Battlefleet Gothic: Armada (Classic) news & patch notes

http://steamusercontent-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/922544871726140509/5E802F6C55A879C4B24E76B4E9145CD2AA159AD3/ A few days ago, we announced the development for PC of Battlefleet Gothic: Armada 2 with a Reveal Trailer. Today, we invite you to meet the passionate team of long-time Warhammer 40,000 fans behind Battlefleet Gothic: Armada, the real-time strategy game that portrays the epic space battles of the Warhammer 40,000 universe. Discover never-before seen images of the game, and learn what makes Battlefleet Gothic: Armada 2 a full-blown sequel! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3E86BTo0WM Romain Clavier, Co-founder & Game Director of Tindalos Interactive, and Aurélien Josse, Co-founder & Art Director, describe their ambitions and how they are making Battlefleet Gothic: Armada 2 better than its predecessor in every way. For the first time in a video game, the latest story development in the Warhammer 40,000 universe, Gathering Storm and the 13th Black Crusade, will serve as the canvas for the story of several dynamic campaigns. The game will also bring all 12 factions from the original tabletop game, playable in both solo and multiplayer, including the highly anticipated Necrons and Tyranids. http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/10094006/de25ff368e38c1feb80ec88d343e743ccbd8bdb7.jpg With bigger battles, refined gameplay, improved multiplayer modes and features for a better and more balanced online experience, improvements across the board and even more customisation options for fleets and ships, Battlefleet Gothic: Armada 2 promises to be the ultimate Warhammer 40,000 space battle experience! Finally get a sneak peek of the creative process at Tindalos, a team passionate about the Warhammer 40,000 universe since their childhood - a passion that followed them to this day and is evident in their work. Battlefleet Gothic: Armada 2 is planned for release on PC in 2018.

http://steamusercontent-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/922544871726140509/5E802F6C55A879C4B24E76B4E9145CD2AA159AD3/ A few days ago, we announced the development for PC of Battlefleet Gothic: Armada 2 with a Reveal Trailer. Today, we invite you to meet the passionate team of long-time Warhammer 40,000 fans behind Battlefleet Gothic: Armada, the real-time strategy game that portrays the epic space battles of the Warhammer 40,000 universe. Discover never-before seen images of the game, and learn what makes Battlefleet Gothic: Armada 2 a full-blown sequel! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3E86BTo0WM Romain Clavier, Co-founder & Game Director of Tindalos Interactive, and Aurélien Josse, Co-founder & Art Director, describe their ambitions and how they are making Battlefleet Gothic: Armada 2 better than its predecessor in every way. For the first time in a video game, the latest story development in the Warhammer 40,000 universe, Gathering Storm and the 13th Black Crusade, will serve as the canvas for the story of several dynamic campaigns. The game will also bring all 12 factions from the original tabletop game, playable in both solo and multiplayer, including the highly anticipated Necrons and Tyranids. http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/10094006/de25ff368e38c1feb80ec88d343e743ccbd8bdb7.jpg With bigger battles, refined gameplay, improved multiplayer modes and features for a better and more balanced online experience, improvements across the board and even more customisation options for fleets and ships, Battlefleet Gothic: Armada 2 promises to be the ultimate Warhammer 40,000 space battle experience! Finally get a sneak peek of the creative process at Tindalos, a team passionate about the Warhammer 40,000 universe since their childhood - a passion that followed them to this day and is evident in their work. Battlefleet Gothic: Armada 2 is planned for release on PC in 2018.

https://steamusercontent-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/922544233660412087/1FF0B70B92DC0653D17B65E590EE2F5025734BA2/ We are pleased to officially announce the development for PC of the sequel to Battlefleet Gothic: Armada, the real-time strategy game that portrays the epic space battles from the Warhammer 40,000 universe. Get a first sneak peek at the game in the official Reveal Trailer! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPbXOHZW8co Largely expanding on the groundwork laid out by the first game, Battlefleet Gothic: Armada 2 is a full-blown sequel - bigger, richer, more impressive and more ambitious than the original game. It will include, at launch, all 12 factions from the original tabletop game and its expansion Armada it is based on: the Imperial Navy, Space Marines, Adeptus Mechanicus, Necrons, Chaos, Aeldari Corsairs, Aeldari Craftworld, Drukhari, the T’au Merchant and Protector Fleets, Orks, and finally, the Tyranids. The latest dramatic story development in the Warhammer 40,000 universe, the Gathering Storm and the 13th Black Crusade, will serve as the canvas for several, extensive and dynamic campaigns. http://cdn.edgecast.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/10094006/de25ff368e38c1feb80ec88d343e743ccbd8bdb7.jpg With bigger battles, refined gameplay, improved multiplayer modes and features for a better and more balanced online experience, improvements across the board and even more customisation options for fleets and ships, Battlefleet Gothic: Armada 2 promises to be the ultimate Warhammer 40,000 space battle experience. The game is planned for release on PC in 2018, and will be first presented to the press during Focus's yearly event in Paris, le What's Next de Focus, on February 7-8.

https://steamusercontent-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/922544233660412087/1FF0B70B92DC0653D17B65E590EE2F5025734BA2/ We are pleased to officially announce the development for PC of the sequel to Battlefleet Gothic: Armada, the real-time strategy game that portrays the epic space battles from the Warhammer 40,000 universe. Get a first sneak peek at the game in the official Reveal Trailer! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPbXOHZW8co Largely expanding on the groundwork laid out by the first game, Battlefleet Gothic: Armada 2 is a full-blown sequel - bigger, richer, more impressive and more ambitious than the original game. It will include, at launch, all 12 factions from the original tabletop game and its expansion Armada it is based on: the Imperial Navy, Space Marines, Adeptus Mechanicus, Necrons, Chaos, Aeldari Corsairs, Aeldari Craftworld, Drukhari, the T’au Merchant and Protector Fleets, Orks, and finally, the Tyranids. The latest dramatic story development in the Warhammer 40,000 universe, the Gathering Storm and the 13th Black Crusade, will serve as the canvas for several, extensive and dynamic campaigns. http://cdn.edgecast.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/10094006/de25ff368e38c1feb80ec88d343e743ccbd8bdb7.jpg With bigger battles, refined gameplay, improved multiplayer modes and features for a better and more balanced online experience, improvements across the board and even more customisation options for fleets and ships, Battlefleet Gothic: Armada 2 promises to be the ultimate Warhammer 40,000 space battle experience. The game is planned for release on PC in 2018, and will be first presented to the press during Focus's yearly event in Paris, le What's Next de Focus, on February 7-8.

http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/10094006/62a234dda3dcaf12775b792b7e4b3e791304f514.jpg Greetings Admirals, The BFG Championship ended yesterday and the time has come to announce the winners of the event! Without much further ado, here are the champions: - 1st place overall: Fosil with the Tau Fleet - 2nd place overall: Solaire with the Tau Fleet - 3rd place overall: Victorique, the Golden Fairy with the Tau Fleet Best Imperium Navy Player: Ashardalon Best Ork Player: Warboss Best Eldar Player: DJ Calimar Best Chaos Player: Bosie Best Space Marine Player: Dytong Best Tau Player: The Wraith Rise Congratulations to you all! We will contact you very soon through Steam to reward you, if we haven’t done so already. We would also like to thank everyone who participated in this championship and for the fair-play that was displayed all along. We hope to do more events like this in the future!

http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/10094006/62a234dda3dcaf12775b792b7e4b3e791304f514.jpg Greetings Admirals, The BFG Championship ended yesterday and the time has come to announce the winners of the event! Without much further ado, here are the champions: - 1st place overall: Fosil with the Tau Fleet - 2nd place overall: Solaire with the Tau Fleet - 3rd place overall: Victorique, the Golden Fairy with the Tau Fleet Best Imperium Navy Player: Ashardalon Best Ork Player: Warboss Best Eldar Player: DJ Calimar Best Chaos Player: Bosie Best Space Marine Player: Dytong Best Tau Player: The Wraith Rise Congratulations to you all! We will contact you very soon through Steam to reward you, if we haven’t done so already. We would also like to thank everyone who participated in this championship and for the fair-play that was displayed all along. We hope to do more events like this in the future!

http://cdn.edgecast.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/10094006/2e4bb9a3f4b17482a9020e0b62874fd121edecb4.jpg Today marks the beginning of the Games Workshop's event Skulls for the Skull Throne, a weekend-long event during which games from the Warhammer world and the Warhammer 40,000 universe are enjoying time-limited discount offers on Steam, as well as additional content themed around the Blood God, Khorne, the legendary Warhammer figure sitting upon his Skull Throne in the Realm of Chaos! On this special occasion, the Warhammer games from the Focus Home Interactive catalogue will benefit from exceptional discounts on Steam, along with free additional content for all players to enjoy, all themed around the Blood God Khorne, and the characteristic Skulls this God of Chaos is associated with!

The extra content coming to Battlefleet Gothic: Armada is detailed below:

A brand new celestial body, the Skull Asteroid, can be found in both singleplayer and multiplayer. These floating masses contain corrupted Chaos energy, deformed by the Chaos corruption and relentless war in the Gothic sector. http://cdn.edgecast.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/10094006/8601aede847d62fac1359b76671600d97b59a2ea.jpg

http://cdn.edgecast.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/10094006/2e4bb9a3f4b17482a9020e0b62874fd121edecb4.jpg Today marks the beginning of the Games Workshop's event Skulls for the Skull Throne, a weekend-long event during which games from the Warhammer world and the Warhammer 40,000 universe are enjoying time-limited discount offers on Steam, as well as additional content themed around the Blood God, Khorne, the legendary Warhammer figure sitting upon his Skull Throne in the Realm of Chaos! On this special occasion, the Warhammer games from the Focus Home Interactive catalogue will benefit from exceptional discounts on Steam, along with free additional content for all players to enjoy, all themed around the Blood God Khorne, and the characteristic Skulls this God of Chaos is associated with!

The extra content coming to Battlefleet Gothic: Armada is detailed below:

A brand new celestial body, the Skull Asteroid, can be found in both singleplayer and multiplayer. These floating masses contain corrupted Chaos energy, deformed by the Chaos corruption and relentless war in the Gothic sector. http://cdn.edgecast.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/10094006/8601aede847d62fac1359b76671600d97b59a2ea.jpg

Greetings Admirals! The time has come for your fleet to face a new challenge. We are thrilled to officially announce the start of the first BFG Championship! From July the 3rd at 6pm CEST to July the 17th at 6pm CEST, you will be able to fight in a specific ranked ladder to reach the highest level. Only the 3 best players overall and the best player of each race will get awards!! Rules can be found here. Here are the prizes: 1st place overall: Admiral Pack = Inquisitor Pack +

• The Surge
• Shiness

2nd place overall: Inquisitor Pack = Commissar Pack +

• Styx: Shards of Darkness
• Seasons After Fall

3nd place overall: Commissar Pack = Astropath Pack +

• Technomancer
• Styx: Master of Shadows

1st place of each race: Astropath Pack

• Mordheim: City of the Damned + DLCs
• Space Hulk: Deathwing
• Blood Bowl 2 + DLCs
• Wargame Franchise

Competing players can only be awarded a single prize. If a player wins more than one, they will be awarded the bigger one or, if prizes are of similar size, will be able to choose. The remaining prizes will then be awarded to the following player. Make sure the email address attached to your Steam account is valid and live if you want to get rewarded. There will be doubts, fear and death that will strike your crew but your strategic mindset and your faith in your fleet must prevail! Dismissed!

Greetings Admirals! The time has come for your fleet to face a new challenge. We are thrilled to officially announce the start of the first BFG Championship! From July the 3rd at 6pm CEST to July the 17th at 6pm CEST, you will be able to fight in a specific ranked ladder to reach the highest level. Only the 3 best players overall and the best player of each race will get awards!! Rules can be found here. Here are the prizes: 1st place overall: Admiral Pack = Inquisitor Pack +

• The Surge
• Shiness

2nd place overall: Inquisitor Pack = Commissar Pack +

• Styx: Shards of Darkness
• Seasons After Fall

3nd place overall: Commissar Pack = Astropath Pack +

• Technomancer
• Styx: Master of Shadows

1st place of each race: Astropath Pack

• Mordheim: City of the Damned + DLCs
• Space Hulk: Deathwing
• Blood Bowl 2 + DLCs
• Wargame Franchise

Competing players can only be awarded a single prize. If a player wins more than one, they will be awarded the bigger one or, if prizes are of similar size, will be able to choose. The remaining prizes will then be awarded to the following player. Make sure the email address attached to your Steam account is valid and live if you want to get rewarded. There will be doubts, fear and death that will strike your crew but your strategic mindset and your faith in your fleet must prevail! Dismissed!

http://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/2016/47/1479916381-bfg-spacemarines-gif-3.gif Greetings Admirals, We're pleased to release a new update for Battlefleet Gothic: Armada! This latest patch brings the long awaited Fleet Color System, as well as many bug fixes. http://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/2016/47/1479916473-battlefleet-gothic-armada-09.jpg

Patch Notes 1.8

New Features

• Integration of the Fleet Colour System for each faction except Space Marines.
• The Fleet Colour can be changed at the Docks by clicking on the button displayed at the right of the Admiral panel.
• The Favors can be hidden for each ship by clicking the checkbox on the Favours panel (even for the Space Marines).
• In-game, Integration of favors icons at the right of the ship’s life bar in order to keep a feedback of the favors fitted when the player hide the favors skins.

Balancing

• Modification of the Tau “Water Caste” favor skill “Nicassar reinforcement” cooldown (180s -> 240s).
• Modification of the ordinance behavior, launching an ordinance skill while another ordinance squadron is already out will create a new squadron instead of regrouping with the existing ones.
• Retake of the skill “Emergency repair”, the skill won’t stop anymore if the ship has reach its maximum hull points.
• Modification of the Space Marine default engagement range set at 3k.

Bug Fixes

• Fix of the issue that made the ordnances instantly kill the ship they were attacking if the ship triggered it’s disengage.
• Fix of the ship names on the Score screen that weren’t displayed in the correct language.
• Fix of an issue that allowed a ship with the “mercenary” trait to automatically cancel its Warp Disengagement if played by the AI.
• Fix of the trait “mercenary” that was not correctly displayed on the Tau auxiliary “Kroot Warsphere” ship.
• Fix of the cancelling of the warp disengage just before the end of the timer that can provoke an invincible ship. (Now it’s impossible to cancel the warp disengage when the warp portal is open).
• Fix of the cancelling of warp disengage just before the end of the timer that can provoke an invisible ship by passing through the Warp’s FX.
• Fix of an issue in 2v2 skirmish that prevented the player from fighting against a Tau or a Space Marine AI. It’s now possible to fight against every faction in every game mode (except the campaign mode) even if the player hasn’t bought the DLC.
• Fix of an issue during the mission “Breakthrough” that prevented the player ship from disengaging through the escape zone if his ships was already in it when the last defense platform was destroyed.
• Fix of an issue during the mission “Breakthrough” that could trigger an insubordination test while a ship was leaving the battlefield through the escape zone.
• Add of a protection on a campaign side quest involving the Tzeentch Nemesis to avoid a crash provoked when the player Warp out after stealing the data.
• Fix of the skill “Warp Echo” that displayed a green socle instead of a red one.
• Fix of an issue on the skill “Warp Echo” that stealthed the “Warp echo” when the launching ship was going stealth, the Warp echo is now independent from its launching ship.
• Fix of an issue on the Ork’s upgrade “Cleva Mekboy” that allowed the utilization of the skills “boarding” and “Emergency Repair” while warping out.
• Fix of the Mutiny malus value displayed on the skill “Fear the Darkness” that wasn’t updated for the guest.
• Fix of the Ork’s ship that couldn’t stop after using the “Big Red Button” skill.
• When playing the Tau faction, fix of the issue that grants more renown to the player than the amount showed on the scorescreen.
• Fix of a crash when you restarted the mission on Lukitar, turn 19, in the campaign.

GUI

• Integration of a progress bar on the fire icons (Only on the fire displayed above the stat panel of the ship).
• Add of a scrollbar in order to facilitate the navigation in the menu.
• At the docks, to navigate through the ship list.
• In the “Set your Fleet” panel, to navigate through the ship list.
• You can no longer select a critic system on the Tau Warsphere.
• A message is now displayed on the main menu when the host quits a custom game.

Optimisation

• Now, when the player selects the elite mode at the docks, his selection will be saved between 2 battles. (This behavior is reset by going back to the Main menu).
• The key “Windows” and “Tabulation” can no longer be bind. (a message is displayed explaining that they are forbidden key).
• Integration of the new ship naming system that is more accurate to the true names for every ship of every faction. (ship name and class name).
• Improvement of the behavior panel, it won’t close anymore when the player selects another ship, in order to facilitate the presetting of his whole fleet.
• The anti-aliasing option won’t automatically reactivate at each launch of the game. Its status is now saved correctly.

Graphism

• Update of the New Tau Weaponries on every Tau ship.
• Fix of the Eldar Cruiser “Shadow” Kurnous pattern, that had a misplaced turret.
• Fix of a Hole on the engine of the Space Marine Battle Barge.

AI

• Modification of the AI insubordination behavior, now the enemy ship that insubordinate have 2/3 chances to trigger an execute after a range of 1-5 seconds.
• The Ork’s ship general behavior has been changed in order to disable the ramming of the stationary units (defense platform and space station).

FX

• Fix of a graphical glitch that was displayed on the Tau Ion Canon beam texture.
• Fix of the Space Marines Warp disengagement FX that wasn’t displayed.
• Fix of the Stronghold Demiurg shield that provoked some clipping with the mesh.
• Improvement of the skill FX of “Wind of changes” to be world-space related instead of local in order to avoid the rotation of the FX with the ship.
• Fix of the Tau weaponry “Prow Heavy railgun” FX which was displayed while the ship was stealthed or detected.
• Fix of the Emergency Repair skill FX position on the vanguard that was shifted in front of the ship.
• Retake of the Tau Ion Canon and Railgun Fx to accommodate to the new Tau weapons.
• The Ion Canon beam’s brightness has been lightly reduced.
• Reduction of the emissive intensity on the Nicassar Dhow master material.
• Adding of some brightness changes on the engine FX of the Kroot Warsphere when changing its course.

Text

• Add of the localization for the Tau trait “Space Miners” for the languages ES/DE/RU/PL.
• Modification of the Ork’s “Nova Kanon” data in order to match with the data of the Imperial’s “Nova Canon”.
• Modification of the data of the skill “Gravity Wave Projector” in order to display “generator” in its affiliation.
• Fix of the “Augur disruptor” skill description, a comma was missing to the value displayed. (1,000)
• Modification of the Polish transport ship name in order to suppress the mention “Ship of”.
• Modification of the “Disruption bomb” skill description in order to display 0 to the shield’s reduction value.
• Fix of a typing error on the “Dialogue 13_Mission 30_b” in French.

http://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/2016/47/1479916381-bfg-spacemarines-gif-3.gif Greetings Admirals, We're pleased to release a new update for Battlefleet Gothic: Armada! This latest patch brings the long awaited Fleet Color System, as well as many bug fixes. http://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/2016/47/1479916473-battlefleet-gothic-armada-09.jpg

Patch Notes 1.8

New Features

• Integration of the Fleet Colour System for each faction except Space Marines.
• The Fleet Colour can be changed at the Docks by clicking on the button displayed at the right of the Admiral panel.
• The Favors can be hidden for each ship by clicking the checkbox on the Favours panel (even for the Space Marines).
• In-game, Integration of favors icons at the right of the ship’s life bar in order to keep a feedback of the favors fitted when the player hide the favors skins.

Balancing

• Modification of the Tau “Water Caste” favor skill “Nicassar reinforcement” cooldown (180s -> 240s).
• Modification of the ordinance behavior, launching an ordinance skill while another ordinance squadron is already out will create a new squadron instead of regrouping with the existing ones.
• Retake of the skill “Emergency repair”, the skill won’t stop anymore if the ship has reach its maximum hull points.
• Modification of the Space Marine default engagement range set at 3k.

Bug Fixes

• Fix of the issue that made the ordnances instantly kill the ship they were attacking if the ship triggered it’s disengage.
• Fix of the ship names on the Score screen that weren’t displayed in the correct language.
• Fix of an issue that allowed a ship with the “mercenary” trait to automatically cancel its Warp Disengagement if played by the AI.
• Fix of the trait “mercenary” that was not correctly displayed on the Tau auxiliary “Kroot Warsphere” ship.
• Fix of the cancelling of the warp disengage just before the end of the timer that can provoke an invincible ship. (Now it’s impossible to cancel the warp disengage when the warp portal is open).
• Fix of the cancelling of warp disengage just before the end of the timer that can provoke an invisible ship by passing through the Warp’s FX.
• Fix of an issue in 2v2 skirmish that prevented the player from fighting against a Tau or a Space Marine AI. It’s now possible to fight against every faction in every game mode (except the campaign mode) even if the player hasn’t bought the DLC.
• Fix of an issue during the mission “Breakthrough” that prevented the player ship from disengaging through the escape zone if his ships was already in it when the last defense platform was destroyed.
• Fix of an issue during the mission “Breakthrough” that could trigger an insubordination test while a ship was leaving the battlefield through the escape zone.
• Add of a protection on a campaign side quest involving the Tzeentch Nemesis to avoid a crash provoked when the player Warp out after stealing the data.
• Fix of the skill “Warp Echo” that displayed a green socle instead of a red one.
• Fix of an issue on the skill “Warp Echo” that stealthed the “Warp echo” when the launching ship was going stealth, the Warp echo is now independent from its launching ship.
• Fix of an issue on the Ork’s upgrade “Cleva Mekboy” that allowed the utilization of the skills “boarding” and “Emergency Repair” while warping out.
• Fix of the Mutiny malus value displayed on the skill “Fear the Darkness” that wasn’t updated for the guest.
• Fix of the Ork’s ship that couldn’t stop after using the “Big Red Button” skill.
• When playing the Tau faction, fix of the issue that grants more renown to the player than the amount showed on the scorescreen.
• Fix of a crash when you restarted the mission on Lukitar, turn 19, in the campaign.

GUI

• Integration of a progress bar on the fire icons (Only on the fire displayed above the stat panel of the ship).
• Add of a scrollbar in order to facilitate the navigation in the menu.
• At the docks, to navigate through the ship list.
• In the “Set your Fleet” panel, to navigate through the ship list.
• You can no longer select a critic system on the Tau Warsphere.
• A message is now displayed on the main menu when the host quits a custom game.

Optimisation

• Now, when the player selects the elite mode at the docks, his selection will be saved between 2 battles. (This behavior is reset by going back to the Main menu).
• The key “Windows” and “Tabulation” can no longer be bind. (a message is displayed explaining that they are forbidden key).
• Integration of the new ship naming system that is more accurate to the true names for every ship of every faction. (ship name and class name).
• Improvement of the behavior panel, it won’t close anymore when the player selects another ship, in order to facilitate the presetting of his whole fleet.
• The anti-aliasing option won’t automatically reactivate at each launch of the game. Its status is now saved correctly.

Graphism

• Update of the New Tau Weaponries on every Tau ship.
• Fix of the Eldar Cruiser “Shadow” Kurnous pattern, that had a misplaced turret.
• Fix of a Hole on the engine of the Space Marine Battle Barge.

AI

• Modification of the AI insubordination behavior, now the enemy ship that insubordinate have 2/3 chances to trigger an execute after a range of 1-5 seconds.
• The Ork’s ship general behavior has been changed in order to disable the ramming of the stationary units (defense platform and space station).

FX

• Fix of a graphical glitch that was displayed on the Tau Ion Canon beam texture.
• Fix of the Space Marines Warp disengagement FX that wasn’t displayed.
• Fix of the Stronghold Demiurg shield that provoked some clipping with the mesh.
• Improvement of the skill FX of “Wind of changes” to be world-space related instead of local in order to avoid the rotation of the FX with the ship.
• Fix of the Tau weaponry “Prow Heavy railgun” FX which was displayed while the ship was stealthed or detected.
• Fix of the Emergency Repair skill FX position on the vanguard that was shifted in front of the ship.
• Retake of the Tau Ion Canon and Railgun Fx to accommodate to the new Tau weapons.
• The Ion Canon beam’s brightness has been lightly reduced.
• Reduction of the emissive intensity on the Nicassar Dhow master material.
• Adding of some brightness changes on the engine FX of the Kroot Warsphere when changing its course.

Text

• Add of the localization for the Tau trait “Space Miners” for the languages ES/DE/RU/PL.
• Modification of the Ork’s “Nova Kanon” data in order to match with the data of the Imperial’s “Nova Canon”.
• Modification of the data of the skill “Gravity Wave Projector” in order to display “generator” in its affiliation.
• Fix of the “Augur disruptor” skill description, a comma was missing to the value displayed. (1,000)
• Modification of the Polish transport ship name in order to suppress the mention “Ship of”.
• Modification of the “Disruption bomb” skill description in order to display 0 to the shield’s reduction value.
• Fix of a typing error on the “Dialogue 13_Mission 30_b” in French.

http://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/2016/39/1475073707-tau-tease-gif.gif Greetings Admirals, The Tau Empire DLC is available to purchase. And we are pleased to unleash the Tau Empire DLC with an explosive trailer! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StCXrBMl648&feature=youtu.be The Tau are playable in the multiplayer modes, as well as in Skirmish mode against the AI. The alien Tau Empire has rapidly expanded across the galaxy, aided by highly advanced technology and a total dedication to the Greater Good philosophy. Their fleets excel at long range, with powerful weapons dealing massive amounts of damage from afar. Skilled Tau admirals can eliminate the bulk of an enemy fleet before they can even get within boarding distance. The Tau have access to a wide array of upgrades and traits to improve their fleet even further. http://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/2016/39/1475073762-bfg-tau-03-tau02.jpg As announced several months ago, the Tau Empire faction will be free to all Early Adopters of the game on Steam. The Early Adopter offer applies to all Steam pre-purchase owners, as well as those who bought the game on Steam during the first two months following the game's release (before June 21, 2016). Players who purchased Battlefleet Gothic: Armada after June 21 will be able to purchase the Tau Empire as DLC.

Patch Notes - Build 1.7.9962 - Tau Empire Fleet Release

New Fleet:

• Tau Empire fleet added!

Gameplay (Tau):

Thanks to your feedback in the beta, we’ve made the following adjustments to the Tau fleet:

• The Kauyon Warfare accuracy bonus is now applied permanently and is effective starting from a 6k range.
• Modification of the Kroot Warsphere combustion gauge cooldown (60s -> 40s).
• The upgrade “Energy Shield” now only affects fighter ordnances.
• Transport ships can’t fit the upgrade “Stealth Alloy” anymore.
• The damage of the upgrade “Seeker Missile” has been reduced to inflict 1 damage every 3 second per defensive turret on the ship.
• The damage of the skill “Experimental Railgun” has been reduced from 100 to 90.
• Auxiliary ships are no longer able to equip favours.

Gameplay:

• Integration of the proper weaponry on the Mars Imperial Battlecruiser (Heavy Macro-Battery).

Gameplay (Already included during the Tau Beta):

• Fixed when Planetary Assault missions that wouldn’t end if the defender player lost all of his ships.

Bug Fixes:

• Fix of the green lines that can be displayed from the ships at the docks.
• Destroyed defence platforms and ship wreckages are no longer displayed at the edge of the map.
• Fix of the crashed provoked when a Space Marine player reconditioned his crew after fitting and unfitting the Master of the Forge favour.
• In 2v2, fix of the deployment zone that was wrongly displayed for the players 2 and 4.
• Fix of the Tzeentch favour that raised the Macro-Battery reload time by 1 second.

Bug Fixes (Tau):

• Fix of the Tau logo displayed on the mine deployment zone during a Space Station Assault mission for every faction.
• Fix of the “High Energy Turn” tooltip which was still displayed on the Kroot Warsphere.
• Fix of the black scene displayed when the Custodian is “Lost in Deep Space” for the first time.
• Fix of the issue that prevented the Guest player from seeing the harvesting drones on Demiurg ships (which acts as a feedback for the reloading of the “Cutting Beam” skill).
• Fix of the Leaderboard that won’t display the Tau Empire faction on the filter options.
• Fix of the predefined behaviour set on the Nicassar Dhow escort ship that won’t apply for the Guest player when these ships are deployed through the “Reinforcement” skill.
• Fix of the name in the in-game ship recap of the Tau “Emissary Sa’Cea” that displayed the “Protector” name instead of “Emissary”.
• Fix of the Kroot Warsphere that had its combustion gauge always empty.
• Fix of the Tau parts that displayed the Stealth FX when they were destroyed.
• Fix of the “Experimental Railgun” Auto-Fire behaviour, it now fires when it’s aligned with a target.

Bugs Fixes (Already included during the Tau Beta):

• Fix of the Chaos missiles - they now explode instead of disappearing when they miss their target.
• Fix of the platform counter which was reversed when Breakthrough missions were played as a defender.
• Fix of the issue that allowed the target ship in Assassination/Recovery to be hidden at the start of the game or to become stealthy.
• Fix of the AI fleet generation that wouldn’t happen correctly.
• Fix of an issue on the Leaderboard that won’t automatically update the rank gauge of the player profile.
• Fix of the pop-up window about the “Lost in Warp” consequences which was displayed on Custom Game when the player capitulated.
• Fix of the Upgrade “More Dakka” that could be fitted on Basha ships even when it didn’t have any Gunz.
• Fix of the random crash provoked when the player selects his admiral ship during the deployment phase.
• Fix of an issue that prevented the tooltip of the skill “Emergency Repair” to be displayed correctly at the docks.
• Fix of the Orks Zzap and Prow Gunz weapons texture that wouldn’t change with the favour colors.
• Fix of the planetary assault losing condition for the Attacker: Now the attacker loses the game if he loses all of his line ships
• Correction of the speed value for Imperial Navy, Chaos and Eldar ordnances.
• Fix of the selection events when the player selects a ship when he already has one selected that provoke the In-game stat panel to not be displayed.
• Fix of the Dauntless Mk2 wreckage, new mesh on the front hull.
• Correction of the Space Marine logo displayed on the Mission selection screen of a ranked game.
• Correction of the Imperial logo displayed on the Scorescreen of a ranked game.
• Fix of the Space Marine Chapter Master skill which wasn’t disabled when the ship suffers a critical hit on the Deck.

Bug Fixes (Update 1.7.9074, reverted on August 10):

• Fixed the crash provoked by the Eldar’s favors “Ulthwé” and “Saim-Hann”.
• When changing Admiral level, the icon will be updated in real time."
• A critical damage on the Engines on a ship fitted with the “Mezoa Pattern Drive” will no longer deny the special maneuver “Burn Retro”.
• In custom games, the selection arrow allowing to change the game size are hidden when two players are in the same team.
• Erasing Space Marines ranked profiles will no longer create a profiles without name in the profiles selection panel.
• In space station assault mission, the defending player can no longer deploy mines slightly outside of the allowed area.
• The weaponry counter on the ship stats will instantly display the correct number of weaponry when the ship suffers a critical damage.
• Changing the resolution in the game option will no longer reset the display mode.
• Fixed the auto-launch on the skill “Void shield transfer” that wouldn’t trigger for the ships having only 100 shield points.
• During a custom game, the last guest joining the game will now correctly see the environmental elements on the maps when the Host click on the ready button too quickly.
• It will no longer be possible to change the space Marine chapter during the creation of a profile.
• Fixed an issue when replacing a ship that cancelled the refund of the renown spent in the Upgrades and skills fitted on the ship.
• Fixed an issue that provoked some of the environmental elements to spawn upon defense platforms.
• The ship can no longer be stuck in the corner of the map when performing a full Ahead. The ship will now automatically return to the game area.
• Fixed the Adeptus Astartes Imperial’s favor, which did not give its +1 boarding actions bonus.
• Fixed the issue that prevented the player from changing the settings in custom games.
• Fixed a glitch that allowed the host player to become invisible with his flagship during the missions “Assassination” and “Data Recovery”.
• Fixed an issue that prevented the guest player from seeing the enemy ships in gaz cloud when they are at detection range.
• In “breakthrough”, fix of an issue that counted the destroyed defense platforms of the previous mission when the player pressed the retry button at the end of the game.
• Fixed the issue on the Dauntless’ wreckage that won’t collide with other elements.
• In ranked profiles, the Admiral level is not displayed anymore.
• Fixed the issue that prevented the player from remaping the camera’s rotation.
• Fixed the issue that made the slow from the Zzap Kanon weapon upgrade permanent if it landed during a micro-warp jump.

GUI (Already included during the Tau Beta):

• Change of the colour of the in-game panel for the player, its allies and the enemy.
• Change of the colour of the in-game Critical hide-box.
• Repositioning of the Crew panel titles.
• Augmentation of the Crew title text box width in order to correctly display all the Crew titles in every language.
• Integration of in-game enemy Hide-box of the combustion gauge for every faction.
• Correct integration of the green Escape Zone on the mini-map for the player who have to reach this area with his ships (still displayed in red for the enemy).
• Fix of the wrong position of the orders icons in the stat panel.
• Integration of the Space Marines Admiral ranks medals.
• Modification of the Eldar Admiral ranks medals.
• Modification of the background of the mini-map.
• Fix of the “High energy Turn” feedback which was shifted with the cursor position.

GUI (Tau):

• Retake of the size and colour of the Tau heralds.
• Retake of the colour of the Tau In-game captain’s hide-box.
• Retake of the background size of the Tau Ordnance In-game panel.
• In the Pre-game panel, retake of the space of the text for the Gravity Hook weaponry.
• Integration of the hide-box for the behaviour panel on the Tau space stations, Tau defence platforms and the Kroot Warsphere.
• The “Gravity Wave Projector” skill will now correctly display the “Generator” icon on its skill icons when the Generator suffers a critical hit.

GUI (Update 1.7.9074, reverted on August 10):

• Fixed a shift on a text in the pregame setting panel.
• Fixed the rank upon the "load profile" screen which could display a shifted value instead of the actual league.
• Change of two Eldar Captains portrait that were not properly displayed in the scorescreen.
• In space station assault mission, the weaponry range feedback of the imperial space station is now properly displayed for the guest player.
• In the main menu, added a missing space above the leaderboard button.
• Fixed the In-game chat that was displayed above the escape menu which prevented the player from clicking on some escape menu buttons.
• Fixed an issue that displayed the light critical damage instead of the heavy critical damage on the engine of an Eldar ship.
• On the Orks generated profile, the skills will no longer be represented by a white square or a blank.
• Fixed an issue that wouldn't display the right number of weaponry for the guest when one of his ships suffered a critical damage on the prow.
• In ranked profiles, fix of an issue that displayed the Imperial logo for the Space Marines profiles.
• Fixed the detection range feedback that wouldn’t display for the allied ships as long as they stayed unidentified.
• Fixed an issue for the guest that could see the icon of the special action “lock on” above Host ships when the host was using the special action “Running Silent”.
• The “escort ship” feat has been added to the transport ships.

Optimisation:

• Texture optimization for every Docks of every faction.
• Texture optimization for the GUI texture.

Optimisation (Already included during the Tau Beta):

• Improvement of the camera in order to diminish the rumbling on the camera while the player focuses on a target.

Optimisation (Update 1.7.9074, reverted on August 10):

• The gamma setting is now hidden when launching the game.

Graphics (Tau):

• Integration of the Admiral colour pattern for the Tau faction (White line on the admiral ship).
• Modification of the Emissive colour of the Kroot Warsphere from blue to Orange.

Graphics (Already included during the Tau Beta):

• Correction of the Space Marine LOD setting on the Bombardment Turret.
• Fix of the space between the faction cards on the faction selection panel.
• Correction of the reactor FX attachment for the “Imperial escort ships”.
• Correction of the reactor FX attachment for the “Eldar escort ships”.
• Correction of the reactor FX attachment for the “Chaos escort ships”.
• Correction of the reactor FX attachment for the “Space Marines escort ships”.
• Correction of the reactor FX attachment for the “Ork escort ships”.
• Fix of the Chaos Khorne favour skin which doesn’t apply on the Lance turret of the Hellbringer Mk1.

Graphics (Update 1.7.9074, reverted on August 10):

• Fixed the favor visual issue that could be be displayed over another ship.
• In the scorescreen of the Elite mode, fix of an artifact displayed over the continue button.
• For the Ork faction, the buttons of the skills boarding torpedoes and torpedoes are no longer swapped between the escort ships and the line ships.
• Fixed the Plasma Macro-Battery firing FX on the Imperial Space station.

Sound (Tau):

• Fix of the Tau “Warp” sound that was global and didn’t take into account the sound settings.

Sound (Already included during the Tau Beta):

• Modification of the maximal value of the sliders in the sound options panel. (Highest value provoked sound glitches).
• Fix of a sound glitch on the Space Marines favour acknowledgements.

FX (Tau):

• Retake of the color of the Demiurg ship shields (Now red instead of orange).

FX (Already included during the Tau Beta):

• Fix of the firing FX on the upper Prow Gunz which was displaced on the Hull of the ship.
• Repositioning of the “All Ahead Full” Imperial FX on the battleships that has a little offset;
• Integration of a new textures for the new ship socle system for every races.
• Fix of the Chaos engines FX that spawned multiple instances of the same FX.
• Retake of the “escape areas” (i.e in the “convoy” mission) in order to change the color in red/green depending on your side and to display the correct faction’s logo.

Text:

• Update of the game credits (Tindalos team and SIDE Tau actors).
• Harmonization of the Data between the “Nova Kannon” Ork and the Imperial “Nova Cannon”.
• In the Campaign, the Space Station’s World Property penalty is now correctly displayed.

Text (Tau):

• Fix of the wrong tooltip displayed on the Heavy Macro-Battery for the Demiurg Stronghold.
• Fix of the “Gravity Wave Projector” skill’s data in order to display in its affiliation “Generator” instead of “Prow”.

Text (Already included during the Tau Beta):

• Modification of the disclaimer message.
• Modification of the Tooltip display system in order to constrain them on the screen edge when they are too long.
• Modification of the Ship Name “Transport” into “Conveyor” in order to have a ship class called “Transport” (Which can integrate Fire ship, etc…).
• Correction of the tooltip’s data for the Chaos Weaponry “Twin-linked Battery” which displayed wrong values.
• Fix of the wrong value displayed on the Pulsar’s data.
• Fix of the wrong name displayed on the torpedoes launcher of the Space Marine’s ship Vanguard MK1.
• Fix of the wrong name displayed on the torpedoes launcher of the Space Marine’s ship BattleBarge MK1.
• Fix of the wrong name displayed on the torpedoes launcher of the Space Marine’s ship Strike Cruiser MK2.

Text (Update 1.7.9074, reverted on August 10):

• The tooltips over the Admiral icon and the Admiral level are now properly displayed.
• Fixed the Eldar Pulsar tooltip which displayed a wrong value (-1) instead of its correct value.
• In “skirmish mode”, “coop” or “multiplayer”, a message is now displayed when the Host clicks on the “to Battle” / “Search button”.
• Fixed an issue displaying the wrong name on the Ork weaponry “Turret Gunz” in game, in the "set your fleet" panel and at the docks.
• Added the message “You have been disconnected” on the Main Menu when a player is disconnected from a Multiplayer lobby (except for the ranked match).
• Fixed a text during the campaign mission “Negotiation” which was displaying the wrong text.

http://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/2016/39/1475073707-tau-tease-gif.gif Greetings Admirals, The Tau Empire DLC is available to purchase. And we are pleased to unleash the Tau Empire DLC with an explosive trailer! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StCXrBMl648&feature=youtu.be The Tau are playable in the multiplayer modes, as well as in Skirmish mode against the AI. The alien Tau Empire has rapidly expanded across the galaxy, aided by highly advanced technology and a total dedication to the Greater Good philosophy. Their fleets excel at long range, with powerful weapons dealing massive amounts of damage from afar. Skilled Tau admirals can eliminate the bulk of an enemy fleet before they can even get within boarding distance. The Tau have access to a wide array of upgrades and traits to improve their fleet even further. http://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/2016/39/1475073762-bfg-tau-03-tau02.jpg As announced several months ago, the Tau Empire faction will be free to all Early Adopters of the game on Steam. The Early Adopter offer applies to all Steam pre-purchase owners, as well as those who bought the game on Steam during the first two months following the game's release (before June 21, 2016). Players who purchased Battlefleet Gothic: Armada after June 21 will be able to purchase the Tau Empire as DLC.

Patch Notes - Build 1.7.9962 - Tau Empire Fleet Release

New Fleet:

• Tau Empire fleet added!

Gameplay (Tau):

Thanks to your feedback in the beta, we’ve made the following adjustments to the Tau fleet:

• The Kauyon Warfare accuracy bonus is now applied permanently and is effective starting from a 6k range.
• Modification of the Kroot Warsphere combustion gauge cooldown (60s -> 40s).
• The upgrade “Energy Shield” now only affects fighter ordnances.
• Transport ships can’t fit the upgrade “Stealth Alloy” anymore.
• The damage of the upgrade “Seeker Missile” has been reduced to inflict 1 damage every 3 second per defensive turret on the ship.
• The damage of the skill “Experimental Railgun” has been reduced from 100 to 90.
• Auxiliary ships are no longer able to equip favours.

Gameplay:

• Integration of the proper weaponry on the Mars Imperial Battlecruiser (Heavy Macro-Battery).

Gameplay (Already included during the Tau Beta):

• Fixed when Planetary Assault missions that wouldn’t end if the defender player lost all of his ships.

Bug Fixes:

• Fix of the green lines that can be displayed from the ships at the docks.
• Destroyed defence platforms and ship wreckages are no longer displayed at the edge of the map.
• Fix of the crashed provoked when a Space Marine player reconditioned his crew after fitting and unfitting the Master of the Forge favour.
• In 2v2, fix of the deployment zone that was wrongly displayed for the players 2 and 4.
• Fix of the Tzeentch favour that raised the Macro-Battery reload time by 1 second.

Bug Fixes (Tau):

• Fix of the Tau logo displayed on the mine deployment zone during a Space Station Assault mission for every faction.
• Fix of the “High Energy Turn” tooltip which was still displayed on the Kroot Warsphere.
• Fix of the black scene displayed when the Custodian is “Lost in Deep Space” for the first time.
• Fix of the issue that prevented the Guest player from seeing the harvesting drones on Demiurg ships (which acts as a feedback for the reloading of the “Cutting Beam” skill).
• Fix of the Leaderboard that won’t display the Tau Empire faction on the filter options.
• Fix of the predefined behaviour set on the Nicassar Dhow escort ship that won’t apply for the Guest player when these ships are deployed through the “Reinforcement” skill.
• Fix of the name in the in-game ship recap of the Tau “Emissary Sa’Cea” that displayed the “Protector” name instead of “Emissary”.
• Fix of the Kroot Warsphere that had its combustion gauge always empty.
• Fix of the Tau parts that displayed the Stealth FX when they were destroyed.
• Fix of the “Experimental Railgun” Auto-Fire behaviour, it now fires when it’s aligned with a target.

Bugs Fixes (Already included during the Tau Beta):

• Fix of the Chaos missiles - they now explode instead of disappearing when they miss their target.
• Fix of the platform counter which was reversed when Breakthrough missions were played as a defender.
• Fix of the issue that allowed the target ship in Assassination/Recovery to be hidden at the start of the game or to become stealthy.
• Fix of the AI fleet generation that wouldn’t happen correctly.
• Fix of an issue on the Leaderboard that won’t automatically update the rank gauge of the player profile.
• Fix of the pop-up window about the “Lost in Warp” consequences which was displayed on Custom Game when the player capitulated.
• Fix of the Upgrade “More Dakka” that could be fitted on Basha ships even when it didn’t have any Gunz.
• Fix of the random crash provoked when the player selects his admiral ship during the deployment phase.
• Fix of an issue that prevented the tooltip of the skill “Emergency Repair” to be displayed correctly at the docks.
• Fix of the Orks Zzap and Prow Gunz weapons texture that wouldn’t change with the favour colors.
• Fix of the planetary assault losing condition for the Attacker: Now the attacker loses the game if he loses all of his line ships
• Correction of the speed value for Imperial Navy, Chaos and Eldar ordnances.
• Fix of the selection events when the player selects a ship when he already has one selected that provoke the In-game stat panel to not be displayed.
• Fix of the Dauntless Mk2 wreckage, new mesh on the front hull.
• Correction of the Space Marine logo displayed on the Mission selection screen of a ranked game.
• Correction of the Imperial logo displayed on the Scorescreen of a ranked game.
• Fix of the Space Marine Chapter Master skill which wasn’t disabled when the ship suffers a critical hit on the Deck.

Bug Fixes (Update 1.7.9074, reverted on August 10):

• Fixed the crash provoked by the Eldar’s favors “Ulthwé” and “Saim-Hann”.
• When changing Admiral level, the icon will be updated in real time."
• A critical damage on the Engines on a ship fitted with the “Mezoa Pattern Drive” will no longer deny the special maneuver “Burn Retro”.
• In custom games, the selection arrow allowing to change the game size are hidden when two players are in the same team.
• Erasing Space Marines ranked profiles will no longer create a profiles without name in the profiles selection panel.
• In space station assault mission, the defending player can no longer deploy mines slightly outside of the allowed area.
• The weaponry counter on the ship stats will instantly display the correct number of weaponry when the ship suffers a critical damage.
• Changing the resolution in the game option will no longer reset the display mode.
• Fixed the auto-launch on the skill “Void shield transfer” that wouldn’t trigger for the ships having only 100 shield points.
• During a custom game, the last guest joining the game will now correctly see the environmental elements on the maps when the Host click on the ready button too quickly.
• It will no longer be possible to change the space Marine chapter during the creation of a profile.
• Fixed an issue when replacing a ship that cancelled the refund of the renown spent in the Upgrades and skills fitted on the ship.
• Fixed an issue that provoked some of the environmental elements to spawn upon defense platforms.
• The ship can no longer be stuck in the corner of the map when performing a full Ahead. The ship will now automatically return to the game area.
• Fixed the Adeptus Astartes Imperial’s favor, which did not give its +1 boarding actions bonus.
• Fixed the issue that prevented the player from changing the settings in custom games.
• Fixed a glitch that allowed the host player to become invisible with his flagship during the missions “Assassination” and “Data Recovery”.
• Fixed an issue that prevented the guest player from seeing the enemy ships in gaz cloud when they are at detection range.
• In “breakthrough”, fix of an issue that counted the destroyed defense platforms of the previous mission when the player pressed the retry button at the end of the game.
• Fixed the issue on the Dauntless’ wreckage that won’t collide with other elements.
• In ranked profiles, the Admiral level is not displayed anymore.
• Fixed the issue that prevented the player from remaping the camera’s rotation.
• Fixed the issue that made the slow from the Zzap Kanon weapon upgrade permanent if it landed during a micro-warp jump.

GUI (Already included during the Tau Beta):

• Change of the colour of the in-game panel for the player, its allies and the enemy.
• Change of the colour of the in-game Critical hide-box.
• Repositioning of the Crew panel titles.
• Augmentation of the Crew title text box width in order to correctly display all the Crew titles in every language.
• Integration of in-game enemy Hide-box of the combustion gauge for every faction.
• Correct integration of the green Escape Zone on the mini-map for the player who have to reach this area with his ships (still displayed in red for the enemy).
• Fix of the wrong position of the orders icons in the stat panel.
• Integration of the Space Marines Admiral ranks medals.
• Modification of the Eldar Admiral ranks medals.
• Modification of the background of the mini-map.
• Fix of the “High energy Turn” feedback which was shifted with the cursor position.

GUI (Tau):

• Retake of the size and colour of the Tau heralds.
• Retake of the colour of the Tau In-game captain’s hide-box.
• Retake of the background size of the Tau Ordnance In-game panel.
• In the Pre-game panel, retake of the space of the text for the Gravity Hook weaponry.
• Integration of the hide-box for the behaviour panel on the Tau space stations, Tau defence platforms and the Kroot Warsphere.
• The “Gravity Wave Projector” skill will now correctly display the “Generator” icon on its skill icons when the Generator suffers a critical hit.

GUI (Update 1.7.9074, reverted on August 10):

• Fixed a shift on a text in the pregame setting panel.
• Fixed the rank upon the "load profile" screen which could display a shifted value instead of the actual league.
• Change of two Eldar Captains portrait that were not properly displayed in the scorescreen.
• In space station assault mission, the weaponry range feedback of the imperial space station is now properly displayed for the guest player.
• In the main menu, added a missing space above the leaderboard button.
• Fixed the In-game chat that was displayed above the escape menu which prevented the player from clicking on some escape menu buttons.
• Fixed an issue that displayed the light critical damage instead of the heavy critical damage on the engine of an Eldar ship.
• On the Orks generated profile, the skills will no longer be represented by a white square or a blank.
• Fixed an issue that wouldn't display the right number of weaponry for the guest when one of his ships suffered a critical damage on the prow.
• In ranked profiles, fix of an issue that displayed the Imperial logo for the Space Marines profiles.
• Fixed the detection range feedback that wouldn’t display for the allied ships as long as they stayed unidentified.
• Fixed an issue for the guest that could see the icon of the special action “lock on” above Host ships when the host was using the special action “Running Silent”.
• The “escort ship” feat has been added to the transport ships.

Optimisation:

• Texture optimization for every Docks of every faction.
• Texture optimization for the GUI texture.

Optimisation (Already included during the Tau Beta):

• Improvement of the camera in order to diminish the rumbling on the camera while the player focuses on a target.

Optimisation (Update 1.7.9074, reverted on August 10):

• The gamma setting is now hidden when launching the game.

Graphics (Tau):

• Integration of the Admiral colour pattern for the Tau faction (White line on the admiral ship).
• Modification of the Emissive colour of the Kroot Warsphere from blue to Orange.

Graphics (Already included during the Tau Beta):

• Correction of the Space Marine LOD setting on the Bombardment Turret.
• Fix of the space between the faction cards on the faction selection panel.
• Correction of the reactor FX attachment for the “Imperial escort ships”.
• Correction of the reactor FX attachment for the “Eldar escort ships”.
• Correction of the reactor FX attachment for the “Chaos escort ships”.
• Correction of the reactor FX attachment for the “Space Marines escort ships”.
• Correction of the reactor FX attachment for the “Ork escort ships”.
• Fix of the Chaos Khorne favour skin which doesn’t apply on the Lance turret of the Hellbringer Mk1.

Graphics (Update 1.7.9074, reverted on August 10):

• Fixed the favor visual issue that could be be displayed over another ship.
• In the scorescreen of the Elite mode, fix of an artifact displayed over the continue button.
• For the Ork faction, the buttons of the skills boarding torpedoes and torpedoes are no longer swapped between the escort ships and the line ships.
• Fixed the Plasma Macro-Battery firing FX on the Imperial Space station.

Sound (Tau):

• Fix of the Tau “Warp” sound that was global and didn’t take into account the sound settings.

Sound (Already included during the Tau Beta):

• Modification of the maximal value of the sliders in the sound options panel. (Highest value provoked sound glitches).
• Fix of a sound glitch on the Space Marines favour acknowledgements.

FX (Tau):

• Retake of the color of the Demiurg ship shields (Now red instead of orange).

FX (Already included during the Tau Beta):

• Fix of the firing FX on the upper Prow Gunz which was displaced on the Hull of the ship.
• Repositioning of the “All Ahead Full” Imperial FX on the battleships that has a little offset;
• Integration of a new textures for the new ship socle system for every races.
• Fix of the Chaos engines FX that spawned multiple instances of the same FX.
• Retake of the “escape areas” (i.e in the “convoy” mission) in order to change the color in red/green depending on your side and to display the correct faction’s logo.

Text:

• Update of the game credits (Tindalos team and SIDE Tau actors).
• Harmonization of the Data between the “Nova Kannon” Ork and the Imperial “Nova Cannon”.
• In the Campaign, the Space Station’s World Property penalty is now correctly displayed.

Text (Tau):

• Fix of the wrong tooltip displayed on the Heavy Macro-Battery for the Demiurg Stronghold.
• Fix of the “Gravity Wave Projector” skill’s data in order to display in its affiliation “Generator” instead of “Prow”.

Text (Already included during the Tau Beta):

• Modification of the disclaimer message.
• Modification of the Tooltip display system in order to constrain them on the screen edge when they are too long.
• Modification of the Ship Name “Transport” into “Conveyor” in order to have a ship class called “Transport” (Which can integrate Fire ship, etc…).
• Correction of the tooltip’s data for the Chaos Weaponry “Twin-linked Battery” which displayed wrong values.
• Fix of the wrong value displayed on the Pulsar’s data.
• Fix of the wrong name displayed on the torpedoes launcher of the Space Marine’s ship Vanguard MK1.
• Fix of the wrong name displayed on the torpedoes launcher of the Space Marine’s ship BattleBarge MK1.
• Fix of the wrong name displayed on the torpedoes launcher of the Space Marine’s ship Strike Cruiser MK2.

Text (Update 1.7.9074, reverted on August 10):

• The tooltips over the Admiral icon and the Admiral level are now properly displayed.
• Fixed the Eldar Pulsar tooltip which displayed a wrong value (-1) instead of its correct value.
• In “skirmish mode”, “coop” or “multiplayer”, a message is now displayed when the Host clicks on the “to Battle” / “Search button”.
• Fixed an issue displaying the wrong name on the Ork weaponry “Turret Gunz” in game, in the "set your fleet" panel and at the docks.
• Added the message “You have been disconnected” on the Main Menu when a player is disconnected from a Multiplayer lobby (except for the ranked match).
• Fixed a text during the campaign mission “Negotiation” which was displaying the wrong text.

http://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/2016/37/1473871095-bfg-tau-04-kroot.jpg Greetings Admirals, The Tau Empire beta is now over! We'd like to extend a big thank you to everyone who has participated in this beta - it's proven to be a huge help for our team in preparing the Tau Empire for release. If you haven't already given it, your feedback is much appreciated; you can leave us your thoughts via this following form. We also welcome your discussion on the official Tau Empire beta forums. See you in space! Velociraptom

http://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/2016/37/1473871095-bfg-tau-04-kroot.jpg Greetings Admirals, The Tau Empire beta is now over! We'd like to extend a big thank you to everyone who has participated in this beta - it's proven to be a huge help for our team in preparing the Tau Empire for release. If you haven't already given it, your feedback is much appreciated; you can leave us your thoughts via this following form. We also welcome your discussion on the official Tau Empire beta forums. See you in space! Velociraptom

http://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/2016/36/1473338073-bfg-tau-02-demiurg.jpg Greetings Admirals! The Tau Empire beta has arrived! If you own a copy of Battlefleet Gothic: Armada, you can access the beta for free right away. The alien Tau Empire has rapidly expanded across the galaxy, aided by highly advanced technology and a total dedication to the Greater Good philosophy. Their fleets excel at long range, with powerful weapons dealing massive amounts of damage from afar. Skilled Tau admirals can eliminate the bulk of an enemy fleet before they can even get within boarding distance. The Tau Empire has access to a wide array of upgrades and traits to improve their Torpedoes and Ordnances even further. They also feature all-new ships, castes and gameplay mechanics, as well as the unique Paths system. We would love to hear your feedback from the beta. To do so, let us know your thoughts in this dedicated Tau Empire beta forum! Read here for full details on how to access the Tau Empire beta.

http://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/2016/36/1473338073-bfg-tau-02-demiurg.jpg Greetings Admirals! The Tau Empire beta has arrived! If you own a copy of Battlefleet Gothic: Armada, you can access the beta for free right away. The alien Tau Empire has rapidly expanded across the galaxy, aided by highly advanced technology and a total dedication to the Greater Good philosophy. Their fleets excel at long range, with powerful weapons dealing massive amounts of damage from afar. Skilled Tau admirals can eliminate the bulk of an enemy fleet before they can even get within boarding distance. The Tau Empire has access to a wide array of upgrades and traits to improve their Torpedoes and Ordnances even further. They also feature all-new ships, castes and gameplay mechanics, as well as the unique Paths system. We would love to hear your feedback from the beta. To do so, let us know your thoughts in this dedicated Tau Empire beta forum! Read here for full details on how to access the Tau Empire beta.

http://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/2016/36/1473238025-bfg-tau-01-tau01.jpg For those currently unable to access the beta, try restarting Steam. Greetings Admirals! The Tau Empire beta has started, open to everyone with a copy of Battlefleet Gothic: Armada. To access the beta:

• Open your Steam library
• Right-click Battlefleet Gothic: Armada, and select ‘Properties’
• Navigate to the ‘Betas’ tab
• Under ‘Select the beta you would like to opt into:’, select ‘tau_beta – Tau Public Beta’ http://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/2016/36/1473237764-screenshot1-tutorial.jpg
• Close the properties window
• An update will begin downloading for Battlefleet Gothic: Armada
• Once the update has finished, check that ‘Battlefleet Gothic: Armada – Tau Empire BETA’ is ticked under the DLC section http://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/2016/36/1473237764-screenshot2-tutorial.jpg
• You’re ready to bring the Greater Good to the galaxy!

Enjoy the beta! Tindalos Interactive & Focus Home Interactive

http://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/2016/36/1473238025-bfg-tau-01-tau01.jpg For those currently unable to access the beta, try restarting Steam. Greetings Admirals! The Tau Empire beta has started, open to everyone with a copy of Battlefleet Gothic: Armada. To access the beta:

• Open your Steam library
• Right-click Battlefleet Gothic: Armada, and select ‘Properties’
• Navigate to the ‘Betas’ tab
• Under ‘Select the beta you would like to opt into:’, select ‘tau_beta – Tau Public Beta’ http://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/2016/36/1473237764-screenshot1-tutorial.jpg
• Close the properties window
• An update will begin downloading for Battlefleet Gothic: Armada
• Once the update has finished, check that ‘Battlefleet Gothic: Armada – Tau Empire BETA’ is ticked under the DLC section http://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/2016/36/1473237764-screenshot2-tutorial.jpg
• You’re ready to bring the Greater Good to the galaxy!

Enjoy the beta! Tindalos Interactive & Focus Home Interactive

http://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/2016/36/1473156374-bfg-tau-03-tau02.jpg Greetings Admirals! As announced on our development roadmap, the Tau Empire is the next faction to arrive in Battlefleet Gothic: Armada. The DLC will release before the end of the month! If you’re dedicated to the Greater Good, then we’ve got news for you: the Tau Empire beta begins very soon, and it will be open to everyone who owns a copy of the base game! Stay tuned! We’ll release more details regarding the length of the beta, start date/time, and how to access it in the coming days. For now, see above for the first screenshot of the Tau to keep you sated until the beta - there's more coming soon! For the Greater Good! Velociraptom

http://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/2016/36/1473156374-bfg-tau-03-tau02.jpg Greetings Admirals! As announced on our development roadmap, the Tau Empire is the next faction to arrive in Battlefleet Gothic: Armada. The DLC will release before the end of the month! If you’re dedicated to the Greater Good, then we’ve got news for you: the Tau Empire beta begins very soon, and it will be open to everyone who owns a copy of the base game! Stay tuned! We’ll release more details regarding the length of the beta, start date/time, and how to access it in the coming days. For now, see above for the first screenshot of the Tau to keep you sated until the beta - there's more coming soon! For the Greater Good! Velociraptom

http://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/2016/32/1470759593-bfg-imperials-gif-1.gif Greetings Admirals, We're pleased to release a new update! This latest patch is mainly a bug fixing update. The next major patch will feature the Tau fleet. Edit: Due to an issue affecting a wide variety of players, we've been forced to revert the update. A lot of players sent us their corrupted save file and it's been really helpful while investigating the issue. We're now working on a fix and will update the game with a clean new version as soon as possible. Thanks for your understanding.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed the crash provoked by the Eldar’s favors “Ulthwé” and “Saim-Hann”.
• When changing Admiral level, the icon will be updated in real time."
• A critical damage on the Engines on a ship fitted with the “Mezoa Pattern
• Drive” will no longer deny the special maneuver “Burn Retro”.
• In custom games, the selection arrow allowing to change the game size are hidden when two players are in the same team.
• Erasing Space Marines ranked profiles will no longer create a profiles without name in the profiles selection panel.
• In space station assault mission, the defending player can no longer deploy mines slightly outside of the allowed area.
• The weaponry counter on the ship stats will instantly display the correct number of weaponry when the ship suffers a critical damage.
• Changing the resolution in the game option will no longer reset the display mode.
• Fixed the auto-launch on the skill “Void shield transfer” that wouldn’t trigger for the ships having only 100 shield points.
• During a custom game, the last guest joining the game will now correctly see the environmental elements on the maps when the Host click on the ready button too quickly.
• It will no longer be possible to change the space Marine chapter during the creation of a profile.
• Fixed an issue when replacing a ship that cancelled the refund of the renown spent in the Upgrades and skills fitted on the ship.
• Fixed an issue that provoked some of the environmental elements to spawn upon defense platforms.
• The ship can no longer be stuck in the corner of the map when performing a full Ahead. The ship will now automatically return to the game area.
• Fixed the Adeptus Astartes Imperial’s favor, which did not give its +1 boarding actions bonus.
• Fixed the issue that prevented the player from changing the settings in custom games.
• Fixed the crash provoked by the Eldar’s favors “Ulthwé” and “Saim-Hann”.
• Fixed a glitch that allowed the host player to become invisible with his flagship during the missions “Assassination” and “Data Recovery”.
• Fixed an issue that prevented the guest player from seeing the enemy ships in gaz cloud when they are at detection range.
• In “breakthrough”, fix of an issue that counted the destroyed defense platforms of the previous mission when the player pressed the retry button at the end of the game.
• Fixed the issue on the Dauntless’ wreckage that won’t collide with other elements.
• In ranked profiles, the Admiral level is not displayed anymore.
• Fixed the issue that prevented the player from remaping the camera’s rotation.
• Fixed the issue that made the slow from the Zzap Kanon weapon upgrade permanent if it landed during a micro-warp jump.

GUI

• Fixed a shift on a text in the pregame setting panel.
• Fixed the rank upon the "load profile" screen which could display a shifted value instead of the actual league.
• Change of two Eldar Captains portrait that were not properly displayed in the scorescreen.
• In space station assault mission, the weaponry range feedback of the imperial space station is now properly displayed for the guest player.
• In the main menu, added a missing space above the leaderboard button.
• Fixed the In-game chat that was displayed above the escape menu which prevented the player from clicking on some escape menu buttons.
• Fixed an issue that displayed the light critical damage instead of the heavy critical damage on the engine of an Eldar ship.
• On the Orks generated profile, the skills will no longer be represented by a white square or a blank.
• Fixed an issue that wouldn't display the right number of weaponry for the guest when one of his ships suffered a critical damage on the prow.
• In ranked profiles, fix of an issue that displayed the Imperial logo for the Space Marines profiles.
• Fixed the detection range feedback that wouldn’t display for the allied ships as long as they stayed unidentified.
• Fixed an issue for the guest that could see the icon of the special action “lock on” above Host ships when the host was using the special action “Running Silent”.
• The “escort ship” feat has been added to the transport ships.

Optimisation

• The gamma setting is now hidden when launching the game.

Graphics

• Fixed the favor visual issue that could be be displayed over another ship.
• In the scorescreen of the Elite mode, fix of an artifact displayed over the continue button.
• For the Ork faction, the buttons of the skills boarding torpedoes and torpedoes are no longer swapped between the escort ships and the line ships.
• Fixed the Plasma Macro-Battery firing FX on the Imperial space station.

Text

• The tooltips over the Admiral icon and the Admiral level are now properly displayed.
• Fixed the Eldar Pulsar tooltip which displayed a wrong value (-1) instead of its correct value.
• In “skirmish mode”, “coop” or “multiplayer”, a message is now displayed when the Host clicks on the “to Battle” / “Search button”.
• Fixed an issue displaying the wrong name on the Ork weaponry “Turret Gunz” in game, in the "set your fleet" panel and at the docks.
• Added the message “You have been disconnected” on the Main Menu when a player is disconnected from a Multiplayer lobby (except for the ranked match).
• Fixed a text during the campaign mission “Negotiation” which was displaying the wrong text.

Known issues

• In the campaign, substitutes aren't available when you don't have any ships left. Make sure to keep at least ship intact to avoid the issue.
• The range for Reinforcement (Imperial Navy Favor Skill) isn't diplayed properly. It isn't set to 5000u but based on the detection range of the ship.
• The biggest ships might appear a slightly after a warp but without consequences.
• If the Warp Disengagement is activated automatically, the Guest won't be able to cancel it.

http://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/2016/32/1470759593-bfg-imperials-gif-1.gif Greetings Admirals, We're pleased to release a new update! This latest patch is mainly a bug fixing update. The next major patch will feature the Tau fleet. Edit: Due to an issue affecting a wide variety of players, we've been forced to revert the update. A lot of players sent us their corrupted save file and it's been really helpful while investigating the issue. We're now working on a fix and will update the game with a clean new version as soon as possible. Thanks for your understanding.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed the crash provoked by the Eldar’s favors “Ulthwé” and “Saim-Hann”.
• When changing Admiral level, the icon will be updated in real time."
• A critical damage on the Engines on a ship fitted with the “Mezoa Pattern
• Drive” will no longer deny the special maneuver “Burn Retro”.
• In custom games, the selection arrow allowing to change the game size are hidden when two players are in the same team.
• Erasing Space Marines ranked profiles will no longer create a profiles without name in the profiles selection panel.
• In space station assault mission, the defending player can no longer deploy mines slightly outside of the allowed area.
• The weaponry counter on the ship stats will instantly display the correct number of weaponry when the ship suffers a critical damage.
• Changing the resolution in the game option will no longer reset the display mode.
• Fixed the auto-launch on the skill “Void shield transfer” that wouldn’t trigger for the ships having only 100 shield points.
• During a custom game, the last guest joining the game will now correctly see the environmental elements on the maps when the Host click on the ready button too quickly.
• It will no longer be possible to change the space Marine chapter during the creation of a profile.
• Fixed an issue when replacing a ship that cancelled the refund of the renown spent in the Upgrades and skills fitted on the ship.
• Fixed an issue that provoked some of the environmental elements to spawn upon defense platforms.
• The ship can no longer be stuck in the corner of the map when performing a full Ahead. The ship will now automatically return to the game area.
• Fixed the Adeptus Astartes Imperial’s favor, which did not give its +1 boarding actions bonus.
• Fixed the issue that prevented the player from changing the settings in custom games.
• Fixed the crash provoked by the Eldar’s favors “Ulthwé” and “Saim-Hann”.
• Fixed a glitch that allowed the host player to become invisible with his flagship during the missions “Assassination” and “Data Recovery”.
• Fixed an issue that prevented the guest player from seeing the enemy ships in gaz cloud when they are at detection range.
• In “breakthrough”, fix of an issue that counted the destroyed defense platforms of the previous mission when the player pressed the retry button at the end of the game.
• Fixed the issue on the Dauntless’ wreckage that won’t collide with other elements.
• In ranked profiles, the Admiral level is not displayed anymore.
• Fixed the issue that prevented the player from remaping the camera’s rotation.
• Fixed the issue that made the slow from the Zzap Kanon weapon upgrade permanent if it landed during a micro-warp jump.

GUI

• Fixed a shift on a text in the pregame setting panel.
• Fixed the rank upon the "load profile" screen which could display a shifted value instead of the actual league.
• Change of two Eldar Captains portrait that were not properly displayed in the scorescreen.
• In space station assault mission, the weaponry range feedback of the imperial space station is now properly displayed for the guest player.
• In the main menu, added a missing space above the leaderboard button.
• Fixed the In-game chat that was displayed above the escape menu which prevented the player from clicking on some escape menu buttons.
• Fixed an issue that displayed the light critical damage instead of the heavy critical damage on the engine of an Eldar ship.
• On the Orks generated profile, the skills will no longer be represented by a white square or a blank.
• Fixed an issue that wouldn't display the right number of weaponry for the guest when one of his ships suffered a critical damage on the prow.
• In ranked profiles, fix of an issue that displayed the Imperial logo for the Space Marines profiles.
• Fixed the detection range feedback that wouldn’t display for the allied ships as long as they stayed unidentified.
• Fixed an issue for the guest that could see the icon of the special action “lock on” above Host ships when the host was using the special action “Running Silent”.
• The “escort ship” feat has been added to the transport ships.

Optimisation

• The gamma setting is now hidden when launching the game.

Graphics

• Fixed the favor visual issue that could be be displayed over another ship.
• In the scorescreen of the Elite mode, fix of an artifact displayed over the continue button.
• For the Ork faction, the buttons of the skills boarding torpedoes and torpedoes are no longer swapped between the escort ships and the line ships.
• Fixed the Plasma Macro-Battery firing FX on the Imperial space station.

Text

• The tooltips over the Admiral icon and the Admiral level are now properly displayed.
• Fixed the Eldar Pulsar tooltip which displayed a wrong value (-1) instead of its correct value.
• In “skirmish mode”, “coop” or “multiplayer”, a message is now displayed when the Host clicks on the “to Battle” / “Search button”.
• Fixed an issue displaying the wrong name on the Ork weaponry “Turret Gunz” in game, in the "set your fleet" panel and at the docks.
• Added the message “You have been disconnected” on the Main Menu when a player is disconnected from a Multiplayer lobby (except for the ranked match).
• Fixed a text during the campaign mission “Negotiation” which was displaying the wrong text.

Known issues

• In the campaign, substitutes aren't available when you don't have any ships left. Make sure to keep at least ship intact to avoid the issue.
• The range for Reinforcement (Imperial Navy Favor Skill) isn't diplayed properly. It isn't set to 5000u but based on the detection range of the ship.
• The biggest ships might appear a slightly after a warp but without consequences.
• If the Warp Disengagement is activated automatically, the Guest won't be able to cancel it.

http://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/2016/30/1469632936-bfg-spacemarines-gif-3.gif Greetings Admirals, As announced in our development roadmap update last week, we're excited to roll out a new major patch today! This latest patch brings the Ranked Matches and Leaderboard, as well as a lot of bug fixes and tweaks. Update 29/07/16: We updated the game to fix several known issues:

• Fix of the issue where, in ranked mode, if you replaced a ship, the associated skills and upgrades were not refunded.
• Fix of the issue where, in ranked, manual refund of weaponry upgrades wasn't working as intended and gave back only 50% of the initial purchase price.
• Fix of an issue causing Space Marines Strike Cruisers to have 4 assault actions instead of 3.
• Fix of an issue with the Master of Forge.

Here’s the patchnotes:

Features

• Ranked Matches are now available.
• Integration of the Selection/Creation of ranked profiles flow.
• Leaderboard now available.
• New achievements for Space Marine faction and Elite Mode.
• Cruiser Clash can now be played with increased fleet point limit in Custom Matches (1v1 & 2v2) and in Multiplayer 2v2, allowing you to take 800 point fleets to your games.

Gameplay

• Ranked
  • In ranked mode, refund grants 100% of the cost back.
  • In Ranked Mode, Admirals and ships start at max level.
  • In Ranked Mode, Reconditioning is free.
• Chaos
  • Tzeentch “Wind of Change” now hides all allied ships, regardless of the faction.
  • The Desolator Battleship has been modified.
    • Its speed is now 188 instead of 150.
    • Its cost is now 235 instead of 233.
• Ork Pirates
  • Zzaps Damages divided by 2 and cost reduced accordingly.

Bug fixes

• Fixed a bug allowing skills to be launched twice in a row, once with Auto-launch and once manually.
• Fixed a bug allowing the same part to be critically damaged multiple times, with its penalties stacked.
• Fixed a bug on the “Fear the Darkness” Space Marine skill causing the indicated chances not to be modified by the Chief Librarian crew member’s level.
• Fixed a bug on the “Fear the Darkness” Space Marine skill allowing the guest to use it without setting it on cooldown.
• Fixed a bug allowing a player to click on “return to main menu” then on “quit” while still in the escape menu, causing the game to load the Main menu then close immediately afterwards.
• Fixed a bug allowing a player to use the “Void Energy Transfer” skill on an Eldar ship, which had no effect.
• The Critically damaged parts feedback in Advanced Info mode sometimes did not refresh.
• Fixed a bug causing the “Warp Echo Signature” to appear in the Tzeentch cloud.
• Fixed a bug causing the “Rigour” upgrade to malfunction and allow insubordinations.
• Fixed a bug causing manipulated skills to be deselected if an auto-launched skill was used.
• Fixed a bug forcing a ship in “All Ahead Full!” to stop to turn if the move order is too close to the ship.
• Fixed a bug causing a guest ship warping out with the Auto-launch to have its warping out gauge filled instantly.
• Fixed a bug keeping the Attack Orders on the “real” ship if it swaps with the Tzeentch decoy.
• Fixed a bug causing the attack orders to stay (linked to nothing) if they are given on the Tzeentch Decoy and it disappear.
• Defensive platforms triggered the move Acknowledged sound when given an order. It is no longer the case.
• Fixed a bug preventing the camera from colliding with celestial bodies.
• Fixed a bug causing the same countdowns to be kept between successive Custom Planetary Assault missions.
• Fixed a bug preventing a player to be unlinked from its ally at the end of a Custom mission, which prevent further Custom missions to be played the way it should.
• Fixed a bug that prevented the player from rotating the ship in the Docks using a maintained right click.
• It was possible to invite a friend while searching for a multiplayer game. It is no longer the case.
• A loading screen is now displayed between the Solo Docks and the Main Menu.
• Fixed a bug causing Boarding Shuttles to follow their target ship out of the map if it was destroyed.
• Fixed a bug allowing the damages from a Plasma Engine Surge to be dealt to ships before the according FX.
• Fixed a bug sometimes preventing the Insubordination/Execution part to be triggered.
• Fixed a bug placing a long waiting time between the end of the “Attack on the Webway” campaign mission and the cinematic.
• Fixed a bug allowing a player to give an attack order on a ship currently invisible to him by clicking on its position (the sound of an attack order can be heard.)
• Fixed a bug allowing the timer of a Multiplayer Set your Fleet screen to go under 00:00 if the guest use Alt + Tab.
• Fixed a bug preventing the “Restart the Mission” button from working properly.
• Fixed a crash ocurring when the Host of a Multiplayer game is disconnected in the end mission cutscene.
• Fixed a bug making disappear the Admiral ship during the starting cutscene if the player uses the Tabulation key.
• Fixed a bug not keeping the “Locking Cursor” option setting through a quit and relaunch of the game.
• Fixed the auto setting functionality which wasn’t working anymore.
• Fixed a bug causing the chat to be on “To All” by default in 2v2.
• Fixed a bug preventing the Guest of a multiplayer match to hear some “acknowledge” sounds.
• Fixed a bug causing the guest and the host to see different detection ranges for the Space Station.
• Fixed a bug preventing the Defense Platforms to cast the Energy transfer skill in the mission “The Planet Killer”.
• Fixed a crash in the 2v2 Multiplayer Lobby.
• Fixed a bug blocking the guest of a multiplayer game if the host disconnects in the Battle Report after clicking on Ready.
• Fixed a bug allowing a Guest player to select the same ship multiple times if he clicks quick enough.
• Fixed a freeze that happened when a player disconnected in the battle report or if the guest disconnected in the end cutscene.
• Fixed a bug allowing the player to select evacuated transport ships through the ship list.
• Fixed a bug granting +9.000 range to macro-weapons in addition to the +3.000 to lance when the Refined Lenses upgrade was set.
• Fixed a bug preventing the guest from using “Burn Retroes if he used it too often too quickly.
• Fixed a bug causing discrepancies between the losses in game and the recapitulated losses in the Battle Report.
• Fixed a bug causing an Ork ship that received a critical damage on its prow that to lose all its subsystems.
• Fixed a bug preventing the Invoked Cobra Escort ship from having a name.

GUI

• Fixed a bug causing the apparition of a small white square in the Set your Fleet panel, on the Escort ship cards when the mission is launched.
• Fixed a bug causing the Pulsar’s weaponry range feedback to be an arc instead of lines.
• Fix of two Space Marine Captains portraits that were switched with one another.
• Fixed the Arcs of attack that were slightly misplaced of a few degrees to the right.
• Fixed a bug preventing the Captain XP bars to update while in the Battle Report.
• Fixed a bug showing the Elite option in Skirmish Docks as grey.
• Fixed a bug preventing the Eldar Space Station Shuriken’s range from being displayed.
• Fixed a bug delaying the apparition of the Disruption Bomb’s feedback for the Guest in Multiplayer.
• Fixed a bug hiding the Special Order cooldowns if the deck was destroyed but the Enhanced Battle Bridge was fitted on the ship.
• Fixed a bug displaying the “Cancel Warp” button for a brief instant after Executing a Captain.
• Fixed a bug hiding the Torpedo feedback if the ships are selected through Tabulation in a multiple selection.
• Corrections brought to the Mode Selection in Multiplayer.
• Animation added to the Mode selection in Multiplayer.
• Fixed a bug causing some Weapons skills to display a Permanent Critical damage icon when its affiliated weapon is only temporarily damaged.
• Fixed a bug causing the Back button in the multiplayer mode selection not to work.
• Fixed a bug always displaying “1” in the gamma setting when we relaunched the game.

Graphics

• Small tweaks on Space Marine Engines FX.
• Small tweaks on planet FX.
• Modifications brought to the Imperial Navy engines.
• Less brightness on Chaos Lances FX.
• Fixed a visual glitch on the Master of the Forge parts of a ship.
• Fixed a bug preventing some Ulthwe and Saim-Hann favour details to appear on the Kurnous pattern Shadow and the Vaul Pattern Eclipse ships.
• Fixed a bug showing the Eldar Transports reactors FX to be flipped.
• Corrections brought to the Generator subsystems on Nurgle marked Chaos ships.
• Fixed a bug causing some ships in the starting cutscenes not to have reactors FX.
• Fixed a bug preventing High Energy Turn and Emergency Repairs from being displayed properly on the Retribution Battleship.
• Fixed a bug causing the Space Marine Chapter insignia to keep a standard color even if the part was critically damaged.
• Fixed a bug causing the smoke FX of the first mission’s space station to stay active on every Space Stations.
• Solaris and Eclipse Eldar ships now have Asteroids-damage FXs.
• Fixed a bug preventing Space Marine insignia from being suppressed in case of permanent critical damage on their parts.
• Ships not yet visible now still play the Augur Disruptor FX.
• Augmented the Memory allocation to texture streaming.
• Fixed a bug displaying small black squares in the Reactor FX of the Space hulk in “The Hunt” Campaign mission if the Advanced Unfos mode is activated.
• “Word of the Emperor” FX entirely changed.
• Fixed a bug causing the Reactors FX not to be linked to the ship, thus ignoring the roll of the ship.
• Some Reactor FX are now visible in the Deployment phase.
• Fixed a bug causing a side element of the Despoiler Battleship to disappear if the Mark of Khorne was fitted on it.
• Improvements brought to the Nova Cannon feedback.
• Fixed a bug causing visuals to be blurred when switching from Medium to Low graphic details without changing textures.
• When a Dauntless ship takes a Permanent critical damage to the prow, it was separated from the ship. It is now kept as intended.

Optimisation

• Randomized Space Marines Admirals are now created with a Random Chapter too.
• An assertion message is now displayed when you want to quit or restart a mission, to make sure that you want to leave.
• Admirals randomly generated now feature a fully randomized fleet rather than a ship of each model.
• A red circle is now displayed around celestial bodies in Advanced Infos mode.
• A red circle is now displayed around Eldar Maelstrom in Advanced Infos mode.
• The recipient of a message is now displayed on chat.
• Writing a save name then using Enter now saves the game under such name.
• The Tactical Cogitator now have a different look when the enemy uses it.
• The Antialiasing Option has been modified to be clearer.
• Timeout added to the Ranked Battle Report to avoid a blocking situation if a player is disconnected.
• The admiral panel is now modified to fit the options possible in the Ranked Multiplayer docks.
• Like Space Marine torpedoes, Shuriken and missile pods projectiles now lose their targets if it becomes stealthy.
• A special overlay message “Boarding Resist” is now displayed when a ship resists an assault action due to the Master of Sanctity “Word of the Emperor” skill.
• While in game, the Nemesis ships names are now translated.
• New Loading tips are now displayed in Loading screens.
• The escape key now stops the timer in a change of resolution.

Text

• Various Modifications.
• Space Marines Macro-batteries had the wrong names for their stats, it is now fixed.
• Suppression of the “Alt for More” text of numerous elements. Their base versions now display the Advanced Content by default.
• Modification on the ships names. They are now in a more suitable order: Class Name + Model Name (Example: Light Cruiser Vanguard).
• Fixed the Asteroid Tooltip that indicated an accuracy modifier of 0.
• Fixed a bug showing wrong values in the “Fear the Darkness” Tooltip in Set your Fleet and In-Game.
• Ships names written raw in the game are now linked to the localization.
• Campaign “Exterminatus” and the “Turns left” are now localized.
• One of the Space Marine Captain did not have Capital Letters on his name. It is now fixed.
• Fixed a bug displaying the Tooltip of “Fear the Darkness” in the set your fleet screen incorrectly.
• The confirmation message in the resolution change is now translated in all available languages.
• The Adversary surrender message was too long in some language, cutting the text. It is now displayed correctly.
• The description of the “Rigour” Imperial Navy favour upgrade is now explaining its real effect.
• All the variables in the Traktor Kanon Tooltip have been replaced by their correct value.
• The confirmation message for leaving the Campaign was cut in several languages, now it fits as intended.
• The “Back” button in the Multiplayer mode selection is now translated.
• Multiple bugs fixed : Decaled text in the scorescreen, flicking text in a confirmation message, text cut in some places.
• A text in German was too long and created a flicking.

Sound

• Lightning Strikes and Boarding successes acknowledge sounds are now played.
• Heavily Damaged acknowledge sounds are now played.
• Recovery and Assassination missions acknowledge sounds are now played.
• Fixed a bug causing problems on Disengagement acknowledge sounds.
• Fixed a bug causing the Tactical Cogitator to affect the time between two acknowledge sounds.
• Fixed an error in Planetary Assault Space Marine acknowledge sounds.
• Fixed a bug not playing “Escort destroyed”, “Success”, “Failure”, “Movement”, “Order”, “Fire at will” and “cancel order’ acknowledge sounds for the guest of a game.
• Fixed a bug not playing “Bombardment mission Expiration” acknowledge sound.
• Some acknowledge sounds for the Data recovery mission were switched. They are now playing with the intended event.
• Fixed a bug causing the guest to not have any collision sound.
• Corrections brought to the Big Red Button’s acknowledge sound.

Known Issues

• When the Host uses the "Running Silent" order, the guest sees the "Lock On!" special order icon.
• The Imperium Space Station weapons range is not displayed correctly.
• Sometimes, the guest can't see the enemy ships in a gaz cloud.
• A rare crash might hapenned between two round of a Ranked.

http://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/2016/30/1469632936-bfg-spacemarines-gif-3.gif Greetings Admirals, As announced in our development roadmap update last week, we're excited to roll out a new major patch today! This latest patch brings the Ranked Matches and Leaderboard, as well as a lot of bug fixes and tweaks. Update 29/07/16: We updated the game to fix several known issues:

• Fix of the issue where, in ranked mode, if you replaced a ship, the associated skills and upgrades were not refunded.
• Fix of the issue where, in ranked, manual refund of weaponry upgrades wasn't working as intended and gave back only 50% of the initial purchase price.
• Fix of an issue causing Space Marines Strike Cruisers to have 4 assault actions instead of 3.
• Fix of an issue with the Master of Forge.

Here’s the patchnotes:

Features

• Ranked Matches are now available.
• Integration of the Selection/Creation of ranked profiles flow.
• Leaderboard now available.
• New achievements for Space Marine faction and Elite Mode.
• Cruiser Clash can now be played with increased fleet point limit in Custom Matches (1v1 & 2v2) and in Multiplayer 2v2, allowing you to take 800 point fleets to your games.

Gameplay

• Ranked
  • In ranked mode, refund grants 100% of the cost back.
  • In Ranked Mode, Admirals and ships start at max level.
  • In Ranked Mode, Reconditioning is free.
• Chaos
  • Tzeentch “Wind of Change” now hides all allied ships, regardless of the faction.
  • The Desolator Battleship has been modified.
    • Its speed is now 188 instead of 150.
    • Its cost is now 235 instead of 233.
• Ork Pirates
  • Zzaps Damages divided by 2 and cost reduced accordingly.

Bug fixes

• Fixed a bug allowing skills to be launched twice in a row, once with Auto-launch and once manually.
• Fixed a bug allowing the same part to be critically damaged multiple times, with its penalties stacked.
• Fixed a bug on the “Fear the Darkness” Space Marine skill causing the indicated chances not to be modified by the Chief Librarian crew member’s level.
• Fixed a bug on the “Fear the Darkness” Space Marine skill allowing the guest to use it without setting it on cooldown.
• Fixed a bug allowing a player to click on “return to main menu” then on “quit” while still in the escape menu, causing the game to load the Main menu then close immediately afterwards.
• Fixed a bug allowing a player to use the “Void Energy Transfer” skill on an Eldar ship, which had no effect.
• The Critically damaged parts feedback in Advanced Info mode sometimes did not refresh.
• Fixed a bug causing the “Warp Echo Signature” to appear in the Tzeentch cloud.
• Fixed a bug causing the “Rigour” upgrade to malfunction and allow insubordinations.
• Fixed a bug causing manipulated skills to be deselected if an auto-launched skill was used.
• Fixed a bug forcing a ship in “All Ahead Full!” to stop to turn if the move order is too close to the ship.
• Fixed a bug causing a guest ship warping out with the Auto-launch to have its warping out gauge filled instantly.
• Fixed a bug keeping the Attack Orders on the “real” ship if it swaps with the Tzeentch decoy.
• Fixed a bug causing the attack orders to stay (linked to nothing) if they are given on the Tzeentch Decoy and it disappear.
• Defensive platforms triggered the move Acknowledged sound when given an order. It is no longer the case.
• Fixed a bug preventing the camera from colliding with celestial bodies.
• Fixed a bug causing the same countdowns to be kept between successive Custom Planetary Assault missions.
• Fixed a bug preventing a player to be unlinked from its ally at the end of a Custom mission, which prevent further Custom missions to be played the way it should.
• Fixed a bug that prevented the player from rotating the ship in the Docks using a maintained right click.
• It was possible to invite a friend while searching for a multiplayer game. It is no longer the case.
• A loading screen is now displayed between the Solo Docks and the Main Menu.
• Fixed a bug causing Boarding Shuttles to follow their target ship out of the map if it was destroyed.
• Fixed a bug allowing the damages from a Plasma Engine Surge to be dealt to ships before the according FX.
• Fixed a bug sometimes preventing the Insubordination/Execution part to be triggered.
• Fixed a bug placing a long waiting time between the end of the “Attack on the Webway” campaign mission and the cinematic.
• Fixed a bug allowing a player to give an attack order on a ship currently invisible to him by clicking on its position (the sound of an attack order can be heard.)
• Fixed a bug allowing the timer of a Multiplayer Set your Fleet screen to go under 00:00 if the guest use Alt + Tab.
• Fixed a bug preventing the “Restart the Mission” button from working properly.
• Fixed a crash ocurring when the Host of a Multiplayer game is disconnected in the end mission cutscene.
• Fixed a bug making disappear the Admiral ship during the starting cutscene if the player uses the Tabulation key.
• Fixed a bug not keeping the “Locking Cursor” option setting through a quit and relaunch of the game.
• Fixed the auto setting functionality which wasn’t working anymore.
• Fixed a bug causing the chat to be on “To All” by default in 2v2.
• Fixed a bug preventing the Guest of a multiplayer match to hear some “acknowledge” sounds.
• Fixed a bug causing the guest and the host to see different detection ranges for the Space Station.
• Fixed a bug preventing the Defense Platforms to cast the Energy transfer skill in the mission “The Planet Killer”.
• Fixed a crash in the 2v2 Multiplayer Lobby.
• Fixed a bug blocking the guest of a multiplayer game if the host disconnects in the Battle Report after clicking on Ready.
• Fixed a bug allowing a Guest player to select the same ship multiple times if he clicks quick enough.
• Fixed a freeze that happened when a player disconnected in the battle report or if the guest disconnected in the end cutscene.
• Fixed a bug allowing the player to select evacuated transport ships through the ship list.
• Fixed a bug granting +9.000 range to macro-weapons in addition to the +3.000 to lance when the Refined Lenses upgrade was set.
• Fixed a bug preventing the guest from using “Burn Retroes if he used it too often too quickly.
• Fixed a bug causing discrepancies between the losses in game and the recapitulated losses in the Battle Report.
• Fixed a bug causing an Ork ship that received a critical damage on its prow that to lose all its subsystems.
• Fixed a bug preventing the Invoked Cobra Escort ship from having a name.

GUI

• Fixed a bug causing the apparition of a small white square in the Set your Fleet panel, on the Escort ship cards when the mission is launched.
• Fixed a bug causing the Pulsar’s weaponry range feedback to be an arc instead of lines.
• Fix of two Space Marine Captains portraits that were switched with one another.
• Fixed the Arcs of attack that were slightly misplaced of a few degrees to the right.
• Fixed a bug preventing the Captain XP bars to update while in the Battle Report.
• Fixed a bug showing the Elite option in Skirmish Docks as grey.
• Fixed a bug preventing the Eldar Space Station Shuriken’s range from being displayed.
• Fixed a bug delaying the apparition of the Disruption Bomb’s feedback for the Guest in Multiplayer.
• Fixed a bug hiding the Special Order cooldowns if the deck was destroyed but the Enhanced Battle Bridge was fitted on the ship.
• Fixed a bug displaying the “Cancel Warp” button for a brief instant after Executing a Captain.
• Fixed a bug hiding the Torpedo feedback if the ships are selected through Tabulation in a multiple selection.
• Corrections brought to the Mode Selection in Multiplayer.
• Animation added to the Mode selection in Multiplayer.
• Fixed a bug causing some Weapons skills to display a Permanent Critical damage icon when its affiliated weapon is only temporarily damaged.
• Fixed a bug causing the Back button in the multiplayer mode selection not to work.
• Fixed a bug always displaying “1” in the gamma setting when we relaunched the game.

Graphics

• Small tweaks on Space Marine Engines FX.
• Small tweaks on planet FX.
• Modifications brought to the Imperial Navy engines.
• Less brightness on Chaos Lances FX.
• Fixed a visual glitch on the Master of the Forge parts of a ship.
• Fixed a bug preventing some Ulthwe and Saim-Hann favour details to appear on the Kurnous pattern Shadow and the Vaul Pattern Eclipse ships.
• Fixed a bug showing the Eldar Transports reactors FX to be flipped.
• Corrections brought to the Generator subsystems on Nurgle marked Chaos ships.
• Fixed a bug causing some ships in the starting cutscenes not to have reactors FX.
• Fixed a bug preventing High Energy Turn and Emergency Repairs from being displayed properly on the Retribution Battleship.
• Fixed a bug causing the Space Marine Chapter insignia to keep a standard color even if the part was critically damaged.
• Fixed a bug causing the smoke FX of the first mission’s space station to stay active on every Space Stations.
• Solaris and Eclipse Eldar ships now have Asteroids-damage FXs.
• Fixed a bug preventing Space Marine insignia from being suppressed in case of permanent critical damage on their parts.
• Ships not yet visible now still play the Augur Disruptor FX.
• Augmented the Memory allocation to texture streaming.
• Fixed a bug displaying small black squares in the Reactor FX of the Space hulk in “The Hunt” Campaign mission if the Advanced Unfos mode is activated.
• “Word of the Emperor” FX entirely changed.
• Fixed a bug causing the Reactors FX not to be linked to the ship, thus ignoring the roll of the ship.
• Some Reactor FX are now visible in the Deployment phase.
• Fixed a bug causing a side element of the Despoiler Battleship to disappear if the Mark of Khorne was fitted on it.
• Improvements brought to the Nova Cannon feedback.
• Fixed a bug causing visuals to be blurred when switching from Medium to Low graphic details without changing textures.
• When a Dauntless ship takes a Permanent critical damage to the prow, it was separated from the ship. It is now kept as intended.

Optimisation

• Randomized Space Marines Admirals are now created with a Random Chapter too.
• An assertion message is now displayed when you want to quit or restart a mission, to make sure that you want to leave.
• Admirals randomly generated now feature a fully randomized fleet rather than a ship of each model.
• A red circle is now displayed around celestial bodies in Advanced Infos mode.
• A red circle is now displayed around Eldar Maelstrom in Advanced Infos mode.
• The recipient of a message is now displayed on chat.
• Writing a save name then using Enter now saves the game under such name.
• The Tactical Cogitator now have a different look when the enemy uses it.
• The Antialiasing Option has been modified to be clearer.
• Timeout added to the Ranked Battle Report to avoid a blocking situation if a player is disconnected.
• The admiral panel is now modified to fit the options possible in the Ranked Multiplayer docks.
• Like Space Marine torpedoes, Shuriken and missile pods projectiles now lose their targets if it becomes stealthy.
• A special overlay message “Boarding Resist” is now displayed when a ship resists an assault action due to the Master of Sanctity “Word of the Emperor” skill.
• While in game, the Nemesis ships names are now translated.
• New Loading tips are now displayed in Loading screens.
• The escape key now stops the timer in a change of resolution.

Text

• Various Modifications.
• Space Marines Macro-batteries had the wrong names for their stats, it is now fixed.
• Suppression of the “Alt for More” text of numerous elements. Their base versions now display the Advanced Content by default.
• Modification on the ships names. They are now in a more suitable order: Class Name + Model Name (Example: Light Cruiser Vanguard).
• Fixed the Asteroid Tooltip that indicated an accuracy modifier of 0.
• Fixed a bug showing wrong values in the “Fear the Darkness” Tooltip in Set your Fleet and In-Game.
• Ships names written raw in the game are now linked to the localization.
• Campaign “Exterminatus” and the “Turns left” are now localized.
• One of the Space Marine Captain did not have Capital Letters on his name. It is now fixed.
• Fixed a bug displaying the Tooltip of “Fear the Darkness” in the set your fleet screen incorrectly.
• The confirmation message in the resolution change is now translated in all available languages.
• The Adversary surrender message was too long in some language, cutting the text. It is now displayed correctly.
• The description of the “Rigour” Imperial Navy favour upgrade is now explaining its real effect.
• All the variables in the Traktor Kanon Tooltip have been replaced by their correct value.
• The confirmation message for leaving the Campaign was cut in several languages, now it fits as intended.
• The “Back” button in the Multiplayer mode selection is now translated.
• Multiple bugs fixed : Decaled text in the scorescreen, flicking text in a confirmation message, text cut in some places.
• A text in German was too long and created a flicking.

Sound

• Lightning Strikes and Boarding successes acknowledge sounds are now played.
• Heavily Damaged acknowledge sounds are now played.
• Recovery and Assassination missions acknowledge sounds are now played.
• Fixed a bug causing problems on Disengagement acknowledge sounds.
• Fixed a bug causing the Tactical Cogitator to affect the time between two acknowledge sounds.
• Fixed an error in Planetary Assault Space Marine acknowledge sounds.
• Fixed a bug not playing “Escort destroyed”, “Success”, “Failure”, “Movement”, “Order”, “Fire at will” and “cancel order’ acknowledge sounds for the guest of a game.
• Fixed a bug not playing “Bombardment mission Expiration” acknowledge sound.
• Some acknowledge sounds for the Data recovery mission were switched. They are now playing with the intended event.
• Fixed a bug causing the guest to not have any collision sound.
• Corrections brought to the Big Red Button’s acknowledge sound.

Known Issues

• When the Host uses the "Running Silent" order, the guest sees the "Lock On!" special order icon.
• The Imperium Space Station weapons range is not displayed correctly.
• Sometimes, the guest can't see the enemy ships in a gaz cloud.
• A rare crash might hapenned between two round of a Ranked.

Greetings Admirals, It’s been just under 3 months since we posted our development roadmap for Battlefleet Gothic: Armada, so we thought it time to update you on our progress and all the cool stuff still to come! Before we get into the future of BFG, we’d first like to summarize the features and changes that have already been added since launch:

• Space Marines Fleet
• Online Custom Games against Friends
• Improved Regional Matchmaking
• Russian Language Version
• Chat Improvements
• Co-op versus AI Mode
• Elite System
• Pre-Set Behaviors
• In-Game Newsfeed
• Subsystems Temporary Critical Damage
• Major Balance Changes
• New Upgrades

Many of these changes and features were added to the game directly based on your feedback, and we look forward to hearing more from everyone as we continue into BFG’s future! Here’s the main features that are still to come:

• Ranked Matches
• Global Leaderboard
• Tau Fleet (Forge World) Fleet DLC
• Custom Online Leagues
• (Even more) new Skills
• Fleet Color Customization
• Profiles and Heroic Deeds
• …and more to be announced!

For further details on what these additions mean, refer to the development roadmap. The next major feature for implementation will be the Ranked Matches and Leaderboards - we're happy to announce that they'll be making their way to Battlefleet Gothic: Armada next week! To keep you sated until next week, here’s a sneak preview of what you can expect in ranked play:

Ranked Matches

All Ranked Matches will take the form of a 1v1 Best of Three (BO3) format. Each player is given an equal number of points (8000 Renown) to create whatever fleet they want. All Ship Slots are unlocked at the creation of a Ranked profile, and every ship added to a Ranked fleet will automatically be set to the maximum level. This fleet can be rearranged before a battle, and any Skills, Upgrades or Favours are refunded in their entirety if players wish to change their fleet composition. Fleet persistency (ship damage, destroyed ships, lost in warp, etc.) is applied during each BO3, but NOT between BO3s. Matches can be won, lost, or abandoned (which will result in an automatic loss). The BO3 format will take place over the following steps:

• First Battle: Player A chooses the mission (eg. Space Station Assault, Convoy, Data Recovery, etc). After the first map is played, all ships destroyed will not be able to be selected for the next matches and those that are heavily damaged will not be available for the second battle.
• Second Battle: Player B chooses the mission. Again, any ships destroyed or heavily damaged in the second map will not be selectable in the third map.
• Third Battle: If players are tied 1:1, a Cruiser Clash game will decide the winner. The first player to win two matches gains ELO for their ranked admiral!

Based on this format, players will need to be very careful not to lose their best ships during the first match!

Ranking System and Leaderboard

The ranks of Admirals will be divided by leagues – separate for each Admiral of a player. Each league will be composed of a certain percentage slice of the current total ranked Admirals. Your ELO ranking will determine which percentage and league your Admiral will fall into. There are six leagues:

• Bronze – Players fall within top 100% to 50% ELO ranking
• Silver – Players fall within top 50% to 30% ELO ranking
• Gold – Players fall within top 30% to 15% ELO ranking
• Adamantium – Players fall within top 15% to 5% ELO ranking
• Epic – Players fall within top 5% to 1% ELO ranking
• Legend – Players fall within top 1% to 0% ELO ranking

A leaderboard will also be implemented in-game. This displays the best Battlefleet Gothic: Armada players, detailing information such as their Admiral Name, Player Name, Rank, Faction, League and ELO number. The leaderboard can be filtered to display only specific factions and leagues. Here’s how it looks in-game right now (note that this is taken from the debug version and subject to change): http://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/2016/29/1469116826-leaderbord.png The patch is coming next week, and will include Ranked Matches, Leagues and the Leaderboard. Next week’s patch will also allow more fleet points in 2v2 matches – something that has been commonly requested by the community. The total fleet points in Cruiser Clash have been raised from 700 to 800 under the following modes:

• Custom Game 1v1
• Custom Game 2v2
• Multiplayer 2v2

We’ve also been busy squashing bugs – a full list of dead bugs will be listed in the patch notes next week! See you in the Gothic Sector, Velociraptom

Greetings Admirals, It’s been just under 3 months since we posted our development roadmap for Battlefleet Gothic: Armada, so we thought it time to update you on our progress and all the cool stuff still to come! Before we get into the future of BFG, we’d first like to summarize the features and changes that have already been added since launch:

• Space Marines Fleet
• Online Custom Games against Friends
• Improved Regional Matchmaking
• Russian Language Version
• Chat Improvements
• Co-op versus AI Mode
• Elite System
• Pre-Set Behaviors
• In-Game Newsfeed
• Subsystems Temporary Critical Damage
• Major Balance Changes
• New Upgrades

Many of these changes and features were added to the game directly based on your feedback, and we look forward to hearing more from everyone as we continue into BFG’s future! Here’s the main features that are still to come:

• Ranked Matches
• Global Leaderboard
• Tau Fleet (Forge World) Fleet DLC
• Custom Online Leagues
• (Even more) new Skills
• Fleet Color Customization
• Profiles and Heroic Deeds
• …and more to be announced!

For further details on what these additions mean, refer to the development roadmap. The next major feature for implementation will be the Ranked Matches and Leaderboards - we're happy to announce that they'll be making their way to Battlefleet Gothic: Armada next week! To keep you sated until next week, here’s a sneak preview of what you can expect in ranked play:

Ranked Matches

All Ranked Matches will take the form of a 1v1 Best of Three (BO3) format. Each player is given an equal number of points (8000 Renown) to create whatever fleet they want. All Ship Slots are unlocked at the creation of a Ranked profile, and every ship added to a Ranked fleet will automatically be set to the maximum level. This fleet can be rearranged before a battle, and any Skills, Upgrades or Favours are refunded in their entirety if players wish to change their fleet composition. Fleet persistency (ship damage, destroyed ships, lost in warp, etc.) is applied during each BO3, but NOT between BO3s. Matches can be won, lost, or abandoned (which will result in an automatic loss). The BO3 format will take place over the following steps:

• First Battle: Player A chooses the mission (eg. Space Station Assault, Convoy, Data Recovery, etc). After the first map is played, all ships destroyed will not be able to be selected for the next matches and those that are heavily damaged will not be available for the second battle.
• Second Battle: Player B chooses the mission. Again, any ships destroyed or heavily damaged in the second map will not be selectable in the third map.
• Third Battle: If players are tied 1:1, a Cruiser Clash game will decide the winner. The first player to win two matches gains ELO for their ranked admiral!

Based on this format, players will need to be very careful not to lose their best ships during the first match!

Ranking System and Leaderboard

The ranks of Admirals will be divided by leagues – separate for each Admiral of a player. Each league will be composed of a certain percentage slice of the current total ranked Admirals. Your ELO ranking will determine which percentage and league your Admiral will fall into. There are six leagues:

• Bronze – Players fall within top 100% to 50% ELO ranking
• Silver – Players fall within top 50% to 30% ELO ranking
• Gold – Players fall within top 30% to 15% ELO ranking
• Adamantium – Players fall within top 15% to 5% ELO ranking
• Epic – Players fall within top 5% to 1% ELO ranking
• Legend – Players fall within top 1% to 0% ELO ranking

A leaderboard will also be implemented in-game. This displays the best Battlefleet Gothic: Armada players, detailing information such as their Admiral Name, Player Name, Rank, Faction, League and ELO number. The leaderboard can be filtered to display only specific factions and leagues. Here’s how it looks in-game right now (note that this is taken from the debug version and subject to change): http://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/2016/29/1469116826-leaderbord.png The patch is coming next week, and will include Ranked Matches, Leagues and the Leaderboard. Next week’s patch will also allow more fleet points in 2v2 matches – something that has been commonly requested by the community. The total fleet points in Cruiser Clash have been raised from 700 to 800 under the following modes:

• Custom Game 1v1
• Custom Game 2v2
• Multiplayer 2v2

We’ve also been busy squashing bugs – a full list of dead bugs will be listed in the patch notes next week! See you in the Gothic Sector, Velociraptom

http://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/2016/25/1466521812-bfg-gif-8.gif Greetings admirals, The defenders of mankind stand ready, as the Space Marines fleet blasts into battle with this latest update! This latest patch also introduces a range of additional features including Elite Mode, preset ship behaviours and new upgrades for each of the original fleets. Check out the patch notes below!

Features

• Space Marines DLC is now available! The defenders of mankind are ready.
• The Elite Mode against AI opponents is now available: Test your might against ever-stronger enemies.
• A Newsfeed has been added. Be informed of the latest news about BFGA directly in the main menu.
• You can now preset your ships’ behavior and auto-launches in the Docks.
• Help and FAQ are now available through main menu and in game menu.

Bug Fix

• Fixed a bug preventing the Permanent Critical Damage done to ships to be updated in Advanced Infos mode.
• Fixed a crash happening if two players with two different versions of the game try to play together.
• Wreckage fields no longer appear within deployment zones.
• Fixed a bug that display dialogue during the campaign without the corresponding text.
• Suppression of in game Dialogues that were repeated during some End missions’ cut scenes.
• Fixed a bug preventing the Allied Guest of the Defender in Space Station Assault to see the Mine Area as well as the areas around the Space Station and the Defensive platforms.
• Fixed a bug duplicating the Substitutes in the Pregame Screen.
• Fixed a bug in the 19th Campaign mission’s loss dialogue which displayed Vandez’s face while it was Spire that talked.
• Fixed a bug that deactivated the Escort Ships skills tooltips (Torpedoes and Pulsars).
• Fixed a bug that kept some upgrades that weren’t relevant to the ships’ designs fitted without possibility to unfit them.
• Fixed a bug displaying the wrong shape for the Ork Transport Ship.
• Fixed a bug causing the Attack orders in a queue of orders to be kept even if the target became invalid in the meantime (Destruction/ Invisibility/ Disengagement).

GUI

• The size of the “To Battle” button in the Docks is now correct.
• Fixed a bug displaying the Micro Warp jump cooldown during the deployment phase.
• Fixed a bug displaying the Generator critical damage icon on the rally skill rather than the Deck one.
• Fixed a bug causing the Warp Jump to display a negative Cooldown if it was used quickly after the Micro Warp Jump.
• The size of Tooltips has been improved to avoid visual bugs.
• New caches for all factions in the Docks.

Graphics

• Fixed a bug keeping the Ork Engine Fx when it should have been deactivated, causing multiple instances to overlap.
• Ork Space Hulk Engine reworked.
• Ork Fighta-Bommas now display their 3D Mesh correctly.
• Fixed a bug causing the Engine explosions to stay after destruction.
• Defence Platforms now have deployment restriction zones displayed.
• The Rally skill now have a new FX.
• Fixed a bug displaying a Fire FX at the wrong emplacement on the Imperial Navy Light Cruiser.
• The reactor FX is now more or less bright depending on the speed of the ship.
• Fixed a bug causing Imperial FX to not show when it should.
• Chaos Lances FX has been modified.
• Fixed a bug causing the Zzap Kannon FX to misbehave, some FX appearing far away from the target.

Optimization

• In the Docks, the Lightning Strike Icon now changes accordingly with the selected ship’s Lightning Strike.
• If your save is corrupted, a message is now displayed indicating that it cannot be loaded.

Gameplay

• Imperial Navy A new upgrade, Imperial Assassin, which can trigger a mutiny with a Lightning Strike Assault Action, has been added to the Deck.
• Chaos A new upgrade, Chaos Space Marines, which Reduces the enemy troop value on Boardings and Lightning Strikes, has been added to the Deck.
• Ork Pirates A new upgrade, Weirdboy Tower, which adds a Zzap weapon on the Deck, has been added to the Deck. This weapon does not take the Zzap Upgrades, and fires at 3.000 units + 3.000 Units per Point in the Weirdboy Crew Member.
• Eldar Corsairs A new upgrade, Harlequin’s Masque, which Improves Troop Value while in Brace for Impact by 5, has been added to the Deck. The bonus can be improved by 5 per point in the Harlequin Crew Member.

Text

• Various changes to the texts.
• Fixed a bug preventing the Weapon’s tooltips range to update if the player fitted a range enhancement upgrade on the ship.
• Fixed a bug preventing the N of “Normal” in the difficulty campaign setting to stay in lower case.
• Fixed a bug on some battery weapons’ tooltips displaying wrong0 statistics.
• Fixed a bug displaying the Battle Settings in the Docks To be in Lower case and capital letters. Now everything is in Lower case.
• Fixed a bug in all languages but English that did not translated the difficulty option.

Sound

• Fixed a bug playing the Cut scenes and ship selection sounds even if the game was muted.