Skirmish Mode and Terminators!

• Armor- Heavy armor and heavy damage!
  
• Bulky- Only one terminator allowed per squad
  
• Lightning Claws- Pair with a ranged weapon or duel wield for double melee attack!
  
• Chainfist- Melee weapon that adds resistance to attack and degradation on counter attacks
  
• Power Fist- Melee weapon that grants a chance for target unit to lose a tactical point
  
• Combi-Bolter- Ranged weapon that allows a chance for a target unit to lose a tactical point
  
  
  
  

Patch Notes

• AI Skirmish Mode now available! Battle against AI!
  
• Terminators playable in Multiplayer and AI Skirmish for Ultramarines and Word Bearers
  
• Redesigned multiplayer maps for better balance and strategy
  
• Some interim UI updates
  
• Background music!
  
• Fog of war has been eliminated
  
  

• ARMY BUILDER - The number of available deployment points have been reduced in the army builder to coincide with the multiplayer/skirmish map adjustments. Existing armies above 90 pts will be deleted.
  
• Graphical updates and model fixes on terrain and sets
  
• New SFX on button clicks, hover, and unavailable
  
• Level redesigns, new lightbakes, updated textures, and new models for some set pieces
  
• Hexes are hexes! Hex indicator UI is now a hex instead of a circle!
  
• Better Rubble
  
• Temporarily removing objective matches in multiplayer
  
• Plasma ability adjustments to prevent it from being overpowered
  
• Lots of new LODs for set pieces and weapons
  
• Some new unit animations added
  
  

• Even more behind-the-scenes performance enhancements
  
• Extremely loud fire SFX quieted or removed from some levels
  
• Fixed issues with the serializing of the starting unit positions
  
• Weapons should now be correctly held by units even during cutscenes (not hovering, backwards, upside down, or 20ft to the right)
  
• General AI bug fixes and enhancements to make them smarter
  
• Units now aim before firing and stop firing when they're supposed to
  
• Now that fog of war has been removed, units no longer randomly pop in and out of existence
  
• Can no longer accidentally select units behind the pause menu
  
• Fixed an issue where some PCs couldn't launch levels in VR
  
• Fixed an issue where sometimes continue button didn't work in VR
  
• Fixed an issue where sometimes Word Bearer Sergeants would get stuck during an Assault
  
• Fixed an issue where resolution options would double up if you open the menu twice
  
• Sergeants should now always go to the correct position in a hex
  
• Objective text now always appears on the tactical map for PC
  
• Walls you shouldn't be able to walk through can no longer be walked through
  

• Terminators sometimes slide around after moving to a new hex
  
• Word Bearer Terminator weapon UI displays Ultramarine Lightning Claws, Chainswords, and Powerfists instead of red Word Bearer weapons
  

Last week:

• Watch: Dev Diary: Army Builder
  
• Blog: A Slow and Possibly Endless Descent into Ruin
  
• Interview Livestream with Warp Beacon English and Russian translations of community questions, plus some goofing off, as Shawn101 plays through the campaign with some of the team.
  

This Week:

• GDC is this week! We won’t be on the Expo floor this year, but some of us will be around. Stop and say hi if you see us!
  
• 3.23: Fight! Fight! Fight! Join us on Twitch for our bi-weekly livestream!
  

Announcements:

• Discord: We have a Discord server! Set your role with the help of our friendly Servo Skull bot and chat with us about our game.
  

Patch #1

• Optimized texture resolution and compression
  
• More robust graphics settings exposed with updated graphics setting UI
  
• Graphics settings persist across game sessions
  
• Oculus control UI added to tutorial
  
• Switching from VR to PC or PC to VR will swap to the last player setting for VR or PC
  
• Reduced volume of the sheep scream on the company logo splash screen
  
• Fixed a bug where sometimes the shoot value would double
  
• Asynchronous loading added to loading scene to prevent lock-up on load and reduce load times
  
• Updated lightmap bakes
  

• Multi-player - Play versus AI
  
• In VR, ability to rotate using controllers instead of always needing to physically turn
  
• WMR button mapping bug
  
• Toggle subtitles on and off
  
• Improving text legibility in VR
  
• Background music and updated sound FX
  
• Fixing the issue where the game automatically launches in VR if a headset is detected and making that menu easier to navigate
  
• Inverted mouse control option
  
• Melee animations for units using melee weapons
  

The State of the State, or...Where We are Now!

Single Player

Multiplayer

• M-1 Triumph at Ullanor Plaza
  Race to tag four outlying goals before storming the central objective for control of the map.
  
  
• M-2 Mechanicum Antechamber
  Balance offense and defense in order to be the first player to tag all four of your objectives.
  
  
• M-3 Munitorum Complex
  Escort an Ultramarine Standard Bearer across Word Bearer controlled territory.
  
  
• M-4 Sanctum Chamber
  Claim your objectives while denying your opponent's ability to do the same across a line of battle.
  

The Lexicanum

The Next Update

• Game Balancing - A great thing about Early Access is that we can get feedback on game balance and features from you, the community. Send us your thoughts!
  
• New Multiplayer Maps - Several Act 1 maps will be added as multiplayer maps.
  
• New Abilities - Several new Legionary abilities.
  
• Terminators! - Terminators will become available in multiplayer. Both Ultramarine and Word Bearer players will get Terminator units to use in multiplayer. They will have several weapon loadout options and a few new Terminator specific abilities.
  

Future Updates

• New Single Player Campaign Acts - Our goal is to have every other content update include the next act of the campaign until it is complete.
  
  
• Visual Improvements - Assault currently only uses the ranged combat animations. This is actively being worked on! The animations are done and awaiting implementation. We're eager for you to see them.
  
  
• Legionary Model Customization - Legionaries have their armor randomized for the time being. We will implement the ability for the player to customize their armies in both single player and multiplayer.
  
  
• Additional Abilities - A lot of abilities are planned, some converted from the board game and some entirely new.
  
  
• Additional Multiplayer Maps and New Units - Terminators, Dreadnoughts and maybe some surprises. We also have some armor variants for both legions available to those who join us during Early Access. Stay tuned for images and the release of those!
  

Requirements

Gameplay Basics

• Legionaries always have a chance to die from attacks, partially mitigated by their armor. If they survive an attack, their armor pays the price and is degraded. The lower a Legionary's armor, the more likely they are to die from an attack.

• Legionaries in a single unit face attacks in a set order, from lowest to highest importance. If an incoming attack kills the least important Legionary, it will have a chance to kill the next one in the unit, and so on. Each slain Legionary applies its remaining armor as a penalty to the incoming attack, protecting those of higher value.

• Units initiating a close-combat Assault may move up to one hex to attack an opposing unit. Both sides attack in an Assault action. The assaulting unit attacks their enemy first, who then counterattacks with their remaining force. If the initiating unit kills more Legionaries than the defender in this exchange, the defender is forced to retreat. The attacker may then choose to advance.

• Players can select their forces and equip them to suit their playstyle. Standard Legionaries are low cost with their stock Bolters, while higher cost Veterans and Sergeants can be outfitted with an array of special weapons, heavy weapons, and abilities.
  
• Armies are limited by Deployment and Support points. Deployment points correspond to the unit strength of an army, while Support points correspond to the equipment of the army.

What we want from players