Expanding Fronts 1.5.0 (Full) file

3 New Civilizations!

Three new playable civilizations join for fray in Expanding Fronts' largest update yet! Take command of The Imperial Remnant, New Republic, and Black Sun.

Performance & Stability

• Corrected an issue that caused stuttering on some systems.
• Made improvements to the Alternative Text Rendering setting.
• Added Alternative Chat Box option to Configurator to correct issues with flickering chatbox text.
• Various miscellaneous bug fixes and optimizations.

Gameplay Fixes & Improvements

• Changed Worker resource carry logic. Different Food types are now treated as one, and Workers re-assigned to collect different resources will no longer drop their current load until they start gathering.
• When Team Together is enabled, players will be placed in clockwise order according to their colors, starting from wing position.
• Added Random Color option to game setup.
• Enabled Color selection for AI players.
• Corrected issue that caused various projectiles to be unaffected by the Tracking tech.

Graphics

• (CF) Hvy Destroyer: Unit sprite updated with an additional energy weapon and effect.
• (RS) Grenade Trooper: Adjusted timing for muzzle flash during attack animation.
• (TF) Transport Mech: Unit now has updated sprite and a new projectile effect.
• (WK) Monitor: Unit now has a new graphic set.
• (ZC) Bombers, Air Transport, and Cannon have new graphics.
• (ZC) Cruiser, Adv Cruiser: Attack graphics now display correctly.
• (ZC) Hvy Destroyer: Unit sprite updated with an additional energy weapon and effect.
• Skyhopper: Corrected issue in which two sets of unit graphics were superimposed.
• Tree (Torrey): Corrects layering issue.
• Jakku Scrap: Object no longer contains empty frames.
• Made corrections to projectiles and firing positions for numerous units.
• Adjusted hover heights and HP bar positions for numerous air units.
• Adjusted HP bar heights for Assault Mechs.
• Corrected engine fire and attack effects for multiple vanilla units that had unintended player colors within them.
• Corrected graphics and anchors for many death and decay animations.

Audio

• Added new sound and voice files to many units that lacked them previously, primarily in the CF and GO rosters.
• Various Scenario Editor units and heroes now have unique sounds.
• Workers now have audible movement sounds.

Interface

• Corrected tooltip description text for (CF) Undeployed Cannon, (CF) Scout, and (GO) Scout.
• Made various corrections to Civilization descriptions.
• Gungan and Geonosian farms now have unique tooltip descriptions.
• Fixed numerous typos and inconsistencies in names and descriptions.
• Fixed instances of various units/objects having missing or incorrect icons.
• Adjusted Prefab Shelter description for where the current/supported population limit is displayed.
• Alt+# Player Switch hotkey is now based on player color rather than number.
• Added a preview sidebar to Scenario Editor and Game Setup Scenario selection screens.
• New Databank entries for the new civilizations, as well as various characters and locations.
• Replaced various Rebel, Imperial, and Zann AI name selections, as many have been shifted to v1.5 civs.
• New Main Menu art and audio.

Chewbacca and the Liberation of Kashyyyk

• Corrected an AI error that affected several missions.

Darth Vader's Search for the Rebels

> Scenario 2. Breaking Bread

• Removed a duplicate of Darth Vader used for testing purposes.

General

> UNITS

• Assault Mech: Unit now has 100% accuracy. Corrected an issue that caused TF and GO Assault Mech projectiles to not hit Farms correctly.
• Monitor/Hvy Monitor: Reduced overall unit strength.
• Cargo Hovercraft: Corrected issue that caused unit to be unable to traverse certain terrains.
• Adjusted selection sizes for various Scenario Editor air units.
• Added new, separate armor classes for Jedi and Bounty Hunters.
• Corrected an animation error that caused various Mech units to have an unintentional firing delay.

Confederacy

> CIVILIZATION

• Fortress bonus now provides a consistent +6 damage vs all Jedi levels. (Previously +11 vs Padawans, +6 vs Knights, +0 vs Masters).

> TECHNOLOGIES

• Confederacy Alliance: Tech now applies to Cargo Freighters.

Geonosians

> TECHNOLOGIES

• Geonosian Engineers: Tech now reduces reload time of Pummels and Artillery by 15%, instead of Artillery and AA Mobiles by -0.25 seconds.
• Received access to Shield Modifications, Which also affects Geonosian Warriors.

Gungans

> TECHNOLOGIES

• Faster Growth Chambers: Reduced ship training discount from 20% > 10%.

Resistance

> UNITS

• Ski Speeder: Reduced Speed from 2.5 > 2
• Ski Speeder: Increased Carbon Cost from 80 > 100
• Ski Speeder: Increased Reload Time from 1.25 > 1.50.
• Ski Speeder: Increased Minimum Range from 0 > 1.
• Ski Speeder: Increased damage vs Hvy Weapons armor class from 9 > 15 (12 > 18 Hvy)
• Ski Speeder: Increased damage vs Mech armor class from 0 > 4 (0 > 5 Hvy)
• Ski Speeder: Increased damage vs Decimator armor class from 2 > 4 (3 > 5 Hvy)

> TECHNOLOGIES

• New Tech: Scavenged Components: (Mech Factory) Reduces Carbon cost of Mechs by 25%. Also increases their train speed by 25%. (500C, 300N; TL3)
• Sensor Cloak: Reduced cost from 350C, 800N, 400O > 350C, 600N; 200O.
• Received access to Hvy Duty Carbon Extractor.
• Received access to Armored Platework.
• Received access to Hvy Armor.
• Received access to Hvy Weapons Engineers.
• Received access to Presidium.

Wookiees

> TECHNOLOGIES

• New Tech: People of the Trees: (Research Center) Carbon deposits last 15% longer

New Maps!

• ARTUS PRIME
• BPFASSH
• COMET
• HIDEOUT
• SPACE RAIDERS
• ZEFFO

Computer AI

• Fixed bad difficulty checks for Moderate and lower difficulties that resulted in bad age-up times and other behaviors.
• Fixed oversight in Troop Center build rules that made only Moderate construct more than one Troop Center.

Computer Expanded AI

• Moved sn-minimum-dropsite-buffer settings from difficulty-based settings to difficulty+map size+Tech Level.
• Added rules for expanding maximum walking drop-off distance for Nova/Ore past TL3.
• Fixed issue with not countering Air in TL2 due to an oversight in Anti-Air Trooper train rules.
• Improved Food Processing Center build rules so AI will construct more of them if they have fewer Farms than expected.
• AI is less likely to conduct Worker rushes into enemy bases to destroy Turrets.
• Altered Worker training considerations in TL4 for Hard/Hardest difficulty.
• Altered resource checks for Forage/Nova/Ore/Fish so that only 10 or more resource patches constitutes the resource being present, rather than 1 or more.
• Tuned performance to reduce lag by randomizing when timers are run. Matches with multiple Computer Expanded AI should run smoother as a result.
• AI now waits until the game has exceeded 5 minutes before asking for resources if an ally has a spaceport.
• AI will ask for resources less frequently.
• Fixed attack handler getting stuck under certain circumstances.
• Modified scenario mode triggers to use acknowledge-event.

Editor Interface

• Added scenario preview to Open Scenario and Select Scenario screens.
• Units in the Disable/Enable list now use the new two-letter civ tags

Triggers

• New Trigger Condition: Player Civilization.
• Renamed Condition: Unit Variable > Object Variable.
• Renamed Effect: Change Unit Data > Change Own Object Master.
• Renamed Effect: Change Unit Property Object > Change Player Object Master.
• Condition: Objects in Area: Corrected an issue that could cause crashes under certain circumstances.
• Effect: Change Own Object Master/Change Player Object Master now has additional variables for use.

Units & Objects

• Changed civilization of heroes: (BS) Prince Xizor, (BS) Guri, (NR) Kyle Katarn, (NR) Kyle Katarn (Lightsaber), (NR) Mara Jade (Lightsaber), (IR) Admiral Daala, (IR) Joruus C'baoth, (IR) Tavion Axmis, (IR) Hazard Trooper, (CF) Zian Finnis.
• Adjusted names for all bridges to have the style in parenthesis.
• Adjusted names for all Invisible Barriers to have the size in parenthesis.
• Fixed some cases with incorrect shown stats of editor units.
• (BS) Guri is now mechanical instead of biological.
• Hutt Palace (Capturable) now correctly functions as a building.
• Faction banners are now associated with the relevant civ, making them easier to locate in the Editor.
• Added various new units, buildings, and props.

New issues:

• Some techs in the Tech Tree were moved around because of a mysterious duplication bug (see Animal Nursery).
• Not implemented: Imperial Remnant World Devastators fortress tech. Destroyed enemy buildings reward 20% of their value in Carbon.
• Not implemented: New Republic holocron and monument victories require 25 fewer days to achieve.
• Building art for the Imperial Remnant, New Republic, and Black Sun are placeholders; recolored assets of other civ buildings until final art can be made.
• Some new editor units do not have sounds. (There were just too many to get to them all.)
• AT-AT Swimmer cannot garrison.
• New civ Mounted Troopers do not require Animal Nurseries.
• The Rebel Animal Nursery food generation rate resets to base rate (without nursery techs) after researching Evacuation Protocols.
• Geonosian Fortress bonus is broken.

Previously known issues that have not been resolved:

• There is a rare bug that prevents building a command center. It happens randomly and is unrelated to any specific map or scenario/campaign. To resolve the issue, you should exit the game entirely. Loading a saved game that previously had the problem will likely still persist.
• There is a rare bug in which you can start a match sharing control of an opposing AI player and unable to control your own units. To resolve the issue, you should exit the game entirely. Loading a saved game that previously had the problem will likely still persist.

Some of these bugs will be addressed in the next patch.