Arcen Games are at works at releasing a new expansion for AI War: Fleet Command called The First Light of Spire. Beta is already under way for all pre purchasers. The expansion will introduces a new alien race called the Spire. It will also have a host of new units, structures and even two new campaign types. Arcen games has also recently updated AI War to version 4.0 which is a huge update as I have reported here. Also hilarity ensues when I tried a game of AI War 4.0...
As I've written in my review of AI War: Fleet Command, 4.0 remains the same in terms of gameplay mechanics but you now have a whole bunch of new ships and guard posts which adds a lot more variety(AI War always had a lot of ships, but imagine having even more new stuff). The game has been sped up a little bit and the UI has been cleaned up.
A lot of the star ship build times have been decreased dramatically. It used to take 40 minutes to build some of the big ones. Now it could take 15 minutes and less than 10 minutes for many star ships. Of course their hit points have also been reduced balancing out the speed at which you can build them.
Also ships now move much faster and it can take a couple of second to move across 3 sectors. Overall good changes that make the game way more approachable. The tutorials been overhauled too and it's quite well paced and even teaches you strategies on how to take on the AI's.
And the AI is still as brutal as ever. DON'T PISS OFF THE AI!
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