News Liste Dune: Spice Wars

Balancing

Common

• Resolution “Portfolio Scrutiny” (apply to all) rework : Cannot buy CHOAM Shares and Selling CHOAM Shares gives 3 Hegemony per Shares instead of Solaris
• Resolution “CHOAM Dilution” (apply to all) rework : 20% of owned CHOAM Shares are destroyed
• Resolution “Sale Incentive” (targeted) rework : 10% and 30% CHOAM ownership bonus are blocked for the duration, and at the start of next council, lost 20 solari per shares owned
• Resolution “Labor Right” (apply to all) rework : +100% military unit upkeep
• Resolution “Imperial Intelligence”, which allows to use Cell Search outside of an assassination attempt, now also block the installation of new Infiltration Cell for the duration.
• the immediate effect on price of selling or buying a shares is 50% stronger
• sietches now have an integrated missile battery that will only target flying units engaged in combat with their militia
• flying units can no longer trigger the attack on a sietch

Factions

Atreides

• Duncan Idaho has been reworked:
• for each bonus given by an ally unit, gains heroism (+2 power ; +1 armor)
• upon death, all future Duncans gains +3 power and +150 health
• “Duncan’s Last Stand” skill is now a toggle with the following effects:
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• enemy ground units in melee suffer -50% speed
• +100% speed
• +100% attack speed
• keep all your heroism stacks
• cannot be controlled
• cannot be turned off while duncan is still engaged in melee

Smugglers

• Lashon Hara gives [strike]2[/strike] -> 1 influence production per infiltration level in another faction
• Wrecker gear “Concentrated Toxins” gives [strike]+50%[/strike] -> +75% damage to the target
• Wrecker gear “Traumatic Repeater” now removes 1 more armor to any damaged target, no matter how many health they have.
• Wrecker gear “Stinging Gas” no longer removes 1 power
• The Sniper gear “Distorsion Umbrella” gear has been replaced by “Barrel Cleaner” (previously seen on Ecaz Musketeer)

Fremen

• Jamis gives [strike]80[/strike] -> 70 authority on liberation
• Stilgar gives +1 authority production, instead of reducing sietch alliance authority cost by half
• Shimoom gives +4 plascrete production per village producing 12 Water or more, on top of his other effects.
• Fedaykin have [strike]21[/strike] -> 22 power
• Warrior gear “Dry Training” has been reworked. It now gives +1 health per Water.
• Infiltrator gear “Focused Mind” gives +1 armor on top of its other effect.

Corrino

orrino 10k hegemony bonus no longer gives influence for militia killed in a territory in truce. It still works on neutral units from a raid, and enemy units.

Ecaz

• Fencers have [strike]10[/strike] -> 11 power and get [strike]-30%[/strike] -> -40% damage received from target
• Sirens give [strike]-10%[/strike] -> -15% damage to next attack" to enemies they damage with their aoe
• Museum of Unbound Arts gives [strike]+3[/strike] -> +4 max authority, influence and manpower per masterpieces
• Warbanner gear “Distracting Lights” makes unit targeting the war banner inflict [strike]-20%[/strike] -> -30% damage
• Warbanner gear “Propaganda Machine” has been reworked. It now reduces the damage inflicted by enemy units at range by 10%
• Warbanner gear “Big Banner” gives[strike] +300[/strike] -> +100 health, but does not increase Command Points requirements anymore.

Vernius

• Resonance Drone’s electrostatic damages affected enemies by[strike] 100[/strike] -> 120 health per day.
• Fighting Mek gear “Material preprocessor” gives [strike]+3%[/strike] ->+5% power but removes [strike]3%[/strike] -> 5% attack speed per armor points on the target
• Fighting Mek gear “Anatomical Scanner” gives [strike]+20%[/strike] -> +15% damage against non mechanical units
• Railgun Drone gear “Warm Magnet” is replaced by “Strong Magnet”, which gives +3 power but increases fuel cell requirement by 2
• Fighting Meks and Railgun Drones gear “Smart Armor” and “Smart Lens” have been replaced by “Learning Transistor”, which gives +0.5 Knowledge while tethered in combat
• Suboid gear “Focused Mind” gives +1 armor on top of its usual effect.
• Resonance drone has 4 fully reworked gears :
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• “Fractal Frequencies” : The electrostatic deals +50% damage and requires +2 Fuel Cell
• “Feedback Gate” : +0.5 armor per ally drone at range
• “Deep Signales” : ally drones at range deal +10% damage
• “Repeater Node” : Always tethered ; Drones at range are tethered

Miscellaneous

• Vernius Fighting Meks and Railgun Drones get the trooper and sniper icons respectively
• during landsraad, in multiplayer:
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• in "fast" event timer, preliminary phases will last up to [strike]20[/strike] -> 30 seconds each, and voting phase will last up to [strike]30[/strike] -> 45 seconds
• in "slow" event timer, preliminary phases will last up to [strike]2 min[/strike] -> 1 min 30, and voting phase will last up to [strike]10[/strike] -> 5 minutes

Bugfixes

• When placing rally point as a fremen, the correct range is now showed
• The right character will now address the player during the “Hired Help” mission, in Fremen and Smuggler conquest.
• The “Cutting the Head Off” mission will now properly check the infiltration level of the right opponent
• Fixing a bug with overflowing spice, affecting the “Spice Heist” conquest mission
• The “Spice Heist” conquest mission can no longer happen against Vernius, making it almost impossible to succeed.
• Fixing the Accursed Sietch sometimes not appearing in “The Water Thieves” conquest mission
• Some memory leaks plugged
• Some crashes fixed