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[[AI War 2: The Final Cycle]] * Cleaned up some excess debugging when AI Eyes or similar were generating waves against players.

* Patch notes for game version 6.001 and up can be found at [[AI War:Current_Post-6.000_Beta|Current Post 6.000 Beta]]. == Prerelease 5.096 [http://arcengames.blogspot.com/2012/10/ai-war-beta-5096-release-candidate-1.html Release Candidate 1] ==

...hp/topic,11809.msg125187.html#msg125187 One does not simply stroll through AI War patch notes], indeed. ...ent is the ''abbreviated'', organized version of the full release notes ([[AI War:Current Post-5.000 Beta|here]]).

[[AI War 2: The Great Refactor]] ** Please note that when it comes to settings types, you can use any. Bools are very efficient, integers are efficient and rel

[[AI War 2: The Refinement of Fleets]] * 4 explanations have been added for non-AI factions in the Other Factions section of the strategy/tips guide.

[[AI War 2: Finalizing Multiplayer]] ** This was done by adapting much of the AIWC lore (thanks Keith!) to ai war 2.

[[AI War 2: Post Completion Part II]] **** Standard mines were given more detonations than most line types before self-destructing a while ago. This is pulling their maximum number o

* 7 new Mission Types ...have been won, meaning various of the unlocks are skipped and more mission types are available right at the start.

* 37 New enemies, including 15 elite types and 7 Minibosses. * 5 New Enchant types

...ow takes simply either "number of human military ships here" or "number of AI military ships here", whichever is larger (though capped at 4x the smaller * Changed the relationship between AI difficulty and wave size to a new algorithm that hopefully provides a more

* Patch notes for game version 7.001 and up can be found at [[AI War:Current_Post-7.000_Beta|Current Post 7.000 Beta]]. == Prerelease 6.050 [http://arcengames.blogspot.com/2013/06/ai-war-beta-6050-release-candidate-3.html Release Candidate 3] ==

** There's more that needs to be done here, but the AI model will need some reworking before that's possible, and there's not room ...al" and "Upper Normal" are now just "Normal" and "Hard" and "Hard" is now "Harder."

[[AI War 2: Interlude And Refinement]] ...at the end among those during this phase were the new Tsunami CPAs and the AI Reserves rework.

...AI access to extra units, while others radically alter its behavior. Some types are so defense-oriented they don't even launch regular waves, while others ...e, hard, and red/technologist (very hard.) Note that while not all the red types are technologists, sometimes the wiki and game still refer to them all as "

* 4 new Mission Types ...etas but minus the intermediate bugs. See [[AI War:AI War#Release History|AI War's three-year post-release history]] for how this works.

[[AI War 2: Pre-And-Post Launch Polish]] ...the initial discussions about all this were [https://forums.arcengames.com/ai-war-ii/my-personal-issues-with-fleets/ here], but other discussions were on

[[AI War 2:The Paradigm Shift]] * Fireteams are now less likely to abandon the AI Overlord

[[AI War 2: The Grand New AI]] ...s to Chthonic_One and Puffin for figuring out that hydra heads and various types of drones were problematic in the extreme without this.

...ng) is the ''abbreviated'', organized version of the full release notes ([[AI War:Current Post-4.000 Beta|here]]). ...all the past versions, and blends them into what we feel is the definitive AI War experience. The game will continue to evolve, but 5.0 is the new rock-

[[AI War 2: Building Multiplayer]] ...st expansion (released at the end of this phase), and an unexpected ton of AI improvements.

[[AI War 2: Final Pre-Beta Checks]] ...type consolidation. Maze A-D is now "Maze" with 4 subtypes. The other grid types are also consolidated into Grid with subtypes and Clusters Microcosm is now

...ut at one time. Now the following caps have been put in for other monster types that come from spawners: ...uences when they were not supposed to be. This was making those sequences harder than intended.

=What exactly are the features in the base game of AI War?= ...ce, or just serves as a plain old reference if you want to look up certain types of information.

[[File:AIWarLogo.jpg|center|AI War]]<br/> Humanity has already fought its war against the machines -- and lost. AI death squads stand watch over every planet and every wormhole, the few rema

...hips except the Mite and the Mothership so that they all now use wandering AI—but abnormally close to you. This way they don't ever just stop and shoo ...re would have to be a counterbalance to keep you from running all over the AI if you figure out that particular fact.

[[AI War 2: Pre-Early Access Polish]] ...cross-threading issue where two different threads (short term planning and AI order reevaluation) would be both clearing out dud orders and putting the s

[[AI War 2: Sunset of The Badger Era]] ...belt, and the game was feeling large and solid at the equivalent of "first AI War plus four expansions," we were ready to tackle the next big thing: mult

...ke everywhere you look there are new Zenith menaces come to make your life harder... The Zenith Onslaught is the second expansion for AI War 2. It's an expansion focused on making the galaxy feel rich and complex

* The Terraforming tech tree node now lists the tile types you can place after researching it. * The display of extra turns from being placed on more rugged land types is now on the same line as the turn count and is a bit more abbreviated-yet

=== Random Map Types And Factions === ...Random Map option in the setup window, which chooses one of the other map types at random.

...July 16), AND a signficant period with no public releases while we ported AI War from .NET/SlimDX to Unity3D. ...of the full release notes ([[AI War:Current Post-3.120 Beta|part I]] and [[AI War:Current 4.0 Beta|part II]], which were over 55,000 words—or, 222 page

...the speed of allied ships in their system.<br/>There are actually several types of [[Command Station|Command Stations]] as follows: ...does not have access to human stations, the player does not have access to AI stations (though some stations may share similarities).

Patch notes for game version 8.001 and up can be found at [[AI War:Current Post-8.000 Beta]]. AI War's run from 7.0 to 8.0 took a long break during our development of The L

...hen trying to start a game with an expansion disabled when the "last used" AI Type for one of the AIs requires that expansion. ...Also adding guardians on a few planets, and accounting for the new-style AI home planets. And a few other goodies, like adding in a fabricator for the

The last of the AI War 2 DLCs is now out, the Complete Edition is out, and you can [https://st We expect AI War 2 to have a ''long'' life if AI War Classic is anything to go by. The game is in a really good state, and

* Formations, which were in early versions of AI War 2 and tied to control groups at the time, have been renamed Fleet Forma * Build Queue Policies, which were in early versions of AI War 2 and tied to control groups, are being phased out. Along with the met

-All of the command stations except for the AI home planet command station now have new, larger graphics and icons. This ...Mass Driver (and related shot), Distribution Node, Gravity Drill Station, AI Co-Processor, replacement SuperFortress and SuperFortress

...on of more types of large ships, notably the spirecraft and the bonus ship types. In all, there are 180 new ships added in this expansion, making it our la ...part of this expansion, comprising 50 ships in all (45 for the bonus ship types themselves, then 5 additional for the spire blades that the spire blade gen

...on of more types of large ships, notably the spirecraft and the bonus ship types. In all, there are 180 new ships added in this expansion, making it our la ...part of this expansion, comprising 50 ships in all (45 for the bonus ship types themselves, then 5 additional for the spire blades that the spire blade gen

[[AI War 2: Post Completion]] This all culminated in the release of DLC3 and the AI War 2 Complete Edition. You can read [https://store.steampowered.com/news/

...are now limited on what map types they can appear on based on the terrain types. So you no longer get really strange natural wonders showing up on Mars an * The various "foward" buildings of the AI have largely been removed or condensed, and in a few cases renamed. These

...ps leave building ruins that have any bonuses in them. All other building types leave no bonuses now. * All three of the difficulty types now have a "Score Multiplier After Game Victory" attached to themselves.

...balanced for difficulties under Hard mode. He's still very hard, but not harder than Terminus anymore. * Two new sizes of "test only" room types have been added. These are used during tutorials as well.

[[AI War 2: Making Alpha Fun]] * The various types of warheads now have their proper graphics.

The base game of AI War includes 27 "bonus" ship classes beyond the base fighter, bomber, friga ...ie on impact, dealing area damage. In many ways, they are like miniature, AI-Progress-free lightning warheads.

...choices as a player more varied than ever. Do you risk total war with the AI by capturing and rebuilding a massive golem? Do you procure defensive super ...bly as it pummels your enemies. Any path you take, there are consequences; AI War is known for being heavily strategic even amongst strategy games, and T

[[AI War 2: The Pivot]] ...ship that the Thanatos is built around was found in a nebula prior to the AI revolt.

[[AI War 2: The Era of Discovery]] ...www.kickstarter.com/projects/arcengames/ai-war-ii-0/posts/2169345 Pivoting AI War 2: Bring The Fun!].

* Fixed an issue that could make it so that miniboss types still were not being seeded in every room. ...take up an abnormally large amount of your screen compared to other region types.

...AI access to extra units, while others radically alter its behavior. Some types are so defense-oriented they don't even launch regular waves, while others Note that this is for AI War 2. This page is currently WIP; some AI types are missing

...en any type of entity, and some things are specific to only certain entity types (ships only, or shots only). So we're going to break it out like that, wit ===== AI-Only Ship Stuff =====

* Six new staircases of various types added in. ...he green fairies in the underground, and the new red fairies are among the harder minibosses in the game now.

...I War, players face off against the Neinzul minor factions, against new AI types in general, and enlist the help of the friendlier members of this new alien ...ated pack of velociraptors hunting you against the backdrop of the regular AI forces. For advanced players, the Hybrid Hives provide more cut-throat oppo

...to defend a system without a FF protecting my base (you only get 15). The AI can always throw a few 100 guys through a gate at my once in a while and I ...certain map styles -- hubs and grid, for instance -- this can be very much harder. On others, like Vines, Trees, and Snake, it is trivially easy. Realistic

Until this expansion, the only known aliens in the AI War universe were the Zenith. This micro-expansion introduces a new alien The base game of AI War includes 27 "bonus" ship classes beyond the base fighter, bomber, friga

* Fixed a very longstanding bug where the "list of normal bot types that could be spawned on this spot" used during mission mapgen was never be ...NG says GG by pumping all its levels into just one or two really nasty bot types.

...Neinzul Nests will now generate mixed waves of their respective youngling types, rather than each squadron being homogenous. ...at every one of its planets. It still does that if it is a difficulty 10 AI, but only seeds a certain percent of wormholes on lower difficulties (Diff

== Fast Facts: A Crash Course On AI War 5.x == ...e caps cannot be increased. You will keep building even your weakest ship types all throughout the game, unlike most other RTS games, even as you add stron

[[AI War 2: Early Access Starts!]] ...I or Human types. Humans now have 500k shield points, down from 1000k, and AI now has 250k, down from 750k. Shield Guard Posts are now 80k.

[[File:AIWar.jpg|center|AI War:Fleet Command]]<br/> ...st avoid the notice of AI powers while preparing for an attack against the AI homeworlds. The game takes place on a procedurally generated galaxy map wit

...d in any combination with each other, and in combination with the usual AI types, plots and map styles. These minor factions exist on planets from game sta The following minor factions were added in AI War 3.0

...he "Hunter" and "Shark" AI plots. There are also new bonus ship types, AI types, map styles, core guard posts, guardians, core turret controllers, and more Now you may optionally assign a secondary type to each of the two AI players so you can see what it's like to play against a Speed-Racer/Thief a

** These also do some worldbuilding explanations on the various types of mind farm participants and why they would show up, so that's nice. * Fixed the chat message log visibility time to be 15 seconds rather than 5. AI War 1 and 2 both use 10 seconds, but they pop things up more frequently.

...tain is a lot more difficult now. It has been promoted to now be a HARDER AI type instead of a MODERATE one. ...not cluster their reactors on their home planet, which will also make them harder (more interesting) to defend. Most existing savegames are likely to sudden

...o the player in act 1" to only apply to the player's lander territory; the AI can build next to other territories claimed later by the player. ...this rule during the per-turn check of under-construction buildings, so an AI building can no longer be cancelled by this rule after starting constructio

...s.png|100px|left|Modular Fortress Command Station]] || valign="top" | Most AI command stations are relatively fragile targets. <br/>THIS command station ...} | [[Ammunition Types and Immunities|Immunities]] || {{AlgCtr}} | [[Armor Types and Bonus Damage|Damage Bonuses]]

...bonus ship types, a couple new AI guardian types, and the new "Preemptive" AI Plot. This expansion is slated for official release in August 2014. ...oose to add 1 to 10 Nomad Planets to the game. These are basically normal AI planets but they will gradually "move" across the map during the game, and

==What Effect Do AI Progress Increases Have On The Game?== * The AI gains higher Mark and greater numbers of ships for waves, cross planet atta

...h AIs, whether the player has a positive handicap relative to the AIs, the AI modifiers, and all the other relevant start-game factors, multiplied times ...remember the last ship type that they were assigned by a player (human or AI) to kill. They will then adjust their targeting accordingly, preferring shi

...m AI War Classic, which did not take arguments (at first) and which also [[AI War:Cheats|just took specific phrases as cheats]]. If you happened to say ** Gain or lose the [number] amount of AI Progress

==== Map Types ==== ...s, and areas that are empty. It's trying to evoke the Simple/Realistic map types from AIWC

<big>'''What Makes The Design Of This AI Unique From An Under-The-Hood Perspective?'''</big> '''Q:''' So I've heard that the AI here is something new and different, but I'm wondering what the high points

...ead]] || valign="top" | Armored version of the standard Lightning Warhead. Harder for enemy ships to destroy due to the armor and the cloaking, so it is more ...AI War:Warheads|Warhead]]. Specifically, it increases [[AI War:AI Progress|AI Progress]] by 2/4/6 (Mk. I/II/III) when destroyed.

...1762476 Nemesis] kickstarter goal, and draw further inspiration from the [[AI War:Hybrid Hives|Hybrids]] from AIWC. ...oyances, and not need to bother its main Processors with petty things. The AI took various races they have conquered in the Arcenverse, twisted them by g

...in Basic Tutorial 3 has been updated to note that AI Progress DOES affect AI Tech levels as well as the number of ships they build. -AI ships at guard posts will now retreat when they have been drawn out, but ca

-Fixed some logic oversights with the AI trying to make its ships attack targets that are immune to the attacking sh ...and 5,000 respectively), to help rebalance the start of the game since the AI is now so much more fearsome at the start. This also helps to give players

...use not only here but also in Spectral Empire and The Last Federation and AI War. This new system does highly-efficient sprite batching, which makes th ..., for now the new achievements have generic achievement icons (copied from AI War, if you're curious); this may or may not change before the next officia

...n starting a new game. If you are a strong player (able to beat a Moderate AI at 8+) then this advice may not really applicable, though it may still be i ...it. Keep in mind that all this advice is imprecise; things like map type, ai type, your available ship lines, etc... can make a large difference. Anothe

...xpanding really helps the economy, but maybe it's just not feasible on all types of maps. ...n average, and that doesn't apply to every play style or every map. If the AI is really defensive, you might take fewer planets overall and take them mor

...husiasm. If you do not help them take back their planet, they will die and AI Progress will go up massively. Save them, and their unique production facil ...War:Command Station#Warp Jammer Command Station|Warp Jammers]] to keep the AI from attacking that planet.

...me to have a graphical button that opens a window that tells you about the AI War II kickstarter, and which then has the option to click a button and fin ** https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/arcengames/ai-war-ii/

== AI Updates == -added support for AI plots, which are enabled in the new "AI Plots" tab in the new game lobby.

...option. For a more general discussion of the difficulty of the game, see [[AI War:Choosing A Difficulty Level|Choosing A Difficulty Level]].'' Each AI has a difficulty setting ranging from 1 to 10 affecting the quantity of shi

'''A:''' Starships are very powerful, but they are also harder to use than your main Space-Dock-based military ships. Here are a few tips ...but they are weak against fighters in particular, and also some other ship types can whittle away at them from a distance (such as missile frigates). Like

...e only available to the Harder AI Types, and only show up on core and home AI planets, but they are quite a force to be reckoned with. -Added a new "No Enemy Waves" AI Modifier.