Colony Ship - Update Notes

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Some updates for Colony Ship:

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Update notes for May 12, 2021

Party Management:

• Click on the party icon to the left of the inventory icon to open the Party Management screen
• Set designated specialists to handle skill checks when clicking on objects (to avoid switching characters manually)
• Heal your characters with medkits (the amount healed is modified by your biotech skill)
• Set auto-heal after combat (using available medkits).
• Set auto-reload weapons after combat (starting a fight with an empty gun is a thing of the past now)

Improvements:

• You can now give implants to your party members based on their preferences
• Added more party banter in the Armory and Hydroponics
• Added new interactions when exploring Hydroponics
• Added an option to steal a badge from the Regulators HQ
• Added a sneaking opportunity in Camp Reid in Hydroponics
• Added some loot in Zeke's backroom, plus a different way in
• Added two extra stashes in the Pit
• You can now train party members (for now the same trainers as before, will consider adding more based on the feedback)
• Can't see beyond the vault door in the Armory before you open it (limited 'fog of war')
• You can now use Streetwise to get a better reward from Abe
• You can now use Persuasion to get a reward for Zeke
• You can now squeeze some money from Braxton and Jonas for helping them
• You can now ask Sarah for a reward because helping someone for free doesn't sit well with some players

Changes:

General

• Improved traveling in Hydroponics
• Added check value to doors and containers.
• Tweaked Explorer reputation
• Sarah's price for healing is tied to how badly you're wounded

Items:

• Cloaking field base thermal detection resistance is 10 (from 25)
• Cloaking field base detection chance is 35 (from 25)
• Thermal vision is now properly reduced by thermal detection resistance
• Distortion Field evasion is 30 (from 35). Energy damage is 1-3 (from 2-4)
• Super Soldier stim: removed evasion bonus, AP increased to 5, reaction increased to 15
• Smoke Grenades' (low and mid) ranged penalty is 50/75 (from 60/80)
• Bulldog II is a bit harder to get, but it's a bit more powerful
• Added +1 damage to shotguns
• Reduced melee damage by 1
• Tweaked armor stats
• Tweaked the prices of several items.
• Items now sell for 10% of the price.

Enemies:

• Starfish now recovers 10 HP when draining
• Starfish DR is now 10/8/6 (from 6/4/3)
• Tweaked enemies' equipment: they have more weapon variety and extra thermal vision.

Feats:

• Changed Faythe's Assassin feat. Bladed THC +10, CS Chance +5, Penetration +10, Takedown +15
• Changed Faythe's Thief feat. Noise -1 and stealth skills' increase
• Gunfighter: added "Grazes do +2 damage"
• Removed Master Trader feat and refunded 1 feat point to characters that had it

System:

• Increased weight of misses on defense xp distribution.
• Slightly reduced skill gain from attack and defense XP
• Improved AI attack selection, especially for shotguns when the enemy is engaged in close combat

Fixes:

• Fixed a door in the Armory being usable in stealth but not in combat.
• Power Vest properly reduces initiative instead of increasing it
• Fixed issues with the Armory's elevator with a party member selected
• Fixed scav stealth dialogue coming up twice if you clicked repeatedly when interacting with it
• Removed infinite attack XP exploit on turret
• Fixed the character name text field caret bug
• Missed frog attacks now can trigger counter-attacks, reported properly in the textbox
• Fixed some cases when grenades could be thrown through the floor (from the first floor to the second)
• Fixed T-pose animations happening in some rare cases
• Starfish sounds are now affected by volume controls properly
• Fixed Swing attack becoming unusable after spending AP on other combat actions
• Fixed doors incorrectly executing opening/closing scripts on game start
• Gadgets don't stay active after ending/exiting stealth anymore
• Fixed incorrect combat rolls when attacking turrets
• Fixed shots sometimes missing starfish if it's displaced after the 'hug'
• Fixed graze being reduced more than intended when uncapped THC was lower than 5
• Fixed unreplaced tags in energy shield bullet miss message
• Fixed pressing R when grenade is selected replacing hand slot weapon with grenade
• Fixed incorrect items being sold when CC has 0 credits left
• Fixed Caleb's dialogue issues
• Fixed missing sounds on armory doors
• Fixed weapon hand resetting to 0 after spending last grenade in the belt