This one revamps the Dark Spire minor faction and does a balance overhaul on Starships, notably adding a long-requested new important capturable structure: The Advanced Starship Constructor. For the Dark Spire:they should still be just as influential upon the galaxy once truly unleashed (in fact, more influential due to improved “what do I do now?”…
This one starts addressing some longstanding requests related to champion balance and answers the most recent “worst unit” poll where the game’s least impactful units get shamed into some kind of improvement. #1 in the poll were the AI’s normal guard posts. The core ones that protect the AI homeworlds (and particularly the “brutal-pick” posts)…
This one is our first update to AI War in three months. For us, that’s a really, really long time between updates. There’s a variety of reasons for the lull, but the most significant one was our need to focus on getting A Valley Without Wind 2 done and officially released. Now that that’s done…
This one brings back the human-ally component of the Roaming Enclaves minor faction, with a huge overhaul of its control logic. Long ago the Roaming Enclaves minor faction could spawn human-ally variants in addition to the currently-possible AI-ally and enemy-to-all variants. But they weren’t very bright, and tended to get killed a lot despite many…
This one completely re-imagines Astro Trains. The trains had really fallen out of player favor a while ago, so we shuffled them off to be an AI Plot until we could think of a more interesting approach. That day has come. The release notes have the details, but some highlights: * Astro Trains are now…
This one answers the results of our three recent polls on which units most need rebalancing (in both directions, for player and/or AI). Congratulations (and changes) thus go out to: the Tackle Drone Launcher, “Mysterious” Colony Ship (nebula unit), Zenith Bombard, Teleport Raider, Infiltrator, Superfortress, Zenith Power Generator, and Champion Drone Bays. Racking up that…
This one greatly expands the module variety available to modular fortress owners in champion games. Every module that can be unlocked on a champion now has a mod-fort equivalent (fortress modules only go up to MkIII though). The pre-existing mod-fort modules are still unlocked via their related turret/starship/etc research, but the newly added ones are…
This one finally gets around to adding some more AI Eye variants to round finish response to the Eye winning a community poll back before the beta of Ancient Shadows. There are several new devious toys in there, providing varying degrees of “I do not want to make this angry, ever”. Also, the AI homeworlds…
This one is mostly a bunch of bugfixes to deal with things that made it into the 6.0 official. None of them really critical, though the scapegoat bug (i.e. the AI finds a way to counter the Martyr) was pretty hilarious, and these are good to get fixed in any event. Enjoy! This is a…
This one is the first release-candidate for our 6.0 release. In other words: this _is_ 6.0 (aside from the new Ancient Shadows music, that comes Friday) unless we get a report of a critical bug that must be fixed before the official release. This one adds 25 champion-related achievements, fixes a bunch of unit description-text…
