We've got a new map you can play in Solo or Custom games! As it becomes finalized we'll move it into the normal multiplayer pool.

It's a bigger map, though the two Forts are near eachother at the top, dividied by a large no man's land filled with floating mines. There's a lot of new double-wide ramps placed around, removing a lot of the bottlenecks and choke points.

Go straight for the enemy Fort? Or move to the bottom of the map and secure more Outposts? Lots of interesting debate already which side is better in this large asymmetric map.

Oh, and it's Double XP Weekend remember. :)

We've got a new map you can play in Solo or Custom games! As it becomes finalized we'll move it into the normal multiplayer pool.

It's a bigger map, though the two Forts are near eachother at the top, dividied by a large no man's land filled with floating mines. There's a lot of new double-wide ramps placed around, removing a lot of the bottlenecks and choke points.

Go straight for the enemy Fort? Or move to the bottom of the map and secure more Outposts? Lots of interesting debate already which side is better in this large asymmetric map.

Oh, and it's Double XP Weekend remember. :)

Have you experienced the new Drop system? Quicker drops, more drops--yummy yummy drops!

Did you make it on the Leaderboards last patch? New badges available for the top players--show them off!

Remember, if someone you referred purchased something, you'll be getting an ingame mail with a Diamond reward. This is in addition to the Quest rewards for referring players.

See you ingame!

Have you experienced the new Drop system? Quicker drops, more drops--yummy yummy drops!

Did you make it on the Leaderboards last patch? New badges available for the top players--show them off!

Remember, if someone you referred purchased something, you'll be getting an ingame mail with a Diamond reward. This is in addition to the Quest rewards for referring players.

See you ingame!

Wondering what to do with all those Chips? You can craft PvP rewards! There will be more coming, as well as PvE rewards, but the first test is to make the Cardinal Bird and make sure everything is working as intended.

The tricky thing to get to craft the Cardinal Bird is actually the Red Paint--you need to have the PvP badge awarded to the top PvP players to even purchase it, similar to how the high level Dice pets work. So you can make progress toward crafting PvP items slow or fast since the top 25 players get Chips, but you'll need to reach the top 5 to get the badge and purchase your paint--at least that's the plan. Be sure to let us know of bugs with it!

More changes have been handed down from the Council, so anyone looking for those artillery tweaks you'll be happy.

- Special badge for top ranked PvP and PvE players each week (resets weekly)
- Cardinal Bird now craftable (Bird Frame, 5x Chip, Red Paint)
- Red Paint now available to those with PvP leaderboard badge!
- Player Market level restriction set to 50 for non-VIPs
- drop rates increased for all players
- AI difficulty levels must be unlocked via pilot quests
- add snow effect to Nesthorn
- add dust effect to Dust

- fixed missing strings on Toy Sled
- fixed name alignment in-game
- fixed a bug with difficulty selection in multiplayer games
- fixed a couple of desync bugs
- disabled votekick in ranked/unranked PvP

- Auto-Deploy has a 4 second cooldown now
- Hero move speed increased from 5 to 10
- Hero build time decreased from 10 to 6.5
- SkyEye no longer appears on enemy radar
- Arty blast falloff radius decreased from 2.5 - 7 to 1.5 - 6
- Archy blast falloff radius increased from 1.5 - 3.5 to 2 - 3.5
- Arty shot damage decreased from 130 to 100
- Archy shot damage decreased from 130 to 100
- Bertha kinetic damage decreased from 200 to 180
- Bertha shot damage decreased from 225 to 202
- Joker movement speed increased from 7 to 8

Wondering what to do with all those Chips? You can craft PvP rewards! There will be more coming, as well as PvE rewards, but the first test is to make the Cardinal Bird and make sure everything is working as intended.

The tricky thing to get to craft the Cardinal Bird is actually the Red Paint--you need to have the PvP badge awarded to the top PvP players to even purchase it, similar to how the high level Dice pets work. So you can make progress toward crafting PvP items slow or fast since the top 25 players get Chips, but you'll need to reach the top 5 to get the badge and purchase your paint--at least that's the plan. Be sure to let us know of bugs with it!

More changes have been handed down from the Council, so anyone looking for those artillery tweaks you'll be happy.

- Special badge for top ranked PvP and PvE players each week (resets weekly)
- Cardinal Bird now craftable (Bird Frame, 5x Chip, Red Paint)
- Red Paint now available to those with PvP leaderboard badge!
- Player Market level restriction set to 50 for non-VIPs
- drop rates increased for all players
- AI difficulty levels must be unlocked via pilot quests
- add snow effect to Nesthorn
- add dust effect to Dust

- fixed missing strings on Toy Sled
- fixed name alignment in-game
- fixed a bug with difficulty selection in multiplayer games
- fixed a couple of desync bugs
- disabled votekick in ranked/unranked PvP

- Auto-Deploy has a 4 second cooldown now
- Hero move speed increased from 5 to 10
- Hero build time decreased from 10 to 6.5
- SkyEye no longer appears on enemy radar
- Arty blast falloff radius decreased from 2.5 - 7 to 1.5 - 6
- Archy blast falloff radius increased from 1.5 - 3.5 to 2 - 3.5
- Arty shot damage decreased from 130 to 100
- Archy shot damage decreased from 130 to 100
- Bertha kinetic damage decreased from 200 to 180
- Bertha shot damage decreased from 225 to 202
- Joker movement speed increased from 7 to 8

A maintenance patch for you this time, fixing some bugs reported by the community, and some additional cleanup work continued from the previous patch.

But there's a ton of balance changes! More hard work from the AirMech Council taking your suggestions, debating them in their secret enclave, and passing up the sacred numbers to the Carbon team. Love the changes? Thank them! Hate the changes? Leave (polite) feedback in the forums--your voice does get heard!

General Updates:
- updated level up UI to not show for spectators
- quest icons added for new Saucer quests
- collection sets updated

Bug Fixes:
- fixed mouse wheel scrolling on mail UI
- fix for Alienware Bundle promo art
- fixed "Next Level" text overlapping shoulder buttons on Endgame screen
- fix the main menu not always clearing after MP game
- fix for inbox/outbox transitions
- fix missing pfx on Liberty Booster
- fix Double XP promo placement

Balance Changes:
- Warthog weapon increased from 50 to 60
- Neo move speed while firing penalty decreased by 10%
- Neo Cloak energy efficiency increased by 20%
- Neo Cloak energy soak from damage removed
- Neo ground DPS increased from 210 to 230
- Bucky missile accuracy increased
- Angel carry capacity decreased from 2660 to 2360
- Removed air speed reduction while healing on Osprey
- Arty blast falloff radius decreased from 2.5 - 7 to 1.5 - 6
- Archy blast falloff radius increased from 1.5 - 3.5 to 2 - 3.5
- Arty shot damage decreased from 130 to 100
- Archy shot damage decreased from 130 to 100
- Bertha kinetic damage decreased from 200 to 180
- Bertha shot damage decreased from 225 to 202
- Joker movement speed increased from 7 to 8
- Baloom weapon increased from 75 to 100
- Baloom shot damage decreased from 750 to 650
- Baloom move speed increased from 10 to 13
- Baloom carry weight increased from 850 to 1200
- Fixer mine disarm time decreased from 5 to 3
- Patcher mine disarm time decreased from 8 to 4
- Ratchet mine disarm time decreased from 8 to 5
- Honeypot mine disarm time decreased from 5 to 4
- SkyEye hit points increased from 275 to 650
- SkyEye vision range increased from 26 to 32
- SkyEye radar range increased from 26 to 32
- SkyEye build cost decreased from 5000 to 1500
- SkyEye build time decreased from 8 to 4

A maintenance patch for you this time, fixing some bugs reported by the community, and some additional cleanup work continued from the previous patch.

But there's a ton of balance changes! More hard work from the AirMech Council taking your suggestions, debating them in their secret enclave, and passing up the sacred numbers to the Carbon team. Love the changes? Thank them! Hate the changes? Leave (polite) feedback in the forums--your voice does get heard!

General Updates:
- updated level up UI to not show for spectators
- quest icons added for new Saucer quests
- collection sets updated

Bug Fixes:
- fixed mouse wheel scrolling on mail UI
- fix for Alienware Bundle promo art
- fixed "Next Level" text overlapping shoulder buttons on Endgame screen
- fix the main menu not always clearing after MP game
- fix for inbox/outbox transitions
- fix missing pfx on Liberty Booster
- fix Double XP promo placement

Balance Changes:
- Warthog weapon increased from 50 to 60
- Neo move speed while firing penalty decreased by 10%
- Neo Cloak energy efficiency increased by 20%
- Neo Cloak energy soak from damage removed
- Neo ground DPS increased from 210 to 230
- Bucky missile accuracy increased
- Angel carry capacity decreased from 2660 to 2360
- Removed air speed reduction while healing on Osprey
- Arty blast falloff radius decreased from 2.5 - 7 to 1.5 - 6
- Archy blast falloff radius increased from 1.5 - 3.5 to 2 - 3.5
- Arty shot damage decreased from 130 to 100
- Archy shot damage decreased from 130 to 100
- Bertha kinetic damage decreased from 200 to 180
- Bertha shot damage decreased from 225 to 202
- Joker movement speed increased from 7 to 8
- Baloom weapon increased from 75 to 100
- Baloom shot damage decreased from 750 to 650
- Baloom move speed increased from 10 to 13
- Baloom carry weight increased from 850 to 1200
- Fixer mine disarm time decreased from 5 to 3
- Patcher mine disarm time decreased from 8 to 4
- Ratchet mine disarm time decreased from 8 to 5
- Honeypot mine disarm time decreased from 5 to 4
- SkyEye hit points increased from 275 to 650
- SkyEye vision range increased from 26 to 32
- SkyEye radar range increased from 26 to 32
- SkyEye build cost decreased from 5000 to 1500
- SkyEye build time decreased from 8 to 4

We have THREE new Ultimates for you this patch, and one of the most requested skins: BlackOps Warthog! And a new cosmetic Unit variant: the Beppo Probe! Yes, the stuff of legends has come to life and roams the battlefield. Beware!

You'll probably notice a bunch of UI tweaks and improvements. All part of our ongoing process to make the UI much better. Many of the things in this patch relate to organization of the UI, preparing us to dig down and next get into updating things like the Hangar and Lobby with some long overdue changes. Bit by bit, closer and closer to feeling good about exiting beta!

As you probably know, AirMech is also available on Xbox as AirMech Arena. As part of our ongoing efforts to support that platform, we made a lot of performance optimizations to the game which should also benefit PC players. Some of these things could create bugs, which is why this recent patch/test cycle was quite long. We feel things are in a good spot but we won't know for sure until we have a full patch in the live build. If bugs pop up, they are easy to fix--let us know about them though! Crashes or desyncs are key for us to know about, though most of that is automated--just make sure you restart the game at least once after any of those events happen to you.

Lots of smaller things that have been requested for a while are in this patch, such as the "Do Not Disturb" mode which you can turn on by hovering over your player picture in the lower left. Currently it lasts just an hour while we test it out. You can also now add friends by typing their name into the Friends search box in the Friends panel. Try it out!

Note that we are switching over to the number of released patches instead of the raw version number so it's easier to follow the progress of AirMech. Hard to believe update 200 is coming soon!

General Updates:
- BlackOps Warthog released! And yes it looks amazing.
- Ultimate Shooter is here for all your long range annihilation wishes
- Ultimate Jackal now available as a general purpose terror unit
- Ultimate Probe is, well, what do you think it is?
- Beppo Probe is science gone horribly wrong (it's craftable soon!)
- make using Nanoforge plans have the same usage flow as other items
- new UI at the top for using Auto-Deploy (for game modes that support it)
- add more fortress bunkers to maps (chasm, salt, sandrim)
- performance updates and improvements!
- party invites message the gamemode now
- added an initial 'do not disturb' system (hover over player portrait)
- cleared out a few choke points on Sandrim
- add '250 Diamonds' Nanoforge recipe (2000 Diamonds + Diamond Tester = 8x 250 Diamonds)
- add support for rarity colored content link tags (crate descriptions)
- new alternate units: Hellstorm Devastator, Fine Shooter, Goliath Aggressor
- bunkers added to close outposts on Crater
- removed Diamond Roll (3 Pack) from Level 100 quest

Menu Updates:
- top menu bar now useable in all areas including Lobby
- home menu now has Message of the Day and completed Quests shortcut
- patchnotes now shown on homepage until they are read
- can now invite Friends from the Friends menu (type in name)
- shortcut to bring up Promos from menu home (by request)
- leaderboards is now a floating menu like the others
- Faction Charter now links to the Field Guide when used
- mail UI redesigned with controller support

Bug Fixes:
- fix bug with guardian filtering in new inventory UI
- fix sales price displays in some currencies
- fixes to Void AirMech skin rendering
- bug fix for spectators cycling loadout slots and accessing chat
- fix firing animations and rates of turrets placed on pads
- a number of fixes related to the content 'try out' mode
- many fixes for the Quest Log
- fixed issues on Spiral and Chasm where AirMechs would dip below kill plane
- fixed an issue where units wouldn't path to top Outpost on Spiral
- fix for units pathing to the wrong side of the middle outpost on Chasm
- fix spectator unit count symbols to also count fliers
- bug fix for loadout/part saving not working
- fixed a bug where units following paths will not trigger mines
- fixed endgame stats not appearing after a completed solo match
- fix for latency warning tooltip being replaced by a recently viewed tooltip
- fixed Ultimate Moneymaker and Ultimate Generator having wrong scale/animations when being auto-deployed
- fixed Drop icon not showing up at end of game
- fixed an issue where AirMech could get stuck when transforming on Salt
- fixed Ultimate Boost status icons not hiding

Balance Changes:
- make Hero better at healing AirMechs
- more coming after the patch is live/stable

We have THREE new Ultimates for you this patch, and one of the most requested skins: BlackOps Warthog! And a new cosmetic Unit variant: the Beppo Probe! Yes, the stuff of legends has come to life and roams the battlefield. Beware!

You'll probably notice a bunch of UI tweaks and improvements. All part of our ongoing process to make the UI much better. Many of the things in this patch relate to organization of the UI, preparing us to dig down and next get into updating things like the Hangar and Lobby with some long overdue changes. Bit by bit, closer and closer to feeling good about exiting beta!

As you probably know, AirMech is also available on Xbox as AirMech Arena. As part of our ongoing efforts to support that platform, we made a lot of performance optimizations to the game which should also benefit PC players. Some of these things could create bugs, which is why this recent patch/test cycle was quite long. We feel things are in a good spot but we won't know for sure until we have a full patch in the live build. If bugs pop up, they are easy to fix--let us know about them though! Crashes or desyncs are key for us to know about, though most of that is automated--just make sure you restart the game at least once after any of those events happen to you.

Lots of smaller things that have been requested for a while are in this patch, such as the "Do Not Disturb" mode which you can turn on by hovering over your player picture in the lower left. Currently it lasts just an hour while we test it out. You can also now add friends by typing their name into the Friends search box in the Friends panel. Try it out!

Note that we are switching over to the number of released patches instead of the raw version number so it's easier to follow the progress of AirMech. Hard to believe update 200 is coming soon!

General Updates:
- BlackOps Warthog released! And yes it looks amazing.
- Ultimate Shooter is here for all your long range annihilation wishes
- Ultimate Jackal now available as a general purpose terror unit
- Ultimate Probe is, well, what do you think it is?
- Beppo Probe is science gone horribly wrong (it's craftable soon!)
- make using Nanoforge plans have the same usage flow as other items
- new UI at the top for using Auto-Deploy (for game modes that support it)
- add more fortress bunkers to maps (chasm, salt, sandrim)
- performance updates and improvements!
- party invites message the gamemode now
- added an initial 'do not disturb' system (hover over player portrait)
- cleared out a few choke points on Sandrim
- add '250 Diamonds' Nanoforge recipe (2000 Diamonds + Diamond Tester = 8x 250 Diamonds)
- add support for rarity colored content link tags (crate descriptions)
- new alternate units: Hellstorm Devastator, Fine Shooter, Goliath Aggressor
- bunkers added to close outposts on Crater
- removed Diamond Roll (3 Pack) from Level 100 quest

Menu Updates:
- top menu bar now useable in all areas including Lobby
- home menu now has Message of the Day and completed Quests shortcut
- patchnotes now shown on homepage until they are read
- can now invite Friends from the Friends menu (type in name)
- shortcut to bring up Promos from menu home (by request)
- leaderboards is now a floating menu like the others
- Faction Charter now links to the Field Guide when used
- mail UI redesigned with controller support

Bug Fixes:
- fix bug with guardian filtering in new inventory UI
- fix sales price displays in some currencies
- fixes to Void AirMech skin rendering
- bug fix for spectators cycling loadout slots and accessing chat
- fix firing animations and rates of turrets placed on pads
- a number of fixes related to the content 'try out' mode
- many fixes for the Quest Log
- fixed issues on Spiral and Chasm where AirMechs would dip below kill plane
- fixed an issue where units wouldn't path to top Outpost on Spiral
- fix for units pathing to the wrong side of the middle outpost on Chasm
- fix spectator unit count symbols to also count fliers
- bug fix for loadout/part saving not working
- fixed a bug where units following paths will not trigger mines
- fixed endgame stats not appearing after a completed solo match
- fix for latency warning tooltip being replaced by a recently viewed tooltip
- fixed Ultimate Moneymaker and Ultimate Generator having wrong scale/animations when being auto-deployed
- fixed Drop icon not showing up at end of game
- fixed an issue where AirMech could get stuck when transforming on Salt
- fixed Ultimate Boost status icons not hiding

Balance Changes:
- make Hero better at healing AirMechs
- more coming after the patch is live/stable