113318 TITANS Balance Changes

Hello Commanders,

We all know machines are superior to organics, yet they’re only as good as the hardware underpinning them. You know this, we know this, which is why upgrading the game’s server infrastructure has been such an important goal for us. The road has been long, the struggle real, and we are finally migrated to (drum roll please)… PAnet. Oooooo, literal chills. Uh, I mean, bleep bloop, fellow machine.

PAnet (Planetary Annihilation Network) is our replacement for UberNet and provides all the backend infrastructure for managing game servers and player accounts. It has faster servers for better sim speed, more regions for lower latency, and higher capacity servers.

TITANS 1v1 ranked season 2 came to a close at the end of April. It was hard fought for a while with Uber #1 changing hands multiple times. But as the dust settled a clear victor emerged in NikolaMX, a good 100 points clear of the nearest competition. Should the Progenitors return we know who they will want as their leader.

With season 2 over we surprised everyone with a transition to a season that was one digit higher. Four maps from season 2 have returned, along with 12 entirely new maps, courtesy of WPMarshall. The lessons of season 2 have been applied and we think you’ll find these maps a big upgrade. Ranks were wiped clean and it’s anyone’s game to win once more.

AI performance has been improved and its impact on the server decreased. In addition, we have again put a big focus on eliminating known sources of client and server crashes. We even did a thing with the updating of the toolchain so they have higher version numbers, and we all know higher version numbers are better, right?

PAnet Features

New features in PAnet:

modern servers with faster CPUs, more memory and increased bandwidth

new regions (see below)

New Regions:

USWest (Oregon)

USCentral (Ohio) – this was USEast (Virginia) on UberNet since March 2018

USEast (Virginia)

APSouthEast (Singapore)

APNorthEast (Japan)

The following regions have higher capacity servers for bigger games:

USWest (Oregon)

USCentral (Ohio)

USEast (Virginia)

EUWest (Ireland)

The new PAnet URLs are:

https://store.planetaryannihilation.net/

https://planetaryannihilation.com/privacy/ (new privacy policy)

https://planetaryannihilation.com/terms/ (new terms of use)

https://planetaryannihilation.com/acceptable-use/ (new acceptable use policy)

Migration to PAnet was completed on 2019-05-20 with build 113298.

TITANS 1v1 Ranked Season 2 Winners

Uber #1 (US$1,000): NikolaMX

Most active players (US$100 each)

Uber

NikolaMX

Diskraip

nimzo

Platinum

Pa!nCorgi

Viroo

Sinoccence

Gold

Qivy

Alive In

theiban

Silver

muhr

G-Force

go

Bronze

FrigoPorco

TotalAnnihilator

MrStorm

If you have not received your prize contact support via https://support.planetaryannihilation.com/

TITANS 1v1 Ranked Season 3 Prizes

Mid-season at 2019-06-06:00:00 UTC

Uber #1 – US$500

Three most active Bronze players – US$100 each

Three most active Silver players – US$100 each

Three most active Gold players – US$100 each

Three most active Platinum players – US$100 each

Three most active Uber players – US$100 each

End of season 3 at 2019-07-25:00:00 UTC

Uber #1 – US$1,000

Three most active Bronze players – US$100 each

Three most active Silver players – US$100 each

Three most active Gold players – US$100 each

Three most active Platinum players – US$100 each

Three most active Uber players – US$100 each

TITANS 1v1 Ranked Season 3 Maps

Four maps carried over from season 2:

Aquilaris

Disparity

Centax-3

The Ardennes

Remaining season 2 maps have been added to the in-game map list.

Twelve new maps:

Backbone

Exeunt

Basilica

Hopper

Rotunda

ASAT

Hyde

Kelvin

Echo

District

Maginot

Bailiff

Technical Notes

Legacy builds are no longer supported and will not be updated.

Translations

Dutch updated as an official language

TITANS 1v1 Ranked Improvements

Improved region selection for players in different continents

Region Australia Singapore Japan USWest USCentral USEast Ireland Australia Random Singapore Random USWest USWest USWest Singapore Random Random Japan USWest USWest USWest Japan Singapore Random Random USWest USWest USWest USWest Random Japan Random Random USCentral USEast USCentral USWest USWest USWest Random Random USEast USEast USWest USWest USWest USCentral Random Random Ireland USWest USWest USWest USEast USEast Random

TITANS 1v1 Ranked Fixes

Fix for failed to join game (113329)

AI Improvements

Improved performance of AI deployment data

AI will do better at protecting its commander against nuke snipes (113318)

Orbital lasers and the Orbital Titan will make attacking units that can attack orbital a priority (113318)

AI Fixes

Fix for platoon disbanding weirdness

Fix for evaluateReconNeed AI crash

Removed a couple of duplicated build conditions (113318)

AI dps calculations will correctly take projectiles_per_fire into account (113318)

Units that can target Air will now correctly have AntiAir threat (113318)

Walls will now have Land threat (113318)

MetMinFabberCount now counts Naval fabbers (113318)

Client Improvements

New 1v1 and shared army team vs team maps from TITANS 1v1 ranked season two

Updated Coherent UI with improved 4K+ support for Windows

Improved start menu videos feed (moved into base game from community mods patch)

Improved start menu streams feed (moved into base game from community mods patch)

Improved start menu news feed (moved into base game from community mods patch)

Client Fixes

Fix for 4K+ crashes on Windows

Fix for Coherent UI crashes

Fix for material library crashes

Fix for social bar not shown after 1v1 ranked requeue

Server Improvements

AI no longer directly influences sim and all commands are queued

AI now updates concurrently with history

Server Fixes

Fixes for shutdown crashes

113318 TITANS Balance Changes

Holkins Long Range Artillery

Target priorities added: Commander Titan & ( Land | Naval ) Artillery & Advanced & ( Land | Naval ) Nuke | NukeDefense



Ares Hover Titan

Target priorities added to main weapon: Commander Titan & ( Land | Naval ) Artillery & Advanced & ( Land | Naval ) Nuke | NukeDefense



Bumblebee Bomber

Target priorities added: Commander AirDefense & ( Land | Naval ) Titan & ( Land | Naval ) Artillery & Advanced & ( Land | Naval ) Nuke | NukeDefense



Kestrel Gunship

Can now target underwater layer (subs)

Target priorities added: Commander AirDefense & ( Land | Naval ) Titan & ( Land | Naval ) Artillery & Advanced & ( Land | Naval ) Nuke | NukeDefense



Hornet Tactical Bomber

Target priorities added: Commander AirDefense & ( Land | Naval ) Titan & ( Land | Naval ) Artillery & Advanced & ( Land | Naval ) Nuke | NukeDefense



Wyrm Heavy Bomber

Can now target underwater layer (subs)

Target priorities added: Commander AirDefense & ( Land | Naval ) Titan & ( Land | Naval ) Artillery & Advanced & ( Land | Naval ) Nuke | NukeDefense



Zeus Air Titan

Target priorities added: Commander AirDefense | ( Air & Fighter) Artillery & Advanced & ( Land | Naval ) Nuke | NukeDefense



Orca Destroyer

Torpedoes now have splash damage

Typhoon Drone Carrier