Major Changes

• Ships Updated! Major visual update to the Terran Alliance and Terran Resistance Ships 

• More Ship Parts. We have added a ton more ship parts so you can build new ships.   

• New Strategic Zoom Controls. You can control when different categories of strategic icons get displayed on the galaxy from the main game UI.   

• Loading Screen Tips. Learn tips and tricks about the game on the loading screens.     

• Lots of bug fixes 

Hot Patch 5/29/24

• Gameplay: Fixed a bogus fleet crash 

• Gameplay: Ships teleported to the 5th dimension no longer crash the game or cause stuck turns. 

• Chinese: Fixed a crash and missing text on the diplomacy screen 

• Chinese: Increase character sizes.   

Hot Patch 5/23/24

• Removed the overlap of the "Obsolete" and "Favorite" buttons on the Shipyard screen. 

Change Log 

Art 

• Added a ton more ship parts. 

• Updated Terran Alliance Ships. 

• Updated Terran Resistance Ships. 

Warlords 

• Updated the "War Aims" tooltip to fit longer descriptions and added a scroll bar. 

• Fixed an issue where the war Aims entries could overflow in medium UI. 

• Added Text Hotspots for new Warlords concepts so they appear in the Galactapedia. 

• Ensure stats have hotspots on the "Edit Class" Screen. 

• Fixed a bug where operational abilities were sometimes incorrectly calculated.  

• Assault Shuttles are now displayed in the UI if ships have them. 

• Assault Troop stats are now shown in the Fleet Details Screen 

• Add assault attack/defense stats to the Battle Selected Ship Popup 

• "War Weariness" events only occur if the player is the aggressor. 

• War Aims now show up in your Relations list. 

AlienGPT 

• Prevent AlienGPT from picking tutorial abilities. 

Engine 

• Added guards to prevent the game from crashing from bad mods. 

• Cached "Battle Modifier Data" for a slight perf boost.   

• You can't "quickstart" a new game from inside of the tutorial (it caused a crash). 

• Prevent a rare crash when exiting to the main menu from the end game screen. 

• Fixed a stuck turn related to code that teleported enemy ships. 

Gameplay 

Artifact Powers  

• "Teleport" now cancels directives and sieges. 

• Makes the "Ancient Survey Module" artifact power add a scientist to the affected ship so that if they go to a planet, they can leave. 

Events 

• "Planet of Luminous Plants:" Responses now have tooltips. 

•  "Orbital Spray:" Increases pollution like it says it would. 

• "Legacy of a Nuclear Apocalypse:" Fixed pollution source display. 

•  "Yor Singularity Advancement:" Clarified the tooltip and changed "Quantum Processing Unit" to "Quantum Processor." 

•  "Damaged Trade Ship:" Now applies the correct Trade License.   

• "Precursor Quarantine": Add a tooltip to the final option. 

• Fix stuck turn caused by ship with unreachable targets set by Events. 

Improvements 

• AI can no longer construct two civilization-unique improvements simultaneously. 

• Improvements can now have negative "Adjacency "bonuses. 

• "Artocarpus Viriles" improvement now gives only one adjacency bonus, not two. 

Misc 

• The Festron are no longer included in the pool of available aliens when you play as a civ with "random". citizen species. Why? Because the Festron would eat the other citizens…   

• Totalitarianism's "Censorship" trait now consistently eliminates negatives from factions as it states it will.  

• Hostiles are no longer paralyzed (e.g.,  0 movement) at the slowest game pace setting. 

• Change Auto-Explore behavior to favor closer tiles. 

• Terror stars can be built again 

• Make rally points the last selectable stacked object on a tile. 

Ships 

• Survey Modules granted by Anomalies no longer cause stuck turns.   

• Survey Modules granted by Anomalies now activate the turn they are added to a ship. 

• AI can now build ships with new components like Vampire or Ion Gun. 

• Besieging fleets can no longer use their auto-fire weapons. 

• Fighters now show the correct evasion bonus. 

• Ships no longer auto-fire at Probes (ships aren't supposed to attack probes at all, but this change addresses an edge case).   

Trade / Treaties  

• Bribing the AI into declaring war makes them go to war.   

• Fix for Trade Route Licenses count not being updated after declaring war.   

• Cultural Treaty descriptions now better match their actual in-game effect.  

• We now automatically remove treaties with dead civilizations. 

Techs 

• Krynn tech "Path of Shadows" now correctly unlocks the "Temple of Whispers" improvement. 

• Fixed some techs that had been accidentally orphaned. 

• Interstellar Currency is once again available as a tech. 

Localization  

• Chinese: Improved line wrapping. 

• Portuguese: Updated fleet stat in Cannot Invade Popup to have more room.  

• French and German:  Fix overflowing list entries in the "New Design" Window. 

• Portuguese: Updated fleet stat in "Cannot Invade Popup" to have more room for Text. 

• Russian: Fixed text clipping for the message box, and Trade Window. 

• Portuguese and Spanish: Fixed missing ideology text  

• Russian: Fixed text clipping in the "Message Box", "War Aims", and "Trade" windows. 

• Increase the width of several tooltips to accommodate longer strings and translations. 

• Fixed various text overlapping problems in different languages.   

• Updated operational abilities descriptions to confirm the updated text is correct and properly display icons where appropriate. 

• Fixed assorted clipping issues exposed by longer translations. 

MP 

• Improved turn time speed a bit. 

• Fix desync caused by ship design being obsoleted on the client but not the host. 

• Fix for client getting stuck after host cancels MP game. 

UI 

Battles 

• Fix for Battles Replays showing incorrect bonuses after unlocking tech shows. 

• Battle Viewer is no longer available for ships destroyed by remote volleys.   

• Battle Viewer UI no longer partially appears over the Battle Loading Screen.   

• Battle Log no longer goes black when you scroll down. 

• Give more space to fleet health total in the GNN battle report. 

• Add assault attack/defense stats to the Battle Viewer tooltips. 

Game Options 

• Enabling VO in the Game Options no longer requires a restart.   

• Shhh!  Added an "enable cheat console" option to the options menu.   

Leaders 

• Fixed an edge case that caused your leader to be named simply "L." 

• Think Tanks effects are now displayed in the Leader "Favor" tooltip. 

Main Game HUD 

• Make rally points the last selectable stacked object on a tile without breaking the cycle order of multiple stacked ships. 

• “Day of the Month” no longer changes randomly when you toggle the month / turn display.   

• Hopefully addressed the overlapping text resource bar at the top of the main UI once and for all.  

• Added an upgrade button to the fleet context menu for ships and fleets. Moved the Upgrade and New Starbase panel to better spot. 

Planet Screen 

• Improved Influence tooltip  

• Festron Citizens produced by consuming other citizens now display the correct portrait.  

• Make the promote citizen popup relative to the list, not the entries. 

• For Unit approval breakdown tooltips, aggregates modifier sources of the same name, so that it doesn't cause giant tooltips that roll off-screen. 

Ships 

• Transport citizen tooltips now appear over icons. 

• Fix fleet tooltip now properly shows the class field.  

• Added a space between the number and label to the Ship/Fleet Details. 

• Logistics maximum value no longer disappears when it exceeds 100.

• Sort ship components by type, then strength. 

• Double-clicking a disabled Shipyard Mission should not allow the player to build it.  

Ship Designer 

• Added a "Support" category tab to the Ship Designer. 

• Swap the position of the Obsolete and Delete buttons on the Designer landing page so there is no empty space when going to the screen for the title screen.  

• Change the Obsolete button on the shipyard to use the same icon it does in the designer. 

Strategic View  

• Adds ability to set Strategic View icon visibility level from a slideout popup reached from a button near the turn button, vs only in the options window. 

• Adds options for disabling each of the strategic view icon categories. 

• Included a button for resetting these settings to default values. 

• Included a section that says what "zoom percentage" you are currently at, so you know what the following settings are being set relative to. 

Trade Screen 

• Re-added the display that shows what you are currently researching. 

• Fixed a bug going back and forth from the diplomacy to the trade screen would display the wrong buttons. 

• Fix for crash trying to remove offer. 

Trade/Treaties 

• Treaty tooltips display "gain" and "payment" from the perspective of the local player. 

• Treaty tooltips format the credits the same way as the treaty screen in the data bank. 

• Trade Breakdown screen: Fixed clipping of long planet names. 

Misc 

• Added tips to loading screens.    

• Move the "War Icon" in the Civ Relations List Entry to overlay the Civ logo, rather than being next to the Relations value, to avoid text clipping. 

• Shipyard: Halted production from Raiders now shows as n/a instead of -1. 

• Going to the main menu resets UI colors. 

• Updated the galaxy map tool tooltip to accommodate longer Civilization Names. 

• Add a Close button to the Battle Log. 

• Update the Galactic Achievement window to move the "Begin Button" to the lower right.