Main new features:

• A new set of units
  • Light gunship - Very weak but cheap
  • Underwater probe - weak scout
  • Plasma tank - Strong land attack, Shield weak vs lightning
  • Heavy Interceptor - Heavily armed with shield, Shield weak vs lightning
  • Telsa Mech
  • Fire bee
  • Nautilus - Amphibious submarine
  • Aircraft carrier Heavily armed and armored, Builds air units (at x5 speed), Laser defence & repairbay, Anti-air, Can build anti-nuke missiles
• Better smarter AI. Better able to defend itself, expand, smarter experimental spider usage, etc
• Large performance improvements and much better at handling large maps (like the 1500*1500 crazy maps in the workshop)
• 3 new maps
• 1 new mission
• Patrol order - will move between points forever, or guard an area will help repair/build any nearby units, will move to attack any nearby targets or anything that damages it.
• Guard order - will follow a target, repairing it and helping it build. Will move to attack any nearby targets or anything that damages target.
• Cloud effects
• Lightning attacks now bypass shields allowing many units to be countered
• Music and sound system (with faster startup speed and reduced memory usage)
• Improved effects and graphics
• Converted over many core units into the mod ini format for people to change and use in mods
• Lots of bugs fixes.

• Around 250 new options and systems added
• Keyframe animation system (including arm/leg animations for smooth opening blast doors, etc)
• Automatic action triggers (eg convert unit when its over water, low HP, etc)
• Ability to embed images into maps to include your own custom tileset graphics
• Custom price system.
• Custom sounds (with custom sounds on order)
• Multi-Targeting/Target per turret system
• Teleporting, units spawning
• Pre unit turret limit upped to 30
• Reduced memory usage of each mod and inactive mods
• Manual turret firing (eg moddable nuke launchers)
• Shield damage bypass and unit armour
• Flexible custom moddable effects. (Create custom projectile explosions, turret shooting effects, etc)
• Enhanced boolean logic with many more functions. (Including and, or, and brackets)
• Adds self.isOverPassableTile(type), self.tags(includes), self.energy(greaterThan/lessThan/empty/full), self.transportingCount(...), self.ammo(...), etc
• Projectile intercepting projectiles (eg moddable anti-nuke)
• Ammo variable, and 32 boolean flags for misc mod usage
• Turret angle restrictions
• Starting units can be added to with custom units
• Many many more new features - see full list in the Modding Reference doc