v4.7

Combat Extended 4.7 “Superior Firepower”

Features

• Added support for VFE: Security long range artillery bombardment.
• Added apparel and armor autopatcher.
• Added gun autopatcher.
• New textures and shaderType for melee shields.

Fixes

• Fixed the melee shield rendering with the incorrect shaderType.
• Fixed a bug where FSX and Promethum weren’t exploding when damaged.
• Fixed an issue where the unfinishedThingDef of ‘Steeled’ items was sometimes appearing made of inappropriate materials.
• Fixed an issue with apparel armor when using Generic Ammo mode.
• Fixed some odd behavior related to the mech ammo beacon from mechanoid sieges.

Compatibility

• Add integrated patches for the following mods:
  o Antinium
  o Bori race
  o Edge of Descension
  o Erin's Viera
  o Mechanized Armor Set
  o Mechanoid Bench 3
  o Miho, the Celestial Fox
  o Moyo - Light in the Abyss
  o Reinforced Mechanoids: Tyrikan-Line
  o Vanilla Weapons Expanded - Makeshift
  o WarCasket Gundam Addon
  o Yet Another Prosthetic Expansion Mod - Core
• Updated integrated patches for the following mods:
  o A Dog Said... Animal Prosthetics
  o Alpha Animals
  o Androids
  o Anima Animals - Community Pack
  o Anima Animals
  o Arachne Race
  o Combat Enthusiast's Collection
  o Dragons Descent
  o Erin's Au Ra
  o Expanded Prosthetics and Organ Engineering - Forked
  o Erin's Critter Collection
  o High Caliber
  o Vanilla Factions Expanded – Insectoids
  o [FSF] Advanced Bionics Expansion
  o Vanilla Armour Expanded
  o Vanilla Animals Expanded
  o The Joris Experience
  o Starship Troopers Arachnids
  o [LF] Red Dawn
  o Magical Menagerie
  o Mechanite Plague
  o Medieval Overhaul
  o Midworld Weaponry Expanded
  o Moyo from the Depth
  o [Pratt] WWII Weapons Pack (Vanilla)
  o Rambo Weapons Pack
  o Red Horse Faction Collection
  o Rimfire
  o Rimmu-Nation – Weapons
  o Rimsenal Collection
  o Save Our Ship 2
  o Soviet Armory
  o Vanilla Factions Expanded – Pirates
  o Vanilla Factions Expanded - Vikings
  o Vanilla Furniture Expanded – Security
  o Vanilla Ideology Expanded – Dryads
  o Vanilla Weapons Expanded – Frontier
  o Vanilla Weapons Expanded - Heavy Weapons
  o Vanilla Weapons Expanded – Quickdraw

Balance

• Various adjustments to fragmentation; speed, damage, gravity factor, and explosion angle.
• Removed various unnecessary patches to animal body size.
• Gave humans back their bite attack.
• Decreased flak cannon cooldown and warmup times.
• The Shooting Frenzy inspiration now gives +20% aiming accuracy.
• Explosions now have a three-times multiplier to the suppression they create.
• Melee criticials now automatically do max damage.
• Ideology:
  o The Combat Command aura now also applies melee hit chance and shooting accuracy buffs.
  o The Berserker ability now gives bonuses to melee parry, critical, dodge, and hit chance.
  o Reduced the Shooting Specialist role’s shooting accuracy buff from 3 to 2, but added a 30% buff to aiming accuracy.
  o Reduced the Melee Specialist’s role hit chance buff from 3 to 2, but increased the dodge chance buff by 12%, added a 10% crit chance buff, and a 20% parry chance buff.
• Royalty:
  o Added accuracy bonuses to the Gunlink.

Misc.

• Updated textures for turrets and RPG-7 ammunition.
• Removed various unused textures from release version to reduce file size.
• Added translation keys to loading screen tips.
• Added translation keys to the bipod gizmo labels.
• EMP grenades can no longer be smelted.
• Added .227 Fury ammo.
• Revised FSX synthesizing recipes.
• Adjusted visual position of Advanced Ammo research.
• Various stat description and tooltip revisions.
• Added recipes for smaller quantities of some rockets and disposable launchers.
• Added the ‘RangedHeavy’ weaponClass to the grenade launcher and disposable rocket launcher.
• Increased market value of the disposable rocket launcher.
• Changed the javelin’s unfinishedThingDef.
• Swapped out all uses of the ‘BiteBlunt’ tool capacity for ‘Bite,’ as the former was skewing DPS calculations. There should be no functional difference in combat.
• Made some improvements to turret reloading behavior for non-player faction pawns. Besiegers should no longer cross the map to grab ammo.
• Added a warning for cases when the weapon toughness autopatcher fails.
• Royalty:
  o Added a 0.85 fill value to the Defoliator.
  o Reduced the gloomlight fill from 0.6 to 0.35.

Notes:

• Removed integrated patch for ‘[Cosplay equipment] Blue archive,’ as the mod now incorporates its own patch.
• The Better Loading mod has been marked as incompatible for the time being, due to some changes it makes to the game’s initialization process. We’re told Better Loading has a fix for this issue in the works.
• Removed obsolete ModSync file from About.