I’ve only played for 3 hours in a new campaign so a bit early to really say. I’ve not played in a long time so I went with a race I know pretty well, the vanguard. I’ve run up against the new race I believe as an NPC, had some really cool jumpy character that jumped behind my units and flank attacked three at once, that was impressive.
But what I really liked seeing was my contact with another race that went diplomatic. They reached out giving me a compliment. I responded in kind. Then offered non-aggession, bit later a defensive, and then after that they accepted an alliance and full view of each others territories.
So, with that alone this update has my full thumbs up. The one thing that drove me crazy up to now was diplomacy, I simply could not get it to work, in fact I never once got an alliance, not once. And here I’ve played all of three hours and I’ve got one.
So yeah, I’m liking it a lot.