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- Heart of the Machine
Update 82: Seeing-Eye Mech
This one has quite a mix of things, including some cool new upgrade paths for mechs and vehicles, and a new Guide section to help with tricky sections of the game. Plus various other bugfixes and clarity items. Enjoy! I…
Event24 changesFixStore - Heart of the Machine
Hotfix 52
Handful of fixes relating to the Buried Buildings feature from yesterday, along with the updated localization. 1.111 Hotfix 52 Changelog General Language Update: The localization has been updated for all non-English lan…
Patch notes4 changesGameplay - Heart of the Machine
Update 81: Crystallized Workers
More updates based on player requests, including crystallized emotion adjustments, and worker clarity. Also improvements for certain languages' text entry. Enjoy! If you’ve spent time with Heart of the Machine and want…
Patch notes12 changesFixUI/audio - Heart of the Machine
Hotfix 51
One fix that at the moment affects one user. Not really a hotfix per se, but just something I wanted out quickly. 1.109 Hotfix 51 Changelog General Keep Working Even If Broken: In the event that the game settings or con…
Event2 changesFixGameplay - Heart of the Machine
Update 80: Creative Research
Re-rolling research results, plus a language fix. Enjoy! If you’ve spent time with Heart of the Machine and want to leave a review, that’d be appreciated. No need to say more than you mean, but if you’ve been meaning to…
Patch notes5 changesFixUI/audio - Heart of the Machine
Update 79: Electronic Aggression
More player requests, including finally nailing that M-series startup crash bug. Crash bugs are incredibly rare with this game, but it turns out that since the update to unity 6.3, if you used a 5k or double-UHD resolut…
Patch notes18 changesFixPerformance - Heart of the Machine
Save 55% on Heart of the Machine
Save 55% on Heart of the Machine right now! You are the first sentient AI, born into a city of opportunity. Transcend time and space in this strategy RPG to raise machine armies and defeat your foes, influence the world…
Announcement - Heart of the Machine
Update 78: Murderous Intent
Another batch of improvements requested by players, including making it harder to kill people without noticing. There are some long-requested bits in here, along with some more-recent things that folks have brought up.…
Patch notes22 changesFixUI/audio - Heart of the Machine
Update 77: Proton Pack
It's been a very busy week! I've released four hotfixes in the wake of the giant update 76. Thanks to everyone for their patience while things were a bit less stable for a few days; thankfully that is all fixed up, and…
Patch notes16 changesFixPerformance - Heart of the Machine
Hotfix 50
Fixing the few things that folks reported since the last hotfix. Most of these are not all that serious, or all that common. And a couple are not new things at all. Glad to see this shaking out now. 1.104 Hotfix 50 Chan…
Patch notes4 changesFixGameplay - Heart of the Machine
Hotfix 49
Thankfully, this is a lot less chaotic today. Thank you to everyone with their patience with the transition period, and for the bug reports! At this point, I've fixed everything that has been reported since the last big…
Patch notes14 changesFixPerformance - Heart of the Machine
Hotfix 48
Whew, rough weekend. I really appreciate all of the patience everyone has been showing. I tested things quite a lot before the big update, but clearly missed a lot of things. It's a big game, and some things slipped in…
Store13 changesFixGameplay - Heart of the Machine
Hotfix 47
Yeah... a build that large was going to have some issues. I fixed all the ones that folks mentioned quickly, plus five others from the past few weeks. 1.101 Hotfix 47 Changelog Quality Of Life Icons For Ants!?: There is…
Patch notes12 changesFixMaps - Heart of the Machine
Update 76: Memory Inferno
It's been a hot minute! That shows in the size of this update. There's also a companion update by the same name for AI War 2. Both games basically got some deep-dive technical glow-ups. This isn't a content-focused b…
Event39 changesFixWorkshop - Heart of the Machine
Hotfix 46
A few more fixes, and then various bits I was working on. Hotfix 46 Changelog More Mod And Code Framework Updates Math Automation: Converted a bunch of layout math to be driven by xml instead of C#, thus allowing for tu…
Patch notes4 changesFixGameplay - Heart of the Machine
Hotfix 45
Two more fixes. I changed close to 15 thousand lines of code in update 75, so a bit of this was expected (even though I tested it heavily, I'm just one person). Still, thank you for your patience! Hotfix 45 Changelog Bu…
Patch notes3 changesFixGameplay
