Ironward Games has launched Patch 1.6.5 for Red Solstice 2: Survivors. The latest update balances barricades and improves select skills and UI elements.
Barricades now give added suppression per bullet or projectile. However, aiming and overwatch time has been reduced by a whopping 70%, and reload has also been decreased by 40%.
For those who do not know, the Overwatch mechanic will let your character aim and shoot enemies that get inside a fairly large radius automatically. Now, if you are using a barricade, the Overwatch time is reduced, which likely means that the devs do not want you to stay there for a long time.
It is also worth noting that barricades offer more protection now because you cannot be grabbed when you are near them.
As for skills, Scan Area has been improved in that it now shows items and monsters within a particular sector when used. Those who are trigger happy will be glad to know that the energy cost for Rapid fire is reduced to two.
Patch Notes
- Barricades now give added 3 suppression per bullet/projectile
- Barricades now reduce aiming and overwatch time by 70%
- Barricades now add 40% reduced reload
- Players cannot be grabbed near barricades
- Key card picked up by drone won’t break game
- Field Status terminal will activate after first objective
- Rescue cost reduced to 75
- Scan area now shows items and monsters in the area when used
- Communications skill now reduces MS by 40% instead of rooting the player
- Spike strip adds 10% to 30% move speed reduction to monsters
- Extender works like amplifier and adds 1 armor shred to explosives
- Stimulants heal 50 to 90 health
- Energized bullets now give 20 to 40% energy bullets + 3% per energized stack
- Rapid fire energy per shot cost reduced from 4 to 2
- Added wave generation type to loading screen
- Changed Research CTAs to show up on Clients as well when in a multiplayer campaign.
- Fixes for Weapons tooltip showing incorrect ammo for some secondary weapons
- Added list of events and tutorials to the main menu
Red Solstice 2: Survivors Patch 1.6.5 is now available on PC.
So, what can you say about the balance changes to barricades?
