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Wars 2.1.1 changes
Balance and Gameplay:
* Changed costs of Combine Elite "Energy Ball" ability from 1 requisition to 1 power
* Reduced attack range of Combine Energy Ball ability from 1024 to 820
* Units in cover now get an attack range bonus applied of 120
* Construct/Repair ability autocast now prefers the closest target and buildings of the own player
* Metro Police unit can now deploy a maximum of one active Manhack
* Increased damage of Rebel flamer against light and medium units
Maps:
* UPDATED: hlw_washedaway
Models:
* New scrap pile model
* New small scrap pile model
Interface and HUD:
* Selection box now selects units based on the bounding box of unit, instead of just the origin
Improvements:
* Autocast of abilities can now also be triggered while units are attack moving a position
Fixed:
* Crash when loading a map on systems with a DirectX 9 card
* AutoCast of Rebel medic "heal" ability incorrectly functioning
* Salvage ability does not work on the "small" versions of scrap markers
* Electricity effect of Combine energy cell is now activated when fully constructed
Misc:
* Removed Desura version checker from Main Menu
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Wars 2.1.0 changes
Balance and Gameplay:
* Added new unit "Rebel Flamer" to Rebel barracks. Requires Rebels Munition Depot.
* Combine "power" resource is now capped. This maximum amount of power can be increased by placing "energy cells"
* Reduced requisition income from Headquarters building (only 1 per 30 seconds, instead of 1 per 10 seconds)
* Reduced costs smg1 upgrade Metro Police from "1 Requisition and 1 Scrap" to "1 Requisition"
* Added placable barricades to construct options of Rebel Engineer and Combine Stalker. Barricades provide cover for units.
* Dropped scrap is now only visible for the player who killed the unit
Overrun:
* Headcrab cannisters are no longer launched on indoor maps
* Current active enemies of the wave are automatically killed when no activity is detected (to prevent the game from getting stuck in certain cases)
Models:
* New Rebels Headquarters building (including construction, build progress and destruction animations)
* Combine Energy Cell (including construction, build progress and destruction animations)
Maps:
* NEW: hlw_washedaway (8 players)
* UPDATED: hlw_meltdown
* UPDATED: tutorial
* UPDATED: or_hill (more cover and an extra way up)
* UPDATED: or_trapped (added kill trigger beneath ground)
Interface:
* New Victory and Defeat screens
* Ability sub menus (i.e. buildings menu) are now cleared after selecting an ability
* Improved existing mouse cursors
* New "Unit Select" mouse cursor
* Resource notifications now have icons
* Updated Unit and Ability icons
Fixed:
* Units are sometimes unable to shoot enemy buildings
* The player is able to place buildings at the same spot in some cases
* Stalkers/Engineers trying to repair/construct destroyed buildings
* Building selection circle still showing during building explode animation when hovering the mouse on some spots
* Placing of a building by the player gets canceled after the selected engineer finishes the current active construction of a building
* Gamelobby dropdown menus not disappearing in some cases
* HUD incorrectly changes to rebels hud when another player joins the game
* Incorrect pixel shader model being used for some users, even though pixel shader 3.0 is available (only on low-end machines)
* Non explored parts of the map not being darkened for some materials
* Tutorial map no longer uses the game mode "Sandbox", but instead a new "Single Player" game mode
* "Game" key input is now disabled when a HTML panel has key focus
* Added missing Antlion Hive models (Sandbox Antlion faction)
* Build time in tooltip of Factory buildings keeps going higher when the factory is unable to spawn an unit due the population limit
Unit AI and Navigation:
* Updated target distance code regarding large units (e.g. buildings)
* Various navigation changes
CPU Player:
* Improved resource spending of CPU Player
* Improved building placement
* Added base defending behavior
* CPU Player will always first produce a builder in case it has no builders yet
Misc:
* It is now possible to multi select units in the unitpanel (SandBox) and randomly spawn units from the item selection
* Custom mouse cursor is now almost used everywhere in the game (instead of the default windows cursor)
* Improved shutdown time
* Dropped support for pixel shader 2.0b
* Updated embedded Python to 2.7.5
