Version/1.1.2571

Update 1.1.2571 Balance updates and bugfixes today!

If you're willing to help test the unstable build in future, please join us here: https://discord.gg/EV2PNt7

Feedback is welcome all around. The most direct place to offer it is the Discord channel above, but I'm watching forums, Reddit, and everywhere else I can collect feedback. Thanks in advance to those who contribute thoughts, and to all those who have offered feedback so far.

Changes:

• Baron can now do Animals work.
• Count can now do commoner work. Count is now only unable to do same as Baron, plus Animals.
• Balanced down ultratech and bladelink melee weapons a bit. Reduced illegal bladelink usage detection chance 5% to 3%.
• Psychic entropy base recovery rate reduced from 5 to 4.
• Improve psychic entropy recovery rate on pawns without psychic amplifiers from 4 to 8.
• Psycasts rebalance:
  • Painblock duration 30 to 120.
  • Burden duration 30 to 20.
  • Blinding pulse radius 5 to 4, range 25 to 20.
  • Entropy link duration 60 to 120.
  • Beckon range 25 to 20, duration 10 to 8.
  • Vertigo pulse range 25 to 20, cost 25 to 30.
  • Wallraise range 25 to 20, cost 25 to 35.
  • Smokepop range 25 to 20, cost 35 to 30.
  • Berserk cost 35 to 40, range 25 to 15, duration 30 to 15.
  • Berserk pulse cost 60 to 65, range 25 to 15, duration 60 to 15.
  • Invisibility cost 30 to 45, range 10 to 15.
  • Manhunter pulse radius 30 to 28, cost 40 to 50.
• Psychic harmonizer impact reduced 20%.
• Psychic hangover now affects manipulation and its mood impact is increased from 8 to 12.
• Psychic melee weapons are now biocodable.
• Unstable power cell, mortar, and bullet shields now have market value since they can be claimed and used by the player.
• Mech cluster spawning now handles collisions better (and doesn't wipe other buildings if it doesn't have to).
• Condition causers terrain affordance needed: Light -> Heavy
• Play sounds when psychic entropy limiter is toggled on or off.
• Fix: Steam builds sometimes have no steam_appid.txt because STEAM is not defined in BuildMaker
• Fix: Food batch boundary issue when interacting with animal using food that might have already been reserved. Also fixed uneeded default value for QuestNode_Letter.
• Fix: Error producing cast in QuestPart_letter.
• Fix: Potential attempt at destroying equipment when no equipment is held.
• Fix: Helpers leave after fixed 10 days during raid quests even if there are multiple raids.
• Fix: Circadian half-cycler breaks parties.
• Fix: Temporary faction members who are downed, put in bed, then quest is complete aren't tendable.
• Added dead pawn filter for look targets to letter quest node to fix spurious message.