OpenHV: 20240803

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Features

• Added tracers to instant hit bullets. #957
• Added new projectile InstantExplode (unused). #993
• Added play map button.
• Added a water refill 🚰 mechanic to the Fire Watch mission.
• Added 🟢 friend vs. 🔴 foe colors. #935
• Added automatic ordering units to clear resource spots for miner deployment. #1075

Content

• New Missions:

  • Fillum Resources Claim #967
  • Fillum Crater #968
  • Harbor Defense #969
  • Asteroid Invasion #970
  • Scientist 🧑‍🔬 Rescue #1036

• New Conquest Maps:

  • Woody 🪵 Passage (3v3) #971
  • Swamp Conquest #995
  • Swampy Frontier map (2v2) #1025
  • Tyrian Dawn map (3v3) #1026
  • Dark Waters #1010
  • Fight At The River #1034 #1054
  • Duel Of The Shades #1039
  • Lost Eisley 🏜️ (4P) #1020 #1029
  • A Nuclear Winter (2v2) #1102
  • Fractional Freezing (1v1) #1080
  • Bay Under The Rain (4P)

• Added artwork for Lightning Boat. #984

• Map update: Clovergried #990

• New behemoth aircraft (not yet enabled)

  • Added Mothership unit. #985
  • Added Battleship unit. #1000

• Added extra road tiles for diagonal bridges. #982

• Added sounds and effects to Televator. #1002 and #1008

• Update Howitzer's power icon #1014

• Updated Televator's support power icon. #1011

• Updated artwork of Shield's icon. #1012

• Updated Banshee's weapon artwork. #1016

• Upgraded map Mount Brosnan #1021

• Added surveillance effect. #1057

• Added Torpedo Boat unit. #1059

• Enlarged Lightning Tank sprites. #1064

• Update builder artwork differing by faction. #1072 #1074

• Voiceovers 🎙️

  • Re-recorded all announcer voices. #1022
  • Re-recorded Stealth Tank voices. #1030
  • Re-recorded generic unit voices. #1028
  • Increased the quality of flamewh33l's voice lines. #1031
  • Increased the quality of generic ship's voice lines. #1032
  • Re-recorded Miner voices. #1043
  • Re-recorded seed critter voice. #1044
  • Re-recorded beast critter voice. #1045
  • Re-recorded technician voice. #1052
  • Re-recorded Flame Pod voices. #1062
  • Added re-recorded generic voice. #1068
  • Re-recorded Builder voices. #1085
  • Added new assault tank voice. #1086
  • Re-recorded Electric Pod voices. #1092
  • Re-recorded Civilian Pod voices. #1095
  • Re-recorded Elite Pod voices. #1098
  • Re-recorded Broker Pod voices. #1099

• Higher quality sounds. #1046 #1050

• Added repairing sounds for Repair Tank and Technician. #1063

Balancing

• Technicians disabled by ECM can't capture buildings. #952
• Swapped AA guns for Light and Patrol boats. #989
• Allowed Speeder and Banshee to target ground actors. #991
• Removed Air from ValidTargets for Speeder and Banshee. #994
• Swapped lightning boat and railgun boat . #1017
• Increase Banshee and Speeder damages vs non-buildings #1040
• Rebranded Medium Boat as Mercenery Boat #1061
• Differentiation between the two factions' scouts #1097 #1101
• Televator can now teleport units across the whole map.
• Reworked Hacker Tank temporary capturing. #1023
• Hacker tanks are now immune to temporary owner change and ECM tanks immune to ECM.
• Swapped secondary abilities of ECM and Hacker Tank.

Fixes

• Don't animate ore purifier & Ore smelter when disabled. #976
• Fixed diagonal facings on submarine artwork. #983
• Gave back heavy machine gun sounds to bunkers. #986
• Decreased interval for idle animations of Ore Smelter/Purifier. #987
• Updated armament offsets for machine gun pod. #988
• Added missing bridge shadows for Harbour map. #996
• Fixed aircraft shadows not rotating correctly. #1005
• Fixed tiling errors on map Clovergrief. #1003
• Fixed Missile Submarine's generic name. #1027
• Fixed animals capturing neutral buildings. #1049
• Overhaul to Ice River mission #1055
• Allow Synapol AI to produce builders #1065
• Try to improve performance be decreasing targeting scan intervals. #1087
• Fixed Electric Pod outline for north facing. #1094
• Fixed Ore smelter/purifier glitching animations when damaged. #1105
• Fixed bridge shadows being walkable. #953
• Fixed Drop Pods being allowed on invalid terrain. #944
• Fixed units staying behind resource towers. #942
• Fixed units bought at trader not be selectable with counterparts.
• Fixed scouts not lifting on their own on map start. #1058
• Fixed a crash when planes attacked invalid targets. #1060
• Fixed gold balls spawning in resource zones, blocking miners. #1075
• Fixed a crash when Drop Pods were deploying into situations where they can't find a path. #1067
• Fixed skirmish button spamming causing UI glitches. #981
• Fixed a crash when aircraft were entering carriers. #1006
• Fixed different build menu hotkeys for PvP and PvE. #1037
• Fixed a crash when bots tried to attack with dead units. #1076
• Fixed a multiplayer crash around APC ejecting. #1089

Based on a development snapshot of @OpenRA