What's new in Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri - Alien Crossfire Update 2.0

Jan 17, 2012
  • You can now airdrop units into your own bases
  • The correct voice overs for Alien Crossfire base facilities now play the first time you build them
  • Pirates can no longer capture units that are defending a base.
  • Alien probe teams now use the correct art.
  • The Cyborg faction now correctly has the Technology Steal ability.
  • It is now possible to rescue a captured faction leader.
  • Base facilities no longer cost less than they should at Thinker and Transcend difficulty levels.
  • In some instances a Golden Age would not produce a population boom. It now does.
  • AXStart.exe will now switch to a resolution it supports.
  • The Sid and Brian factions can now be loaded in the Faction Editor.
  • Occasionally refugees from a captured base would appear at coordinates 0,0. This is fixed.
  • The Maritime Control Center now grants a defensive bonus against naval units for player controlled factions.
  • Psi Artillery combat strength is now calculated correctly.
  • Some special abilities were not reflected correctly in automatically designed units.
  • The Right-click menu's version of airdrop now correctly uses movement points.
  • You can no longer have a pact brother support one of your factions units.
  • The 'Aliens capture your base' interlude now correctly displays, even if the base captured was obliterated.
  • All satellites can now be added to the build queue, even if currently in production.
  • Miscellaneous text fixes.
  • Base population no longer 'rolls over' when it reaches 127.
  • Native artillery units no longer get a 'hasty' penalty when attacking.
  • Drone revolts no longer can select aliens as new masters.
  • The Faction Editor now correctly updates bonuses on the Faction page.
  • The Faction Editor now correctly loads free units and free abilities.
  • The Faction Editor now correctly saves bonus technologies.
  • The Drone faction now correctly includes the Base Revolt ability of 75%
  • During a random game, if an Alien faction is selected, and there isanother random slot, there will be two Alien factions in the game.