Monthly Update: Kai The Alien
Aliens in Athena Crisis are explorers from another dimension. They are mostly friendly, but when they are not, you don’t want to face them on the battlefield! Rumored to possess advanced technology and abilities, and known to travel in spaceships, these canine-baring cryptids roam the battlefield in search of enemy units to inflict its powerful mandibular attack on.
You or I would likely fare poorly were we to try and bite through armor, or metal, but defense is of little concern to an Alien unit: their attacks are powerful against infantry or armored units, with the ability to kill some units in a single fierce attack. In addition to its jaws, the Alien unit can also sabotage enemy units or rescue fallen friends.
The Alien squad’s leader, Kai, is an interior designer known to disagree with humans about style. A xenomorph who loves interior design? Athena Crisis really does have everything.
As a secret unit, you won’t come across the Alien too often in Athena Crisis, but when you do, it’d probably be wise to beat a hasty retreat, lest you’re next in line to get your limbs bitten off.
[h3]New Features And Updates[/h3]
Offline Mode (Beta)
If you missed the last update, Athena Crisis now has a Local Mode that allows you to play a campaign or PVP maps against bots when you’re away from the Internet! Click here for more details.
Optional Objectives
You can now outline optional objectives for your maps and campaigns in the editor. You can use optional objectives to insert dialogue mid-mission, give a player a skill, shuffle the player to a secret map in your campaign, and more!
Spawn Effects
In the editor, you can now trigger units that spawn when another condition is met. Perhaps you want to break your friends out of an enemy prison? In the editor, you can set a building to spawn units around it when captured! There’s a lot more underneath the hood of spawn effects; you can find more information in Christoph’s tweet here.
Skill Balancing
Ongoing challenge balancing continues to go on! A wide array of skills that your team can obtain in-game have been tweaked to encourage more variety in gameplay.
Ongoing Optimizations and Bug Fixes
As always, Athena Crisis is constantly seeing new performance optimizations and bug fixes. If you’re interested in seeing what’s changed over the last few weeks or months, please check out the News channel on the official Athena Crisis Discord.
You or I would likely fare poorly were we to try and bite through armor, or metal, but defense is of little concern to an Alien unit: their attacks are powerful against infantry or armored units, with the ability to kill some units in a single fierce attack. In addition to its jaws, the Alien unit can also sabotage enemy units or rescue fallen friends.
The Alien squad’s leader, Kai, is an interior designer known to disagree with humans about style. A xenomorph who loves interior design? Athena Crisis really does have everything.
As a secret unit, you won’t come across the Alien too often in Athena Crisis, but when you do, it’d probably be wise to beat a hasty retreat, lest you’re next in line to get your limbs bitten off.
[h3]New Features And Updates[/h3]
Offline Mode (Beta)
If you missed the last update, Athena Crisis now has a Local Mode that allows you to play a campaign or PVP maps against bots when you’re away from the Internet! Click here for more details.
Optional Objectives
You can now outline optional objectives for your maps and campaigns in the editor. You can use optional objectives to insert dialogue mid-mission, give a player a skill, shuffle the player to a secret map in your campaign, and more!
Spawn Effects
In the editor, you can now trigger units that spawn when another condition is met. Perhaps you want to break your friends out of an enemy prison? In the editor, you can set a building to spawn units around it when captured! There’s a lot more underneath the hood of spawn effects; you can find more information in Christoph’s tweet here.
Skill Balancing
Ongoing challenge balancing continues to go on! A wide array of skills that your team can obtain in-game have been tweaked to encourage more variety in gameplay.
Ongoing Optimizations and Bug Fixes
As always, Athena Crisis is constantly seeing new performance optimizations and bug fixes. If you’re interested in seeing what’s changed over the last few weeks or months, please check out the News channel on the official Athena Crisis Discord.