HIGHLIGHTS:

• General unit, building, and economy balance

• Removed “Fringe” map from Ranked match playlist

• Visual polish & bug fixes on forests

• AI difficulty balance

• Campaign difficulty tweaks

• Removed “Fringe” map from Ranked match playlist
• AI Balance
• Beginner AI made slightly more effective (to address feedback that they were too easy)
• Easy AI made slightly less effective so difficulty ramp up between Beginner > Easy > Normal is more consistent
• Campaign Balance
• M08 difficulty balance
• M04 additional difficulty balance
• Balance
• Resources
• Nexus now provides 2 metal income per tic
• Extractor income increased from 1 per tic to 1.5 per tic
• Controlled deposit income reduced from 1 per tic to 0.5 per tic
• Buildings
• PHCDrone Bay
• Metal cost reduced from 360 to 240
• Construction time reduced from 90 seconds to 60 seconds
• PHC Orbital Nullifer HP reduced from 750 to 600
• PHC Armory
• Radioactive cost reduced from 100 to 90
• Build time increased from 30 seconds to 45 seconds
• PHC Dread Launch time to build increased from 120 to 180 (thus reducing its resource cost-per-second)
• PHC Power Regulator
• Radioactive cost reduced from 100 to 80
• Build time increased from 60 seconds to 40 seconds
• PHC Orbital Command build time decreased from 300 to 240
• PHC Weapons Lab
• Radioactive cost increased from 240 to 360
• Build time decreased from 180 seconds to 120 seconds
• PHC Quantum Relay cost reduced slightly, build time reduced from 90 seconds to 70 seconds
• Substrate Annihilator fixed gun shield regen increased from .5 to 1
• Substrate Blossom Launcher shield regen increased from .5 to 1
• Substrate Drone MRV (whose splash damage was recently reduced)
• Shield regen increased from .5 to 1
• Radioactive cost reduced from 240 to 180
• Sight radius increased from 500 to 600
• Substrate Assembly metal cost reduced from 180 to 160
• Substrate Advanced Assembly construction per second cost reduced while time to build increased from 120 to 180
• Substrate Quantum Relay
• Radioactive cost increased from 390 to 300
• Build time decreased from 80 seconds to 60 seconds
• Substrate Drone Orbital cost per second increased but time to build reduced
• Substrate Power Regulator cost per second increased bu time to build reduced
• Gateway cost per second cost increased but time to build reduced
• Units
• PHC Engineer
• Lowered metal cost to be in line with Substrate Constructor cost
• max velocity reduced from 200 to 180
• HP increased from 90 to 120
• Build time decreased from 30 to 25 seconds
• cost per second to build increased
• PHC Brute
• max velocity increased from 118 to 120
• Brute HP reduced from 100 to 90
• Volley decreased from 5 shots to 4 shots
• PHC Archer
• HP reduced from 90 to 75
• rocket damage decreased from 80 to 75
• PHC Medic sight radius reduced from 500 to 400
• PHC Artemis
• Sight radius decreased from 500 to 400
• Radioactive cost increased from 24 to 38
• max velocity reduced from 84 to 80
• PHC Apollo
• Sight radius increased from 500 to 600
• Radioactive cost increased from 12 to 17
• PHC Zeus
• laser cannon damage increased from 50 to 75
• Chain Lightning cool down reduced from 8 to 7
• max velocity increased from 95 to 96
• Substrate Overmind "brain whale" HP increased from 2000 to 3000
• Substrate Retributor
• max shields increased from 4000 to 5000
• shield regen rate increased from 5 to 8 per second
• Substrate Savager shield regen rate increased from 5 to 8 per second
• Substrate Avenger
• HP reduced from 350 to 300
• max shields increased from 250 to 300
• shield regen increased from 8 to 10
• max velocity reduced from 98 to 80
• plasma hose cool down reduced from shots reduced from 8 to 6, accuracy increased to 75% (from 60) and damage increased
• Mayhem Cannon cool down reduced from 8 seconds to 6 seconds
• Substrate Drone Hive shield regen rate increased from 1 to 2
• Substrate Mauler
• max velocity increased from 120 to 125
• Construction time decreased from 55 to 50
• Sight radius decreased from 600 to 580
• shield regen rate increased from 1 to 2
• Max shields increased from 900 to 1000
• Max energy increased from 100 to 200
• Hyena Cutting Array cool down reduced from 4.9 to 2.4, duration of beam increased from 1.6 to 1.8, damaged reduced from 120 to 101
• backup cannons cool down reduced from 3.5 to 2.8 but number of shots reduced from 4 to 2
• Substrate Constructor
• max velocity reduced from 202 to 190
• Max HP reduced from 50 to 30
• Max shields increased from 50 to 80
• Sight decreased from 600 to 480
• Metal cost increased from 240 to 380
• Construction speed decreased from 30 to 24
• Substrate Martyr Max HP decreased from 80 to 60
• Substrate Reaper
• max velocity increased from 97 to 110
• Max shields decreased from 100 to 90
• Sight radius increased from 400 to 500
• Build time reduced from 29 to 25
• Substrate Destructor sight radius decreased from 600 to 500
• Substrate Capacitor
• build time decreased from 18 to 16
• Sight radius reduced from 600 to 500
• Substrate Sky Cleanser build time reduced from 28 to 24
• Substrate Dominator's
• air to air weaponry made decent (it was awful)
• Dominator build time reduced
• Punisher build time reduced (120 to 100)
• Substrate air scout vision increased from 900 to 1000
• Orbital Abilities:
• Plasma storm cool down increased from 10 to 30 seconds
• Orbital strike cool down increased from 30 to 60 seconds
• PHC Amplify abilty cool down reduced from 5 seconds to 1 second
• Call Avatar cool down reduced from 20 seconds to 10 seconds
• Avatar's plasma stream cool down reduced from 12 to 8 seconds
• Kill orbital cool down increased from 5 to 30 seconds
• Destonate orbital cool down increased from 30 to 60 seconds
• Overcharge orbital cool down decreased from 30 to 12 seconds
• Boost orbital cool down reduced from 30 seconds to 1 second

• Adjusted tree/forest size to make them more prominent in the terrain
• Fix for desert trees having bad LOD
• Adjust tree shadow LOD draw distance so they are visible farther out
• Updated Cerius map preview image