AotR 2.9 All Wings Report In Update is now live on steam workshop! Here is the list of things that have been updated:

AotR 2.9 Patch Notes

● Bug Fixes

○ Fixed Missile Skiff deploy animations
○ Further optimized tactical space and ground AI behaviors for better performance.
○ Ships with heavy broadside weaponry will now correctly turn to the other side if
weapons are destroyed on the firing side.
○ Fix for generic bounty hunter not tracking assassinations in random missions.
○ Fixed Ground Combat AI getting air units stuck on ground attack.
○ Made Infantry Platoons stay at max range, AI will move in for grenades on
○ Fixed various Intervention system crashes for Rebels.
○ Fixed missing icons for Umbaran civilians.
○ Fixed an issue where Minor factions were unable to build special space
shipyards and Tibanna Gas Stations.
○ Fixed glitched Stormtrooper crouch animation.
○ Fix for BS Hunter move animation glitches.
○ Taking Kuat in the NR GC now does not spawn the Mandator.
○ Space Casinos now appear in planet encyclopedia text.
○ Bounty Hunter 1 Credit Assassination on corrupted planets fixed
○ Doubled Assassination Cost for all Ground Heros fix with a workaround.
○ Unit SFX for Needa now in English
○ Fixed PointDefense on ground to trigger when rocket units are near. Should
make autocasting of this ability more consistent.
○ Master Luke buildable in Random Campaign, ESB era Luke is not buildable.
○ Fixed dancing trees on Yager Miner
○ Fixed Rebel One's team color
○ Fixes in Hoth Mission Chain
■ Vader Dialog text after conquering Allyuen should now be removed after
the background music-speech ends
■ Boba Dialog text after conquering Hoth (leading you to Bespin) should
now disappear if you do an Intervention mission at the same time
■ Putting Vader on Bespin during the Hoth/Bespin-story arc should now
advance your progress
○ BS space mass driver turrets: fixed shadow mesh issues
○ Orbital structures no longer get destroyed if used for corruption
○ New ground map for Jabiim (still crashes tho)
○ Repair drones autofire now includes space structures as a valid target.

● New Features

○ Brand new Hull Hardpoint system added to space units with hardpoints.
■ Targeting Hull Hardpoint will damage other hardpoints on the unit
■ Targeting Individual hardpoints will disable those subsystems and lower
remaining hull health of the unit.
○ New Hardpoint Icons for Ion Weapons, Laser Weapons and Hull Hardpoint.○ Every space unit has been rebalanced, and has received visual improvements.
○ Space Units have been all rigged to have fires for overall health, stun effects, and
blinking lights for various ability tells (Power to weapons, Full Salvo, Ion Barrage).
○ New Space Units:
■ FireStar Defense Station - Siege Space Station platform with long range.
Can shoot at targets almost map wide.
■ Fondor Shipyards - New main starbases for the Empire.
■ Various new Starbases
■ Ye-4 and X-4 Gunships - Gunships designed to counter enemy fighters
and ordinance.
■ Space U-Wing - Supports friendly fighters by applying combat buffs
during battle.
■ Imperial Raider Corvette - Advanced anti fighter and anti corvette unit
■ MC-75 Profundity - A space tech 0 Heavy torpedo capital ship for the
alliance. (Old MC-75 Barracuda is now the MC70).
■ Hammerhead Corvette - Enemy corvette and frigate hunter, can take a
heavy beating during battle.
■ MC60 Redesign - Completely new Model
■ Cutlass-9 Fighter: A mid tier Rebel Interceptor
■ Tie Experimental Series - All sorts of fun stuff here
■ Tie Brute - A heavy imperial fighter
■ And many more!
○ Space Unit Descriptions are completely reworked. Each space unit will now have
the following information:
■ Ship Class: Useful for determining what buffs/debuffs will apply to a unit
■ Ship Role: Roles have been created to better describe the overall
purpose of a unit. Additional info on roles can be found on the wiki.
■ Manufacturer: Company that designed the unit, useful for identifying
planets that will discount units.
■ Lore Description: Short flavor text to describe the unit in the universe.
■ Combat Stats
● Speed, Turnrates, and Acceleration
● Shield Type, Shield Amount, and Shield Recharge Rate
● Armor Type and Health
● Weapons: Total loadout of the unit
○ weapons inside brackets [] indicate untargetable weapons
○ Weapons will follow a specific naming convention:
■ <Caliber> <Range> <Burst> <Property>
<WeaponType>
■ Examples:
● 8xMed LR 4-Burst Dual TL
● Hvy 6-Burst Proton TRP
● Lt Repeating Dual Laser
● Fighter Loadout: Additional loadout the unit carries.○ Numbers indicate Active/Reserve counts of units.
● Abilities: Provide a short description of the unit’s abilities.
■ Space Tech: What tech the unit requires.
○ New Storyline Missions:
■ Added Endor space tactical mission for Rebels and Empire.
■ Created a new Bufferzone mission with an accompanying planet.
■ Empire Zaarin Mission
○ New types and calibers for space weapons.
■ Heavy Laser class for small ships, similar to a Laser Cannon.
■ Repeaters and Flak for most Laser Cannons/Lasers
■ New Point Defense projectile for large ship anti-fighter weapons.
■ Stun and Turbo variants of Ion Cannons
● Stun Ion Cannons will stun ships fire rate, movement, and will
disable retreat if shields are disabled
● TurboIon Cannons will not stun, but do a lot of damage against
shields.
● Both kinds of Ion weapons now do very small hull damage.
■ Close Range, Long Range variants of TurboLasers
■ Light, Medium, Heavy calibers of TurboLasers
■ Light, Medium, Heavy calibers of Proton Torpedos.
■ Large variant of torpedoes of each caliber for non-starfighter units.
■ Light, Medium, heavy variants of Mass Drivers. Mass Drivers also have
Repeater and Single Shot variants.
■ Many new additional missile types with unique effects.
● Plasma Missiles - disable large chunks of shield
● Assault Missiles - lower defense of small ships
● Concussion Missiles - anti-fighter missile that tracks small targets
well.
● MagPulse Missile - Slows fire rate of units.
■ Heavy variants of each missile type for non-starfighter units.
■ New Rocket variants each with a unique role
● Cluster Rockets: Mass spray of low damage aoe, good against
fighters.
● Barrage Rockets: Quick firing rockets used against lighter armor.
● Artillery Rockets: Slow firing, high damage AOE rockets useful
against heavy armor.
○ New types of Armors and Shields for space units
○ Certain space weapons now have additional debuffs similar to ground combat.
Affected units will have particle effects to signify the buffs/debuffs.
■ Repeating lasers will suppress small craft, lowering firerate
■ Ion Weapons will stun movement
■ Assault Missiles will lower defense of gunships and corvettes
■ Flak will lower defense of enemy small craft.
○ Primary starbases have been turned into shipyards for each faction.■ There are 3 shipyard levels, each allowing for the production of the main
space tech 0 units.
■ More advanced units still require additional shipyards to be built, and can
only be built on specific planets.
■ Advanced Shipyards can have multiple built on one planet to speed up
production.
■ Each main starbase will come with a defense fleet to defend the planet.
○ Defense Structure Update
■ The previous starbases have been turned into secondary defensive
structures.
■ Multiple of these can be built per planet and each cost upkeep.
■ Each planet will have a Defense Level which indicates what types of
defense stations you can build.
○ First balance pass of Space Maps
■ Defense structure positioning updated so that Combat stations sit in front
of the starting defense fleet. Support structures remain behind the
frontline.
■ Updated some planet visuals.
■ Updated some obstacles.
○ Underworld Plasma Cannon Station has been retired from service, it is now
replaced by the ground based Hypervelocity Mass Driver Gun.
○ Empire Hypervelocity gun has been changed to the Planetary TurboLaser.
○ New skirmish defense satellite models.
○ Additional variants of the single placeable satellite turret.
○ Black Sun ShipTraders and ShipDealers have been moved from ground buildings
to space builds. New models have been given to both.
○ Ground warehouses have been changed to two types. One to speed up
production of infantry, one to speed up vehicle/air production. Both provide a
large amount of population.
○ Unique model for Trandoshan Hunter
○ New Black Sun announcer VO.
○ Space Combat AI will now use its units more efficiently.
■ Each unit now has a targeting priority set related to its class and weapon
loadout and will prioritize targets based on how good a unit is versus its
target.
■ Prioritizes specific hardpoints based on combat situations and unit
weapon loadout. (i.e. Units with Shield Piercing weapons will target
important subsystems if enemy shields are up).
○ Ground Combat AI will be more mobile on defensive battles.
○ Space Beam Weapons now look more natural with longer duration.
○ New Uwing landing animation for various Rebel Infantry.
○ Planets in GC now specify their manufacturer bonuses to building certain units,
which will match space unit descriptions.○ Added Magma variant Field Trooper, Changed Anti-Armor Shocktroopers to
Artillery Troopers w/ Field Troopers
○ Replaced Relby with Trandoshan Hunting Rifle for Trandoshan Hunters
○ Bribery Corruption is now Pirate Raid: Allows for a large boost in credits but with
the tradeoff of corruption being disabled for some time for this planet.
○ Otana now buildable after Zhar mission, Sabra despawned.
○ Unique Radar Icons for ships longer than 900m and structures.
○ Story Mission Updates
■ Zhar
● Added highlight arrow to freighter you're supposed to follow
● Scaled up some Zhar mission units for better visibility.
■ Endor
● Luke is now being replaced by Jedi Master Luke after successfully
doing the Rebel Endor Story Arc
● The Empire now gets a Death Star II spawned if you lose the
Endor Tactical Mission as the Rebels.
○ New build pad model for skirmish space turrets.
○ Replaced "Pirate Fleet" and "Pirate Garrison" with "Local Fleet" and "Local
Garrison". “Pirates” changed to “Independent Faction”. Changed Independent
Faction color to white.
○ Added Santhe Security Forces, Herdessan Guard, and Hapan Home Guard
○ Added Description to Global Space Tech telling the player what this GST building
unlocks.
○ Added Idle animations to Skyhooks (They rotate now? They rotate now!)
○ Added Bombing run warning audio line.
○ Changed the names of Imperial Factories:
■ Standard Imperial Factory = Imperial Factory
■ Medium Imperial Factory = Automated Factory
■ Large Imperial Factory = Specialized Factory
■ Heavy-Vehicle Foundry = Heavy Factory
■ Large Heavy-Vehicle Foundry = Advanced Factory
○ Added new Howitzer projectile models to ground.
○ Rebel Warehouses and Empire Prisons now improve build time of Infantry and
Vehicles. New icons to represent what they buff.
○ Population granted from most buildings has been removed, there are now
dedicated ground buildings that will increase population.
○ Added Game Message and SFX to Underworld Sabotage Corruption to make
players aware of the retreat prevention
○ Enemy bombing run tactical announcer (and corresponding objectscript)
○ Fighter Flights will now be represented with an F on their squadron icon, to better
distinguish the difference between Squadrons when units are selected.
○ New texts for freighters with better description of income. Structures that increase
freighter income also have a special description describing this behavior.