This one starts our response to the winner of our first “Aim the nerfbat (AI-side)” poll. The landslide winner was the AI Eye. Curiously, the main call was not so much for the eye to be made less strong but to be made less monotonous and frustrating. As one player put it: fighting the first…
This one responds to most of the remaining feedback from the last round of polls. Specifically: The Zenith/Spire starships got their long awaited promotion into two new separate lines of starship. The Player Home Forcefield Generator got grav and tachyon coverage (and two semi-related issues with home defense were addressed). The Spire Stealth Battleship was…
This one is mostly a quick release to get a fix to some recent memory/performance problems out along with an advanced setting slider to help players directly experiencing those problems see if the sprite-pooling (or lack thereof) really is the cause. Also a significant rework to the Spire Archive, which won the most recent “Worst…
This one deals with the resurgence of a most bothersome bug (for those not following the link, it’s a joke about people beating 10/10). On higher difficulties the AI will now be harder to “put to sleep” with AIP reduction. The AI will now be more clever with the schizo-wave modifier and still send homogenous…
This one is a major upgrade to the game’s visual fidelity (one of the big pieces of free content in 6.0 that’s for everyone, not just those getting the Ancient Shadows expansion). There’s also another hotfix to try to deal with the performance problems some people have been seeing since 5.042. Enjoy! This is a…
It’s traditional that when we do an expansion for AI War, we also wind up doing a lot of new content for the base game. At this point we’ve been doing ongoing sporadic content for the base game for the last 18 months since the 5.0 version. So the difference is already substantial between 5.0…
This one is our first post-1.2 beta update and it’s largely responding to bug reports and feature suggestions from the past several days. Many thanks for the feedback! But Chris also added a new monster (the Entropic Esper) and two new spells (Leaping Death and Flower X). The game should probably drop a lot of…
This one answers the results of our sixth “Worst Unit” poll. Our “winners” were the Zenith Reserves, the Decloaker, the Captive Human Settlement, and the Spire Armor Rotter. Everyone give them a hand! Hmm, they don’t seem amused. But at least they’ll enjoy the buffs! We’ve also dealt with a couple longstanding player annoyances in…
This one contains a lot of engine improvements backported from AVWW. Rendering is now more efficient, and in theory a lot of the textbox issues should be dealt with now. There’s also a bunch of little fixes to recent stuff like the energy rework, drones, and the line-place context menu. And some balance changes to…
In case you haven’t heard from our other blog, AI War is getting a new expansion this October. Awesome! I can’t tell you what any of these ships do yet, but here’s a preview of a few: A mysterious human ship A mysterious zenith ship A mysterious neinzul ship A mysterious human marauder ship And…
