Version 92

Features:

• New Commander models and animations

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Bug Fixes:

• Performance improvements

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• Desync fixes for chopper + pronghorn units with low frame rates and 2x/4x replay speeds

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• Many, many minor improvements and fixes

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Balance:

• Chopper Trooper build time increased by 10%

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• Chopper Trooper speed decreased by 10%

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The chopper trooper is still a little bit too good early game and doesn't give the defending player enough time to react. This should delay them slightly in the early game and make them harder to spam.

• Ellisroy Grounds expansion mineral patches reworked to be slightly easier to take

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• Campaign brutal difficulty adjusted to be slightly harder

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Features:
- Offline play now available for campaign and custom games vs. AI
- Steam Deck & native Linux support
- New models & animations for Stinger & Blazer troopers

Bug Fixes:
- Revamped touch input stack to be more reliable and work across far more devices
- Crash fixes and stability improvements
- More fixes for occasional errors that new players and devices can hit

Balance:
- Chopper trooper damage vs. buildings & harvesters reduced 10%. If you're caught without any anti-infantry, then they can kill your building before you can make a counter a little too easily. This is aggravated by them being an opening unit that is hard to scout. While they melt if approached by any anti-infantry, this should reduce the requirement of building a blind counter early in the game.

Features:

• New unit: Chopper. An early game scouting and harassment-based melee infantry unit that can deal with both infantry and vehicles and is capable of taking early control over the map.
• Map pings - use the new button in the tool window, or the default hotkey of 'b' to put a marker on the map for your allies.
• Progress bars are now shown for all players while loading, and various timeouts and failure modes that could happen during the loading screen have been improved and streamlined.
• New 'randomize army loadout' button that performs pseudo-randomization while trying to ensure you have at least one unit counter for armor type. These random armies aren't necessarily 'good', but will ensure that you always have a base unit that can shoot at air, for example.
• New 'reset all hotkeys to defaults' button.
• New options hide in-game chat and pings.
  

• Fixed bug where you could not change the matchmaking queue unless you ban at least one map.
• Network simulation stability & desync fixes
• Fixed friends and party player lists incorrectly resetting focus at arbitrary intervals
• Improved health bar sizing to reduce overlap when units are next to each other
  

• First unit construction is now reduced by 12s, and initial resources increased to 180. This is much the same as the prior initial building construction reduction change, cutting out downtime in the early game while leaving minimal impact to the relative timings of refinery first vs. production first openings.
  

Features:

• New 4p map: Grafbour Garden
• Army loadouts can now be randomized
• Full integration / cross play / progression tracking with the demo version of Micro Wars (actual demo coming soon!)
  

• AI will now not get 'stuck' if there isn't a resource patch within 3 range of their starting HQ, or if the closest/second closest patches don't have 2 empty adjacent hexes for refineries.
• Armadillo tanks will no longer occasionally spawn the stinger troopers in your base on death
• Fix for crashes when joining or accepting an invite to a party while the game is loading
• Fix for bug where too long army loadout names would reset all loadouts
• Fix for occasional (and yet, for particular PC setups, 100% reproducible) crashes when launching the game for the very first time on a PC
  

• Carter turret health increased 10%, damage decreased 5%
  

Features:

• Initial Ukranian text localization
• New fonts for all languages
• New mountain models!
  

• Fix for simulation deadlock in certain situations
• Fixed bugs where army loadouts and/or campaign progress could very occasionally not reflect the latest changes on relaunching game
• Armadillo tanks in Riptide transports no longer 'crush' infantry loaded into other Riptide transports.
• Maps that use walls now allow the players' first building to build quickly
• Officer buff no longer persists when the officer dies
• Continued performance improvements
• The temporary loadout persists across games now rather than randomizing to allow for adjustments and refinements, and using the temporary loadout for matchmaking no longer results in a new random army in game (different from what was shown while queueing/searching)
• Fix for additional cases where units could occasionally get stuck on top of each other.
• Improved unit pathing when attack move is issued that better takes into account the unit's position within its hex. Issuing attack commands while a unit is moving should feel a lot better now.
• Fix for rare crashes that could occur when issuing attack orders on the same frame that units are destroyed.
• Fix for randomly selecting units/buildings when dragging the selection box exactly horizontally or vertically.
  

• M.A.D. Trooper attack delay reduced from 5s to 3s. It was just too long in between the two models firing and frustrating to work with.
  

Features:

• Text localization for Portuguese and Spanish (Latin America)
• New map preview and map editor icons
• New grass tileset mountains
• New configurable hotkey mappings for panning the camera (default: arrow keys)
  

• Hotkey remappings to non-alphabetical keys such as the "-"/"=", numeric, and numpad keys now work. Note: some hotkeys mappings that happened to work to non-alphabetical keys previously may be reset with this update (such as the bracket keys) if you were using them; re-assigning the hotkey back will fix it.
• Performance improvements in map editor
  

• Initial resources increased from 140 to 160 minerals
• First building construction time reduced 16 seconds
  

• Protura harvester health increased 10%
• Repair cost (buildings and harvester) reduced from 90% to 50% of building cost
  

• All units' additional locked-on range increased from 10% to 50% of the hex
• Stinger, Armadillo, Blazer, Goliath, Buffalo, Stratus, M.A.D. trooper, Devastator, Earthshaker, Engineer turret, Fossa, Hailstorm, Hellbender, Nimbus, Sprite, and Tempest lock-on delay decreased
  

• Infantry movement speed penalty on forests reduced from 10% to 5%
• Infantry movement speed penalty on rivers reduced from 50% to 40%
  

• Engineer turret build time decreased from 12s to 9s
• Engineer health increased 10%
• Engineer turret missile damage vs. harvesters doubled from 40 to 80
• Engineer unit description now reflects the turret's DPS and stats as being good against vehicles and air while being bad against but able to target infantry
  

• Stinger trooper health increased 10%
• Jackal cycle damage vs. infantry decreased 10%
• Sprite damage vs. infantry decreased 8%
• Hellbender cost increased to 45
  

• Bully cycle health decreased 10%
• Bully cycle damage vs. vehicles decreased 5%
• Bully cycle damage vs. air decreased 15%
  

• Pronghorn tank health increased 10%
• Buffalo tank attack speed increased 10%
• Riptide transport cost decreased from 35 to 30
• Sunshade patcher cost decreased from 40 to 35
• Blazer trooper attack damage increased 10%
• Officer cost decreased from 50 to 45
• Stratus missile reload time decreased 10%
• Gorgon artillery setup delay decreased by 10%
  

• Selina Bribery ability now only bribes the target unit for 30s before the unit reverts to the owning player
• Selina Bribery ability cost reduced from 80 to 40
  

• Marshall Tank Drop ability no longer can be used within 2 range of an enemy building
• Marshall Tank drop ability cost increased from 70 to 80
• Chaeya can no longer construct buildings outside of 'normal' build radius within range 1 of an enemy building.
  

• Chapman Conscription ability cost reduced from 90 to 70
  

Features:

• Added localization for French text, and new language selection dropdown in settings (more languages coming soon!)
• New region information and selection options for custom games. Now you can see the expected region and RTT when browsing lobbies and when in the lobby before the match begins. It's now possible to override the region when creating a lobby.
• New Ratter and Rocketeer trooper models. Note that these are better in terms of differentiation against other infantry, but this is a work in progress and we know they have some visual overlap still with existing infantry. We are working on updating the others as well which should iteratively make this better, and bring all the models back into congruence and consistency.
• Custom game lobbies now default to "Show Army Unit Types" rather than "Show Armies"
• Commander ability costs are now displayed on the commander select menu
• Unit speeds are now displayed on the army loadout unit description cards
  

• (More) soft-lock prevention in Campaign Mission 1
• Fix for crashes resulting from rare edge cases in queueing units to build multiple times without enough resources when the PC is set to a language that uses commas instead of periods for decimal points.
• Fixed some performance issues with the main menu especially apparent with older graphics cards. The main menu is still less performant than it should be for what's happening, but this is a step in the right direction and should alleviate the worst of the pain.
  

• 5% increase to Stinger Trooper attack speed
• 5% increase to non-tech infantry speed
• 5% decrease to Bully cycle attack speed
• 5% decrease to Jackal cycle attack speed
  

Version 81

Features:

• New commander ability icons!
  

• Fixes for errors when joining game lobbies just as the lobby is being cleaned up
• Contested pads now properly de-capture the building over time
• Adjusted HP bar sizing to avoid overlap at "medium" zoom out distances
• Surrendering in co-op when a map text is being shown and blocked by a remote user now allows you to leave the match.
• Matchmaking rating bugfix that would cause inflated increases/decreases the further apart the MMRs were (into absurdity in some cases - no more losing 8000 MMR points in one game!). All shown ratings have been increased (the underlying values are consistent) to prevent the shown MMR from ever going negative which is just a bad feeling.