Upsettingly Spiteful

[Thorondor]

You should have seen this coming. Some forms of intelligent life are just never happy and forget that being careful about what they wish for is often prudent, so quit whining and man-up because, just like you wanted, Vengeance of the Machine, the 5th expansion for AI War: Fleet Command, is at hand.

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(...) the AI's gotten kind of upset. You might say Stark Raving Mad. Well, maybe not raving, it's really a pretty cool cucumber (preferring cryogenic temperature, actually). But somewhere along the way it decided you puny humans need more interesting ways to lose (or win, if you're one of those people, but who are we to judge).

 

 

Vengeance of the Machine offers new tools (like Core Turret Controllers) and a new frontal-confrontation victory condition (Showdown Devices) to the player, but focuses on enhancing the already-incredible variety of your main opponent: the AI. The possibilities grow exponentially with the addition of the new "Dual Type AI" system (ever wonder what a single AI player would be like with Thief AND Speed-Racer? Find out!), AI Planetary Subcommanders, and Dire Guardians.

 

 

 

What's coming:

 

 

 

• 8 new AI types, from the honorable "Chivalric" which refuses to harass your Advanced Factories and other irreplaceables to the bleedingly-hard "Vicious Exotic" which eschews normal waves in favor of hammering you with massive Exogalactic Attacks.

• 2 new Map styles: Wheel and Honeycomb.

• 6 new Bonus Ship Types, from the modular Protector Starship to the hilarious "space dock artillery cannon" Neinzul Railpod.

• 2 new optional AI Plots: Hunter (which brings the AI's Special Forces from strong to nightmarish) and Shark.

• 5 new Core Guard Posts to defend the AI homeworlds.

• 7 new Guardian types to add variety to the AI's heavier units.

• More awesome music from Pablo Vega!

 

 

 

In a clever move, the early beta of the expansion is now available for purchase, either as a part of Indie Royale's Arclight Bundle or by itself directly at the Arcen Games store discounted 10% off.

 

 

Prepare for a new level of awareness when the expansion lauches 'later this month', and be mindful too that the base game will simultaneously be brought up to an incredibly fiendish 7.0 version then.

[Thorondor]

 

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Vengeance of the Machine is now out. Available on Steam 10% off until June 24th with great discounts in the series also applicable in celebration of the launch.