Features/Improvements:

• New Building, the Grenade Launcher! The Grenade Launcher fires a grenade that bounces once, then explodes on hit, doing terrain and area of effect damage. We got some pretty interesting V-shaped trajectories during playtesting that no other building can do. Unlock it from the armory!
  
• Nightmare and normal mode difficulty tweaking
  
• Reworked the main menu organization and separated Local Multiplayer from Versus AI matches. Versus AI is now in the ‘Adventure’ (formerly Single Player) option while Local Multiplayer is under the ‘Multiplayer’ option.
  
• Added settings option to run the game in 16:9 aspect ratio (which should fix stretching in fullscreen for people requesting 2560x1440, 1920x1080, 1366x768, 1280x720 resolution support)
  
• UI Polish Pass (Part 1 of Many). Lots of the ui got a nice polish pass, including the game end screens and xp point counter upper. More to come in future updates.
  
• Terrain Art Pass (Part 1 of Many). Say farewell to the plain gray terrain of before and hello to some really awesome new terrain art. This is the biggest visual improvement the game has ever had since we launched on early access. Some levels still need the new art, but again more to come in future updates.
  
• First pass on quest system. Quests are generated every time you start the game and are objectives you can complete while playing to earn addition XP and explore new play styles. Let us know if you have any interesting quest ideas!
  

Fixes:

• Fixed a crash when trying to activate the taskmasters in some conditions
  
• Fixed issue where repair center targeting couldn’t get to some buildings in some configurations
  
• Fixed bug where warhead didn’t take damage from tunnelling in some cases
  
• Fixed bug where a mountain maker shot would detonate prematurely on a warhead
  
• Fixed issue with King’s shield and flamethrower interacting strangely

Features/Improvements:

• Added a new building to unlock in the armory: The Flame Thrower. This is a front line building which shoots out a blast of fire for a few seconds. This fire does area of effect damage in the shape of a cone. The Flame Thrower is short range, so you’ll have to get pretty close to your targets, but it does have more health than most buildings. Right now, the fire ignores terrain which should be an interesting mechanic to test out. The Flame Thrower should work best against closely packed enemy buildings or demolisher rushes. Try it out, let us know what you think!
  
• Added campaign analytics. We now keep track of if you won/lost/quit-in-the-middle of a campaign mission, how long it took you, and what buildings and pilot you used. We should be able to figure out if missions are too easy or too hard, and be able to determine difficulty on a per-building set basis.
  
• Added some new music for the campaign’s final boss level. Now the music is as intense as the battle!
  
• Hooked up new music for the army select screen. It gets more exciting as you choose more buildings!
  
• Minionette and the Taskmaster’s abilities are now considered ‘active abilities’ and are now activated by pressing a button (z on the keyboard, X on a controller). Now you can just press a button to activate them. This concept of active vs. passive abilities will allow for some interesting new pilots in the future.
  

Bugs:

• Fixed bug where Minionette could sometimes freeze more than 2 buildings.
  
• Fixed bug where AI could use frozen buildings
  

Tuning:

• Adjusted difficulty and medal times on some of the early Nightmare Mode campaign missions.
  
• Repair Center now has a maximum range at which it can repair. This range increases on upgrading. This is essentially a nerf to the level 1 repair center, so that they can’t so easily be used to heal warheads or other buildings all the way across the map.
  
• Moved Minionette to the Armory
  

• Warhead now costs 60/35/30
  
• Warhead damaged increased to 20/25/50, although they do 50% damage to HQs
  
• Warhead speed decreases as it is leveled up
  
• Warheads have no damage scaling when destroyed until they’ve reached half health
  
• Decreased Uncle’s ramming spike cooldown to 35s from 40s.
  

Features/Improvements:

• Removed the kill cam
  
• Tweaked matchmaking so that it widens it’s elo serach range quicker, and also after about a minute will make the elo search range to include all players

Fixes:

• Fixed a crash in nightmare campaign
  
• Fixed bug where upgrading a shield would cause an incoming level 2 shot to be completely absorbed by one ring
  
• Fixed bug where drill shot dig pulses weren’t correct after being downgraded by a shield
  
• Upgrading a repair center in the midst of a repair will now repair at the new upgraded rate
  
• Fix bug where firing a laser or cannon at a building platform with a building on it would not damage either. Now the damage is dealt to the occupying building.
  
• Fixed bug where minionette could freeze 3 buildings in some cases

Tuning:

• Restored old warhead damage scaling (but more changes to come to the warhead in future update)
  
• Adjust minionette’s cooldown up to 30s from 25
  
• Reduced missile tower damage per split shot to 3 from 4
  
• Increased range on level 1 drill tower
  
• Minion’s buildings now take 50% less fall damage (this was actually in the previous build, but got overlooked in the patch notes)
  
• Adjusted the Canyon so that the middle section of land can be more easily attacked from the bottom
  
• Thinned out the middle lower section of land in the southern coast so it is more easy to dig through