AI War Beta 5.052-5.057 "From The Shadows" Released!

[keith.lamothe]

Update: 5.055 hotfix is out to fix a couple of unhandled-exceptions bugs (one that could happen very occasionally when respawning a champion and rebuilding its modules and another related to creating a saved modular-fortress design) and a nasty data-not-getting-cleared bug in the lobby.  Sorry for all these edge-case-ish nasties, but thanks very much for finding them.  That's what beta is for

[Volatar]

Let me know if it doesn't.  That'd be kind of odd, though, I tested that exact process on my steam copy like 7 hours ago.

Worked fine for me.

[keith.lamothe]

So except for module costs is there any penalty to losing a champion?  This does look cool; I'm impatient to find one of the nebula wormholes.

The module costs are basically nonexistent, though you do need engie support and a few seconds of time to rebuild them.

The main (really, only) penalty is warping back to your home command station.  If you're in a homeworld defense the champion basically the immortal sword of vengeance until the station goes down

[Martyn van Buren]

So the plan for balancing them is to make them come along with enough extra pressure from the AI that you need an immortal super-ship to handle it?

[keith.lamothe]

So the plan for balancing them is to make them come along with enough extra pressure from the AI that you need an immortal super-ship to handle it?

Yea, it increases difficulty by roughly 20% what a normal player would.

In one sense, it's another superweapon, and is to be balanced accordingly, but through a generally more antsy AI rather than exos or whatever.

[keith.lamothe]

Gotta get some sleep, just FYI to anyone coming in with another crash bug or whatever   I'll get it in the morning.

Thanks for the feedback (both positive about the general idea, and negative about the UI in particular), everyone

[Cinth]

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Modular Forts  . Saving a MF (mod fort) design causes some issues in the support tab for mobile builders (that's where I ran into the problem).

Good catch, fixed for 5.055, thanks

Well... should have known I would grab those first LOL.

[Draco18s]

Gotta get some sleep, just FYI to anyone coming in with another crash bug or whatever   I'll get it in the morning.

Friend reports that scouts and the new wormholes do not play nice.

[Oralordos]

Hilarious issue with champions trying to gain immortality through distribution nodes.

[KingIsaacLinksr]

Hilarious issue with champions trying to gain immortality through distribution nodes.

Huh. That is hilarious.

[platinawolf]

*Shoves money down Arcen's throat and gives a hug before going off to play with new toy*

[Sounds]

Oh how I love this game. Instant purchase. 

I've been waiting for this patiently to arrive. There goes my weekend.

Keep the expansions coming. 

[Philo]

This is madness!
Sold.

[relmz32]

Hilarious issue with champions trying to gain immortality through distribution nodes.

You are a genius!!!!

[Diazo]

One quirk that works for me to group select the Shadow Frigate is as follows:

In the Normal Player UI
Select Shadow Frigate
Hit 1 for group 1, it will act like shift is pressed and add the frigate to the selection with group 1.

Did not see this documented anywhere, anyone else confirm this works and it's not my keyboard sticking? (has happened before)

D.

This appears to only work while the champion is level 1.

Once it became level 2 this stopped working. (It was also when my escort fleet got bigger, might only work with 15 or less ships in the control group being selected.)

D.