A new version of the game was released. Heres all the changes: Improvements & Bugfixes

• Added additional checks for handling Player out of game to avoid potential Leaderboard bugs
• Added Timestamp to server-side Debug Logs
• Fixed bug in production build where Steamworks was disabled, leading to some new players being authenticated anonymously

A new version of the game was released. Heres all the changes: Game Features

• Add Bots to Multiplayer Games
• Added French Translations (Special Thanks to our community member ErZ)
• Flexible Deploy Limit - Starts at 5, increases by 1 every 5 turns
• Stable Gold Price Inflation (Market)
• Add Science Progress and Military Score to End-game Scoring
• Add 'Industrialization' Technology (+50% Resource Production)
• Test removing Market Spread (difference between purchase/sell value)

• Increase Income per Country from $25 to $30
• Increase Gold Price from $50 to $75
• Increase Price for Research Points from $110 to $130
• Increase Cost for "Gold Mine" (+3 Gold per Turn) from 5 to 6 Research Points
• Nerfed Science Point generating technologies:
  • +1 point costs 4 SP (3 before)
  • +2 points costs 8 (6 before)
  • +3 points costs 15 (12 before)
  • The second tech where you'd get +2 points for 8 was removed => maximum production is now 8pts/turn (11 before)
• Increased Base Camp I deploy limit bonus from +1 to +5
• Increased Base Camp II deploy limit bonus from +2 to +10 and reduced SP cost from 8 to 5
• Increased Market Stock for Research Points from 50 to 80
• Increased Market Stock for Chips from 50 to 100
• Increased Market Stock for Steel from 200 to 250
• Turn Timer 'Standard Pace': Extra time per turn reduced from +10s to +5s

• Added Deploy Limit Indicator to UI
• Speed up Unit Destroy Animations
• Instantly Hide "Skip Animations" Button after Click

• Fixed bug where percentage-based resource bonuses were applied not only to countries' resource production but also to flat resource income (like Research Points)
• Fixed bug where some achievements triggered for observing (out of game) players
• Fixed bug where "Surrender game" triggered the "Win a game within 5 turns" achievement
• Fixed bug where Singleplayer game dialog was not localized fully

A new version of the game was released. Heres all the changes: Balancing

• Removed "Idea Generation" Technology from current Meta (3pt, +1 Science Point per Turn)

• Added Localization Support
• Translated Game to German

• Add Language Selection to Settings
• Player Avatars are not updated when a player resigns

• Fixed bug in Unit Select dialog where "leave behind" message would wrongly show when selecting 0-0-0 units

A new version of the game was released. Heres all the changes: Balancing

• Increased Income per Player from $25 to $50
• Increased Starting Units
  • 10 starting units in games with 2 players
  • 8 starting units in games with 3 players
  • 6 starting units in games with 4 players

• Normalized Audio & Background Music Levels
• Added SFX Feedback in Country Pick Mode

• Fixed bug where Players couldn't pick countries in Country Pick Mode
• Fixed bug where Military Power did not count Units tied up in Attacks
• Fixed Leaderboard Scrolling Issues

A new version of the game was released. Heres all the changes: Features

• Added 43 Steam Achievements
• Replaced Unit and Resource Icons
• Added "Welcome Screen" for Demo Build
• Added Feedback Form
• Improved Post-Game Feedback Dialog (with Rating)
• Added Email & Discord Link to Feedback Dialog
• Added "Socials" to Home Screen

• Fast Battle Animations as Default
• Prioritize resolving the player's battles first in Singleplayer games
• Always Pre-select strongest Unit in Deploy Window
• Bigger Icons + Outline for Country Action Menu
• Close Turn Summary with SPACE
• Close Advisor with SPACE
• Deactivate Single Player Options when Tutorial is selected
• Remove View Mode Options from UI
• Venezuela Resources were hidden behind Brazil
• No "Units retreating from battle" message when skipping battle animations

• Several Advisor Text Improvements
• Add second "Sell Gold" Hint
• Add Hint to sell excess Oil
• Hint when player is getting close to winning

• Fixed bug where tutorial breaks when player triggers deploy limit hint before Brazil deployment
• Fixed bug where tutorial breaks when player has no troops in Brazil (can't attack afterwards)
• Fixed bug where country highlights in tutorial get stuck when player is deploying units outside Brazil first

A new version of the game was released. Heres all the changes: Improvements

• Updated Documentation to reflect past game changes
• Finished linking between individual Help pages
• Tutorial: Advisor now hints player to build troops
• Tutorial: Advisor now hints which technology a player should research first

• Fixed bug where Turn Timer was not cancelled correctly resulting in double turns
• Fixed bug where move/attack cursor was not reset after turn phase force-ended on time
• Fixed bug where auto-rejoining games did not properly re-initialise the clients user interface
• Fixed broken color tags in help pages

A new version of the game was released. Heres all the changes: Balancing

• Players now receive 5 Oil at start of game (before 3)
• Added new Technology "Gold Mine" (+3 Gold per Turn) - (previous "Gold Mine" was renamed to "Basic Income")
• Added new Technology "Paratroopers" (+5 Soldiers per Turn)
• Players now generate 2 Science Points per turn (before 1)
• Cost of Science Points reduced from $150 to $110
• Increased Cost for all Technologies by 1-2 points to account for increased Science Point generation

• Increase Difficulty of 'Brutal' Singleplayer Mode
• Fast Battle Animations for Multiplayer Games
• Show "Player Ready" Icon in Player Avatars
• Added 1-2-3 Hotkeys to select units in Unit Deployment Panel
• Display Country Names on Mouse Hover
• Determine Player Position and Leaderboard Score for all Players after a game

• Swapped Turn Summary and Turn Announce animations
• Improved Unit Deployment Panel Design
• Tutorial: Advisor to Highlight Countries when giving tasks to the player
• Tutorial: Added more situation-dependent hints to Advisor
• Moved Resource Icons in Build Menu closer together
• Changed Color of Turn Phases to Blue
• Remove Turn Timer in Single Player Games
• Improve Turn Timer UI + add red blinking animation for the last 10 seconds
• Change Icon and Cursor Icon for 'Move' action
• Deactivate confirm button in Select Units Dialog when selecting incorrect number of units

• Fixed bug where SFX were initialised at volume 0 in new player accounts
• Fixed bug where players could not open Settings or Help Dialog during the Deploy phase
• Fixed bug where the game host could not set Ready Status in Lobby anymore
• Fixed bug where Player Avatar was already animating a "defeated player" while that player still had open attacks
• Fixed UI glitch where UI Elements were still showing for a while when exiting to Menu

A new minor version of the game was released. Heres all the changes: Improvements

• Show List of Player Avatars (including countries and military power)
• Added a "Turn Summary" at end of turn
• Added animation to announce the next turn
• Zoomed out map a bit more to improve full map visibility
• Removed "Research Finished" Notifications and Icons
• Display Dice in Unit Build Screen

A new minor version of the game was released. Heres all the changes: Balancing

• Balanced Research Costs
  • Decreased cost for 'Base Camp' from 3 to 2 points
  • Decreased cost for 'Debt Monetization' from 6 to 5 points
  • Decreased cost for 'Base Camp II' from 8 to 6 points
  • Increased cost for 'Shooting Practice' from 6 to 7 points
  • Increased cost for 'Drone Support' from 10 to 12 points
• Increased cost for Jets from 5 Steel to 8 Steel.

• Improved Attack Evaluation for NPC (smarter attacks)
• NPC to launch Multi-Invasions
• NPC to consider Region & Science bonuses when deploying (Improved country value evaluation)
• Added a probability based "aggressiveness" to NPC Personalities which influence attack decisions
• NPC to prioritize unit deployment in continents with majority ownership (Region focus)
• NPC to avoid having single Tanks or Jets in country after deployment
• NPC to change Unit Purchase Strategy depending on available Resources & Market Prices
• NPC to not deploy units into undefended countries without hostile neighbours

• Fixed bug where a Multiplayer Rejoin into a running game failed

A new minor version of the game was released. Heres all the changes: Additions

• Advisor - Single player games now contain a difficulty setting "Tutorial" which features an advisor who explains all important game concepts in a first, easier mock game
• Added Basic Feedback Dialog to Main Menu - will also open at the end of Singleplayer games to collect feedback

• Weaker NPCs in Tutorial
• Harder Single Player Game Mode "Brutal"
• Removed Region Bonus Table from UI
• Added Tooltips to Move & Attack Actions in Country Context Menu
• Increased Text sizes on Tooltips and Research Tooltips
• Select Units Dialog to show error message when leaving no unit behind
• Selected "Units View" as Default View option
• Added audio hint when deploy limit is reached

• Fixed bug where Default Audio Settings had SFX at 0 for new players
• Fixed bug where 2 Players were having same color after re-hosting a 6-player game
• Fixed bug where Client Rejoin into game failed
• Fixed bug where Attack Arrows did not display number of Units/Strength depending on View Mode
• Fixed bug where NPCs were ignoring Region Bonuses in Evaluation
• Fixed bug where NPCs were not moving units to the front when front countries are not in need of reinforcement

A new minor version of the game was released. Heres all the changes: Game Mechanics

• Remove Movement Cost - Movement and Attacks do not cost anything anymore.
• Oil to build units - 1 Oil is now required for any unit to build
• 4 Game Phases - Removing the cost attached to troop movement allowed for splitting up the turn phases into 4 distinct phases (vs. 3 before). and re-ordering them. The turn phases are now: "Deploy -> Attack -> Battle -> Build" This allows for a much cleaner, faster and less complex game without losing any of the game's depth

• The full Border Clash Wiki is now also integrated in interactive Help Pages within the game, access via (?)-Icon on top of the screen
• First turn deploy phase now has 3x the time so players can check out the map and think about strategy at the start of the game
• Change Timer Settings in Game Creation to "Time per Phase"
• Removed Timer for Single Player Mode
• Create View Toggle for Unit Display Mode
• Slight transparency for UI panel backgrounds
• Better Formatting for Country Pick Order Panel
• New Scoring Strategy for Multiplayer Leaderboard - Progress Scoring Strategy now gives points for played games as well to reflect "experience" in the game

• Fixed bug where Player Pick mode showed resources double

A new minor version of the game was released. Heres all the changes: Balancing

• Increased starting resources to 5 soldiers (before 3) and 2 research points (before 1)
• Reduced impact of win rate on Leaderboard for first 90 games

• Created Border Clash Wiki
• Add Settings and Help menu icons in game
• Improved Unit Display modes (Military strength summary vs. detailed units view on zoom)
• Centered units in countries' unit display
• Drag map with middle mouse button press+hold

• Fixed bug where in some cases players did not authenticate against Steam but used a cached log in info, making same-device account switching impossible
• Fixed incorrect label in 'Create Game' dialogs that still displayed 80% for Win Condition instead of 70%
• Fix broken Research Analytics Tracking

A new minor version of the game was released. Heres all the changes: Game Mechanics

• Replaced Influence System - Income is now fixed at $25 per player and $25 per owned country
• Replaced Region Bonus - Owning a region now doubles the resource production within that region
• Add Technology to get Double Income from Regions ("Region Bonus Technology")

• Reduced amount of resources on the map a bit
• Improved Resource Balancing between Regions - Every Region now produces 1 Gold
• Balanced Technologies against each other

• Changed Military Win Condition back to Percentage of Country Ownership
• Reduced Military Win Condition from 80% to 70% for faster games
• Display Research Points on Research Button as an Indicator

• Fixed bug where Highlighting only displayed one attack arrow for Border Clashes

A new minor version of the game was released. Heres all the changes: Game Mechanics

• New Research System using Research Points
• New Win Condition "Science Victory"

• NPCs using new Research System
• Drag Map with Mouse
• Zoom in moving towards Mouse Position
• Zoom out moving back towards Center
• Faster Battle Animations
• Displaying Oversea Connections on Map
• Adjusted Zoom Levels
• Switch between Build/Research Screen with Hotkeys
• Ignoring Player Input on Game Map (Drag, Zoom etc.) while a Dialog is open (Build/Research etc.)

• Fixed bug where the main game menu would not re-appear after finishing a game

A new minor version of the game was released. Heres all the changes: Game Mechanics

• Added 5 increasingly more difficult game modes for Single Player Games:
  • Easy - Weak Bots - Starting Country Advantage
  • Casual - Weak Bots - Balanced Game
  • Standard - Regular Bots - Balanced Game
  • Challenge - Strong Bots - Balanced Game
  • Hard - Strong Bots - Starting Country Disadvantage

• Country Pick mode "Random" now produces fair results
• Add Win Statistics and Steam ID to Player Profile in Main Menu

• Fixed Players randomly getting new Unity IDs
• Fixed Singleplayer Results recorded twice

A new major version of the game was released. Heres all the changes: Game Mechanics

• Map
  • Removed Quebec-Great Britain connection
• Income
  • Player Base Income - Add a $150 base income for any player and reduce influence based income from $2,5 per player and point to $2 per player and point
• Smarter NPCs
  • NPC to not deploy in back country anymore
  • NPCs to sell excess resources
  • NPC to acquire and and defend regions (for region bonuses)
  • NPC to purchase high level units (tanks and jets)
  • Research preferences for NPC
  • NPC to move units from back country to the front
  • NPC to have personalities (NPC can have different preferences, strategies, levels of irrationality etc.)
• Improved NPC Attacking
  • NPC to not always attack with all units
  • NPC to use Military Strength for evaluation (instead of number of units)
  • NPC attack evaluation to determine optimum number of troops to leave behind to defend
  • NPC to purchase oil for attacks
  • Improved budgeting for NPC command phase
  • Include science & research bonuses in NPC evaluation
• Resource Balancing
  • Tank Cost increased to 12 steel (before 8 steel)
  • Jet cost changed to 5 steel, 4 components (before 8 steel, 3 components)
  • Map to provide less components (4 instead of 6)
  • Map to provide more gold (6 instead of 4)
  • Gold to inflate at 5% (before 6%)
• Science Balancing
  • Gold Mines decreased to $80 per Turn (before $100 per turn)
  • Mining Carts decreased to +10 Steel per Turn (before +12 Steel per turn)
  • Debt Monetization decreased to +$300 per Turn (before +$400 per turn)
  • Level 2 Science Cost increased to $600 (before $500)
  • S12 Projectiles converts 15% of Hits to Double Hits (before 10%)
  • Unlock level 3 research at 6 technologies (8 before)
  • Unlock level 4 research at 9 technologies (12 before)
• Market
  • Reduce market stock for higher price impact

• Fast Resolve - Skip all battle animations in Singleplayer mode to speed up game experience
• Faster Camera Zoom
• Country Summary View - Displays a countries resources and military strength when zoomed out (versus full unit details)
• Zoom-Level adjusting UI
• Highlight active battles instead of zooming in to create context for battles
• Bind Enter' key to confirm active dialogs

• Country pick mode not showing units & resources
• Losing selected unit type in deploy phase when zooming
• Quick purchase missing oil button does not update when selected units change
• Level 4 research does not unlock even though player meets requirements of 12 techs
• Unit count in deployment window has no background color in (MacOS) build

A new version of the game was released. Game Mechanics

• Added first Late-Game Technologies (Level 4)
• Added Drone Support - "Attack with 1 Extra Die"
• Added Base Camp II - "Increase Country Deploy Limit by 2"
• Change Scientific Method to "Unlock All Technologies" (includes Level 4)
• Remove Steel Cost from Soldiers, Cash cost increased from $80 to $100

• Even Faster Battle Resolution in Single Player Mode
• Added new User Interface Setting "Auto Confirm Actions"
• Bigger UI for Unit Selection Dialog
• Add Oil Fast-Buy Button to Unit Selection Dialog
• Remove Combat Bonuses that don't apply anymore after a unit loss
• Move Camera with Arrow Keys in addition to WASD
• Increased Size of Resource Icons on Map
• Added a Hotkey to Toggle Game UI on/off (CTRL + U)
• Removed "Player picked X" Info Messages in Country Pick Mode
• Descreased Default Zoom a bit

• Fixed a bug where one-time combat bonuses were triggering every attack round (Vest)
• Fixed a bug where the players cash value displayed nothing instead of $0 when player was down to $0
• Fixed a bug where the Region Bonuses were not applied in Player Overview (Client only)
• Fixed a bug where Technology Bonus Resources were included in Player Overview - they are 'secret' though