Red Solstice 2: Survivors - “THE REIGNITION” 3.0 Patch Notes

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Patch Notes

Red Solstice 2: Survivors
Patch 3.0 (2nd September, 2024)

Full Patch Notes:

Horror mode

• Monster health increased by 200%.
  
• Monsters have 30% more damage.
  
• Monsters have one additional armor block.
  
• Monsters are overall depending on threat slower by up to 25%.
  
• Speed boost from monster off the map reduced from min 1% to max 5%.
  
• Driveable vehicles are disabled
  
• Biomass matures now and when matured it will explode and spawn a boss
  

CLASS IMPROVEMENTS

• Support slots increased from 9 to 11.
  
• Offense slots increased from 5 to 6.
  
• Defense slots increased from 5 to 6.
  

• Offense slots increased from 9 to 10.
  
• Defense slots increased from 6 to 7.
  

• Offense slots increased from 7 to 8.
  

• Defense slots increased from 5 to 6.
  

• Defense slots increased from 3 to 4.
  

• Offense slots increased from 9 to 11.
  
• Support slots increased from 8 to 9.
  

• Offense slots increased from 7 to 9.
  

• Offense slots increased from 8 to 9.
  
• Support slots increased from 9 to 10.
  

GAMEPAD IMPROVEMENTS

• Fix for gamepad radial not overriding interaction selection widget's controls.
  
• Fix for rare gamepad pointer disappearing on credits/game over screen.
  
• Fix for gamepad pointer disappearing in strategy menu.
  
• Fix for cursor issues during gamepad aim tutorial.
  
• Fix for some interaction issues.
  

ENGINEERING ITEMS

LEVEL

• Fix for an issue with vehicles and their path.
  

• Fix for an issue where movable vehicles would attack doors even though they were open.
  

Fix for vehicles getting stuck on dead end streets.

• Various Missile Turrets will no longer destroy explosives.
  

• Fix for player getting stuck in a particular location using 'WASD' controls.
  

• Added collision on walls and stones, and in a few other locations.
  

• Fix for an issue where client players saw Sam Sites incorrectly on all levels.
  

• Removed unnecessary barricades.
  
• Removed “Defend The Wall” skirmish level.
  
• Reduced cloud speed.
  

• Fixed issue with pipe network.
  
• Each level will now have limited instead of infinite loot.
  
• Closing one window will close all windows in 1k radius. Interaction time reduced from 1s to 0.5s.
  
• Toxic Barrels will damage Enemy Marines now.
  
• Tornado colour tweaks.
  
• Fix for an issue where Sam Site turrets would spawn at the wrong location.
  
• Fix for various texture, navmesh, destruction, pathfinding issues
  

MEDALS

• New medals have been added: “Aetriden Medal of Honor” and “Commendation for Past Service.”
  

MISSION

• Fix for few Condatis campaign critical strike missions having issues with deployment.
  
• Fix for missions not spawning enemy marine and/or monsters that were a part of a mission objective if the monster cap was reached. They will be force spawned now.
  
• Fix for taunts on Allied Defense and other missions.
  

MISC

• Added sounds while going through language buttons in options.
  
• Achievement fix for Nightfall, Elysium campaign mission.
  
• Train - Navmesh generation around Train doors has been improved.
  
• Fix for an issue where Missile Turrets would damage itself.
  
• Fix for an issue where electric particles were not destroyed after they were done filling up the UBAS.
  
• Fix for Biomass spawning inside of a Whale actor.
  
• Fix for issues with minimap moving camera in WASD/Gamepad mode.
  
• Fix for Range Particle staying forever when mission base terminals were activated.
  
• Fix for missing stats in loadout after changing class.
  
• Fix for clients missing weapons in the garage.
  
• Fix for marine skins sometimes appearing faulty.
  
• Fix for marines sometimes being invisible after exiting a driveable vehicle.
  
• Fix for campaign setup picking wrong difficulty.
  
• Fix for player's profile showing when selecting a bot's name.
  
• Fix for UBAS missiles destroying each other.
  
• Fix for suppression component being able to get stuck at Suppressed if something temporarily reduces it's regen to 0.
  
• Fix for game difficulty causing wrong modifiers on suppression, fixes things like Sonic Grenade not altering the suppression regen correctly.
  
• Fix the tiling on marine shoulder plate.
  
• Fix for various issues with localization.
  
• Poison Barrel will now do 1000 damage to biomass centres for its duration.
  
• Removed invite friend button from showing in single player armory.
  
• Minimap fixes for some pixelated textures and added legend icons that were missing.
  
• Possible fix for marine click to attack getting stuck on dead monster
  

MONSTERS

• Destructive resistance set to 60.
  
• Energy resistance set to 40.
  

• Will now attack players with hellspawn spikes that are in a building.
  
• Slam does kinetic damage and will damage UBAS now.
  

• Fix for player being invisible after being ejected from the creeper.
  

• Fix for melee attacks.
  

• Fix for Devourer monster sliding in mushroom state.
  

• Animation and charge tweaks.
  
• Kinetic resist reduced from 85 to 75.
  
• Fluffy will do frenzy triple attack when he goes below 35% health.
  

• Kinetic resistance set to 35.
  
• Explosive resistance set to 60.
  
• Energy resistance set to 50.
  

• Fix where Hellspawn would randomly damage players with foot stomp.
  
• Fix for an issue where Hellspawn wouldn't unburrow.
  
• Grabber monster will now spawn on Biomass creep.
  
• Holer projectile speed reduced to 1500.
  

• Kinetic resist set to 90.
  
• Energy resist set to 65.
  
• Suppression set to 300.
  
• Damage reduced from 300 to 275.
  
• Can not be influenced by skills like harpoon, clinch...
  

• Kinetic resist set to 80.
  
• Energy resist set to 60.
  
• Damage reduced to 225.
  
• Will now attack players with Hellspawn spikes that are in a building
  

• Will no longer regenerate armor.
  

• Fix for a rare bug that caused the game to crash in rare situations.
  

• Removed armor regen.
  

• Health reduced to 8,000.
  
• Stomp damage increased to 100 and will now slow marines for 3 seconds.
  

• Destructive resistance set to 75.
  

• Destructive resistance set to 60.
  
• Suppression regen increased from 12 to 20.
  

• Destructive resistance set to 55.
  

• Zombie marine kinetic resistance buff increased from 20% to 40%.
  
• Monsters will now be able to use their skills after being hit with Bellator Harpoon gun.
  
• Monsters will not be suppressed as long as they have any armor left.
  
• Monsters are unable to destroy windows anymore.
  
• Fix for monsters having wrong skill cooldowns.
  
• Fix for monsters sometimes not aggroing player at all.
  
• Fix for monsters using Burrow when casting a skill.
  
• Fix for a crash that was caused by animsharing.
  
• Biomass max monsters alive now set to 5.
  
• Reworked monster movement behaviour. Monsters should not get stuck anymore and their overall movement should be better.
  

• Basic AI Marine - Tweaks regarding roam to player behavior
  
• Follower skill Reconaissance will now add ammo to bots.
  
• Fix for Follow me command sometimes not working. They now have 9 formations.
  
• Fix for drop pod marines hovering in air after they deploy.
  
• Fix for Followers not being able to use teleport and strong signal beacon.
  
• Fix for Followers not always detecting monsters.
  
• Fix for Followers where they were being teleported to vehicles that are nota part of the assigned hero.
  
• Dead Followers will no longer be teleported when player exits vehicle
  
• Recon bot tactical scout item should work properly now.
  

• Fix for Condatis assault class not being able to equip stratagems.
  
• Fix for stratagem engineering buffs counting towards campaign HasNotViewedItem checks
  

• Ajax - Fix for Ajax missiles endless flying.
  
• Ajax - Fix for targeting indicator not working properly.
  
• Grenade Launcher - Increased swapping speed between primary weapon and Grenade Launcher
  
• Launcher type weapon projectiles wont be blocked by Tentacle collision anymore
  
• Stinger - Swapped initial and final spread on Stinger so that it would function correctly
  

WEAPON MODIFICATIONS

• Should now properly reduce overwatch range.
  

• Damage module increased damage from 10 to 12%
  

SOUNDS/MUSIC

UI

• Changed match summary to display a player's stats as red if they did not evac
  
• Moved Health Bar and name widgets on characters from the capsule to the mesh to avoid jitter on client.
  
• Removed "Online/Offline" buttons from main menu.
  
• Removed "Add Friend" button, as it was redundant to the "Profile" button.
  
• Fix for clients not always having a correct mission displayed in the armory.
  
• Fix for "Add Soldier" button
  
• Fix for utility slot tooltip in armory.
  
• Fix for pickup items sometimes leaving widgets on the screen for too long.
  
• Fix for NetworkSettings screen remaining when map travelling.
  
• Fix for some issues with mission waypoint arrows.
  
• Fix for workbench sometimes having blank dropdown name.
  
• Fix for non pickup explosives showing an interactible widget when marine walks over it.
  
• Fix for player name sizing in armory.
  
• Hid "Mod Weapon" button for some weapons to reduce confusion.
  
• Mission location markers box tweaks.
  

QOL

• Added a "Return To Main Menu" button on the Game Over screen. Now clients will be able to return to Main Menu after the game, instead of going to the armory first.
  
• Added an autosave after returning to strategy from a campaign mission, after the dropship is returned to hq and the last mission is cleaned up.
  
• Added Offline game call when leaving campaign setup.
  
• Added cancel buttons to some notification popups.
  
• Armory widget optimization.
  
• Complete fix up and overhaul to the optimization system.
  
• Damage display, dissolve component, damage numbers and weapon shot firing improvements and optimizations.
  
• UI optimizations.
  
• Game performance optimization.
  
• Enabled stratagem button in offline skirmish mode.
  
• Friendly skills will now have a blue radius instead of a red one.
  
• Major overhaul of Campaign's save system to use Unreal's default save style.
  
• Major overhaul of all saved data. Majorly user profile, saved loadouts, saved weapons and saved vehicles.
  
• Major overhaul of UI gamepad navigation handling.
  
• Fix for various translation issues.
  
• Fix for various issues regarding invites, join via friend, private and public sessions.
  
• Fixes for session joining, player block list, player friend list.
  
• Fix for campaign save/delete confirmation not always showing.
  
• Fix for infinite loading screen if session fails to create.
  
• Fix for campaign session initial data.
  
• Fixed and optimized FOW Hide component
  
• Reworked platform save manager's loadout delete to not remove the cached version unless it successfully deletes the file. Also added a safety check and some logging.
  
• Vaulting - Updated vault detect locations.
  

NEW FEATURES

• Added new marine skin
  
• Added skin patterns that can be equipped and dyed.
  
• Added vibration for gamepads.
  
• Added horror mode.
  
• New Main Menu interface.