A huge amount of gratitude to all of the Sinners who’ve joined our community! To say that we’ve been blown away by the amount of support is an understatement.

We’ve prepared a modest update from feedback we’ve gotten from the community, bug reports and more. Look for a larger update in the coming month or so.

Previous Version Instructions

If you’re on Steam and wish to finish up your game on the previous version, do the following:

Steam Users:

1. Select ‘Sins of a Solar Empire II’ in your Steam Library.

2. Click the gear icon in the upper right.

3. Select Properties → Betas

4. Select 'previous_edition' from the Beta Participation dropdown.

5. Steam will update you to the latest files.

   1. To switch to latest repeat step 4 and select ‘None’

Version 28.10 Change Notes

Release Status: *** AVAILABLE ***

8/28 Changes

• Fixed larger units not being able to travel through wormholes.

• Fixed duplicate phase lane crash.

• Fixed Mod.io login bug.

  • Note: All users will need to re-download their mods.

Sanity

• Our fleet has arrived at a phase jump inhibitor and is now trapped!

• Our fleet has arrived at a phase jump inhibitor and is now trapped!

• Our fleet has arrived at a phase jump inhibitor and is now trapped!

• Our fleet has arrived at a phase jump inhibitor and is now trapped!

• Our fleet has arrived at a phase jump inhibitor and is now trapped!

• FIXED!

Settings

• Added camera rotate and pan speed settings.

• Added camera zoom speed settings.

• Added shadow quality setting.

  • Reduce this if you are having memory problems.

• Added clip cursor to window setting.

• Added setting to disable zooming to cursor attaching to strike craft or missiles. This is now default behavior.

• Moved DPI setting to User Interface.

• Updated Settings screen design.

• More to come!

Gameplay

• Fixed and improved auto-cast for single target burst damage abilities. They should now activate properly and favor targeting capital ships, starbases and titans (e.g., Ragnarov’s Piercing Shot).

• Fixed non-unit-targeted abilities not auto-casting correctly (e.g., Sova’s Deploy Missile Battery).

• Fixed point defense weapons to prevent overkill.

• Fixed being able to change home planet if the planet’s home planet bonus civilian or military slots are in use.

• Changed establishing a new home planet to transition after a delay, rather than instantly.

• Improved Novalith Cannon auto-cast target selection.

• Improved fleet factory distribution logic.

• Updated Unity Recall target filter to ignore construction vessels.

• Fixed units and wreckage getting instead of stars (and thus unable to claim wreckage).

• Fixed estimated incoming damage with Armor points.

• Fixed max linear speed possibly growing to infinity and beyond if using faster ship move speed option.

• Fixed pathfinding not calculating travel time between stars properly.

• Fixed starting home planet buff not always getting applied to gravity wells 2 jumps away.

• Fixed Vasari carrier moving to attack logic.

• Fixed units being able to ignore movement speed debuffs by being in a formation.

• Unity abilities now properly handle changes to the Advent player’s home planet.

• Fixed refund exotic exploit (you know who you were…).

Balance

• Advent Deliverance Engine:

  • Moved to Tier 4 Harmony research.

  • Four new techs (2 per faction) added to unlock faction specific Deliverance abilities and upgrades.

  • Deliverance Engine cooldown increased from 180 to 300 seconds.

• Rebalanced excessive Psi Boost ratios: decreased Psi Power ratio for Guidance, Vertigo and Malice.

• Rebalanced Minor Faction raids:

  • Range increased from 25 AU to 30 AU.

  • Raids no longer require line-of-sight to use.

• Rebalanced Pirate Boarding Crew:

  • Influence cost increased from 1 to 2.

  • Charges increased from 2 to 3.

  • Purchase cooldown increased from 180 to 240 seconds.

• Rebalanced Point Defense:

  • Point defense has been rebalanced to account for the overkill bug fix mentioned above. Point defense units will now scale far more effectively with the number of units.

• Rebalanced Proselytize:

  • Now required dominant culture in a gravity well to be used. This will prevent the ability from being used to trivially place Advent culture anywhere on the map if uncontested; instead temporarily augment an existing culture push. This should also remove early game Proselytize/Conversion rush strategies that were proving dominant and difficult to counter. We will continue to monitor Unity abilities for use case and power level.

• Rebalanced Sanctify cooldown from 300/180/90 to 300/210/120 seconds.

• Rebalanced Tempest Vessel:

  • Light Swarm missile rate of fire increased from 6.5 to 8.5 seconds.

  • Decreased missile salvo density from 0.3 seconds to launch all missiles to 0.75 seconds.

  • Decreased range from 8000 to 7500km to make kiting slightly riskier and to ensure it never outranges defense platforms.

  • Build time increased from 22 to 25 seconds to make it harder to mass-up early on and to ensure the Disciple keeps its build time advantage.

• Rebalanced Temple of Pilgrimage - can now be built on all planet types as intended.

• Rebalanced Vasari Mobile Rulership - this Item has been temporarily restricted to the Vorastra titan.

• Fixed Vasari factions from losing planet item slots at max logistics level on Ferrous, Ice and Volcanic planets.

• Rebalanced all missiles speed, grouping and lifetimes.

AI

• Numerous AI improvements.

• Decreased the jump in difficulty from Hard to Unfair AI.

User Interface

• Added key bindings to hold zoom in and out (simulating mouse wheel with keyboard).

• Added ability to bind extra mouse buttons (but not left or right).

• Fixed selection group hotkey press from focusing on hotkey group when not wanted. Now needs to be double pressed within time tolerance.

• Added a second keybinding [i] for scrub future orbits. Tilde [`] not standard on some keyboards.

• Added fix for mouse movement through Remote Desktop.

• Fixed inverted mouse deltas on absolute (Virtual Desktop) code path.

Tooltips

• Fixed Magnetic Singularity buff tooltip rendering the incorrect slow modifier value.

• Fixed buff tooltip lines in Essence Reservoir, Nanite Armor and Strength of the Fallen that did not render stack scaling correctly.

• Fixed Novalith ability description.

Optimizations

• Numerous optimizations for mesh, shadow, and particle rendering, etc. Some of these will be significant on certain hardware combinations.

Modding

• Added scenario drop in folder. Makes authoring and playing custom scenarios much easier. No more having to create mods for them.

• Fixed Mod.io list box corruption on scrolling.

• Fixed Apply Mod changes not refreshing window areas.

• Fixed asserts if no skybox setup in scenario.

• Fixed modding Apply button always enabled on game startup. Should only be enabled when any changes have been made to be applied.

• Fixed mixed mod uniform merging creating duplicates of values. For example, if a mod had a scenario of the same name, the scenario would be duplicated in the front-end scenario list.

• Fixed lobby not handling scenarios from mods that only the host has.

Misc.

• Added new planet name, Solon.

• Updated red beacon color on the upper-right of planet icons (enemy phase jump inhibitor).

• Updated numerous strings.

• Updated game credits.

• Updated player guide link.

• Updated Vasari Subspace Rupture vfx.

Misc. Bug Fixes

• Fixed multiplayer sync error.

• Fixed multiplayer last used game settings not being saved.

• Fixed polling input actions getting stuck as ‘down’ if mapped to duplicate keys.

• Fixed quotes in Steam player names breaking multiplayer logins.

• Fixed Trader planet item naming issue.

• Fixed some Tutorial bugs.

• Fixed error in Exotics tutorial - Exotic Refinery is Tier 2, not Tier 3.

• Fixed Advent Culture Suppression research icon.

• Fixed lobby options not being applied properly.

• Fixed play point effect not showing up on newly created buff agents.

Game Windows

• Added new brush for list box item hover.

• Fixed popup purchase item background window not being wide enough.

• Improved Escape menu layout.

• Improved lobby window layout.

• Improved new/load front-end screen layout.

• Removed random player icons from lobby.

• Added new front-end watermarks.

• Fixed margins on planet window.

Misc. Crashes and Asserts

• Fixed assert if Minor Faction player colonizes planet without simple planet level.

• Fixed crashing issues with save games.

• Removed alert on load save games with divergent frameworks.

• Suppressed setting JSON read errors.