Patch 3750

Aeon t2 land has become arguably the best with a combination of powerful tanks, cheap shields, and the strongest ACU. This minor nerf aims at reducing the strength a little bit.

The Titan build-time buff from patch 3725 is reverted to make it harder to snowball out of control with a T3 land rush. After T3 rebalance Titans with their fast recharging shields became a bit too oppressive and they are currently stronger than loyalists. A small HP nerf should put the unit in the right place while not taking away from its specialty of constantly dashing in and out and letting its shield recharge.

The Loyalist build-time buff from patch 3725 is reverted to make it harder to snowball out of control with a T3 land rush. However, Loyalists' ability has been underwhelming and thus it's getting a well-deserved buff, we hope this will be enough to make mixing in Loyalists in your army in later stages a more viable option instead of being a gimmick that is rarely used.

Sniper bots get an overall nerf to make it harder to snowball out of control. With the energy cost nerf specifically we aim at delaying the first few snipers from hitting the field immediately after a player gets T3 Land. The snipe mode icon is changed to make the difference between the snipe mode and normal mode easier to see.

Sniper bots get an overall nerf to make it harder to snowball out of control. With the energy cost nerf specifically we aim at delaying the first few snipers from hitting the field immediately after a player gets T3 Land.

Air experimentals were always extremely cheap in energy cost compared to t3 air. This led to the ability to build air t4's without any power setup like is required for t3 air and thus became a relatively cheesy way to win games. With this change, the e cost is more streamlined with t3 air. We also reduce the crash damage of air T4s. Their ability to kill heavily shielded targets by simply dying and hitting them provided the defending player with little counter-play. In addition to the energy cost nerf the Ahwassa gets a small nerf to its AoE considering its dominance compared to the other air T4s.

Air experimentals were always extremely cheap in energy cost compared to t3 air. This led to the ability to build air t4's without any power setup like is required for t3 air and thus became a relatively cheesy way to win games. With this change, the e cost is more streamlined with t3 air. We also reduce the crash damage of air T4s. Their ability to kill heavily shielded targets by simply dying and hitting them provided the defending player with little counter-play.

A decrease of roughly 15% across the board. The goal is to make the SR a more viable option and further establish it as the value over time air experimental. With the lower cost, it will be easier for the player to justify investing in the SR and slowly leverage a small-medium advantage he had in the air. In addition to the stat changes we also increase the movement speed by 1 and give it 75 hp regen per second. The decrease in hp is slightly larger than the decrease in DPS meaning the Soul Ripper will be a bit less tanky but will pack a bigger punch relative to its cost.

Strategic bombers have their elevation reduced. This will make them easier to hit by non-homing AA which should greatly increase the effectiveness of T1 AA and T2 Flak (although that will now hit rarely instead of never) which should make the early strategic bomber a lot less oppressive since now every play will be able to build a unit that will at least partially counter the strategic bomber. Added jamming capability to buff un-scouted strategic bomber runs, making the UEF strategic bomber harder to detect and intercept.

Strategic bombers have their elevation reduced. This will make them easier to hit by non-homing AA which should greatly increase the effectiveness of T1 AA and T2 Flak (although that will now hit rarely instead of never) which should make the early strategic bomber a lot less oppressive since now every play will be able to build a unit that will at least partially counter the strategic bomber.

Strategic bombers have their elevation reduced. This will make them easier to hit by non-homing AA which should greatly increase the effectiveness of T1 AA and T2 Flak (although that will now hit rarely instead of never) which should make the early strategic bomber a lot less oppressive since now every play will be able to build a unit that will at least partially counter the strategic bomber.

Strategic bombers have their elevation reduced. This will make them easier to hit by non-homing AA which should greatly increase the effectiveness of T1 AA and T2 Flak (although that will now hit rarely instead of never) which should make the early strategic bomber a lot less oppressive since now every play will be able to build a unit that will at least partially counter the strategic bomber.

These changes should allow UEF air players to trick their opponents by including Air scouts in their mix and artificially inflating the size of their ASF cloud. It will also make the Air scouts harder to shoot down by static AA/ASF.

For some reason Notha had different crash damage than other T2 Fighter bombers. This change normalizes it to match the standard T2 fighter bomber crash damage.

Significant improvements to Kennel drones making them much less punishing to lose. Drones will rebuild faster and at much lower cost. The elevation increase makes drones less prone to random AoE attacks landing on the base.

Adjustments to improve Aeon frigate cost-effectiveness and range, providing better value in early naval engagements.

Adjustments to balance Cybran frigate performance, with increased costs and reduced range to maintain faction balance in early naval combat.

The Valiant has always been one of the weakest destroyers. With this change, we hope to give it more of a tank role that fights at a short range.

Salem has always been extremely squishy compared to other destroyers. It will still have the least hp but will now be able to survive a few more shots. The TurretYawRange is again slightly increased to improve the handling and micro potential.

Exodus was one of the 2 higher-range destroyers yet it had the highest HP of all. This was necessary due to how weak the Aeon frigate was but this kind of balance made Aeon really bad at T1 and extremely oppressive at T2 where they spammed destroyers only. With the buffs to their frigate, we can finally tune down Exodus a bit. We are reducing its HP to punish Aeon players for letting their destroyers get into range of their enemy and reducing the max range down to 70 to allow shorter-range destroyers to get into range more easily. This will also mean that the Cybran destroyer will now out-range the Exodus and thus have some edge over them.

Decrease of roughly 1/3 in the stats to allow UEF players to get them out during the T2 stage to support their navy without having to worry about having fewer destroyers and dying immediately to an enemy push.

With the changes to the Bulwark, Summit will struggle against the other Battleships since it's the slowest one by far and is not able to dodge shots. It used to rely on Shield Boats to just tank all of that damage but that won't work to such a degree. We are increasing its Movement Speed and Turn Rate slightly to make it less clunky and allow UEF players to micro their Battleships. Acceleration and brake speed were adjusted accordingly.

Tempest is an extremely powerful unit in the right hands. It was a common sight to see them with 20k+ mass killed while the Battleships had less than 5k. With a relatively cheap mass cost and especially build time cost it was easy to rush with an ACU/T3 engineer and some T1 BP. If micro'ed properly enemy could never kill one without fully committing to a naval engagement thus allowing Tempests to gain a lot of value over time. These changes will hopefully make the unit more balanced and force the Aeon players to have more BP in order to build a Tempest.

Hives have been the dominant engineer station forever now, they have many advantages over Kennels and are extremely dominant in the super-late game. These changes are meant to bring the Hives more in line with the Kennels without making them a non-viable option if you quickly want some concentrated, albeit less efficient, bp in your base in the mid to early late-game. Hives will now get less efficient the higher tech of the Hive you get, this is meant to reduce their strength as an insanely compact, high bp that is easy to shield.

Reducing HP and build power while increasing energy cost to balance Hive efficiency and make them easier to snipe, emphasizing the need to protect your BP more.

Significant nerfs to the highest tier Hive to reduce their super-late game dominance. You will now have to pay more to have more concentrated, higher HP, higher range BP.

Balancing changes to UEF T2 engineering station to improve cost-effectiveness and viability compared to Cybran Hives.

Mixed changes to T3 Kennel: reduced HP to make it easier to snipe (matching Hive nerfs), but significantly improved build rate to enhance its value proposition.

The economy stats of T2 point defenses are being normalized across factions. Ratios between factions were close but not the same for no apparent reason, so these changes standardize the values while making slight adjustments.

Normalizing economy stats across factions. The build time is reduced to match the standard, while mass and energy costs are slightly increased for balance.

Normalizing economy stats to match other factions. Previously had the same cost as Aeon but randomly cost 26 more build time, which has now been standardized.

Minor energy cost adjustment as part of faction-wide economy stat normalization for T2 point defenses.

T2 static artilleries shouldn't be able to consistently hit small single targets. Firing randomness is increased by 0.25 to reduce accuracy against small targets. Economy stats are also normalized across factions with minor adjustments.

Aeon artillery gets a small buff as it's currently the most underwhelming one. Damage radius is increased to improve effectiveness, while firing randomness is adjusted to prevent consistent hits on small targets. Economy stats are normalized with minor cost increases.

T2 static artilleries shouldn't be able to consistently hit small single targets. Firing randomness is increased by 0.25, and economy stats are normalized with minor cost adjustments.

Firing randomness increased to prevent consistent hits on small single targets. Minor energy cost adjustment as part of economy stat normalization.

Nukes are extremely strong and can be very oppressive, especially in team games. The energy cost of the missile itself is increased (The Launcher will now drain 5k instead of 4.5k E/sec), increasing the importance of adjacency while discouraging heavy assisting.

In almost every game in an early late-game, it's a good idea to make a nuke. Its relatively low cost combined with having potential for game-ending damage makes it a no-brainer, forcing out multiple SMDs across the map. The mass cost increase and higher energy cost are supposed to make it more expensive and delay the 1st nuke by requiring more E infrastructure to set up. You will no longer be able to get T3, make 2 T3 power generators, and a nuke launcher immediately afterward.

Cost increases to make nuke submarines more expensive and require more infrastructure setup, consistent with land-based nuke launcher changes.

Cost increases to make nuke submarines more expensive and require more infrastructure setup, consistent with land-based nuke launcher changes.

Cost increases to make nuke submarines more expensive and require more infrastructure setup, consistent with land-based nuke launcher changes.

Energy cost nerfs follow in the steps of Air experimentals and nukes. The E cost increase is meant to force players to set up proper energy infrastructure before making artillery instead of being able to dump all of their mass extremely fast. The E maintenance cost increase is meant to create a real operational cost, especially when a player has multiple artilleries.

Energy cost nerfs follow in the steps of Air experimentals and nukes. The E cost increase is meant to force players to set up proper energy infrastructure before making artillery instead of being able to dump all of their mass extremely fast. The E maintenance cost increase is meant to create a real operational cost, especially when a player has multiple artilleries.

Energy cost nerfs follow in the steps of Air experimentals and nukes. The E cost increase is meant to force players to set up proper energy infrastructure before making artillery instead of being able to dump all of their mass extremely fast. The E maintenance cost increase is meant to create a real operational cost, especially when a player has multiple artilleries.

Energy cost nerfs follow in the steps of Air experimentals and nukes. The E cost increase is meant to force players to set up proper energy infrastructure before making artillery instead of being able to dump all of their mass extremely fast. The E maintenance cost increase is meant to create a real operational cost, especially when a player has multiple artilleries.