These are patch notes for the newly "opened" Experimental Steam Branch. Experimental will operate as followed:

We have made new channels on Discord + Steam forums these channels are for users that like to live on the dangerous side of things and want to push feedback to us for upcoming patches. Whenever there is a patch it enters that experimental build for 1-2 days minimum if nothing fatal is found it will be pushed public.

The testing and feedback for Experimental is open to anyone to help based on their preferred engagement system Steam or Discord. This is an effort to help squash more bugs and hopefully our bug fixes that cause other issues can be caught and fixed within this time period.


We will be having 2 more batches of Experimental before we switch to civilians in 1.2! We hope to have done both "batches" by early next week but it just depends on how stable these two tests go.
#1. Further Optimization / Operator Finalization
#2. Medium Atlas Tower / Revised Weapon Buying information Window

[h3]How to use Experimental [/h3]
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Discord
Steam Forums


Experimental will stay open at all times going forward.
How to Opt-in

New Operator is now in

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Patch Notes (Click Show details for a full breakdown of the changes)
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• New graphics settings were added for Medium-Low end machines please tweak them ASAP to get the best performance. Global Illumination should be lowered for lower end machines as with Shadows Quality. You should see huge gains depending on your hardware
  
• Fixed some nav issues with gates
  
• Updated the construction actors to dynamically spawn their 'construction progress meter' instead of always having it even when there's no construction progress
  
• Updated the progress widget and 'autofiling progress widget' to no longer use retainer roots (since retainers were 'breaking' them and making them almost always look 'full')
  
• Further fixes to stop units from getting stuck on constructed objects
  
• Invisible barrier issue for walls is fixed(Floating units)
  
• Fixed Turrets in any capacity eating frames and making overall performance worse
  
• Grenade Throw Crash should be resolved
  
• New LT models added (Pending some new AI)
  
• Death Gibbing added with an initial 20% chance to occur on death
  
• Map has been vastly improved when zoomed out in terms of quality will be tweaking this further
  
• Main Menu performance/Overall Performance should have been boasted another 10-20% depending on your hardware
  
• Silencer Damage graph added for all weapons to give some kind of "Fall back" for being silent
  
• Overall Recoil for TPS operator refined when shooting
  
• Rotate in place added for when firing in a new direction for TPS Operator
  
• Spitter health changed from 435 to 260
  
• Fixed Freelook having 'pan enabled' while the mouse cursor is invisible (mouse should return to center of screen while freelooking, now)
  
• Pod threat lowered so units don't always shoot them over normal infected
  
• UI performance tweak across the board
  
• Fixed the ActiveDenialSystem not properly showing its power status when selected
  
• Fixed the Turrets not properly showing their need for power if constructed without being near to sufficient power
  
• Fixed the ADS's 'power wire connection spot' being too high
  
• Fixed the ADS not properly showing its power widget if it's constructed with no access to sufficient power
  
• Adjusted power widget position for generator
  
• Fixed the Operator 'intercepting' B-key presses: toggling to Operator should now only work if you select the Operator and hit the appropriate key
  (toggling out of Operator is still B)
  
• Fixed up the Wall healthbar to use an invalidation box (instead of a retainer, which was breaking the percentage)
  
• Fixed up the Wall healthbar to properly update when loading in
  
• Death Animation system improved so units no longer "pop" upwards when they die anymore and perfectly transform to the ragdoll state.
  
• Operator Updated ironsight code so it doesn't zoom camera out when reloading + added a new face rotation system for when shooing hipfire
  
• Added it so when a single Helicopter is selected and you right click a Helipad built by you it will auto fly to the pad and land there correctly from user feedback from a AmA.
  
• Added move-preview support logic to Helipad 'right click to move helipad to land' logic
  
• BKP-50 given to the Swat Infected Operator
  
• Silenced Pistol temp given to the Fenrir Infected Operator
  
• Operator can no longer walk through allies
  
• Shrunk the Distance Ammo Supplies from the Atlas will attempt to refill units based on Steam Community feedback threads
  
• Fixed units having a 'mouse hover' effect around them if you were mouse-hovering the vehicle they were in when they exited said vehicle
  
• Flare mapping issue resolved for Assaults
  
• Charon HP increased from 500 - 1500
  
• Merlin Increased from 600 - 1800
  
• Shawnee increased from 160 - 1650
  
• Updated the 'load game' menu to sort its entries by their save time (with latest played saves being
  first)
  
• Added a 'delete all saves' button to the Load screen (it still has a 'are you sure' popup, don't worry)
  
• Updated the Pandemic Load menu to asynchronously load upon opening up, to show the loading taking place (rather than freezing up your game entirely when you hit Load)
  
• CERC enemy Sharing logic turned off since our "detection" system changed recently causing a lot of issues where CERC would get their targets overridden by units near them.
  

• We are aware of some structures being purple at certain heights we are investigating this