With the help of the community and observations, we adjust values continuously to improve the gameplay on HWS.
This patch is about a slow shift to a new Meta, advertising faster battles and motivating more skill as well as refinements after Alpha 9 observations.
Note: for many items HWS uses double as much hitpoints as the Vanilla game. -10% is in most cases still more than Vanilla.
Implemented the Personal Pistol Player Drone for your T1 & T2 Pistol If you press F5 and have the regular Pistol equipped you will shoot with it where the F5 Drone is looking at. This should create some interesting situations while not being too overpowered. Turrets will kill your F5 Drone.
Integrated a CZ75 from Counter Strike to HWS Empyrion: the Epic Pistol Pistols have a hard time in Empyrion in the first place. The progression is too fast to make use of them and skip them right away for Rifles. With that change you have a cheap alternative to Rifles with moderate damage.
Allow use of Chainsaw under water Will be useful for coming missions
Increased Pistol T1 damage from 42 to 50
Increased Pistol T2 damage from 50 to 60
Increased Epic Pistol damage from 62 to 70
Increased Epic Sniper Range by 10%
Increased Epic Sniper Damage by 50%
Increased SniperT2 Damage from 150 to 250
Increased Assault Rifle damage from 40 to 50
Increased Plasma Cannon Ammo Capacity from 5 to 7
Increased Epic Laser Rifle ROF from 0.25 to 0.15
Increased Epic Laser Rifle Ammo Cost While this gun is (even more) powerful, the Ammo cost additionally Fuel Packs now.
Increased Epic Assault Rifle damage from 80 to 100
Reduced Assault Rifle Recoil from 0.6 to 0.3
Reduced Pistol Recoil from 0.8 to 0.5
Reduced Pistol T2 Recoil from 0.5 to 0.4
Reduced Epic Pistol Recoil from 0.5 to 0.3
Reduced Plasma Cannon Recoil from 3.0 to 2.0
Reduced Plasma Cannon Reload Time from 7 to 5 seconds
Reduced Laser Rifle Reload Time from 4 to 3.5 seconds
Reduced Epic Laser Rifle Recoil from 0.25 to 0.15
Reduced Epic Minigun Recoil from 0.2 to 0.15
Player | General
Changed Volume Capacity of your backpack / inventory:
Light Armor: total of 10000
Medium Armor: total of 50000
Heavy Armor: total of 100000
Epic Armor: total of 300000 In preparation for the Volume Activation in the future that should be our baseline for now. While the fa:supply package level 1 might get adjusted a bit nevertheless it will give you great decision possibilities in your Armor + Boost choice. An Epic Armor is already so powerful in other ways, that you might want to downgrad to a Heavy Armor + 4 Mobility Booster to be a walking Cargo monster.
Changed Multi Boost and Mobility Boost:
Add Volume Capacity to Multi Boost of 10000
Add Volume Capacity to Mobility Boost of 100000 The maximum Volume Capacity with a Heavy Armor and 4 Mobility Booster will be 500k.
Increased Armor Boost Armor value from 54 to 100
Ships
Reduced hitpoints for almost all building blocks by -10%
Reduced hitpoints for all Turrets by -10%
The Xeno Blocks are excluded from the overall -10% change. With the highest hitpoints of 2000 they are the way to go for ships now.
Reduced hitpoints of all guns by -10%
Reduced hitpoints of Warp Drives by -10%
SV
Increased ROF of Rocket Launcher by 10%
Increased Rocket Launcher Ammo Capacity from 15 to 20
Increased Homing Rocket Launcher Range by 10%
Increased Range of Pulse Laser by 5%
Implemented Automatic fire for all missing SV weapons (Rail Gun, Rocket Launcher, Homing Rocket Launcher) Thinking about SV battles I find it quite annoying to spam the left mouse button all the time you want to shoot. While it forces you to aim more carefully now, it should also equal more the gap between Macro users, because a weapon switch works like a left mouse button
Reduced range of Railgun by -10% The balance of damage vs profit is still too high against bases. Turrets are that buggy / slow that you can take the turrets easy out before they even recognize you in MP.
Reduced Plasma Cannon range by -5% Similar to above except that HVs and terrain rendering in MP is also buggy, hence HVs are stuck sometimes. Making it devastating to destroy them with SV plasma
HV
Increased Plasma Turret ROF from 2 to 1.7
Increased Plasma Turret Projectile speed by 5%
Increased Plasma Turret Range by 10%
Increased Rocket Turret Range by 10% 191m was just too short in the terms of the role of an Anti-SV turret with their own new rocket ammo.
Increase Rocket Turret ROF by 20%
Fixed Rocket Turret ammo EWS damage Only the splash damage had the correct EWS types
CV
Increased Rocket Launcher Ammo Capacity from 15 to 20
Implemented Automatic fire for Rocket Launcher
Base
Reduced hitpoints of all Turrets by -10%
Reduced damage of all Turrets by -5%
Aliens & NPC
Adjusted all Health values to a x2 factor of Vanilla Previously it was quite insane for some NPCs or Aliens. The Armored Golem had for example 30000 health. With the new level system, a level 10 Armored Goldem would have 60000 Health
Reduced damage of all Turrets by -5%
General
Changed the Player Core hitpoint from 250 to 200. Keep Alien NPC Core to 250 Alien Technology should become in the long-term something Player thrive to. Motivating also to do the new PDA missions which give one Alien NPC Core as reward.
Reduced hitpoints of Large Ammo Container from 170 to 150
With the help of the community and observations, we adjust values continuously to improve the gameplay on HWS.
This patch is about making SV fights more enjoyable and shift ammo convenience in the foreground as well as adjusting the Core hitpoints to reduce “lagshot” K.O.'s.
Very good observations were made during the new Deathmatch events!
SV
Increased Rail Gun Range by 15%
Increased Rail Gun Projectile Speed by 50%
Decreased Rail Gun ROF by 50%
Decreased Rail Gun Reload Time by 25%
Increased Rail Gun Ammo Stack Size from 500 to 1500 The Rail Gun is a hybrid gun of luck shot in dog fights and Device cleaner. These changes should push it more in the skilled dog fight category but prevent click-and-hold Device cleaner actions
Increased Gatling Gun Range by 50%
Reduced Gatling Gun Bullet Spread by 15% The Gatling gun needed a bit of more attention regarding prefab ships
Increased Plasma Gun Projectile Speed by 50%
Increased Plasma Gun Ammo Stack Size from 500 to 1000 Similar to the Rail Gun, this change should boost the SV vs SV capabilities
Increased Pulse Laser Damage by 15%
Increased Pulse Laser Ammo Stack Size from 500 to 1000
Increased Pulse Laser Reload Time by 30%
Reduced Pulse Laser Ammo Capacity from 250 to 200
Reduced Pulse Laser Ammo Promethium Pellets requirement from 3 to 2
Removed CobaltAlloy from Pulse Laser Ammo crafting It’s the most popular SV vs SV weapon. Legends and myth are spread around about it. These changes should make it a more consistent SV vs SV gun but prevent the absolute dominance over other SV guns and control the ammo management
Increased Homing Rocket Launcher Damage by 15%
Increased Homing Rocket Launcher ROF by 15%
Increased Homing Rocket Launcher Range by 10%
Increased Homing Rocket Launcher Ammo Stack Size from 300 to 500 Since EWS this gun looked for a name. These changes should give him a legit role near the Pulse Laser and boost SV vs SV dog fights
Increased Rocket Launcher Ammo Stack Size from 300 to 500
General
Ammo Stack Size consistency:
Bullet Projectiles = 1500
Plasma + Laser Projectiles = 1000
Light Rockets = 500
Heavy Rockets = 100
Increased Player Core hitpoints from 200 to 500
Increased Player Core CPU limit from 15000 to 25000
Increased Alien (NPC) Core hitpoints from 250 to 600
Reduced Alien (NPC) Core CPU limit from 50000 to 30000 While EWS and HWS boost the values of items, the Cores suffered a bit from it. While technically there should be no lagshots around anymore, the splash damage could ruin some great dog fights too quickly. As said in the previous HWS Config patch Alien Devices should get a +20% boost in certain values, motivating to achieve them.
With the help of the community and observations, we adjust values continuously to improve the gameplay on HWS.
My tests about HV vs SV were not good enough. This patch should address this and some other observations.
Player | Gun
Decreased Epic Rocket Launcher Reload time by 10%
Player | General
Decreased Speed nerf from Armor Boost from -0.06 to -0.01
SV
Fixed Homing Rocket Launcher EWS Forgot to remove the 10x from Concrete
HV
Increased Rocket Turret range by 50%
Increased Plasma Turret range by 25%
Increased Artillery Turret range by 10% With MP lag and good Pilot skills you could avoid HV shots quite easily. This should make HVs more reliable against the agile Fighters
With the help of the community and observations, we adjust values continuously to improve the gameplay on HWS.
Adjusting more stack sizes and improving the Tool Turrets for HVs and CVs.
General
Increased (Pentaxid) Crystal Stacksize from 300 to 1000
Commodity item stack sizes adjusted to 5 After a lot of thoughts the Volume system is so difficult to handle on HWS that it won’t be turned on for quite some time. However the Commodity item stacks were so inconsistent and weird that I implemented a kind of own “Cargo System” to them. Regulating mass trades and forcing better organization of your travel routes.
HV
Fixed MaxCount for Drill- / Tool Turrets. You should but couldn’t place 4 of them. Now you can.
Boosted the Tool Turret significantly(Range, Damage, Rate of Fire)
Decreased Return Rate from 80% to 70% Even though you only pay with energy and had a 80% return factor instead of the 33% of the Handheld Multi Tool, the Tool Turret was too weak / time inefficient to make really use of it.
This change made it even better than the handheld Multi Tool but adjusted the Return Factor slightly as a compromise.
CV
Boosted the Tool Turret significantly(Range, Damage, Rate of Fire)
Decreased Return Rate from 80% to 75% Even though you only pay with energy and had a 80% return factor instead of the 33% of the Handheld Multi Tool, the Tool Turret was too weak / time inefficient to make really use of it.
This change made it even better than the handheld Multi Tool but adjusted the Return Factor slightly as a compromise.
With the help of the community and observations, we adjust values continuously to improve the gameplay on HWS.
3 years… feels like yesterday.
General
Large O2 Bottle, Small O2 Bottle and Emergency O2 are now in the Components Category! It annoyed me since 3 years that these items were in the Weapon Category. Why even? Nobody knows. It’s now finally consistent and findable in the Components Category.
With the help of the community and observations, we adjust values continuously to improve the gameplay on HWS.
Armored Cockpits for SV & HV got implemented, we take care of.
SV / HV
Reverted HWS specific hitpoint values and adapt to Eleon values. Normal (old) cockpits have ~900 hitpoints, Armored Cockpits have ~1800 hitpoints.
Changed the Material on Cockpits properly Normal (old) cockpits have the Metal Material. Armored cockpits have the Metal Hard Material. Together with EWS it means Laser is not effective against the new cockpits but the old. Use Rail Guns against the new Cockpits
Changelog MK106 | Active with the new HWS 9.X season
With the help of the community and observations, we adjust values continuously to improve the gameplay on HWS.
A bigger rebalance change and correction of some thing.
Player
Increased Degradation of Epic Pistol
SV
Increased amount of H-Rocket Launcher for your blueprint from 4 to 6
Increased amount of Pulse Weapon for your blueprint from 4 to 6
Increased amount of Plasma Weapon for your blueprint from 4 to 6
Corrected Range in space to be aligned with other Turrets
HV
Increased amount of Artillery Turret for your blueprint from 1 to 2
Increased amount of Rocket Turret for your blueprint from 4 to 6
Increased amount of Plasma Turret for your blueprint from 4 to 6
Reduced T1 & T2 Drill Damage
Corrected Range in space to be aligned with other Turrets
CV
Increased amount of Artillery Turret for your blueprint from 2 to 3
NPC / Alien
Increased Bomber Drone hitpoint to 50000
Reduced Hitpoints for many NPCs / Aliens
Reduced Alien Turret hitpoints greatly
Reduced Sentry Gun ROF slightly
Reduced Hitpoints of Sentry Guns
Reduced Damage of Sentry Guns The Level Modificator for NPCs / Alien is already a challenge for many. I saw too many players struggled with high too strong enemies, especially if they tried to shoot with a Pulse Rifle on a Zirax…
General
Changed Commodity items stack size to 5
Reduced cost to craft some item recipes
Increased Trader hitpoints to 1000000 since their death is only followed by grief
Changelog v108 | Active with the new HWS 10 season
With the help of the community and observations, we adjust values continuously to improve the gameplay on HWS.
A new era of PvP and PvE coming with Alpha 10 / HWS 10 - the implementation of Shields, Mass & Volume and reworked Thrusters.
General
Reworked EWS for Shields EWS has a sub-level of effectiveness. The steps are now:
Not Effective = 0,1 of the base damage
Base Damage = base damage (factor 1)
Effective = base damage multiplied by 5
Very Effective = base damage multiplied by 10 This allows us to make better fine tuning towards EWS.
Completely reworked Mass and Volume values The vanilla values of Mass and Volume for items are simply put: Singleplayer driven. Any MP server with mods like our OCD, can’t properly use Vanilla Mass & Volume. So I went ahead and changed every single value on relevant items. It should hopefully feel much better, less frustrating but still force decisions regarding ship design.
Changed Stack Size of every item to 50 000 With Mass & Volume enabled there is no need of regular Stack Sizes anymore. It would not make sense to transport 50 000 Gold Ingots but only 20-100 Apples in your Backpack. Prepare your Armor / Booster and see yourself how much you can transport with you or your ship
Changed couple of template craft costs For example Pentaxid Refined. Before you needed 1 Raw Pentaxid to get 2 Refined. In HWS 10 you need 5 Raw Pentaxid to get 10 Refined. This should encourage trading and exploring in a better way due quantity
Era of Diamonds - reworked Carbon Blocks To give you a very special way to play around Mass & Volume, in HWS 10 you get very light but robust Carbon Blocks for your structures. Real life got ignored for too long that Carbon is ~3 times lighter than Steel but ~5 times stronger. This will be respected in HWS too now.
But since there is no Chemistry in Empyrion and you can “craft” Carbon out of Wood and Stone, I enhanced the crafting process and 1 Diamond is required for couple of Carbon Blocks now. Diamonds in real life contain 100% pure carbon, so these blocks will be very lucrative to trade, build and find! Attention: the biggest weakness of Carbon Blocks are Alien Turrets! Every Turret do effective damage and should not be used against POIs!
Reduced Mass of couple of Ammo
All weapons should do no effective damage against terrain anymore
Increased Stargate hitpoints to 1000
Player
Adjusted almost every handheld weapon regarding damage and rate of fire Eleon started to give handheld weapons more love. We both inspired each other, so I took from vanilla what I thought could make sense for HWS. Please check ingame the changed values
Backpack Armor Volume rework The Volume system in Multiplayer is a hard challenge. Too high and it’s useless, too low and it causes frustration with features like OCD, OAM, EGS Recycle, etc. As a first start we are going with values around millions. The other reason for that is the stack size change of everything to 50000. This could attract massive cargo players transport from A to B.
5 Million Volume still cause some decision to make use of the WiFi Logistic system and special Cargo Container.
Booster Volume rework To give you even more options to play around with Volume you can put Booster into your Armors to increase your backpack Volume Capacity. Mobility Boost = +2 million VC. Multi Boost = +1 million VC. But watch out, they have their own price with reduced movement speed and higher hungry values.
Increased Plasma Cannon ROF by 10%
Increased Plasma Cannon Epic ROF by 30%
Increased Plasma Cannon + Epic Damage by 25%
Increased plasma travel speed by 10%
Increased Plasma Cannon Epic Degradation by 30%
Increased Laser Rifle ROF by 25%
Increased Laser Rifle damage by 15%
Increased Laser Rifle Epic reload delay by 10%
Increased Laser Rifle Epic damage by 10%
Reduced Laser Rifle Epic recoil by 10%
Reduced Laser Rifle recoil by 15%
Reduced Plasma Cannon Epic recoil by 30%
SV / HV Thruster
Reworked every SV/HV Thruster to give especially Jet Thruster finally a purpose Current EXP version is a linar progression for every Thruster, starting from the smallest one. For the HWS 10 release it will be rather a little different formula, making bigger Jet Thrusters more efficient.
Reworked Shield
Reworked Shield Generator Hitpoints for all types
ShieldPerCrystal
SV = 100000 = 100 Pentaxid in total
HV = 33333 = 150 Pentaxid in total
BA = 35000 = 200 Pentaxid in total
BAT2 = 56000 = 250 Pentaxid in total
CV = 83333 = 300 Pentaxid in total
CVT2 = 142857 = 350 Pentaxid in total
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Shield Capacity
SV = 3m
HV = 5m
BA = 7m
BAT2 = 14m
CV = 25m
CVT2 = 50m
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Recharge back to 100%
SV = 10 seconds
HV = 20 seconds
CV = 30 seconds
BA = 40 seconds
CVT2 = 50 seconds
BAT2 = 60 seconds
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Cooldown
5 seconds cooldown for CV
7 seconds cooldown for BA
10 seconds cooldown for HV
15 seconds cooldown for SV I didn’t like the same cooldown for every structure anymore. I think with Sci-fi movies in mind, big motherships are the way to go if thinking about shields. Hence the possibility to enhance and recharge the shield is always the top priority. The more agile the structure, the longer the cooldown basically
SV
Updated EWS to recent changes about Shields, Carbon and more
Increased Plasma travel speed by 110% this dramatic change should make plasma a serious threat and proper decision choice in dogfights or other combat scenarios
Homing Rockets do Effective damage to Shields now
Increased Homing Rocket damage by 10%
Increased Homing Rocket Launcher ROF by 20%
Increased Rail Gun damage by 10%
Increased Pulse Laser damage by 25%
Increased Plasma Cannon damage by 20%
Increased Rocket Launcher damage by 150% Due EWS Concrete blocks were too powerful - especially if build in ships (Garage). The rockets fly very slow, so make sure to dodge them. Otherwise it’s satisfying to see their destruction
Added Splash Damage to Rail Gun Bullets The Railgun is a mix of a projectile and explosion. To make it more effective against Carbon, I think splash is the way to go. It’s also a bigger threat to builders, clumping their devices together
Reduced Plasma ROF by 10%
HV
Rocket Turrets do Effective damage to Shields now
Updated EWS to recent changes about Shields, Carbon and more
Increased Homing speed of Rocket Turret by 20%
Increased Plasma travel speed by 110% this dramatic change should make plasma a serious threat and proper decision choice in dogfights or other combat scenarios
Increased Plasma Turret ROF by 40% to catch the little birds better
Increased Rocket Turret ROF by 15%
Increased Artillery Turret ROF by 10%
Increased Rocket Turret damage by 5%
Increased Artillery Turret rocket travel speed by 70%
Increased Rocket Turret rocket travel speed by 45%
Exponential Thruster Thrust formula than linear The Large HV Thruster is like the old one now
CV
Rocket Turrets do Effective damage to Shields now
Flak Turrets have the same splash damage as base damage now
*Flak has a similar role as Railgun. Partially piercing, mostly explosive splash. On HWS, every splash explosive weapon do half damage of the base damage. Flak Turrets have now a special role.
Updated EWS to recent changes about Shields, Carbon and more
Increased Rocket Turret rocket travel speed by 70%
Increased Rocket Turret Homing speed by 50%
Increased Plasma Turret projectile travel speed by 10%
Increased Plasma Turret reload delay by 15%
Reduced Plasma Turret damage by 50%
Reduced Plasma Turret ROF by 10%
Reduced RCS T2 Torque by 50% Since I reduced the Mass of almost every relevant items by 30-70% I also have to take RCS in mind. Otherwise CVs behaved like crazy agile lizards
Reduced Artillery Turret rocket travel speed by 25% See Base Artillery Turret info
BA
Rocket Turrets do Effective damage to Shields now
Flak Turrets have the same splash damage as base damage now
Updated EWS to recent changes about Shields, Carbon and more
Increased Rocket Turret Reload Delay by 10%
Increased Rocket Turret rocket travel speed by 10%
Reduced Plasma Turret damage by 30%
Reduced Rocket Turret damage by 15%
Reduced Artillery Turret rocket travel speed by 50% Base Artillery Turrets have not only the highest damage output in the game but would also remove a lot of the approaching enemy’ shield. To make them still a threat but punish bad movement pilots the rockets fly much slower now
NPC / Alien
Reworked Xeno Block stats and crafting template They are a very good alternative to Carbon Blocks. Cheaper to make, similar stats.
Aligned some NPC hitpoints to Vanilla values As always I discovered that some values can be changed but some values are hardcoded from Eleon. And certain hitpoints just can’t exceed a specific amount of number. Otherwise the game do bunch of weird things. So I observed and tried to adjust many values to Vanilla to not cause any issues on HWS anymore. I try to increase the difficulty in other ways
Reworked Alien Turrets in combination with EWS Until now the Alien Turrets were kind of random regarding EWS / Damage multiplier etc. To make it easier how to deal with them, I aligned them to the Player Base Turrets. A Laser Alien Turret has the same EWS data like the Player Pulse Turret for example.
Some Alien Turrets could cause some serious damage now. Since Aliens do not have a real projectile turret, every turret does effective damage against Carbon Blocks! Watch out!
Alien Laser Turret damage against Shields is 5 times more effective
Increased Green Alien Turret (IonCannon) damage by 10%
Increased Alien Laser Turret damage by 50%
Increased Rocket Turret travel speed by 150%
Increased Alien Laser Turret Ammo Capacity from 60 to 100
Changelog v109 | Active with the next server restart
With the help of the community and observations, we adjust values continuously to improve the gameplay on HWS.
PvP is slowly starting and taking feedback also from the EXP phase earlier Shields are going to be addressed.
EWS
Implemented an “Ultra Effective” category with a factor of 100 To balance some very specific shield situations, the Ultra Effective property should solve specific issues
SV
Applied Ultra Effective to Pulse Lasers
Reduced SV Shield back to 100% duration from 10 to 20 seconds
Reduced SV Shield Capacity from 3 million to 2,5 million
HV
Increased HV Shield back to 100% duration from 20 to 10 seconds
Changelog v110 | Active with the next server restart
With the help of the community and observations, we adjust values continuously to improve the gameplay on HWS.
Micro PvP SVs still trying to establish a Meta and were successful against CVs to do so. Shouldn’t be possible though to win against a big CV Mothership - at least without Starwars Luke Skywalker skills
CV
Increased Rocket Turret projectile speed by 25%
Increased Rocket projectile homing speed ability by 75% This was almost an oversight. As comparison: SV has the value 4 for dogfights, HV Rocket Turret has the value of 3,8 and CVs have now 3,95.
SVs won’t have an easy chance to dodge the Rockets of CVs now
With the help of the community and observations, we adjust values continuously to improve the gameplay on HWS.
Benchmarking the Config / PvP fights with Eleon revealed issues in the HWS Config. After a lot of time invest there will be dramatic changes to boost the performance again.
Player
Adapted Epic Drill to Vanilla (boost)
HV
Decreased ROF of weapons which were too high The higher the ROF, the worse the performance
Adjusted Reload Delay to adapt to the lower ROF
Reverted Drill Damage, Range and Radius to Vanilla - respecting our amount boost of 10 instead of 6
CV
Increased Cannon Turret damage from 190 to 700 (Vanilla)
Decreased ROF of weapons which were too high The higher the ROF, the worse the performance
Adjusted Reload Delay to adapt to the lower ROF
Reverted Drill Damage, Range and Radius to Vanilla - respecting our amount boost of 10 instead of 6
Decreased Space Ranges of some weapons/turrets to not outrange Bases
SV
Decreased ROF of weapons which were too high The higher the ROF, the worse the performance
Adjusted Reload Delay to adapt to the lower ROF
BA
Made sure that Bases always have higher Range in Space than CV
Decreased ROF of weapons which were too high The higher the ROF, the worse the performance
With the help of the community and observations, we adjust values continuously to improve the gameplay on HWS.
As announced we start a new era of mining slowly.
On top of these changes a feedback got finally implemented to normalize the Core hitpoints.
General
Changed Gold Material from medium to hard
Increased drop chance per tick from 20% to 25%
Increased drop amount per tick from 1-3 Ores to 1-4 Ores The long term goal is to make Gold an ultra hard material to drill away but more profitable than before.
Reduced Player Core hitpoints from 500 to 350
Reduced Alien Core hitpoints from 600 to 350 That Alien Cores had more hitpoints than Player Cores were not that liked by some players. The Alien Core gives already enough advantages over the Player Core.
The reduced Hitpoints were also suggested by some to not only address “Device Ships” but also motivate good Core placement in your ships as well as faster fights.
With the help of the community and observations, we adjust values continuously to improve the gameplay on HWS.
The Carbon and Shield Meta got established for 2 months now and good feedback got gathered.
General
Drilling got significantly improved The HV T2 Drill has now 1000 instead of 900 damage again and every Ore gives you 30% chance to get resources instead of Vanilla 20%. Gold especially got boosted a lot to give you 1 - 5 instead of 1 to 3 Ores per tick and damage.
The goal is to make you drill the same or more amount than before in a shorter time window to improve overall server performance strain
SV
Increased Homing Rocket damage by 20%
Reduced Pulse Laser reload delay by 10%
Reduced Plasma Cannon pure damage by 10% Balancement feedback of SVs vs CVs/HVs
CV
Increased Flak Turret ROF by 15%
Increased Flak Turret Homing Speed ability from 0.16 to 3.00 A flak is meant to be an “Anti SV” weapon. But dodging those Turrets was too easy. CVs and BAses has now better abilities against SVs, which were too aggressive against CVs and BAses.
BAse
Increased Flak Turret ROF by 15%
Increased Flak Turret Homing Speed ability from 0.15 to 3.00 A flak is meant to be an “Anti SV” weapon. But dodging those Turrets was too easy. CVs and BAses has now better abilities against SVs, which were too aggressive against CVs and BAses.
Alien
Increased the EMP Turret damage against Shield drastically This Turret is the hard counter against any Shield now
Increased Xeno Block hitpoints from 1500 to 2000
Increased Xeno Block Mass from 500 to 1000 Xeno Blocks are still trying to establish their position in a Meta. Pushed away by Carbon Blocks, they should be a good alternative to them now.
With the help of the community and observations, we adjust values continuously to improve the gameplay on HWS.
The HWS 10 season is over and a lot of feedback was given. The first attempt of Shields and Carbon Blocks became popular and more or less accepted. However there is big room for improvements and the HWS 10.X season will change couple of things to provide a hopefully better gameplay.
That being said, the biggest change is the revert of HWS specific overlimit attachments to the exchange of a big damage boost to still keep the fast paced fights you all like.
Shield Changes Info
As you can see on the very top, the Shield Meta on HWS will change – based on your feedback and my observations.
Before ships were like bees, which could fly around and get a new shield in 5-30 seconds again. Bases however needed a long time. Rethinking this logic shows the issue.
Objects which move around needs a higher cooldown + recharge rate cause they have the possibility to fly around in the first place. Bases however are like monoliths. They can’t move around and if you are not able to start a coordinated attack against them, they regenerate faster now.
The higher cooldown + recharge time for especially SVs + HVs will also force a new Meta of planning ahead. You need a good escape plan now cause recharging the shield needs more time. Gorilla tactics will get punished better now.
This will also tackle the Mini-Shield Bees. Combined with a slight increased energy consumption.
SV
Shield adjustments. See on the very top
Splash damage does now 1/3 of damage
Homing Rockets are Very Effective against Carbon now
Increased Damage of every weapon by 70%
Reduced Speed of Dumb Rocket by 10%
Increased Damage of Dumb Rocket by +20%
Increased Range of Dumb Rocket by 5% Dumb Rockets are even more like Torpedos now. Slow but boom
HV
Shield adjustments. See on the very top
Increased Damage of every weapon by 70%
Splash damage does now 1/3 of damage
CV
Shield adjustments. See on the very top
CV Rocket Launcher are Effective against Carbon now
CV Rocket Turrets are Effective against Carbon now
Increased Damage of every weapon by 70%
Splash damage does now 1/3 of damage (except Flak. Flak = 1/2)
BA
Shield adjustments. See on the very top
Increased Damage of every weapon by 70%
Splash damage does now 1/3 of damage (except Flak. Flak = 1/2)
Alien
Increased Health of almost all NPC enemies by 100%
General
Rebalanced some crafting recipes
Decreased Deconstructor return factor from 90% to 50%
Increased Mass of all Commodity items from 1 to 100
Increased Volume of all Commodity items from 2 to 100 This is just a first quick proof of concept that Commodity trading requires from you dedicated transporter ships in the future
