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Dec 4, 2014:

Alpha Striker Stock Split

On December first we initiated a very special event in AirMech, though most people wouldn't have noticed anything different. Every person who owned an Alpha Striker should now find that they have double their previous count. If you had one, now you have two. If you had three (for whatever crazy reason) now you have 6. We did this as a solution to the Alpha Striker becoming almost too rare and valuable to be sold, in a way that preserves the value for anyone who has one.

Just to be clear, this is not an extra one for Alpha Bundle owners--it's a duplicate of the actual Alpha Striker in player inventories. So if you sold yours, you won't get another. And if you bought one but don't have the Alpha Bundle, you will now have two.

During the start of this process we blocked Alpha Strikers from being listed on the Player Market as a precaution. We have now re-enabled them. Please remember that scamming high value items will result in being banned from the Player Market or worse. We also do not allow and cannot support "trading" of any kind, inside the game or out.

When you use the Check Recipe button, it will now give you printout of what exact Scrap types you will get. And a reminder that the new Nanoforge link on the new Inventory page doesn't seem to work right, so use /forge in the Info tab as the quickest way to open the working version of it.

We'll also be adding a way to break down things like Alloy into Fine Scrap and Scrap in the future, don't worry. There will be more things to do with it as well!

We added a way to use the Nanoforge to "pull" Diamonds off of your account and put them in a Container as a more straightforward way to transfer Diamonds to another player. Using a Diamond Tester, and some Scrap, and you actually have enough Diamonds, you can put them into a Can of various sizes. For now these sizes are 500, 2000, and 5000.

You might start to see Diamond Cans show up on the Player Market. This is a temporary oversight since we can't block them from the Market without also blocking them from being Mailed. I would suggest not buying them on the Market, unless they are below the listed value of course. Any player will be able to make Diamond Cans in the future. For now, DVIPs were given a free Diamond Tester each to help us test, but it will be made available shortly.
Seekers and Stingers balance pass.

Balance Changes

All unit missile speeds reduced by 5%
All unit missile lifespans reduced by 20%
Seeker firing range reduced by 15%
Seeker firing rate increased by 33%
Seeker reload time increased by 33%
Seeker missile piercing increased by 15%
Seeker missile damage reduced by 20%
T99 missile damage increased by 33%
T45 missile damage increased by 25%
T45 regular shot damage decreased by 5%
T45 regular shot piercing increased by 50%

Read More:
https://www.carbongames.com/airmech/2014/12/Alpha-Striker-Split/

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Nov 30, 2014:

Work in Progress: Map Editor and UI Updates

One of the big things we want to finish before exiting beta is the replacement of the main UI. Honestly, it's a mess, as we've continually added features to it while ignoring that it's harder and harder to understand for new users. We're about at that point where we want to start organizing it, and the first bits of this you can see with a new Friends movable menu and a movable Inventory menu. Both are considered "in progress" but we're excited to bit by bit move everything off of the old UI so we can finally present a clean fresh (final?) UI ahead of exiting Beta.

Another big feature we've wanted is the Map Editor, and we debated internally if we should even show people at this point. But since Prime users get the Map Editor no matter what when it's finished, we might as well let you see it as we're working on it--but yes we know there's a ton of bugs and incomplete things. Expect to see progress on this every patch.

You'll also see a reference to Sandbox Mode if you are Prime, and this feature will probably be coming to VIP players when complete. Instead of a full editor, it will focus on letting you move and duplicate units while you pause the game, then resume it and play from there. We may add more more features to it, with the goal to be a fun thing to mess around with in solo games, while doing full map editing will be reserved for Prime owners.

Feedback from players has led to a new unit being created, the Stinger! We're in the middle of rebalancing the Seeker and having a similar unit that's not mobile gives us some options to create some interesting choices. There's other balance tweaks which have come from the community, see below for full details.
Updates

New Unit: Stinger - anti-AirMech missiles on a turret chassis, by player request!
New Pet: Tombstone - ThyTombstone's requested BDVIP Pet
Extremely Alpha version of Map Editor enabled for Prime owners (pause the game in any Solo match)
Endgame now shows XP progress toward next level
2 new Coop leaderboards
updated to end game UI. Drops can now be inspected by clicking on the drop in the end game screen
new Friends dialog/UI
new inventory UI (work in progress, old one still available)
FX polish work on Saucer abduction effect
new Quests - Saucer deathray usage, Neo stasis blast usage
other various polish FX work
performance optimization work on renderer
fixing tree collision on Vale and Duel

Bug Fixes

fix for flier units not showing up in the shop
fixes to units getting stuck at auto deploy locations
fix to transform time stat modifiers
don't update chat UI while mouse button is held (help with name clicking)
fix graphics change notification UI
some visibility fixes to unit healthbar rendering

Balance Changes


fix velocity of missiles fired by AirMech when moving
Archy: direct damage: 150->160, blast damage: 110->100, blast range decreased
Arty: blast damage range increased, Weapon: 75->65
remove move speed penalty from Brutes while firing
double Fortress energy capacity
reduce AirMech vs unit damage by 5.4%

Read More:
https://www.carbongames.com/airmech/2014/11/Map-Editor/

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