I was in an Eternal Silence mood this week, so I put together a small balance patch for you guys. This should fix a lot of gameplay issues we've been hearing about for months. Don't ask why it took so long... I've been busy . The patch is live on Steam right now, you should automatically receive it when you go to run the game.

Change list:

• All weapon reload and draw times were tweaked (yay!)


• Bombers now locked similar to gunships


• Increased carbine melee damage by 10 points


• Decreased tank buster damage slightly


• Increase time to hack subsystem (add ghost) by 1 second.


• Reduce capship damage from bombs by half.


• Added hard cap to tactical ship speed to prevent exploit.


• Added auto-recapture on Hardcore maps (neutral subsystems will slowly creep back to original owner).


• CP_Warpath tweaked to prevent intense spamming


• Small changes to cp_valhalla and others

That's it! It should make a big difference for the game though. Give us your comments, we'd like to know if we did it right.

Here are some beautiful shots Meat_Popsicle put together for us. You can view the full gallery here.