🎆 Play Athena Crisis this Holiday Season!
Hello there!
Here's the December update:
- Neutral Units: Non-operational units that can be rescued and converted to your team by Pioneers or Saboteurs. Rescue operations require two actions, either by two units in one turn or the same unit across two turns. After a rescue, the unit can immediately act.
- New Units: The Super-Tank and Cannon were officially released, and the Small Fighter turned into the X-Fighter.
- Balancing: Players have given tons of feedback on the balancing of the game. We changed attack, defense, movement, costs and added new abilities like giving the X-Fighter a range of 1-2 fields. Rocket Launchers, Flamethrowers, Patrol Ships and Jetpacks can now capture properties, and we added Oil Rigs that generate funds to oceans to make naval battles more interesting:
- Bugs: A major focus of the Early Access period is to fix all bugs. We are excited that performance and stability have been great for players, but there are still tons of small issues that we worked through this month. The game now runs great in the native apps for Mac, Windows and Linux, as well as on iPhone, iPad and Steam Deck – It's your turn, play anywhere you like!
- Fresh Content: If you already finished the prequel campaign, the community member Flak has been a prolific creator of custom campaigns and maps. Check out his profile and give his campaign "Volcanic Offense" a try if you are looking for a challenge:
- Map Competition: In the coming months we'll be hosting a community competition to create original and fun maps. Get started early by creating your maps in the Map Editor.
- Translations: Athena Crisis is now fully available in Italian, and largely translated to French, Spanish and Ukrainian. Thanks to the many community members who have been helping out! If you'd like to help translate Athena Crisis to your language, check out Crowdin or reach out if your language is not listed.
Join Athena Crisis on Discord if you'd like to participate in the Early Access discussion, or if you are holding off until the full release, please wishlist Athena Crisis on Steam.
Finally, I want to thank everyone who has been playing and supporting Athena Crisis so far. I'm incredibly excited that the Athena Crisis tech stack allows building major features like Neutral Units end-to-end in a single day. If you have an idea for Athena Crisis, please share it – our goal is to build a game that people love playing.
We'll be taking the next week off and we are excited for January and February when we'll finish the main story, build out unit abilities and player skills, and keep working on the primary campaign for the full release.