1.02 - Pre Release #1

Features

• Smart casting for unit abilities (by default, only the closest unit to the target will fire & ctrl can be used to force all selected units to fire).
  
• New tech structure: Oil Refinery. Grants the owner a 10% production discount. Added to several team game maps.
  
• Added button in skirmish/multiplayer lobby to reset options to defaults.
  
• Added Fast Regrowth lobby option.
  
• Added new IFV/Reckoner turrets: Yuri/Mastermind, Black Hand, Enlightened, Cyborg Elite, Mortars (Cryo/Sonic/Chem), Intruder, Ravager.
  
• Overhauled Mini Drone attachment (making them easier to attach and less glitchy).
  
• Improved support power targeting visuals.
  
• Lowered selection priority for transport aircraft.
  
• Added Testing Grounds map.

Balance & Faction Changes
General

• Reduced Rifle/Minigunner/Warrior damage vs defenses by 20%.
  
• Increased tier 1 tank & Tank Destroyer damage vs defenses by 20%.
  
• Increased Engineer/Assimilator mine detection range.
  
• Reduced basic defense power requirement from 25 to 10.
  
• Reduced amount refunded when selling basic defenses.
  
• Reduced mine defusal time for Engineers/Minelayers.
  
• Commando/Tanya/Boris can now shoot revealed mines.
  
• Lowered healing cap for commando units. It takes longer to wear off.
  
• Added healing cap to any infantry with 15k HP or more.
  
• Added 4-second delay to SEAL C4 planting. Reduce cooldown by 2 seconds.
  
• Increased Commando/Tanya C4 cooldown a little.
  
• SEAL will no longer auto-place C4 in attack anything stance.
  
• Reduced Brute attack speed and DPS vs infantry significantly. Reduce speed slightly.
  
• Sniper & Desolator will one-shot any infantry.
  
• Tech lock duration was reduced from 60 seconds to 40 seconds.
  
• Reduced mine defusal time from 3 seconds to 2 seconds.
  
• Tanya/Commando/Boris can shoot revealed mines.
  
• Increased Darkener damage vs buildings slightly.
  
• Increased Plasma Turret HP from 4.5k to 4.6k. Increased RoF slightly. Removed inaccuracy. Moved part of damage vs. infantry to % damage warhead to better deal with high HP infantry.
  
• Increased Laser Turret rate of fire slightly. Increased damage per shot vs infantry. Reduced DPS vs light armor slightly.
  
• Increased Guard Tower/Pillbox damage vs. infantry, light armor, and heavy armor.
  
• Increased Flame Tower/Chem Tower RoF slightly.
  
• Increased Raider APC damage vs light armor. Reduce damage vs defenses.
  
• Reduced Fleet Recall cooldown to 3 minutes.
  
• Increased Shock Trooper HP from 7k to 8.5k.
  
• Reduced Tesla Track damage vs light armor.
  
• Increased Tesla Tank damage against light armor.
  
• Increased Desolator damage vs light armor.
  
• Increased Interloper damage vs light armor.
  
• Increased Shade ammo by one and damage from 15k to 17k.
  
• Increased Peacemaker cost from 2.2k to 2.4k.
  
• Increased Banshee damage vs vehicles.
  
• Reduced distance from SD units can be upgraded at.
  
• Cyberdog armor to light armor.

Allies

• New unit: Peacemaker - Heavy bomber available at T3 (Tech Center).
  
• New upgrade for Ranger: Advanced Optics - Gives Rangers an ability that extends their vision range for a short time.
  
• Reduced SEAL movement speed and lowered the cap on healing they can receive in a short time. Reduced HP from 18k to 16k. No longer immune to mind control/chaos gas.
  
• New voices for Chrono Prison, Battle Fortress, Mirage Tank, and Cryo Launcher.
  
• Chrono Tank will prioritize ground targets over air targets.
  
• Increased Scout Tank vision from 6 to 7.
  
• Increased Chrono Prison damage vs heavy armor.
  
• Increased Sniper IFV damage vs vehicles. Concussion requires a Raufoss upgrade
  
• Added Guardian GI IFV turret.
  
• Increased Rifle/Rocket Battle Fortress damage. Reduced range (to same as infantry).
  
• Medic in Battle Fortress gives healing aura.
  
• USA drops require Barracks/Factory plus either radar or aircraft production (previously required radar).
  
• Reverted Nighthawk to normal selection priority. Default stance to Defend.
  
• Increased jamming field radius by 1
  
• Reduced Turret power requirement to 25.
  
• Reduced entrenched Engineer deployment time. Increased radius from 3 to 5.
  
• Longbow benefits from Cryo Rockets upgrade.
  
• Reduced Chrono Harvester upgrade cost to 1250.
  
• Reduced Advanced Ore Processing cost to 750.
  
• Reduced Nighthawk HP from 44k to 38k.
  
• Increased Veil of War cooldown from 4 min to 5 min.
  
• Reworked chill effect to have max ten stacks (up from 6).
  
• Damage penalty removed from IFV cryo rockets.
  
• Changed MGG/MRJ to light armor (increased HP from 22k to 25k).
  
• Allow spies to disguise themselves as Scrin. Added SEAL/Commissar icons when disguised.

Soviets

• New unit: Floating Disc - Replaces Kirov for Psi-Corps.
  
• New unit: Commissar - T3 infantry that buffs nearby infantry (increases movement and rate of fire).
  
• New Upgrade for Psi-Corps: Gattling BTR.
  
• Increased damage radius of V3 missiles.
  
• Reduced damage and area of effect of V3 missiles when shot down.
  
• Yuri will no longer kill slaves when using the mind blast ability. Slaves are killed when released, either manually or by exceeding capacity.
  
• Increased turret turn speed of Mammoth Tank & Eradicator.
  
• Reduced radiation strength of Apocalypse Tank shells. Reduced damage against infantry with Flak Armor/Hardened Carapace upgrade. Reduced projectile speed. Increased damage vs buildings.
  
• New voices for Siege Tank, Sukhoi, Eradicator, and Halo.
  
• Mammoth Tank and Apocalypse Tank will prioritize ground targets over air targets.
  
• Increased Siege Tank damage vs buildings and defenses. Increased concussion duration by 1 second.
  
• Increased Tesla Track damage per shot from 13.5k to 14.5k.
  
• Replaced Psi-Corps Parabombs with Chaos Bombs.
  
• Increased MAD Tank HP from 100k to 120k.
  
• Increased Tesla Track damage.
  
• Increased Tesla Tank damage.
  
• Reduced Iron Curtain damage vs infantry.

GDI

• New unit: Tomahawk Launcher - Available via research when Bombardment strategy is chosen.
  
• Bombardier upgrade is now available regardless of strategy.
  
• Titan railgun will always pass through the target to max range when fired at targets further than two cells away. Slightly reduced the passthrough damage.
  
• Increased turret turn speed of all Mammoth Tank variants.
  
• Increased Disruptor splash damage (mainly improves effectiveness against infantry).
  
• New voices for Disruptor, Titan, Juggernaut, Battle Drone, Mammoth Drone & XO Powersuit.
  
• Reduced strategy upgrade cost from $1250 to $1000.
  
• (H)MLRS, Mammoth Tank, and Titan will prioritize ground targets over air targets.
  
• Slight increase in Surgical Strike splash damage close to the target. Damage is no longer reduced by prone.
  
• Reduced Sonic Tower concussion duration vs infantry from 6 seconds to 1 second.
  
• Reduced Carryall vision from 10 to 9.
  
• Increased Nanite Repair heal per tick from 3% to 5%, reduced duration from 30s to 25s.
  
• Increased XO laser damage.
  
• Increased Juggernaut cost from $1500 to $2000. Increased range, HP, and damage.
  
• At elite rank, third damage level used by Vulcan vs ground targets.
  
• Increase TOW missile rate of fire and add TankBuster modifier.
  
• Increase Bombardier damage vs. buildings, reduced vs. defenses.
  
• Reduced cost of Afterburner upgrade to 750.
  
• Increased (H)MLRS HP from 18/20k to 20/22k.
  
• Increased Battle Drone cost to 800.

Nod

• New upgrade for Buggy: Decoy Projectors - Gives Buggies an ability that creates two decoy Flame Tanks (or Heavy Flame Tanks for Black Hand).
  
• Chem Warrior gains targeted ability to rush towards their target to close distance.
  
• Reduced infiltrator cloak recharge delay.
  
• New voices for Comanche, Microwave Tank, Spectre, Venom and Heavy Flame Tank.
  
• Infiltrator and stolen tech rework. Unique units for infiltrating each faction's barracks/factory/air structures, tech locked when infiltrating radars/tech centers/T4 structures.
  
• . Cryo Mortar unlocked by infiltrating Allied Barracks.
  
• . Reckoner unlocked by infiltrating Allied War Factory.
  
• . Black Eagle unlocked by infiltrating Allied Helipad.
  
• . Cyberdog unlocked by infiltrating Soviet Barracks.
  
• . Rhino Tank unlocked by infiltrating Soviet War Factory.
  
• . Kamov unlocked by infiltrating Soviet Airfield.
  
• . Sonic Mortar unlocked by infiltrating GDI Barracks.
  
• . Pitbull unlocked by infiltrating GDI Weapons Factory.
  
• . Shade unlocked by infiltrating GDI Airfield.
  
• . Chem Mortar unlocked by infiltrating the Hand of Nod
  
• . Mantis unlocked by infiltrating Nod Airstrip (or Legion Weapons Factory)
  
• . Vertigo unlocked by infiltrating Nod Helipad
  
• . Cyberscrin unlocked by infiltrating Scrin Portal.
  
• . Viper unlocked by infiltrating Scrin Warp Sphere.
  
• . Manticore unlocked by infiltrating Scrin Gravity Stabilizer.
  
• Increased Heavy Flame Tank cost from 1000 to 1100. Reduced speed from 68 to 60.
  
• Black Napalm reload time penalty increased slightly (for both Heavy Flame Tank and SSM).
  
• Reduced damage increase for Bikes with TibCore from +10% to +7.5%.
  
• Reduced Flame Tank splash damage.
  
• Reduced SSM splash radius.
  
• Slightly increased Microwave Tank RoF.
  
• Slightly increased cyborg conversion time.
  
• Reduced Stealth Tank resistance to aircraft slightly.
  
• Reduced Venom damage vs buildings (with upgrade no change).
  
• Reduced Turret power requirement to 25.
  
• Legion bonus changed to a 10% discount on stolen tech units.

Scrin

• New support power: Fleet Recall - Available on Signal Transmitter, teleports Devastators/Carriers/Mothership back to the Signal Transmitter.
  
• New upgrade: Hypercharge - Gives Seekers/Lacerators the ability to fire an uninterrupted barrage for a short time, after which their weapons are disabled, and their speed is reduced until the ability recharges.
  
• Mastermind will no longer kill slaves when using the mind spark ability. Slaves are killed when released, either manually or by exceeding capacity.
  
• Increased PAC damage.
  
• Increased Greater Coalescence damage/healing radius.
  
• Increased Atomizer splash radius.
  
• Stormcrawler with Ion Conduits generates ion clouds more frequently (every 4 seconds down from 6).
  
• Increased Devourer damage. Also increased vs none/light when charged.
  
• Increased Darkener damage vs light armor.
  
• Reduced PAC cost from $3000 to $2800.
  
• Added range circle when targeting Greater Coalescence & Storm Spike.
  
• Stormrider is now able to shoot in any direction. Reduced range vs ground very slightly (0.25).
  
• Mothership will charge nearby Stormriders/Enervators.
  
• Increase Atomizer range from 8 to 9.
  
• Increased Devastator damage by 20% and splash radius slightly. Increased projectile speed.
  
• Increased Enervator damage from 10k to 11.5k and range by 1.
  
• Increased Leecher self-healing slightly.

Sounds/Artwork

• New sound effects for the Vulcan weapon.
  
• New Aircraft Sounds.
  
• Added additional visuals when units are upgrading.
  
• Added Soviet star icon under feet of units affected by Commissar inspiration buff.
  
• Added IFV transform sound.
  
• Added Transport Load/Unload sounds.
  
• Added brass casings ejected from Vulcan, BTR, Gattling BTR, Apache, Hind and Kamov, IFV, HMMV, Buggy & Ranger
  
• Added voice announcements for Intensified Microwaves, Seismic Missiles & Titan Railgun upgrades on completion.
  
• Fixed some aircraft sprite facings.
  
• Improved custom RA EVA voice line effects.

Fixes/Misc

• Corrected Cyborg Mechanic salvage time to match Mechanic.
  
• Corrected range of Disruptor with Seek & Destroy.
  
• Campaign tooltip visibility corrections.
  
• Fixed empty warp damage bar appearing when units have very low health.
  
• Minor AI improvements.
  
• Added directional targeting to infiltration airstrike and corrected building damage.
  
• Fixed Chrono Tank not firing at aircraft.
  
• Fixed upgrades tab not being shown when selecting Ore Purifier.
  
• Fix Chem Warrior projectile being invisible when in Battle Fortress.
  
• Fixed map crashes (Calming Lakes, Utter Darkness).
  
• Restored "I've got a present for ya" and "kiss it bye-bye" voice lines for Commando/Tanya when ordered to plant C4.
  
• Veil of War debuff no longer stacks with direct Gap Generator debuff.
  
• Iron Curtain on production building no longer pauses production from it.
  
• Fixed rare crashing bug caused by missiles effectively diving underground.
  
• Tracking beam weapons will be canceled on death.
  
• Fixed Mirage Tank disguise palettes.
  
• Fixed condition warheads do not apply to large actors with multiple targetable locations.
  
• Corrected Sniper/Raufoss prerequsities in mission 5.
  
• Fixed rare crash caused by force landing aircraft.
  
• Minor mission tweaks.
  
• Fixed Jungle Boogie map.
  
• Fixed Vulcan reinforcements not being in the same select group as normal Vulcans.
  
• Reduced Thief selection priority.