Any chance for a high level changelog? I understand we'd be doing general stability/regression testing but is there anything in particular we should pay attention to as updated?

Definitely going to try it out, but I wish you'd post a list of changes so we can see how certain things have changed. Makes testing a lot easier.

EDIT: Looks like when you load it they show some of the changes. I barely see any gameplay changes though. There are a lot of minor tweaks for graphics and other settings, but outside of "can not found a colony within 4 hexes of another" and "all adjacent hexes to a colony are immune to other players' claims for 60 seconds" there wasn't much listed. Maybe I'm missing something in the list or it simply isn't posted.

Here's a list of changes that we made for this version. Please let us know if things aren't working correctly!

Gameplay

• Reveal Map is now a game mode. Map is revealed, but players who found early will be saddled with a great deal of debt compared to those who wait.

• No dust storms before founding a HQ.

• During buyout, other players with stock in the bought-out company get 1x the money instead of 2x the money.

• Cannot found HQs within 4 tiles of each other

• Tiles adjacent to HQs cannot be claimed by other players for 60 seconds after founding

• Adjusted starting resource prices

• Robotic HQs require less electronics.

• Random is the default map type in skirmish. Enjoy the stochasticity!

• Fixing screen fade on load when the game is initially paused.

• Fixed buildings not working correctly with buyouts.

• Fixed not being able to play final mission in campaign

• Fixed bug with Goon Squads on mutinied tiles not working

• Faster & better AI

Campaign

• Better popup help to assist in learning and understanding the campaign.

• No repeated Perks between all Missions per Campaign turn

Art

• Electrolysis Reactor construction animation added

• Modifications to the Chemical Lab

• Pleasure dome more pleasurable to experience

• Improved Geothermal Plant and it now has a construction animation!

UI

• New main game screens, including skirmish and lobby screen.

• Stats screen: shows who black market-ed who.

• Constructing in an already claimed tile shows claim beacon.

• Shows teammates in win-game screen.

• Shows power consumption in building popup help

• HQ placement preview: Doesn't tell you what resources you'll get if the tiles aren't revealed. (Thanks Cubit32!)

• Showing revenue from mining for building help

• When you're trying to claim a tile but you can't, it explains why you can't.

• In a multiplayer lobby, you can become an observer by changing your team to “observer”

• Updated CoherentUI to version 2.5.7

Audio

• Used ogg compression at 95% to get the sound files smaller.

• More UI audio added

• Sound effects added for speeding up, slowing down, and pausing the game.

• Sound effects added for scrapping buildings.

Multiplayer

• Moved to a new library for Steamworks support

Performance

• Lots of performance improvements in the main game!

Localization

• All the game text is ready for localization. We will be rolling out new languages for the game in upcoming releases.

Miscellaneous

• Now made with Unity 5! 64 bits!

New build is up. The only change is that observers don't have to "ready up" for the host to start a game.

Enjoy!

-Scott-

Also I think 60 seconds is too long to protect tiles around your HQ. If you haven't claimed what you want after say 20 seconds, you probably aren't going to claim it at level one. And it just delays everyone else if you claim next to a bunch of Aluminium. Having to wait that long is a huge bummer.