Update Notes 8/29 (August Update)

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Downtime Start: 6am PDT

**Update is now scheduled for 8/29**

Valkyrie

A new NS vehicle is now available at standard aircraft terminals, the Valkyrie!

The Valkyrie is a six person aircraft used for close air support and transportation. It is crewed by a pilot and a forward gunner with room for four additional rumble seat passengers. These passengers sit in open seats on the side of the Valkyrie which allows them to use their personal equipment while in flight.

New Ribbons and Medals

• Mentorship Ribbon - Awarded to players in a squad who are above BR 20. Awarded by being within 50m of a squadmate who is at or under BR 20 for every 200 squad bonus XP that squadmate earns.
• Drill Sergeant Ribbon - Awarded to squad leaders. This ribbon is awarded every time a player under Battle Rank 20 gains a battle rank in the squad. Requires the squad leader to be within 300m of the player to receive the ribbon.
• Squad Leadership Ribbon - Awarded to squad leaders. This ribbon is awarded for every 500 squad bonus XP generated by players in the squad. Requires the squad leader to be within 300m to receive credit towards the ribbon.
• Platoon Leadership Ribbon - Awarded to Platoon leaders. This ribbon is awarded for every 3 squad leadership ribbons earned by other squad leaders in the platoon.
• Platoon Conquest Ribbon - Awarded to Platoon Leaders. Ribbon is awarded for every 30 platoon members involved in a capture in the same region as the platoon leader. Partial credit is awarded, so platoons smaller than 30 can still receive the ribbon through more captures, and platoons larger than 30 can earn more credit towards the next ribbon. It requires at least 10 enemies to be present at the time of the capture in order to receive any credit.

Hossin Updates

• The following Hossin bases are no longer under construction:
  • Edgewater Overlook
  • Last Hold
  • SRP Nanite Relay Station
  • Bridgewater Shipping Yard
  • The Offal Pit
• Plus we fixed a ton of bugs.

Alerts

• Removed Adversarial Alerts and reverted to the previous alert implementation:
  • Alerts trigger based on time
  • Alerts have a maximum duration of 2 hours
  • The empire with the most territory control at the end of the alert wins and locks the continent

Weapons / Balance

• Increased harasser resistance to canister rounds from 69% to 76%
• Canister reticule is now NC colored
• Vulcan reticule now uses a red circle (shotgun style)
• PPA projectiles can no longer shoot through gate shields
• NC08 Mag-Scatter: Toned down recoil when firing in iron sights
• Gauss Prime (NC assault rifle directive reward)
  • Improved hip cone of fire
    • Crouch reduced from 2.0 to 1.8
    • Crouch-walking and stand reduced from 2.5 to 2.4
    • Running hip COF unchanged. Remains at 3.0
  • Faster equip time, from 0.78 to 0.75 seconds
  • Recoil min/max angle changed from 23/25 to 17.25/18.75
  • Fixed semi-auto fire mode having higher recoil than full-auto
• 19A Fortuna (NC carbine directive reward)
  • Fixed muzzle velocity being faster in the semi-auto fire mode
• NC6A GODSAW (NC LMG directive reward)
  • Removed Barrel Attachment
    • Horizontal recoil increased from 0.14875 to 0.175
    • Cone of fire bloom per shot reduced from 0.168/0.084 Hip-fire/Aimed to 0.14/0.07
  • Added High Velocity Ammunition
• The Moonshot (NC sniper rifle directive reward)
  • Long reload is faster, from 5.575 to 5.0 seconds
  • Short Reload is faster, from 4.72 to 3.86 seconds
  • Faster equip time, from 0.95 to 0.85 seconds
  • Stand-moving hip accuracy improved from 7.0 to 6.75
  • Crouch-moving hip accuracy reduced from 6.0 to 6.25
  • Minimum damage range reduced from 335 to 325 meters
• The Executive (NC pistol directive reward)
  • Removed hip cone of fire penalty
    • Crouch and stand COF reduced from 1.2 to 1.0
    • Crouch-moving and stand-moving COF reduced from 1.8 to 1.5
• T1A Unity (TR assault rifle directive reward)
  • Removed compensator
  • Replaced Velocity Ammunition with Soft Point Ammunition
• TRAC-Shot (TR carbine directive reward)
  • Fixed muzzle velocity being faster in the semi-auto fire mode
• T9A "Butcher" (TR LMG directie reward)
  • Removed barrel attachment
    • Hip cone of fire bloom reduced from 0.12 to 0.1
    • Aimed cone of fire bloom reduced from 0.06 to 0.05
    • Vertical recoil increased from 0.85 to 0.9
    • Horizontal min/max recoil increased from 0.19125/0.19125 to 0.225/0.225
  • Added Soft Point Ammunition
• Bighorn .50M (TR Sniper directive reward)
  • Long reload is faster, from 5.575 to 5.0 seconds
  • Short Reload is faster, from 4.72 to 3.86 seconds
  • Faster equip time, from 0.95 to 0.85 seconds
  • Stand-moving hip accuracy improved from 7.0 to 6.75
  • Crouch-moving hip accuracy reduced from 6.0 to 6.25
  • Minimum damage range reduced from 335 to 325 meters
• The President (TR pistol directive reward)
  • Removed hip cone of fire penalty
    • Crouch COF reduced from 1.2 to 1.0
    • Crouch-moving and standing COF reduced from 1.8 to 1.5
    • Stand-moving COF reduced from 2.4 to 2.0
  • Fixed muzzle audio not being suppressed when firing in semi-auto
• Darkstar (VS assault rifle directive reward)
  • Removed High Velocity Ammunition
  • Added heat mechanic
  • Equip time lowered from 0.78 to 0.75 seconds
  • Hip COF improved
    • Crouch reduced from 2.0 to 1.8
    • Crouch-walking and stand reduced from 2.5 to 2.4
  • Recoil angle changed from 17/20 min/max to 12.75/15
  • Fixed semi-auto fire mode having higher recoil than full-auto
• Eclipse VE3A (VS carbine directive reward)
  • Removed soft point ammunition
  • Added heat mechanic
  • Fixed the underbarrel shotgun not being equipped on the weapon in certain conditions
• Betelgeuse 54-A (VS LMG directive reward)
  • Removed barrel attachment
    • Min/max horizontal recoil increased from 0.17/0.19125 to 0.2/0.225
    • Horizontal recoil tolerance increased from 0.85 to 0.9
    • Hip cone of fire bloom per shot reduced from 0.12 to 0.1
    • Aimed cone of fire bloom per shot reduced from 0.06 to 0.05
  • Added Soft Point Ammunition
    • This is going Live with the August update but was unintentional; it will be removed in a hotfix
  • Added heat mechanic
• Parsec VX3-A (VS sniper rifle directive reward)
  • Long reload is faster, from 5.575 to 5.0 seconds
  • Short Reload is faster, from 4.72 to 3.86 seconds
  • Faster equip time, from 0.95 to 0.85 seconds
  • Stand-moving hip accuracy improved from 7.0 to 6.75
  • Crouch-moving hip accuracy reduced from 6.0 to 6.25
  • Minimum damage range reduced from 335 to 325 meters
• The Immortal (VS pistol directive reward)
  • Removed hip cone of fire penalty
    • Crouch and stand COF reduced from 1.2 to 1.0
    • Crouch-moving and stand-moving COF reduced from 1.8 to 1.5

Quality of Life/Misc

• Death Recap screen updates
  • Iterated to include buttons for changing your spawn point and quick spawning.
  • These buttons can now be mapped to specific keys.
  • The quick deploy button is now a toggle and was renamed Auto Spawn to indicate this functionality.
• Sunderer Deployment shield now has an attachment visual and associated particle effects.
• A new Hossin-themed camo bundle has been added to the Bundles section of the Depot.
• Players will now be notified when the sunderer that they last spawned at has been damaged or destroyed.
• Updated the seating locations on the Sunderer HUD image to be similar to where you actually sit in the vehicle.
• Players are again invulnerable inside the Warp Gates.
• Auraxium Decimator now has Auraxium explosion.
• The Liberator and the Galaxy have had their physics updated with lower centers of gravity. They are now harder to flip over on less graceful takeoffs and landings.
• Inverted reverse steering is now on by default for tanks.
• The time and date of an outfit’s base capture has been added to the score screen.
• It is now possible for up to 4 continents to unlock automatically based on server population. Previously, only up to 3 continents would unlock automatically.
• All Auraxiam weapons now default to iron sights (6x scopes for sniper rifles) and have optics available for purchase.
• NS AutoBlade now has Medals and Ribbons.
• Outfits that have not had any player participation since January 1 have been removed.
• Still reading? Good for you. Over halfway there!

PMC (Performance/Memory/Crashes)

• Fixed an issue where players could end up in a bad state of hit registration after reloading and firing exactly as the reload ended.
• Fixed an issue where objects from one zone would sometimes appear in a different zone.
• Fixed a crash where textures could be unloaded while still in use.
• Fixed an issue where graphical artifacts could appear after unlocking the machine.
• Better management of terrain object memory.
• Fixed a possible crash while loading actors.
• Zone performance: Better tuning of some data structures.
• Zone performance: Throttling client request for profile stats to a 30 second maximum.
• Zone performance: Better caching of vehicles and other types of objects.
• Zone Performance: Some fixes identified during profiling.
• Zone Performance: Changes to object-to-object awareness system.
• World performance: Better tuning of some data structures.
• Fixed a hitch issue

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Source: Game Update Notes

[JohnnyDread]

Here we go again

[Panzerion]

Déjà vu? ...

[MummelWurst]

there is alittle dateil, that may be responsible for the delay

Players are again invulnerable inside the Warp Gates.

pretty great to have it back, however my "Harasser WG Circle Chase" could become impossible with that ^^

other great things
auraxium weapons now have optics to choose from
based on erver pop, all conz´tinents can be unlocked again
Lockout time on resupply XP events reduced from 3 minutes to 1 minute
Fixed an issue where Directive counts would reset

unfortunately the Phoenix bug with the Valkyrie is not fixed

[AlexisFR]

2h alerts triggered randomly are back, also.

[Caya]

Inverted reverse steering is now on by default for tanks.

Wait.... Can we disable this?

Lets hope this update doesn't introduce too many bugs...

[shorty675]

Inverted reverse steering is now on by default for tanks.

Wait.... Can we disable this?

Lets hope this update doesn't introduce too many bugs...

i think you can do disable this. there is a tick under settings what you must set or don't set