Operation: New Earth news & patch notes

Commanders! Here are the full patch notes for the update tomorrow!

New Features

• Added functionality to discard troops which you no longer need. This will refund 40% of their training cost in resources.

• Add a button on HUD to view Shield Status and to apply a Shield quickly.

• Added Medium Invader Cache with Rare to Augmented crafting components dropped as a reward for defeating Level 9+ Invaders.

• Increased the Maximum Level for numerous Hero Equipment from 4 to 5.

• Added Level 35 Raids for both the Megaship and the Titanic Strider.

• Added the functionality to Move and Swap the position of various Base Structures.

• Added improved HUD UFO rewards bracket for HQ Level 25 to 35.

• Alliance Members can now initiate a Mutiny against an Inactive Alliance Leader.

New Research Projects

15 new Research Projects have been added to the game across multiple Research Trees.

Defensive:

• Defensive Strategist II

Special:

• Deployment Speed III

• Deployment Size III

Efficiency:

• Rally Speed II

• Rally Capacity II

Specialized

• Prototype Attack II

• Prototype Defense II

• Prototype Armor II

• Alien Attack II

• Alien Defense II

• Alien Armor II

• Mech Attack II

• Mech Defense II

• Mech Armor II

Drone:

• Drone Shard Detector II

Quality of Life Changes

• Saving location bookmarks will append the location level to the name on the bookmark.

• Added various new counters to display in your Player Profile.

Increased the Global chat message limit from 25 to 50.

• Added option to fully hide blocked messages from global chat (these still count towards the 50 message limit even if hidden from global chat)

• Increased the limit for Alliance descriptions and bulletins from 128 to 256 characters.

• Improved sorting of Routine Missions. Additionally, when claiming a routine mission, it will now be moved to the bottom of the list.

• Added Health and Power values of the target location in the Add Troops panel.

• Added the location Level to the Invader Attack notification.

• Improved dismantle Gear cost from 25% to 75%

• Increased the Shard quantities that spawn within the base view by 300% and changed one to be very rare.

• Added buttons to the Gear crafting panel to view the Gear stats and costs at any level.

• Increased the quantity of Crafting Components given from regular Invader Caches.

• Increased unit quantities from drone level 9 and 10

  • 8hr: Level 9 (40 to 100), Level 10 (80 to 150)

  • 16h: Level 9 (75 to 175), Level 10 (150 to 250)

  • 24h: Level 9 (140 to 350), Level 10 (275 to 500)

  • 48h: Level 9 (275 to 500), Level 10 (525 to 700)

  • 72h: Level 9 (525 to 700), Level 10 (800 to 1000)

• Scaled HUD UFO rewards brackets

  • HQ 0 - 8 scaled by 1.5x

  • HQ 9-16 scaled by 2x

  • HQ 17-24 scaled by 3x (bracket range was also shifted from 17-35 to 17-24)

• Scaled daily login rewards 0-55 (items by 3x, currencies by 4x)

  • Some rewards between 28-55 were replaced with new rewards or moved to a different day

New Objectives

Added Objectives for all 15 new Research Projects.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed some incorrect display values in some counters in the player profile panel.

• Fixed a rare case where VIP expiring during a session would not update correctly

• Fixed all rewards always being displayed on the Challenge reward claimed panel.

• Fixed incorrect rewards being displayed when claiming Alliance Challenges with combined Alliance points

• Fixed a case where if an Enemy is reinforcing the target of one of your attacking marches, it would display as an ally deployment incoming in the Passive tab.

• Fixed a text input field for changing the Alliance Description, going across one line.

• Fixed the Total Units Killed and Total Unit Power Killed counters not updating during the same session.

• Fixed the colour on certain gear not displaying correctly when viewing from the Storage Locker.

• Shards in the base view now refresh and spawn automatically while you are online, instead of having to log out and back in to trigger their spawn

• Corrected some Chest Prices as they did not reflect the value of contents correctly. (Chests with a higher discounted value were left unchanged.)

  • Speed up chest from 22.5k to 20,550

  • Expert speedup from 50k to 40,250

  • Basic resource from 3.5k to 2.3k

  • Resource chest from 10k to 4.5k

  • Expert resource from 25k to 12,950

  • Basic defense chest from 4.5k to 2,975

  • Defense chest from 8k to 5,150

  • Expert defense chest from 15k to 10.2k

  • Basic attack chest 4.5k to 2,975

  • Attack chest from 8k to 5,150

  • Expert attack chest from 15k to 10.2k

Features

• Added a new Challenge: Alliance Raid Challenge, in which your Alliance will gain points by working together to defeat ‘Raid’ locations across New Earth!

• Players can now create up to 5 Deployment Presets when creating a Deployment. This will allow them to save and load the optimal configuration of their Units, which can be saved and loaded quickly.

• Added 6 tiers of Loyalty Rewards, granting additional Rewards for players who purchase Shards via IAP.

Quality of Life Changes

• Players can now access the Rally UI for donating troops to creating Rallies from the World Map.

• Defensive Salvage (Tier 6) has been added to the Efficiency Panel of the Facility Overview.

• An indicator is now available above your Situation Room if a Rally is forming.

• Removed the 100-item limit on multi-use pop-up (This only applies to items that do not contain random rewards.)

• Added troop tier and total Power Values to display in some Outpost/Rally panels

• Added info button to Free Shop Chest to view possible rewards.

• Allow Rallies to be created against NPC targets while PVP is disabled

• Added VIP points 300 and 1000 to the Alliance Store

• Rally Only Locations are now renamed to 'Raids'

Structure Level Increases

Eleven structures have had their maximum level increased from 32 to 35:

• Headquarters

• Black Market

• Oil Rig

• Alloy Refinery

• Geoponic Farm

• Turrets

• Defensive Walls

• Engineering

• Security Station

• Supply Depot

• Global Network

New Objectives have been added for each of these new Structure Levels.

Bug Fixes

• Location info Gather Speed now displays a modified value (used to only take into account friendly territory bonus, but now includes all other stat bonuses on the player)

• Fixed the Challenge Description text, it was displaying the default text and not showing the correct way players can earn points.

• Fixed an issue where the Tabs in the Challenge Panel wasn’t always being translated correctly.

• Fixed two incorrect component requirements on both the Reinforced Gun and the Storm Surge Rifle.

Below are the patch notes for the update:

New VIP Levels

• The maximum VIP level has been increased from 25 to 30.

Festive Calendar

• Updated with new Rewards running from the 15th Dec to 26th Dec 2025

New Content

• Increase the maximum level of Hero Armory from 28 to 32

• Added the new Objectives for levels 29-32 of the Hero Armory.

• Added 2 new Titles (the Host and the Healer) to the list of titles that can be granted.

Titanic Strider Raid

• A new Rally Activity is available across the Regions of New Earth. The Titanic Strider looks to turn the tide of this Invasion of New Earth.

Collect the Strider Emitter, a powerful new crafting component used to craft the Vanguard Armour Set. Titanic Striders also store large caches of VIP points within their Loot Tables.

Double Challenge Rewards

• Various challenges have been updated, and can now be run with DOUBLE rewards!

Vanguard Item Set

• A new Gear set is available, featuring Helmet, Armour, Boost and a Rifle. This Vanguard Set requires the new higher levels of the Hero Armory to craft.

Bug Fix

• Fixed display issue where the title of the previously selected player would appear when selecting another player in the World view.

Good luck out there, Commanders!

• Improved Sector Scanning - Better sorting options and high-level scan locations

• Fixed achievements not unlocking on some platforms
• Fixed incoming march notifications incorrectly showing allies as enemies

New Event: Megaship Armada

• Alien Megaships have appeared across New Earth. Sound the alarm to your Alliance members! Only by using a Rally will you stand a chance against this new threat!

Feature Improvements

• Maximum Outpost Level has been increased from Level 5 to 6. This new 6th Level will double Neutronium Generation for Harvest Outposts, and the Reinforcement Capacity on Strategic Outposts will now be 1.25m Troops. These new levels will require a substantial amount of Alliance Credits to upgrade from Level 5 to 6.

• Dropships of all 4 variants can now be increased from Level 6 to 7. These new variants will further enhance their relevant stats, making them best-in-class for each of their respective disciplines. To upgrade a Dropship to Level 7, players will be required to collect Hyper Thrusters.

• Rewards from Rally marches will no longer all go to the Rally Leader; the rewards will now be split amongst all participating members, with any remainder going to the rally host.

• Contribution points towards Challenges added from Rallies will now be split amongst all participants, instead of going all to the Rally host

New Research Projects

• We can confirm that we received a secure data-burst containing Research Projects for trainable tier 6 reinforcements!

• 12 new Research projects have been added to the Offensive Tree.

• All 4 of the main Unit Types have had new research projects added for Attack and Defence.

New Trainable Tier 6 Units

These new units can be trained via both the Barracks and the Factory.

• Tier 6 Light Infantry - Breacher Squad

• Tier 6 Heavy Infantry - Rocket Trooper

• Tier 6 Ground Vehicle - Tarantulon

• Tier 6 Air Vehicle - Stealth Fighter

Added Structure Levels 

Fifteen structures have had their maximum level increased from 30 to 32:

• Headquarters

• Black Market

• Oil Rig

• Alloy Refinery

• Geoponic Farm

• Turrets

• Defensive Walls

• Situation Room

• Engineering

• Security Station

• Supply Depot

• Bunker

• Global Network

• Airstrip

• Satellite Uplink

The following structure has had its maximum level increased from 28 to 32:

• Factory

• Barracks

• Command Post

• Medical Bay

• Research Lab

The following structure has had its maximum level increased from 28 to 30:

• Hostile Containment

New Location Levels

Various new high-level locations have been added to the game, and they will spawn periodically. The new locations are:

• All 5 of the various Resource Tiles - levels 11 and 12 added.

• Alien Activity - levels 11 and 12 added.

Challenge Improvements

• Improved the Leaderboard Rewards for the Speed Boost Global Challenge.

• Added an additional reward to “Defeat Aliens Sustained Challenge” for players HQ 21 and higher.

New Objectives

• The new Structure Levels, Research and Units all now have new Objectives added.

New Routines

• 2 new Routines have been added, one for Crashed UFOs and one for the Daily Login Reward.

New Rally Functionality and Items

• Rallies can now be boosted using Rally Fuel items, increasing their speed by 25 or 50%.

• Rallies can also now be recalled by using a new Rally Recall item.

New Bundle

• A new speed-up bundle containing Alien Augments has been added to the store rotation.

New Daily Rewards

• 28 new daily rewards have been added.

General Improvements

• Added Unit Tier Values in all training structures Overview Panel.

• Added the Unit Tiers in the HQ Overview Panel.

• The Percentage of remaining health is now visible within the tooltip of Invaders on the World Map

• Pressing collect all button in the Alliance Caches panel with now auto dismiss any expired cache

• Added functionality to claim multiple objectives at once (up to 100 at a time)

• Added info button to caches in the Alliance Caches panel to view the possible rewards

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an incorrect crafting cost of the Storm Surge Helmet.

• Fixed an incorrect cost on Level 30 Alloy Refinery.

• Fixed an issue with the Ferocious Defender and the Doomblaster not correctly affecting Tier 5 and 6 Defences.

• Changed how the Shard reactor logs into Facebook and retrieves friends.

• Fixed issue with notification counter on the tabs in the notification panel would not get set the first time the panel was opened

• Fixed a divider not showing up between tier 5 and 6 in the Defensive Research Tree.

• Fixed the Alliance button tooltip. The text is now correctly above it when hovering over the button.

• Fixed a display issue caused by being able to click in the Research Tree whilst the Research Info Panel was on screen.

• Fixed missing audio when the player opens the Supply Shop.

• Fix counter display in player profile for PVP Units defeated

We look forward on hearing your feedback on this update!

~The Operation: New Earth Team

• Fixed an issue where chat was not set to use auto correct.
• Fixed an issue where certain Rally notifications not displaying correctly sometimes.
• Fixed a bug where the Hero Armory was not correctly displaying level at level 25+.
• Fixed an issue with invader loot display.

• Airstrip
• Global Network
• Security Station
• Bunker

• Hero Armoury

• The increased Structure levels.
• Unlocking of the new Defenses.

• Defense Salvaging VI
• Frag Grenades
• Claymore Mines
• Electric Fence
• Missile Battery

• Neural Strike Boots
• Neural Strike Helmet
• Neural Strike Armour
• Neural Strike Shotgun

• 2 Piece Bonus - Hunting Chain Attacks - 15
• 3 Piece Bonus - Rally Speed - 45%
• 4 Piece Bonus - March Unit Capacity - 25000
• 4 Piece Bonus - Defense Salvage (Tier 6) - 5%

• Basic Defense - Thermite Grenades
• Advanced Defense - Claymore Mines
• Experimental Defense - Electric Fence
• Air Defense - Missile Battery

• A new enemy has arrived, Evolved Xenosaurs have been unleashed across the globe, in a attempt to finally seize control of New Earth.
• Evolved Xenosaur invaders will appear across the world in a new event, these invaders are level 25, 30 and 35.

• New Crafting Component

• Xenosaur Fang

• Speed Boost Global Challenge
• Territory Claim Legion Challenge

• Resilient Infantry
• Adaptive Circuitry
• Advanced Stamina
• Advanced Engines

• Troop Load 2
• Gathering Speed 2
• Capture Speed (increase how fast Territory Sectors are claimed)

• Specialized Efficiency IV
• Prototype Efficiency IV
• Alien Efficiency IV
• Specialized Efficiency VI
• Prototype Efficiency VI
• Alien Efficiency VI

• Over the next few months, all Global events will last for a 4 hour period.

• Fixed an issue where it was impossible to search for Level 11 or 12 Scavengers.

• Fixed a regression where level 1 scan would scan for high level instead.

• Fixed an issue where the loading circle is white on challenge contributors UI.
• Fixed an issue where the loading circle is white on challenge contributors UI.
• Changed the radar scan UI to be dynamic which should fix the missing levels. High level scan will now return level 6+.
• Fixed an issue where the level 10 Flying Saucer did not have the correct reward.
• Fixed an issue where the level 13 Plasma Strider did not have the correct reward.
• Fixed a display issue where all the bunker units would be counted for defense totals on the client.
• Fixed an issue on MacOS where some graphics would not render sometimes.

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