Note: this update breaks save compatibility with previous versions.

206.17 - 'beta' branch

• Added new cybernetic implants: stasis entangler, polyphase modulator, and precision force lathe.
  
• We made some refinements to temple mecha.

  
  

  • Added special mechanics for infiltrating piloted mecha.
    
  • Added a new requirement for piloting an unaccessed mecha.
    
  • Mecha no longer heal on their own and must be repaired with 7 or 8 bits.
    
  • Mecha now require a special type of energy cell to function: mecha power core.
    
  • Piloted temple mecha now appear in dynamic encounters.
    
  • Unpiloted temple mecha can now be found, very rarely, abandoned in caves.
    
  
  
• Gyre wights now sometimes camp on the Stiltgrounds.
  
• Added new legendary names and titles for gyre wights.
  
• Added new gyre wight dialog.
  
• The approaches to Girsh cradles are no longer considered holy sites to gyre wights. Golgotha and Bethesda Susa themselves stil are, however.
  
• Rank girshlings and plasmatic girshlings now occasionally leave corpses behind on death, like other girshlings.
  
• Neutral-temperature liquids now stabilize their containers' temperature, including in the case of liquid-cooled overloaded weapons.
  
• Holograms are no longer immune to normality fields.
  
• Granite and tangled mudroot are now treated grammatically as mass nouns.
  
• Sparking baetyls no longer ask you for things you have equipped and cannot unequip.
  
• Prevented some cases of named creatures being randomly assigned the same term in multiple elements of their name.
  
• Friendly creatures can no longer swap you out of their way.
  
• Fixed several issues with yes/no/cancel dialogs in console mode.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused no keybinding to be displayed for some popups in console mode when playing with a gamepad.
  
• Fixed a bug that sometimes caused a long pause when returning the application to focus.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused you to be unable to enter some interiors if the entrance was blocked.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused keyboard input not to register on prerelease inventory and trade screens. Note: Directional navigation of prerelease trade and inventory screens won't respect binds and only responds to arrows and numpad.
  
• Fixed a number of issues involving environmental power systems when entering a zone.
  
• Fixed some message composition issues in mimic, jilted lover, and livid creeper special attacks.
  
• Fixed some issues causing NPCs to interfere with and delay each other in combat by swapping positions.
  
• [modding] The Impaler part now has a field NeedsToBeHidden, true by default, which if set to false makes being hidden unnecessary for the impalement functionality to work.
  
• [modding] Added weights to water ritual secrets and journal entries, making secrets more or less likely to be shared and discovered.
  
• [modding] Added weight modifiers to interests in Factions.xml, specified via a Weight attribute. Ex: Weight="50".
  
• [modding] Added GetWaterRitualSecretWeightEvent, which can modify the final weight of secrets in the water ritual.
  
• [modding] Added BuySecretWeight and SellSecretWeight attributes to the water ritual xtag, which can override a creature's weighting of secrets by id.
  
• [modding] Added EntityID and EventID to factions, allowing retrieval of their historic entities and events, respectively, when they exist. Example use is to get the village inhabited by a given village faction.