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Devoid of Liberty: 7.1.0

Released
September 22, 2026
Last checked
September 27, 2026
Changes
9

Version 7.1.0 released alongside the Ironclad Democracy Warbond. The patch also changed several mission-generation profiles and mission-related data records.

Warbond Data diff + runtime

Ironclad warbond

Four personal weapons, two throwables, and two Blunt-Force Mitigation armour sets were added to the Warbond. The accompanying Superstore adds the BFM-77 Reformer with the same passive. The armour passive is fully resolved to +25 Armor Rating, 30% less impact/collision damage, and Rock Solid-equivalent knockdown resistance.

Stat Value
AR-11 rifle damage 70 normal / 20 durable
AR-11 underbarrel 9 × 50 normal / 12 durable, AP3
GL-15 Evictor 50 / 2 direct + 440 / 440 explosion — live confirmed
P-34 Breacher direct hit 60 / 0, penetration 4 / 4 / 3 / 0 — live confirmed
P-34 Breacher sticky explosion 2,000 / 2,000, AP7 — live confirmed in a uniquely resolved same-target capture
P-34 Breacher Thermite-profile packet 150 / 150, AP 7 / 7 / 7 / 0 — live confirmed in a uniquely resolved same-target capture
LAS-12 Sai direct projectile 80 normal / 4 durable, AP 3 / 3 / 3 / 0 — live confirmed
LAS-12 Sai projectile speed 100 m/s
LAS-12 Sai projectile physics Mass 12 · gravity 0 · drag 0.05 · 6.0 s lifetime
LAS-12 Sai authored fire rate 800 RPM
LAS-12 Sai public display fire rate 1,200 RPM — modifier path unresolved
LAS-12 Sai heat 100 max · 2/shot · 5.4/s cooling
LAS-12 Sai ICE inventory 4 spare at start · 5 max · 2.0 s replacement
LAS-12 Sai ergonomics / spread 65 · 140 / 140
G-60 warhead damage 1,800 / 1,800, AP 5 / 5 / 5 / 4 — live confirmed
G-60 blast radii 4 / 12 / 15 m — current-build data
G-8 timed status field 4.0 s supported interpretation
BFM-16 Tanker 75 Armor Rating
BFM-77 Reformer · Superstore 125 Armor Rating
BFM-220 Ironclad 175 Armor Rating
Blunt-Force Mitigation knockdown ×0.70 incoming force — same modifier as Rock Solid
  • The AR-11 Arbitrator uses separate rifle and nine-pellet underbarrel-shotgun projectile records.
  • Live damage capture directly confirms the GL-15 Evictor's 50 / 2 direct hit and 440 / 440 explosion, the P-34 Breacher's 60 / 0 direct hit, its 2,000 / 2,000 AP7 sticky explosion and 150 / 150 AP7 Thermite-profile downstream packet, and the G-60's 1,800 / 1,800 warhead damage. The Breacher downstream stages were confirmed in a uniquely resolved same-target capture; the separate 100 / 100 incendiary-status payload is not promoted.
  • The LAS-12 Sai direct projectile is live game confirmed at 80 normal / 4 durable with AP 3 / 3 / 3 / 0 from exact current-build weapon resolution.
  • The LAS-12 Sai is explicitly one-handed and allows movement while firing; its projectile has no authored explosion or status payload.
  • No Sai weapon-data changes were found between the checked September 22 and September 24 builds.
  • The LAS-12 Sai's authored 800 RPM cadence versus 1,200 RPM public display remains unresolved; the OTL does not derive settled DPS or continuous-fire duration from either value yet.
  • The G-60 keeps the G-50 seeker-control profile while replacing it with a heavier anti-armor payload.
  • A secondary Breacher damage entry remains unresolved and is not presented as ordinary player-facing blast damage.
  • G-8 Immolation carries a linked incendiary status effect whose exact live behavior still needs isolation.
  • Blunt-Force Mitigation adds +25 displayed Armor Rating, reduces impact/collision damage by 30%, and uses the exact same ×0.70 knockdown-force modifier as Rock Solid. BFM-16 Tanker and BFM-220 Ironclad are Warbond armour; BFM-77 Reformer is the companion Superstore set.
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Missions & world Data diff

Hive World mission generation

Three Hive World mission profiles changed. Destroy Spore Lung now allows two Lung objectives instead of one, Extract E-711 replaces its embedded Raise Flag objective with Restart Pumps, and Restart Pumps has a smaller optional-objective pool.

Stat Before After
Spore Lungs per mission 1 2
Spore Lung health 30,000 5,000
Destroy Spore Lung objective pool 16 entries 10 entries
Restart Pumps objective pool 14 entries 10 entries
Extract E-711 embedded objective Raise Flag · up to 2 Restart Pumps · up to 3
  • The global Spore Lung objective metadata still permits three duplicates. The two-Lung change is set by the mission profile rather than that global limit.
  • Destroy Spore Lung also drops its previous Purge Hatchery and Destroy Spawners entries from the mission profile.
  • Additional Spore Lung behavior and fog metadata changed. The gameplay effect of those fields is unresolved, so the raw values are not published.
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Missions & world Data diff

Faction-specific optional extraction objectives

Thirty-four Automaton/general profiles add the Automaton-specific optional extraction objective. Twenty-two Illuminate/general profiles replace the generic optional extraction objective with the Illuminate-specific version.

Stat Value
Automaton/general profiles gaining the Automaton extraction objective 34
Illuminate/general profiles replacing the generic extraction objective 22
  • The 22 Illuminate/general profiles replace the generic optional extraction objective with the Illuminate-specific version.
  • The previous generic objective metadata record was removed while faction-specific records are present in the new build.
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Missions & world Data diff

Optional objective pool removals

Several faction mission profiles no longer include two previously available optional objectives.

Stat Value
Illuminate profiles losing Purge Illuminates 6
Automaton profiles losing Convoy Assault 6
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Missions & world Data diff + runtime

Horde Defend

A new Horde Defend mission-generation profile was added with one primary objective. Runtime mission-selection data shows it being selected for Illuminate operations at difficulties 5 through 10.

Stat Value
Primary objectives in the new profile 1
Observed Illuminate difficulty range 5–10
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Missions & world Data diff

Shoot Down Mothership objective pool

One Shoot Down Mothership profile changes its Retrieve Codes entry from category 0 to category 1. The gameplay meaning of this category field is unresolved.

Stat Before After
Retrieve Codes category 0 1
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Missions & world Data diff

Fog Generator, SEAF Artillery, and Radar Station metadata

Fog Generator, SEAF Artillery, and Radar Station each gain the same fourth encoded list value. The field has not been mapped to a gameplay meaning yet.

Stat Before After
Encoded list 1, 2, 3 1, 2, 3, 4
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Systems Data diff

Scenario settings

The scenario-settings table gains one record. The new record is structurally valid, but its fields are still anonymous and its gameplay purpose is unresolved.

Stat Before After
Scenario settings records 41 42
New record size — 96 bytes
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Equipment Data diff + runtime

TD-110 Maelstrom

The Maelstrom is a Bastion-derived tank with a different weapon package. Its health, tracks, motion, and electrical data match the Bastion, while its rotary guns and guided missiles are separately mapped.

Stat Value
Rotary projectile 150 normal / 35 durable, AP 4 / 4 / 4 / 0 — live confirmed
Rotary horizontal traverse -20° / +20°
Rotary magazine value 300 rounds
Missile magazine value 10 rounds
  • The Maelstrom rotary projectile is live game confirmed at 150 normal / 35 durable with AP 4 / 4 / 4 / 0 from direct current-build weapon resolution.
  • The guided missile's authored 1,100 direct-impact and 150 small-blast damage records are contradicted by live behavior and are no longer presented as player-facing damage values. Live testing instead shows 2,000 explosive damage with no separate 1,100 impact packet.
  • Bulk Fabricators have been observed taking no apparent damage even from the full 20-missile load; the cause is unresolved and may be a target-specific bug in the missile damage path.
  • Checked chassis health, track, movement, and electrical tuning match the Bastion in the examined build.
  • Seat behavior is consistent with the Bastion in the checked data.
  • The mounted zero-damage weapon corresponds to the Maelstrom smoke launcher; live observation confirms that the driver controls its deployment.
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