Update 0.0.29

Date: May 12, 2017

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New Content

• New Buildable Structure: Bunker
  • A heavily fortified defensive structure used to defend base perimeters
  • Built as an upgrade to the Fortress Wall
  • Requires two connected/adjacent Fortress Walls to build
• New Item: High Explosive Grenade
  • A high explosive grenade that's effective against lightly armored structures and vehicles

Gameplay Features & Changes

• Grenade item has been renamed to Frag Grenade and has changed in function
  • Frag Grenade is now primarily effective against infantry, but not structures and vehicles
  • Blast radius has been increased by ~30%
  • Frag Grenade explosion now puts players into wounded state
• Suppression
  • Foxholes, Pillboxes, and Bunkers can be suppressed by firing at it
  • Suppressed structures will have a reduced rate of fire (which can be reduced to zero for up to 5 seconds)
  • Some weapons are more effective than others at suppression
  • Garrison Houses are not affected by suppression
• All bridges and Garrison Houses will be built in home regions
• Mortar aiming is now done by adjusting Azimuth and Distance (via mouse wheel) values, rather than being "point and click"
• Mortar accuracy increased by 50%
• Technology Parts can now be stockpiled
• Binoculars now shows Azimuth reading
• Barracks spawn points are now cleared when leaving a region or server

Game Balance

• Town Hall health increased by 20% (still destroyable with 3 Satchel Charges)
• Mortar Shell encumbrance value increased by 100%
• Pillbox Basic Material cost reduced from 150 to 125
• Sticky bomb damage increased by 15%
• Foxhole damage mitigation against small ballistics increased by 60%
• Chance to yield Technology Parts from gathering Components increased by 33%
• Heavy Machine Gun accuracy increased by ~5% and range increased by 7%
• Starter towns are now stockpiled with 30 High Explosive Grenades and 10 Smoke Grenades
• XP earned from ordering items slightly reduced for all items

Other Changes

• World Conquest screen now shows players per faction for each region
• Enemy players can now be muted
• Ban time text formatting is more readable now(edited)
• The respawn button the death screen now reads "Spawn at the border" if player is in an enemy overrun region

Major Bug Fixes

• Travelling to another region in World Conquest mode no longer resets player health to full
• Players no longer spawn at a random travel point after dying in an overrun region
• Players will no longer spawn at an enemy Outpost after leaving one region and joining another via the World Conquest screen
• Structure decay can no longer be reset by creating and collapsing an upgrade build site
• Players no longer able to jump across bridges
• Structures can no longer be built inside Vehicle Factory at White Chapel in Callahan's Passage

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