Combat Extended 6.3.1 “Often Imitated, Never Duplicated.”

Features

• Projectile flecks can now be assigned a delay before they start.
• Hovering over artillery markers now displays info on their accuracy bonus and time until they expire.
• Added the ability to filter/specify pawnkind shield material and color.
• Mechanoid auto charge blaster turrets now have CIWS capability.

Fixes

• Fixed the generic cannon shell air-burst round having the wrong ammo class assigned to it.
• Fixed the bioferrite flare crafting recipe creating regular flares.
• Archers and similar pawnkinds should now reliably spawn with sane amounts of ammo.
• Fixed 75x530mmR HE using the wrong projectile texture.
• Fixed strange behavior when reloading an equipped weapon that holds more than one stack of ammo.
• Re-added some legacy lerpPosition projectile stuff that was accidentally depreciated without appropriate notice, which broke some custom projectiles from other mods.
• Fixed an NRE that could occur when meleeing vehicles.
• Made some improvements to target bounding box checks that could sometimes cause slow projectiles to erroneously miss.
• Fixed a map nullcheck that could cause odd interactions when killing trispikes and similar entities under some circumstances.

Compatibility

• Add integrated patches for the following mods:
  • [RH2] Helldiver’s Super Apparel
  • [RH2] Helldiver’s Super Firearms
  • Asimov
  • Crypto Weapons Restored
  • Dust Bunnies
  • Grimworld: Sabbat’s Blight
  • Primitive Core
  • Primitive Workbenches
  • Rim-effect Renegade Collection
• Updated integrated patches for the following mods:
  • ↁ House Sanguine
  • [FSF] Vanilla Bionics Expansion
  • [RH2] V.O.I.D
  • Alpha Animals
  • Anty the War Ant
  • Biomes! Caverns
  • Biomes Core
  • Gas Traps and Shells
  • Japanese Dogs
  • Outer Rim - Droid Depot
  • Profaned
  • Titan Vehicle
  • Vanilla Factions Expanded - Pirates
  • Vanilla Quests Expanded - Cryptoforge

Balance

Royalty

• Increased the shield budget for Imperial Champions and Stellic Melee Guards.
• Imperial Champions and Stellic Melee Guards will now spawn with plasteel shields.

Misc.

• Flares are now exposed to xml.
• Improved logging for when PatchOperationMakeGunCECompatible fails.
• New art for the tribal backpack.
• The .44 S&W Special is now simply called .44 Special.
• Added additional details to .454 Casul ammoset labels.
• Added several new ammo types.
  • High velocity variants of the .357 Magnum, .38 Special, .44 Special, and .44 Magnum.
  • 152mm artillery shells.