APB 3.1.2.0 Changelog news - Red Alert: A Path Beyond

Medic and Volkov cut down to size, Sergeants more suited for center-mass shots, new building props, two more bot-friendly maps, and Militant Force! What more could you ask for?

General

• Mines and non-main structures are no longer subject to the splash cover system (only relevant for arty/V2/C4/nukes vs mines, and nukes vs non-main structures). Because of this, nuke damage to these objects is reduced again.
• Simplified collisions on dead vehicle and trilight props, should be much harder to get stuck against these.
• Esc help screen remade and updated by A4R91N to include a rundown on all of Delta's base structures.

Infantry

Saboteurs

• C4 charge time down from 1 to 0.25 seconds. (Not zero because zero means desyncs if you happen to have it equipped and are holding fire on a vehicle when you eject from said vehicle.)
• Clearing charges now have the same charge time as C4, for the same reason as above.
• Tanya C4's "Kiss it bye-bye" is now played globally.

Repairmen

• Repair Tool now uses handgun character animations, allowing bots to use them properly and giving a slight range increase since they're held further forward. (Less importantly it's also more true to the first-person animation.)

Medic

• Health up (75 -> 100)
• Auto-heal is reduced (3 -> 2.5)
• Auto-heal now only activates after 1 second of not taking damage. So concentrated fire, burn damage or scuba diving will prevent it from taking hold.
• Medic kit no longer heals infantry armour.
• Medic kit now has a 1.5-second charge time and an 0.5-second cooldown, instead of no charge and a 2-second cooldown; this means you can no longer rapidly swap between the kit and MP5 to fire the kit at up to 4 times faster than its intended refire rate.
• Medic kit no longer has a one-time use insta-heal.
• Added the "Armour Cache" signal flare (weapon slot 3); this causes friendly infantry within 25m to become uncrushable, refills their armour, and upgrades it to take 2/3rds less damage from mundane explosions (excluding AP mine) and become unstrippable. This flare provides its effect for a minute before expiring, and can be disarmed in half the time it would take to disarm a C4, so placing it anywhere near enemy spawn points is not recommended unless you're just using it as an emergency one-off armour refill.

Shotgunners

• Dragonsbreath afterburn damage up (2.5 -> 4).
• Dragonsbreath afterburn now works against Flamethrowers and Volkovs.
• Fixed armour penetration on TOZ flechette shot which was accidentally 37.5% instead of 50% like the other shotgun rounds. (Volkov's "armour" had the correct setting here but that kinda never comes up... )
• TOZ flechette shot damage to infantry down (80 -> 75), though with the above fix this is only a "nerf" to unarmoured infantry.
• Dragonsbreath armour shredding up (50% -> 75%).
• Slug and flechette armour shredding up (25% -> 100%).

Thief

• Fixed bug where his stealing script would still play out if he died while inside a stealing zone.

Volkov

• KovNade splash radius up (7 -> 8 )
• KovNade splash damage down (15 -> 12.5)
• KovShotty damage down (60 -> 50)

Vehicles

Yakovlev Yak-9P

• Kills against Yaks are now recorded properly on the kill feed.

Buildings

• Various buildings have been updated with new props from CMDBob's technology centre - computer consoles, mainframes, chairs and shelves. In most buildings this means extra cover, but in some they replace older props so it just ends up being an aesthetic thing.

Tesla Coil

• Now detects infantry at 120m instead of using the anti-vehicle range (150m).

Aesthetics

• The music track "Militant Force" will now play over the endgame scoreboard, overriding the map jukebox.
• Technician's flailing animation now works when running with "handgun" weapons and C4 and flares.
• Technician no longer does his flailing animation when running with large two-handed weapons.
• Repair Tool's screen glows in the dark.
• Makarov uses its old first-person animations again as the Beretta ones introduce some awful clipping.
• Added some new purchase quotes:
  • Sergeant (Carville): "Moving to intercept"
  • Starshina (Topolov): "Za Rossiyu" (For Russia)
  • Captain (Esling): "There is still much to be done"
  • Kapitan (Kukov): "Take the fight to them"
• Missile Silo basement now has a window into the missile tube, with a shutter that closes during launching.

Performance

• Airfield's runway lights no longer eat up a huge amount of draw calls.
• Oil pumps use less draw calls and no longer have performance-hungry multimaterials.

Bots

• Bots in the "engineer" group actually do their job now. Sort of. Instead of basically just being worthless pistol defense bots, they will head to a friendly MCT and use the Repair Tool on it endlessly, until the building is dead at which point they may move to another one. At a later date I plan to refine this so that they only repair buildings that NEED repairs, but I haven't had time to figure that part out yet.
• Bots in the "engineer" group may now spend their money on Engineers for extra survivability instead of only buying Technicians - not like they're ever going to spend it on vehicles or offensive infantry.
• Small-arms infantry bots will now "ignore" buildings - that is, if these are the only targets in their range, they will shoot them but will move forward at the same time in hopes of finding better targets.
• Allied bots can now buy Medics; however they do not know how to use their medic features intelligently so they just use them as a CQC commando.
• Infantry now treat MCT rooms as their "objective" - they will try to reach these areas if no other targets are getting in their way. Once they do so they will shoot the MCT.
• Infantry preferences are now set on a per-map basis:
  • On small, cramped maps, they will buy more Sergeants, Medics, Flamethrowers and Tanyas, but no Snipers.
  • On open, vehicle-heavy maps they will buy more Captains and Rocket Soldiers, but no Sergeants or Medics.
  • On maps that fall somewhere in between, they get a good mix of everything.

Maps

RA_CanyonRiver

• Removed rocks that are completely underwater or hidden in marsh-grass since you really have no way of noticing and avoiding them.

RA_Fissure

• Removed "Militant Force" music track.

RA_LunarParadox

• Auto-healing on superboats down (10 -> 5).
• Chrono dustblowers collide with Service Depots properly.
• SPAM Site no longer announces that it is "under attack" when a spy temporarily destroys it.

RA_Metro

• Bots can now be enabled. Same method as usual. On this map they will buy rangers.
• Base radar markers are present now. (Not that the map was particularly complicated before, but their absence was causing bots to derp out.)
• War Factory spy zone no longer needs the spy to jump to activate.
• Fixed the long silence after "Eaten Alive" music track.

RA_Pipeline

• Fixed some misplaced barrels at the Allied pump.
• Fixed rainbow door.
• Added a collision safety net between the walkway and top of the oil silo so you can't fall down.
• Moved dead Allied turret near shore slightly to reduce stuck issues.
• Shorelines are now lit properly.

RA_RidgeRacer

• Both types of cars are a little slower than before. This leaves them easier to control since high-speed driving doesn't go well with lag in this engine. The Soviet ones are still faster and more slippery than the Allied, but should be less slippery than before - while the Allied ones should do a much better job than before of sticking to the road and being able to take corners at their full speed.
• Time limit for each checkpoint has been raised to 70 seconds to be more in line with the slower pace of the game.

RA_RidgeWar

• Removed external SDs and the defenses near them.
• Added additional AA defense on the far east side of each base to compensate (near Soviet Refinery and Allied Conyard).

RA_ToTheCore

• Out-of-bounds border no longer bleeds into the basement of the Allied Construction Yard

RA_Under

• Naval structures are now snow-capped.
• Deepened water around Allied base.

RA_Wasteland

• Bots can now be enabled.