Freedom Force Patch 1.2

Version 1.2 

New Features 
- Enabled Surround Gaming for Matrox Parhelia 
- Hypnosis speech added 

Code Fixes 
- Fixed text edit caret jumping to the end of the field when typing 
- Fixed crash when entering danger room with an invalid campdef.dat 
- Custom characters now run around when they run out of ep in the danger room 
- Fixed Alex's Danger Room mod not working 
- Fixed odd display of prestige bonuses 
- Fixed: after selecting a 'beneficial' power effect in the power 
creation screen, the stun and knockback boxes would never reappear 
- Fixed: characters would run in place while an active defense was in use 
- Fixed: 'Max Instances' box was grayed out 
- Fixed: Ambient sounds continuing after the end of the mission 
- AIs flying in danger room improved 
- AIs will stop when they have run out of EP less often 
- If renderer fails initalisation, 640x480 mode is tried as a fallback before exiting 
- Fixed: Sukhov's powers are now set correctly for his AI 
- Fixed: Enraged enemies would attack those with lowest hitpoints first, now their target selection is based on distance only 
- Fixed: Enemies would be alerted to power usage when their AI was disabled 
- Fixed a graphics corruption bug with NVidia Detonator drivers v40.* 
- Fixed game crashing after playing "Nick Of Time" in campaign danger room 

Tuning 
- Speeding bullet knockback and damage increased 
- Lightspeed attribute: damage bonus restored to 50% 

Version 1.1 

New Features 
- New skirmish mode added including: 
o buttons to danger room from main menu and base 
o new skirmish mode selection screen 
o new character selection screen 
o new enemy selection screen 
o new skirmish debriefing screen 
- Enemies now react to physics events such as thrown objects colliding. 
- Hero portraits now flash if hero takes damage while off-screen. 
- When a hero is damaged off-screen, his pain sound is now played 2D. 
- Enabled python scripts to be read from a mod's Missions/Scripts folder. 
- Multiplayer hosts can set pause speed on the creation screen. 
- Multiplayer game now waits 4 seconds before showing end-of-game screen. 
- Games of different build numbers now cannot play MP together (to prevent patched versions playing against non-patched versions). 
- Multiplayer screen now remembers CP, time, map and max players. 
- Added new difficulty level (impossible). 
- Difficulty now modifies villain and minion health as well as damage done. 
- Added script function Object_CalcPrestige for calculating prestige costs of characters. 
- Added script function AI_SetAlerted. 
- Added script command Object_SetOrientation. 
- Popup help is now available to show how much CP is recovered from removing an attribute. 
- A countdown is shown in multiplayer when game time approaches 'time up'. 

Tuning 
- EP for melee attacks now deducted on contact rather than when triggered. 
- Capped number of monsters (20) killed for prestige purposes. 
- Speeding bullet knockback is now scaled by distance traveled. Also, cost is increased. 
- Molecular excitation now does more damage. 
- High knockback made more expensive. 
- High stun made more expensive. 
- Material costs for stone and metal increased. 
- Villains have double hit points (like heroes). 
- Strength gives less melee damage bonus. 
- Multiple contract points now cost more. 
- Attributes crack shot and cybernetic brain are now more expensive. 
- Attribute 'radioactive' is no longer cheaper than invertebrate, since it's better. 
- All attributes that increase your vulnerability to damage are now worth 50 more points. 
- Changed description for lightspeed plus reduced damage multiplier. 
- Bullet's melee attacks are now set to medium swiftness (he actually misses once in a while). 
- Melee attacks can no longer knock back characters while they are getting up. 
- Beneficial 'support' powers can no longer be assigned stun and knockback (this would have the effect of bypassing the target's resistances). 
- If a character's stats are over 10, they are now clamped to 10. 
- Multiplayer squad selected list is no longer sorted. 
- You can no longer indicate that you are ready to start a multiplayer game with an empty squad. 
- You can no longer pickup or wield objects while invisible or displaced. 

Code Fixes 
- Fixed potential crash/ corrupt stack. 
- Fixed bug where heroes that had direct attacks wouldn't use those attacks when they were enraged or hypnotized. 
- Fixed: Ant could pick up canisters when burrowed. 
- Tweaked thug with gun's retreat distance to fix bug where they would oscillate between attacking and retreating. 
- Fixed bug where panicked characters sometimes got stuck. 
- Fixed bug where moving camera quickly and then releasing camera control button 
- sometimes caused camera to jerk continuously. 
- Fixed drag select 'sticking' when dragged outside of the map. 
- Fixed widescreen_leave sound distortion on briefings. 
- You can no longer target yourself with a wielded object. 
- Active defense effects were wrongly positioned on the character in the power creation animation/effect screen. 
- Fixed status text box hanging around during load screen. 
- Fixed pause clock hanging around for save/load screens. 
- Character weights are now shown correctly in multiplayer. 
- Cars don't collide with characters so much anymore. 
- Fixed: Bullet's Electrify power's first explosion wasn't doing damage. 
- Fixed: being unable to fly or land whilst having shield activated. 
- Fly no longer appears on the menu when carrying objects. 
- LockupFlying tactic added to AI, for robots. Robots no longer get confused by flyers in Mr Mechanical's base. 
- Fixed talking heads moving in slow-motion during game paused. 
- Fixed increased/decreased game speed carrying over into cutscenes and debriefings. 
- Fixed passive defense appearing as default power when no zero-cost melee was available. 
- Fixed move splat sound being played once for each hero in a formation. 
- Game now uses non-exclusive input by default, enabling screen shot programs. 
- Water damage type is now resolved to crushing. 
- Players are kicked from multiplayer if their squad points total is unusual. 
- Fixed: repeated overpowered projectiles didn't do extra damage. 
- Fixed: Mercy transferred hitpoints to ground or buildings and buildings collapsed when Mercy used on them. 
- Fixed: Balance gave wrong results when hit points above maximum were granted. 
- Fixed: some secondary states (power nullify, empathy, etc.) were not cured by Commuted Sentence 
- Fixed: Levels do not increase projectile damage. 
- Fixed: Empathy no longer causes damage to attacker when beneficial powers are used on target (e.g. energy transfer). 
- Fixed: Timemasters would attack Manbot in final level. 
- Fixed Law and Order recovering hero points when transforming. 
- Triggering an attack now cancels the invisibility state. 
- Fixed: Fire Shield and a few other FX not configured properly. 
- Six new fx should now be accessible in the char screen. 
- Named El Diablo's and Manbot's power tiers. 
- Numerous grammatical and spelling errors fixed up. 
- While throwing an object, you can no longer target the object that you are holding. 
- Fixed: if an enemy did not have a entry in the string database, then they would not appear on the debrief screen. 
- Fixed: move commands would sometimes be ignored after a wield. 
- El Diablo would keep his fiery feet after being stunned or knocked back in the air. 
- Fixed: EP Drain and EP Transfer did not work correctly in multiplayer 

Script fixes 
- Came A Hero: civilian in alley will no longer panic if her muggers are already KO'd, it won't re-assign the objective either. 
- Came A Hero: cafe will no longer fade in cutscene. 
- Strange Visitors (a): alarm is raised and alarm light appears only if the alarm and station are intact. 
- Skating on Thin Ice (a): frozen ice trooper will get knocked out 15 seconds after he's frozen. 
- Skating on Thin Ice (a): cop who flees muggers will react to enemies normally after the event. 
- Skating on Thin Ice (b): weird interrogate on ice queen works the standard way now. 
- Nuclear Winter (a): heroes weren't standing around an ice queen if you interrogated her. 
- Nuclear Winter (a): heroes will now properly face the interrogated NW minion. 
- Nuclear Winter (a): moved a badly placed ice trooper. 
- Nuclear Winter (b): remove the arrow before cutscene. 
- Nuclear Winter (c): nuclear winter will always detect you, so you can't sneak up behind him and disarm the bomb. 
- Nick of Time (c): after nick's second feeble speech, minute man will not say that they have to take pinstripe down if they already have. 
- Thug in Sea Urchin/Man O War intro cut-scene no longer stuck in terrain up to his eyeballs. 
- Where Shadows Fall (a): trainer at start of level only plays once now. 
- Looking For Trouble (b): RPG system is now switched off for intro cutscene. Also moved order back slightly. 
- Deja Who (a): the extra two chars beyond Minuteman and Liberty Lad run in the final cutscene now. 
- Deja Who (b): Eve is added after the cutscene where you talk to her, so you don't see her selection ring now. 
- Robots Rampage (b): awkward transition in final cutscene smoothed out. 
- Robots Rampage (b): one of the robots in the intro was facing the wrong way. 
- Destruction Production: the exploding robot no longer blows up twice. 
- Destruction Production: final cutscene no longer snaps to Minuteman before he's in position. 
- United We Fall: Alchemiss was sometimes obscured by the third character in final cutscene. 
- A God Walks the Earth: heroes 3 and 4 now have proper places to stand during the final cutscene. 
- A God Walks the Earth: the cop at the station will no longer assign you the objective to clear the entrance if you already have. 
- Pandemonium: Mentor no longer speaks the same line twice when you move over both ramps in the first room. 
- Beginning of the End: added a slight pause before the final cutscene changes locations on you. 
- Beginning of the End: the thugs around the crystal will halt their speech if attacked. 
- Beginning of the End: added a pause for end cutscene. 
- End of Time: Timemaster will no longer have his lines get cut off when he disappears. 
- End of Time: the portal had an attention mark on it in the final cutscene.