Patch 15.0 Shock and Awe

New Event: Megaship Armada

• Alien Megaships have appeared across New Earth. Sound the alarm to your Alliance members! Only by using a Rally will you stand a chance against this new threat!

Feature Improvements

• Maximum Outpost Level has been increased from Level 5 to 6. This new 6th Level will double Neutronium Generation for Harvest Outposts, and the Reinforcement Capacity on Strategic Outposts will now be 1.25m Troops. These new levels will require a substantial amount of Alliance Credits to upgrade from Level 5 to 6.

• Dropships of all 4 variants can now be increased from Level 6 to 7. These new variants will further enhance their relevant stats, making them best-in-class for each of their respective disciplines. To upgrade a Dropship to Level 7, players will be required to collect Hyper Thrusters.

• Rewards from Rally marches will no longer all go to the Rally Leader; the rewards will now be split amongst all participating members, with any remainder going to the rally host.

• Contribution points towards Challenges added from Rallies will now be split amongst all participants, instead of going all to the Rally host

New Research Projects

• We can confirm that we received a secure data-burst containing Research Projects for trainable tier 6 reinforcements!

• 12 new Research projects have been added to the Offensive Tree.

• All 4 of the main Unit Types have had new research projects added for Attack and Defence.

New Trainable Tier 6 Units

These new units can be trained via both the Barracks and the Factory.

• Tier 6 Light Infantry - Breacher Squad

• Tier 6 Heavy Infantry - Rocket Trooper

• Tier 6 Ground Vehicle - Tarantulon

• Tier 6 Air Vehicle - Stealth Fighter

Added Structure Levels

Fifteen structures have had their maximum level increased from 30 to 32:

• Headquarters

• Black Market

• Oil Rig

• Alloy Refinery

• Geoponic Farm

• Turrets

• Defensive Walls

• Situation Room

• Engineering

• Security Station

• Supply Depot

• Bunker

• Global Network

• Airstrip

• Satellite Uplink

The following structure has had its maximum level increased from 28 to 32:

• Factory

• Barracks

• Command Post

• Medical Bay

• Research Lab

The following structure has had its maximum level increased from 28 to 30:

• Hostile Containment

New Location Levels

Various new high-level locations have been added to the game, and they will spawn periodically. The new locations are:

• All 5 of the various Resource Tiles - levels 11 and 12 added.

• Alien Activity - levels 11 and 12 added.

Challenge Improvements

• Improved the Leaderboard Rewards for the Speed Boost Global Challenge.

• Added an additional reward to “Defeat Aliens Sustained Challenge” for players HQ 21 and higher.

New Objectives

• The new Structure Levels, Research and Units all now have new Objectives added.

New Routines

• 2 new Routines have been added, one for Crashed UFOs and one for the Daily Login Reward.

New Rally Functionality and Items

• Rallies can now be boosted using Rally Fuel items, increasing their speed by 25 or 50%.

• Rallies can also now be recalled by using a new Rally Recall item.

New Bundle

• A new speed-up bundle containing Alien Augments has been added to the store rotation.

New Daily Rewards

• 28 new daily rewards have been added.

General Improvements

• Added Unit Tier Values in all training structures Overview Panel.

• Added the Unit Tiers in the HQ Overview Panel.

• The Percentage of remaining health is now visible within the tooltip of Invaders on the World Map

• Pressing collect all button in the Alliance Caches panel with now auto dismiss any expired cache

• Added functionality to claim multiple objectives at once (up to 100 at a time)

• Added info button to caches in the Alliance Caches panel to view the possible rewards

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an incorrect crafting cost of the Storm Surge Helmet.

• Fixed an incorrect cost on Level 30 Alloy Refinery.

• Fixed an issue with the Ferocious Defender and the Doomblaster not correctly affecting Tier 5 and 6 Defences.

• Changed how the Shard reactor logs into Facebook and retrieves friends.

• Fixed issue with notification counter on the tabs in the notification panel would not get set the first time the panel was opened

• Fixed a divider not showing up between tier 5 and 6 in the Defensive Research Tree.

• Fixed the Alliance button tooltip. The text is now correctly above it when hovering over the button.

• Fixed a display issue caused by being able to click in the Research Tree whilst the Research Info Panel was on screen.

• Fixed missing audio when the player opens the Supply Shop.

• Fix counter display in player profile for PVP Units defeated

We look forward on hearing your feedback on this update!

~The Operation: New Earth Team