A Path Beyond APB 3.3.1.0 Changelog

[Pushwall]

 Red Alert: A Path Beyond Update 

 

General

• Taskbar now shows the title as "Red Alert: A Path Beyond" not "Renegade".
• Replaced a bunch of lower-quality RA music tracks with higher-quality versions.
• New font rendering.
• Improved error message for when the game crashes, giving easy access to the crash dump file and instructions on what to do with it.

 Gap Generators (both mobile and stationary)

• Fog is now a little more lenient. (2-16m for infantry -> 5-30m, 11-40m for vehicles -> 15-40m)
• Being under an enemy gap field no longer darkens your screen (the black fog is enough of a hindrance anyway)

 

Infantry

• Infantry now swim on the surface of water. This is mostly for the sake of looking less silly than the original "iron boots" water, so swimming is still harmful and doesn't let you access much more than you used to be able to. Here's how infantry work when in deep water:
  • Since they're on the surface, they are easier to notice and for naval units to crush.
  • Uncrushable infantry become crushable.
  • They cannot sprint, jump, or use weapons.
  • They are slowed to 65% of their original speed (same as crouching infantry, half as much as sprinting infantry).
  • They can crouch to dive just under the water surface, but this slows their movement speed even further, limits their sight range, and will cause instant death if done for too long. Your screen will turn red if you are running out of time.
  • They can reach and enter LSTs and abandoned boats a fair distance from shore much more easily now; however, naval vessels outside the "landing safety zone" are still inaccessible. (If you don't see the 3 green arrows, you can't get in.)
  • They will not receive any damage for the first 10 seconds of swimming; after that they will receive 2.5 damage per second (was 6.25 starting instantly). So now swimming times are greatly improved; a Rifle Soldier can swim for 30 seconds instead of 8, and a Tanya can swim for 70 instead of 24, but that's assuming nothing shoots them, and the slower movement speed means they can't travel THAT much further than they used to.
  • If they end up deep underwater due to driving a vehicle into deep water and losing it, they will die instantly. This was already the case with subs but now extends to any ground vehicle.
  • They receive an extra +50% damage from Tesla weapons' direct hits, and +100% from their splash damage.

 Flamethrower

• Added dispersing flame/smoke visual effect for projectile impacts.

 

Vehicles

• Water damage for ground vehicles works a little differently than before; if you're only slightly deep enough to start receiving water damage, the damage received is a lot weaker than it used to be, so you aren't too harshly affected if you can back out quickly enough. However, if you go about 1-2 metres deeper than that so your vehicle is fully submerged, the damage received is a lot heavier than it used to be, so fully submerged vehicles are likely done for (as are their drivers).

 Gunboat

• Acceleration/deceleration reduced; now takes about 3 seconds to reach maximum speed instead of 1.5, making it a little harder to change direction to dodge Soviet naval weapons.

 Destroyer

• Reload time up (3.25 -> 3.5)
• Damage multiplier to air units down (1.25 -> 1)
• Range down (160 -> 140m); can no longer outrange tesla coils
• Max speed up (10.5 -> 11m/s)
• Acceleration/deceleration reduced; now takes about 6 seconds to reach maximum speed instead of 3.

 Cruiser

• Minimum gun tilt raised (0 -> 2.5 degrees up), giving it a bigger close-quarters blind spot.
• Max speed up (8 -> 9m/s)
• Acceleration/deceleration reduced; now takes about 6 seconds to reach maximum speed instead of 4.

 Attack Sub

• Attack Sub range down (140 -> 130m)
• Diving screen tint is now much less obnoxious, but it is also coupled with a thicker, blue fog.

 Missile Sub

• Max horizontal speed up (11.1 -> 11.5m/s)
• Max vertical speed up (3.9 -> 4.6m/s)
• Diving screen tint is now much less obnoxious, but it is also coupled with a thicker, blue fog.

 Longbow

• Damage multiplier to naval units down (0.8 -> 0.7)

 Yak

• Damage multiplier to helis up (1.5 -> 1.6)
• Damage multiplier to naval units up (0.7 -> 0.8 vs health, 0.35 -> 0.4 vs armour)

 MiG

• Missile mechanics reverted mostly to the original release, where you had to acquire a lock-on to reliably hit, but now the rockets are somewhat more reliable at this as their turn rate is higher than before and their error ratio is lower, so the missiles do not require nearly as much height as before - you can fire at tanks while being only slightly higher than Siege's fortress walls and still hit the tanks instead of the ground. This should make it much easier to maintain a lock on your target - don't forget to use the alternate camera (press F) when "bombing" to give you more vision on your targets.
• Delay between salvos down (1.5 -> 1 second)
• Range down (110 -> 100m)
• Missile velocity down (100 -> 50m/s)
• Missile no longer has an enlarged hitbox
• Damage to various targets changed:
  • Vs heavy vehicles (75 -> 80)
  • Vs mammoth vehicles (60 -> 70)
  • Vs aircraft (100 -> 90)
  • Vs boats (70 -> 80)
  • Vs cruisers (110 -> 120)
  • Vs infantry (5 -> 50) (the lack of "proximity" means they will almost never hit infantry anymore anyway)

 

Buildings

• Upgraded a bunch of older building textures (mainly in the Refinery) courtesy of Kicken.

 Power Plant

• Removed the generic big crates on the ground floor and instead added coal piles, shovels and shaftcarts around the furnaces.

 War Factory

• New model for main door.

 

Maps

Bonsai

• Added pillbox covering the beach behind the Allied Missile Silo.
• The little "dip" behind the Allied Refinery can no longer be accessed from water.

Guard Duty

• Added flame tower covering the Airfield river bank.
• Removed rope ladder on Allied cliff.
• Added water sounds to river (previously there was just the ONE sound at the bridge).
• Made the deep parts of the river deeper so that it's more impassable to vehicles.

Hostile Waters

• Tweaked terrain around Missile Silo and Gem Silo so they are easier for naval units to hit.
• Moved existing Tesla Coil closer to Sub Pen; added second Tesla Coil to cover Missile Silo.
• Starting credit bonus is now +1400 instead of +700; only a bit of donation will be necessary to get cruisers out of the gate right away.

Pipeline

• Fixed oil silo terrain seam.

Seamist

• Fixed Tesla Tanks getting stuck in War Factory.

Stormy Valley

• Fixed floating well.

[thumb]thumb_apb.b.png[/thumb][blurb]More naval combat rebalancings! Also, swimming and less obnoxious gap generators.[/blurb]

[Pushwall]

Will push another mini-patch tomorrow morning for a few of the problems that cropped up tonight.

[thedisclaimitory]

well nice patch and I did not know infantry used to be able to swim in apb as for this patch it is small but it works as of the flamethrower I kind of wish it had the old flame affects from Renalert and dang another patch tomorrow Thank GOD theres more content after one patch lol

[KevinLancaster]

Will boarding and unloading zones be adjusted for the new swimming mechanic? There are now places you can be swimming that you would have died in previously, and cannot return to the coast in time or board a ship.

[des1206]

16 hours ago, Pushwall said:

 Red Alert: A Path Beyond Update 

 MiGDamage to various targets changed:

• Vs heavy vehicles (75 -> 80)
• Vs mammoth vehicles (60 -> 70)

[thumb]thumb_apb.b.png[/thumb][blurb]More naval combat rebalancings! Also, swimming and less obnoxious gap generators.[/blurb]

Why the damage increase? The previous dmg output seemed to be nicely balanced. 

 I tested the Mig vs Longbow a bit back on Siege. Assuming they were hitting a target in the center of the map, for every 3 attack runs Longbows do, Migs can do 5 (faster speed). Incidentally, Migs also did 60% of Longbow's damage output, which made them perfectly equal in DPS over the long run. 

[thedisclaimitory]

Just now, des1206 said:

Why the damage increase? The previous dmg output seemed to be nicely balanced. 

 I tested the Mig vs Longbow a bit back on Siege. Assuming they were hitting a target in the center of the map, for every 3 attack runs Longbows do, Migs can do 5 (faster speed). Incidentally, Migs also did 60% of Longbow's damage output, which made them perfectly equal in DPS over the long run. 

noooo dont ruin it for me I want to have an op mig and mammoth tanks are beefy, and the heavy tank is not very beefy if you put it up against a medium tank but I think its fine and I dont think the mig was fine when it released and when it did the dmg output felt small to me atleast ,so it kinda makes sence to me as to why they increased it

[Pushwall]

10 hours ago, thedisclaimitory said:

well nice patch and I did not know infantry used to be able to swim in apb

By "used to" I meant how far you could reach by walking on the ocean floor, which is how you got around before we added swimming just now.

[Pushwall]

• Fixed a memory leak (maybe?)
• Mines no longer hold the War Factory door open.
• Fixed team information dialog reporting players' infantry class in the "vehicle" column if they had no vehicle.
• Fixed health number on health bar rounding differently to the health number in the damage/low health popup.
• A certain aspect of underwater fog has been disabled for the time being as it was causing some global issues.

[des1206]

16 hours ago, thedisclaimitory said:

noooo dont ruin it for me I want to have an op mig and mammoth tanks are beefy, and the heavy tank is not very beefy if you put it up against a medium tank but I think its fine and I dont think the mig was fine when it released and when it did the dmg output felt small to me atleast ,so it kinda makes sence to me as to why they increased it

Pound for pound, Longbows should do more damage than Migs. Migs with their better speed is really more about battlefield patrol and rapid reaction to low-hp allied vehicles. If you want to do REAL damage, buy a Hind and stick around.

I lobby for a Mig dmg nerf instead of a boost.

Edited November 30, 2018 by des1206

[thedisclaimitory]

13 hours ago, Pushwall said:

By "used to" I meant how far you could reach by walking on the ocean floor, which is how you got around before we added swimming just now.

oh well um here's one problem you need to fix; vehicals can drive under water how ever they lose health a little bit slow depending on what vehicle but I was using a Medium Tank on that naval map with a bridge in the middle I forgot the name of it so bare with me but I went under watter and managed to destroy 3 soviet subs attacking the Allied naval yard and I was driving on the ocean floor please if you have any means fix it or If you want to leave make it into a meme witch ever one fits 

Edited December 1, 2018 by thedisclaimitory
added one more word

[thedisclaimitory]

4 hours ago, des1206 said:

Pound for pound, Longbows should do more damage than Migs. Migs with their better speed is really more about battlefield patrol and rapid reaction to low-hp allied vehicles. If you want to do REAL damage, buy a Hind and stick around.

I lobby for a Mig dmg nerf instead of a boost.

you wonna talk realism BIRNGS A WARHTHOG TO A HT RUSH- what about now I think allies could compensate with a Wharthog since it was made during the veitnam war but I dont think the tib universe could agree on this term 

[Pushwall]

9 hours ago, thedisclaimitory said:

how ever they lose health a little bit slow

9 hours ago, thedisclaimitory said:

but I was using a Medium Tank on that naval map with a bridge in the middle I forgot the name of it so bare with me but I went under watter and managed to destroy 3 soviet subs attacking the Allied naval yard and I was driving on the ocean floor

Intelligence dubious

 

[Raap]

You didn't click your mouse button hard enough.

[thedisclaimitory]

oh so you did fix it I must have not played since it first came out because I never tried the water vehicle thing because I thought it was still the same unless you patched it just now or when the new update came out but I'm serious I killed 3 subs  and it probably was before the huge update  and I was driving it under water the light tank however I drove father as the speed was better but the gun was not so I killed like 1 sub but maybe I just got lucky and I wanted to point this out incase you guys dint patch it or it was somthing you never noticed but I'm not confirming snorkels on tanks in apb however it felt that way when I was dooing this with the Medium Tank. Now if you did this before the huge update I think it would have been in the water a lot longer because not many people noticed this bug or glitch or what ever this was but I'm glad it was fixed before anyone knew what this was or I would have died faster by now.

Edited December 2, 2018 by thedisclaimitory

[Pushwall]

Game:

• Soviet missile silo on Bonsai is no longer flooded in the MCT/flare room.
• Soviet conyard on Seamist is no longer flooded at the far back.
• Pool in the back route on Canyon River is now swimmable.
• Naval units now have a limit of 15 per side (up from whatever it was before; a limit wasn't set so it was defaulting to some unknown amount that wasn't sufficient for Hostile Waters).
• Made team colours for HUD/chat a little brighter.

Server:

• Canyon River is now a high player only map instead of low player only.
• Pipeline is now an any player count map instead of high player only.
• Removed erroneous shovel icon in next rank info.
• Donations are now allowed immediately on Hostile Waters.

[SilverShark]

1 hour ago, Pushwall said:

• Soviet missile silo on Bonsai is no longer flooded in the MCT/flare room.

😀

Edited December 2, 2018 by SilverShark

[Pushwall]

Server updated with tweaks to the MapGuard system (random map rotation that excludes certain maps based on player count).

• If there are less than 6 players, the server will only play bot maps (Camos Canyon, Guard Duty, Metro, River Raid, Rock Trap, Wasteland), and bots will be enabled on them; currently the amount is 16 minus the number of players (though as some of them stick to defensive roles, it may not feel like there are that many). Once there are at least 6 players, bots will be disabled on future maps. So now you have a bit more to do to pass the time while waiting for players! I'll be adding bot support to a few more maps in future so that list will be expanded a bit.
• Wasteland and Rock Trap no longer appear on the "low players" list; they are exclusive to the "bot maps" list.
• Hostile Waters now appears on "low players" as well as the original "high players".
• There should be a much lower chance of the random map picker choosing a map that was just played.

[des1206]

I feel restricting map rotation to only maps with bots is not a good idea. Any single or two players come on can play those maps only, and they quickly get bored. They then leave without being able to "seed" a larger game.

[moonsense715]

On 12/29/2018 at 1:05 AM, des1206 said:

I feel restricting map rotation to only maps with bots is not a good idea. Any single or two players come on can play those maps only, and they quickly get bored. They then leave without being able to "seed" a larger game.

The solution is to make more maps support bots.