Changes/Balancing -SRM Decay rail no longer scales linearly and now has diminishing returns -Flexlight Bow shield delay increased -Reduced Drone Flock fire rate penalty (15%, was 20%) -Successfully using Blood Sacrifice now counts as taking one tick of damage and triggers on-damage effects (one time) -Jet-Black Mirror Paint now also makes you deflect all photon attacks for 1 second after it activates -Jet-Black Mirror Paint is tier 3 now (was 2) -Piercing comes with stronger damage reduction on subsequent hits now (35%, was 10%) -Piercing damage reduction no longer applies to melee -Dmg vs Massive multiplier no longer applies to thrown melee -Starfire weapon prefix now grants higher damage bonus if the affected weapon already uses photon attacks -Rocket Drone attack rate buffed -Rocket Drone now try to go on a suicide run after they have been killed -Photon Juggler Drones now eject one last barrage of photon shots when they die -Cealaformer beam attack now scissors inwards -Cealaformer photon shot attack is now aimed more towards the player and can cover deadzones to the sides -Photon Cealaformer (elite) beam attack now covers a larger cone faster but fires less beams (6, was 8) -Bosses with missile phases now generally switch to other attacks faster if they have few vls attachments or none remaining -Rival melee passives now affects how fast it goes into CQB mode -Rival Mass Ammo shot speed penalty reduced -War Room now destroys and respawns all it's shield units during defense phase -War Room Shell emp range decreased (should no longer fire when you are already entering tunnels) -War Room beam pulse turns speed while firing decreased -Drone spawns on war room elite variant are now capped -[redacted] is less capable of avoiding collisions now -A certain speed related technophage now also enables redout -Iron Dog now increases boss elite chance by 100% and also increases overall enemy spawns by 100% (within caps) -Lowered Iron Dog regular enemy elite chance (20%, was 50%) and wave heart drop chance penalty (10%, was 25%) -Decimate wave goal is now shown as completion percentage instead of actual enemy kill values -Boss death DMZ effect no longer affects anti-matter storage balloons -Boss flawless unlocks no longer requires bosses to be previously defeated -Non explosive enemy shots no longer spawn rock particles -Low damage player shots no longer spawn rock particles -Added float text for melee shatter Bug Fixes/Optimization -Optimized how flock drones convert enemies -Optimized how flock drones and other allies check for shot collisions -Damage from Blood Sacrifice and Stim-Sixpack no longer resets coolness and no longer counts against flawless -Vertice shield now needs to regenerate all damage it takes instead of resetting to 0hp on final hit (previously it would reactivate immediately if shields are off cooldown) -Changed speedrun clock text position to avoid clipping with changing intermission text -Added safeguards to prevent a potential crash related to shard shield shot count calculation -Fixed large amounts of deflection on a single player shot/melee block causing excessive redout -Fixed shots deflected by H-Roll Barrier causing excessive hitlag (?) -Fixed casualty count not rounding on jet stat sheet -Fixed a problem causing enemy beams to not extend correctly while player is in jump state -Fixed some enemy caps not increasing correctly in speedrun mode -Fixed a problem preventing unlock sound from playing if a shot impact is currently in progress -Fixed a problem where a discontinued cheat would still trigger cheat mode save lock -Fixed bounty hunter database failing to activate when eliminating speedboat targets -Fixed bad unlock icon on Photon Splitgun -Fixed Fragmentation weapon prefix not overwriting fixed scatter patterns correctly -Fixed two stray gear unlocks triggering repeatedly -Fixed bad attach pos for angular attack tells on specific frames of armored suit (?) -Fixed some typos 1.178b (No Masters) -Guided Ammo now only affects shots fired from player craft (excluding certain active shots and deflects) -Fixed a scenario where Sector/Vertice Shield would go offline for very long if it take excessive damage (now resets to current shield delay) -Ultraviolet Chainlaser fire rate increased -SRM decay rail now has a small jet weight penalty -Increased Iron Dog enemy elite chance to 30% -Fixed Iron Dog only increasing initial wave spawns