Releases

Open a build category and the order strip above it now shows only the production lines that category actually uses — the Construction Yard while you are on Buildings or Defense, the Barracks on Infantry, your vehicle factories on Vehicles. Each line carries its facility's name and artwork alongside whatever comes out of it next, so a glance tells you which factory is busy and how long you have. Research and upgrades get a line of their own on the Upgrades tab. Anything not on show still rolls into the counter underneath, which remains the door to the full Production floor.

Fixed the "Max" button next to an expedition's escort units: it now fills only as much as the expedition's escort limit still allows, taking into account units you've already picked for other slots — instead of always dumping every unit at your base into the field.

The Build page no longer makes you scroll past your own status and your own queue to reach the things you came to build.

Power, Titanite storage and Build space are now one card of three side-by-side meters instead of two big panels and a full-width bar, each keeping its label, its numbers and its gauge. Your orders below them sit on a single line — whatever lands soonest, with its countdown and a Cancel — followed by one tap-through counting everything else running here and at your other bases.

Together that lifts the build categories most of a screen-height up the page, so on a phone the first thing you see when you land on Build is something you can actually build. Titanite now turns amber once your storage passes 90% full, so a base quietly wasting its income says so before you notice the hard way.

Nothing was thrown away: the per-lane "clear in" totals and the rest of your running orders moved to the Production floor, the page that shows the whole picture.

Notifications about incoming attacks and events at one of your bases — recon reports, attack warnings and the like — now take you straight to the world map, centred on the base in question, instead of an unrelated screen.

The mobile production strip's order-count badges got a quick touch-up — they now sit neatly beside their icon instead of crowding the top of the bar, and the research lane's little globe marker no longer gets covered up by its own badge.

The mobile topbar's production timers got a redesign: each queue icon now sits above its countdown instead of squeezing in beside it, so three timers running at once no longer wrap onto multiple lines. Titanite and ISC now share the same look, so the whole strip reads as one consistent row.

Scrolling a long list of objects no longer means scrolling back up to change category. The category tabs — and the Upgrades button beside the Build/Sell toggle — now stay pinned at the top of the build page while the list runs underneath them. On a phone the band quietly tightens as it settles, so it keeps every control without eating the screen; on tablet and desktop it stays full size.

Tapping a push notification now takes you straight to what it was about — a Dev Channel reply, an attack warning, a report — instead of just reopening the app wherever you last left it.

The production floor now names each repair by the building it's mending instead of a generic "Item", and a second repair you queue while the first is running shows up right away as an "up next" line on that track rather than staying hidden until the first finishes. When a job wraps up, the top-bar timer flips to the next one immediately instead of sitting on "…" until the next refresh.

Behind the scenes, the game's catalog of buildings, units and artwork now loads in a fraction of the time it used to. Nothing looks different on the front — it simply means updates reach you sooner.

Your events feed now tags each report to the base it actually happened at — storms, eruptions, danger-near-your-base warnings, incoming raids, spy and scout perimeter contacts, deliveries, garrison moves and expeditions all show up under the correct base when you filter your feed. Empire-wide notices (like research finishing or a tier advance) stay unattached, as they should. Events already in your log keep their old tags; everything from here on is filed correctly.

The notification table in your account settings is now fully wired: every event offers push and e-mail alongside the in-game feed, and 3mail can ping your device too. New options start switched off so nothing gets noisier unless you ask — with one exception: losing a base now sends a push by default. E-mails you opt into arrive as a single daily round-up, never a flood, and several look-alike rows got clearer names so you can tell a storm forecast from a storm about to hit.

Your notification controls moved into one clear table: Account settings now opens as tabs (Security, Notifications, Profile, Audio), and the Notifications tab shows every alert the game can send — in-game, push and e-mail — as one grid of checkboxes. The old muted-events list folded into it, so silencing an event and choosing where it reaches you is now the same switch. A couple of alerts that keep your base safe are marked "Always on".

The Commander entry in the menu grew a submenu: Overview, Edit avatar and Account settings are one tap away.

Buttons across the game now show when they're working — they dim, spin and refuse double-clicks while your order is processed. That also fixed a rare case where hammering a Bank button could slip a duplicate order through.

The Field Manual now has a chapter on Expeditions, sitting between the recon chapter and the one on alliances. It covers the parts every Commander can work out anyway: that an expedition is your Commander's own order rather than a base's, why your list of them does not look like anyone else's, what an escort can cost you when a run goes badly, and where the report lands when one comes home. It also sets out the two kinds — the ones you send out on a timed round trip, and the ones that instead ask you to go and do something real elsewhere in the game — including the easily missed rule that taking one of the latter on starts its count from that moment.

What it deliberately does not do is tell you what is out there. No individual expedition, reward or unlock is named anywhere in it — finding those is the point, and the manual's reference catalog has always kept the same secret.