Planetary Annihilation: TITANS news & patch notes

Greetings Commanders,

Alongside the recent Co-op work, we've been chipping away at a batch of long-standing bugs — and we're opening up four brand new engine mechanics for modders. Here's what's new:

Bug Fixes

• Wreckage targeting — units no longer get stuck shooting at wreckage.

• Naval sinking — ships now sink gradually to the seafloor instead of snapping to it instantly.

• Transport status bars — all transports now display a status bar to indicate how full they are.

• Air transports — no longer endlessly chase a moving pickup target.

• Orbital transports — no longer hop up and down when picking up a moving target. They now descend to the air layer and hold there if the target moves out of load range.

• Beam weapons — beams using the enemies collision check now aim at a target's center mass instead of the ground it's standing on.

Co-Op Galactic War

• Inventories stay put — clients who leave Co-op to play solo keep the same inventory. If a client becomes the host (and the host becomes a client), both keep the inventories they had.

• Clearer mod-mismatch screen — it no longer tells you to install or enable mods when you should be disabling them, it now checks and reports version mismatches, and it states exactly what to do.

• Server browser — you can now filter for Galactic War games.

New Mechanics

We're introducing four new engine mechanics, built to expand the modder's arsenal. You can try them right now by playing Legion + Sunrise or Exiles.

• Move Speed Modifier — weapon/tool use can temporarily increase or decrease a unit's move speed.

• Chaining Ammo — projectiles and beams can chain or bounce to nearby targets. A single shot can only hit each target once per chain.

• "Ghetto" Gunships — a mechanic beloved in other TA-likes: certain units can now fire while being transported.

• Beam/Laser build FX — builders can use a laser instead of a particle spray.

Known Issues

• Units can still get stuck shooting at wreckage in one specific sub-case — a patch is coming in the next hotfix.

• The game can appear to run while the simulation has actually stopped. If this happens, prior to hosting set Settings → Server → Local Server Multi-Threading to OFF.

For Modders

For examples and in-depth explanations of the new mechanics, check the Discord. Move Speed Modifier

• firing_move_speed_multiplier — move speed while reloading

• firing_disable_pushing — unit can't be pushed while reloading

• targeting_move_speed_multiplier — move speed while a targetable enemy is in range

• targeting_disable_pushing — unit can't be pushed while targeting

Firing activates only when the unit shoots and lasts one reload cycle. targeting activates whenever any target is in range, even if it's outside the weapon's yaw/pitch arc. Chaining Ammo

• ammo_chain_jumps — how many extra targets the ammo can hit after the first

• ammo_chain_range — how far each jump can reach

• ammo_chain_damage — damage per jump (defaults to normal damage if empty)

• ammo_chain_damage_falloff — per-jump multiplier, e.g. 0.5 to halve damage each jump

• ammo_chain_travel — the projectile physically travels instead of instantly damaging the next target

"Ghetto" Gunships

• fire_while_loaded { enabled, unit_types } — lets a transport allow the listed unit types to fire while loaded

Misc

• Builders can be set to use a laser instead of a particle spray.

• Mods can now change the visibility of the Delete Tech button more easily.

Keep on reporting bugs and suggesting improvements! We truly appreciate your feedback — most of our fixes start off as a report from you in the Discord. ~ The Community Commanders

We've been hard at work addressing more of your feedback on Co-op Galactic War, along with a couple of long-standing bug fixes. Here's what's new:

Co-op Galactic War:

• Persistent titles & passwords: Saves now remember the most recent lobby title and password. No more retyping the same details every time you boot up the same campaign!

• Fixed an issue where opening a campaign to Co-op for the first time with separate Tech enabled could wipe the host's inventory.

• Fixed a minor display bug where some Galactic War server beacons showed raw !LOC: text as part of the system name.

Bug Fixes

• Resolved a common effect-related crash frequently seen when reconnecting to a modded game.

• Fixed a common issue where players would get stuck on "Loading Mods" when launching the game.

Quality of Life

• Persistent wreckage: Once spotted, wreckage now stays visible in the fog of war instead of vanishing when you lose line of sight.

For Modders

• Multi-bone transporters: Transporters can now define an array of attachment bones. If a transport carries multiple units, each unit can be attached to its own unique bone instead of all hooking onto the same one.

• You can now specify a default title for Galactic War campaigns instead of "GW Co-op Campaign": When touching the gw_play scene, mods can make use of setDefaultGwCoopLobbyTitle(string).

Keep on reporting bugs and suggesting improvements! We truly appreciate your feedback, as most of our fixes start off as a report from you in the Discord. ~ The Community Commanders

A better lobby

• Auto-start: kick off the match automatically once everyone's ready.
• Ping AFK: send a sound alert and taskbar notification to only the players who've wandered off, instead of blasting the whole lobby.
• Make Host: hand host privileges over to another player without leaving the lobby.

• Most actions that used to unready everyone, like adding or removing slots and teams, no longer do.
• Moving or swapping players only unreadies the players involved.
• Swapping the system won't unready anyone.
• Changing game rules or eco modifiers still unreadies everyone, since those affect the whole match.

Fixes and polishes for Galactic War Co-op

• Fixed a race condition that could corrupt inventory data, leaving players with empty inventories the first time they opened a campaign to Co-op.
• All empty slots must now be filled or removed before a battle can be launched from the galactic map. This closes a rare window where a player could join after the battle had already started loading.

• Continue War now reopens as many slots as were open when you started the battle.
• Co-op players can now see the Continue War button, and clicking it shows "Awaiting host" so everyone understands the flow instead of wondering why nothing's happening.
• Co-op players are no longer treated as subcommanders for defeat detection. Unless Sudden Death is on, the host dying will no longer wipe out the whole team.
• The Dismiss Tech and tech-choice rows are back for Co-op players playing with shared tech. Players who aren't the host now see "Host Choosing Tech" so it's obvious why the buttons aren't available.
• Removed the misleading friends-visibility option, since the friend list is currently non-functional.
• The server beacon now reports active Galactic War mods, the same way it reports server mods.

For the modders

• Modmaking for Co-op: we've added the infrastructure to support mods in Co-op. Galactic War mods now have a mechanism to synchronize any game-state changes to every connected client.
• The mod-mismatch warning screen now reads the new galacticWarMod: true field from your modinfo.json. Players can no longer bypass the mismatch screen when a mismatch is detected.

Thank you

Greetings Commanders!

This is a big one. Galactic War — the roguelike campaign at the heart of Titans — has been a single-player experience since day one. Today that changes. You can now take on the galaxy together, with up to 12 players* sharing a single campaign from the first landing to the final boss.

This update has been a long time coming, and one the community has asked for again and again. Thank you for sticking with us and for keeping Galactic War alive all these years. We can't wait to see your Omega battleships tear across the stars.

One galaxy, one team

• Up to 12 players* in a single shared campaign.

• One shared galactic map — explore the same procedurally-generated galaxy together, with shared progression across every star system.

• Shared win/loss conditions — you take down the faction bosses as a team, and you live or die as a team.

*player cap can be increased even further with the launch command --local-server-max-players=64

Play it your way

Co-op ships with two control modes so you can run the campaign however your group likes:

• Shared Control (default) — everyone commands the same army together. Perfect for coordinated, all-hands teamplay. As long as at least one Commander lives, all of you can control the battlefield.

• Separate Armies — each player fields their own allied army with its own color. Fight side by side, but command your own forces. If the host dies, everyone dies. If anyone else dies, only they lose while the fight continues.

Loadouts & tech, together or separate

• Turn on Per-Player Tech for individual tech-card inventories: every player picks their own Commander, starting loadout, and tech cards.

• Want everyone to run the same build? Leave it off and share a single tech inventory and loadout across the whole team.

The galaxy fights back even harder

The enemy doesn't just sit there while you bring friends. The AI scales to match your team:

• +20% AI economy per extra player, so a bigger team means a tougher fight.

• More enemy Commanders in each system to match the new players.

• Running Per-Player Tech? Enemy scaling ramps up further to keep the challenge honest.

Want to add friends without cranking the difficulty? Enable "Allow extra players later" to let people drop in without affecting the campaign's scaling.

Drop in, drop out, keep going

• Reconnect support — got knocked offline? Jump back into the active campaign and pick up where you left off.

• Campaign persistence — your progress saves automatically and stays in sync across the whole team. Any player can become the host and resume with the same team, or a completely different one, all without losing progress!

How to start

• Head into Galactic War and create a new campaign or load an old save.

• Set your player count, choose your control mode, and toggle Per-Player Tech and extra-player options to taste.

• Host: use the Call for Reinforcements button on the galactic map to open the lobby.

• Friends: join via the server browser, pick your Commanders, and drop onto the first world together.

Your favorite mods, fully supported

Co-op isn't just for the base campaign. Community favorites like Bigger Galactic War and Galactic War Overhaul are supported.

Note: all players need to have the same Galactic War mods to play together.

Modders: add "galacticWarMod": true to modinfo.json to mark your mod as a Galactic War mod.

Linux support marches on

Additionally, we continue work on improving Linux support. We're very happy to announce that a significant number of native Linux distros can now once again run the game. While there are still some issues to iron out, we're grateful to the incredible Linux community for providing testing, logs, and an incredible amount of feedback. Without you, we could not have made it this far.

Thank you

The Community Commanders team has expanded significantly since our last Dev Diary, and we are genuinely overwhelmed by all of the support and enthusiasm for the game's future. Huge thanks to all of the volunteers who helped make this a reality. We really hope we can do justice by this incredible game and its even more incredible community. Special shoutout to the Community Commander Diruslupus, who headed this project. He built an ancient mod idea into a fully fledged feature, pouring countless hours into making sure every off-the-cuff remark became an actual feature.

This is by no means the end of our plans. We have a series of major updates in the works, including some major improvements to the system editor. Stay tuned, something dark lurks amongst the stars…

When the community commanders took over the release cycle for PA, we lost support for Linux in the new community-supported build process. At that time, we asked for help from the community, and you delivered. Thank you to all who shared workarounds, logs, advice, and testing. Without that support, we would not have been able to make the progress we are sharing today.

It took much longer than we wanted, but after several failed attempts, we have moved forward, and your mileage for running the game natively on Linux should be much improved. To be clear, we are still seeing cases of incompatibility, but we are seeing a significant improvement in the number of people who can run the game natively.

With this release now out, we would like to iterate and make improvements, so if you are having issues, please come to the Discord server and share your logs and successes. You might also recall from a previous release that there is an alternative launch option called linux_live. If you fail to launch the current release, it will be helpful to know if the linux_live version also fails.

If you are able to test the Linux version of the game and are interested in helping us test, as well as having early beta access to new releases, come to Discord, head to the announcements channel, and react with 🐧 to be considered for the Linux beta testing group. https://discord.gg/pa

Taking on stewardship of Planetary Annihilation's codebase has been one of the most rewarding things we've worked on. PA runs on a powerful custom engine, and getting properly fluent in it (while also bringing it in line with modern standards) is a big job that we're steadily chipping away at.

Right now, our engineering effort is split across three areas:

Production and release pipeline. Everything that takes us from a code change to a live update on Steam. We've got a solid handle on this now, and we're moving from "working" to "well-optimised."

Bug fixes and dependency updates. Like most games, PA relies on a range of external libraries, and keeping these current is essential for stability across platforms. Linux in particular benefits a lot from regular updates here.

Servers and backend. PA's original AWS architecture dates back to 2014 and predates a lot of what we now ask of it. We've been investing heavily in migrating to a more modern, sustainable backend that suits how the game is actually played today.

Once these foundations are in place, the path opens up considerably, and we'll be able to put much more of our energy into the parts everyone's waiting for: new content, new mechanics, new game modes, and plenty more besides.

So, who are "we"?

The Community Commanders are organised into teams based on each member's area of expertise. We (the authors of this Dev Diary) are the Engine Team, mostly coders and software engineers, currently six people strong. Alongside us there's also the Art Team, the Balance and Ranked Team, and a handful of other roles dotted around the project.

What we've shipped recently

• A new Steam Peer-to-Peer (P2P) hosting system, so players whose routers don't support UPnP can host directly from their machines. This system replaced the outdated Uber servers as the new default

• Two major updates to PA Chat

• Ranked reset and a new season, with new maps and a balance pass

• Several significant bug fixes

• A beta branch for Linux players (with full Linux support also in progress)

• Prototype of a new Shields mechanic, new range indicators

What we're working on now

Co-Op Galactic War Many of you have been asking for this for years, and we are proud to announce it's finally coming to the game really soon. How soon you ask? You can join our LABS test program to be among the first to try it in the following weeks!

New Mechanics We're exploring a range of additions to the game from units, to the map editor to functionality for modding. For instance, we've got neutral units ready for you to play around with in the editor if you join the LABS test program!

Help wanted!

We're looking to grow the Community Commanders volunteer team, and would love to hear from anyone who'd like to contribute to PA's future. Current openings include:

• Experienced programmers, particularly with C++

• SFX designers comfortable producing audio assets that fit the game

• FX designers to work with PA's JSON/PFX-based particle system

• 3D modellers comfortable working in the PA art style and under the direction of our existing modelling team

• Graphic designers for visual assets across the project

• Map makers to help make maps for ranked, team games and scripted scenarios

• Community management and media: Running community events like tournaments and testing, and producing teaser material for upcoming content

If any of that sounds like you, get in touch on the PA Discord. We'd love to chat!

• Faster mod downloads in lobbies — Steam P2P transfers now run at full link speed, so joining a modded lobby is dramatically quicker than before.

• Ranked matchmaking fix — Resolved a bug where queueing for a ranked match could occasionally drop you back into a custom lobby you'd previously joined.

Greetings Commanders,

We, the Community Commanders dev team, are excited to share some of our progress and how you can shape PA's ongoing development.

Our priorities are stability, playability, and transparency. So, recently we have released several silent bugfix patches which have resolved a large number of issues and crashes. This will help us build a more stable foundation on which to build some major content drops we have planned. More on those soon – look out for Dev Diaries and join the PA discord to be the first to see what's coming up! Read on to find out how YOU can help shape PA moving forwards…

Introducing the LABS Public Testing Environment

The LABS PTE is a new initiative where we will be pre-releasing new and experimental content for public testing via the Steam Betas function.

Joining public testing grants you:

• Early access to new features, units, mechanics, maps and more

• Show off your unique PA Chat icon and Discord role

• Ability to provide feedback directly to the Community Commanders in exclusive discord channels

• And finally, for players who consistently help with testing, a unique custom Commander: the one and only Kapowatz!

Join the PA Discord and become a tester TODAY - check out the official PA Discord: https://discord.gg/pa

Steam P2P

We have added a new local hosting system using Steam's networking that should resolve issues where your friends fail to join your lobby. Downloading server mods will take a bit longer but we aim to improve it over time.

v124642

• Steam P2P now fully replaces the outdated PA ran servers. If you encounter any issues, please report them in the support channel on the discord!

• Max player limit raised from 6 to 12!

Linux - v124642

• While we resolve the build issues with linux, we have added a new branch to Steam with the latest working version that supports Linux. While you wont be able to play Ranked or crossplay with the current live version, you will have full access to singleplayer and multiplayer with other Linux users who are on the same branch.

To access this branch, right click PA in your Steam Library -> Properties -> Game Versions & Betas -> Linux_live

Bug Fixes

• Potential fix for the Commbug has been released - v124642

• New range indicator colors have been temporarily removed with a fix expected shortly v124642 - New range indicator colors are now back

• Coldbox has been removed from ranked while we investigate the cause of reported crashes.

• Some server mods (e.g. Exiles, Sunrise) that use new features will not work in the short term

• Leaderboards info panel has been updated

• Grabbing and moving CSG brushes no longer resets their vertical height

Greetings Commanders!

If there's one constant in war: Galactic battlefield strategy must evolve.

Today we are releasing a small balance pass, resetting 1v1 ranks and reshuffling the ranked map pool.

To our Linux players, please read on to hear about how you can help our technical team improve Linux support!

Ranked Season 15

Season 15 will run from March 16th 2026 to June 16th 2026

New Maps:

• Coldbox (by Dreadnought)

• Dire Strait (by Marshall)

• Mukden (by Quildtide)

• TheClassyBarren (By AndreasG)

Returning Maps:

• Abyss LE

• Blitz

• Diahydri

• Geonosis

• Headwind

• Hyde

• Lock

• Mantle

• Rotunda

• Shoreline (Hemispheric)

• Sunbaked Gully

• Tartarus

• The Marne

• Tropics LE

• Utonaga

Balance

Land

• Bluehawk

  • `max_range` decreased from 180 to 160

  Bluehawks are intended to be mid-range skirmisher units that help initiate and force engagements. This range reduction will reduce their kiting effectiveness.

• Gil-E

  • `acceleration` decreased from 120 to 60

  • `turn_speed` decreased 720 to 360

• Locust

  • `move_speed' decreased from 35 to 30

  Locusts were too deadly in their previous state. This change should give opponents more time to react and mitigate the threat.

• Drifter

  • `build_metal_cost` decreased from 225 to 210

  Drifters are underutilised. This cost reduction should help them appear more in army compositions. Especially in use against T2 and on hybrid naval maps.

• Vanguard

  • `rate_of_fire` increased from 0.75 to 1

  We were expecting the Vanguard to overperform in the previous patch and attempted to reduce ites effectiveness in anticipation. We overcorrected and so this change returns it to its previous strength.

• Leveler

  • `splash_damage` added and set to 300

  • `splash_radius` added and set to 3

  • `full_damage_splash_radius` added and set to 1

• Manhattan

  • `navigation` `type` changed from `amphibious` to `amphibious-large`

  • `allow_pushing` set to `false`

  • `push_sideways` set to `false`

  Manhattan pushing has been a great meme, but its proven to be very difficult to stop in the mid-late, especially in FFAs. We will be keeping a close eye on the performance of this unit, so please make sure to share your feedback in the discord.

Naval

• Typhoon

  • Carrier Ammo `lifetime` increased from 3.0 to 5.0

  • Staged flight parameters adjusted for more consistent payload delivery

• Squall (Drone)

  • `move_speed` decreased from 80 to 40

  • `acceleration` decreased from 80 to 40

  To fix the infinite range issue with Typhoons, Squalls will deploy closer to the target but will not be able to chase as far.

Structures and Economy

• Advanced Energy Plant

  • `max_health` decreased from 5000 to 3000

  • `build_metal_cost` increased from 2000 to 2800

  • `energy production` increased from 3750 to 6000

  • Net efficiency increased from 1.875 to 2.14

  We were not happy with T2 power balance. While mathematically more efficient than T1, in reality it was almost always better to make T1 generators when stalling energy. These changes aim to make T2 generators higher risk, but higher reward. You will have to invest more upfront but the significantly higher efficiency means great payoff once the structure is up. That increased value and its HP reduction make them a more attractive target however. We hope this will add some depth to the late game, defense and decision making.

• Unit Cannon

  • Now displays how many and which units are loaded

  • Now displays the icons of launched units currently in transit

  This change will help you track how full your cannons are and exactly what you have waiting to rain on your opponent.

  Note that this intelligence is also available to your opponents if they scout your cannons allowing them to react accordingly.

• Radar Jamming Station

  • Removed Radar

  Now that a dedicated indicator exists (see below), radar's inclusion to use the range indicator is no longer needed.

• Solar Array

  • `energy production` decreased from 3200 to 2800

  • Net efficiency decreased from 2 to 1.75

  Solar Arrays were the most space efficient and most survivable source of late-game energy. This change aims to create a tradeoff forcing players to choose between risky but efficient T2 power or safer but less efficient solar arrays.

Miscellaneous Improvements

General and Graphics

• Improvements to rendering status bars. (HP, Ammo etc)

• New setting to allow status bars to be displayed in PiP

• Added new cultured range indicators

  • Radar Jamming

  • Anti Air Weapons

  • Mass Teleport

  Units with weapons that can target air now have a distinct blue range outline, and units that can target both land and air will have a magenta outline.

Note: The long standing "Comm Bug" and issue where units continue to fire at wreckage are being actively investigated with potential fixes identified. These are currently undergoing testing.

Mechanics and Modding

• Added Shield system for initial testing - Stay tuned!

• Added range restriction for mass teleporter

• Added attachment bone array support for transporters: multi-unit transports can now have units attached at various points instead of stacking all of them on the same bone

You can find more information and examples of these new mechanics in the #making-mods channel in the official discord.

System Editor

• Added Energy Spots to the system editor

  • Default hotkey is E. Currently intended for modders, expect more functionality soon.

• CSG no longer resets its vertical offset when grabbed.

Linux Support - Calling all Linux Commanders!

We need your help testing Linux support for PA.

The transition to our new build and release pipeline shifted some dependencies. As a result, the Linux version may fail to launch for some players, while others may be able to launch but cannot start or play a game.

We’re investigating the cause, and we’re aware that the issue is not resolved in the latest release.

Regardless of whether the game works or fails on your system, if you’re running PA on Linux we’d greatly appreciate it if you could send us your game logs and your system specifications to the support channel in discord.

Our Community Commanders currently represent only a small portion of Linux users. We want to provide robust Linux support, but we need more real-world data from the community.

Your reports will help us identify the problem faster and improve Linux support. Thank you!

It’s a new year and with it comes a new team and a new approach. The Community Commanders (previously the Community Consultants) are now hard at work on some significant updates to Planetary Annihilation: Titans. You may already be aware of the server migration that is currently ongoing, but the team has a lot more in store and is eager to share it with you! You’ll notice this Dev Diary is #1. 

These community dev diaries will aim to fill you in on what we are working on to provide some transparency on what your community team is working on and who the hardworking members of the community are. We want to keep you all informed on goings-on from here on out and will use these to sprinkle juicy sneak peaks at their work in progress on its way to release later this year.

The Community Team

The team behind these upcoming updates and these diaries is a number of passionate players who have been at the heart of Planetary Annihilation for years, in some cases all the way back in pre-launch and Alpha. They know the game inside and out and have a mix of skills and talents from art (modelling, texturing, animation, FX), level and UI design to the AI experience and the backend skills necessary to make all the wheels turn. There’s no better team to be shepherding Planetary Annihilation: Titans. They are always in active conversation with the rest of the community, keeping their fingers on the pulse of the game. You should definitely drop by and say hello in the community discord. You'll learn more about the individuals and their work in this Dev Diaries series.

Coming Up…

PA:T is celebrating its 12th birthday this year, a huge achievement for any game, especially if it is still receiving updates after such a stretch of time.  We’re already in the process of modernising the servers to ensure the game can live for another 12 years, but what else is in store? 

Tune in to Dev Diary #2 for a closer look at what’s coming up! 

Thank you for joining us for this first Dev Diary, now come and annihilate some planets with us!

A Note on Servers

As you may know, recently Planetary Annihilation's server capacity has been reduced. Eventually, Planetary Annihilation will be decoupled from AWS as these servers have been growing increasingly unsustainable to maintain. AWS servers have underpinned signing in, finding a ranked match, watching replays and more.

Our goal now is to rebuild what we call PA_NET and migrate it one part at a time, introducing improvements that will automatically optimize connections in-game. This should reduce common connection issues and make it much easier to join friends, set up custom matches, and get into games without frustration.

However, in the short term we will have to turn off the ability to host AI games on the official game servers. This will allow us to redirect those resources to ranked games, which cannot be self-hosted. In the future, I’ll talk more about relay servers and the work we’re doing to solve UPnP issues.

In the meantime, community members have kindly offered to host servers for players with stricter ISPs that prevent them from self-hosting games. We want to thank You, the community, for your continued support, and your patience and understanding while this crucial work is completed.

Further news will be shared in upcoming dev-diary posts and on Discord.

Maps:

• Fixed bug with the ranked map Mukden,

• Fixed minor metal spot asymmetry on the ranked map Crag,

• Improvements to Trench,

• Improvements to Bulkhead,

• removed duplicate of Phang Shores,

AI and Galactic War:

• The AI will now build the new units,

• The new units will now be affected by Galactic War cards,

Balance:

• Drifter

  • ammo 'flight_type' reverted to default (Ballistic)

  • ammo 'gravity_scalar' increased from 1 to 20

  • ammo 'lifetime' decreased from 1 to 0.75

• Bluehawk

  • 'max_health' deceased from 1000 to 800

  • split the main weapon into anti-orbital and anti-ground new anti-orbital weapon

    • 'damage' set to 750

    • 'rate_of_fire' set to 0.2

    • 'max_range' set to 200

• Gil-E

  • 'damage' increased from 500 to 600

  • 'max_range' increased from 180 to 200

Greetings Commanders! Sparks of activity have been observed in armament research facilities and have resulted in new weapons of war that you can roll out onto the battlefield. Not only this, but there were rumors that armies have been sighted operating without a central commander brain controlling them. This update has been installed on all commanders, resulting in a brand new game mode: Eradication! 

Developed by the team of Community Consultants, 3 new units have been added to your arsenal as well as a brand new way to play Planetary Annihilation! Read on to find out more about these new ways to wage war, all with a brand new Ranked Season! 

3 Brand New Units

Nyx Advanced Radar Jamming Vehicle

A compact and mobile version of its structural sibling, the Nyx hides nearby allied units from enemy radar and provides radar vision to your own forces over a large area. Excellent for sneaking up on unsuspecting opponents and for countering long-range artillery that relies on radar for targeting. The Nyx continues to provide radar jamming when it’s loaded in transports, so beware of sneaky drops!

Kessler Homing Orbital Mine

Unlike its surface and water counterparts, the Kessler Orbital mine is always visible and semi-mobile. When an enemy orbit unit enters range, the kesler will home-in on its target and explode on impact. This makes it incredibly useful for defending against orbital snipes, however it’s still vulnerable to ships that have already entered the orbital layer of your planet.

Ward Advanced Anti-Nuke Vehicle

Armed with a single interceptor missile on a long cooldown, the Ward is perfect for guarding your armies from defensive nukes. It can even hover over water and lava. While the Ward is less metal efficient than a regular Anti-Nuke structure, it’s mobility can be of great use when escorting late game armies or securing a zone for planetary invasion.

Brand new game mode: **Eradication**

This new game mode takes the focus away from commanders; the fight can now continue even after commanders have been destroyed! Instead, you must eradicate all remaining fabricators, factories or sub-commanders. You can choose the extent of eradication required from the game lobby to determine what the new victory condition will be.

Can be set in the lobby to:

- Support Commanders

- Fabricators

- Factories

- or any combination of the 3!

Dynamic Alliances game mode update!

Alliances will now automatically break up when there is only 1 team remaining alive unless "alliance victory" is enabled

Lobby and UI

- added Twitch integration to main menu

- added Youtube integration to main menu

- The News page will now correctly update with information about the latest patch

(thanks to rich for hosting the relevant services, check out his https://ggleaderboards.com)

Ranked Reset and Season 14

The 1v1 ladder has been reset: Enter Ranked Season 14! Featuring 20 maps including new maps… Duration: June 2025 - December 2025 Whoever stands on top of the ladder at the end of the season will receive the legendary Beast Commander! There are 11 Brand new maps:

• Abandoned Facility

• Abyss (by NikolaMX)

• Arctic (by N30N)

• Experiencia

• Forge Rebirth (by Ferretmaster)

• Mean Time

• Mukden (by Quildtide)

• Shoreline LE

• Phang Shores

• Solitude

• Sunbaked Gully

9 Returning maps from previous seasons:

• Crag

• Demi-Mirum

• Fluviaat

• Nitre

• Periculo

• Ribbon

• Steps

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Balance

Our goal was to reduce the imbalance between how useful fast units like the Dox, Piranha and Slammers are compared to their slower counterparts. In addition we want to strengthen more specialized units like the Drifter, Bluehawk and Stryker so that each of them can shine in its own role.

General

All units now leave the same proportion of metal in their wreckage: equal to half of their original build cost, resulting in more consistent wreckage. Wreckage fields will now yield more metal overall than before.

Commander

- Base Commander (applies to all commanders)

`wreckage_health_frac` added and set to 1 (increase from the default 0.5)

death nuke `splash_radius` increased from 110 to 130

death nuke `damage` increased from 2000 to 3000

death nuke `initial_radius` increased from 20.0 to 30

death nuke `full_damage_splash_radius` increased from 20 to 30

`splash_damages_allies` set to `false`

upscaled visual effect of the commander death nuke

The explosion when a commander dies is visually very similar to nukes, but somewhat disappointing in its damage, and frustrating in its ability to decimate a teammate’s base. 

It will now do considerably more damage over a larger area, meaning you can use your last vengeful moments to wipe out the army that destroyed you. Additionally the explosion no longer does damage to friendly units which should help out with Team Game dynamics.

Air

- Base Flyer (applies to all air units)

`wreckage_health_frac` increased from 0.7 to 1

- Fabrication Aircraft

`max_health` increased from 25 to 100

Air fabs can now survive being hit by a single fighter missile. This will make Air fab plays a little bit more forgiving in the early game and for inexperienced players who overbuild them.

- Firefly

`UNITTYPE_Offense` added

`max_health` increased from 20 to 85

`build_metal_cost` increased from 60 to 100 Currently the Firefly is too cheap for an early game unit. This makes early game scouting very easy and sneaky early strategies that much harder to execute. Increasing the cost of the Firefly should add some choice to which air unit you want to build first. However, it  is now more durable and can survive at least one hit before being destroyed.

- Pelican

`UNITTYPE_Offense` added

- Icarus

Added `maintain_priority_target` and set it to `false` (the same fix we gave the spark last patch)

`UNITTYPE_Offense` added

Fireflies, Pelicans and Icarus will now select with your other air units by default when using the “select all air” hotkey. - Hornet

`max_health` increased from 500 to 600

Updated missile FX and model

Hornets are now more durable to compensate for the re-introduction of Stryker AA and the increase in damage of Gil-Es: 2 of the Hornet’s main counters. - Horsefly

Updated description

Can now target air units

`splash_damage` increased from 0 to 15

`splash_radius` increased from 0 to 3

`projectiles_per_fire` decreased from 4 to 2

`damage` increased from 10 to 15 removed `AT_Air`

Horseflies are very similar to Kestrels, only better in every single way. These changes aim to give them their own role by decreasing their overall DPS while maintaining their signature durability. Additionally they will now be able to target other Air units, but don’t expect them to win any fights against fighters on their own!

- Zeus

`wreckage_health_frac` removed, will now be the same as Base Flyer

`splash_radius` increased from 40 to 50

death explosion `splash_damages_allies` set to `false`

Structures

- Air Factory

`factory_cooldown_time` increased from 2 to 4

- Advanced Air Factory

`factory_cooldown_time` increased from 2 to 4

Air Factories have had uncharacteristically low cooldown times compared to other factory types. This change aims to decrease the viability of “Air Boost” strategies. - Teleporter

`max_health` decreased from 9750 to 7000    

`build_metal_cost` increased from 800 to 1000

Corrected a nav mesh bug in the model

These nerfs to teleporters aim to make them harder to spam and easier to take down, particularly in the context of interplanetary invasions with orbital fabs.

- Catapult

`rate_of_fire` decreased from 0.4 to 0.25

`initial_velocity` increased from 80 to 120.0

`max_velocity` increased from 80 to 120.0

Updated missile FX and model

Fixed syntax errors in the animation tree. Catapult animations will now play correctly.

`target_priorities` added:

    `Mobile & Advanced`

    `Commander`

    `Mobile - Air`

    `Structure - Wall`

    `Wall`

Catapults combine an incredible range and damage output which has made them too strong in the late game and Free For Alls. These changes aim to lower their ability to melt through entire armies while making them better at taking out high-value T2 units. - Advanced Torpedo Launcher

`surface_and_air` sight reduced from 200 to 160

`underwater` sight reduced from 200 to 160

Krakens will now be able to use their radar stealth to get close enough to attack Advanced Torpedo Launchers without being spotted and fired upon.

Land

- Base Bot

`wreckage_health_frac` increased from 0.7 to 1

- Base Vehicle

`wreckage_health_frac` increased from 0.7 to 1

- Ares

`wreckage_health_frac` removed, will now be the same as Base Vehicle

death exlosion `splash_damages_allies` set to `false`

- Atlas

`wreckage_health_frac` removed, will now be the same as Base Bot

death exlosion `splash_damages_allies` set to `false`

The Ares, Atlas and Zeus no longer damage allies when they are destroyed. - Bot Fabricator

`energy` use when building decreased from 600 to 525

`metal` use when building decreased from 8 to 7

Bot fabs benefit from a very low cost combined with excellent speed. This has made them incredibly good at rushing to and locking down a forward position early in the game. The buildrate reductions we are introducing make Bot Fabs less suitable for more expensive construction projects, while still being good enough to rapidly build metal extractors all over the map.

- Dox

`rate_of_fire` decreased from 1 to 0.9 In combination with buffs to the Dox’s main counters, this change aims to reduce the deadliness of Dox only army compositions.

- Spark

`max_range` increased from 65 to 67.5

ammo `lifetime` increased from 0.5 to 1 (restored to original value now that the AoE bug is fixed)

Minor range increase to compensate for the Stryker range buff. - Skitter

`UNITTYPE_Offense` added (will now select with other combat units)

- Stryker

`move_speed` decreased from 17 to 15

`max_range` increased from 75 to 80

`WL_Air` added to target layers

The Stryker has lacked its own identity. Our goal with this iteration is to turn it into a flexible defensive vehicle that can hold its own against smaller raiding parties while not dominating the Dox as a raiding unit. The addition of AA targeting should help tackle some of the problems that Vehicles have against air units, in particular the Angel, Hornet, Wyrm and Icarus.

- Drifter

`damage` increased from 120 to 125

`initial_velocity` increased from 150 to 300

`max_velocity` increased from 150 to 300

 ammo `flight_type` set to `Seeking`

 ammo `turn_rate` set to 30

 ammo `lifetime` decreased from 2 to 1

`idle_aim_delay` increased from 3 to 5

`target_priorities` updated to

    `Mobile & Advanced`

    `Commander`

    `Mobile - Air`

    `Structure - Wall`

    `Wall`

Current drifters are a more expensive, less durable version of the Ant. The increased damage and adjusted ammo targeting mean they will now prioritise T2 units and will take out enemy ants in 2 shots instead of 3. While they still lose in head to head engagements with slammers, they will now be better at holding their ground with proper inferno support.

- Vanguard

`rate_of_fire` decreased from 1 to 0.75 radar removed passive energy consumption removed

Vanguards are a bit too good at clearing armies of cheap units which makes them very difficult to take down with traditional counters like boombots and dox. This nerf aims to lessen that problem. Additionally the Vanguard’s radar has been removed and given to the new jamming unit, the Nyx. - Colonel

`wreckage_health_frac` removed, will now be the same as Base Bot

- Slammer

`UNITTYPE_Sub` added. Will no longer be ignored by torpedo weapons when submerged

`damage` decreased from 100 to 60

`rate_of_fire` increased from 4 to 6

Slammers have been the dominant T2 unit in PA for a long while; they’re the only T2 unit that can fight pretty much everything in T1. These changes aim to make a bit more specialised for clearing cheap fodder while becoming slightly worse at dealing with durable targets such as tanks.

- Locust

`build_metal_cost` increased from 260 to 500

`max_health` increased from 80 to 160

`rate_of_fire` increased from 5 to 10

`move_speed` decreased from 40 to 35

`surface_and_air` and `underwater` vision increased from 40 to 45

Locusts in their current state are stuck being too expensive to mass produce while also being too weak to send out around the map alone. This scale-up will make them more in line with the cost of other T2 bot units, making it easier to justify building a couple and still getting value.

- Gil-E

`damage` increased from 350 to 500

`rate_of_fire`decreased from 0.25 to 0.2

Adjusted to fit more of a high damage sniper role.

- Bluehawk

`damage` decreased from 750 to 300

`max_health` increased from 200 to 1000

`build_metal_cost` decreased from 800 to 700

`rate_of_fire` increased from 0.2 to 0.3

`max_range` decreased from 200 to 180

For many years the bluehawk has been used as purely an anti vehicle/orbital counter and completely countered by Gil-Es. The various changes here seek to move its role to more of a heavy skirmisher. Its health now fits its bulk and it can be near the frontlines, adding an option to your army compositions.

Sea

 - Base Ship

`wreckage_health_frac` increased from 0.7 to 1

- Naval fab

`max_health` increased from 100 to 150

`move_speed` increased from 10 to 12

`turn_speed` increased from 90 to 120

These changes should make expanding feel a bit more comfortable.

- Piranha

`move_speed` decreased from 20 to 18

`max_health` decreased from 175 to 150

projectile `lifetime` decreased from 3 to 1.5 s

Piranhas are overperforming significantly and dominate most naval matches. The speed decrease aims to make them less capable of running freely around the map while the HP decrease should weaken their matchup with Orcas and Narwhals. - Narwhal

AA weapon `rate_of_fire` decreased from 3 to 2.5

AA weapon `max_range` decreased from 150 to 120

torpedo weapon `damage` decreased from 250 to 200

Narwhals are overperforming, especially against Orcas. The nerf to their AA aims to make them slightly more vulnerable to T1 and especially T2 Air.

- Stingray

`initial_velocity` increased from 80 to 120

`max_velocity` increased from 80 to 120

`lifetime` decreased from 60 to 40

Updated missile FX and model

Stingray missiles will now more effectively hunt down faster aircraft like Horseflies and Fighters.

- Squall (Typhoon drone)

`build_metal_cost` updated from 90 to 30 to reflect the real metal cost of squalls (no gameplay changes)

`guard_radius` decreased from 250 to 100

`surface_and_air` and `underwater` view range decreased from 150 to 50

Squalls will now be more dependent on vision from other allied units.

Orbital

- Omega

side-guns `max_range` decreased from 150 to 130

Other Improvements and Bugfixes

System Editor

- added CSG brush icons for all hidden CSG (courtesy of Ares Lord)

- added beta version of height adjustments tracker (by Ferretmaster)

UI

- added discord logo to main menu discord button

- added visible timer to ranked disconnection, you will now know exactly how long is left until a technical victory - separated out game name and system name in the replay browser

- added a map pack section to the community mod manager

- community mod manager now tells you if a mod is locally installed

Bug FIxes and QoL

- fixed the longstanding tree AoE bug, aka the “spark bug” - fixed bug where displayed hp would bug out at low values

- fixed ice planets biome not visually showing in the load planet section

- fixed metal weapons showing they draw power instead of metal(lob etc)

- improved special weapon alerts behaviour (big orange alerts for planet smashing/laser)

- planet list drop down is now automatically opened after landing

- removed the darkest black and blue team colors from the available selection

• Transports will now always move to units, units never move to Transports
• All factories will now deploy currently building units if they are powered down but assisting units finish the building process
• All Naval and hover units now leave wreckage upon destruction which then sinks instead of staying on the water surface.
• All Air units now leave wreckage upon destruction
• The default area build type and spacing for a number of structures has been changed. This applies to Energy and Metal Storage, all anti-ground and anti-air turrets, basic and advanced Energy Plants, and mines.

• Angel Missiles and repair fabricator come from the correct locations on the unit
• Orbital Factory and Solar Array icons correctly mark units as advanced
• T1 Naval Factory can no longer be blocked in a way that prevents production
• Exploit where Orbital units are able to immediately shoot upon arriving has been removed
• Nukes no longer disappear from the Nuke launcher if it is powered off

• Community Mods Merging is now ON by default (option defaults to true and may be overridden by 'community_mods_force_merge_unit_server_mods')
• Ammo of type PBAOE that does "metal" damage will no longer crash the server if multiple trigger at the same time
• Fixed a bug where only units from the most recently loaded unit mod are shown in Community Mods UNITS tab's list
• Added additional CUSTOM# unit_type tags (highest available being CUSTOM58)
• Implemented fully functional area loading for transports with carrying capacity of more than 1
• Add custom armour types AT_Custom0 to AT_Custom9
• Fixed a crash associated with Mass Teleport
• AI support for metal extractors of other factions fixed by adding a new property on the faction commander spec which is:

• Added 7 new WPMarshall maps.
• Samar's Sands - 1v1
• Unhelpful Habits - 1v1
• Experiencia - 1v1,2v2,3v3 (Multi-Planet))
• Inconceivable Field - 5v5 (includes Gas Giant)
• Phang Shores - 1v1,2v2,3v3,4v4 (Naval Island Spawns)
• Phang Shores XL - (Phang Shores, but with an extra planet!)
• The Major Grump - 3v3,4v4,5v5 (Multi-planet, includes Gas Giant)
• Added Queller AI 5.23.1 - this is no longer a mod, but is now a full part of the game.
• Added UPnP support on Windows builds, required so the local servers can see out into the world and get incoming connections from other clients.
• Unit balancing tweaks.
• Retrained AI values, so the AI will play more competitively with the new balancing tweaks.
• Games are hosted by default locally (instead of remote servers) and limited to 6 slots. Use --local-server-max-players flag on the client to override this limit. Remote servers are still available for larger games, just the game defaults to local servers for smaller games.

• Speed reduced from 18 to 17
• Range reduced from 80 to 75

• Fire rate increased from 0.5 to 0.55 shots/second

• Damage reduced from 125 to 120
• Range reduced from 115 to 110

• Range reduced from 140 to 130

• Range increase from 30 to 50
• Fire rate increased from 0.5 to 1 shot/second
• Damage reduced from 2000 to 1000
• Splash damage reduced from 2000 to 1000

• Speed increased from 7 to 10
• Turn speed increased from 45 to 60
• Turn acceleration increased from 15 to 30

• Speed increased from 19 to 20
• Acceleration reduced from 190 to 50

• Range reduced from 70 to 65

• Speed increased from 12 to 16

• Fire rate for torpedo increased from 0.25 to 0.75 shots/second

• Health increased from 150 to 350

• Metal cost reduced from 7000 to 6000
• Health reduced from 8000 to 6000
• Build range increased from 20 to 30

• Health reduced from 150 to 120

• Fabber
• Air Defence
• Mobile & (Land|Naval)

• Health reduced from 300 to 240

• Health reduced from 300 to 250
• Range reduced from 80 to 60
• Damage increased from 15 to 20

• Health increased from 200 to 600
• Metal cost increased from 1500 to 3200
• Fire rate increased from 0.25 to 0.5
• Range increased from 180 to 190
• Missile velocity increased from 80 to 160
• Speed reduced from 40 to 30

• Range reduced from 120 to 105

• Torpedo weapon REMOVED
• Updated buildbar and strategic icons accordingly

• Torpedo weapon ADDED (250 damage every 2.5 seconds, 100 DPS)
• Updated buildbar and strategic icons accordingly

• Removed radar stealth

• Speed increased from 10 to 12

• Tactical missile weapon can now target air targets, prioritising Hornets and Wyrms

• Energy production increased from 2500 to 3200

• Side cannons can now also target Land, Air and Surface targets
• Side cannons damage reduced from 2x65 to 2x30
• Side cannons fire rate increased from 1 to 2 shots/second
• Side cannons pitch range increased from 60 to 180 to allow them to targets units right bellow

• Health increased from 40,000 to 60,000

• Health reduced from 80,000 to 50,000
• Close range aoe “stomp” attack removed

• Health increased from 10,000 to 12,000
• First rate increased from 0.5 to 0.55 shots/sec
• Energy draw increased from 5000 to 5500 energy/sec

• Health reduced from 5000 to 3000
• Metal production increased from 16 to 18
• Metal cost reduced from 2000 to 1800

• Storage amount increased from 100,000 to 300,000

• All resource storage REMOVED
• Energy production reduced from 7000 to 3750
• Explosion on death changed to only damage structures

• Health increased from 350 to 400
• Yaw rate increased from 60 to 90
• Damage increased from 40 to 60

• Hitbox adjusted
• Range increased from 120 to 130
• Rate of fire increased from 3 to 5

• Fire rate increased from 3 to 4.5
• Metal cost per shot reduced from 60 to 50
• Ammo capacity reduced from 500 to 445
• Ammo demand reduced from 15 to 13

• Added Storm to the buildable units
• Can now be built on water
• Metal cost reduced from 10,000 to 6800

Maps

• Alloy
• Amadeus' Rift
• Angels Causeway
• ASAT
• Ashworth's Garden
• Backbone
• Bulkhead
• Canals
• Canyon
• Castle
• Clutch II
• Current
• Diahydri
• District
• Echo
• EVAK-TWO
• Forager
• Fossil
• Fulcrum
• Gargantuan LE
• Haze
• Headwind
• Hemlock
• Hopper
• Line
• Moment
• Pax Frontier
• Plenty
• Riddler
• Riptide
• Scarred Sands
• Shackle
• Shard
• Snowball
• Surface
• Threshold
• Trench
• Turnpike
• Ulmost
• Undergrowth

• A-SAT
• Alloy
• Amadeus’ Rift
• Angel’s Causeway
• Ashworth’s Garden
• Backbone
• Bulkhead
• Canals
• Canyon
• Castle
• Centax-3
• Clutch II
• Complaint Department
• Current
• Diahyrdi
• Disparity
• District
• Echo
• Enfer
• EVAK-TWO
• Forager
• Fossil
• Fulcrum
• Gargantuan LE
• Haze
• Headwind
• Hemlock
• Hopper
• Line
• Maginot
• Moment
• Niflhel
• PAX Frontier
• Plenty
• Riddler
• Riptide
• Roc
• Scarred Sands
• Shackle
• Shard
• Snowball
• Spindel Range
• Surface
• The Ardennes
• The Marne
• Threshold
• Trench
• Turnpike
• Ulmost
• Undergrowth

• Advanced Laser Tower can no longer be shot over the top of walls by direct fire units
• Gil-E delay in intercepting missiles corrected
• Galata can now damage Astraeus
• Storm can now damage Astraeus
• Colonel turns changed to avoid them getting stuck
• `turn_in_place` set to true
• `turn_speed` increased from 90 to 180
• Commander turns changed to avoid them getting stuck
• `turn_in_place` set to true
• `turn_speed` increased from 90 to 180
• Kestrel guards properly
• Ant, Inferno, Boom, Drifter, Leveler, Locust, Vanguard guard layers fixed to be have properly when patrolling and attack-moving
• Beam weapons no longer stopped by water surfaces

• Some under the hood changes have been made for more optimal server startups.
• A rendering/startup issue with Linux based systems using Nvidia cards has been addressed.
• Updates to some single player maps, to make the also viable as multiplayer maps, have been included.
• A new chat mod, to replace the now defunct existing chat system has been included in the default mod list.