v1.99

Hello everyone, 

We are in the home stretch! We are pushing v1.99 live for everyone with some additional changes. The build has a lot of fixes, especially for stability, languages, and gameplay balance. Read below for more information. 

10/18/23 | v1.99 Changelog

Gameplay 

• Fixed the 'Manufacture Populace' abilities so they create synthetic Yor citizens. 

Missions 

• Missions no longer abort having events pop up.  

• The Influence Victory mission now mentions how to get to the Victory Status Screen by hitting the Esc key. 

 Text/Localization 

• Russian text updates. 

• Improved French text. 

• GalCiv community French fixes. Thank you! 

• Update Credits to add more MVP and community members who've provided valuable feedback.   

UI 

• Bug fix – You can no longer select stars covered by fog of war.   

10/17/23 | v1.99 Changelog

Art 

• Updated key art and main menu logo.  

• The Mimot colors changed so they are distinguishable from the Terran Alliance. Hat tip to Besban. 

Audio 

• Enabled voiceovers throughout the game. 

• New Krynn theme music. 

• Raised music playlist capacity (you should hear more variety of late-game music now). 

• Music is no longer mixed with Sol system events. Oops. 

• VO volume increased by 15%. 

Core 

• Fixed out-of-memory error. 

• Planets can no longer have two parent stars (which corrupts save games). 

• Fixed crashes related to Mercenary ships. 

• Setting map size to "random" will no longer choose maps that exceed the recommended size for your system spec. 

• Prevent a soft lock when winning a game and returning to the main menu. 

• Fixed a crash related to missing Commander ships. 

Gameplay 

• Fixed numerous achievements that were previously not working. 

• AI builds more cruisers and frigates. 

• AI is better at building population districts when it runs low on space. 

• Toned down the genius leader stat buffs. 

• Genius leaders are much more expensive to hire. 

• Ascension Points count more towards Prestige Victory. 

• Total research now counts slightly more towards Prestige Victory. 

• Influence Victory turns of peace requirement reduced from 10 to 3. 

• Fixed a bug where you couldn't design Freighters but could build them. 

• Reduced the per-turn bonuses from the endcap techs (instead of stats going up 10% per turn, they go up 3% per turn). 

• Made Colonial Law Policy available to Crime Lords (like the Xeloxi). 

• Reduced culture point reward from researching the entertainment tree from 10 to 3. 

• Hatchers tech is green with a planet icon (hat tip Illuana). 

• Max players set to 64. 

• Starting Mainframe improvement no longer provides a free +1 to research. 

• "Singularity Power Plant," which provides a galactic boost to all civ production cost increased from 500 to 800, the boost to neighboring improvements increased from 2 to 3, and the boost changed from only factories to all types of improvements. 

• "Torian Academy" per-level research buff increased from 1% to 2%. 

• The "Precursor Library" cost increased from 60 to 750. 

• The "Treasure Hunt" mission cost increased from 250 to 300. 

• "Treasure Hunt" mission rewards are more random. 

• Krynn loses the Expansionist trait and gains the Aggressive trait. 

• More artifact powers changed to work on any player, not just enemies. 

• Colony ships can no longer end their turn inside a planet colonized by another civ. 

• Giant stars are correctly revealed correctly by the FOW.  

Missions/Tutorial 

• New campaign event images. 

• Minor tweaks to the opening tutorial to emphasize the controls of the game. 

• Extreme planets, Blackholes, Nebula, Relics, and Ascension Gates will now spawn. 

• Prestige victory enabled for " The Opportunity," "Alliance Ascendant," " Everything is for sale," and " Radioactive." 

• Tutorial:  

  • Various Executive Orders are no longer blocked. 

  • Free starting ships other than the probe are spawned.  

  • The Opportunity: Text update explains HOW you scan a planet. 

• Soul of Machine: Map size reduced from Huge to Medium. 

• Korath mission is disabled as it needs more work. 

• Re-enabled the "Victory Status" screen.  

• Disabled the disabling of the executive orders, which were causing random crashes. 

Multiplayer 

• Fix for Culture flipping desync. 

• Fix to prevent crash/bad stuff when coming back from the PC going to sleep. 

Text / Localization  

• Minor tweaks to the opening tutorial to emphasize the controls of the game. 

• All languages are updated. 

• Fixed font clipping in various languages 

• Polish language fixes. 

• Russian fixes for messed up display in Culture window. 

• Fixes for various typos. 

• Reduced chef history a bit to not clip. 

• Broken tags are fixed in Italian. 

• Fixes to cut off text for French. 

UI 

• Font sizes adjusted for French to prevent cut-off text of extra-large fonts. 

• Update the Ship Design screen to deal with the changes to the layout. 

• First Time Tutorial windows now support Voice over. Fix for Research Window, which was calling the music very late in its unhiding. 

• Increased the size of the citizen description window to fix clipping. 

• Button mashing no longer makes the bottom bar disappear. 

• The Prestige progress bar no longer splatters in the game UI when a player is close to winning. 

• Ensure there is a background galaxy image when selecting the random Galaxy size. 

• The Starbase Influence Growth tooltip now shows the correct information. 

• The "open trade" on the first contact now opens the Trade screen. 

• Fix the Citizen portrait window where icons would disappear, get spurious checkmarks, or be incorrectly highlighted.