Operation: New Earth Patch Notes — April 29, 2026
Aggregated from Steam, cross-tracked with Battle.net coverage on GamePatchNote.
New Features
Added functionality to discard troops which you no longer need. This will refund 40% of their training cost in resources.
Add a button on HUD to view Shield Status and to apply a Shield quickly.
Added Medium Invader Cache with Rare to Augmented crafting components dropped as a reward for defeating Level 9+ Invaders.
Increased the Maximum Level for numerous Hero Equipment from 4 to 5.
Added Level 35 Raids for both the Megaship and the Titanic Strider.
Added the functionality to Move and Swap the position of various Base Structures.
Added improved HUD UFO rewards bracket for HQ Level 25 to 35.
Alliance Members can now initiate a Mutiny against an Inactive Alliance Leader.
New Research Projects
15 new Research Projects have been added to the game across multiple Research Trees.
Defensive:
Defensive Strategist II
Special:
Deployment Speed III
Deployment Size III
Efficiency:
Rally Speed II
Rally Capacity II
Specialized
Prototype Attack II
Prototype Defense II
Prototype Armor II
Alien Attack II
Alien Defense II
Alien Armor II
Mech Attack II
Mech Defense II
Mech Armor II
Drone:
Drone Shard Detector II
Quality of Life Changes
Saving location bookmarks will append the location level to the name on the bookmark.
Added various new counters to display in your Player Profile.
Increased the Global chat message limit from 25 to 50.
Added option to fully hide blocked messages from global chat (these still count towards the 50 message limit even if hidden from global chat)
Increased the limit for Alliance descriptions and bulletins from 128 to 256 characters.
Improved sorting of Routine Missions. Additionally, when claiming a routine mission, it will now be moved to the bottom of the list.
Added Health and Power values of the target location in the Add Troops panel.
Added the location Level to the Invader Attack notification.
Improved dismantle Gear cost from 25% to 75%
Increased the Shard quantities that spawn within the base view by 300% and changed one to be very rare.
Added buttons to the Gear crafting panel to view the Gear stats and costs at any level.
Increased the quantity of Crafting Components given from regular Invader Caches.
Increased unit quantities from drone level 9 and 10
8hr: Level 9 (40 to 100), Level 10 (80 to 150)
16h: Level 9 (75 to 175), Level 10 (150 to 250)
24h: Level 9 (140 to 350), Level 10 (275 to 500)
48h: Level 9 (275 to 500), Level 10 (525 to 700)
72h: Level 9 (525 to 700), Level 10 (800 to 1000)
Scaled HUD UFO rewards brackets
HQ 0 - 8 scaled by 1.5x
HQ 9-16 scaled by 2x
HQ 17-24 scaled by 3x (bracket range was also shifted from 17-35 to 17-24)
Scaled daily login rewards 0-55 (items by 3x, currencies by 4x)
Some rewards between 28-55 were replaced with new rewards or moved to a different day
New Objectives
Added Objectives for all 15 new Research Projects.
Bug Fixes
Fixed some incorrect display values in some counters in the player profile panel.
Fixed a rare case where VIP expiring during a session would not update correctly
Fixed all rewards always being displayed on the Challenge reward claimed panel.
Fixed incorrect rewards being displayed when claiming Alliance Challenges with combined Alliance points
Fixed a case where if an Enemy is reinforcing the target of one of your attacking marches, it would display as an ally deployment incoming in the Passive tab.
Fixed a text input field for changing the Alliance Description, going across one line.
Fixed the Total Units Killed and Total Unit Power Killed counters not updating during the same session.
Fixed the colour on certain gear not displaying correctly when viewing from the Storage Locker.
Shards in the base view now refresh and spawn automatically while you are online, instead of having to log out and back in to trigger their spawn
Corrected some Chest Prices as they did not reflect the value of contents correctly. (Chests with a higher discounted value were left unchanged.)
Speed up chest from 22.5k to 20,550
Expert speedup from 50k to 40,250
Basic resource from 3.5k to 2.3k
Resource chest from 10k to 4.5k
Expert resource from 25k to 12,950
Basic defense chest from 4.5k to 2,975
Defense chest from 8k to 5,150
Expert defense chest from 15k to 10.2k
Basic attack chest 4.5k to 2,975
Attack chest from 8k to 5,150
Expert attack chest from 15k to 10.2k