New build! https://wiki.arcengames.com/index.php?title=AI_War_2:Finalizing_Multiplayer#2.906_Journaling_Along
(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.)
Wow there's a lot in here! And I am super duper tired, so I'm not sure I can do it justice. DLC2 continues to get massive updates based on feedback. And there's a ton of journal updates thanks to donblas and Tzarro for people who are running into new situations that might be challenging for them.
In DLC2, multiple Zenith Architrave factions will only get into civil war with one another if you enable that option. Those wars can be... uh... challenging to work around for a new player. So having that optional is definitely nice.
There are a variety of bugfixes, and I've also been working on some major new visual components for the game as well as specific new stuff for DLC2. Expect to see new warp gates and so forth (visually) tomorrow. You can also check out the non-animated version on the watch_chris_art subsection of our discord channel, although it also has a lot of DLC2 spoilers.
Also a number of mod updates in here.
No multiplayer updates yet. There are a couple of known issues that are serious and which make playing MP an exercise in frustration for the client right now. I'm having to juggle multiple things, so will hopefully have that resolved over the weekend or on Monday by the latest. Balancing that around the needs of the trailer work and related things is really tough.
Multiplayer is going to continue to see weekly updates, and continue to make rapid improvements (this past week or two has been a backslide in stability as I chased the ghosts problem), but it looks unlikely to be ready to call final on the 18th. We're going to stick with accurate names. Right now it's beta, and rapidly getting better. We'll call it done when it is.