Ashes of the Singularity v0.62 Change Log

The .62 patch was released today. A big thanks to all the community members that helped track down bugs and gave their feedback. There's a lot on this list that wouldn't have been possible without it!

Gameplay

• “Knife Fight” map added
• Doubled default VP limit on all maps
• Option for random starting locations
• Orbital abilities use quanta instead of radioactives
• Opponents default to beginner AI
• Pathfinding - formation change to be better around bad terrain 
• Surrender option so you can still see game stats when quitting
• Seton map layout improved; added additional paths
• Balance: Pan HP increased from 200 to 500
• Balance: Brute plasma weapon projectile speed slightly increased
• Balance: Smarty missiles buffed slightly (3 shots per volley instead of 2)

Art & Graphics

• Team colors polished (more work to be done here)
• Improved construction effect
• Better visuals for invalid placement of buildings
• Dreadnaughts and Factory de-materialize effect on destruction 
• Temporary explosion fx for Dreadnaughts
• Tweaked PHC weathering technique to not be all metal. Now includes variable paint wear.
• Tweaked range of edge wear on units/buildings, added more local variation
• Polished panel detail on unit maps

UI

• Right-click on build buttons also cancels units from queue
• Construction, Tech, and Orbital button icons made more distinct and legible
• CTRL group icons more readable
• Added tooltips to options, benchmark options, disabled menu items, create public/private lobby buttons, etc.
• Adding map preview for Grison
• Added starting locations on map previews

Sound

• Attack & Move order sounds polished
• Adding destruction sound to buildings
• Select sounds added and polished for; Hades, Archer, Pan, Medic, Defenders, Prometheus, Artemis, Fury, Brute
• Turned up volume of button click in Main Menu

Misc

• Graphics preset performance optimizations
• Performance improvement to unit movement
• Map load speed improved
• Being more space efficient with save game info

Stability

• Fixed startup crash for players with foreign characters in their Windows user name
• Fixed crash bug when entering Benchmark results screen
• Crash fix when loading map list takes too long
• Adding safety checks for indexing into cached leaderboard results when a board with that name can't be found

Bug Fixes

• Disable changing game settings in the lobby during the countdown
• Now properly showing building previews when loading a save game
• Fix for size 2 buildings taking up space that size 3 buildings 
• Loading MP save games further fixes (should be in good working order now)
• Building dying vis state now happens on the client as well as the host
• Fixing glare visual effect
• Multiple map fixes for resources that didn’t allow extractors to be placed on them, and bad region connections
• Fixed “muddy” sound when close in to a battle
• Bug with construction/Tech/Orbital panel not showing up fixed
• Fixed bugs with Hades not attacking consistently