Hey all, just a small patch tonight for our Alpha 1 playtesters. This alpha will wrap up shortly and we'll go into development mode and come back swinging with Alpha 2 (soon!).

• Tool repair effect reduced from +10 HP/tool to +8 HP/tool

• Increased difficult of late-game battles, increased number of spawned ships

• Added animation when Saving game

• Clinic: a healing doctor is now killed correctly when building is destroyed
  
• Clinic: now sends patients home if there's no path to City Hall
  
• Repair Shop: repair button is no longer disable and you can repair this building
  
• UI: Fixed issue with title, settings, and map setup screen overlapping each other and leaving buttons clickable
  
• UI: "Escape" key now closes Pause/Settings menu while in game
  
• Enabling Bulldoze mode will now cancel building or road placement

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I've updated the build to Alpha 1 Patch 1. Read the patch notes below:

Guardtower
- added weapon to worker hand
- improved feedback with added shot vfx/sfx
Laser Platform
- build cost changed from 5 Ore 15 Lumber to 5 Fuel 15 Lumber
- fire delay increased from 4s to 5s
Repair
- build cost changed from 20 Lumber to 20 Fuel
Refinery
- increased ResourcesPerHourPerWorker from 0.43 to 0.53
Airfield
- updated building description
Cyberwarfare Center
- updated building description
Launch Facility
- updated building description

- Ore deposits now have infinite resources and do not deplete
- Oil fields now have infinite resources and do not deplete
- Tool repair effect doubled from +5 HP/tool to +10 HP/tool

- Early-game alien ship count decreased
- Late-game alien ship count increased

Militia
- added lifetime progress bar to show ability duration
- improved vfx/sfx feedback

- Max Zoom increased from 4000 to 6000

- Updated build button icon
- Updated battle ability tooltips to more accurately describe effect
- Battle ability button tooltips can now be viewed even if ability is locked