Impulse has news of the release of automatic patches to update Sins of a Solar Empire to version 1.17 and the Entrenchment expansion for Ironclad's space strategy game to version 1.03. Here are the highlights:

Highlights of these updates include:

        • Rebalanced all races' carrier cruisers to help prevent "kiting" around the gravity well.
        • Improved pathfinding in regards to travelling between gravity wells.
        • Updated Marza Dreadnought's Missile Barrage ability to last longer while doing less damage; also updated particle fx.
        • Improved ICO support for non-English character sets.
        • Fixed issues related to the zoom-to-cursor functionality when attempting to zoom into a small target.

Highlights for the Entrenchment update are:

        • Rebalanced Advent Transcencia Starbase's Final Judgement ability.
        • Reduced the Advent Transcencia Starbases' Meteor Storm area of effect.
        • Added the ability to queue starbase upgrades for starbases that are under construction.