General Update 04/03/2022

General Update 04/03/2022

This update includes some balance updates, continuation of UX improvements, and a variety of UI improvements. Notably, this also fixes the gargoyle earth tier 4 unit.

Balance updates

Several earth military upgrades were increased in strength.

Not Enough Resources

From the previous update we added not enough resources overlays to many buildings and entities. This adds more such overlays to the following buildings and entities:

• Attuning chamber (earth econ upgrades)
• Living laboratory (earth military upgrades)
• Equalizing pylon (air econ upgrades)
• Wind tunnel (air military upgrades)

Specialization buildings

When you specialize one of the following buildings, the specialization option is removed from other buildings to prevent accidentally researching the same thing multiple times:

• Living laboratory (earth military upgrades)
• Wind tunnel (air military upgrades)

Auras

The following buildings, entities, or orders no longer display their aura unless selected and use a prettier style for their aura:

• Defend order
• Demonic altar (evil barrier)
• Dark forge (dark inspiration aura)
• Wind tunnel (assist area)
• Deadfall trap (trap area)
• Pitfall trap (trap area)
• Zen Garden (calming aura upgrade)
• AOE Regen (shared aura, e.g., Axe Healer enemy)
• Attack move (aggro radius)

Bug fixes

The following bugs or minor issues were fixed:

• Gargoyle (earth, tier 4) - Limited flight ability hover text updated to avoid confusion between passive/active
  • Before: 50% chance to avoid melee attacks for 20 seconds
  • After: Active: Evade 50% of melee attacks for 20 seconds
• Gargoyle (earth, tier 4) - Limited flight
  • shows cooldown slider when on cooldown;
  • spawn cooldown decreased from 20 seconds to 3 seconds
• Better Wings earth upgrade changed
  • Before: Gargoyle "Limited Flight" ability can now dodge all attacks made within 30-feet and has dodge chance increased to 60%.
  • After: Gargoyle "Limited Flight" ability can now dodge ranged attacks and the dodge change is increased to 60%.
  Furthermore, when the Better Wings upgrade is researched, the hover text for the Limited flight ability is changed to
  • After: Active: Evade 60% of all attacks for 20 seconds
• Gargoyle (earth, tier 4) - Ground slam
  • shows cooldown slider when on cooldown;
  • shows red overlay when not flying;
  • is no longer ground targeted;
  • spawn cooldown increased from 0.1 seconds to 3 seconds;
  • ability cooldown decreased from 60 seconds to 45 seconds

UI

The following user interface enhancements were made:

• When selecting a unit, the units portrait is now not stretched unless a portrait size is specified (in which case the unit portrait is displayed at the indicated portrait size). This resolves many units portraits being stretched.
• Added a prettier circle rendering option
• Unit selection circle uses prettier circle rendering option
• Improved game over screen
• Several icon improvements for earth