Hello Commanders, We all know machines are superior to organics, yet theyre only as good as the hardware underpinning them. You know this, we know this, which is why upgrading the games server infrastructure has been such an important goal for us. The road has been long, the struggle real, but were finally approaching the date of (drum roll please)... MIGRATION. Oooooo, literal chills. Uh, I mean, bleep bloop, fellow machine. PAnet (Planetary Annihilation Network) is our replacement for UberNet and provides all the backend infrastructure for managing game servers and player accounts. It has faster servers for better sim speed, more regions for lower latency, and higher capacity servers. TITANS 1v1 ranked season 2 came to a close at the end of April. It was hard fought for a while with Uber #1 changing hands multiple times. But as the dust settled a clear victor emerged in NikolaMX, a good 100 points clear of the nearest competition. Should the Progenitors return we know who they will want as their leader. With season 2 over we surprised everyone with a transition to a season that was one digit higher. Four maps from season 2 have returned, along with 12 entirely new maps, courtesy of WPMarshall. The lessons of season 2 have been applied and we think youll find these maps a big upgrade. Ranks were wiped clean and its anyone game to win once more. AI performance has been improved and its impact on the server decreased. In addition, we have again put a big focus on eliminating known sources of client and server crashes Let the great migration begin!

PAnet Features and Migration

• modern servers with faster CPUs, more memory and increased bandwidth
• new regions (see below)

• USWest (Oregon)
• USCentral (Ohio) - this was USEast (Virginia) on UberNet since March 2018
• USEast (Virginia)
• APSouthEast (Singapore)
• APNorthEast (Japan)

• USWest (Oregon)
• USCentral (Ohio)
• USEast (Virginia)
• EUWest (Ireland)

PAnet Public Test Environment (PTE)

• game history
• display name history
• replays
• friends list

TITANS 1v1 Ranked Season 2 Winners

• NikolaMX
• Diskraip
• nimzo

• Pa!nCorgi
• Viroo
• Sinoccence

• Qivy
• Alive In
• theiban

• muhr
• G-Force
• go

• FrigoPorco
• TotalAnnihilator
• MrStorm

TITANS 1v1 Ranked Season 3 Maps

• Aquilaris
• Disparity
• Centax-3
• The Ardennes

• Backbone
• Exeunt
• Basilica
• Hopper
• Rotunda
• ASAT
• Hyde
• Kelvin
• Echo
• District
• Maginot
• Bailiff

Technical Notes

Translations

• Dutch updated as an official language

AI Improvements

• Improved performance of AI deployment data

AI Fixes

• Fix for platoon disbanding weirdness
• Fix for evaluateReconNeed AI crash

Client Improvements

• New 1v1 and shared army team vs team maps from TITANS 1v1 ranked season two
• Updated Coherent UI with improved 4K+ support for Windows
• Improved start menu videos feed (moved into base game from community mods patch)
• Improved start menu streams feed (moved into base game from community mods patch)
• mproved start menu news feed (moved into base game from community mods patch)

Client Fixes

• Fix for 4K+ crashes on Windows
• Fix for Coherent UI crashes
• Fix for material library crashes
• Fix for social bar not shown after 1v1 ranked requeue

Server Improvements

• AI no longer directly influences sim and all commands are queued
• AI now updates concurrently with history

Server Fixes

• Fixes for shutdown crashes

• Epic Single-Player - Galactic War is a twist on traditional real-time strategy campaigns that has players battling across a dynamic galaxy filled with procedurally-generated content. Every playthrough is different. Annihilation is final.
  
• Epic Multiplayer - Play with up to ten friends (or enemies) in massive free-for-all and team-based matches.
  
• Spectate - Spectate matches with a suite of incredible viewing options.
  
• Advanced Command And Control - With intuitive drags and clicks, seamlessly switch between planets, mine resources, create custom unit formations, or pulverize armies.
  
• Dynamic Picture-In-Picture - View and interact with your units on another planet in a second window as you focus and control the action in your primary view.
  
• Instant Replays - View in-match recordings in real-time while matches are in progress. See when a battle turned by rewinding the game to any point or check out the entire match after a game ends.
  
• Smash Planets - Don’t just win, annihilate. End games with the mother of all weapons: an asteroid on a collision course.

• OS: Any Linux distribution supported by Steam. 64-bit only