AI War 2 News

New AI War 2 build! https://wiki.arcengames.com/index.php?title=AI_War_2:Post_Completion_Part_II#5.590_Informative_Quickstarts

This one adds more tweaks to the Sidekicks mod, and also adds more information on the quickstarts screen. It also fixes a regression in the prior build where the savegame folders were not in the most-recently-used order.

Enjoy!

Heart of the Machine private testing will resume in about 2 weeks! https://store.steampowered.com/app/2001070/Heart_of_the_Machine/ Feel free to go to our discord https://discord.gg/arcengames and post here: ⁠End of Feb update on testing if you're interested in being a part of one of the phases of testing in the future. There is now a direct signup form here: https://forms.gle/sYj9hH3Bh2TJ2Hbx5

New AI War 2 build! https://wiki.arcengames.com/index.php?title=AI_War_2:Post_Completion_Part_II#5.589_Lone_Zombie.2C_Progressive_Quickstart

This one fixes a few bugs in last weeks' build, like the fact that double-the-zombies were being generated most of the time. There was also a multiplayer-specific regression with an exception in general.

Quickstarts are being reorganized and expanded a bit by Strategic Sage. Previously, there was a progressive flow of easier-to-harder for the base game, but the DLC quickstarts weren't really organized in that way. Now they are, alongside other improvements to them.

There are also more to the Sidekicks mod.

Enjoy!

Heart of the Machine private testing will resume in about 2-3 weeks! https://store.steampowered.com/app/2001070/Heart_of_the_Machine/ Feel free to go to our discord https://discord.gg/arcengames and post here: https://discord.com/channels/240637654717300736/1212790205824639027 if you're interested in being a part of one of the phases of testing in the future. There is now a direct signup form here: https://forms.gle/sYj9hH3Bh2TJ2Hbx5

New AI War 2 build! https://wiki.arcengames.com/index.php?title=AI_War_2:Post_Completion_Part_II#5.588_Zenith_Consistency

This one has a number of smallish improvements. The most notable of these is a fix to on-death effects from Dismiss, which should lead to more consistent results that you would expect when you're zombifying enemies.

There are a large number of updates from Strategic Sage to the quickstarts; improving descriptions, tweaking balance, and adding a few new ones.

There are also a few tweaks to the Sidekicks mod.

Enjoy!

Heart of the Machine private testing will resume sometime in March! https://store.steampowered.com/app/2001070/Heart_of_the_Machine/ Feel free to go to our discord https://discord.gg/arcengames and post here: https://discordapp.com/channels/240637654717300736/1086679572373848244 if you're interested in being a part of one of the phases of testing in the future. There is now a direct signup form here: https://forms.gle/sYj9hH3Bh2TJ2Hbx5

New AI War 2 build! https://wiki.arcengames.com/index.php?title=AI_War_2:Post_Completion_Part_II#5.587_Deguardianing

This is a small one that is basically a dewormer but for giant guardian spacecraft. A fix in the prior build to a 5-year-old bug caused massive shifts in balance that were unintended. Fixes are nice, but giant shifts in balance are not; aside from opening the floodgates to too many guardians, the game balance was just as desired without the fix, so we simply reverted it. In some respects not my preferred solution, but at the same time with a game this complex, we would have been chasing unintended consequences to AI types for months. So in this case, a particular bug which is bad math is actually working as intended. Hmm.

There are also a few tweaks to the Sidekicks mod.

Enjoy!

Heart of the Machine private testing will resume sometime in March! https://store.steampowered.com/app/2001070/Heart_of_the_Machine/ Feel free to go to our discord https://discord.gg/arcengames and post here: https://discordapp.com/channels/240637654717300736/1086679572373848244 if you're interested in being a part of one of the phases of testing in the future. There is now a direct signup form here: https://forms.gle/sYj9hH3Bh2TJ2Hbx5

New AI War 2 build! https://wiki.arcengames.com/index.php?title=AI_War_2:Post_Completion_Part_II#5.586_More_Polish

This is another small one, mostly bugfixes. This also includes several mods like Classic Fusion becoming functional again. And more updates to Sidekicks.

Enjoy!

Heart of the Machine private testing will resume sometime in March! https://store.steampowered.com/app/2001070/Heart_of_the_Machine/ Feel free to go to our discord https://discord.gg/arcengames and post here: https://discordapp.com/channels/240637654717300736/1086679572373848244 if you're interested in being a part of one of the phases of testing in the future. There is now a direct signup form here: https://forms.gle/sYj9hH3Bh2TJ2Hbx5