 to 2.
-├─ Mine damage reduced to 140.
+• Cat pack reload and melee haste increased to 37% (from 25%).
 • Ammo pack pickups improved. (by Nin)
-└─ Health reduced to 48/0.
+
 ———— MARINE STRUCTURES & ITEMS ————
-├─ Player cost: 25 pres (increased from 20 pres).
+
 Ghost Structures (Blueprints):
 • Players can move through and shoot through blue prints.
-├─ Marines can now carry two hand grenades.
+• Ghost structures do not vanish when in contact with an alien, instead, the structure loses health over 5 seconds. Ghost structures destroyed this way are refunded 75% of its cost.
-├─ Player cost: 4 pres (increased from 2 pres).
+
-├─ Pulse grenade damage increased from 50 to 60.
+
 • Can respawn players while unpowered, but at half the speed.
-├─ Hitting a marine player/structure with a pulse grenade creates a larger explosion around them. Electrifying!
+• Supplies: 40 (increased from 0).
 • Respawn timer per marine decreased from 9 to 5 seconds.
-├─ Cluster Grenade fragment timing and pattern improved for consistency.
+
-└─ Cluster Grenade burn duration increased to 3 seconds.
+
 ├─ Cost increased from 10 to 15.
 ├─ Supply reduced from 25 to 20.
-• Exo armor increased to 360 (450 max).
+├─ Detection range increased from 22 to 24, can now sight aliens within direct LoS.
 ├─ No longer detects stationary aliens without sight.
-├─ Damage reduced to 8.
+• Scan
-├─ Continuous fire duration: 4.2 seconds (increased from 3.3 seconds).
+├─ duration: 8 seconds (decreased from 10).
-└─ Cooldown rate: 0.5 (increased from 0.3).
+└─ cooldown: change from 0 to 4 seconds.
 • Phase tech research cost: 20 tres (increased from 10).
-├─ Damage changed to 35 + 30 charging.
+
-├─ Charge time: 0.5 second (reduced).
+
-└─ Both guns can be fired simultaneously.
+└─ Supplies: 30 (increased from 0). (Prevents more than 3 PGs in most cases.)
 
 Weapons:
-• Sentry battery cost: 4 tres (reduced).
+• Marine weapons can be damaged by all attacks. Corrode damage type deals full damage, while other damage types are reduced to 30%.
 • Weapons not near an armory take damage and self destruct over 50 seconds. Marine players standing on a weapon reduce this decay damage by 50%. Rifle decays at twice the speed.
-├─ Cost: 4 tres (reduced).
+• Xenocide damages weapon by 50% of its max health when it kills the Marine carrying it.
 • Picking up a weapon no longer renews its health.
-└─ Supplies: 15 (increased).
+• Weapon weights and their stowed weight adjusted so switching to pistol/axe grants significantly faster (6-15%) movement.
 
 Armory:
-└─ Supplies: 40 (increased from 25).
+• Marines without weapons can now pick up a Rifle and Pistol from the armory every 30 seconds.
 • Rifle
-├─ MAC cost: 6 tres (increased from 5)
+├─ Bullet size increased from 0.018 to 0.025.
 └─ Bash melee damage increased from 20 to 30.
-├─ MAC repair rate increased from 50 to 90.
+• Pistol
 ├─ Now auto fires.
-├─ MAC construction is not affected by build speed cap.
+├─ Fire rate interval increased from 0.1 to 0.114.
 ├─ Bullet size increased from 0.016 to 0.03.
-├─ Only one MAC can work on a structure at a time.
+├─ Bullet spread increased from 0.4 to 1 degree.
-└─ MAC player welding speed doubled to be the same as handheld welder rate.
+└─ Reload speed increased by 11.5%.
 • Welder:
 ├─ Damage increased from 30 to 40 DPS. Hitbox width and height reduced from 2 to 0.6.
 ├─ Can now self weld by welding any friendly unit. Self weld rate increased from 5 to 10.
 ├─ It's now possible to carry both Axe and Welder and switch between them (Thanks Nin).
 └─ Cost increased from 2 to 3.
-• Redesigned to camouflage better, and has a new shader.
+• Axe:
 ├─ Damage increased from 25 to 30.
 ├─ range increased from 1 to 1.2.
 └─ Reduce the draw delay by 60% (animation speed increased to 250%).
 • Shotgun
-├─ Speed increased to 7.5.
+├─ Damage reduced to 160 per shot.
-├─ Bunny hop speed increased to 9.0.
+├─ Rate of fire increased by 6%, to 0.8 second
-├─ Leap vertical force reduced by 18.5%.
+├─ Number of pellet changed to 16, with new spread pattern. Spread pattern is now fixed and no longer random.
-└─ Maximum speed soft capped to 12.5.
+├─ Distance based damage falloff removed.
-• Skulk base health: 80 (increased from 75).
+├─ Cost reduced from 20 to 16.
-• Bite parasites target for 4 seconds.
+└─ Research time: 60 seconds (increased).
 
 • Mines:
 ├─ Research time: 10 seconds (reduced).
 ├─ Mines can be moved by their owner.
-├─ Now explodes if the skulk is killed within 3 seconds, and has a 2 second cooldown.
+├─ Mine thickness increased by 20%.
-├─ Xenocide increases bite damage by 20% (to 90 damage).
+├─ Mine damage reduced to 130.
-└─ Xenocide explosion damage changed to 180 structural, radius reduced to 10.
+
-• Vampirism heal on skulk reduced from 15 to 12.
+├─ Health reduced to 30HP/9AR. Damage received per Spit is 30.
 ├─ Can be killed during the arming process.
 ├─ Can be triggered by Blinking Fades.
-• Each heal spray reduces burn duration by 1 second.
+├─ Rewards 4 points when killed.
-• Gorge health adjusted (reduced), with health shifted to self Babbler shield (increased from 21 to 72 HP).
+└─ Weight reduced from 0.1 to 0.06.
 
-• Babbler has a 20 second limited lifespan when detached from an alien.
+• Flamethrower:
-• Spit damage type changed to Structural.
+├─ Burn damage increased from 8 to 8% of max health, limited between 12 (min) to 36 (max) damage.
-• Bile Bomb damage reduced by 10%.
+├─ Player minimum burn duration reduced from 2 seconds, to 1-2 seconds based on stacks.
 ├─ Structure maximum burn duration decreased from 6 to 3 seconds.
 ├─ Burn duration increment rate reduced from 2 seconds per hit to 0.5 second per hit.
-• Umbra prevents burning.
+└─ Ammo per clip reduced from 50 to 30.
-• Umbra cloud is not burnt by flamethrower (but still burnt by cluster grenade).
+
-• Lerk biomass health: +3 health/biomass (increased from 2).
+
 ├─ Player cost: 24 pres (increased from 20 pres).
-Fade:
+├─ Bullet size increased from 0.018 to 0.025.
 ├─ Ammo magazine size reduced from 125 to 100.
-• Fade blink energy upkeep cost reduced from 32 to 25 per second.
+
 
 • Grenade Launcher:
-• Onos cost increased to 66 pres.
+├─ Damage increased from 90 to 100. Structural multiplier reduced from 4 to 3 (max damage reduced from 360 to 300 damage).
-• Onos starts with a weaker version of charge, with research to improve speed and damage.
+├─ Now receives weapons damage upgrade.
-• Onos charge damage increased to 35 (with research).
+├─ Projectile speed increased from 25 to 35.
-• Stomp damage changed to 50 structural.
+└─ Reload speed increased by 20%.
 
 • Hand grenades:
 ├─ Research time: 60 seconds (increased).
 ├─ Research cost increased from 10 to 20.
-• Damage: 5 (reduction)
+├─ Marines now purchase and carry two hand grenades of the same type.
 ├─ Carry weight reduced from 0.1 to 0.03.
 ├─ purchase cost: 4 pres (increased from 2 pres).
-• Hydras parasite targets hit.
+├─ Pulse grenade damage increased from 50 to 75.
 ├─ Pulse grenade damage radius increased from 3 to 4.
 ├─ Hitting a marine player/structure with a pulse grenade creates an explosion from their center, at the same height as the impact point. Electrifying!
-• Healing frequency and healing amount doubled to once per second.
+├─ Electrify effect reduces ALL energy gain by 34% (up from 30%).
 ├─ Hand grenade deploy animation is skipped for faster throwing.
 └─ Hand grenade throwing animation speed increased by 10%.
-• Mature harvester armor: 640 (increased from 320).
+
 • Cluster Grenade
 ├─ Damage radius reduced from 10 to 7.
 └─ Cluster Grenade fragment timing and pattern improved for consistency.
 
 • Gas Grenade
-______________________________
+├─ Gas Grenade can now damage health. Damage reduced from 50 to 14. Nerve Gas damage deals 400% damage to armour.
-Revision: 2020-02-24 02:22 UTC
+├─ Damage bypasses Babbler Shield.
 ├─ Gas Grenade gas release delay reduced from 2 to 1 second, released duration reduced from 5 to 4 seconds, gas cloud duration reduced from 6 to 5 seconds. Gas release direction is less random.
 └─ Gas Grenade bounce reduced and air friction increased.
 
 Prototype lab:
 • Cost decreased to 25 (from 35).
 • Jetpack:
 ├─ Research cost increased to 30 (from 25).
 ├─ Jetpack cost decreased to 10 pres (from 15).
 ├─ Initial Speed decreased from 9 to 8.4.
 ├─ Fuel usage reduced by 14%, fuel replenishment rate increased by 14%.
 ├─ Vertical speed cap increased from 5 to 5.5.
 └─ Jetpack fuel consumption reduced by approx 4-30%, with greater reduction for heavy weapons.
 
 • Exosuit:
 ├─ Exo research cost increased to 30 (from 20).
 ├─ Exo armor increased to 400 (490 max).
 ├─ Price increased from 50 to 60.
 ├─ Exo thruster duration increased to 1.8 seconds, cooldown reduced to 1 second.
 └─ 10 Pres is refunded when the Exosuit is destroyed (except when the owner dies before the Exosuit).
 • Minigun exo:
 ├─ Damage reduced to 7.
 ├─ Bullet spread increased from 5 to 6 degrees.
 ├─ Continuous shooting duration: 4.2 seconds (increased from 3.3 seconds).
 └─ Cooldown rate: 0.4 (increased from 0.3), over 2.5 seconds. Overheating incurs a 3 seconds cooldown.
 • Railgun exo:
 ├─ Damage changed to 40 + 10 charging. Damage type changed to Structural Heavy.
 ├─ Charge time: 0.3 second (reduced).
 ├─ Bullet size reduced from 0.3 to 0.2.
 └─ Both guns can be charged and fired simultaneously.
 
 Robotics factory:
 • ARC factory research time increased to 50 seconds (from 20 seconds).
 • ARC factory upgrade cost increased to 10 (from 5).
 • Sentry battery
 ├─ cost: 4 tres (reduced).
 └─ supply reduced from 15 to 0.
 • Sentry turrets:
 ├─ Cost: 4 tres (reduced). Point value increased from 2 to 4.
 ├─ Health increased from 500 to 525.
 ├─ Quantity limit: 2 turrets per battery (reduced from 3).
 ├─ Targeting cone increased from 160 to 240 degrees.
 ├─ Range increased from 20 to 24. Accuracy decreased from 3 to 5 degrees.
 └─ Confused (by Spore) duration decreased from 4 to 2 seconds.
 
 • ARC:
 ├─ Damage now sets targets hit on fire for 4 seconds.
 ├─ ARC speed increased to 2.5 (2.0 in combat).
 └─ Supplies: 35 (increased from 25).
 
 • MAC:
 ├─ MAC health increased to 380/80 from 300/50 (+35%).
 ├─ MAC build rate increased to be the same as a marine builder.
 ├─ MAC repair rate increased from 50 to 90 on units that have not taken damage in the last 3 seconds.
 ├─ MAC won't weld player armor for 1 second after the player has taken damage.
 ├─ MAC movement speed increased by 11%.
 ├─ MAC build time reduced from 5 to 4 seconds.
 ├─ Sight range increased to 4.
 ├─ Only one MAC can build or weld the same structure at the same time.
 └─ MAC player welding speed doubled to be the same as Welder rate (20).
 
 Arms Lab:
 • Health/Armor reduced to 1650/500 to 1000/500 (24.5% reduction).
 • Weapons and Armor upgrades :
 ├─ Weapons and Armor upgrade costs reduced from 20/30/40 to 20/20/20.
 └─ Research time per level increased from 60/90/120 to 90/120/150 seconds.
 
 Power Node:
 • Health/Armor changed from 2000/1000 to 1800/1350 (+12.5% total health), to be more vulnerable to infestation.
 • Duration of blackout period when power can't be repaired reduced from 15 to 10 seconds.
 • Power is restored when the node is 40% repaired, respawning with max health and zero armour.
 • Power node can be constructed by marine at any time (Beta balance mod changes)
 • Repair rate reduced from 220 to 180 (from Welder and Builder tool).
 
 Command Station:
 • Opening and closing animations speed increased by 60%.
 
 Advanced Support:
 • Power Surge now releases an EMP, dealing damage 10 damage in a 8 radius and applying electrify effect to aliens hit.
 • NanoShield now reduces damage by 34% (increased from 32%), and redirects 100% of the damage to armour first.
 
 ==== ALIENS ====
 Biomass health scaling:
 • Now grants a 20% max health bonus, only after reaching Biomass 7.
 
 Cloaking:
 • Redesigned to camouflage better, and has a new visual effect.
 • Aliens re-cloaking delay from 2.5 to 2 seconds. This delay is significantly shorter (0.2-0.4 sec) if alien has stayed uncloaked for longer than 2 seconds.
 • Prevents sentry and mines targeting aliens (touching a mine will still uncloak alien).
 • Observatory no longer uncloaks but can detect aliens.
 • Stationary cloaked aliens behind walls are no longer detected by Observatory passive (require direct LoS from Observatory for detection).
 
 Vampirism:
 • Removed. Replaced by Sacrifice.
 Sacrifice:
 • Aliens drop a health orb which heals for 15 health, after receiving 100/85/70 damage and on death, can be triggered once every 0.78 second.
 
 Regeneration:
 • Heal reduced from 8% to 5% of max health every 2 seconds.
 • Now heals for 50% of the normal amount in combat.
 
 Aura:
 • Marine sensing range reworked, has shorter detection range of Marines not in combat.
 • Sensing range changed from 10/20/30 to 7.5/11.25/15 (for Marines in combat: 15/22.5/30).
 
 Focus:
 • Damage bonus reduced to 15% at max. Attack speed penalty decreased to 10%.
 • Lerk spikes gain max 10% attack damage from Focus.
 
 Drifter:
 • Mucous membrane duration reduced to 2 seconds.
 
 Eggs:
 • Egg health reduced from 350 to 200HP35AR.
 • Egg spawn frequency increased from 13 to 5 seconds.
 • Cost of commander upgraded eggs reduced to match their Pres costs, except Onos (100 Pres).
 • Commander Egg "build" time reduced to 15 seconds.
 
 Skulk:
 • Skulk base health/armour increased to 80/15.  Carapace max armour reduced to 24.
 • Babbler Shield increased from 21 to 30.
 • Evolve time increased from 3 to 4 seconds.
 • Movement:
 ├─ Wall jump forces tweaked to be more responsive, particularly vertical force and jumps from stand still.
 ├─ Bunny hop speed increased to 8.5, Celerity bonus increased from 0.6 to 1.0.
 └─ Wall jump max speed reduced from 11 to 10.5. Celerity bonus increased from 0.6 to 1.15.
 • Leap
 ├─ Leap force redirection reworked to be more precise. Base Leap force increased from 7.6 to 9.5. Leap force scales better with Celerity.
 ├─ Leap now adds a fraction of upward velocity as well.
 ├─ Leap energy cost reduced from 45 to 36.
 └─ Maximum leap speed soft capped to 12.5. (13.9 with celerity).
 • Parasite:
 ├─ Parasite duration reduced to 15 seconds.
 └─ Parasite energy cost reduced from 30 to 25.
 • Bite and Xenocide damage now parasite targets for 15 seconds.
 • Xenocide:
 ├─ Now applies a status effect, increases bite damage by 20% (to 90 damage) for 2 seconds, and has a 2 second cooldown.
 ├─ Skulk can explode early if it is killed while the Xenocide status effect is active (does not work on suicide).
 ├─ Xenocide explosion damage now scales, dealing more damage the longer it is active, from 90 to 180 structural damage, radius reduced to 10 (from 14).
 ├─ Killing blow from Xenocide damages Marine's weapons by 50% of its max health.
 └─ Dying during Xenocide now puts the player in third person to watch the carnage.
 
 Gorge:
 • Gorge per upgrade cost increased to 2 Pres.
 • Gorge armor reduced to 50, Carapace armor reduced to 80, with health shifted to self Babbler shield (increased from 21 to 30 HP).
 • Heal Spray
 ├─ Damage increased from 8 to 20 per spray, base healing on players increased from 8 to 10.
 └─ Each heal spray reduces burn duration by 1 second.
 • Belly slide energy cost reduced from 20 to 15.
 • Babbler
 ├─ Gains 8 health (max 20) after reaching Biomass 8.
 ├─ has a 20 second limited lifespan when too far from the owner.
 └─ spawn interval decreased from 2.5 second to 2.0.
 • Spit:
 ├─ Damage type changed to Structural.
 └─ Now works with Crush.
 • Bile Bomb
 ├─ Damage reduced by 14.7%.
 ├─ Damage multiple to Marine increased from 12% to 20%, and to Exo increased from 40% to 45%.
 └─ Projectile speed increased from 11 to 12.
 • Web snare slow increased from 25% to 40%. Web Parasite duration reduced from 10 to 4 seconds.
 • Bile Mine:
 ├─ Damage and DPS increased, from 30 over 3 seconds to 40 over 2 seconds.
 ├─ Limit per Gorge increased to 2.
 ├─ Enemy trigger range reduced to 5. Damage radius remains at 7.
 ├─ Build time reduced to 2 seconds.
 └─ Bile Mine health reduced to 50HP+25AR.
 
 Lerk:
 • Cost reduced to 20.
 • Cost per upgrade reduced from 3 to 2 Pres.
 • Lerk model width reduced by 15%.
 • Babbler Shield increased from 25.2 to 30.
 • Health reduced from 180 to 160 (total 220).
 • Carapace armour reduced from 50 to 45.
 •Movement:
 ├─ Glide turning is no long instant, "air control" is now 170.
 ├─ Crouching is now usable to interrupt gliding, without having to release jump key.
 ├─ Diving gravity increased from 42 to 50.
 ├─ Diving now consumes energy, at the rate of 21 per second, increase air friction, and creates flapping sounds, to addresses the silent and free speed gain exploit.
 ├─ Walking and wall walking are now silent.
 ├─ Lerk can now wall walk. Fixed wall cling/walk animation stutter.
 └─(See Lerk Rework Mod for more information)
 • Spikes:
 ├─ Now shoots 2 spikes in quick succession (at 333% speed) every 0.455 second, spike fire delay increased by 14%, overall DPS increased by 3%. Energy cost increased from 1.4 to 1.6.
 └─ Spikes damage is upgraded by Focus, for up to 10% increased damage. Spike fire rate is not affected by Focus.
 • Umbra:
 ├─ Existing Umbra prevents burning. Umbra cloud can still be destroyed by Flamethrower and Cluster Grenade.
 └─ Damage protection reduced from 20% to 12%.
 • Spores damage increased to 20 per second, from 15.
 
 Fade:
 • Cost reduced to 30, from 37.
 • Cost per upgrade reduced from 5 to 3 Pres.
 • Evolve time reduced from 25 to 18 seconds.
 • Armour decreased to 60, from 80.
 • Carapace armour decreased to 85, from 120.
 • Babbler Shield reduced from 40 to 30.
 Movement
 • Speed increased to 6.5.
 • Blink energy upkeep cost reduced from 32 to 25 per second.
 • Blink cooldown increased from 0.4 to 0.45 second.
 • Fade air friction reduced from 0.17 to 0.08.
 • Fade has higher air friction (0.35) briefly after leaving Blink.
 • Blink maximum speed reduced to 20.
 • Adrenaline energy regen reduced from 15 to 14 per second.
 • Metabolize energy cost reduced to 12. Energy gain reduced from 5 to 4 per second (8 every 2 seconds).
 Stab
 ├─ Stab damage changed to 150 Normal.
 ├─ Attack speed increased by 30% (from 1.3s to 1 second). Fade can jump while stabbing.
 └─ Stab can hit all targets in its path.
 
 Onos:
 • Cost increased from 62 to 66 Pres.
 • Cost per upgrade reduced from 8 to 6 Pres.
 • Carapace armour reduced from 650 to 570.
 • Babbler Shield reduced from 70 to 60.
 • Charge
 ├─ Onos starts with a weaker version of charge (max speed 9.5), can be upgraded by research to improve speed, damage and energy efficiency.
 ├─ Onos can turn while charging. Onos drifting!
 ├─ Advanced Charge charge damage increased to 35 (with research).
 └─ Charge can now damage empty Exosuits.
 • Stomp
 ├─ Damage changed to 50 structural. Stun duration reduced to 1 second, stun timeout reduced to 2.5 seconds.
 └─ Shockwave height increased from 0.8 to 1.2.
 
 ———— ALIEN STRUCTURES ————
 Hydras:
 • Damage: 5 (reduced from 15).
 • Attack rate increased by 33%.
 • Hydra spikes are more accurate.
 • Hydra parasites targets hit.
 
 Whip:
 • Bombard fire rate doubled.
 • Bombard damage changed from 250 to 200, so Bombard deals similar DPS to slap against primary target.
 • Mature armour increased from 240 to 300 (total health increased by 10%).
 • Whip takes 50% reduced damage from Grenade Launcher.
 • Supply reduced to 25.
 
 Upgrade Chambers:
 • Cost of Shell, Spur and Veil increased from 15 to 20
 • Health of Shell, Spur and Veil increased by 100 (9%).
 
 Crag:
 • Healing frequency (and healing rate) doubled to once per second.
 • Healing wave increases heal amount by 100%, increased from 30%.
 • Supply reduced to 20.
 
 Shade:
 • Health reduced by 50. Armour increased by 25, to allow gas grenade to uncloak Shade.
 • Supply reduced to 20.
 • Ink removes the detected status from aliens entities.
 
 Shift:
 • Supply reduced to 20.
 
 Harvester:
 • Harvester armor: increased from 200 to 440.
 • Build time reduced by 26%.
 
 Hive:
 • Healing reduced by 25%.
 • Decreased mature hive health by 16.67% (-1500 hp).
 • Hive type upgrade research time increased from 20 to 40 seconds, cost increased from 10 to 15.
 
 Cyst:
 • Removed health penalty at far distance from the hive.
 • Nutrient Mist doubles infestation spread rate.
 • Infestation spread rate reduced by 33% and recede rate reduced by 66%.
 • Damage received multiplier from Flame damage reduced from 7x to 3x.
 • Start as ghost structures, invulnerable to damage, 75% of cost is refunded if the chain is cut off before it finishes growing.
 • Armor from Crag hive increased from 25 to 100.
 • Shade Hive trait uncloaking radius reduced from 7 to 2.
 
 Maturity:
 • Hive, Harvester and Cysts now spawn with full maturity at start of the game.
 
 Contamination:
 • Can be dropped on other structures and players.
 
 Clog
 • Size increased by 40%.
 • Take 50% reduced damage from Grenade Launcher.
 • Time to consume Clog reduced to 0.2 second.
 • Onos can charge through Clogs and destroy them.