Update 1.9.1: Skyfire Events, Rift Score, New Techs and New Anomaly
Section titled “Update 1.9.1: Skyfire Events, Rift Score, New Techs and New Anomaly”
Commanders, Greetings! Update 1.9.1 is now ready! This update introduces the Skyfire Festival event, Rift Score, new Unit Techs, and a new Rift Anomaly. Update 1.9.1 will take place at 10:30 UTC (5:30 Eastern Standard Time, 11:30 Central European Time) on Thursday, February 5th. During which the server will undergo approximately 1 hour of maintenance. Below is the content of Update 1.9.1:
New Tech
Section titled “New Tech”Sabertooth
Section titled “Sabertooth”
Field Entrenchment: Deploys a trench at the start of battle. While entrenched, Sabertooth cannot move, HP increases by 50%, Range increases by 20, and Attack Interval decreases by 20%. If no enemies are in range for 7 seconds, Sabertooth will leave and destroy the trench.
Mustang
Section titled “Mustang”
Culling Rounds: Attacks instantly destroy targets with current HP below 300 (+100 per additional level). Decreases ATK by 50%
New Anomaly
Section titled “New Anomaly”
Deployable Defenses
Section titled “Deployable Defenses”- Players can purchase and freely deploy defensive structures. The map layouts contain Defensive Walls ONLY, which will disappear permanently after being destroyed twice. Other defensive structures are lost after being destroyed once.
Rift Score
Section titled “Rift Score”- Added Rift Score and Rift Score Leaderboard, which resets every Monday.
Deployment Confirmation Pop-up
Section titled “Deployment Confirmation Pop-up”- If there are unused Supplies or Battlefield Powers, a confirmation pop-up will appear when the Deploy button is clicked, which can be disabled in the Settings.
Balance Adjustments
Section titled “Balance Adjustments”The focus of the following changes is to buff weaker units and Techs.
Equipment
Section titled “Equipment”- Dominion Core: Now available in all modes.
Fire Badger
Section titled “Fire Badger”- ATK 25 → 27 (+8%)
Vulcan
Section titled “Vulcan”- ATK 74 → 75 (+2%)
- Grenade Launcher Attack Range +5 → +15
Mountain
Section titled “Mountain”-
Photon Loop Duration 20s → 25s
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Smoke Bomb Fire interval 40s → 25s
Wraith
Section titled “Wraith”- Land Cruiser Attack interval +0.5s → 0.6s
Phantom Ray
Section titled “Phantom Ray”- Ground Range Increase ATK decreases by 40% → 20%, Price 100 → 200
Arclight
Section titled “Arclight”- Charged Shot Price 250 → 200
Crawler
Section titled “Crawler”-
Subterranean Blitz Price 300 → 350
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Loose Formation Price 400 → 350
- HP 897 → 879 (-2%)
Skyfire Festival (February 5, 2026 - February 22, 2026)
Section titled “Skyfire Festival (February 5, 2026 - February 22, 2026)”Skyfire Festival Rewards
Section titled “Skyfire Festival Rewards”During the Skyfire Festival period, you have a chance to earn random holiday rewards just by playing the game, including unit skins, avatars, avatar frames, and emotes.
Skyfire Festival Map
Section titled “Skyfire Festival Map”We’ve added some festive decorations to the map and changed the season background from the Snowfall Festival to the Skyfire Festival theme~ And fireworks for everyone~
New Paid Skin
Section titled “New Paid Skin”The Skyfire Festival Fortress skin will be available for purchase in the in-game store on February 5, 2026.
Bugfixes
Section titled “Bugfixes”-
Fixed the issue where players could not be invited to 1v1 games from the friend list
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Fixed the issue where clicking a player’s name in a tournament did not bring up the dropdown menu
Feedback & Bug Reports
Section titled “Feedback & Bug Reports”Feel free to submit feedback, suggestions, or report bugs for this update via the following channels. Mechabellum Discord: (https://discord.gg/mechabellum) Mechabellum Reddit: (https://www.reddit.com/r/Mechabellum/) Mechabellum Steam Discussions: (https://steamcommunity.com/app/669330/discussions/)