Legion Expansion [Released!]

To use Legion with Second Wave and/or Section 17, install the relevant DAEDLAUS ComPatch mod from Community Mods. This is a workaround pending a fix being applied to Community Mods.

v1.22.0 2022-02-16

General

• Improved PNG compression to reduce mod size

Balance

• Air
  • Flyer Foundry
    • Build cost decreased from 660 to 600
  • Loki
    • Damage to air increased from 50% to 100%
  • Meteoroid
    • Damage to structures decreased from 150% to 100%
    • Increased guard radius from 100 to 250
    • Give higher priority to air defences
• Land
  • Armour Foundry
    • Build cost decreased from 660 to 600
    • Energy demand increased from 640 to 765
    • Metal demand increased from 15 to 17
  • Corsair
    • Increased standard deviation of shots from 0 to 1
  • Havoc
    • Damage to commanders increased from 67% to 100%
  • Lancer
    • Damage to commanders decreased from 133% to 100%
    • Damage to structures decreased from 133% to 100%
    • Damage to vehicles decreased from 133% to 100%
    • Damage increased from 125 to 166
  • Panzer
    • Damage to structures decreased from 300% to 100%
  • Peacekeeper
    • Build cost reduced from 75 to 60
  • Walker Foundry
    • Build cost decreased from 660 to 600
    • Energy demand increased from 640 to 765
    • Metal demand increased from 15 to 17
• Orbital
  • Imperator
    • Meteoroids can now be controlled
  • Starcannon
    • Energy demand increased from 1900 to 2250
• Sea
  • Catfish
    • Shots reverted to hitscan
    • Movement changed from water-hover to deepwater
  • Manta
    • Damage to orbital increased from 25% to 100%
  • Ship Foundry
    • Build cost decreased from 660 to 600

AI

• Scout with Stokes if no better options
• Fixed the building of too many Purgers
• Won't build land titans due to pathfinding issues
• Builds more Stokes
• Builds more Corsairs

Fixed

• Obsolete scene loads
• Some Legion theme elements not being loaded
• Failure to stop to engage a target while patrolling for:
  • Purger
  • Panzer
  • Maul
  • Deathmark
  • Nanoswarms
  • Earthshaker
  • Scorpion
  • Shank
  • Epoch
• Panzer description with thanks to Thorveim for the report
• Radar jamming no longer prevents the triggering of Spoilers
• Monstrosity secondary weapons pointing at the primary gun's target rather than their own
• One of the Imperator's side-guns not firing
• Imperator moves into range of all its guns when attacking orbital targets
• Viper not firing when chasing a target
• Particle shape for nuke explosions
• Supernova causing an error to be logged when built
• UI style errors
• Black Knight idle animation not playing

Strategic Icons

With thanks to Quildtide for these.

• Fixed inconsistent energy symbol for:
  • Power Catalyst
  • Advanced Power Catalyst
  • OmniSilo Storage
  • Fixed inconsistent radar symbol for:
  • Radar
  • Overseer
  • Fixed inconsistent targeting symbol for:
  • Shredder
  • Archer
  • Ripple
  • Tsunami
  • Fixed inconsistent metal symbol for OmniSilo Storage
  • Fixed inconsistent walker/armour symbols for Starcannon
  • Replaced all #FFF100 with #FFFF00 for Radar
  • Horizontally centered icons for:
  • Power Catalyst
  • Advanced Power Catalyst
  • OmniSilo Storage
  • Starcannon
  • Radar
  • Shredder
  • Archer
  • Ripple
  • Tsunami

Version 1.23.0 - 2022-04-16

General

• Improved Tyr effects
• Bots brake instantly
• Tank braking aligned to acceleration
• Further improved PNG compression to reduce mod size

Balance

• Air
  • Firebird
    • Health reduced from 300 to 240
  • Lockheed
    • Health reduced from 400 to 350
  • Loki
    • Health increased from 9000 to 11250
  • Scythe
    • Health reduced from 150 to 120
• Land
  • Advanced Mass Extractor
    • Build cost decreased from 2000 to 1800
    • Metal production increased from 16 to 18
    • Health reduced from 5000 to 3000
  • Deathmark
    • Health increased from 125 to 250
    • Turn speed increased from 60 to 90
    • Turret yaw rate increased from 30 to 60
  • Havoc
    • Projectiles per shot reduced from 2 to 1
    • Chain jump vision increased from 10 to 50
    • Chain jump range increased from 25 to 50
    • Chained damage reduced from 1500 -> 750 -> 1500 to 750 -> 750 -> 750
  • Hive
    • Nanoswarm damage type changed to metal
    • Nanoswarm damage reduced from 30 to 5
  • Investigator
    • Radar range decreased from 350 to 300
  • Jackal
    • Cost decreased from 350 to 325
  • Lancer
    • Range decreased from 75 to 70
  • Maul
    • Speed increased from 8 to 10
  • Miniman
    • Speed increased from 8 to 10
  • Monstrosity
    • Turret yaw rate increased from 30 to 45
  • Odin
    • Acceleration increased from 5 to 100
    • Braking increased from 5 to 100
  • Panzer
    • Speed increased from 10 to 14
  • Peacekeeper
    • Cost increased from 60 to 75
    • Health increased from 150 to 165
    • Range decreased from 75 to 70
  • Purger
    • Health reduced from 40 to 20
  • Praetorian
    • Range increased from 100 to 110
    • Build range increased from 20 to 30
  • Rampart
    • Energy consumption increased from 0 to 1200
  • Scarab
    • Cost increased from 500 to 550
  • Scorpion
    • Range reduced from 150 to 140
  • Thor
    • Health reduced from 80,000 to 60,000
    • Acceleration increased from 10 to 100
• Orbital
  • Rig
    • Storage removed
    • Energy production reduced from 7000 to 3750
  • Starcannon
    • Range reduced from 800 to 600
• Sea
  • Hammerhead
    • Acceleration increased from 4 to 30
    • Brake increased from 25 to 80

AI

• Builds the Hive

Fixed

• Rampart blocking three times as many shots as intended due to change in engine's handling of ammo
• Removed Rampart's energy efficiency requirement as it only led to the appearance of a non-operational unit
• Factories not blocking projectiles properly (with thanks to Taiga for the report):
  • Armour Foundry
  • Flyer Foundry
  • Walker Foundry
  • Ship Foundry
  • Advanced Armour Foundry
  • Advanced Flyer Foundry
  • Advanced Walker Foundry
  • Advanced Ship Foundry

Version 1.24.0 - 2022-05-11

General

• Updated selection circle diameter for (with thanks to Anonemous2):
  • Archer
  • Decimator
  • Gustav
  • Hive
  • Holocene
  • Kosmos
  • Lockheed
  • Loki
  • Miniman
  • Monstrosity
  • Nova
  • OmniSilo
  • Orbweaver
  • Overseer
  • Paladin
  • Panzer
  • Ripple
  • Salamander Turret
  • Sky Bridge
  • Starcannon
• Updated mesh bounds for (with thanks to Anonemous2):
  • Advanced Armour Fabricator
  • Arsonist
  • Gustav
  • Holocene
  • Jackal
  • Kosmos
  • Lancer
  • Loki
  • Meteor
  • Miniman
  • Orbweaver
  • Panzer
  • Rampart
  • Ripple
  • Salamander
  • Scarab
  • Shredder
  • Theodor
  • Thor
• Visual improvements for Rampart
• Rampart size increased
• Rampart strategic icon updated

Balance

• Air
  • Meteor
    • Won't launch Meteorites until ammo is fully reloaded
  • Scythe
    • Damage reduced from 35 to 29

AI

• Fixed Meteors not moving with air platoons

Version 1.25.0 - 2022-07-17

General

• Added support for the Bugs' Faction metal extractors

Balance

• Land
  • Odin
    • Removed stomp weapon
  • Omni Silo
    • Energy storage increased from 75,000 to 225,000
  • Thor
    • Removed stomp weapon
• Orbital
  • Rig
    • Cost increased from 3000 to 4000

Fixed

• Manta not showing DPS for any weapon on its unit card
• Manta's anti-drop-pod weapon being linked to its missile targeting system
• Manta AA effects not being tied to where it was shooting
• Interplanetary speeds and unittype tags for Infiltrator - with thanks to Dreadnought for the report
• Havoc missing UNITTYPE_TacticalDefense

Version 1.26.0 - 2022-09-19

General

• Aligned Legion orbital travel speeds with those of MLA

Balance

• Air
  • Salamander
    • Removed secondary fire
    • Purifier no longer self-destructs
• Land
  • Havoc
    • Cost increased from 750 to 800
  • Lancer
    • Health decreased from 120 to 100
  • Peacekeeper
    • Health increased from 165 to 170
  • Scorpion
    • Range reduced from 130 to 120
    • Cost increased from 800 to 900
• Orbital
  • Starcannon
    • Health decreased from 3000 to 2000
    • Unit slots reduced from 14 to 9
    • Added Enforcer as a buildable unit
  • Viper
    • Removed the 100 range weapon
    • Attacks at full range

AI

• Enabled usage of Star Cannon following crash fix in base game

Fixed

• Unit types for Purifier

Version 1.27.0 - 2023-04-21

General

• Transports always move to units, units never move to Transports
• Updated for PA 116931

Balance

• Orbital
  • Chariot
    • Brake increased from 25 to 30
    • Speed increased from 25 to 50

Bugfix

• Ship Foundry can no longer be blocked in a way that prevents production

Version 1.28.0 - 2023-06-12

General

• Meteroids don't leave wreckage due to potential sim speed impact over time
• Updated for PA 116982

Version 1.29.0 - 2023-10-18

General

• Visual update for:
  • Archer
  • Arsonist
  • Centurion
  • Clot
  • Decimator
  • Gustav
  • Hive
  • Investigator
  • Jackal
  • Lancer
  • Peacekeeper
  • Purger
  • Purifier
  • Ripple
  • Scarab
  • Sea Urchin
  • Shredder
  • Spoiler
  • Theodor
  • Tola
  • Tsunami

AI

• Build Titans only when the threat level on the planet is high enough to justify their usage
• Build all titan types
• Able to open with Walker and Armour Foundries again

Balance

• Sea
  • Jaeger
    • Can now travel through teleporters
• Land
  • Jackal
    • Attack changed to burst fire
    • Damage increased from 10 to 40
    • Splash increased from 0 to 20
    • Splash range increased from 0 to 6
    • Standard deviation of shots increased from 0 to 1
  • Theodor
    • Ammo capacity decreased from 1000 to 100
    • Ammo per shot decreased from 1000 to 100
    • Damage decreased from 200 to 20
    • Max firing velocity increased from 200 to 250
    • Rate of fire increased from 0.2 to 2
    • Standard deviation of shots increased from 0.25 to 0.66
    • Splash damage decreased from 200 to 20
    • Splash range decreased from 18 to 12
  • Purger
    • Turret yaw rate decreased from 3000 to 540
• Sea
  • Ripple
    • Damage increased from 50 to 125
    • Projectiles per fire decreased from 5 to 2

Bugfix

• Fix Theodor referencing nonexistent bone for aiming
• Fix missing node_idle entry in Thor animation tree
• Fix missing being_built entry in Manta animation tree
• Correct invalid shapes in effects
• Remove broken particle emitter from Odin

Version 1.30.0 - 2024-04-12

General

• Commander updates:
  • Added Core
  • Added Scion
  • Added Cataphract
  • Added Reclaimer
  • Removed Wasushi
  • Removed Rockteeth
• Investigator can attack move and will stop short of enemies

Balance

• Land
  • Praetorian
    • Build range increased from 30 to 45
  • Tola
    • Antidrop shot velocity increased from 200 to 400
• Sea
  • Manta
    • Antidrop shot velocity increased from 200 to 400

Visual

• Fixed minor visual issue on Purger
• Icons for Iron Dome and Supernova aligned to the MLA icon style
  
• Updated:
  • Orb Weaver
  • Monstrosity
  • Power Catalyst
  • Advanced Power Catalyst
  • Stoke
  • Necromancer
  • Maul
  • Cyclops Commander
  • Overwatch Commander

Bugfix

• Air units will automatically engage underwater units