New Year Balance Updates

This set of changes is targeted at refining some aspects of game pacing, making some quality of life improvements, and adds some new Matched Play exclusive changes that will only be employed when playing the Matched Play game mode. One of the key changes that will apply to both player counts is the reduction of p-res per tick. Now that servers have been playing with 10 versus 10 for some time, and with the introduction of Matched Play 6 versus 6, we felt this was the right time to re-introduce this p-res rate which will make lifeforms and weapons alike slightly more precious.

Changelog

Gameplay

General:

• Resources:

• • Player p-res income rate is now 0.1 per tick (down from 0.125)

  • Alien starting p-res is now 15 (up from 12)

  • • Fade Cost reduced to 35 (down from 37)

    • Onos Cost reduced to 55 (down from 62)

  • Increase Marine starting pres to 20 from 15

• Healing Softcap:

• • Softcap is now 12% eHP/s with an 80% penalty for excess healing (from 14% / 66%)

Kharaa:

• Commander

• • Removed the ability to research Onos Charge as the onos now always has charge

• Lerk:

• • Movement

  • • Strafe force changed to 8.3 (from 7)

    • Lerk glide makes a sound if a Lerk is gliding above 4.5 speed

    • Added an air brake functionality to the Movement Modifier key (default is Shift key) that will slow glide speed down to 4.5 speed for silent gliding. Lerks will maintain a 4.5 speed glide while the key is pressed.

    • Increased glide minimum speed clamp to 4.5 (up from 4)

• Spikes

• • Reduce Spread to 3.3 (down from 3.8)

  • Projectile size reduced to 45mm (from 60mm)

• Spores

• • Move research to Biomass 6 (up from Biomass 5)

• Umbra

• • Increase research cost to 30 (up from 20)

  • Increase research time to 75 seconds (up from 45 seconds)

• Fade

• • Blink energy cost changed to 12 (down from 14)

  • Metabolize

  • • Cost changed to 10 (down from 25)

    • Now restores 20 energy (down from 35)

• Tunnels:

• • Removed "Infested Tunnel" upgrade

  • Tunnels now become Infested Tunnels automatically upon reaching full maturity

  • Mature health changed to 1400/250 (up from 1250/200)

  • Time to Mature changed to 75 seconds (down from 120)

  • Tunnel resource cost changed to 8 tres (up from 6)

• BoneWall

• • No longer flammable

• Shade/Shift/Crag

• • Structure movement speed increased by 15%

• Contamination:

• • Cooldown changed to 3 seconds (down from 6)

  • Health changed to 1500 (up from 1000)

  • No longer flammable

  • Biomass Requirement changed to 12 (up from 10)

  • Can no longer be targeted by ARCs

• Eggs

• • Lerk Egg Drop biomass requirement changed to 4 (from 2)

  • Lerk Egg Drop cost changed to 40 (from 30)

  • Gorge Egg Drop cost changed to 20 (from 15)

  • Fade Egg Drop biomass requirement changed to 8 (from 9)

  • Fade Egg Drop cost changed to 80 (down from 100)

  • Fixed an issue where