9-Bit Armies: A Bit Too Far news & patch notes

• Fix for UI issue when upgrading in the Garage

• Added limited anti-air capability to Red Baron

The following update notes apply to Going Rogue! Note that some changes may not take effect until starting the next run.

• Tweaked Destroyer sound effects.

• Miscellaneous non-English localization fixes.

• Fixed Xenodogs missing from the selected units tray.

• Increased the base unit speeds a bit for Tank, Heavy Tank, and Artillery.

• Updated the 'Going Rogue!' Credits.

• Fix for rare issue with unit abilities not activating.

• Each crate now gives minimum of $2 Credits, instead of minimum $1 Credit.

• Fixed visibility, ramp and height issues in arctic map enemy bases.

• Fix for random colors appearing in user names in leaderboards.

• Approximately 10% reduction in boss health for ground bosses. Almost 40% reduction for air bosses.

• After upgrading a unit in the Garage, the unit list-box is resorted, and the upgraded unit remains selected.

• Adjusted Garage sound effects.

• Improved formatting of Artifact tooltips to be more readable with additional spacing.

• Fixed incorrect Napalm Bomber icon.

• Metagame Army View - New dropdown to Hide/Show persistent Veteran units in Army view, to help deal with Armies with larger collections of Veterans; Only applies to normal mode, and not visible or applicable in Daily Challenge mode.

• When choosing a new Veteran unit, a message is now displayed that clarifies how they work.

• Minor visual fix to structure deployment indicators.

• Fix for enemy bosses becoming passive towards the end of a tactical battle.

Battle your way through randomized world maps with your personal army in 9-Bit Armies: Going Rogue!

Earn, upgrade, and repair units and structures to take from battle to battle in this Roguelite Real-Time Strategy game. Collect artifacts to power up, and consumables to give you a tactical edge when you need it the most.

Defeat the final boss and receive a persistent veteran unit to fight by your side in future runs.

An internal gameplay experiment by some rogue Petroglyph team members, Going Rogue! is a whole new way to play 9-Bit Armies that was too fun to keep to ourselves.

• Fix for selection indicators sometimes rendering incorrectly
• Fixed default map scroll speed being too slow
• Fix for rare multiplayer connection issue

• When a player is invited to a co-op game, installed mods will be compared between the two players and now downloaded/synced to avoid errors when trying to join another person's game.
• Fixed issues where landscape (trees, buildings) make it hard to select friendly or enemy structures behind them.
• Fixed issue where the campaign objectives pane would shrink/expand as the mission countdown timer became larger or smaller due to character width.
• Fix for forward HQ ghost models sometimes getting left behind
• Fix for not being able to load into a challenge instance after restarting a campaign instance

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RULES

• Round 1,2,3 - Best of 3
• Semi-Finals - Best of 5
• Finals - Best of 7
• Grand Finals - Best of 7
• Loser Bracket - Best of 3
• Loser Bracket Finals - Best of 5

• Game Mode: Standard
• $16K Resources per Node
• 0% Crate Drop Chance
• Enable Superweapons? Yes
• Enable Mega Structures Yes
• Enable Starting Mobile HQ Yes
• Enable Bridge Destruction Yes

Maps

• Bracket Islands
• Frost Town
• Dominion Crossing
• Lane Change
• Canyon Country (starts Top vs Bottom)
• Money Pit (starts TopLeft vs BottomRight)
• Portal Peril (starts Top vs Bottom)
• Sand Trap (starts TopLeft vs BottomRight)
• Severed Gorge (starts TopLeft vs BottomRight)
• Shark Tooth Bay (starts TopLeft vs BottomRight)
• Corrupted Crater (Random spawns)

New "Modern" vs. "Classic" Hotkey Options

Fixes and Misc.

• Added Sound effect events for 8-Bit cameeo units (Brain, Destroyer, Marine Mech, Skeleton, Scout) + missing SFXEvents for Drone targeted attack, Wartank movement, and Wartank movement idling.
• Added support to prevent audible SFX "overdrive" when multiples of the same SFX event are attempting to start at the same time.
• Blue bars and $ amounts on resource nodes no longer display during camera cinematic cut scenes
• Fixed Norwegian translations that were mistakenly converted to Dutch.

Campaign

• Increased gold timer from 30 minutes to 40 minutes for Overlords mission 11.
• Fix for campaign mission objective stars looking "squished" in the upper left corner UI.

Improvements

• Improved border around text boxes to allow for additional space on the left and right of text.
• Improved helicopter unloading so that units will not expand into a straight line, but instead group around the helicopter in a circle.
• Removed extra black/unplayable space around edges of most maps.

Achievements

• Added new feature (at startup main menu) to verify all stat-tracked achievements (like The Big Eight) are awarded if previously completed.

Fixes

• Fixes for green/red cells in placement build grid sometimes not appearing to line up with the legal placement positions of structures
• Fix for cinematic system not being aware when a target object is deleted
• Fix for main menu buttons not animating after playing a replay
• Fix for Operation: Thunderbolt daily challenge being impossible
• Fixed replays so ESC to bring up options menu works after a replay has finished playing, or seeked backwards
• Fixed replays so all unit and struture 3D SFX properly play, instead of just for certain players
• Fixed issue which caused a crash when using the timeline bar to seek to the end of the replay.
• Fix with WASD and Arrow key camera scrolling to work after a replay has ended and after a replay has ended and then the replay is restarted
• Fix for quickmatch failing to connect after hosting or joining a LAN game
• Fix for game resolution changing unexpectedly when alt-tabbing
• Possible fix for stretched structure tooltips
• Fix for incorrect resolution list showing in the video options dialog when the user selects a different monitor
• Fixed civilian transport not spawning after reloading sentinel mission 5.
• Fix for picking bad cross spawn locations on Sand Trap and Shark Tooth Bay in Quickmatch.
• Fix for not remembering the preferred GPU if the GPU order changes
• Fix for not defaulting to a discrete GPU in preference to an AMD integrated GPU
• Fix for video options dialog resolution list when using a GPU that has no display outputs attached and is instead using the display output of a different GPU. Fix for video options dialog sometimes showing the incorrect native resolution when selecting full-screen borderless window option
• Fixed Map Editor to correctly play audio on animations.

Translations

• French translations updated
• Italian and German texts shortened for several buttons.
• Fixing translation for shipyard for several languages.

Campaign

• Fixed some Secret Objectives not having the "Hidden Objective" heading
• Added the Victory/Defeat Animations to remaining missions
• Overlords Mission 09:
• Added extra barks
• Balance Pass on AI (including getting the Sentinels to go after Overlords more)
• Reduced Resources per node
• Reduced Silver Objective to 30,000
• Overlords Mission 11:
• Added extra barks
• Outro Cinematic updated to match story
• Reduced Resources per node
• Balance Pass on AI to adjust some numbers based on player feedback and reduced Resources for the player
• AI Base Adjustments: Mostly Reduced number of Mega Turrets and some preplaced units
• Overlords Mission 12:
• Added extra barks
• Outro Cinematic updated to match story
• New Secret Objective
• Reduced Resources per node
• Balance Pass on AI
• AI Base Adjustments: Increased Sentinel Base to help deal with Exile Units and also added Air Elementals to Exiles
• Sentinels Mission 06: Fixed Typo in Secret Objective Numbers once completed Sentinels M10: Fixed secret so is actually completable Sentinels Mission 12: Fixed where Gwen spawns
• Mission 9,Mission 11,Mission 12 : Now use mod data

Core Game

• New Feature: Quickmatch Leaderboards have moved to quarterly reset. The first will be 1 month long, and the rest will be 3 months starting in October, January, April, and July.
• Translation: German translations updated

Bug Fixes

• Fix for player sometimes having the wrong veterancy set when joining a co-op campaign as a guest
• Fixed (Hidden) Purple Star Objectives to display correctly in both solo and co-op campaigns.
• Fixed bridges highlighting when they should not.

Campaign

• Moved a bunch of campaign data (Gold Timers, Bonus Starting Resources, and Resource Node Values) to single Lua file per campaign (to make potential Mods easier).

Overlords Campaign

• Hooked up victory and defeat animations
• Fix for Preplaced Sentinel APC causing AI to send all preplaced infantry to it
• Adjusted default Resource Node values to 12000 for most missions
• Adjusted AI Unit counts for difficulty (including but not limited to: attack groups sizes, Grenadier Infantry Ratios, Defensives AA drones caps)
• Updated AI Defensive Caps to fix potential issue with not being able to attack due to large defensive forces
• Swapped rewards so buildable nuke comes before starting nuke
• M02: Added Bark for Radars taking initial damage to give more warning
• M03: Added Bark for Para canon taking initial damage to give more warning
• M04: Added Barks related to building/losing Mobile HQs (Bronze)
• M04:Added Barks related to Radiation and Cooling Towers
• M04:Updated the Barks related to Allied Base under attack to be less annoying
• M05: Add some Air Elementals
• M06: Fixes so AI again correctly attempts to take back control points
• M06: Gave AI access to para cannons
• M06: Added some extra barks (including Flavor and related to Objective Updating)
• M07: New Secret Objective
• M07: Added Barks related to building/losing Mega Rocket Turrets (Bronze)
• M07: Adjusted some enemy AI portal placements (including adding Air Elementals)
• M08: Added some extra barks (including Flavor and related to Objective Updating)
• M10: New Secret Objective that doesn't go against the SILVER
• M10: Gave AI access to para cannons and transport copters
• M10: Outro Cinematic updated to match story

Sentinels Campaign

• Swapped rewards so buildable orbital laser comes before starting version
• M12: Silver Objective Update to match new text
• M12: Outro Cinematic updated to match story

• The second campaign, lead the Sentinels, the underdogs in a story transcending time and space.
• UI improvemnts to better issue build orders, pause cinematics, and identify disconnection issues.
• 20 new Daily Challenge missions.
• New maps for both Versus and Survival.
• Many more fixes and issues addressed.

Changelog for 1.0

Features + Content

• Sentinels Campaign playable for all - 12 new story missions available in solo, co-op and four difficulty levels.
• New UI dialogue will pop up if connectivity is slow or problematic to help identify which person is having connection issues.
• New Survival Map: Wheeler's Ridge
• New Survival Map: Ice Breaker
• New Map Shield Wall 2p
• New Map: Ceiling City 8p
• New Maps: Cross Battle 8p
• Achievements for Campaign #2
• Community Requested: Ability to add units to front of production queue by using build buttons (hold SHIFT key while clicking moves units to front of queue).
• New Challenge Missions. We have added nearly 20 new daily challenges. These are variants of existing challenges with a "twist".
• Hitting the "SPACE BAR pauses game cinematics, and ESC now skips them entirely.
• Added the "Find Players" matchmaking status button to several additional locations in the game.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed error that prevented display of world map arrow from mission 11 to 12 in campaign 1.
• Various UI improvements to expand text windows to accommodate longer sentences and foreign translations. Also improved compatibility for ultrawide monitors in some parts of the game.
• Fixed the middle-button push scroll issues for some players.
• Fixed visual lines not displaying properly for units put into patrol mode.
• Ambient audio fixed and/or updated for a number of maps in the game.
• Fix for map list not showing the currently selected map when first appearing in Versus Skirmish/LAN/Online
• Engineer repairing from inside an APC is now cancelled if the APC is moving.

Main Fixes

• Fix for all structures being free
• Game will now disable all active mods if a missing reference error is detected on startup (instead of crashing)

Misc

• Fixed overlapping boing SFX from bouncing head animation on campaign screen
• Zoom level is now remembered between tactical battles
• Miscellaneous adjustments for "Turtle" AI.

General

• Crash: Sometimes a mod was attempting to modify an object that doesn't exist would cause a crash to desktop. We now automatically disable mods when we detect an XML error in the mod.
• Fixed case where selection blobs disappear if holding middle mouse when hovering over an object
• Fix for screen edge scrolling on the bottom and/or right sometimes not working after alt-tabbing back to the game (repro Intel Iris XE, full-screen mode, constrained cursor, Windows 11, D3D11)
• Fix for window sometimes not being in the correct place after switching to full-screen in D3D12
• Fix for rendering sometimes failing after switching between full-screen and full-screen borderless
• Fix for video settings dialog indicating full-screen resolution when switching to windowed mode
• Auto-pan/zooming the scene is now better center centered on the avatar head on the campaign map, so is in the center of the map as much as possible. Avatar icon also scales properly so it does not change size between missions.
• Setting a hotkey to "Accelerated Scroll" command no longer stops the Absolute Mouse Scroll (with MMB) game option from working. "Accelerated Scroll" game command hotkey is now defaulted as "X" (it cannot be MMB); When held, this key will do accelerated scrolling from anchor in center of screen;
• Many updates and text fixes for langauges other than English.
• Campaign World Map ambient audio locations now have their own customized ambient enviroment sets, instead of using ones from Tactical. This is so they are not as overpowering (based on Tactical world values), and can be individually balanced, without breaking 3D positional balance in the world.
• Updated campaign world map ambient audio. Campaign front end now has it's own music tracks (instead of main menu) while in Campaign Select and Campaign World Map

Balance

• Frigates (Sentinels) can now detect stealth, including subs.
• Infiltrator tooltip updated to show that it has stealth detection (it always did, the tooltip was incorrect).

AI

• Naval assault support improvements. Naval transports run from damage if they think they have an escort.'
• Paracannon fixes. Improved loitering at FOB. Preparation for destroyable obstacle implementation.
• Further paracannon tuning to prevent out of bounds drops. Stlight reduction to reaction toward enemies in base.
• AI will sometimes respond to nearby allied buildings being damaged.

Survival

• Changed "NEXT SURGE:" to "NEXT SURGE WAVE:"
• Added support for victory message upon completion of survival game
• Added Nukes to waves in survival. Starts at strength 150 (roughly wave 15 on easy) and gets more intense the later the match goes
• Fixed bug where surge wave objective was displaying incorrect number
• Fixed bug where surge wave objective was not showing up until the first wave started

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New Features

• New Map: LANE CHANGE 2p
• New Map: BRACKET ISLANDS 2p
• New Map: PORTAL PERIL (With NO PORTALS) 4p
• UI: New Navigation Bar (Campaign Screen)
• Achievements added for Survival Mode

Crash Fixes

• Fixed various in-game crashes.
• Fixed a crash that can occur when doing a structureless attack move order.

AI Improvements

• Adjusting unit reaction to indirect damage when not in combat.
• Improvements to Air Transport usage.
• Adjusted Paracannon strategies.
• Adjusted circle radius usage by air flanking.
• Reduced overreaction to unit damage.
• Better detection of buildings around a resource node for mobile HQs seeking nodes.
• More superweapon friendly fire check improvements.
• Improved naval patrols.
• Improved distant unit reactions toward specific target types.
• Increased enemy evaluation by mobile HQ to help continue progress despite scouts.
• Tuned use of shrink ray.
• Tuned evaluation of water between targets to reduce shoreline reactions.
• Improved unit ability to retreat from inappropriate engagements.
• Ensured uncontrolled squads are not sent to scout neighbor nodes when wandering.
• Reduced bunker entry error possibility.
• Tuned stealth assault.

Balance

• Survival surges set to occur every 5 waves instead of using a timer.
• Air Elemental (Hordes Cameo Unit) -- Health increased to 100 (was 80)
• Water Elemental (Cameo Hordes Unit) weapon range reduced to 600 (was 900) to match Tadpole (equivalent role).

UI

• Player names made easier to read on debrief screen.
• Faction logo cleaned up and tech tree elements updated in the online manual.
• Campaign Map adjusted to remove black space around map, improve the look of the water slightly, and lock the camera to a fixed position to follow the player avatar around the map.
• Brought individual loading bars down on loading screen so they don't interfere with player name legibility.

Misc

• Sharks will no longer pick up water crates. Water puppies only play with their food again.
• Added missing occlusion setting for ground vehicles and ships to allow them to be seen behind geometry and large objects.
• Added missing ambient SFX to additional campaign maps where it was missing.
• Added missing ambient SFX loops to oil derricks.
• Fix for harvesters getting stuck trying to reach a resource node they can never reach (now they will check for alternative, reachable resource nodes).
• Adding ambient audio to the world map (global) and individual selected mission locations.
• Terrain editor will now save the height levels setting to the sob file.
• Added new movement class for attack move orders that ignore structures.
• Shipyards are now locked out in the build menu for survival mode.

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Survival Mode

• Survival Mode has now been split into three different difficulties (Easy, Medium, Hard). Medium and Hard are unlocked by achieving a minimum wave completed in the previous difficulty.
• Steam Invites enabled survival mode
• Added player name and faction to survival results screen
• Added Multiplayer support (up to 4 players) in Survival Mode.
• Added interrupt timer to wave system. Next wave will happen regardless of when enemies defeated.
• Fixed bug that caused too many rage tanks (and some other units) to spawn
• HQ rebuilding is locked out for survival mode.
• Replays working for survival mode
• Fixed typo in survival mode tooltip (peak/peek).
• Fixed survival mode unlocks not showing.

General Gameplay

• Fix for memory leak bug.
• Improved inefficiency in the lua Heatmap algorithm for better performance.
• Some mods no longer require restarting the game to be enabled/disabled.
• Fix for unrecoverable exception in GUI editor tool.
• Adjusted passability on Perilous Points map to fix issue with turret line of sight blocking in certain locations.
• Mod dialog now has a character limit for the description
• Objects under bridges now render as occluded.
• Added a new check on stealth units to make sure they leave stealth when they fire a weapon. This affects any unit that has stealth capability.
• Tripod (Invaders Cameo Unit) balance changes: Health reduced to 200 (was 250) & base damage reduced to 16 (was 18)
• Fixed lobby maps showing incorrectly.

Art + Graphics

• Sentinels Sniper model/texture optimized.
• Sentinels Infiltrator model/texture optimized.
• Fixed wake FX particles on ships when giving orders to move to a new position.
• Sidebar hotkey text more legible.
• Forward HQ locked icon reference updated
• Sidebar Unit icon polish. Sentinel Engineer, Sniper & Infiltrator updated to match models. Sentinels Harvester background matches others now.
• Extended the map name text box in the multiplayer map preview inset in survival
• Tooltip Icon sets polished.
• Selected Unit Tray icon sets updated.
• Infantry Garrison icons updated.
• Map Name entry in map details pane given the entire row for space.

Audio

• Added SFX for when when placing the Forward HQ structure ghost model.
• Fixed semi-rare crash after playing a tactical battle, then loading or unloading a mod with audio changes.
• When open a unit crate, unit(s) will now announce themselves (selection unit response) after crate HUD voice notification.
• Added ambient map SFX to some that were missing or incorrect.

AI Improvements

• Improved unit cohesion.
• Improved unit response to calls for help.
• Varying build location of Tech Lab.
• Adjusting base guard priorities.
• General optimizations that results in less CPU load.
• Improved unit reaction during base defense, adjusting reaction to immediately adjacent enemy buildings.
• Mobile headquarters utilized without as much delay at game start.
• Increased build ratio of heavy tank units, especially at end game.
• Reducing combat hesitancy, attempting to further balance regrouping versus charging actions.
• Increasing friendly fire distance check for superweapons slightly.
• Adjusting unit processing versus unit cohesion balance.
• Improving flanking maneuvers where possible.
• Better flanking system for strategist air assaults, improved transport functionality.

Known Issues

• Having mods enabled could cause multiplayer games to quietly fail. We'll fix this to add a warning in the next update.

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