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Release Status: *** Unreleased ***

For April we’re making some requested quality-of-life adjustments and some other minor updates to the game. Highlights for this update include:

  • Research is now back to two separate queues - civilian and military.

  • Many AI improvements.

  • Improved early game economy and trade.

  • Increased unit survivability.

  • Many UI improvements.

  • More audio balancing.

NOTE:  This update is not save game compatible with prior versions.


Change Log

AI Improvements:

  • Improved player AI attacking.

  • Improved player AI planet guarding.

  • Improved player AI unit building.

  • Improved player AI colonization.

  • Improved player AI researching.

  • Improved player AI planet development.

  • Improved player AI retrofitting.

  • Improved player AI exotic management.

  • Improved player AI loot collection.

  • Improved unit AI collision avoidance.

  • Improved unit AI pathfinding.

  • Improved unit AI combat 'target track' movement.

  • Improved garrison AI.

  • Fixed AI still updating when player is dead.

Visual Effects:

  • Added new effect for Dunov energy transfer beam.

  • Fixed popping particles that had a fade-in / fade-out combination.

  • Updated death sequences. Updated death sequences to be cleaner, more interesting.

Gameplay:

  • Added parallel research build queues per domain. Research domains are now completely separated from the top bar onwards.

  • Improved early game economy.

  • Increased trade income.

  • Improved battle length.

  • Adjusted lobby game speed options.

  • Adjusted spawn loot guardian's range.

  • Fixed exotic duplication bug when moving build queue.

  • Fixed Human Doctrine being duplicated on home planet.

  • Fixed Missile Guidance Computer and Targeting Array items not removing their bonuses to nearby allied units when the item is removed.

  • Reduced squadrons of low-level carrier capital ship.

  • Updated tier/price/windfall of Focused Exploration research.

  • Rebalanced pirate ratios and removed obsolete medium pirate.

Galaxy Generation:

  • Fixed resource asteroids intersecting structures.

  • Fixed structures spawning in structures or asteroids.

  • Fixed structures building outside the build area when possible.

  • Fixed units spawning inside a star or planet.

  • Fixed loot guardians spawning on top of loot.

User Interface:

  • Added auto overlap detection to bookmark window and top bar.

  • Added tip on how to rename units.

  • Disabled culture takeover blinks around planet icons.

  • Fixed assert when selecting 200% dpi.

  • Fixed autocast animation being scaled by dynamically changing simulation time.

  • Fixed crash giving rally orders to stacks of units in production window.

  • Fixed crash in passive ability range rendering.

  • Fixed game not remaining paused when changing settings or entering save game name (single-player only).

  • Fixed minor layout issues at non-standard dpi settings.

  • Fixed other dpi's being not pickable if auto_scale_dpi_to_fit_display is set to false.

  • Fixed phase lane being deleted blink from speeding up with game speed settings.

  • Fixed scout triggering enemy_units_detected_at_unowned_planet at all visited gravity wells.

  • Fixed shield bars growing out of bar area.

  • Fixed structure building pips blink being modified by game speed.

  • Fixed time scale issues with UI and shaders.

  • Clouds and other shader-based effects are no longer affected by global game speed options set in lobby.

  • UI animations no longer affected by any game speed changes and will always pulse or otherwise animate at a consistent speed (will still pause if game is paused though).

  • Fixed volume sliders not initialized when settings file was deleted from filesystem.

  • Improved transition between both research window domain windows.

  • Linked research window is compressed setting between both domains. Expectation is that changing it in one location will change it in the other as well.

  • Linked research window text filter between both domains.

  • Improved asset change notifications.

  • Suppressed planet track completed and exotic built notifications.

  • Fixed selection window capital ship level up fill color flash showing up for other players.

Tooltips:

  • Added colonized planets summary tooltip.

  • Added Human Doctrine buff values to research subject tooltips.

  • Added unlocked/improved abilities to research subject tooltips.

  • Fixed non-homeworld Human Doctrine buff not showing up on unit tooltips.

  • Fixed research domain tooltip list of structures/items providing points.

  • Improved research text filtering.

    • Will now filter on both the unit and ability names for any unlocked abilities (e.g., Retrofit Bay - Repair).

    • Will filter on keywords ability, unlock, improve (if level > 0) for any unit abilities improved by research.

    • Will filter on unlocked ability properties (modifiers, trade capacity, custom labels).

    • Will filter on unlocked item ability (and properties).

    • Will filter on unlocked item modifiers (unit, planet, player, etc.).

  • Made all hull restore rate values in abilities positive green color.

  • Shortened some ship unlock research names to make tooltips more compact.

Research:

  • Added parallel research build queues per domain. Now research domains are now completely separated on the top bar.

Audio:

  • Fixed Magnetic Singularity sound not being played when initially created.

  • Fixed TEC autocannon selected dialog from using Advent dialog.

  • Added Magnetic Singularity sound FX.

  • Major audio re-balance: Normalized loudness across sound assets and adjust attenuations accordingly.

  • Updated TEC autocannon defense structure to use new autocannon sound FX and updated burst pattern to match Kol.

  • Updated gauss defense structure sound FX.

  • Updated death sequences and adjust volumes so the final explosions pop more.

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