Altitude Update Released

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Updates to Altitude have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

 

Updated Maps:

• tbd_asteroidstbd_underpark
  

Balance:

• Reverse Thrust - increased acceleration by 10% and reduced energy consumption
  
• Miranda's Reverse no longer temporarily disables Repair Drone
  
• Miranda's Reverse and Time Anchor now reduce Repair Drone's recharge rate by 50% (time between repairs is doubled for the 1.35 seconds following Reverse/TimeAnchor activation)
  
• Biplane (All Forms) reduced afterburner energy usage by 5%
  
• Biplane (Dogfighter) secondary weapon increased range from 80 to 90, added piercing (second hit deals 80%, third 50%), increased damage from 27 to 28
  
• Biplane (Recoilless) secondary weapon increased range from 80 to 90, added piercing (second hit deals 70%, third 40%)Biplane (Heavy Cannon) primary weapon increased piercing second hit damage from 50% to 67%
  

Offline Mode:

• Plane configurations are saved between sessions
  
• All downloaded maps (not just official maps) are available for playFFA and TDM games end after 7 minutes
  

Misc:

• Added "Lock Gamepad Config" to Options -> Controls: check this box to prevent reinitialization of default gamepad bindings when controllers are temporarily unplugged
  
• Added friend count to friends list window
  
• Added account creation date to Hangar Deck
  
• Added "Local Time" and "Altitude Time (GMT)" to bottom of in-game scoreboard (hold TAB to view)
  
• "Mouse Navigation: Turning and Throttle" - can now override the mouse-based throttle at any time by pressing the Throttle-Up/Down keys (allows mouse users to utilize the "Reverse Thrust" perk)
  
• Adjusted "Mouse Navigation" trigger to prevent accidentally entering mouse mode when switching to Altitude from another application
  
• Server Launcher now writes a PID file containing server_launcher's process identifier to ~Altitude/servers/server_launcher.pid upon startup and restart
  
• Servers that are running an outdated version are automatically filtered from the server listBug Fixes
  

 

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