Combat Extended 4.1 “Evolving Threats”

Features

• Added extensive improvements to raider and NPC AI in combat:
  o When fighting at night, they will deploy flares to illuminate their targets.
  o They will deploy smoke when they or their allies are being suppressed.
  o They will adjust their aiming and firing modes based upon factors including range to the target and their ammo level.
  o They will use grenades and launchers in their inventory against clusters of enemies and static targets in cover.
  o They will collect ammo off the ground when running low and will switch weapons or try to find a new weapon if they run out.
  o They will now make more effective use of deployed low-shields when available.
  o Improved their logic for selecting targets.
  o They will not take darkness in account when choosing cover.
  o They will now take the opportunity to self-tend in combat.
  o They will now equip or remove gas masks based upon the amount of smoke around them.
• Added a DangerTracker which should help prevent friendly fire by making pawns less likely to step into an ally’s line of fire.
• New texture for the 90mm flak gun.
• New texture for normal and improvised gas masks.
• New texture for flare ammunition.

Fixes

• Increased the frequency of colonists automatically updating their loadouts. It was only three times a day, it is now once an hour.
• Resolved some rendering issues related to interactions with Humanoid Alien Races.

Compatibility

• Add integrated patches for the following mods:
  o Ancient Blade Cyborg
  o Arasaka Corporation
  o Darkest Night SK Steam
  o Project RimFactory - Materials
• Updated integrated patches for the following mods:
  o [O21] Forgotten Realms
  o Alpha Animals
  o Android Tiers
  o Censored Armory
  o Kit’s Gunpowder Weapons
  o Magical Menagerie
  o Mantodean Insectoid Race
  o More Vanilla Turrets
  o MorrowRim
  o Rabbie The Moonrabbit
  o Rim of Madness – Bones
  o Rim-Hivers!
  o Rimsenal Collection
  o Save Our Ship 2
  o Sergal
  o Star Wars – Factions
  o Tsar Armory
  o Ultratech: Altered Carbon Remastered
  o Xenohumans - Anthromorphs

Balance

• 90mm flak gun is now a 3x3-sized structure and costs 500 steel instead of 495.

Misc.

• Give many raider pawnkinds a chance to spawn with smoke grenades and flares.
• Advanced Optoelectronics research now has Basic Optoelectronics as a prerequisite.
• NPCs can now spawn with plasteel arrows. Reduced the frequency of them spawning with fire arrows.