v1.0.1553 Patch Notes

Commanders,

Lots of small fixes going out this evening. A bigger one is related to re-balancing free-for-all matches with multiple AI. You should find that the AI more effectively balances attacks instead of previously dogpiling the human player. This was a miss on my part, so hopefully you find this a bit more engaging.

I'm working on ideas for the next Campaign, and specifically around a re-balance of the Threat system. If you have any ideas or feedback here, drop them in discord or the Steam discussions!

FIXES

• End game stats now correctly display for multiplayer (after loading from the server)
• START BATTLE at a mined Alien home world no longer bounces you back to CHOOSE BATTLE forever in Alien Player games
• the Alien Player no longer screens after its home world minefield fires, which made you pick the same battle twice
• Doomsday Machine and Alien Player dice at the start of a battle now land and show the roll, instead of spinning through the whole reveal
• the Alien Player no longer loses the CP left in its Fleet column after defending its home world
• Simultaneous Start battles now go to the player whose ships are actually in them, instead of whoever ended movement last
• the turn order bid popup no longer lingers over the battle board after you leave and come back to a game
• back to back battles no longer freeze the game when the next one resolves right away
• an AI moving fighters aboard a faster carrier no longer runs the game out of memory
• in multiplayer, a ship swallowed by a Black Hole now rides the spiral instead of vanishing while the dice roll
• a multiplayer seat no longer snaps back to an older phase and sits idle after its own action
• the multiplayer Match Report shows LOADING until it is ready, instead of all zeros with an empty Timeline and empty Graphs
• the multiplayer Match Report names seats as You, your opponent and AI 1 instead of bare colors
• a team win now credits the whole team: the headline, the stars, the last Timeline line and the Game End flags
• ranked games now show your rating change on the Match Report
• losing a solitaire scenario reads Homeworld Destroyed instead of Game Abandoned
• Timeline battle lines count Alien Player, Doomsday Machine and non-player alien losses instead of showing 0
• two battles at the same hex in the same turn each show their own losses on the Timeline
• the Timeline no longer lists the same event twice in single player games
• the Graphs plot every round, instead of starting late or showing a selected stat with no line
• the map tooltip no longer draws over the Match Report

FEATURES

• free-for-all AIs each take one rival instead of all ganging up on the human, though an AI you invade will still fight back

Brett