January Balance Update (#2!) — NS2: Combat Steam update #247444

This month's updates mainly focuses on performance/stability improvements (in common with the Natural Selection 2 codebase) and balance. You asked for more detailed changelogs, so here's as much detail as we can muster! Changelog for NS2: Combat January 2015 Balance Update 2 Released on 2015-01-28 Alien Tweaks: Hydra spikes damage decreased from 15 to 9 Hydra fire rate decreased from .25 to .15 Hydra health decreased from 610 to 475 Hydra range decreased from 20 to 18 Hydra fuel sap decreased from 17 to 12 Hydra accuracy decreased 5% Gorge heal-spray reduced 15% for buildings. Marine Tweaks: Flamethrower flammable target multiplier reduced to 2.25 Flamethrower damage decreased from 15 to 14.5 Flamethrower energy drain decreased from 2 to 1.7 Grenade launcher building damage increased from 1x to 1.70x A preview version of our next map, co_niveus, is now included in the public build for yo...