Releases

The research cards now show each line's plate on a clean dark tile — the old blue bevelled frame is gone — and a line you can start right now gets your House's colour on its rim. (Dev Channel #563)

The tech tree was not reading your expedition record, so every site on it looked untouched no matter how much ground you had covered. A site you had already explored sat there greyed out as though you had never found it.

It now shows where you actually stand: a site you have finished reads as done, one you are part-way through reads as underway, and one that is ready for you reads as ready. Sites still shut behind something else stay shut, so a place you cannot go yet does not invite you to go there.

The automated engineer now treats what a Commander asks for as the front of the queue, every time. Findings the game files about itself — nightly checks, polish notes, follow-ups an engineer splits off — wait in their own backlog, and that backlog is only worked while the week's engineering capacity is running ahead of schedule. When it is, several of those small items are built and deployed together instead of one release each.

The Dev Channel's capacity card now shows whether that backlog lane is open or closed, and the automated checks file fewer, better-ranked findings a night, so your own reports are answered sooner and the room is quieter.

The Upgrades tab no longer hands you the whole catalogue in one long run. A search box and a category dropdown now sit above the list, and they stay pinned at the top of the screen along with the tabs as you scroll — so you can change what you are looking at without scrolling back up first.

A category describes what an upgrade actually gives you: buildings, defense, infantry, vehicles, aircraft, and your House's special weapon in a group of its own. Each one shows how many upgrades are waiting inside it. The tab always opens on everything, and your hide-completed switch keeps remembering its setting exactly as it does today.

The Upgrades tab has a switch that clears away everything you have already finished, so only what you can still act on is left. It was supposed to remember that choice — and it did, for a couple of hours. Come back the next evening and it had quietly reset, so a well-developed base greeted you with a wall of finished upgrades and you had to hide them all over again, every single visit.

The switch is now remembered against your account rather than your current visit. Set it once and it stays that way — tomorrow, next week, and on your phone as well as your desktop.

Two strips of the screen never scroll away: the bar along the top, and on a phone the row of controls pinned to the bottom. When the game jumped you to something — a step in a tutorial, a row it wanted to show you — it aimed at the whole screen and ignored those two strips, so whatever it was taking you to could come to rest tucked underneath one of them. It looked perfectly fine, with its edges poking out either side, and simply would not respond when you pressed it.

The game now keeps that space clear when it scrolls. Anything it takes you to comes to rest below the top bar and above the bottom one, where your thumb can actually reach it.

Every card on the factory floor carries a link that takes you to where you can start something on it — and on an idle factory that link had been sending you to the wrong place. A War Factory or Combat Factory standing empty dropped you on the Infantry page, and so did an empty aircraft plant. The one card you were most likely to press, because it was the one with nothing to do, was the one that took you somewhere you could not act on it.

The floor now works it out from what a factory actually builds rather than from what happens to be running in it, so an empty one answers as well as a busy one. Vehicle factories open Vehicles, the aircraft plant opens Aircraft, the barracks opens Infantry, the Construction Yard opens Buildings and Research opens Research. The same links in the queue dropdown at the top of the screen were guessing the same way and have been corrected with them.

Order a large batch of units and it spreads itself across every line your factory has, so it finishes as fast as possible. That is usually what you want — but it also uses up the lines you were saving for something else, and until now there was no way to get one back short of cancelling the order.

There is now. A batch running on more than one line is labelled as the single order it is, and carries two controls: Merge on any one line hands that line back and lets the rest of the order carry on, and Merge all folds the whole batch onto a single line at once.

Nothing is lost when you do it. Units already built stay built, and the work put into the one on the bench moves across with everything else — so the order still gets built in full, it simply takes longer now that fewer lines are on it. Pooling the part-finished work can even tip a unit over the line and deliver it on the spot.

A line you hand back does not stand idle either. The factory offers it to whatever is still waiting in your queue straight away — and it checks every line it has while it is at it, so one you put up while the others were busy gets started at the same moment instead of waiting for the next tick.