Greetings Commanders!
The last couple of balance changes have resulted in some most interesting tactics emerging on the galactic battlefields!
However, it’s time for another update! We have some quality-of-life improvements and fixes served up alongside your portion of balance tweaks!
Read on to learn more!
Improvements

• Transports will now always move to units, units never move to Transports
• All factories will now deploy currently building units if they are powered down but assisting units finish the building process
• All Naval and hover units now leave wreckage upon destruction which then sinks instead of staying on the water surface.
• All Air units now leave wreckage upon destruction
• The default area build type and spacing for a number of structures has been changed. This applies to Energy and Metal Storage, all anti-ground and anti-air turrets, basic and advanced Energy Plants, and mines.

Balance
Land: Slammer
max_health decreased from 400 to 360 (now 3-shot for drifters instead of 4 and 5-shot for Double laser turrets instead of 6)
damage increased from 90 to 100 (DPS increased from 360 to 400)
Bugfixes

• Angel Missiles and repair fabricator come from the correct locations on the unit
• Orbital Factory and Solar Array icons correctly mark units as advanced
• T1 Naval Factory can no longer be blocked in a way that prevents production
• Exploit where Orbital units are able to immediately shoot upon arriving has been removed
• Nukes no longer disappear from the Nuke launcher if it is powered off

Modding

• Community Mods Merging is now ON by default (option defaults to true and may be overridden by 'community_mods_force_merge_unit_server_mods')
• Ammo of type PBAOE that does "metal" damage will no longer crash the server if multiple trigger at the same time
• Fixed a bug where only units from the most recently loaded unit mod are shown in Community Mods UNITS tab's list
• Added additional CUSTOM# unit_type tags (highest available being CUSTOM58)
• Implemented fully functional area loading for transports with carrying capacity of more than 1
• Add custom armour types AT_Custom0 to AT_Custom9
• Fixed a crash associated with Mass Teleport
• AI support for metal extractors of other factions fixed by adding a new property on the faction commander spec which is:

Code

"ai_metal_extractor_names": {
"basic": "BasicMetalExtractor",
"advanced": "AdvancedMetalExtractor"
},

Those should be replaced by the new extractor names of the faction (for example in the Bug faction, "BugBasicMetalExtractor" and "BugAdvancedMetalExtractor")