v.2.0.3.31764


- Development “Political Entente” gives 5 -> 4 guards on betrayal
- Warden’s Gear “Cover Tactics” gives +20% -> +30% speed

- Councillor Cron Vatia gives +2 manpower per empty building slot on oppression, on top of his other effects
- Councillor Umman Kudu produce +3 Manpower on top of his other effects

- Councillor Lashon Hara now gain information in faction when trading intel or influence and gain both intel and influence from information level

- Councillor Mother Ramallo gives 0.5 authority prod per active harvesting teams, on top of her other bonuses

- Rework “Solid Materials” development:
- +15 plascrete production
- Village buildings have +1000 health
- Rework “Megalopolis” development:
- +3 Water in village neighboring main base
- Building cost 10% less plascrete and solari to build in MB and neighboring villages
- Rework “Imperial Administration” development:
- Effects of villages quirks are applied one more time in village neighboring MB
- Unlock the “investment office” village building
- Rework “Administrative Consolidation” development:
- Village with 4 or more buildings of the same type reduce solari upkeep by 15%
- Unlock the “emperor monument” MB building
- “Integrated cost” development: -50% -> -30% solari upkeep of major building around main base
- “Maintenance Center” village building is no longer available.

- “Museum of unbound art” gives +5 -> +3 max influence, manpower and authority
- “Garden Resort” +0.5 -> +0.2 influence prod per masterpiece in neighboring regions
- “Artistic Aspirations” development gives 100 -> 80 solari on building a masterpiece
- “Political Art” development gives 15 -> 8 influence on building a masterpiece

- Councillor Cammar Pilru gives 30 Landsraad whenever an opponent declare Conflict or break a Truce, on top of his other effects
- Councillor Tessia Vernius turn 50% of knowledge into intel and solari when no development is in progress
- Patent dev cost 800 -> 600 Solari
- Harmless gadget treaty cost 200 -> 100 Solari
- Analytical machine cost reduced by 100 Solari each

- Balancing of hostile sietch raid (unit stats and numbers of units) in conquest
- Sietch demo raider has 7 -> 6 power
- Spying operation “Scavenger Team” now gives 25% of dead units max health as solari instead of scaling off power.


- Fixed “Political Model” Atreides Conquest Bonus
- Fixed “Automatic Weapons” Ranger gear
- Fixed no war grace period with Lady Jessica
- Fixed “Omnipresent Fanaticism” Harkonnen Conquest Bonus
- Fixed “Painful Lesson” Conquest Bonus interaction with “Red Fluid” gear
- Fixed “Activist Heardquarters” Smuggler Main Base Extension
- Fixed “Stalwart Alliance” Fremen development: Only one raid per Sietch at the same time, that can only help to Liberate
- Fixed “Political Arts” Ecaz development blocking charters after House Ecaz death
- Fixed “Sobering Medication” Squire gear not displaying its bonuses correctly in multiplayer
- Fixed C’Tair skill
- Obfuscating the “Counter Measures” development properly unassign the third agents in counterintelligence
- Fixed being able to queue multiple devs without checking their requirements with Vernius 5k hegemony
- Fixed water regulation resolution being scaled by villages
- Units are not dragged into combat by aoe anymore
- Fix Crew Training Program was apply 2 times (on faction & on harvester)
- Fix conflicted input after rebind + add feedback when there is a conflict
- Fixing assassination tooltip showing wrong message when only free infiltration cells where remaining
- Fixing landsraad confirm button getting disabled after each resAction
- Fixing rally point and hero alerts in dedicated servers
- Fixing stealth units remaining stealth if they are the only one sieging
- Fixing AI when trying to defend itself

v2.0.1.31677

• Vernius’s harvester in range of the Experimental Alloy Furnace will get a trait with texts in english, even if it’s not the chosen game language.

• Fixed Fremen AoE damage factor issues
  
• Fixed AoE issues for Skimisher (center of explosion, aoe radius and aoe fx radius)
  
• Fixed loot display not appearing correctly
  
• Re added idle harvester alert
  
• Fixed robotic voices in conquest
  
• Alloy furnace works on Vernius Harvester
  
• Fixed popup appearing when using a patent or obfuscate when it should not
  
• Fixed Epic Quest Operation
  
• Fixed player being able to place a infiltration cell when faction target is already being assassinated by player
  
• Fixed free main base building effect when having a pending building
  
• Ceremonial caves now works properly on great volcano
  
• Fixed sniper trait
  
• Some fixes in aura levels (fedaykin, incinerator, siren, overlord stings and hark drones)
  
• Also adding filter so armies in truce won't get damage from aura levels
  
• Fixed repair cost for vernius ship
  
• Fixed radius for Incinerator gear and Feydakin
  
• Fixed cost applied not being what is shown in refund dialog
  
• Fixed being able to unlock “Patent Troll” achievements when not playing the required faction
  
• Fixed uncontrollable unit not auto engaging in combat
  
• Fixed LifeReformation gear being active when regenerating at a safe place
  
• Fixed uncontrollable units not loosing Rabban's passive when they become controllable
  
• Fixed incinerators badly applying burn. Also fixing the gear that accelerates the burn
  
• Reduced allocations and perf CPU
  
• Fixed Conquest Battle generation
  
• Fixed Agony for Vernius and also fixing random bug that spawns uncontrollable raids of my faction around my mainbase
  
• Fixed stakkanov prod increase on craft workshops

• close range and most aoe range: 10->7
  
• Patent dev 1000 -> 800 solaris
  
• Atreides Support Drone 13 -> 14 power
  
• Harkonnen Combat Probe 60 -> 100 hp
  
• knight gear:
  
  • vow of fervor +30% -> +20% damage
    
  • vow of heroism +2 -> +3 CP
    
  • vow of bravery: -3 -> -2 armor
• Fremen dev Stalwart Alliance: the amount of unit in the raid have been reduced
  
• Harkonnen Overlord stings:
  
  • 80 -> 150 health
    
  • Lose 50% -> 40% health per day
• Duncan Idaho: unit at short range inflict +10% -> +20% damage
  
• Vernius Resonance Drone do not attack with aoe anymore
  
• Fedaykin nerf 180 degrees -> 120 degrees
  
• Sietch raid units have been balanced
  
• Incinerator, Fedaykin and Siren aoe have been fixed to start from them instead of the unit they target. Angles have also been adapted to fit the visual not too badly.

The characters of Dune now walk the sands of Arrakis.
After reaching 10k Hegemony, each faction can choose between 2 heroes to recruit as an unit that will influence their whole military strategy:

• House Atreides: Duncan Idaho or Gurney Halleck
  
• House Harkonnen: Glossu Rabban or Iakin Nefud
  
• The Fremen: Chani Kynes or Otheym
  
• House Corrino: Wensicia Corrino or Captain Aramsham
  
• The Smugglers: Drisq or Bannerjee
  
• House Ecaz: Whitmore Bludd or Ilesa Ecaz

When your hero dies in battle, you’ll be able to bring them back as a Ghola, if you’re willing to pay the cost to both your bank account and your reputation.

Heroes that were previously councilors have been replaced by two new councilors per faction:

• House Atreides: Dr. Wellington Yueh and Young Paul Atreides
  
• House Harkonnen: Umman Kudu and Cron Vatia
  
• The Smugglers: Lashon Hara and Stakkanov
  
• The Fremen: Jamis and Shimoom
  
• House Corrino: Mother Helen Gaius Mohiam and Zum Garon
  
• House Ecaz: Rivvy Dinari and Ibbo Vipp

• Combat systems have been reworked with an emphasis on making army composition deeper and more diverse, with every unit having a role to play, without increasing the need to micromanage too much.
  
• Units have a more diverse range of armor values. Armor can no longer be shredded, but every faction has a unit that reduces armor value by a flat amount, as well as a unit made to kill high-armored opponents.
  
• To increase diversity, units now have different attack speeds, and Elite units are available earlier in the game, at 5k hegemony. Gear are also more specialized and easier to access: they are free to install and only cost Solari to remove or swap.
  
• To increase the strategic possibilities, both on the offense and defense, it is now possible to change the position your units appear on the map by placing a Rally Point anywhere within Airfield range. The Fremen use allied sietches that have not been pillaged to place their Rally Point.
  
• To accommodate those changes, almost all units' stats, traits and gear have been changed, as well as many military buildings, development and operation.

• We’ve made Stealth a more powerful, advanced mechanic.
  
• Stealthy units are no longer detected by everything. They will often remain hidden until their first strike in combat. To detect a stealthy unit before they strike, you will have to rely on Probe Setup, a new village building called Monitoring Station, or a rare Gear or Hero effect.
  
• On the other hand, most units are no longer stealth as a base effect. Most but not all of the units that were previously stealthy have a gear that grants the effect. It can otherwise be granted by some faction’s spying operation, development, or heroes.

To make intel, operation and faction infiltration more valuable we removed the production of 1 intel per non-faction information field. We also restricted Data Center to regions neighboring an enemy, like the Listening Post, and reworked the Observatory Mountain special region: it allows you to build both Data Center and Listening Post without constraint and increase their production by 50%.

House Vernius of Ix can appear as an opposing faction in every game mode.


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House Vernius of the Ixian confederacy is the main provider of spacefolding ships in the galaxy. Their obsession with technological progress clashes with the prohibition on thinking machines imposed by the Butlerian Jihad. They've mostly managed to stay within the letter of the law until now, but a monopoly on spice could free them of these petty restrictions.

House Vernius of Ix is playable in every game mode, in single player and multiplayer.

• Spice Fields in neutral and controlled regions can be harvested by Tethered Combine Harvester Drones.
  
• Factions in truce get the effects of unresearched development that have been researched by Vernius.
  
• Mixed S-Vault districts are split to give district bonuses

• Villages not connected to the Nodal Network through Neural Nodes suffer -50% ressource productions

• Can File Patent on researched developments that no other faction has researched.
  
• Can research 1 development without having researched its requirement.

File Patent (Development Ability): Every other faction will have to pay Vernius 500 Solari to research this development. Patents can be filed on developments that only the House of Vernius has researched. Filing a patent cost 1000 Solari.

• Can Obfuscate a single researched development.
  
• Each Knowledge point increases the production of all other resources by 0.2%.

Obfuscate (ability): This development will have no effect for any faction.
Can obfuscate a single researched development. Obfuscating a development cost 20 Standing.


Bolig Avati

• Can build multiple Main Base buildings at the same time in the same district of S-Vault
  
• Removed Main Base buildings in S-Vault are reimbursed fully
  
• Gain 1 Knowledge per district bonus

Bronso Vernius

• Villages neighboring a single Vernius region cost -20% Authority to Annex
  
• The furthest connected Neural Node generates an Airfield

Cammar Pilru

• Maximum Influence increases by 5 per Knowledge
  
• Immediately gain 200 Influence when entering Conflict with another faction

Tessia Vernius

• Infiltration levels required for spying missions are lowered by 1
  
• While no development is in progress, 50% of Knowledge is turned into Intel

Nuwa Cenva

• Hero trait:
  
  • +20% drone recruitment speed
    
  • Spying operation launched in Nuwa’s region last 2 days longer
    
  • Nearby Tethered units have +1 armor and move 20% faster
• Skill: Nuwa’s Repair Station
  
  • Can deploy a repairing station that heals nearby drones. Cannot move while the repairing station is active.

C’tair Pilru

• Hero trait:
  
  • A single unit can get +1 gear in the armory
    
  • C’tair has stealth near ally non-mechanical unit and ally villages
    
  • C’tair’s first attack executes inside ixian territory.
• Skill: Evasion
  
  • Leaves combat and becomes stealth
    
  • Must be near an ally non-mechanical unit or an ally village

Main Base Building - Spice Laboratory

• +2 Knowledge per exploited Spice Field
  
• -2 Fuel Cell Requirement for Combine Harvester Drone

Main Base Building - Neural Core

• Connected Neural Nodes produce 1 Fuel Cell
  
• +2% knowledge per connected Neural Nodes

Village Building - Neural Node

• Connect the region to the Nodal Network, Tethering drones in the region and neighboring regions.
  
• Can only be build in region where exactly 1 neighbor is connected to the Nodal Network

Entropic Engineering (replaces Modular Parts)

• Can spend up to 2 Fuel Cell in Combine Harvester Drone to increase their production
  
• Unlock the Spice Silo
  
• Unlock the Spice Laboratory

Spice Enlightenment (replaces Crew Training Program)

• Can spend up to 4 Fuel Cell in Combine Harvester Drone to increase their production
  
• +0.5 Spice production per Knowledge

Water Batteries (replaces Army Logistics)

• When out of fuel cells, Water is used in its stead
  
• Unlock the second gear slot in the armory

Guild Collaboration (replaces Recruitment Initiative)

• +5 Command Point
  
• Agents assigned on Spacing Guild Information produce 2 Fuel Cell
  
• Unlock the Command Post

Automated Manufacture (replaces Military Propaganda)

• +10 Command Point
  
• +0.5% recruitment and regeneration speed per Knowledge

Technological Exchange (replaces Intelligence Network)

• Gain +5 Standing on Council Opening per active Truce
  
• +2 Knowledge per active Truce

Heretical Computing (replaces Spying Logistics)

• Unlock Analytical Machine Agent and get one for free
  
• Unlock the Harmless Gadget Treaty
  
• Unlock the Intelligence Agency

Holistic Thinking (replaces Nefarious Contact)

• +1 Knowledge per information field with at least 1 Analytical Machine Agent
  
• Information level increases by 1 in factions that have accepted a Harmless Gadget treaty

Physical Wiring (replaces Spying Mastery)

• Infiltration Cells neighboring a region connected to the Nodal Network do not count towards the maximum of Infiltration Cells
  
• Unlock Assassins

Sequential Thinking (replaces Local Dialect Studies)

• The Nodal Network can optionally connect across Deep Deserts
  
• Each node in the longest path of the Nodal Network gives +1 Knowledge and +2% authority production

Neural Tropism (replaces Native Customs)

• Enemy factions pay +30% authority to capture a region neighboring at least 2 region connected to the Nodal Network
  
• Unlock the Neural Core

Automated Defenses (replaces Border Defenses)

• +2 free Automated Militia in Village connected to the Nodal Network
  
• In controlled regions, enemy units suffer -4% health per day per node connected to the main base through this region.

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The main purpose of Heroes of Dune is to introduce even more of the Dune universe into the game. We already had a healthy amount of Dune characters in the game (31 characters in total), but they were only present in interfaces. Heroes of Dune will bring some of them in flesh onto the map, alongside your military units.

Prominent figures of the Dune universe like Duncan Idaho and Glossu Rabban will be playable units in every game mode, and will have a tremendous impact on the battlefield.

The heroes are:

• Duncan Idaho and Gurney Halleck for House Atreides
  
• Glossu Rabban and Iakin Nefud for House Harkonnen
  
• Drisq and Bannerjee for The Smugglers
  
• Chani Kynes and Otheym for The Fremen
  
• Aramsham and Wensicia Corrino for House Corrino
  
• Ilesa Ecaz and Whitmore Bludd for House Ecaz

All heroes have been redesigned compared to the version currently in conquest. They are designed to have a significant impact on the military orientation of the faction. They all have a global effect, several more localized effects, and an active skill. They are more complex units than the other units in the game.

All heroes were previously councillors. Heroes and councillors are now distinct entities, which means that each faction has "lost" two councillors. To compensate, we will add two councillors to each faction (for a total of 50 named characters from the Dune universe in the game, including the DLC House Vernius of Ix).

We have revamped the combat system and all units in the game with the following objectives in mind:

• Make army composition richer and deeper by ensuring that all units have a place / a role in the army.
  
• Direct military micro-management towards positioning at the moment of engagement rather than micro-control of units during combat.
  
• Make gear more fun and unique.
  
• Slightly simplify combat onboarding with simpler basic unit traits.

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House Vernius of Ix positions themselves at the heart of the Ixian Confederacy. This faction of scientists and engineers pushes the boundaries of technology while navigating the political and diplomatic landscapes of the universe.
While challenging the restrictions of the Butlerian Jihad, they create self-learning machines and sophisticated combat drones, all while denying any form of artificial consciousness. Their technological expertise is unmatched.

The faction is led by Rhombur, a cyborg whose survival depends on cybernetics. He’s supported by figures like Tessia Vernius, a Bene Gesserit with a strong espionage capability, and Bronso Vernius, a youthful rebel and historian.

Diplomacy takes centre stage as you’ll need to navigate an intricate web of alliances within the Landsraad. House Vernius of Ix excels in the art of negotiation, offering unique opportunities to leverage strategic collaborations for mutual benefit. From technology sharing to resource allocation, every diplomatic decision carries the potential to shape the course of the war on Arrakis.

House Vernius of Ix's patented technology system enables you to secure exclusive rights to groundbreaking developments and dictate the pace of technological progress. With patents at your disposal, you'll wield unprecedented influence over the direction of the game, ensuring that victory is always within reach.

House Vernius of Ix introduces the Neural Node system, offering a dynamic new approach to expansion and conquest. Strategically construct your network of Neural Nodes to enhance defense capabilities, optimize resource management, and gain the upper hand in battles.

The main base of House Vernius of Ix offers a unique gameplay experience, with district specialization and strategic bonuses. Optimize your base layout to maximize efficiency and gain strategic advantages on the battlefield. From technological superiority to diplomatic supremacy, every aspect of House Vernius of Ix's main base reflects the faction's unwavering commitment to excellence.

House Vernius of Ix will be available in Conquest mode at release. Lead the proud technological faction through a 15 hours campaign that will reach every corner of Arrakis.

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