After a prolonged Christmas break and a significant patch earlier than that much-needed “offline” interval for all of us, Amplitude Studios is beginning 2026 by coping with various urgent Infinite Legend 2 bugs and by teasing the massive adjustments coming to the 4X technique sport quickly.
Previous ‘state of the sport’ stories have been filled with meaty particulars on the background work being executed on the sport, upcoming adjustments, and even participant suggestions as processed by the studio. They’re helpful to know the place the sport is at and what’s the overarching plan as Infinite Legend 2’s early entry run continues.
Following the various updates within the December construct and the launch of multiplayer, steadiness hasn’t been the most effective, and various bugs have began bothering gamers within the early sport. With an extended two-week vacation interval, bug fixes didn’t come quick sufficient, however even devs should relaxation, so relax!
In any case, Amplitude has now made notes on these, which must be squashed quickly. Primarily based on the info collected from suggestions (boards and Steam posts/evaluations), gamers are happier with multiplayer (there was none earlier than), the movement of metropolis development, and victory situations, however unhealthy AI and complicated UI woes stay. In fact, the opinion round bugs and steadiness worsened too.
Amplitude maintains a part of the harsher suggestions comes from newcomers who’re in all probability much less used to the studio’s signature model of dense 4X sport, but the builders have been taking all suggestions critically.
On the matter of AI problem, information exhibits newbies are struggling whereas superior gamers alter nicely to current adjustments. Thus, count on to see adjustments on the decrease problem tiers over main shakeups on the high.
Multiplayer is faring fairly nicely, and suggestions has been optimistic, but participant interplay complaints and map measurement ideas are on the desk. Much more urgent is the recurring subject of desyncs the veteran studio needs to convey down within the close to future.
A brand new public-test-branch beta replace is now obtainable, and the expectation is that it’ll lead into the subsequent main replace later this month. The important thing options and adjustments (on high of the standard bug fixes and tweaks) are:
Up to date victory situations: A number of goals should be accomplished and there’s been a significant rebalance cross on them.
Militia replace: Quantity of militia is now decided by the fortification degree of town as a substitute of know-how, which made the capital “as nicely defended as your new settlement.” The speedy adjustment gamers must make is engaged on army/defensive enhancements sooner.
Hero expertise replace: Rebalanced expertise to suit the rebalanced hero stats. Overpowered skills are coming to an finish.
Writing enhancements: Editor cross executed on all the key faction and pacification quests to regulate the tone throughout the board.
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