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Introduction

The official UWE Extension is a Mod for Natural Selection 2. It was automatically loaded on any Dedicated Server and it was mandatory to run on all Ranked Servers. It was a way to add minor balance changes into the game without releasing a new Patch. With the introduction of UGC support with (Build 340) it was replaced by Matched Play Balance Mod. Every Player automatically subscribes to Matched Play Balance Mod in the Steam Workshop. The current Changes can be found by clicking the Balance Gorge Button (10) in the Main Menu. Not every iteration of the Mod is released to the public, which is why version numbers in the changelog are missing.

Balance Gorge Button

Balance Gorge Button
see also: Matched Play Balance on the Steam Workshop
see also: UWE Extension on the Steam Workshop

Current Extension Mod Version: 1.9

Matched Play Balance Changelog

Every thing is merged as of now

Older versions that have been merged into the base game

Merged with Build 342 June 27, 2022

Version 1.9

Date: May 11 2022

Version 1.8

Date: April 8 2022
  • MAC
    • Fix MACs not able to build structures

Version 1.7

Date: April 7 2022
  • ARC
    • Fix exploit blocking ARCs from shooting Hive by placing Hydras
      • ARCs will no longer automatically target Hydras
      • You can now manually set a target for ARCs, including Hydras

Version 1.6

Date: February 3 2022
  • Heal Sound
    • Heal sound for Aliens is now only silent when it is caused by Regeneration.
  • Aura
  • Lerk
  • Bone Shield (Onos)
    • Increased TRes research cost to 25 (from 20)
    • Decreased recharge rate to 80 (from 130)
    • Moved UI to be more out of the way of Techpoint's hitpoints progress bar
    • Fuel can now be recovered while Bone Shield is being used. (damage cooldowns, etc still apply)
    • Fixed recovering too much fuel when being equipped in some cases
    • Fixed UI not scaling with resolution changes
  • ARC
    • Non matched-play games now have a max ARC limit of 5. Matched play games still have a limit of 4.

Merged with Build 341 February 3, 2022

Version 1.5

Date: January 14 2022

Version 1.3

Date: December 27 2021

General:

  • Resources:
    • Player PRes income rate is now 0.1 per tick (down from 0.125)
    • Alien starting PRes is now 15 (up from 12)
      • Fade Cost reduced to 35 (down from 37)
      • Onos Cost reduced to 55 (down from 62)
    • Increase Marine starting pres to 20 from 15
  • Healing Softcap:
    • Softcap is now 12% eHP/s with an 80% penalty for excess healing (from 14% / 66%)

Kharaa:

  • Commander:
    • Removed the ability to research Onos Charge as the onos now always has Charge
  • Lerk:
    • Movement
      • Strafe force changed to 8.3 (from 7)
      • Lerk glide makes a sound if a Lerk is gliding above 4.5 speed
      • Added an air brake functionality to the Movement Modifier key (default is Shift key) that will slow glide speed down to 4.5 speed for silent gliding. Lerks will maintain a 4.5 speed glide while the key is pressed.
      • Increased glide minimum speed clamp to 4.5 (up from 4)
    • Spikes
      • Reduce Spread to 3.3° (down from 3.8°)
      • Projectile size reduced to 45mm (from 60mm)
    • Spores
    • Umbra
      • Increase research cost to 30 (up from 20)
      • Increase research time to 75 seconds (up from 45 seconds)
  • Fade:
    • Blink energy cost changed to 12 (down from 14)
    • Metabolize
      • Cost changed to 10 (down from 25)
      • Now restores 20 energy (down from 35)
  • Tunnels:
    • Removed "Infested Tunnel" upgrade
    • Tunnels now become Infested Tunnels automatically upon reaching full maturity
    • Mature health changed to 1400/250 (up from 1250/200)
    • Time to Mature changed to 75 seconds (down from 120)
    • Tunnel resource cost changed to 8 tres (up from 6)
  • Bone Wall:
  • Shade/Shift/Crag:
    • Structure movement speed increased by 15%
  • Contamination:
    • Cooldown changed to 3 seconds (down from 6)
    • Health changed to 1500 (up from 1000)
    • No longer Flammable
    • Biomass Requirement changed to 12 (up from 10)
    • Can no longer be targeted by ARCs
  • Eggs:
    • Lerk Egg Drop Biomass requirement changed to 4 (from 2)
    • Lerk Egg Drop cost changed to 40 (from 30)
    • Gorge Egg Drop cost changed to 20 (from 15)
    • Fade Egg Drop Biomass requirement changed to 8 (from 9)
    • Fade Egg Drop cost changed to 80 (down from 100)
    • Fixed an issue where players can spawn out of a Lifeform Egg and delete it as a result
    • Clamped number of Lifeform Egg drops to 2 per Hive
  • Drifters:
    • Hover height to the ground was lowered
    • Drifters cloaked by the Shade Hive upgrade will now un-cloak from further away (3m up from 1.5)
    • Turn rate is instant on the first move command, but will return to the normal turn before moving behavior on subsequent move orders (this effect has a 4 second cooldown)
    • Abilities:
      • Enzyme
        • Cooldown changed to 3 seconds (from 12 seconds)
      • Hallucinations
        • No longer affected by mucous
        • Can no longer have babblers attached
        • Hallucination Onos now has 100 HP
      • Mucous
        • Cooldown changed to 3 second (from 12 seconds)
        • Cloud radius changed to 5 (from 8)
        • Shield values now match Babbler Shield values (except Skulk - remains at 15 HP)
  • Gorge:
  • Skulk:
    • Leap energy cost changed to 55 (up from 45)
    • Adrenaline upgrade now grants 60% increased energy regeneration (up from 50%)
  • Cysts:
    • Build time changed to 4.5 Seconds (up from 3.33) (MATCHED PLAY CHANGE ONLY)
    • Shade Hive Cyst reveal range changed to 8 (from 6)
    • Cyst health changed to 400 near the hive and 200 far away (up from 300 / 200)
      • Health falloff range from the Hive room decreased slightly
    • Damage bonus from Welders changed to 5x from 7x
  • Shift:
    • Echo upgrades cost changed to 2 (from 1)
    • Echo Egg cost changed to 1 (from 2)
  • Crag player healing:
    • Fixed issue where Heal Wave was not correctly increasing Crag healing by 30%
    • Changed Crag to heal eHP instead of a flat value
    • Crags now heal players with Lifeform specific healing values instead of a percentage:
      • Skulk: 10 (previously 7)
      • Gorge: 15 (previously 11)
      • Lerk: 16 (previously 10)
      • Fade: 25 (previously 17)
      • Onos: 80 (previously 42)
  • Carapace:
  • Regeneration:
    • Healing amount changed to 6% (from 8%)
    • Is now silent
  • Aura:
  • Vampirism:
    • Lerk
      • Vampirism percentage changed to 6% (from 8%)
  • Onos:
    • Charge is now a baseline ability and does not require research from the Commander.
    • Bone Shield has been reworked:
      • No longer uses “fuel”
      • Bone Shield now has 1000 hitpoints and prevents all damage
      • Bone Shield now encompasses the entire Onos (not just the front half)
      • While the shield is active, energy regeneration is reduced by 50% (this includes all sources)
      • Bone Shield recharge occurs immediately while out of combat, or 3 seconds after Bone Shield is deactivated while in combat. Recharge rate is 130 shield hitpoints per second.
      • When Bone Shield is broken, a unique sound will play and shield recharge penalty is increased to 6 seconds, visualized by a "broken" shield UI bar.

Frontiersmen:

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