Rogue Command news & patch notes

BALANCE & BUGFIXES - UPDATE 1

This is our first big patch post 1.0 launch. It addresses some of the more annoying bugs you have sent us and shifts the balance on a lot of things.

• Balance: the goal was to address outliers. We like that the game has quite a big variance, but there were some things that we could see very clearly as being a bit problematic. Thanks to everyone who shared their feedback with us and who enabled the data analytics. We will keep an eye on this and keep tuning.

• Bugs: there were some instances of the units not attacking correctly when standing still, which was due to a conflict with the idle state. This should be completely fixed now.

Both of these are also the main push of what we are currently working on, before we will set our eyes on rolling out the next specialist.

FOG PROBLEMS:

The volumetric fog solution we are using has some unfortunate inconsistencies. Some levels have very thick fog, but only on certain machines, or GPUs, or driver versions... we still do not know exactly. As far as I know this is mainly an issue in the "Auburn Borealis" biome. The problem with this one is, that we just can not reproduce the behavior we see on screenshots/videos that some of you have share with us. So we only know if it is fixed when the change it out in the wild. We think this is still present in this version, but also think it will be fixed in the next version.

Version 1.0.7 FULL PATCH NOTES

GENERAL CHANGES:

• Added an element that shows the loading screen tooltips when you pause a battle, so people with fast PCs can still have time to read them. 

• Added a notification that shows the game saves between runs, to ensure you will know you can continue a run later on. 

• Show base difficulty in battle preview widget

• Show run info bar on run results screen including used archive tokens and base difficulty

• Tweaked the tree spawning rules on some Biomes to be a little less prone to overgrowths

• We also rolled out a change on the core extractor objective, that was adding delay to the invicibility, but we had to roll that back, because it could lead to a state where the level was not winnable. We will add that again once we fixed that problem (I only include that, because I had communicated this to some people already).

BALANCE:

The goal with these changes is to address extreme outliers. These could be Enemy variants that show up as runkillers, like the PCX Elite Bore Division. Or they could be blueprints that result in extremely high win rates, like the Weather Tower. I try to not be heavy handed with the changes, because I think overall we are already in a pretty good place balance wise.

Another secondary goal is addressing a state where the factory cap leaves you in a situation where you can not really increase your capability to put out combat forces.

PCX Changes:

• Adjusted costs for some enemy units and buildings

• reduced attack range of PCX Launcher and Light artillery slightly

• CF Transporter basis unit spawn reduced by one CF3, attack range slightly reduced

• Adjusted starting setup for some enemy variants. 

• slightly decreased HP and damage of Small slimes. 

Player Changes

I will separate these into Nerfs & Buffs, sometimes it is not that clear cut though. Sometimes it is a shift in the role of the things. I like using cost increases since I still feel like overall our economy is a little to generous.

Nerfs:

• Castle: Active skill size and damage reduced. Attack rate decreased. Construction and skill cost increased. Castle is a clear outlier

• Weather Tower: reduced attack range and attack rate.Increased cost and MP cost of the active skill and increased active skill damage. Probably still insanely strong due to the special way this thing can attack, but I want to deemphasize the turret part a little.

• Raised price of the Energy Sniper Mech

• Boulder Cannon Turret reduced cap by 1, raised price and slightly reduced range

• Crystal Matrix Reader: now starts at MP at 50% and crystal per target is reduced from 100 to 80

• Laser Cannon Turret: increased cost and reduced attack rate slightly

• Shotgun Turret: decreased salvo size from 12 to 10 bullets. Decreased range by 1. Increased HP.  

• Railgun Turret: reduced range. Increased cost.

• Heavy Rocket Launcher: increased cost and MP cost of skill. Slightly reduced the size of the explosion but increased its damage.

• Ranger Turret: increased cost, decreased MP and base attack damage.

• Double Cannon Turret: increased cost. HP and area of splash damage increased.

• Panic Turret: Increased cost, increased sight and HP, reduced attack speed and duration of the panic. Massively increased damage. This is another one I am unsure about. Maybe the panic should need an active skill instead of being a passive. The changes are supposed to make it actually do some damage and have staying power as a turret.

• Precision Artillery: increased cost

• Spy Tower: increased cost  

• Energy Transfer Turret: decreased slow time to 1. increased damage from 3 to 8 but increased attack cooldown from 1 to 3.5. Slightly increased cost.

• Rocket Swarmer: decreased unit cap by 1. Decreased burn duration but increased attack damage. Increased factory cost.

• WallBlock: increased cost, increased HP, decreased armor

• Homing Missile Turret: Increased cost and increased Max HP

• Armored Harvester: decreased base harvest rate from 2,5 to 2,4

• Core Harvester, cost increased

• Robo Bombs factory and unit cost raised slightly

• Robo Bomb Battery cost +30 and MP cost +5

• Marine Blast Tower, cost +60, skill cost +5 MP

Buffs

• Mantis: ah my dear Mantis…it is by far the negative outlier for lost runs. I think that mostly comes from the fact, that it needs a completely different playstyle. I will still give it a nice starting HP bump.

• Incinerator: increased HP, reduced skill cost, increased damage of direct hits from the active skill and attack damage.

• Energy Hunters: reduced build time and factory cost, slightly increased damage, shield and unit cost

• Robo Micro: HP and attack range raised slightly

• Little Lighter: Factory cost reduced, HP increased, range slightly increased.

• Energo Saurus: Increased attack rate and damage of Energy Spirits (this also benefits other things that can spawn them). Increased move speed and HP. Raised unit cap by 1. 

• Firebooster: decreased factory cost, slightly increased unit cost. Increased attack rate, damage and HP

• Siege Bomb: unit and factory cost reduced. Explosion radius slightly increased.

• Claw Bot: Increased HP, slightly increased factory cost.

• Hover Collector: Crystal capacity increased by 5.

• Sniper Racer: removed solo passive, increased damage and range, increased Spy Cam sight range, raised cap slightly. 

• Repair Trike: HP increased, cost increased, damage and attack rate increased. Area of active ability increased.

• Robo Grenadier: doubled sight range, slightly decreased attack range making them a lot more self reliant. cost +10. attack cooldown -1s. HP +20

• Swarmer: Increased cost, raised HP from 50 to 75

• Stun Walker: Damage and attack range increased, cap increased, unit & factory cost decreased

• Bomb Bike: increased factory cap 4 to 6, slightly increased cost, increased damage 

• Buckler Mech: HP +60. Factory cost +100, unit cost +20. Factory cap +2, unit cap -1, so overall unit cap 12 instead of 5.

• Lightning Tank: increased the width of the attack beam 

• Tick Walker: Factory cost -20. Skill damage +10. Attack damage +0,4.

• Flame Walker: factory cost -80.

Hacks

• Underdog: lower cap raised to 180

Battle Archive:

• Refinery cap node: only affects the harvester factories now.

BUGFIXES:

• Better position defending and auto-attack behaviour: units should not come to stop in a state where they ignore enemies in range, idle animation should now set in properly when idle and auto attack targets that are non-attackers now will be switched to attackers if they come into range

• Fixed loudness distance curves, so shot sounds should still be audible when the cam is zoomed out. Some of these audio sources are buried deep in some unit, so if you notice a sound not being audible when you zoom the cam out, please let us know. 

• HEAT: fixed scaling on production time bonus for enemies on high heat, so it should no longer reach negative values.

•  F4 now only selects non-building harvesters

• Fixed missing healer tag on Recon Forward Base spawn

• Fixed Robo Timeouter attack and changed it so only the ones that hit their target get destroyed. 

• Fixed CF transporter sound being non locational.

WELCOME NEW ENGINEERS!

We are so happy with how many new players have joined us since the 1.0 launch!

The amount of feedback has been amazing and a bit overwhelming too. We are still working our way to read and document everything.

But here is a first patch addressing some of the issues that have popped up.

We also added a little additional layer of highlighting to the engis as well as a small icon on their HP bar so it should be easier to find them or notice them, when you accidentally have them in a group. You can see the highlight below.

Eagle eyed readers might also spot a hint for the next specialist...

We also made some additional changes to the easiest difficulty to make it a little more meditative.

And of course we fixed some bugs that have been reported.

More coming soon, thank you so much for playing!

-- Mario & Martin

P.S: as always, if you want to be the first to get new changes you can just opt into the beta branch in the games Steam settings. It's where we always push new changes to, before we roll them out for everyone.

Version 1.0.5

BALANCE:

• MEDITATIVE DIFFICULTY: added longer build times to enemy units and made enemy builder drones less effective, so it will take them longer to construct new buildings.

• Made small adjustment to some enemy setups

GENERAL CHANGES:

• Added some new hints for the loading screen

• Added additional highlights to Engineers, to make them stand out more. Also made sure their Health bars will always be shown on top of other units bars.

BUGFIXES:

• Fixed missing image on PCX Healing Spire

• Hopefully fixed weirdly thick fog on Forest biome

• Set incinerator active in balance file, so it should be appearing in the moddable files now.

• Headhunter “flashlight” now only active, when it has actived its active skill.

• Empty options file now should not happen any more - but if it does:

• Empty options file does not result in the game not loading any more

IT IS DONE!

After 1.5y in Early Access and 6.5y of development: Rogue Command is done.

Martin and me (Mario) just pushed the button and released Rogue Command - our first game - onto Steam as a fully grown, no longer Early Access, game.

Even with the 1.0 we are not quite done with it yet, there is some more cool stuff coming down the line.

But: it is now the game we wanted to make, at the level of quality we wanted to achieve. And it has an awesome new trailer:

THE GAME WE WANTED TO MAKE

When we set out we wanted to make a singleplayer RTS game that allows you to have the feeling of discovery when coming up with creative builds that we had learned to love from games like Slay the Spire and Monster Train.

But we wanted it to feel right. Like a real RTS game, one of the ones we grew up with. We love auto-battlers and tower defense and all the cool little sub genres that have spun off. But we wanted to have you control your units, build your bases and manage an economy. We wanted it to play like StarCraft or Command & Conquer Generals.

Throughout all of development these two guiding ideas were the basis for every decision.

ROGUE COMMAND FULL RELEASE - MAY 14

It is almost time.

After more than 6 years in development and 1.5 years in Early Access our game is ready to go into 1.0.

Rogue Command Full Release is coming May 14.

1.0 UPDATE CONTENT

The launch will be accompanied by a big content update:

• Castle joins the roster of Specialists and expands it to 8. Castle is all about turrets and super weapons, giving those of you who love to turtle a much-requested dedicated starter.

• The difficulty climb through the Ascension levels extends from 10 to 15, as 5 new Ascensions with unique bosses and modifiers complete the gauntlet. These include the final boss that caps off the fight against the planet-devouring PCX.

LAUNCH DISCOUNT

Rogue Command will have a 30% launch discount, bringing it down to $13.99 from $19.99, our lowest price yet.

MORE NEWS SOON

I will write a longer post when we are launching. For now there is still some small bugs to fix and a lot of Emails to write.

But let me tell you, we are very excited. And so thankful for everyone of you who took the time to give us feedback or leave a review. We tried our best to incorporate as much of your thoughts as possible while staying true to our original vision for the game.

edit: why did no one let me know, I misspelled "Early Acces" in the title. XD

Update #17 (plus hotfix)

Most importantly this update addresses an issue where your units and turrets would not target enemy spawns correctly, making some enemy types incredibly frustrating to deal with.

This was the reason we decided to push this out early. Apart from that we are currently working on balancing, so good chunk of those changes are now going live as well.

One of the bigger changes, is that the Mantis redirect mechanic has been removed and instead it just takes half damage from all sources.

UPDATE:

We just rolled out out 0.9.103 a hotfix, since there was a small chance that some runs would not start correctly due to some changes.

See the full changelist below.

BALANCE:

AI Changes: 

• prevented some higher tier AI variants to show up in earlier runs.

• Removed some starting buildings from the PCX Tunneler Variant in earlier Ascensions.

• minor build time adjustments to make some tank AI variants a little bit weaker.

Changes to player units / buildings

BUFFS:

• Ranger Tank: sped up projectile and increased hit box to reduce the chance of missing moving targets, also slightly raised cap and damage

• sped up MG Truck panic projectile, but reduced the duration of the effect a bit.

• MANTIS - removed redirect, now simply takes half damage instead. 

• Headhunter active grants attack cooldown reduction as well. Slightly buffed stats.

• Stun Walker: Increased allowed unit and factory cap. Reduced cost. Better damage and attack rate.

• Swarmer: Significant better stats

• Laser Tank: better attack and extended skill range

• Shotgun Bot: damage increase. large skill damage increase. unit cap raised.

• Rocket Walker: faster attacks. quicker production

• Tier0Tank: Factory cheaper. Slight damage increase

• Fire Drag: increased damage and improved production

• Defender Tank: improved production caps and improved production time

• Welding Runner: Attacks very quickly now, damage adjusted, but DPS improved a lot. Skill changed to a ranged skill. Unit costs more, but factories costs less. Should be pretty good now. 

• Robo Time Outer: better movespeed, damage and range

• Mine Layer Hover: drastically reduced skill cost, increased attack damage and speed. Added shield. and mine damage

• Bomb Creep damage, HP and speed increased

• Support Trike: damage increased. skill heal greatly increased and radius increased, factory cap increased

DEBUFFS:

• Energy Sniper Mech: increased factory cost, reduced range by 2 

BUGFIXES:

• Fixed enemy being able to spawn behind player on some maps

• Fixed Cull Turret passive not triggering on spawns and buildings

• Fixed: some PCX units being too big on cards, making them unreadable

• Fixed Mantis having outdated description in all languages but EN

• Units can attack non-unit-spawns again

Version 0.9.97

Just a quick hotfix for some nasty little bugs.

BUGFIXES:

• Don’t trigger ai unit stuck handling if movement is disabled (e.g. if PCXSiegeArmor is using its active skill)

• Place status icons of entities at the right position again

• Allow use of ESC to close tutorial windows - if you tried this before it actually led to a state where the game was basically soft locked.

If you are on beta the fixes will come over there later today. Do not switch back to main, it might mess up your saved run.

A big step forward...

Early Access Update #16: Version 0.9.94

This update changes the game a lot. Summing up the highlights:

• ROBOS: It makes Robos more viable with a whole list of balance changes, new hacks & upgrades. 

• NEW UNITS, HACKS & UPGRADES: More than 10 hacks and upgrades each, 4 new units and 2 new support buildings help fill out some gaps.

• REWORKS AND REBALANCES: A lot of units, hacks and upgrades have been reworked. For example the Core Harvesters can be redeployed now. Robo Marines shoot a triple salvo, making them benefit more from their bounty skill and many more small and big tweaks.

• UI OVERHAUL: We rearranged some of the UI to make it more coherent and to add clickable buttons for some functions that previously were only accessible via hotkeys.

• BATTLE ARCHIVE: It makes some painful but necessary changes to the Battle Archive by replacing Universal Armor and Universal Shields.

• RETROACTIVE ASCENSION ACHIEVEMENTS: If you beat a higher ascension, you will now automatically be granted the earlier ones as well.

• PERFORMANCE: It should greatly improve performance. 

I will keep it a bit shorter and go back to work, where there is a lot going on…

HELP US FOR THE FINAL EARLY ACCESS PHASE:

As the version numbers suggest (Although that is actually pure coincidence) we are quickly approaching version 1.0. There is new content cooking on the beta branch, that could use your feedback! A new specialist and new Ascensions are being tested and will be held there until we launch out of Early Access. You can simply access the beta branch by enabling it in your steam library, right clicking the game going to properties -> Game Versions & Betas -> changing the branch to beta. Although called “latest unstable version” it is very rare that there is actually instability going on, usually it is our way to get feedback on new content. So if you want to help us out on the last stretch to 1.0 we would greatly appreciate you playing the beta and giving feedback either here on the Steam Forums or our Discord. 

Read the full changelist below:

Version 0.9.94

GENERAL CHANGES:

• Key rebinding now supports side mouse buttons (Mouse Back / Mouse Forward)

• new PCX Variants and units 

• Combat Engineer rework - can now teleport to refineries.

• Called down buildings now trigger chests

• Don't show health decimals on card

• Upgrades "Vampiric Attack", "Burnout Culture", "Material Transfer" and "Consume Death" cannot be assigned to Bombs any longer (except for Rocket Marines)

• Upgrades “Infested Skill” and “Robust Skillset” can only be applied to blueprints with active skill that is not a toggle

• Upgrade “Skill Damage” can no longer be applied to Robo Marine

• Unlock all ascension Steam achievements up to the current beaten ascension

• AI: If possible a Builder Base won't be built at the same location two times in a row

• AI now avoids placing Builder Bases at unreachable positions

• AI units now have a chance to flee in combat

• Cleaned up some effects which should lead to less hitches when new units spawn

• Cleaned image size scaling to use less RAM and initialize units faster

• Improved visual on some smoke trails

• changed building selection visual to better resemble their pathing size.

• A long list of different optimizations that should improve performance overall and remove a lot of the worst dips in performance

• Heat Level Display changed from Roman Numerals to normal numbers prefixed by an "H”

• PCX Fortress has a cooler death now.

• Strength Drop should no longer cause a slow down

CONTENT ADDITIONS AND CHANGES:

• New Unit: Siege Bomb (XP Level 20)

• New Unit: Robo MG Bot (XP Level 39)

• New Unit: Hover Jumper (XP Level 37)

• New Unit: Med Walker (XP Level 34)

• New Super Weapon: Precision Artillery (XP Level 37)

• New Support Building: Strength Uplink (XP Level 26)

• Removed Hacks: Ambient Destruction, Rush Home, Explosive Obstacles - because basically  nobody ever picks them.

• New Hack: Protect The Squad (XP Level 0)

• New Hack: Efficient Fortifications (XP Level 34)

• New Hack: Got your back (XP Level 0)

• New Hack: Drive By Hit (XP Level 25)

• New Hack: AdvancedEngines (XP Level 30)

• New Hack: ElusivePack (XP Level 5)

• New Hack: Blurred Target (XP Level 19)

• New Hack: Targeted Blast (XP Level 29)

• New Hack: Concussive Blast (XP Level 50)

• New Hack: Critical Strength (XP Level 25)

• New Hack: Overconsumption (XP Level 0)

• New Hack: Scattered Optics (XP Level 32)

• New Hack: Robust Benefits (XP Level 0)

• New Hack: Robotic Solidarity (XP Level 7)

• New Hack: Strengthened Impact (XP Level 35)

• New Hack: Get Well Sooner(XP Level 47)

• New Hack: Healing Expertise (XP Level 8)

• New Hack: Loaded Bots (XP Level 12)

• Reworked Hack: Melee Uprising

• Reworked Hack: Crystalline Undergrowth

• Reworked Hack: Efficiency Model 

• Reworked Hack: Rich Wood 

• Reworked Hack: Spider Buddies

• Removed Upgrades: Anti Burn Coating - because nobody picks 

• New Upgrade: Advanced Targeting (XP Level 21)

• New Upgrade: Advanced Reload (XP Level 10)

• New Upgrade: Spark Of Resistance (XP Level 31)

• New Upgrade: Sticky Finish (XP Level 37)

• New Upgrade: Wrecking Ball (XP Level 47)

• New Upgrade: Terrain Clearance (XP Level 50)

• New Upgrade: Back To Base (XP Level 42)

• New Upgrade: Future Rewards (XP Level 14)

• New Upgrade: Focused Blast (XP Level 22)

• New Upgrade: Delayed Detonator (XP Level 12)

• New Upgrade: Shared Charge (XP Level 16)

• New Upgrade: Attack Upgrade (XP Level 0)

• Reworked Upgrade: Ghostly Protector

• Reworked Upgrade: Armored Attack

• Reworked Healing Fire - Incinerator Specialist Hack

• Reworked Shrinking Fire - Incinerator Specialist Hack - is now called Persistent Flames

BALANCE:

• Robo Rebalancing: Factory cost for a lot of Robo Factories decreased

• Reworked Core Harvester - can now use the skill to manually redeploy.

• Increased the allowed maximum factory of a lot of starting units factories 

• Incinerator Active ability sequence happens a lot quicker, making it more reliable

• Heavy MG Tank: Skill and passive reworked with Turbo instead of self-burn

• MP ChargeBot: Skill and passive reworked with Robust instead of self-burn

• Changed Hack: Quantity over Quality - HP reduction now only 15% instead of 30%, Cost reduction still 20%.

• Changed Hack: Long Reach gives +2 instead of +3 range.

• Changed Upgrade: Team Taker - now with slightly lower upside and a way smaller downside.

• Changed Upgrade: Benevolent Ghost - now applies effect to most damaged units instead of closest and to 5 instead of 3 targets.

• Changed Upgrade Payback: Duration increased to 10 sec from 8.

• Reworked Bounty Bot skill and buffed it

• Improved Health Boost Upgrade from 20 to 50 HP

• Upgrade Critical Exit: target and duration increased. 

• Upgrade: Premium Choice - effect improved slightly

• Robo Poker attack rate and damage buffed

• Small Health Boost Hack gives 20 instead of 10 HP

• Meta Node: Healing Home Base Range increased

• Healing Rush Upgrade: Heal increased from 1 to 5 HP

• Robust Revival Upgrade: chance increased to 30 from 25

• Frontliner Upgrade: Tradeoff more favorable.

• Robo Micro now has an active ability that grants it stealth.

• Changed spawn limit and lifetime on Leaking Egg effect to be more intuitive with description.

• Mantis - Recovery passive changed to trigger with a fixed range instead of sight range. So raising sight is no longer a disadvantage for Mantis

• some objective buildings block player building construction like PCX Builderbases

• changed A5 building armor to an HP boost on A7

BATTLE ARCHIVE CHANGES:

• Universal Shields: Replaced by Shield Recharge Time node

• Universal Armor: Replaced by Advanced Armor

• Armor Shred: Replaced by Critical Armor Rounds 

• Healer Boost Node max level increased to 10

BUGFIXES:

• Prohibit exception that occurs if Phase Walker gets killed while targeting the Phase Walker skill

• Siege Bomb no longer falsely triggers hacks for vehicles to appear.

• Prevent exception that may occur if ai wants to produce something in the moment the level finishes

• Advanced Reload cannot be given to Furnace any more

• Shift-left-click in Battle Archive not always incremented node as far as it could - this is now fixed

• Heavy MG Tank no longer has an unused skill range value, falsely allowing those upgrades to be applied

• Turret Veterancy - Fixed that some Turrets and super weapon / support buildings did not have a max rank value, preventing them from reaching Veteran status.

• If AI units get stuck they try teleporting out of the situation instead of being stuck forever

• Core Harvesters now can deploy on cells with other units on it as long as it is no other Core Harvester and they cannot undeploy on building cells.

• Hotfix: battle archive view enabled in shops by default. 

• Advanced armor Battle Archive node works as advertised

• Med Walker heal lines no longer hang around when there is no healing target

• removed some auto playing particle systems from some obstacles

• Bugfix: Light Artillery shoots three times again

• future reward behavior matches description

• fixed Datapod highlight ring

• fixed PCX Bombers not attacking correctly

• Fixed small typo in Flame Walker skill description

• Attacks on things that can't be attacked (like crates) will be converted into attack move on this position instead

• Display mana tooltips on card again

• Fixed typo in tutorial

• Fixed: Left click for attack move order could be blocked by projectiles

• Fixed: PCX turrets tried to answer attacks even if target is out of reach and in between did not target anything else

• When auto-attacking and target flees out of range choose a new target if existent

• PCX Dragon Bug correctly immune to Burn status

• Static Eater ability now only targets enemies

• Don’t Touch Me - Hack now also affects enemy spawns

• Engineer Death Stun now gets retriggered and should also catch enemy spawns etc.

• Fixed Missile Truck impact sounds not playing

• Fixed Swarm Walker Egg playing sound in selection screen

• Select Idle Harvesters doesn't select busy Core Harvesters any more

• Fixed: entities that visualize something with a circle when selected hide it if applying a skill

• Visualization circles don't need another selection click to update their size anymore

• Changed settings to have vsync turned off as default correctly

• Fixed Weird green ring on FireMech Card

• Fixed Battle Archive Factory Cost Reduction not working correctly

• Fixed Battle Archive Skill Damage Increase not being applied to correct targets

• Fixed Production Boost Tower skill effect not disappearing

• Fixed Battle Archive Node that allows engineer range now matches the description

• Fixed PCX Crystal Cleaner skill effect and visual match correctly now.

• Fixed: MechCommander skill doesn't activate reliably on PCX Units

• Fallback win condition: if all enemy buildings and units are destroyed the player wins

• Fixed PCX Pokers with high attack rate having trouble dealing damage

• Now Cooldown changes are reflected in fire point delays, too

• Fixed Player Unit Chests will no longer spawn Spawns.

• Fixed Battle Archive Building MP Charge node info not being reflected on cards.

• Upgrades "Advanced Targeting", "Critical Growth", "Critical Slowness" and "Payback" can no longer be applied to blueprints without attack damage

• Reroll button is deactivated for a second after clicking to prevent spamming it

• Battle Archive: if using shift left-click: correct visual and audio feedback if fully upgrading or failing to do so

• Fixed PCX Fortress no longer deals friendly damage

• Fixed Strength icon not showing correctly on some turrets and buildings

• Fixed options menu headers being very ugly in some languages

• Added visual indicator when Marine Blast Tower is ready.

• Added missing death state for CF Transporter

• Fixed CF Transporter Description

• Fixed missing localization for Fire Bomb

• Fixed Firebrand PCX loca and some logic

• Fixed some buildings status effect particle systems and icons not being wired correctly - there still might be some missing, let us know if you encounter something off.

• Fixed Enemy Sense Battle Archive effect not scaling correctly with sight range of engineers.

• Lower the probability that crashes occur when the level is loading or while in combat

Thanks for reading, let us know if you have any questions, we usually try to answer every comment here or in the forums (although sometimes it might take us quite a while).

KEEP EARNING BATTLE ARCHIVE POINTS AS LONG AS YOU WANT!

Early Access Update #15: Version 0.9.88

While the list on this update is a lot shorter than the last major ones (mostly because we had more smaller updates in between this time), this one has a feature that many of you have been asking for:

THE PROFILE XP CAP IS GONE

Ok, it is not completely gone, but it has been raised from 50 to 500,000. I am fairly certain that will never be reached. But hey, if you get there let me know and I'll be happy to raise it again. :)

So if you want to you can keep pushing through the XP Levels as long as you want.

THANK YOU FOR A GREAT 2025!

Thanks so much for the support you showed us this year. Everybody who took the time to write a review. Everybody who sat down and wrote a feedback thread in the Steam Forums. And thank you to our amazing Discord Community. You all helped make the game that much better and every encouraging word helped us keep going and trying to fix issues, add cool new stuff.

We are very close to done with what we wanted to have for our 1.0 launch, which feels amazing and that release will be such a good package thanks to you.

So much love and thanks from two friends in Germany who took on this crazy project and let's have an amazing 2026 together.

Martin & Mario

Oh yeah, read the full patch notes below.

Version 0.9.88

GENERAL CHANGES:

• Profile XP level is now basically uncapped. So you can keep earning Battle Archive Tokens as long as you want.

• Minor particle changes

BUG FIXES:

• Deselecting by clicking ground now also deselects neutrals and enemies

• Run Results: fixed the delay between two unlock containers

• Fixed the possibility of having no crystal field at player start position

BALANCE:

• Production boost tower cost and skill cost increased. 

• Robo Marine attack changed to three shot salvo, damage per shot and attack rate decreased. DPS changed from 3,56 to 4,8. Weapon Range +0,5

• Robo Micro cap and production duration buffed.

Version 0.9.86 - Pinned Tooltips, Ground Click to deselect and Bugfixes

This is a small update that addresses some bugs and adds some quality of life improvements and bugfixes.

Pinning Tooltips

When you hover over a card tooltip you can now right click to pin it. This allows you to see nested tooltips or look up what entity an upgrade or hack would spawn.

Expanded Population Cap Information

We also expanded the tooltip on factories, so now it should be more clear what the state of your building and population cap is.

Option: Clicking Ground Deselects

If you want you can now set the game to deselect everything when you click on the ground. So if this how you prefer your game to behave you can now make it so!

Coming next - unlocked XP cap!

If no issues pop up in the version currently on the beta branch we can hopefully roll out the next update, which will remove the Profile XP level cap very soon, which will allow you to keep earning archive points basically indefinitely.

Read the full Patch Notes below.

Version 0.9.86 FEATURES:

• Up to two tooltips that are showing cards can now be pinned with right mouse click

SETTINGS:

• New option toggle: Clicking ground deselects

GENERAL CHANGES:

• Additional factory tooltip which shows the unit and building cap

• If map generation fails too often a fallback map will be used instead of throwing an exception

BUG FIXES:

• Fixed card tooltip not vanishing in intermission screen if showing a card tooltip in deck overview and pressing escape to close it

• Fixed typo in meta progression reroll description

• Fixed calculation of wrong target cell that could happen if (attack) move was placed on unreachable ground

• XXL Bomb triggers correctly if initial target has died

BALANCE:

• Adjusted Incinerator specialist hackseption in settings menu resulting in invalid resolution and frame rate options

Version 0.9.85

Hotfix update: as mentioned yesterday this is the second part of out options menu fix.

Everything should work as expected now.

Version 0.9.85

BUG FIXES:

• Fixed Incinerator accidentally having the Robust tag, making hacks and upgrades associated with that show up.

• Fixed exception in settings menu resulting in invalid resolution and frame rate options

Version 0.9.84

Hotfix update: we just fixed some important bugs with this one. Very likely there will be another bug fix update tomorrow, since there is another weird bug where the graphics menu dropdowns for resolution do not work. This is already fixed on the beta branch, so you can just switch to that version, if you want to make a change there. We had to make some changes to the options menu, because it would often just not initialize correctly when you opened it the first time and the fix for that broke some other things.

We think we caught all of them now, sorry if you were affected by these issues.

Version 0.9.84 

OPTIONS: 

• New option toggle: Enable volumetric fog

BUG FIXES:

• Fixed projectile on PCX Hunter Jeep and Stun Walker

• Fixed Options Menu showing a blank page very often when it gets opened the first time. 

• Fixed Controls Menu not extending far enough down after added new controls

• Fixed endless loading bug if run is lost, or won or returned into main menu from level in the first two minutes and then immediately starting a new run or continuing the old one

Incinerator, Glossary, controls update, expanded options - Early Access Update #14

Update 14 takes us a huge step closer to what we want to have for the 1.0 release of the game.

• New fire specialist, the Incinerator and some new units.

• Steam Achievements

• Big update to the unit controls, getting a lot closer to the intended behavior and to how players of SC2 would expect it to behave.

• Patrol Command

• More options to customize your camera and some more control customization.

• Glossary

• A lot of Quality of life improvements, like a different style for consumable drops and new warnings.

• Post Fight Statistics

INCINERATOR

This update comes with a hot new specialist. Capable of raining down fire missiles from a long distance it has maybe the most powerful active ability in the game. Incinerator is all about using fire to your advantage.

Some details on the Hacks around it might be changed a bit. But those are coming very soon and are no drawback to the fun of just watching the world burn.

ACHIEVEMENTS

We have them now!

A lot of you asked for it and we always said, we wanted to add them relatively shortly before we reach 1.0. So here we go.

UPDATED UNIT CONTROLS & PATROLS

One of the big remaining issues with the core gameplay was that the Attack move and Force attack setup felt very foreign to most players. And on top of that the idle aggression and attack move implementation could lead to your units being a bit over eager sometimes, which could lead to scenarios, where they would start wandering around the map or spreading out in enemy bases in an overly aggressive way.

We have changed that setup and the behavior quite a bit, so if you are familiar with SC2 controls, the game should feel a lot more familiar. Attack move now only is a thing when you order it on the ground and an Attack order on a target is now always a direct attack order.

This has freed up CTRL to be used as a select all of type button.

The uhm, passive aggressive idle behavior of our units has also been toned back quite a lot, giving you better control over their combat engagements.

Additionally we changed the way you assign units to control groups to work as in SC2 as well. Including the way shift behaves.

A patrol order has also been added. A single click will have the units move between their current position and the target location. If you want to have more control you can add multiple waypoints to the patrol by holding shift and letting go of it when you are done. The units will engage all enemies they spot and then continue their patrol.

NEW OPTIONS

Another thing that has been asked for in your feedback many times is having more control over the behavior of the camera.So this update adds ways for you to control the camera speed, disable edge panning - which will make playing on the Steam Deck a lot easier I think. There is some more options as well, that allow you to tailor some things to your preference. Check the full changelist down below for the details.

GLOSSARY

The glossary also goes live for everyone with this update.

I wrote a whole article about that recently, so check that for the details, or even better: just pause the game and read up on how Armor worked again or why you are struggling against those enemies with the cogwheel in their HP bar. Or why you should avoid attacking enemies on higher ground.

COMBAT STATISTICS

Sometimes after a hard fought battle it is nice to be able to look at some numbers. That's why we added a post combat statistic screen. That gives you some juicy insight into all kinds of different aspects of the last fight.

Not all of them will feature such high numbers as this one from one of our discord users, who is playing at a wayyyy to high Heat Level. But it's not about the size of numbers, it's what you can learn from them.

QUALITY OF LIFE IMPROVEMENTS

Did you know that some Drops are multi-use while some of them are consumable? Well if you did, then you read their description, which so far was the only way to learn about that difference.

Now consumable drops get a little red highlight and some additional detail in their border frames, so they are easier to differentiate. Some people have suggested also sorting them into two groups, I am not sure, if that is necessary and would love to hear your opinion on that or if the graphical highlights are enough.

Also Skill Buttons and their hotkeys will stay in chronological order of when you received them in your deck. So their order will be stable throughout a run and no one will suddenly steal the Q key from your specialist.

There is more, but I think the text is long enough.

BETA BRANCH UPDATES

If you want to get all the updates early and help us test out the new changes, you can switch your game to the Beta branch in your Steam library. Right click -> Properties -> Betas and select the beta from the dropdown menu.

See the full list of changes below.

FULL CHANGELIST:

Version 0.9.79

STEAM ACHIEVEMENTS:

• Added Steam Achievements

FEATURES:

• Patrol command (you can queue up several patrol positions with shift)

• Added a Glossary to the database and in game.

• Post level stats

CONTENT:

• New specialist: Incinerator

• Added some new tutorials

• New unit: Hover Jumper

• New unit: Care Tank

• New Enemy unit: PCX Repair Tank

• New Biome: Cave in

SETTINGS:

• New option toggle: Select All Combat Units includes Combat Engineer (and default is off)

• Camera move speed setting added (will be refined for value span)

• New option toggle: allow attack-move on friendlies

• New option toggle: enable screen edge pan

• New option toggle: enable color blind mode for health bars

• New control hotkey setting: refund building

• Refined camera move speed setting

GENERAL CHANGES:

• There is no more force-attack or attack-move on units/buildings. Attack button or hotkey (“A”) activates (force-)attack on units or buildings (no matter if friend, neutral or enemy) and attack-move on ground

• When executing an attack-move the search radius is a bit different (max(5, weapon range) instead of max(sight range, weapon range))

• If units are ordered to stop somewhere (but not to hold position) they only follow enemies in a short radius around the stop position

• In-Game card view status effects now have descriptions as tooltips

• Pressing Ctrl while clicking on a player unit or building selects all visible ones of the same type (same as double clicking on it)

• Pressing Shift + control group number adds selected units / buildings to given control group

• Pressing Alt + control group number removes selected units / buildings from all control groups and sets given control group to only the selected units / buildings

• Pressing Alt + Shift + control group number removes selected units / buildings from all control groups and adds them to given control group

• Pressing Delete key destroys selected buildings (without confirmation dialog) and refunds parts of the cost

• You now can hold shift to place down multiple buildings without re-selecting them

• Health Bars for Engineers and Specialist now have a border and are a bit bigger than normal units.

• Sort skill buttons (and hotkeys) by order in deck.

• When selecting Phase Walker a second circle shows the current skill range.

• Consumable Drops have different highlight color.

• Unit lost message - audio coming soon.

• Cooldown for unit under attack message increased.

• Made crystal altar a little more distinct from “shootables”.

BALANCE:

• Smart Fires created by Burning Droplets are only half the size

• Heal Drop: slight rework for more clarity.

• Removed charge up on Charge Laser Tank, Energy Sniper Mech and Lightning Tower. The charge causes issues that are hard to solve and does not add that much. So it will no longer be used. 

• Crystal growth drop no longer triggers on synthetic crystals and some other special cases.

• Increased shield regeneration cooldown from 4 to 6 sec.

• Combat Engi HP increased

• Increased HP of neutral buildings to prevent them being so easily killed by accidental damage.

• PCX Launchers will not be present on the start of a level. 

• Decreased difficulty of some earlier enemies and increased that of later ones to smooth out the curve a bit.

• Lightning Tank active ability moved to Stun Walker instead.

• Mantis redirect targets closest ally instead of most healthy visible.

• T0 Artillery Tank buffed

• Shield drop effect reduced to a reasonable amount

• Care Tank: Skill range and sight range increased.

BUG FIXES:

• Prevent controls options list from being cut off on non 16:9 displays.

• If switching profiles switch the tutorial state, too

• If tutorials have been reset prevent weird loading behaviour when continuing run

• fixed: Buildings in fog of war can be directly targeted by drops

• fixed some harvester attack sounds being audible all over the map

• added some missing localization

• fixed damage boost for Elite Units meant for their Skill Damage being applied to the attack damage instead.

• Fixed heavy lags that could happen with hack Unsettling Flames and burning PCX Builder Bases

• Fixed missing light in Shop Deck View.

• Fixed walking back to old position after Phase Walker teleportation

• Prevent Harmless Opener Meta upgrade from having enemies build their buildings a lot faster too. 

• Prevent Units from sticking over the card info

• Wisdomes and Coin chests will no longer appear in the last level

• added missing critical tag to some hacks

• fixed PCX Prison icon

• fixed Specialist cost not reduced by metagame cost reduction node

• removed unmentioned MP passive effect on mana drop

• incinerator deactive

• metaprogression fix, skill size affects buildings too

• Fixed bug that prevented level finishing scene from playing correctly sometimes

• Fixed erratic behavior of some homing projectiles. 

• Fixed incinerator specialist hack tier 2

• Fixed bug, where cards would not be all shown, if you opened the deck view very quickly

• fixed some unit images

• fixed PCX construction sites gaining HP from ascensions and heat, making the enemy build slower. 

• removed some unnecessary assets which could affect some load times or increase project size.

• Fixed missing skill description on PCX Garganto Mech

• Fixed mission localization for Phasewalker

• Fixed some Hacks not showing up in offers due to a missing tag.

• Prevent border assets leaving gaps in some cases.

• Fixed tooltips on cards sometimes being triggered unreliably.

• Fixed Orbital Artillery targeting effect being spawned multiple times.

• Fixed skill size icon overlapping with its text when the size had multiple digits

• Fixed Missile Mech sometimes forgetting to play its walk animation when moving

• Attack-move calculates new destination if desired destination is not reachable (any more) (same as move command does)

• Crystal Dust Catcher does not benefit from the meta harvester cap upgrade

• Don't show command chain markers when changing the rally point of a factory

Rogue Command soundtrack is out now!

We just released the soundtrack for our game, as a standalone DLC and as a bundle with the main game.

I am very happy about this, because of two things:

Wait how did Armor work again? - Look it up in the glossary!

The next update will add a feature that has been asked for many times: A Glossary where you can look up all the different concepts and systems in the game.... (Well at least the ones we have written entries for.)

So let's get hyped for some screenshots of text!

The first version will have some entries that are more fleshed out, like the Status Effect entry....

... but a lot of them will be pretty bare bones and basically just give you the text that you would otherwise find in a tooltip.

You will find the Glossary in the Database when the next beta branch update rolls out.

What's neat is that you will also be able to access it while you are in a level!

It is a bit hard to judge what kind of info you would want in here on top of some of the basics, so please let us know in the Steam Forums or on our discord, what kind of infos you would want here.

Version 0.8.74

Introducing the Battle Archive - Early Access Update #12

Our new metaprogression system is live for everyone now!

We have had some chunky updates before, but this is probably the biggest change to the game yet. Rogue Command moves from a more roguelike oriented progression system to a roguelite system. This means that you unlock ways to actually gain strength between your runs, not just new stuff to add to the pool.

HOW DOES IT WORK?

The battle archive allows you to invest archive tokens into a huge tree of different upgrades. You gain tokens for every profile XP level and for every new ascension you beat. Assigning points is super easy:

You left click to assign, right click to unassign. Shift buys or sells the whole stack. And if you want something that is further along the tree it will automatically buy the nodes you need to get there.

This makes experimenting with different loadouts super easy. Adding a couple of armor stacks for example really helps making your turrets more of a reliable backbone.

WHY ARE WE INTRODUCING THE BATTLE ARCHIVE?

I have said a lot about that in the last post, when we announced the feature. The most important reason is that we really think it makes the game more fun and more motivating to conquer. The additional layer of tinkering and experimentation really underscores what Rogue Command is all about, coming up with the most bonkers builds and especially those that support your playstyle.

SUBJECT TO CHANGE - LET US KNOW HOW IT FEELS!

Please note, that the Battle Archive might still change significantly. Nodes might be removed, costs might change. Getting the balance right on this is going to take some time and most importantly your feedback.

BATTLE ARCHIVE AND BALANCE - HARDER IS MORE FUN, RIGHT?

The game has been rebalanced from scratch as well. We took a lot more time to actually play test the game ourselves with and without battle archive updates and have really ramped up the difficulty.

Really significantly this time.

Balance is maybe the most important thing we want to focus on before going out of Early Access. For me (Mario) personally, this is the most fun I've had with the game. But I am very aware how skewed my perspective is on this, so please let us know how it feels for you.

Also please do not hesitate to adjust the base difficulty if you feel the game is too hard now, that is why the option exists. The description for the Engaged difficulty was not quite correct, but it is now.

NEW HOTKEYS

Another really great addition are some new hotkeys. From F1 to F5 you now have a set of choices to select:

• F1: all visible combat units. I find myself using this all the time. Often you want to just have the army you can see.

• F2: still selects all combat units all over the map. When you want to go for that all in attack... or desperately need everything to come back to defend...

• F3: Select all harvesters. Again something I use all the time to trigger the harvester skills, really handy.

• F4: Select idle harvesters - while the harvesters usually seek their next patch on their own, sometimes you might accidentally send them somewhere else or forget to deploy the Core Harvesters (cough, cough, not that I ever do that...).

• F5: Select all buildings with active abilities. This makes going for the super weapon type buildings a lot more fun.

These new keys currently do not have UI elements associated this will likely come later down the road.

HEAT LEVELS UPDATE

Heat levels have also been updated and are a lot harder. Feedback we have gotten indicated that it felt like too much of a slog to get a point where it becomes really hard and therefore we ramped those up as well. This might very well mean that if you have gotten deep into the Heat levels, you will have to find your sweetspot somewhere lower.

Heat overall is still a bit weird. The idea of an endlessly scaling monster is scary from a game design perspective, since there is nothing we can do to make this balanced at all. We know a lot of people still really enjoy the punishment, but please be aware that there is no guarantee for the heat modes to be beatable beyond the single digits.

BUGS!

As always we also have a huge list of bug fixes. I am not completely sure, but I think this might be the longest list we ever had... It was a lot of work to even put together from the backlog. So I thought I'd just mention that we are also always working on that front.

BETA BRANCH UPDATES

If you want to get all the updates early and help us test out the new changes, you can switch your game to the Beta branch in your Steam library. Right click -> Properties -> Betas and select the beta from the dropdown menu.

See the full list of changes below.

FULL CHANGELIST:

Version 0.8.69

GENERAL CHANGES:

• BATTLE ARCHIVE: Added permanent roguelite progression element, that allows you to assign points earned every XP level to a big number of different improvements.

• From now on it is not allowed to place buildings within skill range of Builder Bases

• The building buttons of the engineer now are deactivated if the building is too expensive

• Algorithm that centers camera on selected entities now centers on centroid of biggest cluster (instead of centering on centroid of all selected entities)

• Added skill description for PCX Crystal Cleaner

• Changed how some spawned objects that should not block the path are placed

• adjusted HP bar segments for grown HP values.

• New hotkeys: select combat units on screen, select all harvesters, select idle harvesters, select buildings with an active ability

• Combat engineer now will also be selected when selecting all combat units or all combat units on screen

• The settings and the profile folders containing the savegames will now be saved in %userprofile%\\AppData\\LocalLow\\Feneq\\Rogue Command\\ instead of directly in the game directory (to prevent write protection of these directories by ransomware protection software)

• Now the profiles can be fully reset or only the tutorial and story intro can be reset

BATTLE ARCHIVE

• Added some new nodes and replaced some that had more “hack-like” functions.

• New range node

• Many changes to cost balance

• Changed amount of tokens gained per heat level to 5

• Corrected spawn HP node description.

• Corrected phrasing on Universal shields node.

• Fixed a couple of descriptions and adjusted some costs and values.

• Changed the balance on a lot of nodes

• changed some upgrades to specific to non-turret buildings.

• New node: Turret Range

• Shift-click now works correctly

BALANCE:

• This patch completely rebalances the game. The overall base difficulty is a lot harder. 

• Changed rich crystal buff to a percentage increase.

• Exciter Beam Cruiser no longer attacks automatically while moving. 

• PCX Tank (the big one) has gotten a roof machine gun. 

• Machine Gun Turrets have been buffed quite a bit

• All support Tank specialist hack upgrade effects now apply to all allies and are stackable where applicable. But duration is reduced.

• Monster Mode Ray is now consumable

• Mantis Mech Bad Table Manners effect now occurs on a slight delay and therefore will effect the target area of the teleport, not the are around the origin location.

• Ascension enemy value scales increased

• Heat enemy values increased significantly

• Some minor adjustments to some enemy units. Still mostly making them stronger.

• Slight nerf to Armored Harvester.

• Adjusted the effects of some drops.

• Raised minimum needed distance for AI Buildings from player start.

• Chests can no longer be damaged

• PCX Roof Turrets on Builderbases attack cooldown slower

• Increased the difficulty changes per Heat level.

• Further changes to make some enemies stronger.

• Reduced hover harvester income rate and capacity

• Rich crystals now raise the harvest rate of harvesters that are working on them.

CONTENT:

• New Unit: Rocket Swarmer

• New Upgrade: A Little Better

• New Ancient Building

• Better death effect for PCX Dragon Bug

• New Drop: Beast mode ray - non consumable weaker version of monster mode ray.

BUG FIXES:

• Show damage of Bombs on Card again

• Fixed: Extra Cargo from Battle Archive: it now does not give additional harvester(s) + refund any more

• Better way to handle pathfinding between building corners and cliffs

• PCX Builderbase turret role added

• Fixed resilient growth hack not working correctly

• Spider Spawns, Bomb Creeps and some mines can now trigger crit damage

• Correct node logic behind the new building nodes from 0.8.67

• Added missing supporter role on some buildings that also use skills.

• Don't set rally point for ai buildings

• Fixed exceptions thrown by the PCXTank card

• Spawn walker HP boost for spiders works as advertised.

• Removed broken hack “Confusing panic”.

• Added harvester role to crystal dust catcher.

• Fixed CF Backpack not triggering correctly.

• Fixed Armor Shred Meta Node not being able to stack.

• Combat Engineer HP raised.

• Missing Cost and skill type fixed on boulder turret

• Fixed Engineer death stun and PCX Prison stun not working on shielded units

• Better obscurance for background when deck view or single card view are open

• Ancient Blessing meta node should always work now and the tower is selectable.

• Fixed certain bullet hits triggering their hit event twice. 

• PCX Tank roof turret also affected by stun/slow.

• Fixed PCX Crystal Cleaner passive not working correctly

• Fixed Ranger Turret Critical effect not working

• Fixed Factory Death Defender meta node can no longer trigger specialist factories.

• added visual confirmation for Data Pod event unlock.

• Fixed: reroll button wasn't clickable if disabled because of no-more-items-to-show before

• Only present upgrades in shop that have a viable target

• Rush Beacon teleportation now works as expected

• Melee units could have had trouble approaching their targets in the last update. This is now fixed

• Fixed some of the cases where units could get stuck on the map

• Fixed situations where enemy bases don’t spawn properly

• There were situations in which the MG Truck never hit its target. This is now fixed.

• The egg hatchlings of the Swarm Walker specialist now spawn at the correct positions (and not where the egg was injected), the eggs fire at the correct targets and maybe some more related bugs with other skills are fixed now

• The possibility that units get stuck between buildings (or obstacles) and cliffs should now be smaller

• Fixed (rare) exception that could occur if ai has building on the map border

• Prevent clicks on the frame of the minimap to control the camera

• Small Healing Spire now shows effect range when building or when selected. 

• Smart Grenade Marine shows impact are for skill

• DropButtons can no longer be clicked when deck overview is opened

• Rush Beacons and Extenders can receive veterancy

• Defender Tank status effects will also be applied to the roof turret

• Fixed size of smart fire from Fire Mech Skill

• Fixed lighting in Intermission screen deck view

• Fixed Rush Beacon extender missing Spawn role

• Fixed sound playing when viewing weather tower in database

• Fixed CF Burners not targeting correctly in many cases especially towards higher ground targets.

• Fixed Fresh Air Hack being linked to wrong Hack

• Fixed Buckler Mech not being able to attack when attack speed got too high

• Fixed XP Level 26 containing too many unlock items, so the list would overflow

• “Specialist Lost” Warning no longer displaying when temporary spawn versions of the specialist dies.

• Fixed Buildings not displaying status effect icons below their HP bar

• CF Backpacks should no longer spawn anything when the player was the origin.

• Drop Texts for Armored Production and Favorite Toy now specify if they can stack.  

• Monster mode and Beast mode ray clarify stacking rules as well.

• No more battling for origin of card value change between difficulty, ascension and heat

• Prevent audio spike in main menu after splash screen: start background music only after volume is set

• Increased text size of some elements of the in-game menu map info widget and the run results screen to prohibit vanishing of the character "i" in full hd resolution

• Prevent PCX Corrosive Detachment from building second PCX Base Control

• Clamp volume settings between 0% and 100% to prevent loud audio if these settings get corrupted

• Fixed differences between values in card view and entity stats widget

• Start game clock only after the player clicked on the start button

• Melee units that got a higher weapon range through upgrades or relics might have stopped too far from target units to attack them. Now they will always try to get close to them independent of their weapon range.

• Fixed: If Engi died while moving out of the way of a called down building he wasn't able to build any more

• Duplication Ray can no longer target Engineers

• Upgrade reward: don't present upgrades that can not be applied

PERFORMANCE:

• Added preloading of SpiderSpawns and RoboZombos to avoid stuttering when spawning larger groups of them

• If a bunch of units target an unreachable unit or building the performance should be much better now

• Prespawn Bomb Creeps

CRASHES:

• Changed some memory management stuff to reduce crashes

MOD SUPPORT

• Added missing harvesters to exampleEntityBalancing.tsv

• Put Mod directory directly in Rogue Command directory to avoid problems with cloud saves (and to make it independent of the chosen profile)

Rogue Command is going Roguelite

We're currently working on a huge update that will change up the scope of our metagame by a lot.

What does the new metagame look like?

At the moment Rogue Command is a roguelike. In the sense that you never get any upgrades between runs that make you stronger, only access to new things in the arsenal. The next update will change that and shift the progression to a more roguelite system. Every XP level you unlock will give you access to Archive Tokens that will allow you to unlock nodes in the Ancient Archive. A collection of battle wisdom shared in the Engineer database.

This will allow you to further customize your playstyle by choosing from a huge variety of nodes. Some are straight forward stat increases, others allow you to get more control over your builds.

You can emphasize your economy, your defense or go all out for more damage. You can trade in engineer lives for more start crystals. Add new nodes to the reward maps and much much more...

It is also super easy to assign and reassign nodes, clicking on a node further down the tree will unlock all the needed ones before as well and shift clicking left or right unlocks the whole stack or refunds all.

A personal favorite is the new Engineer enemy sensor, that allow you to spot enemies even in the fog of war.

You can see the engineer here watching over an upgraded start crystal field and already sensing the enemies across the map, revealing their location on the minimap. (the range is a bit higher here for testing).

Why did we decide to do this?

We definitely did not start with this type progression in mind. That's why it is a rather late addition.

This being our first game we had a (in hindsight) pretty naive idea about how we would balance this game. It would just be one difficulty tuned just right and that would be it.

But having the game actually being played by thousands and thousands of players made it clear fairly quickly that we had to introduce ways to adjust this. People were complaining to almost equal parts that game was way too hard and way too easy.

At the same time the landscape of games changed as well. We fell in love with a lot of survivor-type games, like 20 Minutes till Dawn, Halls of Torment, Death must Die and many more.

And while we never said that we would never introduce roguelite elements to RC, we definitely said that it was not likely to happen.

I know some people are really not a fan of this type of progression, although I feel like that sentiment has gotten less prevalent since we started working on the game back in 2019 (oof). With seeing how elastic the challenge in the game is though and how some people really struggle while still putting dozens of hours into it, it just seems like a natural fit. And since it also allows us to introduce different types of effects and upgrades, that would not be doable with the current Hacks and Upgrades system it also really extends the philosophy of modular builds that is the very core of the game.

We hope that most of you will enjoy the new system and can not wait to see the new ways you come up with the break the game. We don't know exactly when we will roll out the new system, but at least for the beta branch it should be fairly soon.

How will it impact the balance?

Balance will of course be adjusted as part of this rollout. We were planning to make the default difficulty a lot harder anyway and the fact that the player now has ways to get stronger necessitates this even more. It will however definitely never be the case that you have to grind like crazy to just get through the base ascension. Our goal was always to have the game be so hard, that I (Mario) can juuuust beat the final Ascension, maybe after a couple of tries. And that without using any of the metagame upgrades. Because - well - until now they did not exist... And because we think that this will allow most players to finish the game by beating Ascension 10, if they either get better or make clever use of the Ancient Archive unlocks. For the hardcore there is always the challenge of the Heat Levels after that.

• new win/lose animations for the battles.
• new biome variant

• Added missing localization to buckler mech skill
• Hopefully prohibit the creation of corrupted save/option files and handle them better if they occur

A little bit of mod support, a little bit of story and a lot of load time optimization- Early Access Update 10

We opened up some ways to customize the game and added a lot of optimizations to the game with this update.

Mod support with custom balance files

If you want to customize your experience then we have very exciting news, we made the first steps to support mods in Rogue Command.  In your profile folders in the game directory you can now place custom TSV files that overwrite the values for all the units, buildings etc. in the game. We look forward to seeing what you come up with and to adding more ways for you to mess with the game later.  There is a readme in the mentioned folder with more details.

Load time optimizations

There are no longer any load times for the nodes on the reward map! This makes for a way smoother experience between the levels. 

A bit of background story

We also added a small intro (currently only visible in the very first run on a profile, we will add a way to retrigger it later an) as well as some other small first steps to give a bit more insight into the world. While the story will never be a focal point, we will definitely add a lot more in the coming updates.

Beta updates

If you want to get all the updates early and help us test out the new changes, you can switch your game to the Beta branch in your Steam library. Right click -> Properties -> Betas and select the beta from the dropdown menu.

See the full list of changes below. 

Version 0.7.60 Changes:

MINI INTRO:

• small first steps to introduce a little bit more of the backstory. a) New intro (currently only visible when you launch the first run on a new profile. Option to show again coming later.) b) small intro text before the run (more variety coming later)

BALANCE:

• reduced PCX Nanohunter move speed but added active ability that they can engage to rush into engagements.

MOD SUPPORT:

• Allow overwriting of entity balancing (units, buildings, drops) in new mod directory (below profile directories). See examples and readme there (you have to run Rogue Command once to have them created).

LOAD TIMES:

• No more loading times between reward map and the blueprint / upgrade / hack reward screens

• Optimized load times between scenes a bit in general

• new bootup method, for slightly faster initial game start.

BUG FIXES:

• heat 0 attack rate change only triggers on correct heat level.

• deck overview in level shows card and upgrade tooltips again

• be sure that card and upgrade tooltips are displayed in the correct size

• hide game stats in the upper right corner when opening assign upgrade view in shop

• display upgrade tooltip in assign upgrade view in shop above cancel button and background

• corrected some card / upgrade tooltip distances to the mouse cursor

• Show reroll button again after choosing specialist hack

• Infested Protection can no longer be applied to units without shields

• Defender Heal upgrade heals in the correct amount

• Show attack rate on card even if cooldown is set to minimum value. Slightly changed cooldown minimum value from 0.025 to 0.03 (as it is shown on card)

• If building will be built upon player units in some cases they are forced to move to cliff corners were they could get stuck. Now they always move to other cells.

• Vampirism upgrade can no longer be given to units or turrets that deal no damage

• Placing Healing Spire Drop on small areas should now work as expected

Randomness control, difficulty modes and a new specialist - Early Access Update #9

This update is immense. In terms of making the game more fun it is probably the most impactful we have released yet. Here is a quick overview:

• More control over the randomness in your builds

• Difficulty selection

• Balance rework

• New specialist - Phasewalker

• Heat modes - late game challenge

BLUEPRINT POOLS - A LITTLE LESS RANDOMNESS = A LOT MORE FUN

Update 9 addresses one of the biggest issues in the game: until now the only way to control how you build your deck is unlocking the rerolls every 10 XP Levels. This led to a bigger and bigger pool of choices which made it harder and harder to control the composition of your deck throughout a run. And while randomness will always be a part of Rogue Command, this was not satisfying. 

With this update we are introducing the concept of themed blueprint pools. So instead of just getting fully random choices you will get some information about the choices. So you might get pools for Tanks, Burning and Healers. Or turrets, support buildings and armored units. 

In our testing and according to the feedback from our beta branch players (thank you to our discord community <3 !!!) this makes the deck building a lot more fun. 

DIFFICULTY MODES - CHOOSE YOUR CHALLENGE LEVEL

RTS-Games are hard to learn. And Rogue Command is supposed to be a challenging game. But what that means for each player can be so vastly different that we needed to offer a way to adjust this. You can now choose your difficulty level at the start of each run.

This does not affect any of the progress, XP unlocks or Heat Levels. Just set it to where you have the most fun. 

Just because we like to punish ourselves does not mean you have to. 

HEAT MODES - ENDLESS CHALLENGE

For the players who have mastered the game there is also a new (still a bit experimental) way to keep pushing through ever increasing stages of hardship - The Heat Levels. After beating Ascension 10 on the current patch you will unlock the Heat Mode selector in the Run Setup. Each Heat Level makes the enemies stronger with more HP and more damage. Counted in roman numerals this mode is theoretically endless and in our discord we saw people already pushing this way further than we ever thought possible. How far can you push it? 

BTW, difficulty is independent of Heat, so if you choose a lower mode you can still enter the gauntlet, at your own pace.

BALANCE CHANGES

The balance has more or less been completely reworked. The goal is to have more action but less “spammy” enemies. Scarier big units and more easily disposed of smaller harassers. We are still not done. But in terms of how we want the game to feel this is a huge step in the right direction. 

The basic challenge has increased, so feel free to adjust the difficulty setting if it does not feel enjoyable.

NEW SPECIALIST - THE PHASEWALKER

Jump your army across the battlefield and hit the enemy where it hurts! A powerful fighter in its own right, the Phasewalker shines by providing your army with a way in and out of fights and simultaneous powerful buffs. The added mobility makes playing with it feel very different to the other specialists. 

We can not wait to see the builds you will come up with around it.

NEW CONTENT

On top of a new specialist, there is also a couple of new blueprints.

• The Buckler Mech: Combining a great protective active ability with heavy melee attacks.

• Missile Truck: super long range multi missile artillery unit

• Weather Tower: a turret / super weapon combo with a powerful stun strike ability 

And some more cool new Hacks and Upgrades that add depth to systems that were a bit neglected. More to come for sure!

BETA BRANCH UPDATES

If you want to get all the updates early and help us test out the new changes, you can switch your game to the Beta branch in your Steam library. Right click -> Properties -> Betas and select the beta from the dropdown menu.

See the full list of changes below.

FULL CHANGELIST

NEW CONTENT:

• New Specialist Phase Walker 

• New Unit: Buckler Mech

• New Unit: Missile Truck

• New Support Turret: Weather Tower - powerful turret and global stun wielder.

• New Hack: Ancient Protection 

• New Hack: Abrasive Bounty

• New Hack: Long Reach

• New Enemy Variant - CF Tank Patrol

• New enemy unit - PCX CF Tank

• New enemy variant: PCX Elite Deconstruction Division

• Themed starter blueprint selection

• Additional passive effects for Support Tank and Mantis Specialists.

• Objective to hunt a mobile PCX Controller in L1 or L2

• New enemy unit: PCX CF Burner

• Added active ability to Sniper Racer that summons a SpyCam 

ASCENSION CHANGES:

• Ascension effects have been reworked a lot. 

• Highlights is that Elite and Boss Enemies now get specific benefits at certain Ascensions. 

• And enemies can get a chance to build “Overclocked” units. 

GENERAL CHANGES OR IMPROVEMENTS:

• Wisdomes cannot be targeted by ai anymore

• The first upgrade of a card can now influence the possibility of assigning the second upgrade of the card (e.g. Armored Attack upgrade can now be assigned to a blueprint with Armor-Up-Upgrade that had no armor originally)

• opening in-game menu, card view or deck view while in slow mode will now return into slow mode after closing it

• Introduced Heat Level after last Ascension is beaten

• Introduced difficulty modes

• Now it's possible to order an attack move via minimap

• Battle Preview Widget now also shows ascension and stage

• Database: sort by name as default

• Rerolls in the shop now also refills slots of bought items.

• Intermission screen now contains themed blueprint selections.

• Removed ability to build buildings on top of enemy units.

• Missile Truck now needs to deploy to attack

• Added duration info to Mantis specialist hacks

• Enemy or neutral buildings lying behind secondary fog of war now can be clicked and card info can be retrieved

• The deck can now be viewed again in the run results screen

BUG FIXES:

• Critical Burn upgrade can now only be applied to cards that deal attack damage

• Building Drop now destroys things like spider spawns and robo cores instead of letting them stuck beneath it

• While having multiple units selected and choosing target skill location the effect range circle will now update depending on which unit will cast its spell

• Made it more likely that no ai start building lies next to player start

• Boulder Turret Attack works more reliably

• Don’t let PCX units target stealthed player units with their skill

• Fixed Brazilian Heal Tower description

• IncendiaryAmmo now can only be applied to damage dealers

• Upgrades that change the area of skills or attacks can no longer be applied to lightning tower

• RangeUp upgrade can no longer be attached to Furnace

• While performing attack move now new targets are chosen within sight or weapon range (depending on what is higher) instead of sight range only

• Factory Glitch Drop and Factory Charger now work even if the factory is all queued up

• Don’t show crystal collect confirmer when Core Harvesters get a move command onto a crystal cell

• Fixed Boulder Turret dealing friendly damage.

• Don’t stack selection sounds

• Combat Engineer: don't teleport freshly produced units into map corners (where they stuck)

• Crystals can no longer be damaged by anything (except by harvesters)

• Prohibit walking on small cliffs diagonal to buildings because units might get stuck

• Prevent all healers from trying to heal allies, that can not be healed.

• Fixed a memory leak in the procedural mesh generation process

• Hack Faster attacks works correctly now

• Engineers can not be replicated by transport glitch hack. 

• Reclaimer works correctly now

• Fixed some memory leaks

• Fixed some problems with layer borders introduced in the last update

• Robo medic heal line showing on card fixed

• Fixed some problems with layer borders introduced in the last update

• Tooltips now have a minimum distance to the borders

• Only select all units of same type if double clicking on same unit

• If blueprint is not yet unlocked it will not appear as reward in a specialised blueprint pool. If the pool contains not enough cards to choose from, it will be changed to the default pool.

• If AI unit cancels stealth of player entity because it is next to it, show entity as unstealthed again

• Fixed following behaviour while auto-attacking: the follower changed to its weapon range as follow distance and does not anymore

• Attack cooldown has now a minimum value of 0.025 (and thus attack rate has an upper limit)

• Hit box size on small PCX Slimes increased. 

• Spy Tower should show up in Support Building Pools

• PCX Scouts should not interfere with volumetric fog

• Skill widget stat texts should no longer line break

• Healing Frugality now only checks for Harvester Factories and still works, when other types of refinery entities are on the map.

• Fixed the PCX Overseer card texts

• Fixed Infectious Extraction giving hidden stat boost

• (hopefully fixed) audio issues when zoomed out too far.

• Engineer Particles should no longer shine through the deck view background

• missing Sniper Tag on Missile Truck added

• callback spire no longer showing in “spawner” pools

• Fixed “Solo” passive on sniper racer.

• Small layout fixes to the run result screen

• Fixed interaction between Hover Harvester passive rate increase and rate increase from active skill.

• Run Results Screen: Deck Overview can now be closed correctly using escape

• Vengeful silicone can no longer stun mantis when it kills friendly with redirect damage.

• Fire Mech Projectile hit more reliably and projectile count matches description

• Fixed error where enemy sometimes could no longer build Abductotrons

• Phase Walker Teleport no longer affects Harvesters.

• CF RespawnBackpacks only work when origin is AI

• Cargo only triggers on the first ever built Harvester Factory.

BALANCE CHANGES:

• PCX Prison HP reduced

• PCX Abductotron Skill charge up more visible / audible

• Crystal Towers no longer a possible base location for PCX

• Robo Harvester - Capacity 15 -> 10

• Armored Harvester - Capacity 80 -> 60 / Rate 8 -> 6

• Hover Collector - Cost 240 -> 260 / Rate 5 -> 4

• Core Harvester - HP 50 -> 30

• Kill charge upgrade charges 0.5 MP instead of 2.

• Recycler HP reduction 25 instead of 30%

• Support Tank HP bonus 25% instead of 20%.

• Mantis starting hack reduces attack by 10% instead of 20%. Added 25% move speed bonus for melee.

• Mantis Cap raised to 4, cost from 400 to 250 crystal.

• Light Artillery Cap raised cost reduced.

• Support Tank - Added passive Heal aura. Cost 160 to 140, DMG 9 to 12, Attack Cooldown 2.5  to 1.5, Skill Duration 30 to 25

• A lot smaller changes to the enemy starting building configurations. 

• Blink Walker enemy nerfed.

• Strength and Turbo effects reduced.

• made some of the simple PCX units slightly stronger.

• Shields amount decreased on a lot of units and upgrades, decreased Shield recharge cooldown and increased recharge per second.

• Almost all PCX units +10 HP

• Player turrets caps raised and adjusted some damage and hp

• Tweaked the variables for the enemy attack behavior a bit.

• Complete Mantis rework

• Team Taker upgrade attack rate impact reduced

• Multi Grenade Van Projectiles are homing now

• Duplication ray can no longer target buildings

• Bounty bot skill damage adjusted upwards to make up for the shield decrease

• Rocket Walker shields increased and HP slightly decreased.

• Adjusted collision sizes on PCX small and mid slimes.

• Harvest Tuner rate increase 25% instead of 15.

• Tunneler enemy variant setup adjusted.

• Material Transfer has a max stack of 10 Armor now.

• A lot of changes to enemy units and enemy variants. The general goal is to have less unit spam in higher ascensions. A more difficult base level of difficulty. A better spread of the enemy bases.

• Recycler has a new passive aura effect (experimental). 

• Mantis starts with 1 cap limit. Gains another with the specialist hacks. 

• Protected Start no longer affects spawns.

• Further enemy variants changed to do less unit spam. 

• Heat 0,10,20,30,40 and 50 now reduce enemy attack cooldowns by 5% 

• Heat damage increase reduced to 2.5% per heat level.

• Heat: Added additional factories to Boss enemies from Earlier Ascensions added to the random rotation in heat runs.

• Mantis rebalance - MP cost rises per skill use. Base damage increased.

• Phase Walker rebalance

• Vampirism heal cap introduced

• more tweaks to some enemy setups

• PCX Corrosive Tractor armor reduction duration increased but capped at 0

• Increased the heal on Defender Heal upgrade

• Increased damage granted by Death Lesson Upgrade

• Buffed Sole Income Hack

• Decreased Wall Block Armor and raised HP

• PCX Tacticonnections summon more reinforcements on Ascension 6+ and 9+

The Bomb Fix - Early Access Update #8

BE PART OF THE BETA TO GET UPDATES EARLIER

BALANCE CHANGES:

• PCX Brood Mech skill warning persists a little longer before the skill hits.
• Some Drop prices increased to adjust for power.

BUG FIXES:

• Prohibit opening in-game menu while playing win/lose sequence to prevent exceptions
• Win/lose Sequence: auto scroll and zoom again
• Sniper Range can now also be applied to RoboPoker
• Allow combat engineer's missiles to live longer to reach far away targets (when using the growing reach hack)
• Make it more unlikely for units to get stuck on layer borders
• Let melee units move closer to the building when attacking it
• No (invisible) rally points for harvester factories
• Engineers shoot automatically on enemies in their weapon range while standing
• All Bomb units should hit their targets more consistently now.
• PCX Bomb units should behave more consistently with the triggering of their explosion state.
• PCX Brood Mech skill description fixed. Can no longer summon when stunned
• Core Harvester RushBeacon teleport exploit fixed.
• Stun more robust in how it handles buildings

PERFORMANCE OPTIMIZATIONS:

• Draw entity stats widget only one time when selecting several units at once

The Information Update - Early Access Update #7

DETAILED SINGLE UNIT INSPECTOR

COMBAT PREVIEW

BALANCE CHANGES

NEW CONTENT

BE PART OF THE BETA TO GET UPDATES EARLIER

NEW CONTENT:

• Added “Surface Scan” a pre mission briefing, showing the name of the upcoming enemy as well as the landscape and biome. These unique IDs should make it easier to talk about the different elements of the game. It also contains the run and map id, so if you send us a screenshot of this, it is very easy for us to recreate a game state.
• New Enemy Variant for second Elite encounter.
• Added Oil grenade skill to robo poker.
• New Hack Critical Optics - 10% critical chance for Sniper role.
• New Hack Critical Regeneration - Crits grant regen.
• New Hack Advanced Shields - Shielded get crit chance.
• New Hack Emergency Shields - Battered triggers shields
• New Hack Anti Shield Rounds - attacks remove additional shield charge from target.
• New Hack: Effective Veterans - veterans get turbo on kill.
• New Unit: Flame Arrow
• New Unit: Heavy Machine Gun Truck - ultra long range slow vehicle
• New Unit: Swarmer

GENERAL CHANGES:

• Blueprint Cards now show in detail what effects causes which buffs or debuffs are applied
• In-game card view now shows the current stats of the selected unit (including its active status effects)
• 60 fps is the new default frame rate limit
• Armored Tractor has a new critical modifier against enemy robo targets. The active ability now has a small Area of effect.
• Improved Status effect icons
• Ascension Buttons in Run Setup visible from the start in preview mode.
• Rush Beacons now show charged status on the minimap
• All collectors now trigger the “harvester lost” warning and also signal the position on the minimap.
• Specialists trigger warning and minimap blink when they get killed.
• Slight UI adjustments on the cards for better readability.
• Reworked Mechanics of Ascension 10 Boss. The invincibility mechanic of the PCX Turbines has been replaced by something that is a lot less finicky and hopefully more satisfying to play against.

BALANCE CHANGES:

• PCX slime enemies debuffed.
• CF 3 improved
• PCX Poker debuffed.
• PCX Siege Tower armor added, and HP raised
• PCX Fortress damage raised
• CF Respawn Packs take 25% longer to charge up.
• Commando Mech damage increase 2.4 to 2.8, HP 130 to 150
• Welding Runner - HP raised by 5, skil size .75 to 1.25, production time reduced by 4 sec
• T0 Tank - damage raised 4.5 to 5, weapon range 4 to 4.5. HP 120 to 130, skil duration +5 sec.
• Robo Marine attack cooldown 1.8 to 1.6, factory cap 8 to 10
• Blockade Tank attack size 0.8 to 1.2, production duration 35 to 30, passive heal 2 to 2.5
• Factory Charger - Cost 500 to 400
• Hover Sniper, factory cap 3 to 4, unit cap 10 to 8, weapon range 7 to 7.5, damage 10 to 14
• Little Lighter: Factory cost 360 to 320, damage 2 to 3, burn duration 3 to 4 sec.
• Grenadier 4x4: attack size 1.6 to 2, damage 9 to 12, HP 80 to 60, unit cap 4 to 6
• Ultra Gunbot: cost 160 to 140, factory cost 520 to 480, factory cap 3 to 4
• Ultra Turret: cost 800 to 700, attack type changed to splash with a size of .6
• Claw Bot: damage from 2.4 to 2.6.
• Headhunter: unit cap 3-5, HP 120 to 160, skill size 2 to 2.5, Damage 8-10
• RocketWalker: unit cap 4 to 6, attack cooldown 4 to 3.5
• Laser Tank: Cost 200 -180, factory cost 500 - 440, HP 120 to 140.
• Sniper Turret: Cost 360 to 320, cap 10 to 12, HP 300 to 400, skill cost 20 to 15.
• Smart Grenade Marine: cap 3 to 4, attack range 4 to 5, attack cooldown 5 to 4, HP 90 to 60, Shield 4 to 5
• Planter Tank: attack cooldown 2 to 1.2, skill cost 20 to 15, MP 30 to 20
• Repeater Turret: HP 270 to 400, skill cost 20 to 15
• Gatling Walker: Salvo shot count 4 to 6, attack cooldown 0.35 to 0.4 sec, production time 45 to 36, HP 320 to 360, factory cap 1 to 2, unit cap 5 - to 4.
• Exciter Beam Cruiser: attack cooldown 0.5 to 0.4, attack range 6 to 7. Production duration 40 to 32. Unit cap 4 to 5.
• Recycler - Cost 120 to 80, production time 18 - 15, attack cooldown 1 to 0.8 sec, Starting relic factory cost reduction 80% to 75%.
• Player - Mine damages increased
• MP Chargebot now applies burning, when the skill is active.
• Robo Micros Factory cap raised to 10
• Ancient Turret buffed
• Explosive Surprise - damage increased to 20 from 10.
• Hack vacancy filler changed to 90% production time reduction instead of 50%.
• PCX Nano Hunter HP reduced, attack speed slightly reduced.
• PCX Poker attack speed slightly reduced.
• PCX Elite Melee Division enemy variant has fewer buildings on start
• some upgrade pricing changes

BUG FIXES:

• Set unattainable Hacks to inactive, so they do not falsely show up in the database.
• Be sure to have camera placed above engineer when level starts
• Prohibit zooming when it is not allowed
• Don’t show in-game-tutorial before player has pressed start button
• Don’t show attack rate for Blueprints that do not attack
• Close button for Profile Select screen.
• Fire Mech Skill can no longer damage your own units.
• Removed unreachable upgrades from the database
• Fire Booster critical passive works correctly now
• fixed that some blueprints could not show up as a reward. (so basically weather tower, Boulder Turret, and Lightning Tower are new blueprints as of this update.)
• Cull Turret cull sound no longer globally audible
• Echo description clarified
• Brood Mech active skill description added
• Tick Walker name inconsistency fixed
• Charge Laser Tank sniper behavior module removed to match description
• Units that respawn via Support Tank’s Respawn Hack or Robo Replicators now count into unit cap correctly, units spawned via drops or unit chest ignore unit cap
• Abrakazoom Hack uses Card Change instead of entity mod for skill range increase
• Overload Specialist Hack now also triggers, if you manage to get Recycler copies as a spawn.
• Enemies attacking their own buildings because of Confusing Panic will stop doing it when panic ends
• Robo Poker now accepts “Range Up” Upgrade
• Bounty Bot now accepts Skill Damage upgrade (the multiplier can now be influenced by relics, upgrades and so on)
• Upgrades CriticalStuns, Slow and ArmoredAttack can only be applied to damage dealers from now on
• Removed duplicate objective from Ascension 7 Boss
• added missing translation for Asc7 boss
• AI no longer attacks unreachable obstacles, which sometimes caused them to get stuck for a while.
• AI no longer attacks crystal towers or chests or neutral buildings that would give them an advantage.
• fixed broken icon for vampirism update.
• fixed units on transporter crash sites spawning with the wrong tag.
• fixed armored tractor skill icon to correct type and it not being able so self target.
• changed CF respawn packs to only work on the original unit.
• fixed PCX Dragon Bug to not hit targets on layers above itself.
• removed inactive sniper tag from Heavy Machine Gun Truck
• callback spire now also teleports spawns
• fixed skill duration upgrade being offered on basis of skill range and not duration
• fixed missing part of the Heal Drop description.
• fixed defender upgrade inconsistency
• don't take over card changes from run into database
• Advanced charging uses card change instead of value change so the change is visible in the card view.

Early Access Update #6 - Version 0.6.28

No more unfun hunt for chests:

Beta updates

GENERAL CHANGES:

• Changed text element in run result screen, so it should not break in languages with wide letters.
• fixed some texts being in the wrong language in the reward map tooltips.
• removed the chance of burning spawning a fire.
• second chances upgrade reworked to give a chance to ignore damage instead of temporary armor.
• Removed Chests that have run persistent effects, so there is never reason to delay a win to hunt down chests.
• Crashed PCX Transports will be revealed on level start.
• Introduced system word for pure damage and clarified core sniper skill with it.
• Rocket Marine Skill changed to location AoE, projectile hits faster to make up for the loss of tracking.
• Added Version Number to Main menu

BALANCE CHANGES:

• Callback Spire, cost and skill cost reduced and skill size increased.
• Robo Grenadier - range increase, AoE increase, cost reduced
• cf05 hp reduced
• pcx poker hp reduced
• Many changes to the Enemy Setups, to make difficulty curves more even.
• PCX Tunnelers start with empty MP
• PCX Siege Armor production duration raised to 180s
• Mantis mech: cap changed to 3.
• Mantis mech: temporary movement speed effect removed from skill.
• Mantis mech: slight attack speed increase

BUG FIXES:

• don't throw exception if trail of projectile vanishes before impact
• fixed: some languages showed a broken text on level start and objective.
• Sniper Racer passive no longer triggered by Crystals
• added shot audio to beam spirits
• incendiary hovercraft hover effect no longer wrong scale on card preview
• bomb bike and robo bomb correctly have the melee tag and will benefit from hacks and upgrades that are tied to melee.
• mantis mechs should no longer be able to all eat the same unit.
• Headhunter skill now also affects buildings.
• Landscaper upgrade: trees no longer count as friendly.
• AI is now more capable of clearing obstacles on paths they want to follow
• Don't let stealthed buildings be chosen as attack target by the ai
• Turret Drops on small plateaus spawn turrets outside the plateau if necessary.
• Mantis Mech: skill cannot be applied to Mantis Mechs, Spawns or Engineers.
• Robo Warlock attack could not hit obstacles.
• PCX Cocoons now correctly teleport to a random obstacle on spawn.
• AI can no longer attack its own buildings to clear up paths.
• Fixed possible critical exception error caused by the PCX Crashed Transport event.
• Rush Beacons can no longer trigger their charged state message, if they can not actually spawn another Extender.
• Fighting Rush Hack now works as expected
• Heavy Slow Hack effect more reliable
• Reworked several Hacks that rely on Status Effects to trigger dynamically to be more reliable.
• Passive effects, MP charge bot and Heavy MG Tank reworked to be more reliable.
• Spawn Crystal fields correctly on the map even if player start area is separated by obstacles.
• Fixed a lot of the upgrades that falsely could or could not be assigned to certain blueprints.

A long list of small improvements

Beta updates

Read the full patch notes below:

Version 0.6.24

NEW CONTENT

• New Upgrade: Echo

GENERAL CHANGES:

• Added some analytics events for balancing
• Option for frame rate limit added (if Vsync is off)
• Game waits for a manual confirmation on level load.
• Higher resolutions for all fonts (especially relevant for Chinese, Korean and Japanese)
• Status Effect icons show the status under the health bar.
• Decoration in main menu slightly reworked.
• Custom keyboard layout is now the preset keyboard layout
• VSync off is now the default value
• Automatic attack behaviours optimized (especially for melee units)
• Core Harvester rate slightly increased, Stealth on deploy added.
• Benevolent Armor Hack changed to heal relative to the current armor amount.
• Mantis can no longer eat itself or engineers.
• Mantis: slightly improved VFX for eating effect.

BALANCE CHANGES:

• Landscaper upgrade now spawns trees.
• PCX Tacticonnection calls slightly less units on Reinforcement skill.
• PCX Basetank damage and HP slightly reduced.
• Tier0 Tank Factory cost reduced
• Protective plate pile, cost reduced, skill duration doubled.
• necro field generator - skill duration
• Landscaper upgrade now spawns trees.
• PCX Tacticonnection calls slightly less units on Reinforcement skill.
• PCX Basetank damage and HP slightly reduced.
• Tier0 Tank Factory cost reduced
• Protective plate pile, cost reduced, skill duration doubled.
• necro field generator - skill duration
• Refurbisher now also has a passive respawn chance for allies. Cost reduced and cap raised.
• Bomb Bike rebalance. More damage & cheaper
• Bounty Bot cost reduced. Attack rate and damage higher. Skill does more damage and has greater range and costs less.
• Silver Arrow attack rate up and costs down.
• Hover Mine Layer - costs down, range up
• Recycler Hack effects now include production time reduction.
• Recycler unit cap raised to 6, cost and mana reduced.
• Recycler now spawns 3 Zombos on death by default.
• Vampirism heal is now 40% of damage.
• PCX Scout Cruiser, slow shot removed. Skill description fixed

BUG FIXES:

• mantis skill description corrected
• Don’t show health bars in cards (bug introduced in last patch)
• Hopefully fixed the bug in which the reward map is empty and the run cannot be started (due to a bad written tutorialState file)
• Chests should no longer be able to be triggered multiple times.
• Korean, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese: added missing characters to the font map
• Attack of Mantis is a bit more reliable
• Advanced load distribution fixed
• Flame Walker can no longer stack burrow Armor effect.
• Drop effects on factories now stack correctly.
• Anti Burn coating does what it says.
• Show only up to 1 decimal for the values in the skill section on the card to prevent wrapping
• Capitalized some upgrade names
• Prohibit the rare event of spawning an object outside the map (which led to an exception)

TUTORIALS

NEW SPECIALIST - MANTIS MECH:

BETA UPDATES

Version 0.6.18

GENERAL CHANGES:

• TUTORIALS! - Still a bit rough, but in general a pretty cool system, that we will iterate on as needed.
• New specialist: Mantis Mech
• Ascensions called ascensions everywhere instead of sometimes being called mutation.
• Crystals on the map gain +100 HP for every second Ascension, so +100 in A2, A4, A6 etc.
• Added Skill Description to CF2 Firebomb
• Ancient Crystal Altar visual changes
• Added PCX Voicelines when attacking
• Starter Blueprints can only appear in the first blueprint selection
• Teleport Spire now shows the range for the teleport radius when selected.
• changed some names for more clarity or preventing mix ups.
• build-unit-tutorial now also auto-finishes

BALANCE CHANGES

• Reduced player and PCX harvest rates.
• Ascension 10: PCX build time reduction 5% instead of 20%
• Rocket Marine: Skill range and Area size increased. Attack cooldown reduced.
• Robo Marine Skill range increased, attack cooldown reduced.
• PCX Big Hunter: more powerful but takes a lot longer to build.
• PCX has slightly raised build times for cf05, cf1, Nano Hunter.
• removed some starting factories for later ascension enemy bases
• CF2 slightly higher damage and lower fire rate, reduced duration of Firebomb.
• PCX SiegeTower Fire spawns duration halved.
• Monster Mode Ray slightly changed to make stacking less exponential.
• Drops: Precision Strike and XXL Bomb damage increased.
• RoboZombos attack damage increased to 3,5, attack cooldown reduced to 1.8
• Crystal mill now always spawns with 5 robo harvesters and 3 small crystals when there is no other Crystal mill in sight. The idea was for this refinery to be the one that rewards expansion, which this should reward more.
• Factory Charger starts with MP only half charged.
• Robo Recycler now reduces cost and HP of units.
• Core Harvester rate reduced, price and production duration increased.
• Accelerated growth now applies a percentage change.
• Crystal Fields slightly less frequent.
• Kill Charge upgrade MP charge reduced to 2 from 3.
• Vampirism heal effect decreased.

BUG FIXES:

• Typos in Resilient Hacks and PCX Missile Launcher
• BladeBot skill type correct
• Crystal field increase via Ascension do not all trigger at A2.
• Core Harvester Deployment can no longer be abused to infinitely heal the crystals
• Capitalized some upgrade names
• Prohibit the rare event of spawning an object outside the map (which led to an exception)

Burning burns brighter than before

Beta updates

Read the full patch notes below:

Version 0.6.14

• New super weapon - Heavy Rocket Launcher

• SmartFires will no longer damage crystal patches.

• Japanese Localization: hopefully made the japanese texts on a lot of cards more readable by adding some spaces behind period, comma and some system words. - If you are Japanese and have feedback on this, it would be very appreciated to know if the cads are more readable now.

• Critical growth adds 3Hp instead of 1 per stack
• Little Lighter: now attacks 3 random targets around main target. Slight stat adjustments.

A lot of small changes make for a pretty big update

Beta updates

Read the full patch notes below:

BALANCE CHANGES:

• CF5 no longer has armor. HP increased instead.
• CF2 no longer has armor.

GENERAL CHANGES:

• Mine Layer skill now places 5 mines - only EN description for now
• Hover Refinery now always spawns with 5 harvesters
• Core Harvester no longer does 2.5 the amount of damage to a crystal for each 1 point of income but just damage equal to the amount harvested.
• Core Harvester no longer dies when the fields are depleted
• Core Harvester Refineries always start with 4 harvesters
• Core Harvester harvest rate per crystal raised to 1.25 instead of 1
• Robo Crystal Mill now always spawns 5 harvesters
• Robo Harvester harvest rate increased to 4 from 3.5, production time slightly reduced
• Flame Walker now gets +3 armor when burrowed
• Refinery system description adjusted
• PCX Armory no longer gives constant +1 Armor. It now has an active skill that will give that effect for a limited time instead.

BUG FIXES:

• defender tank shield active on card, even though it does not have shield
• Stronger Protection upgrade works as described.
• Shield charger skill description correctly names the shield amount given.
• hornet tank projectiles should not disappear before hitting enemies (could not test, but changed the lifetime of projectiles, which was probably too short sometimes)
• Robo Replicator correctly triggers Rage when it spawns.
• Heavy Slow Hack interacts correctly with Slow status effect
• Moved the “Cancel” button in the assign upgrade view, so it can no longer be obscured by the hack view.
• Revealed Opportunities hack slightly larger view radius, to always catch the crystal root in sight.
• Hack speeder skill matches description.
• added icon for PCX Slime variants
• PCX finished construction site effects no longer visible when not revealed.
• Fixed Victory text in some languages being almost unreadable due to the way the font handles being in bold.
• Influential Factory now correctly targets friendlies, like the text says, not just units.
• Fixed event structure on Lightning Tank so on attack hit target events get triggered correclty. This prevented Bounty Shot for example to trigger.
• grammar error in explosive obstacles fixed
• added clarification that Flame Walker needs to burrow to attack to the description.
• removed faulty part of Crystal Synthesizer description. (it does not double harvest rate and never has).

NEW DROPS INCOMING!

Read the full patch notes below:

NEW CONTENT:

DROP SYSTEM OVERHAUL:

• Drops now can be used multiple times (once per level) or as single use items (as earlier).

GENERAL CHANGES:

• More detailed tooltips for reward map and enemy legend.
• Trigger “Unit/Building/Turret/Engineer under attack” message only if not selected.
• Crit sound reduced in volume.
• New Specialist unlock guaranteed after first victory.
• Particles on the reward map to indicate where start crystals and drops go
• Core Harvester now correctly raises the Max HP of crystals when deployed. Plus slightly reduced cost and effectiveness of the skill to account for the fixed mechanic.
• Reach Engineer range, no longer global.

BUG FIXES:

• Removed inaccurate role descriptions for Robo, Vehicle and Tank roles.
• Defender Tank - giant Shield from roof turret removed.
• Mech Commander can no longer use skill on Engineer.
• Robust replication no longer triggers without robust status.
• New “Dead unit” version for some PCX Mechs.
• Queued units in factories no longer add up to unit cap when factory gets destroyed.
• If you queue up some stuff at a factory, then sell the factory, the money is now refunded for the queued units (but not if the factory is destroyed).
• Fixed several card descriptions in different languages.
• Robo Warlock active ability no longer does friendly fire damage.
• Fire Booster, movement sound quieter. Skill works correctly now.
• Sniper sounds no longer audible from the other side of the map.
• Mech Commander and Lightning Turret can damage obstacles now