• Attacking a unit will now give away your position to the unit being attacked, unless you are cloaked.
• Fixed a bug that may have caused a friendly unit to run from an attacker when it could have otherwise attacked.

This AI update is designed to make ranged units more balanced. Before, if you attacked a unit from far away & outside of the target's sight range, that target would run away. Now, the target will act like it can see the incoming shot & know where to engage. This should give short-ranged units more of a chance against long-ranged units, as they will try to close the distance even if the long-ranged unit is initially out of its sight range. Your friendly units will have this same change too -- you will see individually attacking enemy units outside of your sight range. This is considered a bigger update, so leaderboards have been bumped up a version number. v1.24.1 fixes a bug that allowed seeing stealthy, attacking enemy units. v1.24.2 clears up an ambiguous situation where detectors could kinda sorta see cloaked attackers outside of visual range. Now they clearly shouldn't and run if attacked, as detecting units need to be within visual range to properly detect a cloaked unit. This update is currently on the "beta" branch, which you can "opt into" to try.

[ 2019-06-05 18:50:09 CET ] [ Original post ]