Minor Patch #3

Small updates. Originally planned a larger all-in-one update to go live later in the Spring / early summer, but some issues needed addressing sooner rather than later.

Updates

• Sweet new shaders added for environment hazards, projectiles, and shield/explosion effects.
• Flak cannon projectile effects to be more visible.
• starting to remove hard-target-lock mechanics; its not fun, and tedious to manage. Instead, any weapon that requires a (gold) lock will just have their reload delay increased.

Fixes

• fixed critical bug in the Training-Only map launched from the main menu.
• fixed but where Training-Only map might overwrite save_slot0.
• fixed found issue where player shield hits might not always play back properly.

Balances

• reduced metal ram-charge rates, they were way too fast.
• Light Autocannon: fixed shield and armor calculations to properly reflect printed stats.
• Rotary Plasma: Shield damage increased from 0.33 to 0.45.
• Rotary Plasma: fire rate decreased from 0.45 to 0.55.
• Missile-Active Radar: removed hard-lock requirement.
• Missile-Active Radar: reload rate decreased from 5sec to 8sec.
• Missile-Active Radar: total damage increase from 99 to 125.
• fixed found issue where player shield hits might not always play back properly.