This one is a relatively small release, for us, but the impact on the endgame should be… interesting. It’s the last of the non-champion-related new content for Ancient Shadows and adds 3 new Core Guard Posts that the AI can use its “brutal” picks on when populating an AI homeworld’s defenses during mapgen. They’re all…
This one adds the last three bonus ship types of the Ancient Shadows expansion: The Youngling Firefly is sort of a mix between the youngling idea, the zenith viral shredder, and a bugzapper. Basically it’s an ok fighter that does an AOE explosion when it dies, but that aoe explosion gets stronger based on how…
This one finally implements a change that’s been on the table in the forums for a month or so: fleet ship caps no longer go down at higher marks. This will help them be more attractive to human players and more useful for both players and the AI (previously a cap of mkV fleet ships…
This one is out tonight instead of Monday because a recent change broke the tutorial. But it also contains two significant bits of content for the Ancient Shadows expansion: a variant of the Clusters map type with more outlandish intra-cluster arrangement, and a new minor faction: the Dark Spire. Some of you may be thinking…
This one includes some key enhancements to the base game we wanted to get in with enough testing time left before 6.0. Players have been telling us for a while that the AI’s Special Forces units were basically… irrelevant. They used to be far more significant but many changes over the years have resulted in…
This one adds another nebula scenario that the game can pick to throw at you. “Throw” is somewhat literal, as you will see. Also added some more champion toys to the potential-scenario-reward toybox, and the last modular fortress (Zenith), for your AI-smashing pleasure. More important than another scenario (though that is cool) are several important…
This one adds two new bonus ship types: the Zenith Reprocessor, and the much-anticipated Zenith Siege Engine. The latter has to stay immobile for 15 seconds before firing, but it hits like a truck once it does. A truck loaded with plasma torpedoes, that is. Another long-requested change, from the top of the mantis voting…
This one adds another scenario that can be seeded in a nebula. The usual goes with it: more champion hulls and module lines are possible as rewards. There’s also a couple new abilities that can be unlocked through nebula rewards. A few important balance changes were made to recently-added stuff: Tackle Drone Launchers got nerfed…
This one adds two more bonus ship types for the Ancient Shadows expansion: the Neinzul Scapegoat and the Spire Railcluster. The Scapegoat has a one-shot version of the Regenerator Golem’s ability (only works on fleet ships) and I expect to hear tales of absurd exploits and thus have to nerf it, but have fun figuring…
This one adds the first two bonus ship types of the Ancient Shadows expansion: the Zenith Medic Frigate (from one of RCIX’s ideas) and the Tackle Drone Launcher (we invented that pain ourselves). Both boldly fill roles where no fleet ship has filled before. Particularly the “push the enemy’s ships around like a jerk” role.…
