Game Update 16.5

Commanders! Here are the full patch notes for the update tomorrow!

New Features

• Added functionality to discard troops which you no longer need. This will refund 40% of their training cost in resources.

• Add a button on HUD to view Shield Status and to apply a Shield quickly.

• Added Medium Invader Cache with Rare to Augmented crafting components dropped as a reward for defeating Level 9+ Invaders.

• Increased the Maximum Level for numerous Hero Equipment from 4 to 5.

• Added Level 35 Raids for both the Megaship and the Titanic Strider.

• Added the functionality to Move and Swap the position of various Base Structures.

• Added improved HUD UFO rewards bracket for HQ Level 25 to 35.

• Alliance Members can now initiate a Mutiny against an Inactive Alliance Leader.

New Research Projects

15 new Research Projects have been added to the game across multiple Research Trees.

Defensive:

• Defensive Strategist II

Special:

• Deployment Speed III

• Deployment Size III

Efficiency:

• Rally Speed II

• Rally Capacity II

Specialized

• Prototype Attack II

• Prototype Defense II

• Prototype Armor II

• Alien Attack II

• Alien Defense II

• Alien Armor II

• Mech Attack II

• Mech Defense II

• Mech Armor II

Drone:

• Drone Shard Detector II

Quality of Life Changes

• Saving location bookmarks will append the location level to the name on the bookmark.

• Added various new counters to display in your Player Profile.

Increased the Global chat message limit from 25 to 50.

• Added option to fully hide blocked messages from global chat (these still count towards the 50 message limit even if hidden from global chat)

• Increased the limit for Alliance descriptions and bulletins from 128 to 256 characters.

• Improved sorting of Routine Missions. Additionally, when claiming a routine mission, it will now be moved to the bottom of the list.

• Added Health and Power values of the target location in the Add Troops panel.

• Added the location Level to the Invader Attack notification.

• Improved dismantle Gear cost from 25% to 75%

• Increased the Shard quantities that spawn within the base view by 300% and changed one to be very rare.

• Added buttons to the Gear crafting panel to view the Gear stats and costs at any level.

• Increased the quantity of Crafting Components given from regular Invader Caches.

• Increased unit quantities from drone level 9 and 10

• 8hr: Level 9 (40 to 100), Level 10 (80 to 150)

• 16h: Level 9 (75 to 175), Level 10 (150 to 250)

• 24h: Level 9 (140 to 350), Level 10 (275 to 500)

• 48h: Level 9 (275 to 500), Level 10 (525 to 700)

• 72h: Level 9 (525 to 700), Level 10 (800 to 1000)

• Scaled HUD UFO rewards brackets

• HQ 0 - 8 scaled by 1.5x

• HQ 9-16 scaled by 2x

• HQ 17-24 scaled by 3x (bracket range was also shifted from 17-35 to 17-24)

• Scaled daily login rewards 0-55 (items by 3x, currencies by 4x)

• Some rewards between 28-55 were replaced with new rewards or moved to a different day

New Objectives

Added Objectives for all 15 new Research Projects.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed some incorrect display values in some counters in the player profile panel.

• Fixed a rare case where VIP expiring during a session would not update correctly

• Fixed all rewards always being displayed on the Challenge reward claimed panel.

• Fixed incorrect rewards being displayed when claiming Alliance Challenges with combined Alliance points

• Fixed a case where if an Enemy is reinforcing the target of one of your attacking marches, it would display as an ally deployment incoming in the Passive tab.

• Fixed a text input field for changing the Alliance Description, going across one line.

• Fixed the Total Units Killed and Total Unit Power Killed counters not updating during the same session.

• Fixed the colour on certain gear not displaying correctly when viewing from the Storage Locker.

• Shards in the base view now refresh and spawn automatically while you are online, instead of having to log out and back in to trigger their spawn

• Corrected some Chest Prices as they did not reflect the value of contents correctly. (Chests with a higher discounted value were left unchanged.)

• Speed up chest from 22.5k to 20,550

• Expert speedup from 50k to 40,250

• Basic resource from 3.5k to 2.3k

• Resource chest from 10k to 4.5k

• Expert resource from 25k to 12,950

• Basic defense chest from 4.5k to 2,975

• Defense chest from 8k to 5,150

• Expert defense chest from 15k to 10.2k

• Basic attack chest 4.5k to 2,975

• Attack chest from 8k to 5,150

• Expert attack chest from 15k to 10.2k