This update adds a large feature to the game - Weekly Challenges. I hope that you'll join me and other players in attacking the maps each week and seeing how well you compare to everyone else.

This update is the final large patch before the game releases. Future patches will be mostly fixes and polish.

• Weekly Challenge mode
  
• Improved random map generation
  
• Steam Cloud saves

• Added a more flashy effect to officer inspiration
  
• Tweaked Engineering tech to use ammo continuosly
  
• Added Engineering tech out of ammo warnings
  
• Increased health of medical pods
  
• Made mortar more responsive to manual targeting
  
• Changed Robotics tech armour bonus to a shield

This update adds a large feature to the game - Weekly Challenges. I hope that you'll join me and other players in attacking the maps each week and seeing how well you compare to everyone else.

This update is the final large patch before the game releases. Future patches will be mostly fixes and polish.

• Weekly Challenge mode
  
• Improved random map generation
  
• Steam Cloud saves

• Added a more flashy effect to officer inspiration
  
• Tweaked Engineering tech to use ammo continuosly
  
• Added Engineering tech out of ammo warnings
  
• Increased health of medical pods
  
• Made mortar more responsive to manual targeting
  
• Changed Robotics tech armour bonus to a shield

I went slightly insane in the last month and revamped several of the units, buildings and technologies in the game. The thrust of a lot of improvements is to un-complicate the units and the make some of the more obscure tech more attractive.

• Reworked the "Preparations" mission
  
• Slightly increased the difficulty of "The Return"
  
• Reworked the "Anabasis" mission
  
• Updated weapons tutorial to match new UI

• Replaced robot pod with medical pod
  
• Replaced medic class with officer
  
• Changed medic hunters mutation to assassins
  
• Revamped teleporters to act as reinforcement sources
  
• Revamped mortar to fire rockets at 1 ammo cost
  
• Revamped grenades tech
  
• Removed dispersal tech and added robotics tech
  
• Tweaked costs for regeneration and chopper tech
  
• Folded dispersion tech station into regeneration tech station (now called Life Support)
  
• Reworked engineering tech
  
• Updated heli-drop tech to give inspiration instead of shield
  
• Removed minigunner restriction on grenades and rockets
  
• Dropped the price of marines to 4
  
• Dropped minimum scout beam cost to 1 ammo
  
• Decreased guardian health and slightly increased the damage
  
• Reduced enraged alien damage
  
• Increased minefield effectiveness vs enraged
  
• Added infested medical pod to random maps and custom mode
  
• Added ability to repeat some shortcut commands by holding down the key

• Made marine weapon show for dead marines
  
• Added manual mortar targeting
  
• Added "TEAM" button to select all marines
  
• Added UI hint arrow when chopper strike is built
  
• Fixed turrets firing at targets that are too close
  
• Fixed turret targeting invalid targets
  
• Tweaked hive immune message
  
• Assigning marines to tow stuff now prefers marines without crates
  
• Added DETACHED message floaters to towable crates
  
• Improved marine AI when shooting at immune targets

• Fixed marine targeting dead entities
  
• Updated campaign mission layout
  
• Changed loading screen background
  
• Restored update timer to 2 weeks
  
• Fixed siege gun text
  
• Fixed resolution issues on windows with DPI modes enabled
  
• Added more log messages to resolution switching
  
• Fixed small lua bug in Memento Mori
  
• Updated SDL2 version
  
• Added a texture flag that stops caching in memory (for really large textures)

I went slightly insane in the last month and revamped several of the units, buildings and technologies in the game. The thrust of a lot of improvements is to un-complicate the units and the make some of the more obscure tech more attractive.

• Reworked the "Preparations" mission
  
• Slightly increased the difficulty of "The Return"
  
• Reworked the "Anabasis" mission
  
• Updated weapons tutorial to match new UI

• Replaced robot pod with medical pod
  
• Replaced medic class with officer
  
• Changed medic hunters mutation to assassins
  
• Revamped teleporters to act as reinforcement sources
  
• Revamped mortar to fire rockets at 1 ammo cost
  
• Revamped grenades tech
  
• Removed dispersal tech and added robotics tech
  
• Tweaked costs for regeneration and chopper tech
  
• Folded dispersion tech station into regeneration tech station (now called Life Support)
  
• Reworked engineering tech
  
• Updated heli-drop tech to give inspiration instead of shield
  
• Removed minigunner restriction on grenades and rockets
  
• Dropped the price of marines to 4
  
• Dropped minimum scout beam cost to 1 ammo
  
• Decreased guardian health and slightly increased the damage
  
• Reduced enraged alien damage
  
• Increased minefield effectiveness vs enraged
  
• Added infested medical pod to random maps and custom mode
  
• Added ability to repeat some shortcut commands by holding down the key

• Made marine weapon show for dead marines
  
• Added manual mortar targeting
  
• Added "TEAM" button to select all marines
  
• Added UI hint arrow when chopper strike is built
  
• Fixed turrets firing at targets that are too close
  
• Fixed turret targeting invalid targets
  
• Tweaked hive immune message
  
• Assigning marines to tow stuff now prefers marines without crates
  
• Added DETACHED message floaters to towable crates
  
• Improved marine AI when shooting at immune targets

• Fixed marine targeting dead entities
  
• Updated campaign mission layout
  
• Changed loading screen background
  
• Restored update timer to 2 weeks
  
• Fixed siege gun text
  
• Fixed resolution issues on windows with DPI modes enabled
  
• Added more log messages to resolution switching
  
• Fixed small lua bug in Memento Mori
  
• Updated SDL2 version
  
• Added a texture flag that stops caching in memory (for really large textures)

Now that Infested Planet is in the polish stage, patches will contain a ton of small changes. For example, this patch has a billion different tweaks and fixes to missions and mechanics. Most effort went into polishing the missions in the middle of the campaign.

There are actually quite a few major changes that didn't make it into the patch, since they weren't ready yet. Get ready for the next patch - it'll have some major gameplay modifications.


Infested Planet now works on the OS X version of Steam. Please let me know if it works for you and whether you run into any issues.

• Mine fields explode aliens without marine help
  
• Mine fields don't use ammo any more
  
• Increased marine spawning cost by 1
  
• Helidrop buff: 10 sec of shield (up from 5) and -30% respawn time
  
• Marines out of battle for a long time don't die from poison
  
• Made infested marines more vulnerable to siege cannon
  
• Siege cannon doesn't use ammo any more
  
• Made all marines more vulnerable to concussion damage (mines + grenades)
  
• Increased flamer armour
  
• Made barriers vulnerable to rocket damage
  
• Made rockets be fired even if barrier is in way
  
• Completely reworked mimics - no more clones from those aliens
  
• Mimics are now "Enraged" - fast kamikadze aliens
  
• Slowed down clones
  
• Reworked "Contact" mission
  
• Reworked "Preparations" mission
  
• Altered "The Return" and "Night and Day" to be easier
  
• Revamped the way weapon purchase and recycle work (only 1 at a time now)
  
• Bumped up the infested structure respawn time
  
• Numerous tweaks to early campaign missions

• Added esc-closing of build menus
  
• Extended respawn period for infested structures
  
• Made hive respawning and upgrades take longer
  
• Made hives not respawn on top of marines
  
• Made barrier mutation not trigger for vulnerable hives
  
• Changed guardian colour to be more distinctive
  
• Added bleed graphics effects to guardians
  
• Added cheat code to unlock all campaign missions
  
• Made towers randomly 100% vulnerable to scout and siege
  
• Made hp circle colours for marines and humans distinct
  
• Extended shield generator shield duration
  
• Mortars start firing immediately now after construction
  
• Increased flamer knockback
  
• Upped starting BP in "The Return" mission
  
• Moved some campaign shop items earlier up to tease the player
  
• Swapped mines and mortars in the campaign

• Fixed crash bug with pathing outside of the map
  
• Fixed scaling for static mimic aliens
  
• Fixed audio glitches when shielded marine is under attack
  
• Fixed loading narratives being cut off on some resolutions

Now that Infested Planet is in the polish stage, patches will contain a ton of small changes. For example, this patch has a billion different tweaks and fixes to missions and mechanics. Most effort went into polishing the missions in the middle of the campaign.

There are actually quite a few major changes that didn't make it into the patch, since they weren't ready yet. Get ready for the next patch - it'll have some major gameplay modifications.


Infested Planet now works on the OS X version of Steam. Please let me know if it works for you and whether you run into any issues.

• Mine fields explode aliens without marine help
  
• Mine fields don't use ammo any more
  
• Increased marine spawning cost by 1
  
• Helidrop buff: 10 sec of shield (up from 5) and -30% respawn time
  
• Marines out of battle for a long time don't die from poison
  
• Made infested marines more vulnerable to siege cannon
  
• Siege cannon doesn't use ammo any more
  
• Made all marines more vulnerable to concussion damage (mines + grenades)
  
• Increased flamer armour
  
• Made barriers vulnerable to rocket damage
  
• Made rockets be fired even if barrier is in way
  
• Completely reworked mimics - no more clones from those aliens
  
• Mimics are now "Enraged" - fast kamikadze aliens
  
• Slowed down clones
  
• Reworked "Contact" mission
  
• Reworked "Preparations" mission
  
• Altered "The Return" and "Night and Day" to be easier
  
• Revamped the way weapon purchase and recycle work (only 1 at a time now)
  
• Bumped up the infested structure respawn time
  
• Numerous tweaks to early campaign missions

• Added esc-closing of build menus
  
• Extended respawn period for infested structures
  
• Made hive respawning and upgrades take longer
  
• Made hives not respawn on top of marines
  
• Made barrier mutation not trigger for vulnerable hives
  
• Changed guardian colour to be more distinctive
  
• Added bleed graphics effects to guardians
  
• Added cheat code to unlock all campaign missions
  
• Made towers randomly 100% vulnerable to scout and siege
  
• Made hp circle colours for marines and humans distinct
  
• Extended shield generator shield duration
  
• Mortars start firing immediately now after construction
  
• Increased flamer knockback
  
• Upped starting BP in "The Return" mission
  
• Moved some campaign shop items earlier up to tease the player
  
• Swapped mines and mortars in the campaign

• Fixed crash bug with pathing outside of the map
  
• Fixed scaling for static mimic aliens
  
• Fixed audio glitches when shielded marine is under attack
  
• Fixed loading narratives being cut off on some resolutions

Infested Planet is officially code complete! Everything that I wanted to have in the game when the beta started is here. Even better, there's a few months left where I can focus on adding extras and polish.


You can now show off your Infested Planet skill to your friends with Steam achievements! For those of you who beat Terminus mode, you now have proof that you did. There are also achievements for beating campaign missions, extra mission goals and beating some mutations.

When you log into a profile and go to the campaign screen, you should get achievements retroactively for completed missions.


Several months ago, one of the artists who did the Dawn of War II planetscapes made a new campaign background for Infested Planet. In this patch, I finally had the time to put it into the game.

The campaign screen has been revamped to be more intuitive and attractive. You can see all of your campaign missions at a glance, their progression and status. As an added bonus, the planet background changes as you play through the campaign.

• Added terminus difficulty raid mode
  
• Tweaked campaign structure (may break saves!)
  
• Finished hatchery level skin and applied it to campaign levels
  
• Added commas to raid mode messages
  
• Added compatibility mode to graphics (for Intel cards)
  
• Made spore mines not capture points
  
• Added check for insufficient desktop bit depth on init
  
• Added pause if Steam overlay is on
  
• Added fast capture for last point in "Memento Mori" mission

• Fixed grammar mistake in endgame slideshow
  
• Fixed typo in monochrome shader

Infested Planet is officially code complete! Everything that I wanted to have in the game when the beta started is here. Even better, there's a few months left where I can focus on adding extras and polish.


You can now show off your Infested Planet skill to your friends with Steam achievements! For those of you who beat Terminus mode, you now have proof that you did. There are also achievements for beating campaign missions, extra mission goals and beating some mutations.

When you log into a profile and go to the campaign screen, you should get achievements retroactively for completed missions.


Several months ago, one of the artists who did the Dawn of War II planetscapes made a new campaign background for Infested Planet. In this patch, I finally had the time to put it into the game.

The campaign screen has been revamped to be more intuitive and attractive. You can see all of your campaign missions at a glance, their progression and status. As an added bonus, the planet background changes as you play through the campaign.

• Added terminus difficulty raid mode
  
• Tweaked campaign structure (may break saves!)
  
• Finished hatchery level skin and applied it to campaign levels
  
• Added commas to raid mode messages
  
• Added compatibility mode to graphics (for Intel cards)
  
• Made spore mines not capture points
  
• Added check for insufficient desktop bit depth on init
  
• Added pause if Steam overlay is on
  
• Added fast capture for last point in "Memento Mori" mission

• Fixed grammar mistake in endgame slideshow
  
• Fixed typo in monochrome shader

This update has two big features and a couple small bugfixes. Here they are:


You've been asking for a way to change the keys, or perhaps to view what all of them are. Well, I've been listening and now the options screen has a new, spiffy keybinding menu. You can change the key setup for your profile and decide what the keyboard shortcuts are.


Infested planet already has caves and jungle map skins, but I wanted to have at least 3 in the final game. The third level skin is "Hatchery" and it will be used for the final levels in the game.

The hatchery graphics are not 100% complete - I'm going to be prettying them up in the next patch. Meanwhile, I thought that I should give you a peek. Those of you who have reached the last 2 levels will find that they look different now.

• Fixed infested and AI marine shaders (on some video cards)
  
• Updated credits
  
• Fixed structures remaining in limbo is their builder is despawned
  
• Fixed green hive blood spray in the last mission

This update has two big features and a couple small bugfixes. Here they are:


You've been asking for a way to change the keys, or perhaps to view what all of them are. Well, I've been listening and now the options screen has a new, spiffy keybinding menu. You can change the key setup for your profile and decide what the keyboard shortcuts are.


Infested planet already has caves and jungle map skins, but I wanted to have at least 3 in the final game. The third level skin is "Hatchery" and it will be used for the final levels in the game.

The hatchery graphics are not 100% complete - I'm going to be prettying them up in the next patch. Meanwhile, I thought that I should give you a peek. Those of you who have reached the last 2 levels will find that they look different now.

• Fixed infested and AI marine shaders (on some video cards)
  
• Updated credits
  
• Fixed structures remaining in limbo is their builder is despawned
  
• Fixed green hive blood spray in the last mission