Build 26521207

You spoke, we listened

Every review and forum post is read. Your feedback shaped this update: clearer first missions, smarter tanks, smoother first battles, and one big new feature.

New: Tactical Pause

Press Space at any moment in a single-player battle. Time freezes, but you keep full command:

• Give every unit its own orders, and queue them with Shift
• Start and cancel production of units and buildings
• Place buildings, roads and walls
• Use unit, commander and perk abilities, air strikes and paradrops
• Open research and start new technologies
• Aim the strategic arsenal

Press Space again and everything happens at once, exactly as you planned it. A cyan frame and the TACTICAL PAUSE banner show when time is frozen.
Select your whole army now uses Ctrl+A. Custom key bindings are kept.

Fixes from your reviews

• The prologue's "build three tanks" step now counts every tank type
• Tanks no longer back away from enemies in combat
• Bastion tanks no longer get stuck behind their own column
• Tanks answering an attack keep firing instead of turning home
• Shorter, clearer orders and briefings in the first missions

Smoother and sharper

• Fewer stutters in the first battle: effects are prepared while the battle loads
• Strong graphics cards now get High graphics on first launch automatically
• A new loading screen bar

Thank you for playing and for telling us what to improve. Keep the feedback coming!