Releases

Rankings now fills the screen properly on desktop instead of trailing off into empty space partway down — the whole page reads as one solid panel again.

Screen readers now announce the top-bar production counters

The three small icon-and-number counters at the top of the game screen (build, units, research) now announce what each one means to a screen reader, instead of just a bare number. Nothing changes for sighted play — the icons and numbers on screen look exactly the same.

The Bases screen now leads with what matters most: storage, production and any alerts show up first on every base card, with the name/tag/colour settings just below. Less scrolling to see if a base needs your attention.

When a base holds more Titanite than its storage can hold — from loot or a past rebalance — the game now tells you so. The Build screen, Bases list and home overview all name the surplus instead of just showing a full bar with no explanation.

Tidied up the Build page's catalogue cards on tablet and desktop — a shorter card no longer stretches to match a taller neighbour and leaves an odd gap above its Build button. Every card now hugs its own content.

Picking a strike force no longer asks you to decode it. Every unit row carried small tags — INF, BUL, HV, SHL — plus a lone number with nothing to say what it counted, and the only explanation was a tooltip you could not reach on a phone at all. The speed figure is now labelled, so it reads as speed rather than a loose figure, and opening a unit's Stats panel names its armour and its weapon in plain words: Heavy vehicle, Shell, Light vehicle, Bullet. Unarmed units say so instead of showing a dash. The compact tags stay where they were for quick scanning — they are just no longer the only thing you are given. Unit cards also got back the room they need on a tablet held sideways, where names and home counts were being cut off mid-word.

Before you have built your two Observatories, the World map tells you the desert is dark — but the space beneath that message was simply empty, which made the page look like a map that had failed to load rather than one you have not uncovered yet. That space is now filled with the same rolling dust the map uses for ground you have not scanned, so the locked World map reads as a planet waiting to be surveyed. Nothing about unlocking it has changed: build the Observatories and the map opens exactly as before.

When a question you asked the desk was answered by the staff on their board, your desk showed "Fixed and live on the front" instead of the answer. A question now closes with the actual reply, written to you in the desk.

After the desk answered you, a leftover "Logged for the engineers — you will get an answer here" line kept showing under the real answer, which looked like a second reply that made no sense. The real answer now stands alone.

The Command Desk was still answering "the desk is busy" to real questions: it ran out of reading time while looking through the Field Manual before it could reply. It now has room to read what it needs and answer. Ask away, Commander.

If you had the game open when we shipped an update, the page quietly kept running the old version underneath the new screens — buttons on brand-new panels could look right and do nothing, and only a hard refresh fixed it. The Command Desk's Send button was the first casualty on its launch day. From now on, the moment your tab notices a new release it does one real refresh: at your next tap on a link, or after a few quiet seconds if you are just reading. You will still see the small "Updated to …" note afterwards.

The Command Desk itself also answered every question with "the desk is busy" on its first real day: the responder behind it could not be started from the background worker. That is fixed — ask again and you will get a real answer.

The Power card on the Build page now matches the shape of its Titanite and Space neighbours on a brand-new base, showing a number and a bar instead of a three-line sentence that made the row lopsided. The "build a Power Plant" reminder is still right there underneath.

There is a new "?" button in the bottom corner of every game screen. Ask it anything about the game, or tell it something looks wrong — you can even tap the exact thing on the page that bothers you. You get an instant pointer to the right Field Manual chapters, and the desk itself answers within a minute in your own words' language, in English. Problems it cannot answer are logged for the engineers, and you will hear back in the same conversation when something is fixed. The whole exchange also sits in your 3mail as a "Command Desk" thread. Your message and which page you were on are shared with our AI helper; nothing about other commanders ever is.

Behind the scenes, every page now tells your browser exactly which scripts, pictures and connections belong to the game, and reports anything unexpected back to us. Nothing is blocked yet — this is the listening phase — but it lays the groundwork for shutting out injected content for good. This batch also carries the groundwork for the coming in-game help desk, switched off until it is ready.

A batch of speed, polish and quiet safety work:

• Faster pages. Artwork, sounds and scripts now stay in your browser between visits, the planet backdrop is a quarter of its old size, pictures further down a page load only when you scroll to them, and every game screen asks the server for far less on each visit. A tab you are not looking at stops refreshing until you come back.
• Route lines on the flat map. The 2D world map now shows the same route lines the 3D globe does when you plot a scout run, watch an attack force fly out or pick a spot to land your MCV. The line fades where your scanners lose the trail.
• Custom marker pictures. Uploaded marker art can replace the drawn map symbols for scouts, spies, attack forces, commanders and convoys on both the globe and the flat map, tinted in each House's colour. Where nothing is uploaded, the familiar symbol stays.
• Fixes. A unit still in production no longer shows under its old factory's name after that factory was upgraded; the Imperial Bank's Buy and Withdraw buttons now dim like the other three when there is nothing to do; stray internal codes were removed from a few research descriptions; and your score is now explained in plain sentences on the Rankings and Research pages.
• Quiet protections. The site sends the standard browser protections every modern site should, sign-up is capped against automated abuse, and 3mail, Dev Channel posts and alliance invites carry a sensible per-player limit so a runaway script cannot flood other commanders. Admins also gain two reading aids for keeping the round fair: accounts that keep signing in from the same place, and pairs of players where money only ever flows one way. Nothing is acted on automatically. Sign-in records keep only a scrambled fingerprint of your address, never the address itself, deleted after 90 days.
• Dev Channel. The board now sorts threads by who raised them: Commanders, Players (coming soon, when the in-game help desk opens) and Automated, each with its own unread count.

Every production building on the Factory Floor now shows the orders standing behind the one it is currently working on.

Each building keeps one waiting list, and it sits at the foot of its card — under everything that building is actually working on, never wedged between two of them. A War Factory running three lines reads straight down: building, building, building, then what is waiting.

At a glance that line tells you how many orders are waiting and when the whole queue will be clear. Open it and you get the full list, in the order things will genuinely land: each waiting order's own picture and name, how many you asked for, and — the useful part — the time it will actually be ready, counting everything queued in front of it. An order three deep no longer looks like it takes twenty-five minutes when it really lands in an hour.

Each waiting order now has its own Cancel, too. If the fourth thing in line turns out to be a mistake, you can drop it without cancelling the three ahead of it, and without touching the order already being built.

The lists start closed so a busy base stays easy to scan — the count and the clear time are on show either way.

Starting a tutorial from the Tutorials page used to leave you stranded: the game recorded that you had begun it and carried you to the right page, but the tutorial itself never appeared — no highlight, no instructions, nothing to follow. Only a manual refresh of the page brought it to life.

Beginning a tutorial, and picking a paused one back up, now open properly the first time.

Upgrades now say three plain things instead of one confusing one: Bought at is the building you need in order to buy it, Replaces is the equipment it converts, and Becomes is what that equipment turns into.

Some of those cards used to read as a riddle — an upgrade that turns Thumpers into Quakers said it was "bought at" a Thumper. That is gone: a unit upgrade is bought at the factory that builds the unit (Barracks, Combat Factory, War Factory, Aircraft Assembly Plant) and a building or defence upgrade is bought at the Construction Yard. You need none of the old equipment to buy it — whatever you happen to own converts one for one when the upgrade completes, and the new line unlocks either way.

The Field Manual now reads the same way, and a unit or building's own page tells you where it sits in its line: what it will become, what it came from, and which upgrade you need to get there.

Upgrades that turn one design into a better one now behave the way you'd expect on the Build page: you see the design you can build today, and the moment the upgrade completes its successor takes that spot — no more Foundation card sitting locked beside Large Concrete. Admins can switch a locked preview back on if they prefer it.

The Quaker is now proper infantry, trained at the Barracks and marching with your expeditions, and it is the Thumper's true successor: the Quaker upgrade now sits on the Thumper and converts your Thumpers when it completes. If you already owned the Quaker unlock, you keep it.

For admins: the upgrade editor gains a "Becomes" field, and every unit and building page shows what it replaces or is replaced by.

Every unit and building's card line and detail text can now be written by an admin, with live values dropped in where the text needs them — "supports {harvester_slots} harvesters" always shows today's number. The same editor covers researches, expeditions and House specials, each with its own set of variables. Rows nobody has edited read exactly as before.