Commanders, version 2.4.6 is live on Android and the web app. It is a small update with no balance changes and no forced update: your empire, your armies and your alliances are exactly where you left them. What changes is how the game reads, plus a fix for one web problem that was leaving some players stuck.
Web app: notification settings fixed
Some browsers block Google's content servers, and the web app used to load its push notification setup from there. On those browsers the Notification settings screen could stay on its loading spinner forever. The web app now loads that setup from our own servers, and it gives up cleanly after a while instead of waiting forever.
One way to read a timer
Countdowns across the game now share one format: 2d 5h, 3h 12m, 4m. Where you will notice it:
- Strike Team: runs last up to 48 hours, so the invite card and run header now read in days ("1d 22h" instead of "46h 05m").
- Clan invites and requests: show the exact time left ("Expires in 5h 12m") instead of "Expires soon". "Soon" now only appears once an invite has actually run out.
- Armory tactic key cooldown: "Available in 1d 6h" instead of "30h 5m".
- Black Market sale end: now shows minutes under a day ("in 5h 12m").
- Tournament screen: time left reads "2d 5h".
Shorter, sharper numbers
Large counts (achievement progress, non-Cash leaderboards, Tournament Points and the XP bar) now use a lowercase k and up to two decimals. That makes them more precise, not less: 1,960 used to round to "2.0K" and now reads 1.96k. Tournament Points under 10,000 now scale too, so "9500" becomes 9.5k.
Under the hood
Most of this release is work you will not see, and that is the point:
- A big code cleanup on the Profile, Missions, Bases and battle result screens, and across the game server. No gameplay changes: the combat code was checked against 400 recorded fights, and every result came out identical.
- Safer updates. New versions of the Android app and the web app now go live in one step. A download or page load that lands in the middle of an update no longer gets a half-updated or broken file.
- Fewer false alarms. A dropped live connection on the web app, which reconnects on its own, was being reported to us as a crash. It is not any more, so the real bugs stand out.
Get the update
On Android, download the new APK. On the web, just reload the game. See you on the battlefield, Commanders.
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