• Harpy: A small spacecraft with a powerful AoE attack
  
• Overlord: A frigate that controls small but powerful flying drones
  

• Banshee: A small stealth spacecraft that also damages supply
  
• Wraith: A frigate that damages the health and supply of ground units in a large area
  

• Spire: A fully armed and modified Ornithopter
  
• Altar: A big aircraft that can receive up to two improvements
  

• Hammer: A slow spacecraft with large AoE attacks, great at shredding armor
  
• Cronos: A frigate with a large powerful AoE attack that regenerates its health out of combat
  

• Melee units cannot attack flying units
• Ornithopters can now be targeted
• Ornithopters avoid danger on Auto Recon and go back to base to heal themselves when needed
• Demo units deal more damage to Aerial Units

• Guild Favor
   (for every faction but Fremen): An expensive new resource that is necessary to deploy your spaceships
  
• Machine Scrap
   (for Fremen only): Destroying mechanical units and pillaging villages give scraps that can be used to build airships
  

• The projectiles of military units were reworked to add spectacle to fights, with more interesting trajectories and effects
• Projectiles are much smoother in multiplayer
• Missile batteries and main bases now use the new system and fire multiple missiles

• As the game progresses, Renegades from the Faufreluche system will appear and take control of neutral villages
• Once renegades have taken hold, they will periodically launch powerful raids on players
• To attack a village controlled by Renegades, the players must first destroy their nearby base
• Killing Renegades provides Guild Favors

• Requires the Barrack building in the Main Base
• Customize the gears of your military ground units
• Enhance your units with a trade-off to match your playstyle
• Some melee units can equip handguns to damage flying units

Spacing Guild Branch (for everyone but Fremen)

• Allows for the deployment of Spaceships
• Exchanges Resources for Guild Favors
• Unlocks Guild Proposals, special events that will get you Guild Favors in large quantities.

Recycling Plant (only for Fremen):

• Allows for the construction of Airships
• Allows for the production of Machine Scraps by destroying mechanical units

• +150 Solari production
• +30% production of other Economy Buildings in the region
• 300 Plascrete upkeep

• +25% Power to all Missile Batteries owned by the faction
• +1 Missile Battery and +50% to their range in the current region

General Improvements

• AIs improved in all difficulties

• NEW Unlimited multiplayer pause option
• NEW Players conceding are now replaced by an AI
• NEW If your last opponents are only AIs that replaced human players, the victory is granted to you
• NEW You can join a lobby using its private code

• Hovering on the chat shows its last messages
• You can now send private messages to other players using the channel selection on the left

• New Solo vs AI Kanly game mode

• Ornithopters set to Auto Recon on game start will now automatically recon the first Spice village
• Autorecall and autodeploy now take into account the harvester's life points
• Added Open CHOAM Market keybind on “U” (can be changed in the options)
• New dynamic cursors to react to more interactive options
• The movement of military unit models is much smoother in multiplayer
• Clearer range displays
• Allow left clicking on the Spice stock, Plascrete, Fuel Cells and Water to cycle between production buildings

• Added the music theme for House Corrino
• New voice lines for the Mobile Turret (Fremen only), Assassins and Mercenary
• New alerts sounds
• New menus sounds
• New spying operations sounds
• Vehicles are separated from humans in the battle soundscape (so you shouldn’t hear screams and other human fight sounds when watching a battle of mechanical units)

• New Singleplayer menu
• New operations UI shortcut (you can now click on an empty slot to start a new mission)
• Bigger alerts
• Building preview UI
• You can now click on the word “Buildings” on the Villages UI to open a list of buildings you have access to

• Huge performance optimizations
• New in-game visual effects
• New Lobby/Main Menu visual effects

• In addition to all of the major additions in Air & Sand we have done a huge amount of balancing and stat changes, which you can read HERE (Please note that as a Google Doc URL, Steam may flag this as malicious, but we assure you, it's safe)

• Fixed Restless (from Ramallo’s passive) not removed from the zones around the Main Base when the Fremen are defeated
• Fixed operations making you a traitor when launched on an ally
• Fixed battle sounds that could be heard across the map if they were within the camera’s field of view
• Allow the recruitment of harvesting teams when training queue is full
• Fixed Interdiction Zone not working as intended
• Fixed rebellions not removing oppression’s buff and debuff correctly
• Fixed Shuttles stuck in the air for a few seconds when going back to orbit
• Smugglers can now be eligible to Imperial Audit if they reach 5 000 Hegemony during the vote
• Prevent militia from different villages to attack each other
• Units now properly leave combat when ordered to investigate a Discovery
• Units could play many attack animations after their target died and cause performance issues
• Units ornithopters could accidentally stop escorting their harvester
• Fixed Armor affecting Health loss at 0 Supply
• Fixed transactions points on the CHOAM market curve always showing the buying price
• You can now still see the preview of a building placement even if its Village is not on the screen
• Developments, buildings and resolutions affecting the cost or training time of military units now also correctly affect militia
• Unit recruitment tooltips now correctly display modified upkeep costs (no longer always base cost). If you haven’t enabled decimals display this may not be visible because of rounding
• Peaceful Annexation now correctly displays the action’s actual duration

Thank you all for your continued support of Dune: Spice Wars and for helping us bring this update together with your feedback and suggestions!

More major updates on the way, stay tuned!

- Shiro Games