Merry Christmas 2024

Greetings everyone,

Christmas is coming early this year! The Fire and Water map shall be our present to you this year. Do you love to play as your favorite hero? Would you like to have all the canon BC-304 ships? Then this map is exactly for you.

Fire and Water is a 3-player map which includes some unique gameplay. Apart from the standard starbase with standard units, each faction also has a secondary building – the large shipyard. This is not just another base with its own offensive and defensive capabilities, but it also gives you an access to some unique units – or rather heroes. This map is meant to be played with these unique heroes and guess what, the AI understands that and even when you play on the easy, the AI will still utilize the new Heros very well. Be aware: Playing on hard is very difficult as the AI really uses all the new Heroes to the best of their ability.

How does it work? Every tech level unlocks a new unit for you, and you can create them from the large shipyard. When a Hero is killed, you can spawn them in again but beware, if your large shipyard is destroyed, you will lose the access to those unique Heroes.

This map can also be played as Asurans, however bear in mind, they are not that well suited for it as they have not that much of heroes. However, there are indeed some unique units there as well so check them out.

We hope you will enjoy this map as much as we do. It creates some nice new ways to play the game.

Besides this little present we also included a few more changes and fixes to the patch. One of them is another attempt at fixing the resolve loop issue in the Stargate Galaxies GC. Let us know on Discord what you think about the latest changes.

Thanks for everyone who voted again for us in the Mod of the Year voting! Even after many years of development it makes us very proud to be part of the Top 100. We wish you and your loved ones a happy holiday season!

Full patch content below:

Code
- Potential fix for game soft-freezing in galactic for Tauri/Goauld: Change the garrison of Wraith Artillery from TIE_Scout_Squadron to TIE_Scout_Squadron_Real

Level Design
- Add Abydos (Ground) and Oannes (Space) skirmish maps to the open beta
- Pangar Ground: Fix oversized pyramid prop (GC and skirmish)

See you next time! Your SGMG