v.4.0.1

Combat Extended 4.0.1

Features

• Night vision goggles (simple and advanced) and a flare gun for night fighting. Artwork by Luizi (thank you!)
• Muzzle flashes will now briefly illuminate shooters and the surrounding area, exposing them to more accurate return fire.
• Added a “Rearm” button that will force all colonists to immediately grab everything in their assigned loadouts.

Fixes

• Fixed a bug where using VAE – Accessories would overwrite the backpack texture.
• Fixed an error related to taking slaves to bed that softlocks the UI for some users.
• Fixed a bug where drop pods from the shuttle crash quest would sometimes be destroyed by the explosion when the shuttle hit the ground.

Compatibility

• Updated integrated patches for the following mods:
  o Alpha Animals
  o Censored Armory
  o HALO: UNSC Armoury
  o Kaiser Armory
  o Orassans Race
  o Silkiera Race
  o Soviet Armory
  o Vanilla Apparel Expanded — Accessories
  o Vanilla Armour Expanded
  o Vanilla Factions Expanded – Insectoids
  o Vanilla Factions Expanded – Medieval
  o Vanilla Factions Expanded – Settlers

Balance

• Limited the penalty for targets in darkness to 50% when the shooter is in sunlight.
• Decreased mechanoid night vision from 1 to 0.8.
• Reduced visage mask thickness from 6 to 1.5.
• Balanced combat specialist bonuses.
  o Shooting specialists have +3 shooting and +15% reloading speed.
  o Melee specialists have +3 melee and +8% dodge chance.

Misc.

• Added tips related to night vision.
• Added appropriate bulk to the Reinforced Barrel.
• Adjusted the angle of the backpack graphic.