9-Bit Armies: A Bit Too Far News

Hello commanders,

Are you ready for a new test of your tactics? Today we are releasing a new game mode for 9-Bit Armies: A Bit Too Far in the Survival Mode Preview.

In this mode you will have to face wave after wave of enemies on a unique map. Be sure to destroy each wave quickly to avoid being caught up in a stronger surge wave down the line.

Please note that this is a preview of the game mode as we are still working on expanding it including better balanced difficulties, more maps and co-op with the new mode.

The full version of this game mode will be coming out later as a free update to all players of 9-Bit Armies: A Bit Too Far.

Other improvements in this patch include updates to the harvesters AI, some bug fixes, improved visuals and audio.

Thank you for your support during early access, it is thanks to you that we are able to keep adding to the game. We hope you all enjoy the new game mode and other improvements and updates in this patch.

If you have not already be sure to join our discord to keep up to the date with all the latest: https://discord.gg/petroglyph

[h2]New Feature[/h2]

• New Survival Mode - Battle against waves of enemies, including some returning forces.
  

[h2]Gameplay[/h2]

• Smarter Harvesters - When searching for a new resource node, harvesters will take into account the number of harvesters already using a node as a factor when calculating the distance to the node.
  
• When Resource Nodes are refilled, Harvesters will start collecting again and Resource Nodes will reanimate.
  
• Harvesters will now stay where the player puts them instead of wandering off.
  
• Made "Money Pit" a desert audio map and tested; Lowered ambient seagull volumes for coastal maps.
  

[h2]Bug Fixes[/h2]

• Fixed/Added ambient audio for multiple instances that were previously silent.
  
• Reduced chance of units teleporting over cliffs when the factory is built against a cliff wall.
  
• If Paracannon is full of units and player sells, the units are now removed from transport.
  
• Audio fix for unit selection voice response audio when clicking on unit buttons in tactical UI lower-left selection tray.
  
• Crash fix related to mods.
  
• Fixing a crash when someone saves the game, after surrendering, with lots of units left to kill.
  
• Crash fix to resolve situations where the game get's suspended (ie: closing the lid on a laptop) and must resume hours later.
  

[h2]Art[/h2]

• Stealth Tank - Model/texture optimized. Destruction model created.
  
• Overlord Engineer - Model/texture optimized. Destruction model created.
  

Commanders,

Schism will be streaming this Wednesday. There will be some games against the developers, answering your questions live and more.

• Steam: https://steamcommunity.com/broadcast/watch/76561198035338554
• Petroglyph Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/petroglyphgames
• Petroglyph YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@PetroglyphGames

Commanders,

We invite you to start up 9-Bit Armies and jump into a game for Fight Night Friday. This is a weekly event held a few hours each Friday, where we encourage players and developers alike to go online and play multiplayer games together.

Whether you are looking for a co-op partner in the campaign, quickmatch opponents or custom lobbies for large games and modded fun. Anything is free game this Friday!

Be sure to join the discord too.

Commanders,

We have a new update for you today. In our ongoing efforts to make the game easier to pick up for a wider group of people we have added four new languages to the official translations. But, by far the biggest thing you will find in this update is a new official map perfect for small team games and 1v1s.

You will also find a host of other fixes, improvements and adjustments, some of which specifically target modders as we are improving the tools.

See you on the battlefield commanders!

[h3]New Features[/h3]

• More Localization: Polish, Norwegian, Swedish, and Dutch.
  
• Official Map: Severed Gorge (4p)
  

[h3]Mod Tools[/h3]

• Fix for skirmish dialog not checking the allow one team mod setting when switching between selected maps.
  
• Fix for the main menu mods dialog throwing away the known files for loaded mods when opening the dialog, resulting in the possibility of a custom map not being able to find files on the client.
  
• Adding Lua functions to flash the game window.
  
• Adding movement classes that can move in the spawn passability.
  
• Modified spawn passability type and related logic such that spawn passability can now be painted together with movement passability without overwriting it.
  
• Added logic to allow disabling movement classes in instance data (for performance).
  
• Map Editor: Holding shift while using line drawing brush mode will lock the line to the nearest 45 degrees
  

[h3]General Improvements[/h3]

• Map fog fixes.
  
• Updated map navy AI pathing on several maps.
  
• New pause SFX audio when seeking in a replay.
  
• Tank model/texture optimized. Destruction mesh created.
  
• Prevented game from loading incompatible saves.
  
• Removed the author field from the map preview dialog.
  
• Tadpole model/texture optimized. Destruction model added.
  
• Helicopter MG model/texture optimized. Destruction model created.
  
• Fix for game command hotkeys not showing up properly in the options key bindings dialog.
  
• Tweaked fog colors and made it so unexplored fog is completely black
  
• Drone model/texture optimized.
  
• FX for Chain Tank fixed.
  

Commanders,

We invite you to start up 9-Bit Armies and jump into a game for Fight Night Friday. This is a weekly event held a few hours each Friday, where we encourage players and developers alike to go online and play multiplayer games together.

Whether you are looking for a co-op partner in the campaign, quickmatch opponents or custom lobbies for large games and modded fun. Anything is free game this Friday!

Be sure to join the discord too.