Icon: Voidfall - v0.1.10b

Continuing the 0.1.10 Rollout

Welcome to the second part of our largest update yet.

This release focuses on making Icon: Voidfall feel significantly better to play while continuing the rollout of our new CogSys AI system and beginning the immense engineering project of a complete rewrite of unit pathfinding and movement.

RTS Controls Continue to Improve

A huge amount of work this update went into simply making the game feel better under your mouse.

Highlights include:

• Minimap interaction completely overhauled

• Click-and-drag camera movement

• Better contextual command targeting

• Improved idle unit management

• Better control group behavior

• Group abilities now execute across every eligible unit

• More accurate command previews

• Better tooltip support

• Improved command visualization

Every one of these changes is aimed at reducing friction and letting you focus on strategy instead of fighting the interface.

Unit Pathfinding Rewrite Begins

This marks the public beginning of our complete movement rewrite.

Rather than continuing to iterate on the existing navigation system, we've begun building a new deterministic pathfinding architecture specifically designed around the needs of large-scale RTS gameplay.

This isn't just "finding a path."

The new system is being built to improve:

• Group movement

• Formation behavior

• Unit steering

• Local avoidance

• Tight terrain navigation

• Multiplayer determinism

• Long-term scalability

The work in this update represents the first migration milestones toward that goal while keeping the existing movement system fully playable during development.

Movement will continue improving over the coming updates as more of the new system comes online.

CogSys Continues to Evolve

CogSys continues receiving major improvements.

This update expands the AI's understanding of:

• Research progression

• Strategic prerequisites

• Army production

• Economic planning

• Performance

• Decision caching

The result is an AI that continues becoming more capable while also requiring fewer CPU resources to make those decisions.

We're still very early in CogSys' life, but each update brings it closer to becoming the adaptive RTS opponent we've envisioned.

Gameplay Improvements

Some of the biggest gameplay changes include:

Economy

• Organic Logistics now feels significantly more natural.

• Better resource gathering responsiveness.

• Improved drop-off behavior.

• More consistent starting resources.

Combat

• Friendly units can now move through friendly structures.

• Better group ability behavior.

• Improved transport handling.

• Better mine claiming behavior.

• Rubble interactions expanded.

World

• Quillboar spawning completely reworked to keep early games fairer and more predictable.

• Better wildlife roaming behavior.

• Structure placement now properly clears terrain beneath buildings.

Performance

Another major optimization pass has landed.

Highlights include:

• Reduced late-game CPU spikes

• Better animation scheduling

• Faster AI planning

• Improved Deep Malignance performance

• Better UI responsiveness

• Lower pathfinding overhead

• Reduced GameObject spawning spikes

• Better multiplayer synchronization

Large battles should continue to perform noticeably better as we chip away at bottlenecks each release.

Looking Forward

With CogSys now established and the pathfinding rewrite officially underway, the next several updates will continue focusing on the core RTS experience.

Expect continued improvements to:

• Unit movement

• Formations

• Economy

• AI strategy

• Multiplayer

• Overall game feel

As always, thank you to everyone testing the game and sharing feedback. Many of the quality-of-life improvements in these updates are direct results of community playtesting.