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Version 2.008 is the latest in a series of post-expansion-release hotfixes. We've been posting about these on our forums, but individually these releases weren't really worth doing a full blog/announcement post about. So let's talk about these cumulatively! First of all, for those who have been following along already, here's what is new in the very latest release:

If you have been waiting for that setting that allows your dispatches to give you a warning whenever a race attacks another, your wait is now over!
The selling of raw resources in Betrayal mode is back, just now at a really discounted rate compared to the other modes.
Several changes have been made that will keep the AI acting a bit more appropriately when it comes to ground invasions.

But what else has been going on since 2.0, for those who haven't been following?

Well, naturally, the very first thing that happened after launch of the expansion is that a couple of clever souls figured out a way to trivialize Betrayal mode by using a bumrush tactic that nobody had tried up until that point. So there was much balance work and AI work and so on done around making that no longer an exploit. Betrayal mode got even more interesting as a result, even for those not using that tactic.
Obscura Discs aren't so common anymore during battles with the Obscura, because they were kind of obnoxious when found en masse.
In Betrayal mode, when you're defending yourself you no longer earn such a negative influence with other races.
Assassins now are only a standard-mode mechanic. They only really made good sense there, and were particularly unbalancing on Betrayal mode.
The ratio of number of flagships in combat to "base power" of an armada has decreased, meaning that you can't wipe out whole armadas quite so easily in combat mode.
A lot of smaller bugfixes.

Enjoy! This is a standard update that you can download through the in-game updater, or if you have Steam it will automatically update it for you. To force Steam to download it faster, just restart Steam and it will do so. Click here for the official forum discussion about this release.

[ 2014-12-02 14:44:40 CET ] [ Original post ]

The Last Federation

Arcen Games, LLC Developer

Arcen Games, LLC Publisher

2014-04-18 Release

Strategy Simulation Singleplayer Tags

Game News Posts: 36

🎹🖱️Keyboard + Mouse

Mostly Positive (367 reviews)

http://arcengames.com/the-last-federation/

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The Game includes VR Support

Public Linux Depots:

TLF Linux [119.42 M]

Available DLCs:

The Last Federation - Betrayed Hope
The Last Federation - The Lost Technologies

From the creators of AI War: Fleet Command.

Turn-based tactical combat, with up to 5 factions competing at once.
Extremely deep simulation of an entire solar system and its billions of inhabitants. Even just watching everything unfold in Observer mode is entertaining, as nations rise and fall.
New-player-friendly ramp-up of complexity as you play, which you can disable if you're already a veteran.
Eight races each have very distinct personalities and attributes. Each one even has its own completely unique political system.
Difficulty levels split between the grand strategy and turn-based combat portions of the game, both ranging from quite casual to incredibly hardcore.
Save and reload your game with ease any time, or tough it out in ironman mode.
Composer Pablo Vega's best soundtrack to date, featuring 54 minutes of music and the vocal finale "Lay Down Your Arms."

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Greetings, Hydral. I will be your computer for this "grand strategy campaign with turn-based tactical combat." I think that's code for "we're going to die."

Our solar system is vast and complicated, and I sense you are a little dimwitted -- so I tell you what, let's start with the simple stuff. Like escaping with this flagship you just hijacked from a bunch of angry robots. That seems important.

Please excuse my impertinence, but I believe you are the last of a murdered race, yes? My records note you Hydrals were the dictators of the solar system, so basically you had it coming. And by "it," I mean the moon that smacked into your homeworld. Hmm. So people really aren't going to like you until they get to know you. Well, only you can use the scattered remnants of advanced Hydral technology, so that's something.

Look, I'm not going to tell you what to do. My understanding is that you're trying to form the solar system's first-and-last unified federation, and that's noble enough. But right now nobody wants that except you, and you've got 8 very diverse, very angry races to either unify or exterminate. So... good luck with that. I'll help how I can.

MINIMAL SETUPOS: Ubuntu 10.10 or later. although other unsupported distros may work
Processor: 2.2Ghz CPUMemory: 2 GB RAM
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: Screen resolution at least 720px high. and 1024px wide.
Storage: 1 GB available space

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