First of what is probably two hotfix builds for today: https://wiki.arcengames.com/index.php?title=AI_War_2:Post_Completion#5.002_Venators_Optional This one makes the scary new Venators from DLC3 optional, unless you are playing on Challenger mode or higher. Thanks to Badger on that. This also lets you cycle through ships with unspent modules by repeatedly clicking that notification, which is really nice. Thanks…
The end of any era is always the start of a new one. First of all, we have a lovely new DLC for your perusal. The Neinzul Abyss is hands-down the largest and most impressive piece of DLC that we’ve ever made, and it’s larger than a lot of standalone games. Its store page explains…
New build, here on DLC-Eve! https://wiki.arcengames.com/index.php?title=AI_War_2:The_Final_Cycle#4.995_DLC3_Release_Candidate_1 A number of bugfixes and balance tweaks, and then more last-minute refinement to DLC3. Big thanks to Badger, Zeus, CRCGamer, StarKelp, and Tom.Prince on this one. Also another heaping helping of spelling and grammar fixes thanks to ptarth! Tomorrow is the day when DLC3 finally drops! We’re really excited…
New build! https://wiki.arcengames.com/index.php?title=AI_War_2:The_Final_Cycle#4.025_Lightning_Conduction This one is packed with bugfixes, and also gives a random color to beacon factions so that they don’t get confused with other factions when you enable one (you can then further change their color as you wish). Some of these bugfixes are for multiplayer, others are for Ark Empire, a variety…
New build! https://wiki.arcengames.com/index.php?title=AI_War_2:The_Final_Cycle#4.024_Graveyard_Digger This one has a variety of bugfixes, including one big performance fix for games that last longer than half an hour to a few hours in a single session. It’s entirely possible that this also has solved the fairly rare deadlock that folks were running into at times. In DLC3, the Wights…
New build! https://wiki.arcengames.com/index.php?title=AI_War_2:The_Final_Cycle#4.023_Beacon_Expansiveness A bunch of new factions are now summonable via beacons, largely thanks to Daniexpert. This includes some returning favorites from old pre-4.0 beacons, but also includes new factions that have never had a beacon before. Previously it was a major performance drain to have a lot of beacon factions included, so we…
New build! https://wiki.arcengames.com/index.php?title=AI_War_2:The_Final_Cycle#4.021_Scourge_Of_A_Beacon Been missing the ability to call the scourge via beacon? Well, that’s returned, courtesy of Badger. There are… a metric ton of small and midsize improvements to the base game and DLC3, and a couple of others for DLC1 and 2 in here as well. Big props to Badger and Zeus for…
New build! https://wiki.arcengames.com/index.php?title=AI_War_2:The_Final_Cycle#4.019_To_Hack.2C_Or_Not_To_Hack This has a number of bugfixes and balance tweaks, a number of them centered around hacking. The most critical thing from this build is a fix to a regression in the prior build that broke a lot of “hack for ships” type hacks. Sorry about that! Other changes include making many of…
Second build of the day! https://wiki.arcengames.com/index.php?title=AI_War_2:The_Final_Cycle#4.018_Stability_And_Abortability This one has only two items in it, but both are pretty important for folks that are hitting a few specific issues. First of all, in multiplayer, on the client there were sometimes floods of errors that would happen (usually but not always after 45 minutes or more of…
New build! https://wiki.arcengames.com/index.php?title=AI_War_2:The_Final_Cycle#4.017_Feeling_Helpful If you have NPC allies, they are now notably more helpful when coming to your aid as of this version. Thanks to Badger on this! There are also some notable balance adjustments to a lot of the speed-boosting structures, and to the speed caps on units. Similarly, some power generation rebalance for…
