Patch Notes for 22/08/2024

Balancing

• Hammer attack speed 3.3 → 2.5
  
• Spirit power 18 → 16
  
• Spire power 8 → 9
  
• Orbital Strike has 45 → 40 power per missile
  
• Admin Burden reduces recruitment and building speed by 80% → 60%
  
• Attacking a sietch now betrays truce with the Fremen
  
• Fremen cost to repopulate a sietch : 250 → 150 manpower 3000 → 1000 solari
  
• Fremen cannot repopulate a sietch if a teammate has pillaged it
  
• Fremen dev "Stalwart Alliance" adds effect: Allied Sietches Militia have +50% Life
  
• Fremen dev "Desert Watchers" adds effect: Fremen units also gain stealth near Allied sietches
  
• Militia and raids from allied sietch are considered as allies and can't be targeted nor attacked
  
• When neural nodes have the ability to attack, Ornithopters will try to avoid them as they do with missile turrets
  
• Abandoning a village does not refund building costs anymore
  
• Fremen are no longer eligible for "Council Representative", the charter that replaces dune governorship when political victory is disabled

QoL

• Added alerts for Fremen players to help them defend ally sietches
  
• After the game has ended, remaining players now have access to the "spectator" chat
  
• In Spectator mode, the option to follow a player’s camera will now close the landsraad windows automatically

Bug Fixes

• Fremen and Vernius harvesters are no longer affected by the training speed reduction at the beginning of the game
  
• Direct messages between Spectators no longer generate a "spoke with" message
  
• The pillage cost on game pass has been fixed
  
• Steam and Game Pass versions are synchronised, crossplay now functions