Supreme Commander 2 - Update Released

Supreme Commander 2 has just received a huge update, two years after its last one.

Here are the full patch notes:

Fixes and Improvements: –

Mass Extractor Veterancy – Securing and protecting mass deposits is now vital to mid-term and long-term gameplay. Base unit cost and base Mass output has been reduced to half of the previous values. Mass Extractors will slowly increase in effectiveness as they accumulate veterancy until at 18 minutes they double their effectiveness
All units built at Land Factories have had their visual scale reduced by 25%
Players are now able to see the health value of enemy units
Fix for veterancy bar not displaying properly
Fix for Illuminate teleport ability overwriting the transport ability
Fix for Air units not receiving their LOS buff after being built
Fix for Pullinsmash ability remaining active when placed in a transport
Fix for some abilities to be activated more than once if activated very quickly
Fix for redirector not redirecting nukes if the launcher was previously destroyed.

AI: –

Updated the way the neural networks train. Integrated new neural network dataset
Improved AI’s use of transports
Fix for AI bases not realizing their extractor spots were full
AI is now able to build on floating islands and mesas again
Fix for AI trying to expand to areas it cannot reach
Fix for scouting positions that were under water
Scouts will try to avoid defenses more
Fix for AI engineers trying to reclaim something it cannot path to
Fixes for AI microing
Fix for AI determining a platoon’s min firing range
Neural platoon code cleanup
Fix for AI not building Aegis
Fix for AI not scouting with land when it has an air factory, but no air units
Changed the way the AI counts the number of air attack units it has
Adjusted when the AI will build a radar in an expansion
Changed the rate at which threat from mobile enemies decays
AI platoons will now take threat into account again
Added ability to adjust AI aggressiveness.

Networking Improvements: –

If a player in the lobby does not have a connection to you a red ! will appear as their ping
Adjusted max packet size to use Steam’s max packet size
Removed redundant pending connection cleanup
If Steam reports any connection error, other than timeout, we will close the connection and log it. If the reported error is a timeout we log it and ignore it. Networking will handle the timeout at this point
Fix to the connection adaptor when it transitions to a resting state
Ranked matches that desync will now immediately end and be counted as a disconnect
It will now cause the game to desync if a player modifies memory to give them free research items
Army research data is now part of the sim checksum.

Balance Improvements: –

Cybran –

Illuminate –

Buhbledow build time decreased from 145 to 130. Cost reduced from 800m/2800e to 600m/2100e
Harvog speed increased from 4 to 4.4. Weapon range decreased from 17 to 16. Cost reduced from 44m to 40m
Wilfindja sonar increased from 60 to 150. Vision increased from 28 to 75. Health increased from 8000 to 10000
Sooprizer now has radar stealth
Quantum Floating RP cost reduced from 9 to 8
Electroshock RP cost increased from 6 to 7
Land Damage II RP cost decreased from 7 to 6
Harvog cost decreased from 3 to 2
Wilfindja RP cost decreased from 7 to 6
ACU Range RP cost increased from 3 to 4
Angler Torpedo RP cost increased from 3 to 5
Core Dump RP cost decreased from 5 to 2
Harvog AA upgrade damage increased from 8 to 10
Weedoboth Scorch Bomb damage decreased from 25 to 20. Damage radius decreased from 3.5 to 3.0.

UEF –

Jackhammer health reduced from 40000 to 30000
Poseidon movement speed reduced from 5 to 4. Minimum range of 20 added
Mega Fortress cost increased from 1000m/3700e to 1100m/4000e
C-230 Star King Extreme health increased from 10000 to 12500
AC-1000 build time increased from 110 to 130
UEF Land Factory Shield health increased from 6000 to 10000
UEF and Illuminate Mobile AA health increased from 750 to 875
Titan speed increased from 4 to 4.4. Weapon range decreased from 17 to 16. Cost reduced from 42m to 38m
Transport Capacity increased from 10 to 15
Land Build Time reduction increased from -10% to -15%
Bomb Camera Duration RP cost reduced from 2 to 1
Air Heavy Shield RP cost increased from 6 to 7
Land Damage RP cost decreased from 5 to 4
Sharp Shooter RP cost reduction from 3 to 2
Jackhammer RP cost increased from 8 to 10
Combat Engineer RP cost reduced from 3 to 2
King Kriptor RP cost reduced from 11 to 10
Poseidon RP cost increased from 5 to 7
ACU Health RP cost decreased from 3 to 2
ACU Damage RP cost decreased from 4 to 3.

(Thanks Steam)

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