Just came back after 9ish month Hiatus from the game due to work, family, and good old career burnout when needing to go on vacation and postponing it due to your dads cancer type of shit. Things have changed anyone got a summarized list of what happened over the past year change wise so I dont have to spend my days off combing over the patch notes?
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this is probably gonna be a hodge-podge thread of random things that *probably *happened in the last ~9mo. since I doubt anyone remembers every significant detail (or has even played the entire 9mo.)
Some things otth:
ā¢ Engineers (Comtechs) can instead of a sentry now take a ārocket launcherā that can only target walls, and delete a 6-tile deep swathe in one windup. Ammo limited by req after the initial half-dozen rockets you can take.
ā¢ Xenos get 2 1.5 larva per nested cap
ā¢ Lurker-capping is still nerfed
ā¢ Some new maps
ā¢ Multi-Z a.k.a. slop where it might seem you can randomly start getting shot from nowhere. Thereās now a button that lets you look up a floor, your likely culprit is upstairs, which you normally canāt see without practively looking up all the time. Only the new maps have this so far, but multi-z Solaris might be in/out of rotation sporadically (depending on mappers/testing).
ā¢ Research got overhauled, no more guaranteed stims at 2hr mark, people actually need to know what theyāre doing even if they get all the apropriate materials. Stims get drained in large chunks from marines who get sentinelād or stunned by xenos in general.
ā¢ A couple new guns and attachments, new machine-pistol called M10, which is basically a marginally worse m39 with more generiously available AP ammo which you can effectively primary with an M10-kit from req. M37 (the default marine shotty) got a shotgun choke, which lets you larp as a shotgun primary by doubling firing rate and making it more accurate, but removes any kind of stun from any ammo - ghetto AP primary with fletchette, but still worse than actual AP primaries.
ā¢ misc. stat balance changes
ā¢ Hijack can no longer have cades on the ship (they will just be always pushable)
ā¢ Xenos get ānukeā now for holding - King caste that has a 3x3 gib and screen-wide light disabling abilities. Also generate āintelā for holding comms, which lets them buy powerful one-time boons, like limited-time fireproofing, damage, resistances or extra burrowed larva.
ā¢ A couple new āsupportā strains for Hivelord and Prae
ā¢ OT balance changes - slight nerfs on oppressive max-radius falloff availability. You will likely see a lot more screen-wide fire sticks that cause mass-FF.
ā¢ FOB doctor is now a dedicated role slot (1). Bonegel is finite - requires reloading shipside.
ā¢ A lot of Quality of Life changes and improvements, both functional and cosmetic (too many to list)
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Also:
Bob Cross: Gone, Jbanned from XO
Joe Dafoe: De-WLād
Slopits: Gone
Seraphilian: REDACTED (mega fucking gone, banished)
Kara walker: Rarely seen, Ljungman is missing though.
John rock: Missing
Ducky: Slowly coming back to life
JRP: Missing
Chen: De-WLād
AD-HD: Still with us, still tormenting green fobbits
Tyrone: Still undergoing emotional recovery post-research obliteration
Gardner: thank fuck, still with us to carry our bald asses
Arnie: Still kicking ass as IO
Tao: Still kicking ass as CMO/rsr
Also on a less meme-y way:
Gramps: Gone, may god bless his soul.
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Itās confirmed to be changed to 1.5 larva per burst now.
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JRP aka John Republic / John Roleplay has been permabanned after escalating bans from 7 days for being toxic in dchat to staff, 30 days for doing this with my xenomorph wife and now permanently for wearing a red armband on his service dress blues coat.
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Man finally got liquidated by WY.
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Someone is running around screaming āWeed Killer Specialistā in comms pre-drop and casually melts through weeds helping the marines chase xenos and generally be a good annoying muhrine for drone-caste xenos. They have a guide somewhere for playing as one.
Weed killer nuke almost crashing the server, twice.
CLF3 smoke exists. Both weed killer and xeno fear rper.
Very cheap Xeno-ability disabler gas was discovered. (Also kills 50% of marines)
Rifleman-made Thermite Specialist made for melting down walls guide was posted.
Oh and also nutriment got OD at 60 units.
Nutriment gas is banned cause of the new OD change and basically giving everyone free 30 units of nutriment.
Newbie OT causes firenade maxcap chaos for a week.
James āEvilā Bushman hrp-er on god fr fr.
TLDR for this comment:
Some dude is min-maxxing every chemical they have access to be a menace to society.
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Also their is some inane XO called Bushman. Borderline greiferand LRP. If you see him as XO log off the game. Thne uninstal beyond before setting youār computer on fire.
(Sarcasm.)
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Good memories.
Also:
Longer is still gone (cas sucks)
Pershing is still gone (charlie sucks)
Locke Briggs hop on the game
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Samson Rockwellās just made it to his second year in a psychiatric institute
Echo is on Lethe, so nobody makes the squad real nowadays
Tank Moore nerf #91882113
The Lads are not Eveninging so far
Saturn Tiberian drove the APC off of Alamo mid-flight so we canonically donāt have it anymore
Eric Overstreet found dead in Brig with his chest opened by buckshot
The āJean Corbeau Century of Xeno Main Masochismā vs the āTao Millennia Of CMO Prosperityā
Dallas now spawns with the riot helmet in cryo but itās permanently attached to his head and he canāt take it off
We are still lucky to have Reid Gardner
A. A. āGrampsā Silverton.
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Good memories
Only thing I think is important is that you know what you are not allowed to say anymore. I highly recommend you look up on what you canāt call predators and what new words isnāt allowed. Rest you find out by playing. No point to come back to play if you say a word and you get yeeted into the sun. Most players that come back have done this mistake, I am just making you aware of this. Damn you had some rough months, hope all is better for you. Welcome back to cm
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Pour one out for Gramps. To quote @Sapper āfuck cancerā.
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