The v0.92 update for Ashes of the Singularity is now available. Check out the latest updates:

HIGHLIGHTS:

• Map Editor Access

• Stability fixes

• Substrate Balance improvements

• New Map: Bis

Gameplay

• New Map
• Bis - 4 player map, also available in ranked 1v1 matchmaking
• Map Editor Access: add -modding as a command line option before running the game to display the Map Editor button in the bottom left of the main menu.
• Attack-move behavior change (units should stop and fight if enemy within a certain radius)
• AI Improvements
• Added new “surprise attack” PHC AI personality type
• Adjusted PHC AI early expansion tactics
• Adjusted AI structure targeting priorities
• tweak Substrate AI early build order options
• Balance
• storage techs now start at 25 Quanta each
• have hp tech upgrade also increase shields to maintain some parity between substrate and phc
• Adjust healer steering
• have artemis steering match its weapon better
• Seton - fixed bad rads in SE corner
• fringe - made initial expansions symmetrical
• Drone Bay metal cost reduced from 720 metal to 360 metal
• Drone Bay radioactive cost reduced from 120 to 90
• Drone By time to build reduced from 120 to 90
• Repair Bay metal cost reduced from 600 to 140
• Repair Bay time reduced from 90 seconds to 70 seconds
• changed Orion Cascade to target radar contacts
• more aggressive healers/energizers
• Prometheus Quad pulse cannon no longer goes through armor.
• Archer HP reduced from 120 to 90
• Archer metal cost increased from 60 to 64
• Archer logistics cost reduced from 2 to 1
• Martyr
• HP increased from 50 to 100
• Shields decreased from 160 to 100
• squad increased from 3 to 4
• Now move closer for the attack
• weapon damage increased from 2 to 4
• Reaper
• Reaper squad sized decreased from 3 to 2 (fewer Capacitor targets)
• HP decreased from 30 to 20
• Shields increased from 120 to 180
• Energy increased from 50 to 60
• weapon cooldown reduced from 3.2 to 2.8
• Squad size increased from 2 to 3
• metal cost reduced from 130 to 90
• Dominator shields decreased from 700 to 600
• Punisher shields decreased from 800 to 700
• Creep shields decreased from 60 to 40
• Capacitor metal cost reduced from 110 to 52
• Capacitor radioactive cost increased from 20 to 26
• PHC Nullifier brought into line with the Substrate version
• Savager crazy weapon improved
• make savagers upgraded weapon better than its normal weapon
• Substrate units now regain energy in enemy territory (at a reduced rate) instead of not at all
• Regenerator regenerates slower
• have seed weapons have small AOE and be able to target drones as a lowest priority target (this may be enough to mitigate drone swarm cheese attacks)
• Energy Regulator HP reduced from 4000 to 1000
• Quantum Archive time reduced from 240 seconds to 180 seconds
• Gateway time reduced from 240 seconds to 50 seconds
• Drone relay time reduced from 240 seconds to 177 seconds
• PHC scout build time increased from 10 seconds to 15 seconds
• Savager hover height reduced from 27/50 to 6/11 (hugs ground) so that its main cannon is able to hit other units, buildings more reliably.
• Artemis speed reduced from 90 to 85
• Centaur speed reduced from 85 to 82
• Sky cleanser squad size increased from 1 to 3
• Artemis logistics increased from 3 to 6
• Hades logistics increased from 10 to 12
• Dominator logistics increased from 3 to 4
• Punisher logistics increased from 3 to 10
• Drone Hive logistics increased from 3 to 4
• Destructor logistics increased from 3 to 4
• Savager anti-air polaron beam damage increased from 50 to 200
• Amplify quanta cost reduced from 75 to 50
• Orbital strike quanta cost reduced from 500 to 400
• Detonate quanta cost set to 400
• Drone Swarm cost increased from 100 to 125
• T3 logistics increased from 30 to 50
• T3 units HP increased
• T3 shields buffered

Art & Graphics

• hook up looping Amplify effect so it keeps playing (since the gameplay effect is permanent)
• hook up looping Boost effect so it keeps playing (since the gameplay effect is permanent)

UI

• Improved UI for selected Armies
• icons and unit count for each unit type in army displayed w/ tooltips
• a count for all in-construction reinforcements
• Enabling Custom Lobby list of in-progress multiplayer games... for really real this time
• UI can scale up to 200% for resolutions that support it
• Color tweaks to the Main Menu
• Recolored building and unit icons to make more sense:
• Red = Combat
• Blue = Heal/Support
• Green = Metal/Radioactive Resources
• Yellow = Construction, Quanta, and Misc
• New loading screen
• Clarified tooltip for “Instant Heal” Dreadnought level up option
• unit construction tooltips to also say how much metal/rads per second, in addition to total
• Selection ring color for Allies is now blue
• Move Steam notification to top-left where it is less obtrusive
• New Turinium icons

Sound

• Victory and Loss screens have a more impactful initial sound
• updated Punisher Plasma sound
• updating Carving Turret Weapon sound
• updated DeathBlossom sound
• default volume adjusted on Speech Notifications
• updated Retributor Plasma Cannon sound
• lowered volume of CentaurMissiles
• increase Priority of Orbital Strike 3D sound
• volume balance music track

Performance

• Vsync now defaults to off - in DX12 it can lead to some camera jitter on certain GPUs
• don't shade the skybox if we aren't drawing it at least
• Ini will save video card device id, if it changes, ini will reset

Stability Fixes

• Crash that could happen when an orbital was used
• Fixed crash that could happen when shift-selecting units as they died
• Disable GameView prntscreen, since it crashes DX12
• GAME HANG - Return to Lobby When Host Victory Screen Visible
• Crash - Press ESC during Benchmark Load Screen
• fixed crash when engineers died while player was dragging a building
• crash bug fix (unitmotion)

Bug fixes

• Multiplayer
• fixed occasional explosions on construction complete
• Save now enabled for new host after host migration
• Keeping active matches from being queried from Tachyon unnecessarily when entering a matchmade game
• Ignore unreliable updates for buildings and units that are in the process of dying
• Gameplay
• fix mauler targeting priority
• Drengi map updated for better path finding
• fix bug where AI player would not use orbitals or upgrades even though they had enough quanta
• Graphics
• Fixed issue where alt-tabbing out of the game could break mouse input (most prevalent for 4k users)
• Fixed a few other 4k & alt-tab issues
• Partial fix for mipping and material mask problems on Falcon
• fixed Team color and Material Masks shifting on PHC Capital Ship Factory
• Fixing team color and material masks for "Data Store" / Radioactives Storage
• Remade LOD02 to include the larger cannon of the Brute (corrected LOD issues)
• Fixed alignment of PHC Sensor and ground decal
• Fixed rotation of Substrate Assembly ground decal
• fixed some LOD poping inthe Apollo (some is still there but must be shading resolution on the LOD model)
• remove Hades engine flames when under consruction or dying
• Re-rendered Artemis LOD textures, minor improvements (shading at the LOD2 level is causing the main popping)
• fixed normal direction on the Nano Refinery (reset transforms on the FBX)
• Changning how we track GPU percent boundness
• Re-encoded main menu backgrounds loop as VP8, variable bit-rate (4000) to improve playback quality
• re-organize statefrontend a little to see if we can get a smoother playback for movies.
• Fixed glare artifacting on some of the bigger effects
• fixed clipping issue with the Player Icons
• Misc
• Audio layers will auto pause based on initial settings. This should address game audio playing during "pauses" caused by menu's etc.
• MGPU tooltip crossfire typo
• Also fixed bug where building weapon modules list was not always unhidden in the context panel when a building was selected after certain other selected objects

Stats/Metaverse Pages

• Summary - Show time on “Fastest Win” card rather than score.
• Summary - Remove duplicate cards
• Summary - Cards should say Structures / Dreadnaughts Destroyed
• General - List items that are links aren't always obvious - need underline on hover
• Benchmark - CPU string overflows space
• Ladders - Sometimes ladders on "Myself" do not scroll up. Scrolling down then up works around the issue.
• Benchmark - Include preset level in detailed benchmark result view
• General - Clicking on another player's profile box should take me to their summary
• Match HIstory - When viewing detailed match history make “Length” say “Game Length” and move to left
• Ladders - Don't show arrow on highlight (no subview available)
• Match History - Don't show arrow on highlight in Bechmark (no subview)
• Summary - Disable and dim left / right arrow when at first / last card
• Summary - Handle name spacing issues on cards
• General - Make profile / rank window in top right floating in header. Now it looks to be attached to metaverse pages.