Combat Extended 7.3 “Now With Multithreading!”

Features

• Added support for laser/instant projectiles to world-map artillery.
• Added estimated hit chance for ranged attacks, visible when hovering over a target pawn with the shooter selected.
• Reworked how ammo the ammo gizmo works for weapons without magazines, like bows.
  • Gizmo now displays the amount of the current ammo type the pawn has in their inventory, along with a total of all useable ammo for the equipped weapon if the pawn is carrying more than one type.
• Updated Multiplayer compatibility.
• Various performance updates.
  • Cache highest cover, substantially improving performance in large battles.
  • Cache weatherTracked to reduce how frequently it’s queried, reducing performance impact by around 50%.
  • Significant improvements to bounding box generation, including the addition of (very minor) multithreading, reducing performance impact by nearly 65%. With very large mod lists, this may reduce loading time by 20+ seconds.

Fixes

• 27x145mm Mauser AP-I now has the correct AP.
• Flamethrower ammo now explodes when damaged.
• Fixed 50mm and 20mm Fliergerfaust Rockets not having aa ThingCategoryDef.
• The 75x350mmR and 76.2x539mmR APCR projectiles now use the APCR instead of AP texture.
• 76.2x385mmR and 90mm AP and APCR projectiles now use the correct Parent.
• Weight and Bulk capacity now have a minimum value of 0.1 to prevent underflow errors.
• Added a soundExplosion to Bullet damageDef, fixing an error encountered when explosive ammo that does Bullet damage (like HEDP) cooks off.
• CIWS turrets now correctly show their non-CIWS range rings when selected.
• Fixed autoloader graphics breaking on save.
• Fixed non-human hit chance not appropriately checking the pawn’s skill. New behavior is now closer to vanilla.
• Fixed a post-processing bug for carried bulk that could situationally cause extremely high inventory bulk to improve melee hit chance.
• Added a missing null check to the weatherTracker.
• Various fixes with melee (apparel) shields.
• Shield armor is no longer applied twice in the inventory stat display.
• Fixed an error where the body part (left shoulder) where the shield is “attached” to the pawn was having the armor from the shield counted twice.
• Fixed an error on area shields that was causing secondary damage to be counted twice for damage calculations.
• Fixed a bug with autoloaders that caused it to supply turrets with infinite ammo.
• Improved cleanup on the hunkering job, avoiding pawns hunkering indefinitely.
• Odyssey
  • Added missing bodyShape to the Badger and Cyclops.
  • Fixed typo in the Colossus Toad bodyShape patch.
  • Hacked turrets now behave correctly.
  • Untriggered hunter and wasp traps can now be hit by projectiles.

Compatibility

• Add integrated patches for the following mods:
  • Astrofuel Gear
  • Better Grenade Handling
  • Better Traders Guild
  • Bioferrite Chainsaw
  • Biological Warfare
  • Eltex Weaponry (Continued)
  • Erin’s Rhy’aeth
  • Giddy-Up 2 – Continued
  • Girls’ Frontline 2 Nagan Apparel
  • Halo – Rimworld Auxiliary Armory
  • Outer Rim – Separatists
  • Ponpeco Kid’s Clothes
  • Rim of Evil – Northern Frontier
  • Rim of the Fallen
  • Thog’s Armor
  • Thog’s Guns – Lead and Powder
  • Vanilla Furniture Expanded - Factory
• Updated integrated patches for the following mods:
  • [NL] Girls’ Frontline Apparel Styles
  • Alpha Animals
  • Alpha Biomes
  • Alpha Mechs
  • Arasaka Corporation (Continued)
  • EPOE Forked
  • Erin’s Auraeyl
  • Gestalt Engine
  • Outer Rim
    • Chiss Ascendancy
    • Core
    • Droid Depot
    • Galactic Empire
    • Galactic Republic
    • Mandalore
    • Old Republic
    • Rebel Alliance
  • Save Our Ship 2
  • Spacer Arsenal
  • Spacer Pack
  • Vanilla Animals Expanded – Endagered
  • Vanilla Armour Expanded
  • Vanilla Factions Expanded
    • Ancients
    • Deserters
  • Vanilla Genetics Expanded
  • Vanilla Gravships Expanded – Chapter 1
  • Vanilla Quests Expanded – Ancients
  • Vanilla Races Expanded
    • Phytokin
    • Pigskins
  • Vanilla Weapons Expanded
  • Vanilla Weapons Expanded – Quickdraw
  • Zeus Weapons Pack

Balance

• Non-colony pawns no display melee hit chance information by default. This can be changed in mod settings.
• Non-colony pawns able to target specific body parts will now do so, instead of always aiming for center mass. This increases the rate of headshots by non-colony pawns.
• Reduced flashbang stack limit from 250 to 75.

Misc.

• CombatExtended.PatchOperation_ConditionalGeneric has been replaced with CombatExtended.PatchOperationSettingsConditional, which allows conditional patching based upon game settings.
• Reworked the base parent of the Charged Rocket.
• The “concentrated tibanna” ammo type is now “pressurized tibanna.”
• Added powerful anti-grain shells to the 105mm and 155mm howitzer ammo sets, available as quest rewards.
• Added a new, EMP-only ammoset for the 40x46mm grenades, useful for certain specialized weapons.
• Added new ammo sprites for straight wall (i.e. revolver) ammo.
• Removed “subsonic” from the label of the 9x19mm Para subsonic ammoset.
• Added a mod setting to toggle the use of real-world weapon names.
• Added a mod option to allow over-penetrations against VF vehicles to produce fragments on the far side of the target. Balance is still a work in progress, so this disabled by default.
• Added Ukranian translation.
• Removed some lingering vanilla accuracy stats from the weapon handling UI for the sake of clarity.
• Royalty
  • Reorganized and reworked some patch files between Core and Royalty to reflect the base game moving some defs between modules.