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I never seem to have trouble with stealth units, i just have my guys/monsters run up to them to reveal them :v

[Mech#4]

For those of us who play the Ultimate Apocalypse mod; there is a patch that has just been released. Version 1.81.0, this link goes to Lord Cylarne's video about the update with links in the description.

Patch notes are listed below. This is from the TXT file after installing:

Spoiler: Patch Notes Version 1.81.0 (click to show/hide)

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AI Changes:
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* Sisters AI now functions better late game.
* Angron AI (single player) will spawn with Bloodthirsters.
* Standard AI now builds multiple structures.
* Easy AI income increased from 25% to 35% of the total income.
* AIs donate much less.
* Necrons AI now makes Pyramid addons for all Pyramids built.

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Global:
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* Daemons and IDH maximum power income possible increased from +600 to +800.
* Hero researches (level 8 especially) costs much more now.
* Warhound Plasma Blastgun cost massively increased.
* Reaver Titan Megalaser and Mega Melta damages increased.
* Eldritch and Soul Cataclysm health decreased.
* Sensor Probe keen sight now works. Keen sight radius greatly increases after this addon.
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Chaos Marines:
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* Chaos Lord's sync kills no longer transform him into a T-stanced pink texture monster.
* Chaos Desecrated Citadel addon cost decreased from 9000/9000 req/power to 3000/3000 req/power. Wait time greatly increased. Will now be greyed out and seen if requirements not met.
* Khorne Berzerkers are no longer able to possess the Bloodthirster.

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Dark Eldar:
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* Soul global abilities cost more.
* Dark Lances cost more for Warriors, Scouragers, and Trueborn Warriors.
* Dark Lance damage decreased against vehicles for Scouragers.
* Greater Dark Lance damage sllightly increased, but is now much less ineffective against monsters, commanders, heavy infantry, and structures.
* Scouragers and Hellions cost more.
* Wracks health increased. Warp Beast morale increased.
* Tormentor Titans now only cost souls.
* Kabal Citadel health and damage decreased, cost to produce each increased the more you build.

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Eldar:
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* Eldar turret damages increased.
* Eldar Uber Turret cost decreased.


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Imperial Guard:
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* Conscript model is changed with white stripe helmet and with the ability to capture Strategic Points.
* General's leaders reinforce much faster now.
* General's maximum morale increased from 450 to 600.
* General's weapon damages increased by 20%.
* General's speech no longer requires Mars Pattern.
* The Uncommon Valor research now applies +4 leaders to the General's maximum squad count.
* All Baneblade variants armor increased. Power cost increased.
* Mars Pattern Convoy aura radius and health regen modifier increased.
* Stormhammer health increased by 2,000 hp.
* Leman Russ Murderers are now heavily armored armor units. Health decreased to match that of a Leman Russ.
* Leman Russ Murderer now costs 5 support cap and has a general damage increase by 15%.
* Ogryns maximum leader count increased to 2.
* Ogryns can add Priests as a leader now.
* Ogryns reinforce time decreased.
* Conscripts damage output decreased.

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Necrons:
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* Necrons Attack Scarabs no longer requires a Summoning Core.
* Necrons maximum power income possible is increased from +1000 to +1500.
* Amplification Generator limit per monolith increased to 10. Plasma Generator limit increased to 5 per monolith.
* AEonic Orb costs 800 relic resource and 5500 power.
* Restored Monoliths cost no relic resource, but cost 3000 power.
* Great Pyramid no longer takes time after both addons to fire superweapons.
* Great Pyramids can now hold 10 squads of Flayed Ones and deepstrike them.
* Great Pyramid is now equipped with multiple dormant weapons after Engaged Pyramid phase. Each new weapon will come online every Energy Beacon constructed. (14 maximum).
* Great Pyramid devastating bolt speed increased.
* Energy Beacons now increase the health, health regeneration, and activates another weapon on the Great Pyramid.
* Energy Beacons icons, hotkeys, and tooltips are changed and 100% correct now.
* Siege Monoliths cost 900 power from 1250.
* All Necron infantry health increased by 100hp. Flayed Ones by an extra 50 hp.
* Home Portals are now more durable and can now spawn all relic unit types.
* Amplification Generators give more health regeneration and health to Living Metal units.
* All relic tooltip costs were added to the Necron relic units.
* Doomsday Monolith passive lightning strike ability damage increased.
* Doomsday Monolith Siege Monolith production wait time decreased.
* Doomsday Monolith effectiveness versus titans increased.
* Siege Monoliths now only cost 200 relic resource.
* Tomb Stalkers and Sentry Pylons no longer costs relic resource, instead, 6 support cap each.
* Gauss Pylon damage versus super structures decreased, titans increased, morale damage increased.
* Sentry Pylon range decreased.

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Orks:
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* Waaaagh Banner turret damages decreased, especially versus structures. Rokkit Launcha range decreased.
* Waaagh Banner upgrade II now requires 100 population. Cost increased from 180/180 to 280/280.
* Warboss wargear cost increased and now requires 100 population.
* Great Gargants cost more.
* Gun Wagons health decreased.
* Killa Kan Mega Blasta was removed.

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SISTERS:
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* Sisters Shrines of the Living Saints faith income rate decreased.

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Space Marines:
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* Razorback flamethrower damage increased.
* Increased armor and damage of Space Marines (again).
* Increased damage and health of Space Marine adavanced turret weapons, slightly more effective versus titan armor.
* New icon added for SM advanced turret lascannon.
* Venerable Dreadnought effectiveness versus titans and super structures increased.
* Assault Terminators damage versus titans increased.
* Orbital Destabilization addon cost decreased from 9000/9000 req/power to 5000/5000 req/power
* Orbital Destabilization now strengthens allied sight radius when ECM-ECCM addon is obtained. Modifiers stack.
* Predator MKII Plasma Cannon damage versus titans and morale increased.
* Thunderfire Cannon damage versus titans increase.

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Tau:
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* Fusion Blasters damage versus structures decreased.
* Vespids health nerfed. Vespids damage versus vehicles and commanders decreased. Health bonus from Vespid leader was nerfed.

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Tyranids:
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* Lictors cost 100 requisition.
* All Lictors can no longer spawn tunnels.
* Lictors damage versus all structures decreased.
* Tyranid Turrets cost more.
* Bioplasma turret weapon damage decreased versus structures.
* Uberfex and Zoanthrope damage versus heavily armored structures and super structures decreased.
* Hierophant's armor slightly decreased. Trygon armor increased.
* Zoanthrope Catalyst disabled death only lasts for 3 seconds now.
* Hormagaunts and Termagaunts damage and health increased.
* Broodlords damage increased.
* Gargoyles and Termagaunts damage versus builder units decrease.
* Barbed Strangler effectiveness versus commanders greatly decreased.

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Inquisition:
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* IDH Razorback flamethrower damage increased. Same applied to Space Marines.
* IDH Icons of Purification damage against monsters and daemons increased. Overall damage increased, but nerfed against all other armor types.
* Dreadknights cost more and are available later after the Mechanicum or Shrine.
* Dreadknights shields are now permanent, morale is gone, but shields now protect against ranged atacks.
* Grand Master health decreased.
* IDH Grey Knight Teleporter construction time greatly increased for the first structure. Second and third structures build as normal, also applied to the Titanic Tower and Shrine to the Emperor.
* Shrine to the Emperor limit is now 1.
* Exterminatus global impact was fixed.
* Exterminatus Part V wait time and cost decreased dramatically.
* Exterminatus Part I-IV costs changed.
* IDH Mega Melta global ability damage decreased.
* Workers can no longer be garrissoned in the Nuclear Weapons Center.
* Grenaiders tooltip was fixed.


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Daemons:
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* Ascended Daemon Lord (Stature) can no longer get the relic addon.
* Hellspawn costs more daemon resource.
* Greater Daemon Prince research now costs only 3000 power.
* Daemons LP addons requisition production rate decreased.
* Black Horrors hp is greatly nerfed.
* Furies stacking modifiers in melee was nerfed.
* Greater Daemons support cap increased from 5 to 6.
* Daemonclaw Obelisks are constructed slower and cost more. Health decreased.
* Fiends of Slaanesh requires tier II. Health increased, damage increased, cost increased. Max loadout increased by 1, minimum loadout decreased by 1.
* Nurglings were nerfed, will not gain any instability bonuses until tier II.

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Survival: |
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Arena: |
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* New wincondition: Pop cap +100.
* New wincondition: Pop cap +200.
* IDH with heroes wincondition on was nerfed in level gaining.
* Added a warning of lag to all +40, +100, and +200 pop cap increases.
* Restriction: Grenades now works when IDH are in play.
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SCENARIOS: |
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SOUND: |
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* Sterilization Obelisk sound updated.
* Field medic VO added.
* Added Eranthis's sound pack, including Commissar Cadet and Noise Marine shouts during combat.

--------Incorporated some nice changes and ideas from UA balance mod addon (thanks to Soulstormfan)-----------------
Found here: http://www.moddb.com/downloads/balance-addon-for-ua-mod

* Genestealers are built slower.
* Spinegaunts are less effective against morale
* Spinegaunts are built much slower
* Spinegaunts reinforce much slower
* Tyrant guard is a bit more expensive
* Tyrant guard is less effective against buildings
* Carnifex hive costs 400 requisition
* Spore chimney now costs 90 requisition
* Tyranid tier 1 required wait time increased.
* Biovores frag weapon restricted until tier 3
* Biovores anti infantry weapon now is absolutely ineffective against buildings and vehicles. Damage increased.
* Strongest(non relic) Carnifex are slightly less effective against commanders and vehicles.
* Uberfex weapons are slightly weaker against commanders
* Nerfed hellfex and warrior venom cannons
* Wraith reassemble possibility is now 75% of the time.
* Hellfire dreadnought missle launcher reload time increased
* Increased grot gun carts speed so they will not seperate from grots in bigger map
* Gun wagon zzzap gun hits harder.
* Vindicare assasin costs more.
* Ogryns cost now 390 requisition
* Marauder Vigilant now works properly when activating abilities.

[Majestic7]

So do we get a single player campaign now? How about now? Or now? I waited five seconds, is it ready yet? No? Um.... how about now? *twitches*

[Sinistar]

Oh hey look, Necrons get all kinds of buffs to power generation. I mean, finally, now they will become actually playable. #Kappa

[Tellemurius]

Oh hey look, Necrons get all kinds of buffs to power generation. I mean, finally, now they will become actually playable. #Kappa

I dunno, I kinda get that Necrons were slow builders even in vanilla but getting over the powergap without getting steamrolled early game was tough.

Thank you for the vespid nerfs, fucking bullshit jumpers tagging your leaders to instant death.

[Aklyon]

Huh, Did the mini-generators give regen&health before?

Also Frumple, ye scarabs are back in the starting stuff.

[Tellemurius]

Huh, Did the mini-generators give regen&health before?

Also Frumple, ye scarabs are back in the starting stuff.

Second patch they did, they were suppose to do a global buff making them essential in building.

[Frumple]

Yeah, they did. Also huzzah

also ninja'd, eh

[Mech#4]

Another patch has been released. Version 1.81.29. Link in the description of the Youtube video.

Spoiler: Patch Notes Version 1.81.29 (click to show/hide)

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AI Changes:
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Global:
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* Turrets now require a control radius but gives off a little radius to allow buildings next to it.
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Chaos Marines:
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* Mark buffs slightly increased.
* Cultist melee damage decreased.

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Dark Eldar:
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Eldar:
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* Banshees, Dire Avengers, Striking Scorpions, Warp Spiders, Dark Reapers, Fire Dragons, and Swooping Hawks health increased.
* Ancient Wraithlord can now regenerate health quickly.


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Imperial Guard:
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* Conscript damage increased.

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Necrons:
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* AEonic Orb no longer one shots units in melee.
* AEonic Orb armor decreased (again).
* Great Pyramid damage nerfed against most units.
* Annihilator superweapon no longer shares a global recharge. Two Pyramids can fire at once.
* Amplification Generator Living Metal modifier - health regen slightly decreased.
* Tier 1 now requires less time to build.

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Orks:
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SISTERS:
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Space Marines:
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* Space Marine turret health increased to 1125 from 900.
* Relic Blade time to produce decreased.

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Tau:
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* Vespids health increased. Ranged damage decreased, especially versus armor.
* Shield Generators now give off a control radius.

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Tyranids:
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* Biovore Toxin damage decreased. Cost increased greatly.
* Tyrant Guard can be attached with Tyranid commanders.
* Spammable and free Spore Clusters damage decreased and especially versus structures.
* Spammable Spore Cluster production cost increased from 60 power to 200 power.
* Raveners cost more to reinforce.

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Inquisition:
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* Grand Master health returned to normal.

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Daemons:
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* Furies damage decreased.
* Daemon turret damages decreased.

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Survival: |
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Arena: |
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SCAR: |
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> New Wincondition: Kill Count
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SCENARIOS: |
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SOUND: |
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The biggest change: Turrets require zone of control to build, though they do produce a small area of their own.
Other things that seem interesting; Spore Mines for Tyranids do less damage and cost more, Hive Guard can be joined by Tyranid heroes, Great Pyramid damage against most enemies decreased (I would assume this is the auto-shots it fires rather than the nuke).

There's also a new win condition: Kill Count. Sounds like you can set a battle to be a victory when you kill a certain number of enemies.

[Sinistar]

Call me casual but I never liked how rushing someone with basic units opening a path for workers to build line of turrets on their back and directly in your face is a valid tactic. Still, with this change, this tactic doesn't go away completely... but if you fall victim to it it's at least almost certainly due to you playing bad enough instead of just lacking the micro your turret-rushing opponent has. So yeah, I'm liking this patch.


As for kill count - might be interesting, you could play a "defend the base" type of game. Pick symmetrical map with heavily defensible positions on one side, put one or 2 insane AI Tyranids one the other... and hold the line! Yeah, that could be cool!

edit: There seems to be some problems with download links though. If you see file that's ~90 KB big, don't get that one. The surest way seems to be to follow "changelog" YouTube link and choose one of the dl links in video description. Should be about 12 MB.
I just hope that faulty file wasn't something really bad though. :\

[Frumple]

S'definitely going to make forming decent bulwarks against the AI significantly more difficult on a lot of maps, at the least. Being able to set up defenses on a whim (and, more importantly, before the AI breaks out and starts edging towards out of control) around the big circle things or choke points that otherwise didn't have control points nearby was one of the better ways to keep them under control, and the change is going to make that fairly significantly more difficult.

[Urist McScoopbeard]

Mortars! Basilisks! Baneblades! AHAHAHAHAHAHHA

Like actually though, that's a fairly winning combination if you've got a couple of infantry units to support it.

[Tellemurius]

Heres a good question though, how does the AI react if you built walls around your stuff? Would they consider it a primary target and attack it at first sight or would go after your defense turrets or production buildings?

[Mech#4]

I believe they attack the walls, even if under attack from turrets behind the walls. I would guess they consider walls as being similar to barracks or similar buildings. Jump units may still move straight for your command centre from what I've seen.

[Tellemurius]

I believe they attack the walls, even if under attack from turrets behind the walls. I would guess they consider walls as being similar to barracks or similar buildings. Jump units may still move straight for your command centre from what I've seen.

If thats the case I might have to implement that more into my slow tactics then. Standard AI I still beat with the changes but Hard AI fucking steamrolls you in an instant you hit second tier.