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Change history of the Xterium space strategy: what was added, changed and fixed — by category and year.

1180 changes 2018–2026 Latest: 03.10.2026

Each change is broken down by category and type (added / changed / fixed / removed) — this is a brief summary; the full patch text is on the forum.

Changes by year

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Changes by year and category

Year EconomyFleet & DefenseCombatResearchAlliancesExpedition & PvEEvents & PromosInterfaceOther Total
2026 8 7 48 1 16 4 5 20 12 121
2025 9 8 67 2 4 23 8 21 1 143
2024 15 9 45 · 14 · 6 2 5 96
2023 33 7 42 4 9 10 24 22 12 163
2022 23 8 28 1 9 10 25 7 6 117
2021 11 28 15 4 11 8 22 18 9 126
2020 3 11 5 3 8 22 6 5 1 64
2019 39 9 22 10 2 42 25 21 23 193
2018 26 7 36 6 14 23 8 18 19 157
Total 16794308318714212913488 1180

All changes

  • 17.07.2020 Expedition & PvE Changed Drop chances and the amount of parts from Barbarians increased roughly 5x Update 2.5.0 [WoA] ↗
  • 17.07.2020 Events & Promos Changed Premium bonus for reducing enemy technologies in Hostile changed from 15/30/45/60/70 to 10/20/30/40/50 Update 2.5.0 [WoA] ↗
  • 17.07.2020 Fleet & Defense Changed Upgrade bonuses no longer depend on the player's technologies, but add up with them as technologies Update 2.5.0 [WoA] ↗
  • 11.04.2020 Fleet & Defense Changed Announcement of new upgrades for update 2.5.0: upgrade bonuses will become static and stop depending on research leveling (concept) Upgrades 2.5.0 [WoA] ↗
  • 11.04.2020 Fleet & Defense Added Presented concepts of new upgrades for Barbarians, Pirates and Aliens with bonuses to armor, shields, weapons, engines and shield restoration Upgrades 2.5.0 [WoA] ↗
  • 04.04.2020 Expedition & PvE Changed Announcement of the Expeditions section rework: the main menu will become a map of galaxies, and missions objects with an interaction window Expedition 2.5.0 [WoA] ↗
  • 04.04.2020 Expedition & PvE Changed Sending expeditions: unbound from the planet — you can use the entire empire fleet, which is automatically split by the number of expeditions Expedition 2.5.0 [WoA] ↗
  • 04.04.2020 Expedition & PvE Changed The send window now immediately shows matching contracts and their progress; for Hostile — the enemy fleet with efficiency stars Expedition 2.5.0 [WoA] ↗
  • 04.04.2020 Expedition & PvE Changed Reward collection: a single window with the total across all expeditions, without separate messages for each; you can claim it on any planet Expedition 2.5.0 [WoA] ↗
  • 04.04.2020 Expedition & PvE Added Separate enemy maps are being added with strongholds and bosses whose composition and technologies change every 24 hours Expedition 2.5.0 [WoA] ↗
  • 21.02.2020 Expedition & PvE Changed Dark matter gains in the Endless Expanses doubled for everyone Changes 21.02.20 [WoA] ↗
  • 21.02.2020 Expedition & PvE Added Introduced a dark matter bonus based on fleet batch size: +100% at 100 points, dropping to a minimum at 25600 Changes 21.02.20 [WoA] ↗
  • 21.02.2020 Events & Promos Changed Bonuses of all premium packages changed Changes 21.02.20 [WoA] ↗
  • 21.02.2020 Events & Promos Added Flexible premium packages brought back Changes 21.02.20 [WoA] ↗
  • 21.02.2020 Expedition & PvE Changed Initial Ruins profitability reduced from 50 to 13%, the Expedition penalty eased from -48.75 to -10%; the result with a batch of 25600 grew 2.4x Changes 21.02.20 [WoA] ↗
  • 14.02.2020 Expedition & PvE Fixed Fixed a bug present since 2.4.1 that gave everyone +100% to resource and dark matter search in the Endless Expanses Important bug fix in calculations [WoA] ↗
  • 27.01.2020 Alliances Changed Alliance Tournament rewards redistributed: added 20 dark matter rewards, and a division now holds 50 alliances Changes 27.01.20 [WoA] ↗
  • 27.01.2020 Fleet & Defense Changed Defense points in armament are now counted from a single planet only Changes 27.01.20 [WoA] ↗
  • 27.01.2020 Events & Promos Added Stages of the Weekly tournament made harder, with rewards growing by player level (no higher than 200) Changes 27.01.20 [WoA] ↗
  • 21.01.2020 Fleet & Defense Changed Suggestion: count defense armament points only from the planet with maximum defense, so other planets' defense doesn't inflate the stats Weapon points calculation system for defense [WoA - Classic] ↗
  • 25.12.2019 Events & Promos Changed Launched the first round of the Frosty Galaxy event (19:00 MSK); the optimal timing for such events is under discussion Battle timing [WoA] ↗
  • 21.11.2019 Expedition & PvE Changed The anomaly bonus switched from lifting the speed cap to the fleet and defense construction speed itself Update 2.4.1 [WoA] ↗
  • 21.11.2019 Expedition & PvE Changed Flights to the Ruins and Expedition no longer count fleet capacity — the resource is loaded in full without transports Update 2.4.1 [WoA] ↗
  • 21.11.2019 Expedition & PvE Changed When sending Expeditions, the maximum number of waves is selected automatically Update 2.4.1 [WoA] ↗
  • 21.11.2019 Events & Promos Added When switching premium packages, the amount of antimatter to be saved is shown Update 2.4.1 [WoA] ↗
  • 21.11.2019 Interface Added Started development of a mobile phone interface (initial version) Update 2.4.1 [WoA] ↗
  • 21.11.2019 Interface Added Added the ability to create a quick game launch shortcut on PC and mobile Update 2.4.1 [WoA] ↗
  • 21.11.2019 Interface Changed The player stats card now factors in upgrade bonuses for accurate combat simulation Update 2.4.1 [WoA] ↗
  • 21.11.2019 Economy Fixed Fixed: a building that occupies no fields no longer blocks a free field until construction finishes Update 2.4.1 [WoA] ↗
  • 21.11.2019 Expedition & PvE Added Added 137 new tasks (260 in total now) Update 2.4.1 [WoA] ↗

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