Patch Notes: v116 Alpha

## v116 Alpha

*Released January 17th, 2013*

**Alterations:**

* Ninjas have had their weapon arm switched, also ninjas can now be equipped with backshell and energy shield. This is part of the process of letting more actors use the generic equipment system.
* Added initialDelay to pickups
* Increased rail scout bullet speed
* New Actor: Felishroom
* Now possible to assign tints to actors spawns.
* New Challenge game mode.
* Highscores for survival and challenge.
* Added 4 Challenge Sets totaling 18 new maps
* Added 1 new Survival map: Desert Wind
* Map list fades to show that it continues.
* Auto aim now considers tile targets even if there are other targets too.
* Railgun prices adjusted downwards.
* Snow, ice and icicles!
* Added a bunch more tiles to the map editor!
* Changed the way activated physics are handled in the map editor. Now you can activate and simulate physics while in the editor, and then pause them. And all the things that were previously “magically” activated, are now just activated by default.
* You can now attach physical tiles to each other in a hierarchy creating composited activated physical tiles.
* You can now make tiles destructible from the right click menu of tiles, and then set their health.
* Plasma striker increased max ammo
* Plasma pistol increased max ammo
* Plasma guns have generally had their speeds and ranges tweaked.
* change plasma to dissipate charge less first, and more later.
* Reduced handling sway penalty for all rail weapons
* Increased rate of fire for rail defender and revolver
* Increased reload speed for rail cannon and rail prototype and burst and screamer and revolver
* Increased effect of burst and screamed extended magazine
* Increased the effects of the motor for rail revolver and defender and vanquisher
* Reduced price for rail burster and screamer and revolver and defender
* Matter gun now costs 325
* 3 new matter weapons added: Matter Bolt, Matter War and Matter Machine
* Matter cannon support is more powerful, lessens recoils and increases rate of fire
* Matter shots are now able to first destroy a protection piece and then continue to hurt the target if enough remaining damage is left in the shot.
* Plasma cannon and striker now shoot multiple projectiles in an arc.
* Added a combo system that gives time bonuses in challenge and volt bonuses in survival
* Ai actors now have a small ai-feedback icon which designates the general state of the ai.
* It is now much easier to push physical stuff.
* Pushing or shoting a physical box, and it destroying an enemy will give you a kill
* Landing hard on another enemy or a destructible tile will do damage!
* Jump kick now works better on the way down when hitting a surface
* Opengl is now default, Uncheck the checkbox in options to use directx!
* Added a value to summoners called noOffspringSpeedBoost which makes the summoner start the next wave faster if all of its offspring are dead. This multiplier is 1 for birds nests and shroom summoners, but 10 for the booth summoner and 2 for the factory.
* Opening doors now makes sound that can give you away.
* Sneaking while opening a door will cause you to open it slowly making less sound
* You can now configure where cobalt saves its user data: make a “paths” file into AppData/Roaming/Cobalt and write: $DOCUMENTS$ “your/documents/path” into it

**Bug-Fixes:**

* Shield belt discharge now only affects enemies
* Fixed actors being killable by heat and cold while being “invulnerable”
* Reworked tile destruction code which seems to have removed a horrible stutter that was present before.
* Plug was dropped when switching to more powerful weapons on pickup.
* Lots of small fixes and tweaks to the editor
* Plugs would sometimes disappear visually, when bouncing or periodically in the station
* Trails would sometimes disappear in whole incorrectly.
* Fixed music not playing correctly sometimes on restart of maps
* Optimizations both in engine and game code
* Likely a bunch of that we forgot to add to this list!