The Winter Planetary Update is live!

Winter Planetary Update

Hi everybody, we're happy to announce that the second update from the Winter roadmap is out! New maps, units and a lot of improvements, while we're also finishing the UNSS faction for the upcoming big expansion update! Feel free to check out the updated roadmap a few paragraphs further down in this post.

Here are full release notes - Silence of the Siren version 83353e54:

New content

• New planet in Skirmish mode with three large maps

• New colorful Crystal biome

• The main gameplay theme for the maps: Gates and keys! There's up to eight different colored pairs of gates and key generators

• One of the maps has a new victory condition: hold a base for a given period of time

• Added modified versions of a couple of existing maps now with 6 and 8 players (you can find these under custom scenarios)

• Two new neutral units will now appear on the maps: Apex and Primal Pylon

• Added Movement Node map object that refills commander's movement points

Features and improvements

• The Swordmaster building now gives the choice of which of commander's attributes to level up

• Status effects on units in combat now display the remaining duration in the unit info panel

• Added more info about units which transform during different phases of the day-night cycle to the unit info panel

• Added an indicator to highlight commanders bypassing turrets, cybersnares and other hazards thanks to their Scout skill

• Added the "switch commander to training mode" button also to the active commander button on the right

• It's now possible to change starting factions and commanders in the scenario menus with the mouse wheel

• Switched the "build for a fusion core" button in base building catalog panels from gold to white

• Camera now follows commanders traveling between bases to their destination

• Mining probes now indicate they have a production limit of 20 turns

• Added numbers to the Black Market UI to show how many items of each kind a commander has to sell

• Added support for custom tooltips on static map objects, like the shuttle in the Fossorian campaign

• When a low level commander has full skill slots, higher level skills show in the level up dialog instead

• Added a custom message to Liberator's special attack tooltip when there are no targets

• Range of buried worms gets displayed when holding shift

• Added custom texts for the retreat button when retreating is not available

• Factions of neutral bases in scenarios/skirmish maps get randomized when starting a new game

• AI now sells extra items in markets

• Improved use of the Scout skill by AI commanders

Community translations

• Brazilian Portuguese is now the third community-translated language in the game!

• Updated Hungarian and Russian translations with texts for this update

Fixes

• Fixed a couple of sneaky memory leaks

• AI commanders could get killed due to multiple threats on a tile

• AI commanders could get stuck on getting scouting bonus from building

• Fixed when AI siege defender had only melee units in loopholes, they didn't charge

• Fixed stack status effect preview on Meatboys was breaking the 'special' button tooltip

• Fixed when units go outside of shield and attack a Saw-ty, the Saw-ty retaliated against the shield even though the attacker is already outside

• Fixed Saw-ty pre-retaliation when attacked from a loophole

• Fixed a rare bug with overlapping units and objects on the world map flickering

• Fixed Regenerate ability at level 2 cost 1/10th of what it should have

• Fixed empty object preview in the dialog panel when re-opening a visited building by a commander that's out of frame by moving the camera to them first

• Fixed war machines couldn't be picked up after dropping one unit to a slot and then placing the rest of the moved stack

• Fixed trading buildings at some bases did cost other resources than coins, a possible soft lock in player progression

• Fixed dead units stuck with with white flash in auto combat

• Fixed retreated commanders were given the 'dead' flag, sometimes causing a player to be defeated too early

• Fixed a few sounds playing from the darkness during AI player turns

• Fixed random units on some maps always spawning as their upgraded versions, limiting variety

• Fixed inventory slots stuck as disabled once their item was once shown as disabled after encountering a supercharged cloud

• Fixed teleports on the map were becoming visible in the fog of war too early

• Disabled dangerous objects, traps and turrets getting triggered by commanders at nearby bases

• Fixed remembered armies in the orbital fog of war layer lost after load

• Fixed orbital layer showing editor random item markers when viewed after scenario start

• Fixed layout of objectives was sometimes a bit wonky after a new objective replaced one of the existing ones

• Fixed combat manuals and datascrolls giving movement bonus when picked up

• Fixed building biofarms on biofarm veins could block some neighboring tiles

• Hopefully fixed units artifacting on certain HW configurations on Linux

Known issues

• While we've been working on optimization, the AI turns are still relatively slow on the 6+8 player maps or the biggest maps with open layouts