Greetings once again!

We're making a balance tweak today to fix a problem found in our last update. Thanks for all the feedback and help in identifying this issue!

-8Bit

• GUARDIANS - HEAVY DRONE: Fixed issue with Machine Gun weapon timing that was causing the DPS to be double the intended value.
  
• LIGHTBRINGERS - AIR ELEMENTAL: Build cost reduced to 130 (was 150), Build time reduced to 13 (was 15)
  
• LIGHTBRINGERS - TREANT: Health reduced to 175 (was 190)
  
• MARINES - OGRE: Health reduced to 230 (was 250); shield health remains the same

It's time for another balance update based on our awesome players and a little bit of internal research! Have fun and enjoy the player-sponsored tournament!

-8Bit

• MARINES BARRACKS: Build cost reduced to 300 (was 400), Build time reduced to 15 (was 20)
  
• MARINES HEAVY FACTORY: Build cost reduced to 575 (was 700), Build time reduced to 25 (was 30)
  
• MARINES DRONE WORKS: Build cost reduced to 575 (was 700), Build time reduced to 25 (was 30)
  
• MARINES SHRIKE: Build cost reduced to 150 (was 180), Build time reduced to 12 (was 15)
  
• MARINES HARPY: Adjusted spacing of attack to make it more accurate. DPS did not change.
  
• GUARDIANS HEAVY DRONE: Weapons targeting has been adjusted; rockets are now only fired at air, machine gun only fires at ground. The MG weapon has been changed to NEUTRAL damage. It is now a continuous fire weapon (not volleys). This sets the DPS to a consistent 6.0 vs. all ground target types. Rocket damage and timing has not changed.
  
• DEATHSWORN SHAMAN: Air attack damage changed to neutral (this is mostly for data clarity since the anti-air damage was already 1-1).
  
• CYCLOPS: Increased AoE radius of club hit to 75 (was 50)
  
• RENEGADES HEAVY TANK: Anti-Air rocket base damage increased to 5 (was 4)

Hi everyone!

We continue to monitor our multiplayer statics and read through the forums to determine if there are any corrections that need to be made to balance or the game in general. Thanks to you, we've identified a number of small tweaks that needed to be made - especially to Regent mode in multiplayer.

Have fun!

-8Bit

GENERAL:

• Added new armor type "Neutral" to game. This will not show up in the GUI listing since it is only used for the Regents in Assassination mode. Neutral armor removes all damage modifiers from weapons - the target will take the weapon's base damage from attacks.
  
• The Regent unit for all factions (used in Assassination Mode) have been updated to use Neutral Armor.
  
• Shortened a variety of non-english texts to fit properly within the UI

UNIT/STRUCTURE BALANCE:

• Cannon Turret (Guardians): Damage type changed to Neutral, Base damage increased to 20 (was 15), Shot speed slowed to 1.5 (was 1.0), Can now target aircraft
  
• Wraith (Deathsworn): The heal effect was not stacking to 3 as intended (like all other healers) - this has been fixed, Heal aura increased to 300 radius (was 250) to match skeleton conversion effect radius, Build cost reduced to 140 (was 160).
  
• Ballista (Lightbringers): Line of attack widened slightly; damage remains the same, but it should be easier to hit with it.
  
• Phoenix (Lightbringers): Base damage reduced to 14 (was 16), AoE radius of shots reduced to 30 (was 50).

Hey gang!

We patched the game this afternoon to handle a weird text issue on a few of the translated languages. Nothing serious.

Have fun and enjoy the holiday Americans! For the rest of ya, have fun anyway! ːsteamhappyː

-8Bit

Greetings once again!

As always. we review the forums and emails that come in to our support team on a regular basis. Today, we're releasing a patch to fix some smaller but still potentially annoying issues that you've reported to us.

We think you'll be happy with some of these updates and just wanted to say thank you for letting us know what needed to get fixed. Once again we're very appreciative for all your help in continuing to make the game better.

Let us know how you feel about the update and please send us an email if there's still something that needs to be looked at.

-8-Bit


PATCH NOTES:

• Added server functionality to clean up old replays after 4 months if they have not been downloaded
  
  
• Updated Master Text Mod file to match all latest new features
  
  
• Superweapon countdown timers will sometimes get stuck in a ready state, or not appear at all
  
  
• The skull and crossbones icon for defeated players doesn't always appear when a player disconnects
  
  
• Occasionally a player may untick ready just as the host has hit start which caused the game to go into an unresponsive state.
  
  
• Fixed a variety of Turkish text length problems

Alright! Time for a few balance adjustments per your feedback, and some desperately needed tweaks to one of our translated languages.

First - all those balance changes. We have been watching a LOT of games, and listening to your feedback and we are really close to an even win ratio across all factions. Still, we want to keep an eye on it and ensure that nothing in the game is under or over-powered. The changes we're making today should help keep everything in check.

Second, one of you pointed out that our Turkish language support was REALLY off - and it turns out that many of the lines were adjusted by one spot. This is fixed now, so please take another look and let us know if you find something wrong (with any of the languages..)

We thank you for your continued support! Have a great weekend!

-8-Bit


Guardians:

• Starting units changed to 1 Grenade Infantry and 2 Engineers (was 2 Grenade Infantry and 1 Engineer)
  
• Siege Artiller Speed reduced to 260 (as 280)
  
• Heavy Drone build time reduced to 18 (was 20), Will now use rockets when targeting Paladins and Warriors.
  
• AA Drone build cost increased to 100 (was 80)

Deathsworn:

• Starting units changes to 2 Archers and 1 Warrior (was 1 Archer and 2 Warriors)
  
• Dragon build cost reduced to 230 (was 250), build time reduced to 18 (was 20), base damage for Anti-Air attack increased to 15 (was 12)
  
• Watchtower build time increased to 20 (was 18), Health reduced to 350 (was 450)

Lightbringers:

• Treant, AoE damage reduced to 4 (was 8) - main target damage remains unchanged, health reduced to 190 (was 200)
  
• Ranger speed reduced to 280 (was 300), Ground-to-ground weapon range reduced to 750 (was 800), Ground-to-air weapon range reduced to 850 (was 900)
  
• Arrow Tower build time increased to 20 (was 18), health reduced to 350 (was 450)

Cranioids:

• Tripod health reduced to 250 (was 280)
  
• Blast Bug build cost increased to 300 (was 280), health reduced to 200 (was 220)
  
• Mothership health reduced to 180 (was 200), build cost increased to 320 (was 300)

Marines:

• HQ starting power reduced to 60 (was 100)
  
• Ogre health/Shields increased to 250/100 (was 200/100)
  
• Harpy build cost reduced to 150 (was 200)
  
• Manticore range increased to 850 (was 800), move speed increased to 200 (was 180)

Hi 8-Bit Players!

Today's update is just a quick maintenance release in relation to our 6 new languages (Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Turkish, Arabic, and Romanian.) These languages are now live and we are doing some testing with our localization teams to fix any visible issues. While the game is fully playable in these languages you should consider this BETA until our testing is complete.

Thanks for your support and have a great weekend!

• Fully enabled support for Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Turkish, Arabic, and Romanian Languages
  
• Added several missing characters to each language

-8Bit

Hi everyone!

We have quite a few tweaks for today's patch - plus some improvements to make the game more accessible to our players in other parts of the world.

Our update today includes support for 6 new languages - Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Turkish, Arabic, and Romanian. These are being released as BETA and we know there's a little more to do yet. Please send us a screenshot of any text issues you might find if you're running one of these new languages.

In addition to languages, we're also making a good number of balance changes per your ongoing feedback. Let us know what you think!

As always, thanks for your support!

-8-Bit

• The Wyvern and Gremlin units were using incorrect armor types (Heavy and Light respectively). They now are using the Air armor type as intended.
  
• The Wraith and Gremlin unit tooltips showed a light attack when they in fact have no damaging attack - this has been fixed.
  
• Map Circular Logic: Three resource positions moved; the resource points near the bottom of the start position ramps are now all on the same side of the ramp.
  
• All infantry have had their stealth detection radius increased by 20%
  
• All turrets have had their stealth detection radius increased by 30%
  
• Rocket Copter: Range reduced to 700 (was 800)
  
• Artillery (Renegades): Move speed reduced to 180 (was 200)
  
• Sniper Infantry: Basedamage increased to 18 (was 15)
  
• AA Drone: Build cost increased to 80 (was 60), Build time increased to 8 (was 6)
  
• Arbalist: Build time reduced to 12 seconds (was 15)
  
• Dragon: Base damage for Anti-Air attack increased to 12 (was 8)
  
• Rogue: Weapon cooldown increased to 1.5 (was 1.2)
  
• Pikeman: Health increased to 95 (was 80), Build cost reduced to 60 (was 80)
  
• Aggressor: Range reduced to 700 (was 800)
  
• Mothership: Weapon cooldown increased to 1.0 (was 0.7)

-8Bit

Hey guys and gals - we've got more balance tweaks today as well as a highly requested feature we're getting in for your weekend today.

After all the big updates for February (Replays, Observer Mode, and Arena release), we've been very focused on balance. The good news is that we're getting a nearly universal thumbs-up on the changes we've made (with your help!) We have a few more for you today and we'll keep looking at it moving forward - as usual.

We're also making quickmatching more fair by supporting cross-spawning. This will prevent players from appearing directly adjacent to one another. Please let us know what you think of this new feature. Along with this change are a mixup in multiplayer quickmatch maps to keep things fresh.

As always, thanks for your support!

-8Bit

• Fixed issue preventing the Dragon from using its new anti-air attack at the intended max range.
  
• FIDO units should now behave correctly with Attack-Move commands.
  
• The resource fields have been adjusted on the Shipyards map. A new resource node has been added to each base start location in the back (within easy reach of the first refinery). Two resource nodes have been removed from the center area.
  
• On the River Town map, two resource points added per side; one in the farm area, and one near the ramp by the opposite raised area.
  
• Players will now cross-spawn in quickmatch games, which means that they will spawn in at the farthest points away from each other when starting the game.
  
• Ogre - Health / Shields reduced to 200/100 (was 300/100)
  
• Gorgon - Health / Shields increased to 230/170 (was 150/170), Build cost reduced to 360 (was 370)
  
• Tripod - Health increased to 280 (was 200), Build cost reduced to 230 (was 260)