Major release - v1.13 (Huge performance boost, 100s of new modding features, 8 new units, smarter AI, ...)

Main new features:

• A new set of units

  • Light gunship - Very weak but cheap

  • Underwater probe - weak scout

  • Plasma tank - Strong land attack, Shield weak vs lightning

  • Heavy Interceptor - Heavily armed with shield, Shield weak vs lightning

  • Telsa Mech

  • Fire bee

  • Nautilus - Amphibious submarine

  • Aircraft carrier Heavily armed and armored, Builds air units (at x5 speed), Laser defence & repairbay, Anti-air, Can build anti-nuke missiles

• Better smarter AI. Better able to defend itself, expand, smarter experimental spider usage, etc

• Large performance improvements and much better at handling large maps (like the 1500*1500 crazy maps in the workshop)

• 3 new maps

• 1 new mission

• Patrol order - will move between points forever, or guard an area will help repair/build any nearby units, will move to attack any nearby targets or anything that damages it.

• Guard order - will follow a target, repairing it and helping it build. Will move to attack any nearby targets or anything that damages target.

• Cloud effects

• Lightning attacks now bypass shields allowing many units to be countered

• Music and sound system (with faster startup speed and reduced memory usage)

• Improved effects and graphics

• Converted over many core units into the mod ini format for people to change and use in mods

• Lots of bugs fixes.

Main new modding features:

• Around 250 new options and systems added

• Keyframe animation system (including arm/leg animations for smooth opening blast doors, etc)

• Automatic action triggers (eg convert unit when it’s over water, low HP, etc)

• Ability to embed images into maps to include your own custom tileset graphics

• Custom price system.

• Custom sounds (with custom sounds on order)

• Multi-Targeting/Target per turret system

• Teleporting, units spawning

• Pre unit turret limit upped to 30

• Reduced memory usage of each mod and inactive mods

• Manual turret firing (eg moddable nuke launchers)

• Shield damage bypass and unit armour

• Flexible custom moddable effects. (Create custom projectile explosions, turret shooting effects, etc)

• Enhanced boolean logic with many more functions. (Including ‘and’, ‘or’, and brackets)

• Adds self.isOverPassableTile(type), self.tags(includes), self.energy(greaterThan/lessThan/empty/full), self.transportingCount(...), self.ammo(...), etc

• Projectile intercepting projectiles (eg moddable anti-nuke)

• Ammo variable, and 32 boolean flags for misc mod usage

• Turret angle restrictions

• Starting units can be added to with custom units

• Many many more new features - see full list in the Modding Reference doc