New build! https://wiki.arcengames.com/index.php?title=AI_War_2:Finalizing_Multiplayer#2.903_Journals_For_Miles
(Reminder that if you have trouble with the build, you can always go into betas and choose most_recent_stable to go one build back. This is how I sleep at night after making some major changes.)
This has a lot of a refinement of a lot of things. Lots of bugfixes, particularly for multiplayer, based on tester feedback. Thank you everyone who is running through those! It seems like there is a certain category of bug that is just way more common on AMD machines right now, since AMD is apparently ahead of intel in doing really fast multithreaded context swtiching. I'm experimenting with some new ways to reduce the error count without us having to be reactive to what people find (yay being proactive instead).
There are a number of new journal entries in this release which are meant to be a help for new or returning players, or even to highlight features you might not know about in general. There's going to be more of those coming over the next week, largely thanks to the feedback of folks, some of them press, who had questions we had not encountered before.
DLC2 has a lot more balance changes, to the DZ, ZA, and Spire Hammer in particular. These are extremely welcome, but I feel like not getting into the details because... spoilers. The release notes are unredacted, so read those sections at your own risk.
I also took some time out today to make a new video, which turned out to be much longer than intended. The first 17 minutes or so are really packed with information that a new player would want, and that even an experienced player might have missed. Do you direct upgrade your fleets? Do you use the blue and green strength icons in the tech tab? How quickly do you hit 200 strength? Etc.
But I was having fun and got sucked in, and so wound up making a hour+ video that shows the entire early game: https://youtu.be/5N1XgZ9Donc
Hope it helps!