1.4.0

Anomaly bugfixes, new class-based Ultra optional features, and a light rework of the Mesmerist’s Mirror Image feature.

NPC Classes

Anchor

Lodestone

• Change to only affect ranged attacks made from outside its area.

Reality Anchor

• Clarify that the feature allows teleporting allies to treat Lodestone’s area as a valid teleportation destination, but doesn’t grant allies the ability to teleport themselves.

Omninet Grounding

• Change to only affect tech actions made from outside Lodestone’s area.

Tectonic Wave

• New Ultra Optional Feature! Increase the size of Gravity Cannon’s area and create terrain.

Capacitor

High Voltage

• New Veteran Optional Feature! Double the power of Arc Feedback if it’s used as a full action.

Reciprocity

• Add “The Capacitor deploys with OVERSHIELD 2/4/6.”

Ghost

Coherent Entanglement

• New Ultra Optional Feature! Increase the duration of Paradox State.

Hatchet

Cleaving Retrieval

• Clarify that only half damage occurs on a successful save.

Return to Sender

• Clarify that the Hatchet will use its own attack bonus and save target for the copied action.

Hurricane of Steel

• New Ultra Optional Feature! Throw a lot of axes, then quickly retrieve all of them next round.

Knight

Valor

• New Veteran Optional Feature! Duel up to two opponents at once!

Mesmerist

Mesmerist has received a rework to reduce its reliance on Recharge abilities; it now generates Mirror Images on tech attack hits, including Invades!

Mirror Image

• Change to a trait with the following effect:

  When the Mesmerist hits with a tech attack, it creates a mirror image that occupies its space (to a maximum of 3/4/5). The Mesmerist is INVISIBLE while it has any mirror images. Each attack that misses the Mesmerist destroys 1 mirror image.

Mountebank’s Jaunt

• Change the effect to:

  When the Mesmerist hits with a tech attack, it may escape all grapples and teleport to a free space adjacent to its target.

NARCISSUS Override

• Adjust to be a tech attack instead of a Systems save.

Metafold Riposte

• Minor wording adjustments.

Dimensional Raid

• New Ultra Optional Feature! Overwatch anyone who takes Heat from Memetic Magnetism.

Napalm

Skyburner

• New Ultra Optional Feature! Lay down two lines of fire with the Salamander Thermobaric Catapult.

Occultist

Greater Good

• New Ultra Optional Feature! Sacrifice a poorly-performing ally to empower another.

Prism

Flashbang Projector

• New Ultra Optional Feature! Immediately attack with the Diffraction Beam before destroying a projector.

Torrent

LCP

• Added missing flavor and tactics.

Split the Sea

• New Ultra Optional Feature! Split into duplicates upon taking Structure damage.

Vulture

Rapid Refabrication

• New Ultra Optional Feature! Use Magpie Subroutines twice if the Vulture uses a Full Action to use it.

Zealot

Undying Faith

• New Ultra Optional Feature! Allies cannot be destroyed while affected by Zeal.

Templates

Anomaly

Animate Ammunition

• Clarify that the feature affects the area within the Anomaly’s Sensors.

Awakening

• Change from Full Tech to Full Action to head off questions of “what if I just Shut Down?”
• Change from Limited 1 to 1/scene.
• Revise so that it adds the AI tag to existing systems that lack the tag.

Bottom of the Well

• Clarify that the conditions chosen last until the end of the scene.
• Reword slightly for space.

Doppelgänger

• Clarify that the feature effectively replaces “>//[ERR: DATA NOT FOUND]”.

Dust and Echoes

• Change soul’s HP from 1 to 3/4/5, but reduce the soul’s HP by 1 each round it’s outside a wreckage.

Feedback Lash

• Reduce damage from 3/4/5 to 2 at all tiers.

Forced Obsolescence

• Change from Quick Action to Quick Tech to let Shut Down shed the effect.
• Restrict the effect to occur only 1/scene per character.

Memory Leak

• Include missing targeting rules.
• Restrict to 1/scene per characters.

Mind Freak

• Change from Recharge 5+ to 1/scene.
• Change from Quick Action to Full Action.

Process Drinker

• Bugfix: Correct Recharge tag to Recharge 5+.

Realm Warp

• Change the first option to teleport the objects and terrain to the same spaces or as close as possible.

Remote Control

• Renamed to “Harbinger”. You know why.
  • Also changed the LCP ID. This is a breaking change for NPCs with Remote Control.

Revisionist History

• Changed from Limited 1 to 1/scene.
• Restricted effect to 1/mission per character.

Self-Mechanization

• New optional feature! A tool to help pilots become one with their mechs.

Singularity Generator

• Clarify that the Anomaly chooses an initial direction, and the black hole travels only in that direction.

Brigand

Surgekiller

• New optional feature! Deal extra Heat on critical hits against targets who still have Core Power (CP)!

Grav Amp

• New optional feature! Knock a target prone and crush them with the weight of their own Repairs!

Veteran [PPG]

Deprecating this template in general to reduce on “template bloat”. To do this, I am migrating all the Veteran features to their respective classes and appending “(Veteran)” to their names to indicate their limitations. IDs will not change, so existing NPCs should still work correctly. The “Veteran [PPG]” template will be removed in the next version.

Thunderfall (Capacitor)

• Moved to Ultra, changed ID (breaking change). Replaced with High Voltage.

Evergaol (Knight)

• Moved to Ultra, changed ID (breaking change). Replaced with Valor.

Hall of Mirrors (Mesmerist)

• Change to the following:

  While the Mesmerist has any mirror images, allied characters in Burst 2 are INVISIBLE. Each attack that misses an affected ally destroys 1 mirror image.

Optional Rules

Actions

Object Handling

• Add a clause that permits a handling character to force a contested HULL check against all hostile handlers.

NPC Rules

Recharge Heat

• Reword to add the Heat X (Self) tag explicitly to Recharge abilities that lack the tag, and change the value to 1 Heat for Recharge 4+ and 5+ and 2 Heat for Recharge 6+.

Full Changelog: https://github.com/msprijatelj/prototype-pattern-groups-data/compare/1.3.0…1.4.0