DomiNations Update 13.1 - Commander Cosmetics

Greetings Leaders,

This minor incremental update introduces a new Skin for Ripley, along with shaders for you to use across your Commander Customizations. Get an early look at an upcoming Legendary Artifact and the next Councilor. We’ve also added a few fixes and minor tweaks to various aspects of DomiNations in this update.

Commander Cosmetics

Ripley gains a new Thanksgiving-themed Skin, titled ‘The Feast', accompanied by a special shader, too! You’ll also find brand new shaders adding even more combinations to your Commanders! Cosmetics and shaders can be purchased in the Store, but keep an eye out as we’ll be giving a FREE shader in November! The Feast will be available starting 11/17, but keep an eye out for future Shader releases!

Wonder Tactic Claim Timer Reduction

The following Wonders will have the timer for their Wonder Tactic reduced from 23 Hours to 5s:

• Colosseum - Strength of the Gladiator
• Terra Cotta Army
• Brandenburg Gate - Blitzkrieg
• Space Shuttle - Satellite

This means that your Wonder Tactics are now usable in EVERY attack that you make!

New Artifact - Trundholm Sun Chariot (War)

The Trundholm Sun Chariot helps your defenses hold the line against enemy attackers.

Legendary Version

Tower DMG +6%

Air Defense DMG +6%

Invading Bomber HP -7%

Invading Transport HP -7%

All Defensive Towers DMG +6%

Mythical Version

Tower DMG +12%

Air Defense DMG +12%

Invading Bomber HP -13%

Invading Transport HP -13%

All Defensive Towers DMG +8%

Invading Airstrip Troop HP -11%

The Legendary Trundholm Sun Chariot will be first available in December! The Mythical Version you can expect to release in 2026.

New Councilor - Lili’uokalani (Royalty)

Lydia Liliʻu Kamakaʻeha was born in Honolulu in 1838 and adopted into a chiefly household, where she grew up surrounded by future rulers of the kingdom. From an early age, she immersed herself in study and music, eventually becoming a masterful composer in her own right. While her music carried the heart of Hawaiʻi abroad, American businessmen and plantation owners were tightening their grip, seeking to profit from the islands at the expense of the very people she would one day rule. She ascended the throne as Queen Liliʻuokalani, determined to restore dignity and power to her people. Her solution was a new constitution that would roll back the “Bayonet Constitution,” which had been imposed by American-backed forces. This new legislation would return voting rights to Native Hawaiians and strengthen the monarchy’s role as a protector of the nation rather than a pawn of foreign business. Though her enemies forced her from power in 1893 with the help of the U.S. Marines, her legislative battle was not erased. Her legacy endures as one of defiance through creation: a queen who sought to defend her nation not with weapons, but with a constitution that imagined a more just and harmonious future.

Queen Lili’uokalani is of the Royalty Duty in Dominations. Adding her to your Council Chambers will strengthen the walls of your base and increase the damage from your Towers and Heavy Tanks.

Common	Uncommon	Rare	Epic	Legendary
Wall HP +10%	Wall HP +13%	Wall HP +16%	Wall HP +19%	Wall HP +25%
	Heavy Tank DMG +5%	Heavy Tank DMG +8%	Heavy Tank DMG +11%	Heavy Tank DMG +16%
		Tower DMG +8%	Tower DMG +11%	Tower DMG +16%
			Invading Generals' Attack Speed -10%	Invading Generals' Attack Speed -15%
				Wall HP +25%

Queen Lili’uokalani can be recruited to your Council Chamber starting 12/1!


Additional Updates

• Additional Security and cheat detection features have been implemented.
  • Primarily focused on Resource exploits.
  • We’ll be monitoring the intensity of this security implementation and making adjustments over time to help improve and prevent creating further scenarios where ‘false positives’ occur.
• Fixed an issue where Offensive and Defensive Drones could be targeted.
• Fixed a visual issue with the Troop Tray that would occur when removing units from your army.
• Fixed an issue preventing players from being able to claim the Strike Chest Reward.
• Fixed an issue where some players would see a network error when trying to upgrade Ironside.
• Fixed an issue where Commanders could be deployed with a Tactical Helicopter. This was not intended behavior.
• Fixed an issue where 'Exalted Benefactors' bonus wouldn’t apply correctly to the Air Defense blessing.
• Fixed an issue where the Estate would appear as a Dawn Age house after upgrading to Robotics Age.
  • This also addresses the related Quest, which is completeable with this fix.
• Fixed an issue where, in some instances, the Commander UI would rapidly move up and down.

We hope you’re enjoying the Robotics Age, the new upgrades, and Commanders! 13.0 Was a massive undertaking to deliver as much content as we did, and while 13.1 may seem small, there’s still more to come. Look forward to 13.2, where we’ll be making a change to a particularly explosive unit. See if you can spot what we’re doing!

EDIT 11/5 1:53PM - Tournament of Glory updates has failed our QA process and is no longer on track to release in 13.1.

 

We have sent several tickets but CS fob us off with all sorts of nonsense. They believe that core players who have been in the rank 1 alliance for years are unaware of these directive or wonder tactics effects. Then we stopped reporting it because we knew it would become another bug that would NEVER get fixed, just like the sniper tower splash damage bug. It wasn't worth wasting any more time on it.

Your confirmation is utterly ridiculous. I've even seen people reporting this issue on this forum, yet your team still have completely ignored it.

We addressed the sniper tower splash damage a couple of years ago now, and even reworked it based on player feedback. Unless you're referring to a new issue that you're running into?

The paratrooper issue, you mean the firing speed brought on by the really high offensive stats from showcase? That isn't a bug, but I did share that it is something we'd like to address at a later time.

 

We addressed the sniper tower splash damage a couple of years ago now, and even reworked it based on player feedback. Unless you're referring to a new issue that you're running into?

The paratrooper issue, you mean the firing speed brought on by the really high offensive stats from showcase? That isn't a bug, but I did share that it is something we'd like to address at a later time.

Before the manufactory update 2 years ago, sniper tower splash damage was similar to that of the Bazooka Tower and Mortar. However, since then, its splash damage only affects up to two targets, even if 100 targets are clustered together. Sniper towers only can do damage to 2 targets at most. Many players like Dradis have reported this issue countless times over the past two years.

About the paratrooper issue, what you've said once again proves to all players that you guys don't play this game at all. There’s NO line boost paratrooper’s attack speed in museum or showcase. They can only get 5% attack speed from library and 17% from manufactory. Their extremely fast attack speed is due to the ‘Heavy Infantry Attack Speed’ line from council and museum. You can get 98% (in MP) Heavy Infantry attack speed from there which makes them fire like in that video clip. BUT, before Robotics Age update, Heavy Infantry attack speed line NEVER affect paratroopers. If the current paratrooper attack speed is not a bug. Then it means that since the 10.0 update, infantry attack speed having no effect on paratroopers has actually been a bug all along—a bug that has persisted for more than 43 months.

 

Before the manufactory update 2 years ago, sniper tower splash damage was similar to that of the Bazooka Tower and Mortar. However, since then, its splash damage only affects up to two targets, even if 100 targets are clustered together. Sniper towers only can do damage to 2 targets at most. Many players like Dradis have reported this issue countless times over the past two years.

About the paratrooper issue, what you've said once again proves to all players that you guys don't play this game at all. There’s NO line boost paratrooper’s attack speed in museum or showcase. They can only get 5% attack speed from library and 17% from manufactory. Their extremely fast attack speed is due to the ‘Heavy Infantry Attack Speed’ line from council and museum. You can get 98% (in MP) Heavy Infantry attack speed from there which makes them fire like in that video clip. BUT, before Robotics Age update, Heavy Infantry attack speed line NEVER affect paratroopers. If the current paratrooper attack speed is not a bug. Then it means that since the 10.0 update, infantry attack speed having no effect on paratroopers has actually been a bug all along—a bug that has persisted for more than 43 months.

Sniper Tower bonus from Committee didn't have that bazooka tower splash radius. It was always relatively small and effected like you say 1 or 2 units. When the benefit first came out it was much smaller, and wasn't large enough or visible enough to show this was happening, so we increased it slightly.

Correct, attack speed was introduced as a buff to paratroopers with the ability to equip them with munitions in 13.0 (using Field Kit). But the overall issue that is being reported is that they're firing fast, much like the range siege, coupled with Coalitions and other showcase benefits. Which exacerbates the rapid firing in this case because, yes, likely and possibly as noted, the heavy infantry speed may be applying to Paratroopers when it shouldn't.

Rapid firing speed from the large wave of showcase bonuses hasn't been addressed yet. Rapid firing Paratroopers was brought to our attention right after 13.0 (just over 2 weeks ago) it also hasn't been addressed yet. Other fixes and updates and a rather large list of them were the focus for 13.1, and not everything we're working on could make that update.

 

Sniper Tower bonus from Committee didn't have that bazooka tower splash radius. It was always relatively small and effected like you say 1 or 2 units. When the benefit first came out it was much smaller, and wasn't large enough or visible enough to show this was happening, so we increased it slightly

This sounds completely absurd. Explosive damage isn't explosive at all, but is effectively just a "double" shot in a small area.
And this is a committee bonus?

 

Sniper Tower bonus from Committee didn't have that bazooka tower splash radius. It was always relatively small and effected like you say 1 or 2 units. When the benefit first came out it was much smaller, and wasn't large enough or visible enough to show this was happening, so we increased it slightly.

That’s why I used the word ‘similar’ not ‘same’. Their splash range was small yes. However, their splash damage can affect ALL enemies within a small area before the manufactory update, whereas now it can only affect a maximum of 2 enemies.

As for the range siege attack speed you mentioned, that reminds me—after the 12.20 update, the attack speed of RS and mortars has noticeably increased. Their current attack speed (without mythical BKD, using 2 lvl 10 munitions) is now same to the attack speed they had under Agility directive before the 12.20 update. We have reported this multiple times as well, even attaching numerous comparison videos, yet you insist you haven't made any changes.

Regarding the content you mentioned about the coalition and showcase affecting paratrooper attack speed, I can tell you unequivocally: they do not. The ONLY reason paratroopers now have such fast attack speed is that the heavy infantry attack speed line was mistakenly applied to them after the 13.0 update. Please fix it in the correct direction.

 

Here's a previously recorded attacking video. I know the quality is blurry, but it at least demonstrates how sniper tower explosive damage works — they deal damage to ALL targets in a small radius. Snipe towers after Manufactory update can only damage a maximum of 2 targets, regardless of how close the target units are to each other.
@Harlems369th

 

This is a set of clearer comparison screenshots. You can see one sniper tower shot damaged 9 targets. @Harlems369th

 

This is a set of clearer comparison screenshots. You can see one sniper tower shot damaged 9 targets. @Harlems369th

Is the sniper's gun a cannon??? Of course it's normal to hit just one person lol

 

Is the sniper's gun a cannon??? Of course it's normal to hit just one person lol

Then remove the committee bonus about sniper tower explosive damage — that's a fraud.

Moreover, as I've emphasized many times, from the January 2022 committee update until the December 2023 manufactory update, sniper tower attacks have CONSISTENTLY functioned this way — this is how ‘explosive / splash damage’ SHOULD behave.

If you insist that ‘splash damage’ should work like only hit 1 or 2 targets per attack. Then BHG should change the mortar infantry's damage mechanism to work the same way.

 

Then remove the committee bonus about sniper tower explosive damage — that's a fraud.

Moreover, as I've emphasized many times, from the January 2022 committee update until the December 2023 manufactory update, sniper tower attacks have CONSISTENTLY functioned this way — this is how ‘explosive / splash damage’ SHOULD behave.

If you insist that ‘splash damage’ should work like only hit 1 or 2 targets per attack. Then BHG should change the mortar infantry's damage mechanism to work the same way.

Does your country's mortar attack only 1 person??? LOL

 

Does your country's mortar attack only 1 person??? LOL

I know you're one of those crappy attackers who thrives on bugs and exploits. Don’t waste my time

 

I know you're one of those crappy attackers who thrives on bugs and exploits. Don’t waste my time

I have a lot of complaints about the game. How about deleting it

 

Defenders who are unhappy with everything, just delete it

 

Does your country's mortar attack only 1 person??? LOL

Can your country's explosive ordnance only injure one person?
Farming Sim games are more suited to you.

 

If the same bug appeared on the attacking troops. These whiny trolls would spam and flood the forums daily.

 

If the same bug appeared on the attacking troops. These whiny trolls would spam and flood the forums daily.

There's an error in gci damage but we don't cry like you guys

 

There's an error in gci damage but we don't cry like you guys

What error? Defender damage line affect it? That was confirmed by customer service and the official as an intentional design.

 

What error? Defender damage line affect it? That was confirmed by customer service and the official as an intentional design.

The sniper tower is also intentional

 

The sniper tower is also intentional

Stop playing dumb. The committee's description doesn't match what's actually happening

 

The sniper tower is also intentional

As I mentioned, when the committee was first introduced, the sniper tower's explosive damage weren't like this until the manufacturer update. BHG never directly addressed these changes and they claimed that they hadn't changed anything except slightly increasing the splash radius.

@Harlems369th We need you check those screenshots I provided earlier and explain why after the manufactory update, sniper towers can no longer deal damage to more than 2 targets if your team hadn’t change it.