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The Last Stand Update 1.8 Release Notes
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New Content
The Last Stand
Added The Last Stand, a new arcade survival mode where teams of three fight waves of increasingly deadly enemies
Added new unique wargear, abilities and effects to the three heroes in The Last Stand
Added The Last Stand leaderboards
Hero progress is stored online and is associated with a player’s gamertag
Multiplayer Maps
Added (2p) Quest’s Heresy map
Added (4p) Hydris Chasm map
Multiplayer Balance Updates
General Balance updates
The cost of the tier 3 upgrade is now 300 requisition, 150 power up from 200/100
XP granted for Hormagaunts, Termagants, Sluggas, and Shootas has been brought in line with other tier 1 units
Flame resistant armor type has been lowered to 25% fire damage mitigation, down from 50%
Generator health has been increased to 600 from 500, a 20% increase
All walkers except the Wraithlord had their speed increased from 4 to 4.5 m/s
All personal teleport abilities now start on cooldown
Walker charge cooldowns reduced from 8 seconds to 5
Snipe damage now does 125% to heavy armor
Melee heroes have had their weapon skill increased to 70 from 60. This will increase their chance to special attack units and reduce their chance of being special attacked. Heroes include: Force Commander, Apothecary, Warboss, Hive Tyrant, Lictor Alpha, Warlock and Farseer.
Space Marine Balance Updates
Techmarine’s powerful sweep no longer affects retreating units
Techmarine’s powerful sweep damage increased from 40 to 60
Scout shotgun knock back ability now causes suppression
Scout shotgun cost changed to 75/15 from 40/20
Scout weapon skill increased from 50 to 100
Damage on the Techmarine’s consecrated bolter has been increased to 60, up from 51
Damage on the Techmarine’s master crafted bolter has been increased to 65, up from 60
The Venerable Dreadnought is now affected by the Entangle ability
Orbital Bombardment no longer effects units that are invulnerable
Assault Marine health increase on level increase reduced to 10% from 15%
Tactical Marine health increase on level increase reduced to 10% from 15%
Plasma gun damage reduced from 90 to 70
Plasma gun damage vs infantry reduced to .7 from 1
Plasma pistol damage reduced from 25 to 15
Missile launcher upgrade time increased from 15 seconds to 30 seconds
Apothecary Power Axe energy regeneration reduced from 20 to 15
Apothecary Master-Crafted bolter damage reduced from 75 to 65
Battlecry now grants knockback immunity in most cases
Improvements
Optimized sound files to reduce the amount of RAM they consume
Added additional effects to 6p and 2p Calderis Refinery Maps
Enabled pathing prediction for walkers and improved the predicted interaction between tanks and walkers
Users are now able to select Ultra FX fidelity
General AI improvements involving better resource and economy handling
Added a readme.txt file for Traditonal Chinese to the root folder
Bug Fixes
Adrenal glands, aspect of banshee, warrior adrenal glands, crippling poison upgrade and battle equipment stat bonuses should no longer fall off when loading into a hold
Fixed tooltips for: Luv Da Dakka, Proximity Mines, Warriors, Heavy Flamer on FC Terminator, Carnifex Venom Cannon
Fixed a positioning bug in 4p Calderis Refinery where players were only able to place one generator at around a specific listening post
Fixed a bug where melee units would not respond if they were overlapping the melee circle of another melee entity
Fixed a bug preventing melee units from automatically attacking vehicles when in melee combat
Fixed a bug causing ranged units to be unresponsive when being attacked by enemy melee units
Fixed a crash caused by casting an ability after changing squads while the game is paused
Fixed a crash caused by HTTP request being in progress when HttpRequest object is destroyed
Fixed a bug involving units standing unresponsive while in melee
Fixed miscellaneous crashes involving squad combat states
Fixed a bug causing grenades to fall through craters
Fixed an issue where the user’s Champion status might not contribute to their “Hail the Champion” achievement
Fixed bug where units would rarely leap after teleporting units they were engaged in melee with
Players that drop during the loading screen no longer show up in the post-game summary screen
Added sound cue when a player drops from a match
Space Marine Bug Fixes
Fixed a bug where the Dreadnought’s death animation was missing an explosion effect
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End of The Last Stand Update 1.8 Release Notes
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