New beta build! https://wiki.arcengames.com/index.php?title=AI_War_2:Multiplayer_Alpha_And_Beta#Beta_2.753_Interplanetary_States_of_Matter
You need to use the current_beta branch on Steam or GOG to play this one. If you have trouble with it, there is a most_recent_stable_beta, now, too.
This one has a number of mod fixes from over the weekend thanks to SirLimbo, and ArnaudB has also made some excellent updates to Interplanetary Engineers to make them a lot more functional and present. He also adjusted the balance for beachheading in general, as the build times there were getting a bit on the long side.
We have some other changes coming tomorrow relating to crippled centerpieces and letting you control a few different ways of having that work with the lobby, but most of that was in the discussion stage today. Right now it's maybe a bit on the cruel side with how expensive crippled golems are, but crippled transports are a nonissue.
SirLimbo also fixed up a missing tag on the devourer golem's gun, which was letting it shoot anything and everything, not just limiting it to mobile combatants. The result was that it was eating far too much of enemy worlds, heh.
Battlestations now cost a proper amount to repair, and citadels now cost a proper amount to claim.
The rest of the name of this release comes from some features that are mostly forward-looking to DLC2 and 3, but which are backported a bit into how the spire relic phases in and out in DLC1. Essentially, "states of matter" for ships are going to be an increasing thing, for certain factions anyhow, and also relating to champions in DLC3. So this lets us have one big shared framework that works for all of those purposes, versus just having a bunch of individually-coded features. It's of course worth noting that this data-driven approach means that mods can have an easier time coming up with their own states of matter...
Enjoy!