--- title: "TEC: Titan Onslaught Update Change Log" canonical: "https://wiki.sinsofasolarempire2.com/space/SSEFW/1502969857/TEC%3A%20Titan%20Onslaught%20Update%20Change%20Log" format: markdown --- **Release Status:** ***** RELEASED ***** May brings the onset of Spring at Stardock and Ironclad; it’s a good time to reflect on how things are progressing. We’ve received a lot of great feedback from players so far and it’s allowed us to enhance the game in many ways already. This month’s release includes several highly requested features: - TEC Titans - The Ankylon and Ragnarov re-enter the war with all the Sins II trimmings! - TEC Novalith Cannon - This deadly superweapon returns exclusive to the TEC Rebel faction, granting them incredible power. - New Fleet System - You asked, and we agreed wholeheartedly: This update includes the first draft of our new fleet system. - Planet Updates - Constructor ships return along with planet elevators and orbital traffic. > ℹ️ Note: This update is not save game compatible with prior versions. --- # Change Log ## Fleet System - Players can now form fleets of ships via the left-side empire window. - Add a new fleet by hovering over the left-side empire window and left-clicking the + button. - Selecting unit(s) and right clicking the fleet button will also create the fleet and add the units. - Selecting unit(s) and right clicking an existing fleet will add the units to the fleet. - Remove a unit from a fleet by clicking the ‘Leave Fleet’ button in the advanced ship actions menu. - Units rallied to a fleet will join it. - Remove a fleet by dragging it out of the empire window. - Reinforce - Fleets can reinforce their ranks using the fleet’s build interface when the fleet is selected. - The fleet will optimize where ships are produced based on the fleet’s location and various other factors. - Orders - In addition to reinforcement, fleet orders include move, attack, hold position and stop. Based on feedback we will add new orders, states and behaviors. - Fleets that have lost enough ships to empty a row of the formation will automatically compress to tighten the formation as appropriate. ## Unit Control - Added rotate-in-place command to ships. Hold ALT when right clicking in a gravity well to have selected units face the direction you specify. - Changed left and right click to attack all enemy units in a selection window stack (e.g., to attack all siege frigates just click once on the stack in the selection window; instead of shift queue attack each unit in turn). - Removed strikecraft from the highest-level bandbox priority so they no longer get included with regular units. - Fixed order lines conflicting with phase lane rendering. Phase lanes are now suppressed and smoothly fade back in when order lines go away. - Improved ability button UI for channeling abilities. - Forced new key bindings to be used. ## Gameplay - Added Trader Rebel and Loyalist Titans. - Added Novalith Cannon to TEC Rebels. - Upgraded TEC Rebel Insurgency to 300 supply (up from 50). - Auction Updates: - Added auction losing refund percentage (50%) for all players. - Added auction lost refund bonus research to TEC Rebels. - Minor Faction Updates: - Added Metal Monopolization reward: Provides you with a time limited exclusivity contract with the metal market. - Added Crystal Monopolization reward: Provides you with a time limited exclusivity contract with the crystal market. - Added Black Market Andvar reward: Provides you with a smuggled cache of Andvar. - Replaced Elite Mining Crews reward with Advanced Mining Rig: Highly customized mining machinery boosts metal extraction rates. - Added initial planet elevators and orbital traffic to help signal planet development level. - Added initial construction ships to build structures. - Ships in drydock will now fly out of the factory when construction is completed. - All planet bonuses were given more accurate `planet_type` constraints. - Added planet bonus constraint to avoid surface level conflicts. - Removed various obsolete planet bonuses that will be replaced in a future update. - Added queuing of ship components without a shop. - Added queueing of starbase components while under construction. - Changed home planet starting bonuses to planet components. - Upgraded Retrofit Bay to recharge its antimatter faster (to keep the heals coming!). - Fixed research prices. - TEC Rebel insurgent units that are no longer at enemy planets will auto-scuttle to avoid insurgents sitting around planets they shouldn’t be. - Starbase Docking Booms changed to do in-combat repair rather than passive regeneration. - Fixed inappropriate ships from acquiring strikecraft as their primary target (e.g., capital ships). - Restricted some ships' point-defense to only fire at strikecraft and torpedoes. - Slowed down orbits of planets closer to the star. - Fixed default factory rally points. ## Garrisons - Added new garrison states “roam offensive” and “roam defensive.” - Garrison supply reduced by 25% (except for the home planet garrison). - Doubled garrison unit build times. - Moved garrison order management to the garrison planet component. The component itself will now represent the three different behaviors. - Fixed garrison units being stacked with normal units in selection window. ## Galaxy Generation - Added formation spawning for player starting units. - Improved how formations spawn in a gravity well. - Setup formations for minor factions. - Update map names and descriptions. ## Minor Factions - Added Advent Apostate Merchants as the merchant NPC. - Added Vasari Outcast Miners as the mining NPC. ## Visuals - Added initial star model. - Added initial gas giant model. - Updated Trader normal and adaptive shield effects. - Updated various weapon and ability particle effects. - Added initial ship and structure under construction effects. - Added initial star and star surface texture. - Updated asteroid props. - Updated Dunov materials. - Added visible missiles on a variety of ship meshes. - Adjusted some mesh icon visible distances. - Updated beam effect on starbase. - Updated capital ship light autocannon hit effect. - Added depth fade to a variety of effects. - Updated some death sequences for large units/structures. ## HUD - Updated bottom bar. - Added Exotic Factory building counts blink duration. - Added flash to Exotic button when any exotics received. - Added flashes to top bar buttons (e.g., trade import points acquired). - Added invalid ability target planet alpha. Replaces old unused underlays; now consistent with picking alliance offer planets. - Added new dialog frame to all HUD dialogs. - Added saving of notification cards. - Aligned Exotic Factory owned and building counts with one another. - Changed alliance offer notifications to be persistent with progress bars. - Changed top bar assets text to be consistent with other components. - Fixed delay between consuming last item and it being removed from inventory. - Fixed notification card layout off by 1 errors. - Fixed notifications aligning with top bar buttons. - Fixed players window opening sometimes when closing alliance offer window. - Fixed selection of single ships not showing up in planet pip group rendering. - Improved errors around missing research labs. Now explicitly says “labs” instead of just “research” to avoid confusion. - Removed extra thick phase lanes for PSIDAR. - Split up count text on all HUD buttons to top and bottom when building, consistent with the Exotic Factory window. - Stabilized clock text as it increments. - Updated victory window to use new dialog frame. - Update orbit direction line colors and length. - Improved unit selection outline aliasing. - Reduced size of garrison unit underlay. - Added a wide variety of icons for build menus, research, abilities, components and auctions. - Adjusted `ui_status_border` sizes. - Fixed research tier upgrades waiting for research labs messaging. - Added tab to toggle between research windows instantly. - Exposed camera settings for edge panning, invert horizontal rotation and invert vertical rotation. - Fixed mesh outlines appearing through meshes as if they were transparent. ## Tooltips - Added unit order tooltips. You can now see that units are attacking a group of units and not just one unit. - Improved auction tooltips. - Fixed hit box used for auction tooltips. - Improved modifier tooltip rendering to show ratio values. - Added exotic count action tooltip line rendering. - Added click instructions to garrison tooltip. ## Audio - Updated Dunov Energy Transfer sound fx and duration. - Added TEC ambient music track. - Updated phase jump sound fx. ## Bug Fixes - Fixed scouts no longer exploring due to autocast wiping out orders every update. - Fixed alliance offers expiring not refunding assets and exotics. - Fixed autocast of untargeted abilities not working when given explicit orders. - Fixed bug in late game culture rate spread. Resistance and synergy were not properly checking the update tick, so old phantom resistance that doesn’t exist anymore was being factored in. - Fixed `create_unit` atomic failing to create units. Caused two abilities on the Marza to no longer work. - Fixed death sequence effects spawning when zooming in after a unit has died. - Fixed higher research tiers being acquired before lower tiers are finished. - Fixed hyperspace exit effects showing when zooming in late to a gravity well. - Fixed player window auto-opening when game is over. - Fixed built ships all coming out of the same factory. - Fixed some buff effects not being released. - Fixed “Underdevelopment” spelling. - Fixed confusing culture resistance research subject names. - Fixed various strings. - Crashes and Asserts: - Fixed hard crashes in d3d11 when meshes are missing. - Fixed crash bug when using consumable items. - Fixed crash in firing missiles. - Fixed crash when moving planet track upgrades. - Fixed sync errors caused by different processor architectures (e.g., AMD64 vs ARM64). Only users with the same processor architecture can play with each other. - Fixed empty-id alert. ## Misc. - Added the ability to render WebM format videos. - Added teaser trailer to game start. - Added more optimizations to mesh rendering. - Fixed various collision issues.