Lambda Wars Changelog

What's new in Lambda Wars 3.11b rev. 6577

Feb 7, 2019

Changed the prices for control points on Lvl 1 and Lvl 2. Advanced/Professional players requested that the prices are changed for better competitive gameplay.
Misc:
Added badges for tournament players who participated and those who received respective places.

New in Lambda Wars 03.23.2017 (Mar 27, 2017)

New in Lambda Wars 02.11.2017 (Feb 13, 2017)

Balance:
Rebel billet now costs 10 requisition and gives 4 population.
Competitive resources - added "power" to resources table.
Maps:
hlw_thirst - Small changes for highground - units can't get on them anymore.
hlw_outland - Added trigger_hurt beneath the map that kills units, which may get stuck (headcrabs, etc).
hlw_city16 - A new map Pandango has been working on (it is unfinished and wasn't even meant to make an appearence this build, however... oops)
New:
New structures - Bunkers for Rebels&Combine and Combine Forcefield preveiously seen in Overrun now in Annihilation and Competitive modes. The force frields require power generators.
New ability for Saboteur - Plant Mines (they also have stripes on them for convenience)
Units:
Rebel flamer now throws smoke grenades
Partisan with SMG was added back to the barracks (with increased cost and production time)
Partisan with Molotov now has the same passive as Partisan with SMG
Rebel soldier and Combine soldier now have to be unlocked by constructing a Munition Depot/Armory
When a fast headcrab kills a human unit, it gets turned into a fast zombie
Metrocop with pistol was added back to the game. Upgrading to metrocop to SMG costs 15 req 7 power, while making a metrocop with SMG1 is cheaper
Tier system, where lower tier units do less damage against higher tier units
Sounds:
Added work sounds for buildings when in process of making units and researching upgrades.
Misc:
Munition depot/Armory price was increased (40/20 - 40/40; 40/30 - 40/50)
Rebels and Combine have to unlock grenades individually per unit.
Grenade explosion timer was increased.
New Munition Depot building model.
Known Issues:
Annihilation mode: Rebel HQ costs too cheap
Competitive mode: Missing icon for Vortigaunt Den, name for Vortigaunt Den, description for Vortigaunt Den (is the building itself missing tho?)
hlw_city16 unfinished - navigation meshes bugged, some other unfinished matters to address (the map wasn't meant to be released this build, but oh well)
A missing model component for Combine Bunker (A flashy red ERROR)
Tutorial won't work with the new changes for now.
Some missing sound files (Open console and type the command snd_rebuildaudiocache to fix this)
Some players reported crashes with mines.

New in Lambda Wars 08.27.2016 Beta (Aug 29, 2016)

New in Lambda Wars 06.15.2016 Beta (Jun 17, 2016)

New in Lambda Wars 04.03.2016 Beta (Apr 11, 2016)

New in Lambda Wars 02.28.2016 Beta (Feb 29, 2016)

New in Lambda Wars 01.02.2016 Beta (Jan 4, 2016)

New in Lambda Wars 12.27.2015 Beta (Dec 28, 2015)

New in Lambda Wars 12.19.2015 Beta (Dec 21, 2015)

New in Lambda Wars 12.12.2015 Beta (Dec 14, 2015)

New in Lambda Wars 12.02.2015 Beta (Dec 2, 2015)

Match results & history:
Match history is now tracked. You can view your recent matches by clicking your profile name
For each match basic statistics and graphs are available, such as unit kill/lost counts and spent resources (more are planned)
UI:
New animated main menu background
Announcer:
New Combine Announcer sounds
Gameplay & Balance:
REBELS:
Junkyard:
Replaces HQ as Rebel starting building.
Builds Engineers and Scouts, no longer builds DOG.
Provides 3 population.
HQ:
Requires Triage Center.
Cost decreased from (300 req, 100 sec) to (70 req, 40 scrap, 70 sec).
Builds Vortigaunt and Dog, Vortigaunt Den removed.
Provides no population.
Set health to 1000.
DOG:
Cost and build time reduced from (90 req, 150 scrap, 120 sec) to (90 req, 90 scrap, 90 sec).
Damaged reduced from 100 to 50.
View distance decreased from 1000 to 900.
Dog unlock removed. Builds at HQ but requires Munitions Depot.
Slam
Damage increased from 200 to 230.
Radius increased from 160 to 200.
Recharge time decreased from 10 to 2.
Energy decrased from 25 to 15.
Autocasts if 2 enemies range instead of 4.
Constant bonus damage vs Strider increased from 50 to 100.
Jump
Recharge time decreased from 10 to 0.
Energy cost increased from 25 to 40.
Saboteur Sabotage ability:
Time increased from 5 seconds to 12 seconds.
Can take control of all enemy structures except
Starting buildings: Junkyard and Combine HQ.
Late game production structures: Spec Ops, Rebel HQ, Synth Factory.
Tech Structures: Armory, Munitions Depot, Triage Center.
Vortigaunt:
Population count reduced from 3 to 2.
Cost and build time reduced from (50 req, 36 scrap, 42 sec) to (40 req, 40 scrap, 40 sec).
Bugbait ability
Throw range increased from 1000 to 3000.
Recharge time decreased from 30 to 12.
Bugbait antlions
Changed attack attribute from slash to shock.
Melee attack damage reduced from 10 to 2.
Melee attack delay reduced from 1.5 to 1.
Leap attack damage increased from 15 to 120.
Leap attack minimum and maximum range increased from (256 and 720) to (1200 and 2200).
Health increased from 80 to 90.
Viewdistance decreased from 730 to 600.
Maxspeed decreased from 450 to 354.
Scale decreased from 0.8 to 0.75.
Teleporter:
Reduce recharge time from 80 to 16 seconds.
Reduced teleport cost from (100 req, 45 scrap) to (30 req).
Reduced build time from 80 to 50.
Changed requirements from (Munitions Depot and Radio Tower) to (Triage Center).
Reduced build cost from (60 req, 100 scrap) to (60 scrap).
Reduced teleport time from 40 to 16 seconds (including windup time).
Radio Tower:
Initial energy decreased from 100 to 50.
Scan radius reduced from 1200 to 900.
Scan energy reduced from 50 to 35.
Barracks:
Tech requirement changed from HQ to Junkyard.
Billet:
Population provided increased from 6 to 9.
Flamer:
Increased explosion radius from 128 to 320.
Increased view distance from 500 to 700.
Barrel trap:
Launch cost reduced from 2 scrap to 0 scrap.
View distances simplified:
Scout increased from 1215 to 1300.
Saboteur decreased from 1320 to 1000.
Partisan reduced from 825 to 800.
Rebel soldier reduced from 818 to 800.
Rebel SG increased from 710 to 800.
Medic decreased from 1000 to 900.
Rpg decreased from 1250 to 900.
Scrap gathering:
Reduced salvage time from 12 to 9.
Reduced salvage scrap count from 3 to 2.
(Scrap gathered per minute decreased from 15 to 13.33).
Engineer build menu:
Added support structures to defense submenu. (Aid station, Radio Tower, Teleporter).
Organized economic, production, and tech structures into different rows.
COMBINE:
Strider:
Removed Strider Unlock, having Mechanical Factory unlocks Strider.
Cost and build time reduced from (90 req, 120 power, 120 sec) to (90 req, 90 power, 90 sec).
Reduced health from 2000 to 1700.
Dark Energy Cannon
Increased range from 1000 to 1300.
Decreased recharge time from 10 to 2.
Decreased damage from 2500 to 350.
Decreased radius from 220 to 150.
Decreased energy cost from 75 to 30.
Mines:
Explosion radius increased from 320 to 450.
Damage decreased from 320 to 150.
Rollermine:
Increased stun duration from 3 to 4 seconds.
Set viewdistance to 800.
Increased explosion radius from 128 to 160.
Elite:
Accuracy reduced from High to Medium.
Removed AR2 unlock requirement.
Combineball recharge time decreased from 30 to 20.
Combineball damage increased from 250 to 300.
Reduced speed from 210 to 190.
Decreased viewdstance from 1100 to 900.
Scrap powered generator:
Power generation amount every 1.5 seconds decreased from 1.25 to 1.0.
(Power generated per minute decreased from 50 to 40.)
View distances simplified:
Hunter increased from 1056 to 1100.
Riot Metrocop decreased from 821 to 800.
Combine SG increased from 712 to 800.
Manhack increased from 634 to 700.
BOTH FACTIONS:
Grenade:
Damage radius increased from 220 to 300.
Damage decreased from 320 to 200.
Unlock cost changed from (40 req) to (30 scrap) for Rebels and (30 power) for Combine.
Multiple workers constructing becomes less efficient with more than 2 workers instead of 4.
AR2 Weapon:
Range decreased from 820 to 800.
Attack delay increased from 0.1 to 0.15.
Attributes:
Metal
Bullet ScaleBonusDamage increased from 0.2 to 0.3.
Pulse ScaleBonusDamage increased from 0.3 to 0.4.
Synth: Bullet damagescale increased from 0.3 to 0.4.
Removed Stun effect from Dog Slam attack.
Fixed:
Dedicated Server getting in a stuck state when lobby/players request a missing map on the server
Translations:
Add Ukranian translations
Updated Russian translations

New in Lambda Wars 09.28.2015 Beta (Sep 29, 2015)

New in Lambda Wars 09.20.2015 Beta (Sep 21, 2015)

New in Lambda Wars 09.07.2015 Beta (Sep 8, 2015)

New in Lambda Wars 08.29.2015 Beta (Aug 30, 2015)

New in Lambda Wars 08.26.2015 Beta (Aug 27, 2015)

New in Lambda Wars 08.19.2015 Beta (Aug 20, 2015)

Gameplay & Balance:
Added Combine Metro Police Riot:
Replaces Combine early unit Metro Police with Pistol
- Equiped with Stunstick and ShieldImage
Added Rebels Partisan wtih Molotov:
Replaces Rebels Partisan unit
Autocasting ability Molotov, setting the target units on fire
Ability stink-bomb, temporary slowing down the movement of hit unitsImage
Added Combine rollermine: shocks enemy units with a small chance to stun
Headcrab Canister launcher:
Now has three launch abilities for regular, fast and poison headcrabs
- Reduced Canister health from 550 to 300
- Increased range from 5000 to 9000.
- Increased crawl out speed of Headcrabs
- Spawned Headcrabs roam the map to find enemies* Added Combine Mechanical Factory building:
Builds Scanners, Manhacks, and RollerminesImage
Added Rebel Teleporter buildingImage
Infested zombies now roam the map to find enemies
Headcrabs can now damage buildings.
BugBait:
Increased throw range from 800 to 1000.
Increased recharge time from 1 to 30.
Increased energy 30 to 50.
Uses smaller, faster antlion version.* Dispel:
Increased recharge time from 2 to 3.
Increased energy from 30 to 50.
Increased range from 800 to 900.* VortAttack:
Decreased energy from 10 to 5.
Decreased recharge time from 1.8 to 1.5
Decreased damage from 60 to 30.
Increased range from 575 to 590.* Vortigaunt:
Increased in combat energy regeneration rate from 1 to 2.
Increased speed from 242 to 245.
Decreased build time from 48 to 42.
Decreased health from 300 to 250.
Decreased max energy from 370 to 200.
Changed cost from 45req, 50scrap to 50req, 36scrap* Vortigaunt Den:
Decreased scrap cost from 40 to 30.
Decreased build time from 54 to 50.* Manhack:
Removed light attribute.
Reduced health from 40 to 30.* Veteran:
Requires Steady Position to attack.
Added Smoke Grenade ability.
Increased range from 870 to 1100.
Increased build time from 32 to 35.
Decreased health from 210 to 170.
Decreased view distance from 1200 to 1000.
Increased requisition cost from 45 to 50.* Saboteur - Removed Smoke Grenade.
Combine Sniper - Increased health from 110 to 160.
Hunter - Reduced power cost from 50 to 30.
Synth Factory - Reduced power cost from 50 to 40.
Claw Scanner:
Mine automatically recharges after being deployed.
Mine is uncloaked, health increased from 40 to 100.
Mines no longer bounce and roll after being dropped.
Mines hop towards enemy.*Attributes:
Disabled bullet 2 bonus damage vs creature.
Disabled pulse 0.6 damage scale vs creature.
Disabled shock 50 bonus damage vs heavy.
Disabled shock 0.5 damage scale vs synth.* Rebel & Combine Barricade - Added 1 extra cover point.
Improved reliability of Dog Jump ability
Hunter jump ability: Behaves more predictable and now acts on all Hunters in player selection
Combine Manhacks can now be build at the Headquarters, with Armory building as requirement
Replaced Combine Observer by not cloaked, faster and cheaper Scanner unit
RPG attribute now has reduced damage against medium (-50%) and heavy (-30%) types of units
Reduce flash ability recharge time from 60 to 25
Overrun:
Vortigaunt starts at full energy when spawned
Energy of all units is replenished between waves now
Maps:
hlw_synth, hlw_antarctica and hlw_aurora: update scrap points to use small versions
hlw_thirst: mountains are now impassable and removed (confusing) day/night cycle
Added: or_village (Overrun mode)
sp_valley - Combine attack your flag on hard difficulty
hlw_mine: tweak scrap marker position to fix an issue where engineers could get stuck
UI & Lobby:
New loading backgrounds;
Metrocop loading background by Revvylo* Show game mode for found online games
Improved speed of creating or joining a lobby
Fail to join lobbies on different game version (through friend invites), which would result in not joinable games
Small performance improvements html UIImage
Unit Navigation:
Simplified navigation meshes, preventing several issues and resulting in better performance
Some unreachable cover spots are now filtered from being displayed
Fixed:
Ability being cancelled before the player can target something due units dying in the selection
Unable to place mountable turrets properly on some map spots (hlw_slums)
Fix units not following a target unit properly after the target unit hold a position or was in cover
Melee units (e.g. Zombies) not getting close enough to hit buildings
Fog of War toggle in Sandbox showing incorrect behavior
Strider minigun shooting at feet of infantary rather than body
Rebel rpg attribute not being applied to enemy units, resulting in missing bonus damage against synth type of units (Strider and Hunter)
Potential exit crash due cleaning up CEF panels
Fix (online) game lobby empty and unusable upon creation in some cases
Fix black terrain, only in Simple lighting mode (e.g. Geforce 7 cards)
Fix checkmark font character not displayed in game lobby on Windows 10
Misc:
Add Hungarian translations, provided by Bence Gercuj
Russian translation updated by Chiffer

New in Lambda Wars 06.12.2015 Beta (Jun 13, 2015)

New in Lambda Wars 05.31.2015 Beta (Jun 1, 2015)

Gameplay & Balance:
Increased base income from unfortified control point from 0.15 to 0.2 requisition per 1.5 seconds
Reduced sniper steady position time from 5 to 4.
Reduced sniper power cost from 50 to 40
Increased metal attribute damage bonuses for plasma, explosive, pulse, and fire.
Reduced power generator cost from 20 req to 15.
Increased headcrab launcher cost from 30r/40p to 40r/50p
Reduced launch headcrab ability range from 6000 to 4000, reduced cost from 30r/60p to 35r/15p
Increased dispel range from 800 to 900 slightly lowered animation speed.
Reduced dispel cooldown from 10 seconds to 2.
Barrel trap:
Added oildrum model with 128 explosion radius instead of 256.
Increased launch speed from 450 to 600.
Lowered reload time from 15 seconds to 9 seconds.
Increased range from 1024 to 1200.
Reduced requisition cost from 10 to 5.
Barrel and mortar disabled required rotation.
Stalkers start constructing a placed building as soon as in construct range, rather than when at the edge of the building to be placed
Dog Slam/Jump attack is now applied as splash/radius damage, rather than fixed damage
Maps:
Remove buggy day/night cycle from hlw_outland, hlw_slums and hlw_thirst
hlw_jungle: fix unreachable scrap marker
Visuals:
Update destruction effects Combine Scrap Power Generator building
UI:
Display a confirm dialog When player is hosting a game and other players are connected and presses disconnect to prevent accidentally shutting down the server
Display different "invalid position" message for when a Combine building can't be placed due no nearby of power generators
Fix empty CPU difficulty selection entry in lobby
Fixed:
Various cases where units could get stuck under rocks/cliffs, in particular on or_crashed and or_hill (Overrun Antlions wave type)
Strider moving at wrong height
CPU Player:
Fix easy CPU player being too aggressive. No longer attacks player directly and production of units is more limited.
Scout will now use infiltrate ability when encountering enemies
Misc:
Add fortification hint when capturing a control point the first time (game instructor option), added for PCreeper1

New in Lambda Wars 05.22.2015 Beta (May 25, 2015)

New in Lambda Wars 05.14.2015 Beta (May 14, 2015)

New in Lambda Wars 05.09.2015 Beta (May 9, 2015)

New in Lambda Wars 04.26.2015 Beta (Apr 27, 2015)

New in Lambda Wars 04.25.2015 Beta (Apr 25, 2015)

New in Lambda Wars 04.18.2015 Beta (Apr 19, 2015)

Today we released an update with various gameplay changes, bug fixes and updates to the CPU player.
The most notable gameplay changes are in the resource system. The Combine faction now uses scrap as secondary resource requirement for most units and buildings, except for units such as the Strider and Headcrab cannister launcher.
A new building, the Combine factory, is introduced as collection point for scrap and the Combine loyal citizen unit as scrap collector.
Regular power generators no longer generate the power resource and are now only required for powering nearby buildings. Instead the Combine need to build a separate larger version of the power generator for this purpose. In addition, most of our maps now have groups of four or five smaller scrap piles placed around the control points, making it easier to be shared between players in teams.
Another big change in the resource system is that it's now possible to deplete requisition and scrap during the game duration. With this change we hope to make make turtling a less viable strategy.
The full changelog for this update is:
Gameplay & Balance
Control Points only generate a limited amount of requisitionScrap points can now run out of scrapSmall scrap marker - Reduced max number of workers from 3 to 2Control Point income is no longer reduced based on the number of players in a team gameAdd "Speed" ability to Strider, draining energy in return for higher movement speedCombine Elite Energy Ball ability now does friendly damageCombine Elite Energy Ball ability now bounces off all buildingsReduced RPG range from 1000 to 900.Hunter:
Add jump ability to Hunter. Does no damage, just quickly moves to target location.
Reduce Hunter attack range to 550 (from 820) and increase flechette damage from 8 to 10.Veteran:
Lowered attack speed from 1.8 to 2.
Increased damage from 90 to 100.Flamer:
Increased burning status effect duration from 1 second to 10 seconds.
Reduced damage from 5 to 2.
Reduced range from 370 to 350.
Increased burning damage from 5 to 10.
Removed smoke grenade.
Increased view distance from 475 to 500.Saboteur:
Changed smoke grenade cost from 5 scrap to 40 energy.
Reduced smoke grenade cooldown from 9 seconds to 1 second.
Reduced smoke duration from 15 seconds to 10 seconds.
Changed initial unit energy from 100 to 40.
Reduced C4 cost from 20 scrap to 15 scrap.Fire attribute:
Reduced from 20 to 12 vs light.
Reduced from 12 to 6 vs medium.
Added 3 constant bonus damage vs buildings.
Maps:
hlw_village, abandoned, metro, woodland, forest, base4, mine - Scrap markers now in groups of 4 and 5.
Visuals:
New Combine energy ball particle effect
CPU Player:
Retweaked CPU player to have better balance for fortifying control points, base building and producing unitsFixed CPU player not placing any buildings in some cases, in particular the Combine CPU PlayerFixed bug where CPU Players would not compute the correct resource income in team games (affecting their unit production)Rebel CPU Player placing too many unneeded billets at the start of the game
Fixed:
Missing unit navigation on tutorial mapUnits running into walls or buildings in some casesIncorrect select/move/attack sounds for female rebel soldier modelPotential "CUtlRBTree overflow!" crash to desktop error, which could occur on long running instances of Lambda Wars (dedicated servers)
We are also working on multiple other features for next updates, which include achievements, vehicles and save/load support for single player games.

New in Lambda Wars 03.12.2015 Beta (Mar 13, 2015)

New in Lambda Wars 03.07.2015 Beta (Mar 8, 2015)

New in Lambda Wars 02.27.2015 Beta (Feb 28, 2015)

New in Lambda Wars 02.22.2015 Beta (Feb 23, 2015)

Updated unit navigation with improvements in the following areas:
Path-finding around mountable turrets and barricades
Path-finding around units in cover
Path-finding of air units (observer, claw scanner, strider)
General improvements in resolving blocked situations
Bonus Crates and Overrun Headcrab Cannisters are now always launched on a reachable spot for soldiers
Gameplay & Balance:
Added Rebels Junkyard building, producing Dog
Added Combine Mortar defence building
Vortigaunt:
Increased Energy Blast damage from 50 to 80 per beam (fires 2 beams).
Increased Energy Blast energy from 15 to 18.
Decreased Energy Blast range from 950 to 750.
Removed damage bonus against 'medium' from 'shock' Vort attack attribute
Added -40% scaling damage from 'pulse' attacks to Vort's 'creature' attribute
Decreased health from 450 to 370.
Increased knockback of Dispel ability and Zap Beam attack
Dispel knockback only affects enemies now
Added Stun chance of 33% to Dispel ability
Added Stun chance of 5% to Zap Beam attack
Increased damage radius of Dispel ability from 200 to 225
Reduced Antlion summon rate
Floor Turret: Decreased range from 870 to 800
Combine mines no longer show up on minimap
Maps
hlw_village:
Changed capture areas into large zones.
Manually placed cover spots.
Replaced normal scrap markers with small ones.
hlw_woodland:
Added 3 more small scrap markers.
Made cars and other large props physics objects.
hlw_slumdoll: Renamed to hlw_metro.
or_trapped: enemy units that don't fit the map are now filtered from the Overrun wave (Antlion Guard Boss and Strider)
Menu/UI:
You can mute players in lobby/global chat by clicking their name and press mute. You can also visit their Steam profile through the dropdown
Updated "Waiting for Players" screen, shown pre-match when other players are still loading
Randomize default 8 player map selection in gamelobby
Visuals:
Added team color textures to Vortigaunt Den
Fixed:
CPU Players only spending resources on cheapest units
CPU Players computing their shared team income incorrectly (used for decision making)
Overrun mode sometimes not progressing to the next wave
New Combine sniper beam effect being displayed wrongly
Charge ability charging at the nearest enemy instead of targeted enemy/unit
Charge ability not doing any damage against neutral barricades
Charge ability not stopping the charge after hitting an enemy building
Mission items showing up as error models on sp_radio_tower
Missing foot step sounds Strider
Missing death sound Hunter
Units without attack move ability (e.g. observers.) not doing anything when targeting neutral barricades
Rare crash related to unit selection/camera unit following
Fix start-up crash when path to Lambda Wars folder contained certain characters
Dedicated server resuming from hibernation potentially hanging after a player rejoins an active game
Misc:
Screen shake is now applied to players for various effects, such as building explosions
Updated Swarm Keeper bonus map. Added missing sounds, various particle effects and some minor improvements.

New in Lambda Wars 02.05.2015 Beta (Feb 9, 2015)

New in Lambda Wars 01.24.2015 Beta (Jan 26, 2015)