New build! https://wiki.arcengames.com/index.php?title=AI_War_2:Finalizing_Multiplayer#2.807_Beginner_Journals_and_MP_Sync
This one fixes the last of the known serious multiplayer bugs, which is very exciting! I'm sure that there will be more, but there have been a couple that we have been chasing and trying to isolate since the start of MP, and the last of those got nailed today.
This version increases the hacking point costs for the ARS and FRS a bit, since people were getting just kind of stupidly overpowered with them previously. It might need more tuning up in the future, but we didn't want to go too crazy with it. The main goal here is trying to ease back toward the same sort of difficulty balance that the game had prior to the Paradigm Shift. We don't want to sprint in that direction (wow whiplash), but in general the way that difficulty drifted downward is not something that is intentional.
Also new in this build are some beginner journals that are contextual and give you some advice on first steps to take after 1 minute of gameplay. You obviously don't have to take the advice, but especially for folks who boot this up cold, it should be a help.
Blitzkrieg Turrets got a bit of a nerf, and Makeshift Drones got a bit of a buff. There was also a strange crash that could happen on linux machines in the prior build, and that is now fixed.
Enjoy!