Changelog v0.5

Captain

• Melta Bomb – Increased responsiveness and slightly increased AoE.
• Plasma Gun – Overcharge Shot is now more responsive.
• Dragonfire Ammo – Now applies damage over time to all applicable guns on every shot; Stalker Bolter Dragonfire ability deals increased DoT.
• Power Axe – Slightly increased attack speed.
• Chainsword – Slightly increased armor penetration.
• Plasma Cannon – Slightly increased accuracy.
• Vengeance Ammo – Now applies stacking armor shred per hit on all applicable guns; reduced knockback.
• Lightning Claw – Now stuns heavy and super-heavy infantry on hit.
• Storm Shield – Now grants Steadfast.
• Thunderhammer – Now grants Steadfast.
• Powerfist – Now grants Sturdy.
• Combat Shield – Now grants Steadfast.
• Stim packs now grant a flat additional 1.5 hp regeneration modifier when active.
• Apothecary Medkit grants Steadfast.
• Rite of the Tireless Crusader no longer grants -10% cooldown.
• Rite of the Tireless Crusader now grants Inspiring Grit.
• Rite of the Tireless Crusader now grants Tireless Aura.
• Rite of the Tireless Crusader now grants +35 Max HP.

Chaos Champion

• New Weapon – Added new pistol for Undivided.
• Khorne Chainsword – Slightly increased armor penetration; reduced healing per hit.
• Orb of Undying – Reduced cooldown; slightly increased active duration.
• Armor of Doom – Slightly increased reactive Doomblast AoE and trigger chance.
• Blastmaster – Small accuracy buff.
• Doombolt – Slight damage increase.
• Undivided Power Armor – Orbs combined into one ability; Khorne variant added (costs health instead of energy).
• Khorne Axe – Small damage increase; Cleave deals more damage and costs less Limit Break to cast.
• Lascannon – Slightly increased fire rate and firing consistency.
• Armor of Nurgle – Removed Rotten trait.
• Plasma Gun no longer needs to reload.

Lord General

• Blind Grenade Volley – Now fires one grenade instead of three.
• Refractor Field – Fixed incorrect label.
• Shotgun – Reduced Solid Slug energy cost and cooldown; basic attacks now apply suppression.

Eldar Seer

• Empower Weapon (Warlock) – No longer knocks back the caster.
• Empower Weapon – Increased main target damage.
• Laughing Staff – Increased fire rate.
• Levitation Field – Added energy leech effect; increased cooldown.
• Executioner – Increased max energy by +15.
• Armor of Khaine – Increased melee damage by +20%.
• Armor of Khaine now grants Furious Charge.
• Belt of Equilibrium – Reactive Strikes now grants +35 armor for a few seconds when triggered; triggers more often.
• Psychic Inhibitor – Increased cast range; reduced energy cost and cooldown.
• Seer Council Summon – Increased squad size to 6; increased squad energy.
• Wraithlord – Buffed ranged Wraithlord's weapons; increased melee Wraithlord's attack speed and melee damage.

Hive Tyrant

• Bio-Plasma – Slightly increased cooldown and energy cost; ability is now more responsive and reliable.
• Rending Stranglethorn – Increased armor penetration, damage, AoE, and range; improved ground attack reliability and accuracy.
• Toxic Miasma – Now applies a movement speed debuff to enemies in the poison AoE.
• Enlarged Scything Talons – Slightly increased armor penetration; now grants armor when equipped.
• Behemoth Claws – Slightly increased special attack damage.
• Devourer – Buffed accuracy.
• Reinforced Chitin – Now correctly triggers its stacking armor buff when hit.
• Bio-Feedback – Now increases ability energy costs while invulnerability is active.
• High-Toxin Venom Cannon – Reduced summon heal per hit.
• Crushing Talons – Slightly increased heal per summon hit.
• Heavy Talons – Charge trait now functions correctly.

Tau Commander

• ATS Flamer – Removed panic effect; added slow debuff on hit.
• Skyray Barrage – Increased cooldown.

Mekboy

• Burna – Improved aiming consistency and reliability.

Overlord

• Staff Traits – Fixed fearless/steadfast effects not applying.
• Locked Necron Items – Removed achievement restrictions.

General Changes

• Introduced new knockback resistance system.
• Cleaned up some labels.
• All characters recover from knockback faster; Hive Tyrant and Necrons recover instantly.
• Slightly increased sight range for all characters.
• Adjusted summon behavior to reduce instances of following players instead of attacking.
• Nerfed some enemy knockback so it can now be prevented by Steadfast/Sturdy.
• Released The Meridian Cult.

Final Stand v0.5 – Alpha Patch 1 Announcement

Hello @everyone! We're proud to release Final Stand version 0.5, the first official patch of our Alpha Launch (not including hotfixes)!

This patch has been in the works for a few weeks, and I'd like to give a shoutout to @gttgw for driving the development of this update. He's done a great job, so please drop him a 👏 reaction!

The name of the game for this patch was Quality of Life changes and cleaning up some of the mess from v0.4. Listening to the community's feedback (and feeling the pain ourselves), we've walked back some of the nerfs to unshakeable and addressed missed edge cases. All characters now stand up faster after knockback to reduce stun-locking frustration.

We've also expanded access to knockdown resistance traits for melee builds. New QoL changes grant knockback immunity for some melee characters upon successful melee hits, which helps smooth out core engine limitations and make melee more viable and satisfying.

New Knockback Resistance Tiers:

• Sturdy: Immune to normal small arms, instant bombs, and charge effects.
• Steadfast: Immune to heavier arms such as explosives and heavy weapons. Vulnerable to boss abilities and delayed explosives.
• Unshakeable: Matches original Last Stand behavior—only levitation effects (e.g., Chaos Lord’s drain life) can interrupt.

We’re doing this to correct previous expectation mismatches around the “Unshakeable” label, making combat feel less arbitrary. In parallel, we've cleaned up enemies like Fire Prisms that were over-delivering knockback effects.

Lastly, we’ve increased line-of-sight radius for all heroes to prevent frustrating situations like being sniped by unseen enemies.

Once again, thank you all for your attention and support. We’re thrilled to have such a vibrant, active, and welcoming community. We’re looking forward to sharing even more with you in the coming weeks.

See you on the battlefield! 🛡️