The diversification of bombers over the past year has been great, but it also highlighted some problems with a few mobile anti-air units. This patch tries to carefully resolve these deficiencies and shift things slightly away from Phoenix and towards Magpie. The two bombers finally agree on rearming time.

This update coincides with an AI update and the addition of around two dozen new maps. Try them out, perhaps against the new AI, and give feedback on your favorites. If, instead, you prefer 1v1, check out Fight Club later today (Saturday) at 1900 UTC and on every first and third Saturday for the rest of the year.

Balance

Gremlin creeps back towards its old low price.

• Cost 130 -> 120

Tarantula contributes more to mixed anti-air defenses.

• Damage 260 -> 270

Flail hits sooner.

• Range 800 -> 820
  
• Missile spends 16.7% less time flying straight up.

Magpie is a bit cheaper to support.

• Rearm time 15s -> 13s

Phoenix takes noticeably longer to shoot twice.

• Rearm time 10s -> 13s

Maps

These maps have been added.

• Wanderlust 2.1
  
• Rustcrown Canyon 1.3
  
• The Rock Jungle 2.1
  
• Crystallized Plains 1.1
  
• Hide and Seek 2.2.3
  
• Hellas Basin v1.4
  
• Flats and Forests v2.2
  
• Aurelia v4
  
• Moonshine Run v1.0.1
  
• The Tartar Steppe v1.1
  
• Pinch Point 1.03
  
• Canis River v1.4
  
• Salt Reef 1.1
  
• Ancient Bastion Remake 0.5
  
• World In Flames v1.8
  
• Kings Assault v1.3
  
• Great Divide V1
  
• Sinkhole Network v1.1
  
• Scylla and Charybdis 1.1
  
• Tau12
  
• Crescent_Bay_V2
  
• Jade Empress 1.41
  
• Esker Creek 1.3
  
• Hades Ponds 1.1
  
• Isidis crack 1.1
  
• Feast of Hades 1.0.1
  
• Hera Planum 0.91
  
• The Ditch Remake 0.5

Features

• Updated the skirmish AI.
  
• Experiment with new lighting on some energy structures.
  
• Added focal depth hotkeys for the depth of field widget.
  
• Added team selection to the cheat sheet (top left with cheats enabled).
  
• The startbox editor can now apply box transforms and save them directly to files.

Fixes

• The skirmish AI no longer crashes if it somehow gains and then loses a factory plate.
  
• Minor fixes for French translations.
  
• Fixed some tips for planet Blackmire.
  
• Fix tiny movement stutter when line-moving over the wreckage.
  
• Fix a graph bug that would sometimes overcount army losses.
  
• Fix spec team change when selecting unseen enemies.
  
• Fix a rare teleport bug.
  
• Fix (i.e., remove) the fog effect on a few maps.
  
• Fixed structures with move commands giving up on them before finishing their morph.