AI War 2 News

New AI War 2 build! https://wiki.arcengames.com/index.php?title=AI_War_2:Post_Completion#5.529_Refinements

This one has a number of quality of life improvements and small bugfixes, and also improves the balance of the spire-infused empire. There are also a couple of MP-specific minor improvements.

A number of mods have had updates as well, including Dyson Sidekick, Ship Line Upgrades, and Juicy Journals.

More to come soon. Enjoy!

(Usual reminder: you can wishlist our upcoming title Heart of the Machine, if you want to keep up with it. https://store.steampowered.com/app/2001070/Heart_of_the_Machine/ We'll also be running a closed alpha on that later this year, so keep an ear out.)

New AI War 2 build! https://wiki.arcengames.com/index.php?title=AI_War_2:Post_Completion#5.528_Juice.2C_Upgrades.2C_And_MP

This one has a couple of fixes for multiplayer, thanks to Badger. This also includes updates to his Dyson Sidekick mod to help with balance. It also includes a new sandbox mode for Necromancer which is super OP, but interesting.

Lots of updates to NR SirLimbo's various mods, including Ship Line Upgrades, AMU, and others.

Dismiss has fixed a few bugs in the main game, added a new cheat command, and then also updated his own mods, including Points of Interest.

There's a new mod in here as well from @Juic3 that formats (and edits when needed) the journal entries to be more consistently in-game character and not 4th wall breaking. Thanks to Dismiss for adding that in. Sounds like feedback is desired.

More to come soon. Enjoy!

(Usual reminder: you can wishlist our upcoming title Heart of the Machine, if you want to keep up with it. https://store.steampowered.com/app/2001070/Heart_of_the_Machine/ We'll also be running a closed alpha on that later this year, so keep an ear out.)

New AI War 2 build! https://wiki.arcengames.com/index.php?title=AI_War_2:Post_Completion#5.527_Mostly_Mod_Updates

This one is also mostly mod updates, like the prior one, but it also has some bugfixes and balance tweaks in there. In particular, if you wanted to have Elderlings be your friend, they not get a lot more powerful faster, as before they were too weak on average.

AMU has a new OCD sub-feature that allows you to essentially inspect any part of the game's data and alter it on the fly. Basically cheat engine built into a mod, which is pretty nifty.

Dyson Sidekick balance is better, and some things are better organized and have a few bugs fixed.

Dismiss's growing selection of mods all got lots of updates, the notes are well worth checking out.

More System Defenders also got some bugfixes to it.

More to come soon. Enjoy!

(Usual reminder: you can wishlist our upcoming title Heart of the Machine, if you want to keep up with it. https://store.steampowered.com/app/2001070/Heart_of_the_Machine/ We'll also be running a closed alpha on that later this year, so keep an ear out.)

New AI War 2 build! https://wiki.arcengames.com/index.php?title=AI_War_2:Post_Completion#5.526_AMU_Returns

The bulk of this one is mod updates, which you'll want to refer to the release notes linked above for the main details of.

The AMU mod by NR SirLimbo is fully back in action after something like a year of being down because I changed the underlying format of the game so severely during The Great Refactor. He didn't just work on porting over what he had before for his general modding framework, but actually extended it even further, which is very interesting to see.

On top of that, there is a new Ship Line Upgrades mod that is a companion mod to AMU, which "allows players to upgrade and downgrade ship lines in exchange for a new resource, Command Frequency Bandwidth. Downgrading ship lines grants, upgrading costs bandwidth and something else (either Hacking or Science points, or inflicting additional AIP)."

Several of Dismiss's mods got minor updates, and the Dyson Sidekick mod from Badger also got a few balance updates.

In the main game, out of modding land, the Deep-Space Anomaly Analyzers have had a couple of bugfixes and a number of balance updates. Thanks to Badger and CRCGamer on those. Also one other bugfix in wave notifications.

More to come soon. Enjoy!

(Usual reminder: you can wishlist our upcoming title Heart of the Machine, if you want to keep up with it. https://store.steampowered.com/app/2001070/Heart_of_the_Machine/ We'll also be running a closed alpha on that later this year, so keep an ear out.)

Second AI War 2 build this week! https://wiki.arcengames.com/index.php?title=AI_War_2:Post_Completion#5.525_Faster_Multiplayer

This one is very exciting in the area of multiplayer in particular, but a little bit performance in the late-game in general. This fixes a few client-only memory leaks and several other issues that were causing the game to kind of chug and feel like it was laboring in certain late-game scenarios in multiplayer. Those same savegames are now buttery smooth, which is a really exciting thing to see.

Lots of great sleuthing work by Badger on this, and a lot of great fixes from him on there. I also contributed a few fixes this time around, after he identified where the problem areas were.

More to come soon. Enjoy!

(Usual reminder: you can wishlist our upcoming title Heart of the Machine, if you want to keep up with it. https://store.steampowered.com/app/2001070/Heart_of_the_Machine/ We'll also be running a closed alpha on that later this year, so keep an ear out.)