HIGHLIGHTS:

• Balance Changes

• Stability & Bug fixes

• Balance Changes
• Capture time reduced from 25 to 20 seconds
• Engineers and Constructors build times increased to 30 seconds
• Medics can no longer heal Medics
• Medic self-heal rate reduced from 5 to 4
• Increase drone swarm drone armor so that they won't die quite as quickly to Apollo
• Orbital fabricator cost reduced from 600 metal to 400 metal
• Orbital fabricator now requires an Orbital Relay.
• Hyperion auto cannons accuracy increased.
• Hyperion main guns now penetrate light armor.
• Hyperion auto cannons cooldown reduced from 2.5 to 2.2 shots per volley increased from 4 to 6
• Hyperon pulse cannon cool down increased slight and damage increased from 40 to 60.
• Mauler HP increased from 50 to 100
• Mauler Shields increased from 600 to 900
• Mauler Shield regen rate reduced from 3 to 1
• Reaper build time reduced from 31 to 29
• fix for beginner ai not being able to conquer creeps

• Update Ashes Icon
• Changed Destroy button into Skull, matched UI color

• Fix for crash when hammering escape during skirmish load in
• fix for DumpMomentumOfSelectedMetaUnits crash
• Fix for Benchmark not properly shutting down stategameview
• Adding protections to starting point assignment to keep accidental bad starting points from crashing the game or making it unplayable
• Fail Audio Init if failed to create mastering voice, even if the return code was S_OK
• Fix for infinite recursion crash QA got in Stress Test
• More checking on OrderPreviewManager AllFactories
• additional handle validation at proven crash site
• Validate that Audio LogicalID as well as File Handle during playback of audio
• Remove unused parameter from Unload in UI Library
• Fix for 'self-destruct' crash when hammering skull
• Fix for engineer-parent assist overwriting the parent id and assist flag
• Improved safety on AshesUnitPanel::CountQueuedUnits()
• Fix for Derek's crash - treating a Weapon module like a Construct module
• Don't use TempHeap allocator for long lived map data. Don't stall on read of independent files.
• fix for various physics related crashes (clamps desired velocity)
• invalid handle related crash fixes

• Adding benchmark leaderboards for various 900p and 5k settings
• Improved cheat protections
• explicitly bump the save game version

• Gameplay
• Fixing unresponsive air units
• Pans now fly closer to where they are ordered
• Fixed can't order reinforcements from factory if you've recently canceled an order from it
• Graphics
• Removing some watermarks
• Fixing radar flickering at map edge
• Misc
• Stiffen up camera limiter
• Set player names every time we enter a game in single player.
• Don't unpause when the user confirms surrender.
• tutorial - description update
• Don't autosave if the game has been won/lost. Should prevent autosaves while in the game summary screens