What... has happened

[Lukey111]

Alright, question time.

1. What has happened
2. Where's my holy forum chat
3. In short, basically explain the most important scrap I've missed from my 3 months of inactivity

I come back here with 700 notifications, apop is gone, the aliens look like something you would see when you've eaten 20 rice krispie treats in 3 minutes, and the changelog is like a flood right now to me.

[Sargeantmuffinman]

1. Lots of things happened, we have a tank, I don't know if that's included in the 3 months but hey, tank. And it can be either really good or absolutely terrible depending on the crew.
2. Forum chat was bugging out causing the fourm server to go down somerimes.
3. 700 notifications maybe because you subscribed to a lot if topics.
4. Apop left due to reddit drama that affected even real life.
5. Aliens needed to change for, I THINK, copyright reasons.
6. Weyland Yutani was trademarked/copyrighted so we had to change it to The Company, until the dev team can come up with a better name.
7. The Orbital Cannon is an actual thing now, with 3 flavours of explosions.
8. Sniper rifles, such as the Marksman Rifle and the AT Rifle the PMCs have now get IFF for the respective teams, no more shooting the Squad Leader's head of anymore.
9. Lots of minor tweaks, improvements over the few months by Phil.
10. The CL now has more fun stuff to play with.
11. Prep Rooms have been redesigned, squad roles can now somewhat customise their loadout, specifically the Squad Leaders, Engineers and Medics. The grunts get nothing but the same stuff really. Oh, also, no more uniform issues on very high pop now.
12. 2 New aliens, the Warrior and the Defender.

Warrrior:

A frontline teir 2 caste that can lunge at people into a chokehold where they can be dragged off into the hive to be slaughted or face huggered, they can also throw marines around too, quite funny due to the spinning animation. An agility mode where they can go very fast but can't use abilities.

Defender:

A Tier 1 defensive unit that can tank damage like the crusher. Very armoured as they get upgraded. They have the head crest ability that can toggle your crest down to increase armour, tail sweep marines next to you to send them flying. Fortify ability which enables them to drastically increase armour from the front but locks you in place for a while making you immobile. They can also head butt marines, kinda cool.
13. Machetes can now chop and clear vines, finally.
14. The Alien evolution tree has been split to 4 specialistations, you can read it on the wiki.
15. Um, that's all I can think of. Have a good one!

[Jaketeaking]

many many things.