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Build V18.3 has been released. The current status of the build is as follows: Standalones are awaiting authorisation on Desura. It appears to have been authorised for the Premium branch but not the Standard branch. Auto-updater versions will follow if it is confirmed to be free of major bugs I have named this build V18.3 to avoid confusing people who ended up with Hotfix 2 from the forums or with V18.1 due to Desura's peculiar numbering system. Because it takes so long to upload / authorise, we've made more changes since we started uploading it. There will be a hotfix patch today that will improve balance, and will likely be incorporated into the branch release. Overall, I've not been able to sit down and play the game much CHANGELOG: The "replace" function now works for research projects, automatically scanning all units for the item to be replaced and updating it with the new one. This has been used for the Advanced Medipack and the advanced aircraft missiles and explosives. Disappearing equipment bug associated with wounded soldiers should be fixed. Trying to use a loadout that contains an armour which cannot be equipped (e.g. you don't have any of them) will no longer crash the game. Weapon fire paths for shots now turn orange beyond the operational range of the weapon (where accuracy and damage drops off) Teleporters should be working again. Shift + click will now override TU reserve settings for soldier movement The interceptable C-17 transport plane has been removed from the game. It was a neat idea but it caused too many problems to be worthwhile; now item transfer simply occurs with a 24 hour time delay. This will fix several crashes. There's a bit of new art for the Foxtrot and Saracen, and for the vehicles too (though the latter will look much better with the new UI) Ferret should no longer occasionally disappear when destroyed Stunning an alien no longer produces two corpses Aircraft now fly from base to base when told to transfer (they are not interceptable). Dropships should now appear in the tech tree. Previously I'd forgotten to include a recoverable item. Aliens now have somewhat shorter sight ranges. It's still longer than human sight ranges, but less so. This means the Hunter also has a reduced sight range (but it is still longer than most aliens). (EDIT - actually, this isn't in the game. It'll be in the hotfix). Rate of alien alloy recovery increased a bit Marauders no longer incorrectly cost $7.5m each Vertical movement with jetpack now costs 2APs per square instead of 6APs A few sprite updates including fixing the giganto soldier with Buzzard and Precision Laser C4 is now incendiary damage From Hotfix 1 & 2, included in this release: Aliens should no longer spawn inside solid objects. Scimitar is now correctly a 3x3 vehicle instead of 4x4. CTD when you walk through smoke is removed. Grenade throw mode no longer disappears when you mouseover an alien. Grenades should no longer occasionally just disappear when you try to throw them. The auto-generated crashsites now no longer make the radar ranges on the Geoscape disappear. UFOs are a bit less aggressive now. Only the air superiority missions will actively try to shoot down your aircraft. When you click "Go To Aircraft / Vehicle" after you've built a new one, it now takes you to the specific unit just built rather than just to the general screen. Ctrl key is no longer incorrectly "sticky" on screens with quantity arrows, so they'll only max the quantity if you actually have Ctrl held when you press the button rather than having pressed it at any point before the click. Hopefully the aliens shooting through solid walls issue should be fixed Hopefully the invisible civilian issue should be fixed UFO walls and floors should no longer disappear on loading a save game Landing ships should no longer sometimes be empty when shot down The two auto-generated crash sites in the first week should no longer be empty There should be less freezes in the Hidden Movement screen The Chinook range has been extended a bit, so hopefully it now should have global range You can no longer "scan" a UFO with the crosshair to reveal aliens inside it from outside Incendiary damage (most explosives except grenades deal incendiary damage) now do double damage against terrain, but normal damage against units...so rockets are better at clearing terrain now! Also, will be moving all of the existing sticky beta Balance Discussion threads into the "Old Thread" section and creating new ones. Now I'm back from holiday and the game is (hopefully) much more stable than pre-hotfix V18 was, we should be able to act on the points of discussion more easily. Please play the new version, report any major bugs, then post summaries of your opinions (whether new or previously posted) if they are still valid in the new build.