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Steam News3 August 202511mo ago

Update 2.28.155 - Balancing & Bugfixes for Loopholes

Balancing: Fusion research is now more expensive. Balancing: Bullet Tanks are slightly weaker. Balancing: Hover Tanks have slightly more health. Balancing: Elite Soldier protected against PSY weapons.

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What changed

6 fixes1 addition6 changes2 removals
  • Balance
  • Gameplay
  • Fixes
  • UI and audio
  • Performance
  • Server
changedBalancing: Hover Tanks have slightly more health.
changedBalancing: Elite Soldier protected against PSY weapons. Updated the info to indicate that good against shields.
fixedRegeneration of Units: the Alien Destroyer didn't always regenerate lost Submersibles. Fixed the code to always re-build the units when lost. This will also make re-generation of units more reliable for Aircraft Carriers/etc.
addedLanguage: latest translations added - Thanks :-D
changedMaintenance: improved text rendering performance.
changedMaintenance: Droid Billing updated to latest version 8.0.0.

Retro Commander changes

changedBalancing: Hover Tanks have slightly more health.
changedBalancing: Elite Soldier protected against PSY weapons. Updated the info to indicate that good against shields.
fixedRegeneration of Units: the Alien Destroyer didn't always regenerate lost Submersibles. Fixed the code to always re-build the units when lost. This will also make re-generation of units more reliable for Aircraft Carriers/etc.
addedLanguage: latest translations added - Thanks :-D
changedMaintenance: improved text rendering performance.
  • Balancing: Fusion research is now more expensive.

  • Balancing: Bullet Tanks are slightly weaker.

  • Balancing: Hover Tanks have slightly more health.

  • BalancingElite Soldier protected against PSY weapons. Updated the info to indicate that good against shields.
  • Engine Version v.10: there are a few bugfixes, as listed below, which will become active when the v.10 engine version become active.

  • Regeneration of Unitsthe Alien Destroyer didn't always regenerate lost Submersibles. Fixed the code to always re-build the units when lost. This will also make re-generation of units more reliable for Aircraft Carriers/etc.
  • Graphics: Elite Soldier has now a different soldier icon with a dark suite (for clarity).

  • Languagelatest translations added - Thanks :-D
  • Maintenanceimproved text rendering performance.
  • MaintenanceDroid Billing updated to latest version 8.0.0.
  • Maintenanceproguard rules updated (to remove warnings).
  • Maintenance: more detailed information of Droid version.

  • Maintenanceimproved disconnect via close() in multiplayer server.
  • Maintenanceimproved websockets by using async send message function (rather than blocking).
  • Maintenance: date/time validation with stacktrace if day is wrong (to locate source).

  • Maintenance: Removing the Mac OS *.dmg file from the downloads as it didn't properly work (somehow the signing is not correct).

  • Bugfix: chess engine was wrongly sorting move eval and crashed.

  • Bugfiximproved multiplayer server shutdown functionality. Should prevent deadlocks, and subsequent allows creation of additional games.
  • Bugfix: joining a LAN game didn't work.

  • Bugfixexploding a unit always also removed units that weren't designed to explode.
  • Bugfix: no player actions are now possible for a game that hasn't started yet.

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Steam News / 3 August 2025

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