Pyro — a new flamethrower trooper you can recruit mid-run. Its flames set enemies ablaze, and it's the only class that walks through the Volcanic biome's heat unharmed.

Wildfire — on jungle maps the grass, trees and vines now catch fire and spread it, torching anything caught in the flames.

Weather — maps can now blow windy or roll into a rainstorm, and it changes the fight.

Thunderstorms hurl lightning that can strike a unit dead, just like the snowfields' thundersnow.

Inspect enemy units mid-battle — hover and click any enemy during the fight to read its stats, not just while planning.

Side-by-side unit comparison — open a friendly and an enemy panel together and every stat shows a green or red arrow for who wins it.

Your own units' voicelines now show in their info panel, the same chat log the enemies already had.

Units trade short back-and-forth lines with a new generated-dialogue system.