Iron Shell 1.16

Is a man not owed his money? "No," says the man in the Hegemony, "You've got to pay taxes." "No," says the watcher in the Path of Ludd, "Unburden your soul of Mammon's shackles. Donate your credits to the Path." "No," says the Supreme Executor in the Diktat, "All you possess may be forfeit if I declare it." But I decided differently. The impossible. Tax fraud.

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Patch Notes

This patch is save-game compatible with 1.1, 1.11, 1.14, and 1.141

Campaign Changes

• Added Shooting Blanks, a mission that adds a new Super Ship start revolving around wolf ship enjoyers.
• Added Deep Impact, a mission that adds a new Super Ship start revolving around ramming ships.
• Enhanced Hartley's dialog options, you may duel him for a rep boost every 2 weeks as he loves a good challenge, but you may have to unlock something to know that first.
• You may regift certain modded commodities to Ava Nitia.
• Bugfixes for Operation World Above.
• Operation Purity of Heart under Kim Quy has been unlocked.
• Iron Shell Bureau will reduce the effects of foreign agents' success; Iron Shell Bureau will scale in size by cycle.
• Iron Shell Commission can be valid for Hegemony-Commissioned choices in a vanilla storyline.
• Music stuff QoL stuff and bug fix for other mods (hence why taking this update kinda long sadly)
• Added one portrait.

Hullmod Changes

• Avaritia buff duration can be shorter if the venting duration was shorter than the buff duration.
• Avaritia will vent hard flux first than soft flux (as opposed to vanilla's venting soft flux before hard flux).
• Avaritia AI will vent more recklessly in the heat of combat... (maybe to one's benefit?)
• New hullmod (6/9/15/23): Gula Tandem Warheads, increase missile damage by a flat +100. This damage bonus can be reduced based on the property of the missile (MIRV, guiding, reloading). This hullmod can be unlocked by grinding to a friendly reputation with Charlotte.

• Vanagloria's bonus cooldown is less penalized on phase ships.
• Vanagloria's bugfix for audio reduction and using Hold Fire functionality.
• S-Mod bonus of Vanagloria grants 30 additional armor for damage reduction calculation.

Ship Changes

• Audacious (XIV): Flux dissipation decreased from 350 to 300; shield upkeep increased from 0.3 to 0.4.
• Endeavor (XIV): Shield changed from FRONT to OMNI.
• Indomitable (XIV): Reduced crew requirement and capacity from 200/300 to 150/200.
• Totally fixed Eradicator (XIV).
• Vengeance (XIV): Added NO_AUTO_ESCORT; will attempt to frontline.

Ship System Changes

• Annihilator Protocol's buffering increased from 0.25 to 0.5 (taking longer to charge up)
• Annihilator Protocol's Increased RoF and Ballistic Flux generation reduced after 3 seconds to half effect (80%/40% for 3s; 40%/20% for 2s afterward)
• Damper Subfield reduces all flux raised by shield generation when active.
• Damper Subfield's hard flux dissipation increased from 50% to 60%.
• Fixed Valorous's fx being a little too big...
• Fixed Rampage Drive AI more. (When prompted to direct retreat, it will use its ship system without consideration to retreat) [Will attempt to close the gap more if it has full charges.]

Variant Changes (Does anyone even read this)

• Support Courageous exchanges its harpoons for  Gula and swarmers.
• Assault Mora change its Amity wing for Vanagloria and Thunder.
• Overdriven Audacious exchanges its Thunder for Xyphos.

Weapon Changes

• Twin-linked Railgun's Automatic Fire Delay reduced from 0.65 to 0.6.

Wing Changes

• Mining Drone (H): Improved firing arc (and reliability).
• Xyphos (XIV): Vulcan cannon replaced with Light Assault Gun.