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NS2 Scramble!

Work in Progress - Bewares of bugs!
Time to shake up the meta
*Fade is starting/default alien lifeform.
*Shotgun is starting/default marine weapon.
*Skulk egg currently disabled.

Some of the changes
*Skulk and Fade movement speeds and energy costs adjusted.
*Fade eHP health decreased to 150 + 4/biomass.
*Skulk eHP increased to 330 +5/biomass.
*Skulk cost changed to 24 Pres.
*Swipe damage changed to 80 Light.
*Stab attack speed increased by 40%.
*Xenocide deals 105 total damage (55 over 2 seconds + 50 final explosion) in a smaller radius, and 33 self damage.
*Hydras target tracking improve over 3 seconds when target maintains LoS.

*Shotgun damage decreased to 118. Damage falloff penalty at max range reduced from 50% to 40%. Reload speed increased by 66% . Damage upgrade per level changed to 10%.
*Rifle cost changed to 5.
*Mine damage increased to 150, cost reduced to 4.

*Sentry damage changed to 3.5 Light damage, fires 2 bullets, inaccuracy increased from 3 to 7 degrees. Effective shoot interval shortened from 0.2 to 0.15 second (bug fix).
Sentry target lock on delay increased to 0.3 second. Sentry can get distracted by Whip and Babblers now (no longer prioritize players).
*Confused Sentries shoot every 0.45s.
*Sentries per battery reduced to 2.

*Fire burning debuff increases victim's damage received by 8%.

*Arms Lab upgrade times increased by 15 seconds per level.
*Armor upgrade amount reduced from 20 to 15 per level (to 45/60/75 AR), costs reduced to 15/20/25.
*Armor welding rate increased from 20 to 25 per second.

*Nanoshield damage reduction increased from 32% to 40%, cost reduced to 2.
*Medpack instant heal changed to 20, and 50 heal over 1 second, cooldown increased from 0.45s to 0.75s.
*Rupture cost reduced to 1, parasite duration increased from 10 to 15 seconds.
*Crag healing on structures increased by 72%.

*Lerk cost reduced to 12. Lerk Egg cost reduced to 12.

AI changes to Skulk, Fade and Marine to accomodate for these changes.