HIGHLIGHTS:

• Gameplay Balance Changes

• Engineer group orders

• Stability & Bug fixes

• Engineers can be grouped together to build buildings in a queue using the Army system
• Balance Changes
• PHC Scout build time reduced from 15 to 14
• PHC Scout cost increased from 50 to 72
• Substrate Martyr cost reduced from 100 to 90
• Substrate Martyr time to build reduced from 28 to 23 seconds
• Substrate Reaper max energy increased from 60 to 75
• Substrate Reaper build time reduced from 24 to 20 seconds
• Substrate Capacitor max energy increased from 300 to 500
• Substrate Sky Cleaner build time increased from 18 to 28 seconds
• Substrate Sky Cleanser logistics increased from 2 to 3
• Substrate searcher radioactive cost reduced from 12 to 10
• Falcon AA reload time reduced from 2 seconds to 1.8 seconds
• Apollo flak cannon damage increased from 15 to 20
• Apollo flak cannon reload time increased from 2.5 to 3.2 seconds
• Fury cannon reload time decreased from 1 to 0.8 seconds
• Fury cannon shots per volley increased from 9 to 16
• Fury cannon shot damage increased from 10 to 20
• Substrate Sky Cleanser weapon shots per volley reduced from 10 to 6
• Substrate Sky Cleander damage reduced from 25 to 20
• Drone Auto cannon shots per volley increased from 6 to 7
• Drone auto cannon damage reduced from 3 to 2
• Drone auto cannon cooldown reduced from 3.5 to 2.2
• Substrate Drone bolt cooldown reduced from 3 to 2.8
• Substrate Drone bolt shots per volley increased from 3 to 4
• Substrate Drone bolt damage per hit reduced from 6 to 5
• Mauler Hyena Cutting Array cooldown increased from 2.2 to 4.8s
• Mauler Hyena Cutting Array duration decreased from 1.9s to 1.6s
• Mauler Hyena Cutting Array damage per hit reduced from 200 to 120
• Mauler Hyena Cutting Array energy required per volley reduced from 80 to 60
• Archer acceleration reduced from 200 to 90, top speed changed from 105 to 100.
• Brute top speed increased from 110 to 118.
• Artemis mobility reduced slightly.
• Apollo top speed decreased from 100 to 85.
• Nemesis acceleration reduced from 70 to 60.
• Zeus top speed reduced from 100 to 95.
• Centaur top speed reduced from 85 to 80.
• Prometheus top speed reduced from 90 to 85 to give slightly more time for ranged T1s / T2s to work on it (i.e. to kill it).
• Martyr top speed increased from 110 to 180.
• Reaper acceleration reduced from 200 to 100 and top speed reduced from 106 to 97.
• Sky Cleanser acceleration reduced from 194 to 90 make it a bit less nimble.
• Capacitor top speed increased slightly
• Avenger acceleration increased from 100 to 250.
• Mauler acceleration reduced from 200 to 77. However, it's max acceleration is increased from 98 to 120.
• PHC T1 energy regen increased from 0.5 to 1 so to make leveled up T3s more powerful.
• Medic heal range increased from 200 to 250 to make it more effective in battle.
• Medic radioactive cost increased from 18 to 54.
• Overmind (Brain Whale) HP reduced from 3000 to 2000. Shields increased from 7000 to 8000. Shield regen increased from 5 to 8 per second.
• Substrate energy recharge rate increased from 0.5 to 1 to make Level abilities more potent.
• Avenger HP decreased from 500 to 400
• Avenger shields decreased from 400 to 200
• Avenger shield recharge rate increased from 4 to 6 units per second (i.e. a single squad of brutes will never actually damage an Avenger)
• Drone hive shields increased from 200 to 400
• Mauler HP decreased from 200 to 50
• Mauler shields decreased from 900 to 600
• Mauler energy recharge rate increased from 0.5 to 1
• Martyr HP decreased from 100 to 80
• Martyr shields decreased from 50 to 25
• Reaper HP reduced from 20 to 10
• Reaper energy storage reduced from 75 to 10 (its weapon uses a lot less energy now)
• Reaper energy recharge increased from 0.5 to 1
• Reaper shields decreased from 180 to 100
• Reaper cost/build time increased (its weapon got a major buff)
• Capacitor radioactive cost reduced from 26 to 18
• Capacitor build time reduced from 26 to 18
• Brain Whale plasma bolt reload time reduced from 2 to 1.9s
• Brain Whale plasma bolt no longer pierces armor
• Brain Whale plasma bolt volley count reduced from 5 to 4
• Brain Whale plasma bolt accuracy increased from 60% to 75%
• Medic heal ray range increased from 250 to 300, tracking increased from 300 to 500
• Medic heal rate reload time increased from .25s to 1.3s.
• Martyr drone reload time reduced from 4 to 2.1
• Martyr drone count decreased from 8 to 3
• Martyr drone weapon range increased from 250 to 300
• Martyr drone weapon accuracy increased from 70% to 90%
• Martyr damage increased from 3 to 4
• Archer rocket accuracy increased from 60% to 67%
• Scout autocannon volley increased from 6 to 7 shots
• Brute reload time decreased from 2.8 to 2.6 seconds
• Brute volley increased from 3 to 5
• Brute damage per shot reduced from 2 to 1
• Reaper reload time reduced from 2.8s to 1.06s
• Reaper weapon beam time increased from 1.9 to 2.4s
• Reaper armor piercing increased from 2 to 4
• Reaper damage reduced from 20 to 15
• Reaper energy requirement reduced from 30 to 10
• WMC (Savager main gun) reload time slightly increased
• WMC No longer targets T1s
• WMC damage increased from 40 to 50 per hit
• Kill global ability damage reduced from 20000 to10000 (no longer enough to kill a T3 that has player upgrades)
• Martyr Bolt weapon added (not used)
• Reaper cannon renamed to Reaper Scythe
• Buildings:
• Quantum jammer HP reduced to be similar to the PHC Orbital Nullifier
• Orbitals
• "Kill" Orbital Ability from 200 to 300 quanta
• EMP Pulse orbital ability now starts at 100 Quanta (changed from 50)
• AI
• Difficulty: Easy is easier
• Difficulty: Normal and above AI react faster
• minor tweak to substrate ai to get Kill online a little quicker
• have some units rush buildings more often
• drone hives and brainwhales hang back in fights more
• have Martyr steering make better use of new found mobility
• have archer leash loosened since it is no longer as mobile
• Maps
• Proving Grounds: Victory Point requirement increased

• Reduced Turinium specular
• Scorpio lighting tweaked
• Martyr drone bomb made brighter

• Allow building rally points to be set in passible, but black-fogged areas
• Don’t deselect a building for construction when player attempts to click in invalid location
• Adjusted colors in the Game Summary screens
• Updated to new icon
• For-real level up indicator in empire tree for tiny pip icons
• Changed the MP Icons to match the faction symbols used in the rest of the game
• Benchmark BG changed to a planet screen
• Reorganizing end game screens, and adding score to one of the new summary tabs
• Adding limit to camera pitch so you can’t peek under Fog of War (potential stability improvements here too)

• Fix for hang where a client crashes well the server is waiting for them to catch up
• reinforcement requests sent to a factory that is set to infinite repeat will no longer send an infinite number of reinforcements to the army
• Game Hangs Moving Destination to Edge of Map
• fix crash related to reforming armies and asking for reinforcements
• Catch catastrophic Audio error, panic
• Handle case where Map fails on ReadBackResource DX11.

• Multiplayer
• Construction effects now appear on clients
• fix for client not getting message that removes dead Orbital Jammer/Nullifiers
• have Scan use air visiblity so it doesn’t get blocked by terrain elevation
• have host register for KillBuilding messages in mp
• Fixing star change deduction code to get rid of accidental +3 and -2 star messages, after clarifying behavior with Tachyon
• Gameplay
• Disable reinforcement buttons with a note in the tooltip if the metaunit is too full to fit the reinforcement
• fix for units that won't move after an attack move order
• Tutorial polish & fixes
• Map bounds for camera anchor
• Amplify tooltip text clarification
• Fixed bug with control groups being lost when Army is disbanded
• Canceling some units in a queue will no longer possibly reset current unit’s progress
• fix for AI sometimes ignoring orbital jammer
• fix for AI sometimes starting missions before map is ready
• fix for AI economically stalling out in some cases
• Graphics
• Addressed graphics artifacts in some VFX
• Fixed bad looping on Reaper laser
• Fixed Credit button appears to be cut off
• Removing old "AO Blob" from Hercules
• Fixed ground decal showing up during destruction sequence on Substrate Seed
• Fixes flickering when under construction building is killed
• Fixing sizing of small empire tree pips
• Fixed Amplifier UI portrait not showing up
• Misc
• Initial spelling/grammar update
• Updated credits
• Fixing cursor and edit box bg not showing up on certain UI scales
• Fixed first saved settings not saving device and vendor ID, causing settings to be ignored on next load
• improved terrain hugging behavior for camera
• Stupid hoops to prevent dx11 from attempting to process alt-enter
• More testing for valid building in Construct and Repair order updates
• Clean up main menu tutorial popup
• Created a martyr bolt weapon sound group