The November patch is a large one, with four new maps added to the matchmaker pool, numerous balance tweaks, and many other improvements and fixes.

The most notable balance changes are:

• Armour now reduces damage by a factor of 3 rather than 4. This is to increase counters to armoured turrets and Crab, and to give Halberd space to be tankier while firing.
  
• Hovercraft have their uniquely terrible slope climbing replaced with uniquely fast speed while turning. A bonus feels better than a penalty, and the old penalty was pretty obscure as well as limiting for map diversity.
  
• Limpet received its prophesied nerf now its power and general utility has been discovered.
  
• The ongoing small tweaks to vehicle raiders continue in an attempt to share some of the success of Rover with Hover and Tank.
  
• Swift no longer fires while landing. Its weapon maybe have to be buffed in the future to compensate.
  

New features include a command for easier factory plate placement and improved effects for Halberd and Buoy. Modding for many niche special abilities is much easier and a few edge case bugs have been fixed.

Matchmaker Pool

1v1 pool:

• Added Faultline, Doldrums, Random Plateaus, Shimmershore, Trojan Hills, Mecharavaged.
  
• Removed Intersection, Ravaged, Crubick Plains, Frostburn, Izki Channel, Anvilwood.
  

Teams pool:

• Added Faultline, Doldrums, Random Plateaus, Shimmershore, Trojan Hills, Mecharavaged.
  
• Removed Intersection, Ravaged, Crubick Plains, Frostburn, Aurelian.
  

Balance

Armour damage reduction reduced 75% -> 66.6%. The following units were partially compensated.

• Halberd health 1250 -> 1600
  
• Crab health 4000 -> 4200
  
• Solar Collector health 500 -> 600
  

Hovercraft have increased mobility.

• Rather than slow to 60% while turning like other vehicles, they keep all their speed.
  
• They climb slopes as quickly as other vehicles, rather than climbing much slower.
  

Quill turns faster because large turning circles are needlessly annoying on constructors.

• Turn rate 920 -> 1100.
  

Dagger deals more damage, but not enough to affect its matchups against most raiders.

• Damage 100 -> 110
  

Scalpel is smarter.

• Overkill prevention fires less often at targets that are probably going to die.
  

Dart swarms are slightly less deadly.

• Damage 35 -> 32
  
• Slow damage 140 -> 128
  

Fencer is the backbone of Rover, which seems particularly powerful, so can afford a small nerf.

• Cost 140 -> 145
  

Kodachi is cheaper but finds it harder to deal free damage.

• Cost 175 -> 170
  
• Range 215 -> 210
  

Limpet took years to be noticed, and it is finally time for its first nerf.

• Cost 150 -> 160
  
• Speed 123 -> 120
  
• Damage 150 -> 120
  
• Slow damage of 1200 unchanged.
  
• Overslow 5s -> 2s (matches Moderator)
  

Cutter should not be outclassed by Hunter so early.

• Cost 70 -> 65
  

Swift is no longer a form of artillery, and boost is consistent with other abilities.

• Can no longer fire while landing.
  
• Boost recharge rate now obeys status effects.
  

Faraday has less damage and stun uptime, on top of the general armour nerf.

• Damage 1200 -> 1100
  
• Reload 2.7s -> 2.9s (stun uptime 74% -> 69%)
  

Faraday and Gauss have more appropriate collision shapes.

• They now have flatter collision volumes when closed.
  
• If they can shoot over a wall, their aim point is now adjusted so that enemies can shoot back.
  

Commander Disruptor Bomb is now consistent with Limpet.

• Damage 350 -> 210
  
• Slow damage of 2100 unchanged.
  
• Added 2s overslow to Violet Slugger for consistency with Limpet.
  

Disco Rave Party is now consistent with Limpet.

• Added 2s overslow to Violet Slugger.
  

All slow pulses, besides the more continual pulse of Outlaw, now have a slow to damage ratio of 10:1, and 2 seconds overslow.

Interface

Dagger and Bolas radar icons are now consistent with other light/heavy raider pairs.

• Icon type Raider/Support -> Scout/Raider.
  
• This will be confusing at first, but the consistency should be worth it in the long run.
  

Factory plates are easier to place with the new factory plate command.

• Added a generic factory plate command that turns.
  
• It turns into the factory plate of the nearest factory in range of the mouse.
  
• It exists in the grid construction menu with hotkey BV.
  

Fixed some texts:

• "defense" -> "defence" (rather than a mismash of the two options)
  
• "minimun" -> "minimum"
  
• "stun time" -> "max stun time"
  

Other features.

• Self-destructing a selection of units costing less than 1000 now never triggers autoresign.
  
• Rectangle terraform now turns red when too large.
  
• Added Swift boost and jumpjet cooldown to selections panel.
  
• Landed Swifts refund their boost.
  
• Add Fire Towards Enemies to the hotkey menu.
  

Graphics

• Improved projectile effect and muzzle flare for Buoy and Halberd.
  

Modding

Many previously hardcoded abilities now have customParams or are configurable in LuaRules/Configs. While it was possible for mods to copy gadgets to configure such behaviour, it is now easier to do so in a configurable way. This includes:

• Dirtbag mound.
  
• Full interactions for sonar, radar and radar jamming (eg being disabled when disarmed).
  
• Phantom firing while cloaked.
  
• Air transports.
  
• Teleport beacon.
  
• Overshoot prevention for turrets.
  
• Gravity weapons being allowed to Set Target allies.
  
• Torpedoes not jumping out of the water when they hit the shore.
  

Fixes

• Fix ward fire error spam on metal maps.
  
• Krow and Thunderbird now decloak during bombing runs. Previously Thunderbird would only decloak when bombing via attack order.
  
• Clean up metal spot detection code.
  
• Improved base64 encoding memory usage.
  
• Fix Scylla firepoint offset/clipping.
  
• Fix special weapons not updating their image and text in some cases (eg select a Swift then a Charon).
  
• Fix SLAM rocket model.
  
• Fix stretched Dart track texture.