UPDATE — FIRE, REVENGE AND DEFENSE GRIDS

NEW IN EVERY MODE

• Conquest combo: take 2 enemy worlds within 5 seconds and your combo ignites — every further conquest adds 5 more seconds. Every world taken during the combo catches fire along its borders, in your own colour.
• Revenge: win back a world you lost within 5 seconds and its region blazes with fire petals swirling into the planet. Every further world you win back adds 5 more seconds.
• Your fleets and missiles now part the background clouds as they fly.
• Missiles and fleets have a crisp black outline, so they read better on any background.

INFERNO (ROGUELITE)

• New card: Defense Grid. Pick a world you hold and deploy it: it shoots down enemy missiles and fleets crossing its range with burning interceptors — fire trails, fragmentation blasts.
• New card: Interceptor Rack — +12 interceptors in every grid, stacking up to 200.
• New doctrines: Extra Grid (up to 3 grids) and Grid Rounds (+12 interceptors per tier, up to 200).
• Grids are permanent: capture a grid's world and the grid fights for you.
• From sector 11 on, bots build defense grids too.
• Bots never take a colour close to any player's anymore.
• Pausing an online Inferno run now also freezes every fleet and missile in flight; resuming plays a 3-2-1 countdown.
• Archive: adding a power to the pool now costs 3,000 Data. Extra Grid: 3,000 / 6,000 Data.
• Inferno tracks now play only in Inferno, and a little louder.

HEGEMONY

• Defense grids now fire burning interceptors with fragmentation blasts — all in the grid owner's colour.
• Grid kills now always happen inside the range shown on the map.
• The leader's sky-claim effect was redone.

GENERAL

• Music at 100% is now truly full volume; the default for new players is 70%.
• F11 hides the whole HUD, chat included — for clean screenshots. (PC)

FIXES

• Capacity cards now apply correctly in online Inferno runs.
• After resuming an online Inferno run, planets no longer look like they are being hit out of nowhere.
• The resume countdown no longer gets stuck at 3.