Garrison Archangel December Public Changelog

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Campaign Updates
 - Sunfield Frontier Final Paragon Mission, Ending Cutscenes.
 - Ducouronne Final Paragon Mission, Ending Cutscenes.
 - Improved Missions Squad AI.
 - Multi-targeting on some Missile weapons upgrades.

New Melee-oriented Internals
 - Fine Manipulators - Reload & Trick speed +30%
 - Assault Condensers - Trick Charge Rate +20% 
 - Melee Overdrive - Melee attack speed +15%

New: Assault Drive - Melee Dash Bonus
 - While Boosting, accumulates up to 30% increased dash speed for melee attacks.
 - After Dodging, instantly gains 30% increased dash speed for melee attacks.
 - Dash speed bonus decays over 2s.

New: Assault Reload - Reload Speed Bonus
 - For WESPE AR, EMANCIPATOR SG
 - After projectiles hit, instantly gains 30% increased Reload speed.
 - Reload speed bonus decays over 2s.

Updated: Boost cooldown (instant) no longer overrides Dodge cooldown (0.9s) when used in sequence.
Updated: Boost Regen
 - Overload regeneration decreased to 3s.
 - Dodge regen delay increased to 0.9s.
 - Boost regen delay increased to 0.3s.

Fixed: Unintended Input interruption from taking damage ticks, causing attacks to be buffered.
 - Was more apparent in fast DPS ticks.
 - The 'Damage Cancel' penalty was intended 
 - for escaping damage immediately, but not to delay incoming counter-attacks.

Garage Pattern Texture Scaling
Improved Camera re/locking.
Improved performance for Physics updates .
Improved AI attack and reaction timings for fair play.

Weapons Changes
 - Rapid Missiles - Increased missile lifetime from 1.5s to 3s.
 - Fusion Blade - Added 2 Burning stacks on melee and projectile hit in Charged mode. 
 - Liberator - Cooldown reduced from 2s to 1s.
 - Hawkeye Sensors - Cooldown bonus increased from 10% to 20%.
 - Blutreiter - Transform speed increased by 20%.
 - Nere Crucis - Transform speed increased by 20%.
 - Peacemaker - Increased Special shot startup from 0.15s to 0.2s.
 - Peacemaker - Incresed Special shot intervals from 0.05 to 0.07s.
 - Cannons, Dual Lasers, Railgun - Added Hyperarmor to ready Frames.
 - ICBM - Lowered cooldown to 12s.
 - Barrier, Aurora, Hata Jirushi, Hawkeye - Increased startup animation duration to 0.5s.
 - Barrier, Aurora, Hata Jirushi, Hawkeye - Buffs activation is now earlier, animation duration is unchanged.

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v0.25.0 PUBLIC

Updated: Ducouronne Paragon Mission/Cutscene will now end the Campaign.
Updated: Sunfield Paragon Mission/Cutscene will now end the Campaign.

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v0.24.9 PREVIEW

Updated: Ducouronne Paragon Mission.
Updated: Sunfield Paragon Mission.
Fixed: Effect damage disabling clash and guard frames.

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v0.24.8 PREVIEW

Updated: Weapons
 - Rapid Missiles - Increased missile lifetime from 1.5s to 3s.
 - Fusion Blade - Added 2 Burning stacks on melee and projectile hit in Charged mode. 
 - Liberator - Cooldown reduced from 2s to 1s.
 - Hawkeye Sensors - Cooldown bonus increased from 10% to 20%.
 - Blutreiter - Transform speed increased by 20%.
 - Nere Crucis - Transform speed increased by 20%.

Fixed: Schafer
 - Normal projectiles incorrectly stacking to the max duration (10s) of Burning 
   starting from the 2nd hit. Stacks should be applied +2s each projectile. 

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v0.24.7 PREVIEW

Updated: Internals and Upgrades stats UI.

Updated: Weapons
 - Peacemaker - Increased Special shot startup from 0.15s to 0.2s.
 - Peacemaker - Incresed Special shot intervals from 0.05 to 0.07s.
 - Cannons, Dual Lasers, Railgun - Added Hyperarmor to ready Frames.
 - ICBM - Lowered cooldown to 12s.
 - Barrier, Aurora, Hata Jirushi, Hawkeye - Increased startup animation duration to 0.5s.
 - Barrier, Aurora, Hata Jirushi, Hawkeye - Buffs activation is now earlier, animation duration is unchanged.

Updated: Boost cooldown (instant) no longer overrides Dodge cooldown (0.9s) when used in sequence.
Updated: Boost Regen
 - Overload regeneration decreased to 3s.
 - Dodge regen delay increased to 0.9s.
 - Boost regen delay increased to 0.3s.

New: Assault Drive - Melee Dash Bonus
 - While Boosting, accumulates up to 30% increased dash speed for melee attacks.
 - After Dodging, instantly gains 30% increased dash speed for melee attacks.
 - Dash speed bonus decays over 2s.

New: Assault Reload - Reload Speed Bonus
 - For WESPE AR, EMANCIPATOR SG
 - After projectiles hit, instantly gains 30% increased Reload speed.
 - Reload speed bonus decays over 2s.

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v0.24.6 PREVIEW

Updated: Added ClashPoint Champion - Shoutouts To Ash. 
Updated: Counter-Attacks for Perfect Dodge, Guard, Parry, and Clash will now play faster.
Updated: Switchblade/RifleSpear moved from cooldown to charge rate for passives bonuses.

Updated: New Internals
 - Reload & Trick speed +30%
 - Trick Charge Rate +20% 
 - Melee attack speed +15%

Updated: Buffed Internals for increased choices in melee builds
 - Vulnerability -15% 
 - Dash Distance +15% 

Fixed: Unintended Input interruption from taking damage ticks, causing attacks to be buffered.
 - Was more apparent in fast DPS ticks.
 - The 'Damage Cancel' penalty was intended 
 - for escaping damage immediately, but not to delay incoming counter-attacks.

Fixed: AI attack timer issues. Lower difficuties will now have fairer timings.
Fixed: AI attack states not being reset between rounds (ATL Missions).
Fixed: AI dodge directions now favor their active weapon type.

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v0.24.5 PREVIEW

Updated: Pattern Scaling options.
Updated: Improved Camera target re-locking and switching priorities.
Updated: Multi-targets are now enabled for some upgraded Missile weapons in Soft-lock.
Updated: Decreased max time ranges for Survival and Safeguard from 180 to 120 seconds.
Updated: Improved performance of Projectile and Melee physics updates.

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v0.25.0 PUBLIC

Updated: Ducouronne Paragon Mission/Cutscene will now end the Campaign.
Updated: Sunfield Paragon Mission/Cutscene will now end the Campaign.

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v0.24.9 PREVIEW

Updated: Ducouronne Paragon Mission.
Updated: Sunfield Paragon Mission.

Updated: Internal equipment names.
Updated: Weapons
 - Rapid Missiles - Increased missile lifetime from 1.5s to 3s.
 - Barrier, Aurora, Hata Jirushi, Hawkeye - Buffs activation is now earlier, animation duration is unchanged.
 - Fusion Blade - Removed Burning stacks from base form.
 - Rifle Spear - Removed Burning stacks.
 - Magnum Barette - Removed Burning stacks.
 - RANGER BR, VAJRA CANNON - Removed Assault Reload.

Fixed: Environment lighting intensity on maps.  
Fixed: Effect damage disabling clash and guard frames.
Fixed: Buffered Boost input expiring before Parry animation ends.
Fixed: Target health too low for main objectives in some Special Missions.

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v0.24.8 PREVIEW

Updated: Melee Dash Boost (Assault Drive)
 - Max bonus reduced from 50% to 30%.

Updated: Weapons
 - Peacemaker - Reduced Special shot intervals from 0.125s to 0.07s.
 - Barrier, Aurora, Hata Jirushi, Hawkeye - Buffs now activate after the animation is played.
 - Fusion Blade - Added 2 Burning stacks on melee and projectile hit. 
 - Rifle Spear - Added 2 Burning stacks on melee and projectile hit. 
 - Magnum Barette - Added 2 Burning stacks projectile hit. 
 - Liberator - Cooldown reduced from 2s to 1s.
 - Hawkeye Sensors - Cooldown bonus increased from 10% to 20%.
 - Blutreiter - Transform speed increased by 20%.
 - Nere Crucis - Transform speed increased by 20%.

Fixed: Schafer
 - Normal projectiles incorrectly stacking to the max duration (10s) of Burning 
   starting from the 2nd hit. Stacks should be applied +2s each projectile. 

Updated: Boost Regen
 - Base regeneration to full decreased to 2s.
 - Overload regeneration is 1.5x Base regeneration time (3s).

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v0.24.7 PREVIEW

Updated: Increased Mission grunts squad AI attacks per second limit.
Updated: Mission Archangel AI attacks will now not count into the squad AI limit.
Fixed: Recycled Mission AI not responding to update threads.

Updated: Weapons
 - Peacemaker - Increased Special shot startup from 0.15s to 0.2s.
 - Peacemaker - Increased Special shot intervals from 0.05s to 0.125s.
 - Cannons, Dual Lasers, Railgun - Added Hyperarmor to ready Frames.
 - ICBM - Lowered cooldown to 12s.
 - Hata Jirushi, Aurora, Hawkeye, Barrier - Increased startup animation duration to 0.5s.

Updated: Internals and Upgrades stats UI.
Updated: Internals
 - Melee Speed - increased to 400 weight.
 - Melee Damage - reduced to 200 weight.
 - Special Charge Speed - reduced to 100 weight.
 - Cooldowns - reduced to 10%.
 - Boost Cap - reduced to 10%.
 - Boost Regen - reduced to 10%.

Updated: Boost cooldown (instant) no longer overrides Dodge cooldown (0.6s) when used in sequence.
Updated: Boost Regen
 - Base regeneration to full increased to 3s.
 - Overload regeneration decreased to 3s.
 - Dodge regen delay increased to 0.9s.
 - Boost regen delay increased to 0.3s.

Updated: Melee Dash Boost
 - While Boosting, accumulates up to 50% increased dash speed for melee attacks.
 - After Dodging, instantly gains 50% increased dash speed for melee attacks.
 - Dash speed bonus decays over 2s.

Fixed: Melee attack dashes not being stopped when dodge cancelled,
 - Causing two forces to be acting on the mech.
Fixed: Stagger Cancel timer inconsistencies with the input buffer,
 - Sometimes not being able to cancel if pressed too early.

Updated: Active Reload
 - For WESPE AR, RANGER BR, EMANCIPATOR SG, VAJRA CANNON
 - After projectiles hit, instantly gains 30% increased Reload speed.
 - Reload speed bonus decays over 2s.

Fixed: Issues with firing multiple gun weapons in sequence. 

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v0.24.6 PREVIEW

Updated: Added ClashPoint Champion - Shoutouts To Ash. 
Updated: Counter-Attacks for Perfect Dodge, Guard, Parry, and Clash will now play faster.

Updated: Switchblade/RifleSpear moved from cooldown to charge rate for passives bonuses.

Updated: New Internals
 - Reload & Trick speed +30%
 - Trick Charge Rate +20% 
 - Melee attack speed +15%

Updated: Buffed Internals for increased choices in melee builds
 - Vulnerability -15% 
 - Cooldowns -15% 
 - Dash Distance +15% 
 - Boost Cap +15% 
 - Boost Regen +15% 

Fixed: Unintended Input interruption from taking damage ticks, causing attacks to be buffered.
 - Was more apparent in fast DPS ticks.
 - The 'Damage Cancel' penalty was intended 
 - for escaping damage immediately, but not to delay incoming counter-attacks.

Fixed: AI attack timer issues. Lower difficuties will now have fairer timings.
Fixed: AI attack states not being reset between rounds (ATL Missions).
Fixed: AI dodge directions now favor their active weapon type.

Fixed: Reduced firing delay for Hitscan weapons (Railgun).
Fixed: Increased Hitscan radius for Railgun.

Fixed: Color menu controller navigation.
Fixed: Overall Color channel being loaded from the saved Torso color.
Fixed: Shield raising issues. Invulnerability is now disabled upon raising.
Fixed: Boomerang weapon return issues.
Fixed: Projectile physics optimizations.
Fixed: Multiple AI and Update thread optimizations.

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v0.24.5 PREVIEW

Updated: Pattern Scaling options.
Updated: Improved Camera target re-locking and switching priorities.
Updated: Added variable aim rates to non-archangel enemies.
Updated: Multi-targets are now enabled for some upgraded Missile weapons in Soft-lock.
Updated: Decreased max time ranges for Survival and Safeguard from 180 to 120 seconds.
Updated: Improved performance of Projectile and Melee physics updates.
Fixed: Shaft map physics values. 
Fixed: CER value display issues.
Fixed: Counter increments for some special missions.
Fixed: Mech physics overlap resolution.
Fixed: Squad AI movement issues.
Fixed: Squad AI attack issues.