Combat Extended 7.1 “A Christmas Miracle”

Features

Added the ability to assign weapon range and recoil modifiers to projectiles.
- Shotgun slugs have +50% weapon range and +33% recoil.
Reintroduced NPCs employing grenades, launchers, smoke, and other consumables in combat with simpler but more performance-friendly logic.
Ammo can now be set up to damage (and eventually destroy) the weapon that fires it.
Added mod option for variable human hitbox heights based upon their body size.
Added mod option toggle for automatically forbidding neolithic projectiles on the ground.
Can now set range offset for airburst rounds, allowing for fine tuning of detonations.
- Gave airburst grenades offset and adjusted angle for a more lethal frag pattern
Added mod option to log all unpatched melee tools at startup.
- This has no gameplay effect, but can be useful when making patches.

Fixed generic autocannon HE shell is now labeled AP-HE to better clarify its nature.
Increased laser blunt penetration from 0.001 to 0.01 to fix some issues caused by the added digit.
Fixed a code typo that caused the promethuem-soaked hediff to multiply fire size and damage too aggressively.
Prometheum-soaked hediff is now cap a 1.0 severity.
Shields no longer render beneath burqas.
Faction goodwill is no longer damaged if they are hit by colony gunfire but are not the intended target, matching vanilla behavior.
Colony mechanoids can no longer be instructed to pick up things.
Fix a rare null map error associated with bipods.
Pawns must now be capable of manipulation to reload a turret.
Manned turrets will now automatically acquire new targets through smoke.
Manned turrets can now shoot over adjacent pawns like auto turrets can.
Pawns now obey biocoding restrictions when trying to opportunistically equip a weapon from their inventory or the ground.
Fixed an error associated with riposte attacks using terrain verbs like sand in eyes.
CompTacticalManager cache no longer persists across loads.
CIWS hold fire configuration now persists across loads.
Fixed an NRE that occurred when running out of ammo with a weapon that doesn't have a magazine, such as bows.
Anomaly
- Dread leather no longer has unusually high heat protection.
Biotech
- Fix the Sanguophages piercing spine.
Odyssey
- Autoloaders now keep their contents following a gravship launch.

Added a minimum duration of 240 ticks to hunkering and a slight delay between changing postures to prevent pawns matrix-dodging when under fire.
Reduced the cost, blast radius, and damage of the blackpowder bursting mortar shell, calculated according to new shell thickness.
Adjusted S8 rocket bombardment damage.
Default MeleeCounterparryBonus is now 0 instead of 1.
Value no longer displayed in weapon stats if it is 0.

Reduce UI clutter by hiding weapon burst/aiming gizmos that only have one option.
Improved melee targeting info display.
DPS and melee armor penetration now display in the info panel for ranged weapons and implants.
Nested DLC patch files similar to ModPatches to avoid duplicate pathes.
Added more ammo types to the generic autocannon ammo set: HE, HE fuzed, HEDP, EMP, and Smoke.
Added AP, Incendiary, and AP-HE to launcher grenade generic ammo set.
Added a second 30x113mmB ammoset with advanced projectile types, including HE-DP and HE fuzed, among others.
Named 120mm cannon shell to 120x570mmR for clarity.. Labels changed, but defNames preserved.
New ammo textures for Warhamnmer 40k Krak Grenade and Melta Bomb.
Adjusted some Core pawnkind patches to target the Name instead of the defName.
Debug settings now save between restarts.