Ashes of the Singularity has been updated to Alpha V.70, which is being called the last major update while it's in the alpha stage.

Ashes of the Singularity edges closer to release with Alpha V.70.

　　The full patch notes are below, and check out the great new screenshots of the new glacial settings.

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　　Orbitals

　　The new Orbital Command and the Orbital Fabricator buildings now offer you new ways to wage war with your enemies by ordering various types of assaults or assistance from above. The following orbitals are being added with this update:

　　Incursion: Take your enemy by surprise and drop a small raiding force behind their lines for an attack they won't see until it's shooting them right in the face.Plasma Storm: Your enemy will get a real "charge" out of this one! This orbital strike affects an area of your choice and damages all enemy units and buildings over time within that area.Intensive Care: Is there a doctor in the house? Well, there is now! Heal friendly units and buildings within an affected area with this orbital.Call Engineer: Engineers too slow and never around when you REALLY need them? Now you can deliver an engineer to a selected spot on the map and have them begin work immediately, without all of that pesky down time.Ice Maps

　　Winter is coming...and so are the Ice Maps! The team has added four new maps to the game: Shredded, Crater, Triad, and Frosthaven. As a bonus, Scorpio, Cerius, Aven and Frosthaven maps now also have night environments! Check out these screen shots - we think they're pretty...cool.

　　Cruiser Factory

　　Is your early game stuck on "cruise" control? Not anymore! Cruiser units now have their own dedicated factory required for construction. This allows for more variety and interest in early-game decisions as you start to construct your base and raise your army.

　　There are some more changes, additions, and bug fixes in v.70 which you can read about in detail below. We hope you enjoy the new features!

　　Full Change Log:

　　Gameplay

　　New Orbitals Abilities - Orbital Command & Orbital Fabricator buildings unlock the following abilities

　　Incursion - delivers a small raiding force behind enemy lines

　　Call Engineer - delivers an engineer to where it’s needed most

　　Intensive Care - heals friendly units and buildings in the affected area

　　Plasma Storm - damages enemy units and buildings over time in the affected area

　　Ice World Maps

　　Shredded - large

　　Crater - medium

　　Triad - small

　　Frosthaven - small

　　Night Environment added to Scorpio, Cerius, Aven, and Frosthaven Maps

　　New Building: Cruiser Factory - Cruiser units now require a unique factory to construct, making for some more interesting early-game decisions

　　New Map: Lair of the Turtle

　　New Map: Polis

　　Keep Playing option after match victory (in case you want the glory of crushing every last one of your enemy’s units)

　　Multiplayer Handicaps

　　Team Chat: Tab now switches between All Chat and Team Chat in MP games

　　Improved overall scoring method in Metaverse

　　Map Balance:

　　Knife Fight - region connections more balanced for each player

　　Balance

　　Orbital abilities now increase in cost the more you use them

　　100 Quanta available at the start of the match

　　balance a little between apollo and drone bay

　　Scouts ignore combat slow down

　　Changed cost of Quantum Relay from 270/360 to 360/270

　　Increased cost of repair by and drone bay

　　Reduced accuracy of most weapons

　　Made the Engineer more expensive

　　Reduced cost of T3s slightly

　　Art & Graphics

　　Terrain texture quality significantly improved

　　Terrain object quality settings - trees can now be turned off to improve performance, or turned up for more dense/common forests

　　Environment lighting improved

　　Radar signatures brighter

　　New Lightning Effect for Zeus Thunderbolt and Seed Attack

　　Building explosion VFX polish (and performance improvement)

　　Increased missed shot distance for relevant weapons

　　Unit polish

　　Engineer

　　Fury

　　Pan

　　UI

　　New Friend invite UI that works in DX12

　　UI art style updates

　　MP lobby & SP setup screen layouts updated

　　Player Profile/Metaverse stat displays updated

　　Adding player color and team indicators to player list in in-game UI

　　Added tooltips for all game options (where explanation was needed)

　　Widening energy bars in unit flags

　　Sound

　　Win/Loss music added on game end

　　lowered volume of VO Notifications

　　Misc

　　Significant performance improvements (especially in DX12)

　　Don't draw shadows for MB frames, Re-use Initial frame data for MB frames for detail objects.

　　Better local sorting of mesh's within an object

　　Slightly better sort logic for draw_elements

　　txaa frames using same batch set with different dynamics

　　Improved performance for plasma whip projectile

　　RegionRenderer. Now takes color directly in 32bit format. Way less temporary memory, and memory movement.

　　Netcode improvements (less lag in MP)

　　Stability

　　Fix for hang when changing between states in UnitPanel

　　Fixed crash in main menu while UI is loading

　　Fix for multiple memory leaks

　　Fixed some controls that were too big

　　Bug fixes

　　Fix to prevent Quanta from going negative

　　Fixed background movie not playing after returning to lobby

　　Fixed missing icons on unit panel

　　More comprehensive fix for bad releases of cached ResourceSets

　　Missing image fix

　　Autosave files not created on machines with foreign char usernames

　　have all buff icons appear (only first five of the ten types were appearing)

　　Fixed bug where you could have an AI setting from a slot stick around to a later MP game and cause a peer's player to be controlled by the AI

　　Fixed messy popup reuse in main menu

　　Fixed no VPs option not handled correctly by pulldowns in game setup screens

　　Changing glare size to be resolution independent

　　FoW hides detail objects (trees)

　　Setting up PHC units to not show destruction mesh at the same time as the constructed mesh

　　Fixed discontinuous Drone LODs

　　Power Amplifier now has a building flag & correct textures

　　Disabling benchmark from the main menu when in the matchmaking queue, adding tooltip to disabled benchmark and multiplayer buttons explaining this

　　Deleting some unused unit maps

　　Fix for hang on shutdown

　　Mouse interaction and tooltips were not checking the clipping area of controls

　　MP match countdown cancels if the player slots change, so you don't change them into an invalid state (like no enemies)

　　Changing hitbox of player profile button in upper-right corner of main menu screen

　　Fixing dbl-click joining the wrong lobby

　　Don't notify that there is an enemy T3 spotted when you spot a team mate's T3

　　Restricting UI scale by resolution to make sure a minimum UI area is visible in the current resolution.

　　Made it so that brand new games with no existing settings default to a resolution that matches the desktop, and fixed the options screen not reflecting that.

　　Re-adding Kick Player button

　　Fixed bug where sometimes units were slowing down when not actually in combat

　　Stuck unit fix

　　Bug fix with metaunit movment

　　Heal ray tweak to cut processing some

　　Client no longer auto-hosts lobby accidentally

　　Fix for host migration issues

　　Disabled auto-saving while the game is paused