1.02 - Pre Release #1

Features

• Smart casting for unit abilities (by default only the closest unit to the target will fire & ctrl can be used to force all selected units to fire).
• New tech structure: Oil Refinery. Grants the owner a 10% production discount. Added to several team game maps.
• Added button in skirmish/multiplayer lobby to reset options to defaults.
• Added Fast Regrowth lobby option.
• Added new IFV/Reckoner turrets: Yuri/Mastermind, Black Hand, Enlightened, Cyborg Elite, Mortars (Cryo/Sonic/Chem), Intruder, Ravager.
• Overhauled Mini Drone attachment (making them easier to attach and less glitchy).
• Improved support power targeting visuals.
• Lowered selection priority for transport aircraft.
• Added Testing Grounds map.

Balance & Faction Changes

General

• Reduced Rifle/Minigunner/Warrior damage vs defenses by 20%.
• Increased tier 1 tank & Tank Destroyer damage vs defenses by 20%.
• Increased Engineer/Assimilator mine detection range.
• Reduced basic defense power requirement from 25 to 10.
• Reduced amount refunded when selling basic defenses.
• Reduced mine defusal time for Engineers/Minelayers.
• Commando/Tanya/Boris can now shoot revealed mines.
• Lowered healing cap for commando units. Takes longer to wear off.
• Added healing cap to any infantry with 15k HP or more.
• Added 4 second delay to SEAL C4 planting. Reduce cooldown by 2 seconds.
• Increased Commando/Tanya C4 cooldown a little.
• SEAL will no longer auto place C4 in attack anything stance.
• Reduced Brute attack speed and DPS vs infantry significantly. Reduce speed slightly.
• Sniper & Desolator will one-shot any infantry.
• Tech lock duration reduced from 60s to 40s.
• Reduced mine defusal time from 3 seconds to 2 seconds.
• Tanya/Commando/Boris can shoot revealed mines.
• Increased Darkener damage vs buildings slightly.
• Increased Plasma Turret HP from 4.5k to 4.6k. Increased RoF slightly. Removed inaccuracy. Moved part of damage vs infantry to % damage warhead to better deal with high HP infantry.
• Increased Laser Turret rate of fire slightly. Increased damage per shot vs infantry. Reduced DPS vs light armor slightly.
• Increased Guard Tower/Pillbox damage vs infantry, light armor and heavy armor.
• Increased Flame Tower/Chem Tower RoF slightly.
• Increased Raider APC damage vs light armor. Reduce damage vs defenses.
• Reduced Fleet Recall cooldown to 3 minutes.
• Increased Shock Trooper HP from 7k to 8.5k.
• Reduced Tesla Track damage vs light armor.
• Increased Tesla Tank damage against light armor.
• Increased Desolator damage vs light armor.
• Increased Interloper damage vs light armor.
• Increased Shade ammo by 1 and damage from 15k to 17k.
• Increased Peacemaker cost from 2.2k to 2.4k.
• Increased Banshee damage vs vehicles.
• Reduced distance from SD units can be upgraded at.
• Cyberdog armor to light armor.

Allies

• New unit: Peacemaker - Heavy bomber available at T3 (Tech Center).
• New upgrade for Ranger: Advanced Optics - Gives Rangers an ability that extends their vision range for a short time.
• Reduced SEAL movement speed and lowered cap on healing they can receive in a short time. Reduced HP from 18k to 16k. No longer immune to mind control/chaos gas.
• New voices for Chrono Prison, Battle Fortress, Mirage Tank and Cryo Launcher.
• Chrono Tank will prioritize ground targets over air targets.
• Increased Scout Tank vision from 6 to 7.
• Increased Chrono Prison damage vs heavy armor.
• Increased Sniper IFV damage vs vehicles. Concussion requires Raufoss upgrade
• Added Guardian GI IFV turret.
• Increased Rifle/Rocket Battle Fortress damage. Reduced range (to same as infantry).
• Medic in Battle Fortress gives healing aura.
• USA drops require Barracks/Factory plus either radar or aircraft production (previously required radar).
• Reverted Nighthawk to normal selection priority. Default stance to Defend.
• Increased jamming field radius by 1
• Reduced Turret power requirement to 25.
• Reduced entrenched Engineer deployment time. Increased radius from 3 to 5.
• Longbow benefits from Cryo Rockets upgrade.
• Reduced Chrono Harvester upgrade cost to 1250.
• Reduced Advanced Ore Processing cost to 750.
• Reduced Nighthawk HP from 44k to 38k.
• Increased Veil of War cooldown from 4 min to 5 min.
• Reworked chill effect to have max 10 stacks (up from 6).
• Damage penalty removed from IFV cryo rockets.
• Changed MGG/MRJ to light armor (increased HP from 22k to 25k).
• Allow spies to disguise as Scrin. Added SEAL/Commissar icons when disguised.

Soviets

• New unit: Floating Disc - Replaces Kirov for Psi-Corps.
• New unit: Commissar - T3 infantry that buffs nearby infantry (increases movement and rate of fire).
• New Upgrade for Psi-Corps: Gattling BTR.
• Increased damage radius of V3 missiles.
• Reduced damage and area of effect of V3 missiles when shot down.
• Yuri will no longer kill slaves when using mind blast ability. Slaves are killed when released, either manually, or by exceeding capacity.
• Increased turret turn speed of Mammoth Tank & Eradicator.
• Reduced radiation strength of Apocalypse Tank shells. Reduced damage against infantry with Flak Armor/Hardened Carapace upgrade. Reduced projectile speed. Increased damage vs buildings.
• New voices for Siege Tank, Sukhoi, Eradicator and Halo.
• Mammoth Tank and Apocalypse Tank will prioritize ground targets over air targets.
• Increased Siege Tank damage vs buildings and defenses. Increased concussion duration by 1 second.
• Increased Tesla Track damage per shot from 13.5k to 14.5k.
• Replaced Psi-Corps Parabombs with Chaos Bombs.
• Increased MAD Tank HP from 100k to 120k.
• Increased Tesla Track damage.
• Increased Tesla Tank damage.
• Reduced Iron Curtain damage vs infantry.

GDI

• New unit: Tomahawk Launcher - Available via research when Bombardment strategy is chosen.
• Bombardier upgrade now available regardless of strategy.
• Titan railgun will always pass through target to max range when fired at targets further than 2 cells away. Slightly reduced the passthrough damage.
• Increased turret turn speed of all Mammoth Tank variants.
• Increased Disruptor splash damage (mainly improves effectiveness against infantry).
• New voices for Disruptor, Titan, Juggernaut, Battle Drone, Mammoth Drone & XO Powersuit.
• Reduced strategy upgrade cost from $1250 to $1000.
• (H)MLRS, Mammoth Tank and Titan will prioritize ground targets over air targets.
• Slight increase to Surgical Strike splash damage close to the target. Damage no longer reduced by prone.
• Reduced Sonic Tower concussion duration vs infantry from 6 seconds to 1 second.
• Reduced Carryall vision from 10 to 9.
• Increased Nanite Repair heal per tick from 3% to 5%, reduced duration from 30s to 25s.
• Increased XO laser damage.
• Increased Juggernaut cost from $1500 to $2000. Increased range, HP and damage.
• At elite rank, third damage level used by Vulcan vs ground targets.
• Increase TOW missile rate of fire and add TankBuster modifier.
• Increase Bombardier damage vs buildings, reduced vs defenses.
• Reduced cost of Afterburner upgrade to 750.
• Increased (H)MLRS HP from 18/20k to 20/22k.
• Increased Battle Drone cost to 800.

Nod

• New upgrade for Buggy: Decoy Projectors - Gives Buggies an ability which creates two decoy Flame Tanks (or Heavy Flame Tanks for Black Hand).
• Chem Warrior gains targeted ability to rush towards their target to close distance.
• Reduced infiltrator cloak recharge delay.
• New voices for Comanche, Microwave Tank, Spectre, Venom and Heavy Flame Tank.
• Infiltrator and stolen tech rework. Unique units for infiltrating each faction's barracks/factory/air structures, tech locked when infiltrating radars/tech centers/T4 structures.
• . Cryo Mortar unlocked by infiltrating Allied Barracks.
• . Reckoner unlocked by infiltrating Allied War Factory.
• . Black Eagle unlocked by infiltrating Allied Helipad.
• . Cyberdog unlocked by infiltrating Soviet Barracks.
• . Rhino Tank unlocked by infiltrating Soviet War Factory.
• . Kamov unlocked by infiltrating Soviet Airfield.
• . Sonic Mortar unlocked by infiltrating GDI Barracks.
• . Pitbull unlocked by infiltrating GDI Weapons Factory.
• . Shade unlocked by infiltrating GDI Airfield.
• . Chem Mortar unlocked by infiltrating Hand of Nod
• . Mantis unlocked by infiltrating Nod Airstrip (or Legion Weapons Factory)
• . Vertigo unlocked by infiltrating Nod Helipad
• . Cyberscrin unlocked by infiltrating Scrin Portal.
• . Viper unlocked by infiltrating Scrin Warp Sphere.
• . Manticore unlocked by infiltrating Scrin Gravity Stabilizer.
• Increased Heavy Flame Tank cost from 1000 to 1100. Reduced speed from 68 to 60.
• Black Napalm reload time penalty increased slightly (for both Heavy Flame Tank and SSM).
• Reduced damage increase for Bikes with TibCore from +10% to +7.5%.
• Reduced Flame Tank splash damage.
• Reduced SSM splash radius.
• Slightly increased Microwave Tank RoF.
• Slightly increased cyborg conversion time.
• Reduced Stealth Tank resistance to aircraft slightly.
• Reduced Venom damage vs buildings (with upgrade no change).
• Reduced Turret power requirement to 25.
• Legion bonus changed to 10% discount on stolen tech units.

Scrin

• New support power: Fleet Recall - Available on Signal Transmitter, teleports Devastators/Carriers/Mothership back to the Signal Transmitter.
• New upgrade: Hypercharge - Gives Seekers/Lacerators the ability to fire an uninterrupted barrage for a short time, after which their weapons are disabled and their speed is reduced until the ability recharges.
• Mastermind will no longer kill slaves when using mind spark ability. Slaves are killed when released, either manually, or by exceeding capacity.
• Increased PAC damage.
• Increased Greater Coalescence damage/healing radius.
• Increased Atomizer splash radius.
• Stormcrawler with Ion Conduits generates ion clouds more frequently (every 4 seconds down from 6).
• Increased Devourer damage. Also increased vs none/light when charged.
• Increased Darkener damage vs light armor.
• Reduced PAC cost from $3000 to $2800.
• Added range circle when targeting Greater Coalescence & Storm Spike.
• Stormrider now able to shoot in any direction. Reduced range vs ground very slightly (0.25).
• Mothership will charge nearby Stormriders/Enervators.
• Increase Atomizer range from 8 to 9.
• Increased Devastator damage by 20% and splash radius slightly. Increased projectile speed.
• Increased Enervator damage from 10k to 11.5k and range by 1.
• Increased Leecher self healing slightly.

Sounds/Artwork

• New sound effects for Vulcan weapon.
• New Aircraft Sounds.
• Added additional visual when units are upgrading.
• Added Soviet star icon under feet of units affected by Commissar inspiration buff.
• Added IFV transform sound.
• Added Transport Load/Unload sounds.
• Added brass casings ejected from Vulcan, BTR, Gattling BTR, Apache, Hind and Kamov, IFV, HMMV, Buggy & Ranger
• Added voice announcements for Intensified Microwaves, Seismic Missiles & Titan Railgun upgrades on completion.
• Fixed some aircraft sprite facings.
• Improved custom RA EVA voice line effects.

Fixes/Misc

• Corrected Cyborg Mechanic salvage time to match Mechanic.
• Corrected range of Disruptor with Seek & Destroy.
• Campaign tooltip visibility corrections.
• Fixed empty warp damage bar appearing when units have very low health.
• Minor AI improvements.
• Added directional targeting to infiltration airstrike and corrected building damage.
• Fixed Chrono Tank not firing at aircraft.
• Fixed upgrades tab not being shown when selecting Ore Purifier.
• Fix Chem Warrior projectile being invisible when in Battle Fortress.
• Fixed map crashes (Calming Lakes, Utter Darkness).
• Restored "I've got a present for ya" and "kiss it bye bye" voice lines for Commando/Tanya when ordered to plant C4.
• Veil of War debuff no longer stacks with direct Gap Generator debuff.
• Iron Curtain on production building no longer pauses production from it.
• Fixed rare crashing bug caused by missiles effectively diving underground.
• Tracking beam weapons will be cancelled on death.
• Fixed Mirage Tank disguise palettes.
• Fixed condition warheads not applying to large actors with multiple targetable locations.
• Corrected Sniper/Raufoss prerequsities in mission 5.
• Fixed rare crash caused by force landing aircraft.
• Minor mission tweaks.
• Fixed Jungle Boogie map.
• Fixed Vulcan reinforcements not being in same select group as normal Vulcans.
• Reduced Thief selection priority.