So about a week ago I had a heart attack, which is not something I can recommend. I'm now recovering reasonably well, but I'm still pretty tired and have to go through physical rehab. Of course that does mean that the Heroes & Villains DLC will be delayed. But I was intentionally vague with the promised release date, exactly because with a solo dev, random events can cause delays. So the promised release date hasn't changed - it's still sometime in 2023. In other news, I am happy to report that the next AMD driver update should contain a fix for the problems in Airships from their end as well. If you continue experiencing graphical problems, do let me know. Also, there's been a report that the antivirus software MalwareBytes might be causing the game to crash. If the game is crashing to desktop with no error message, do check if your antivirus software might be killing it off. False positives do happen on occasion. Development on Heroes & Villains was going well before the whole heart attack thing. I was working on diplomatic incidents, and there should be about 40 different ones in the game, all of them involving an interaction - a crisis or opportunity - between two empires. I also plan to write a few dev blog posts soon, about the details of the AMD bug, and about map generation, which should hopefully be interesting. For now, I leave you with another three hero / villain portraits: