Not sure if this has something to do with a background download of Dark Matter (which I haven't purchased yet) but since yesterday I've noticed the following bugs, even after verifying files:

1. Nakalim ships are appearing as Sophon ships in combat and on the ship design screen.  Suddenly happened to a game I have been playing for days.  Started a new game as the Nakalim, and as soon as I go into the ship design screen the 3D model is Sophon.
2. On the Academy diplomacy screen the background for Vault Keeper is just a bunch of random coloured pixels.
3. The picture in the build queue for Public 3D Printing is also random pixels.

More pixels when selecting craver population in a new game after complete reinstallation.

Today's patch fixed the background pixels problem (thank you!), but the Nakalim ships are still appearing as Sophon vessels.

worse - the "module" slots have wrong UV - sometimes they can fly off the "screen space"

Have the devs acknowledged the still-present Nakalim bug yet?  I haven't seen any word from them on this yet.

They probably didn't, as it is not persistent. I don't have it, so I assume it's tricky to reproduce.

That's interesting -- I get it every time I play the Nakalim.  Not sure yet if it happens when they are an AI faction.

Sublustris wrote:

They probably didn't, as it is not persistent. I don't have it, so I assume it's tricky to reproduce.

Just in case it helps them troubleshoot, what does your installation look like?

I have no mods installed and all DLC installed and activated except for Dark Matter.  However, the problem started when the Dark Matter update took place. 

I can confirm the bug where Nakalim ships appear as Sophon also happens in combat when the Nakalim are played by an AI.

Come again, is it shown only in battles, or in ship design screen too?

It's on the ship design screen when the player is the Nakalim, and in battle whether the Nakalim are the player or an AI.

I'm having the exact same problem. Misplaced ship slots are the biggest problem as I can't outfit the fully. But the ship design...I didn't realize it until now. It is weird, but I didn't play Sophons for a long time so I thought I was confusing something

You can fill the misplaced slots by double-clicking on the module you want to add from the top bar, but the module locations are all over the place.

For those of you experiencing this bug who don't want to turn off the Nakalim DLC till it's fixed, a helpful gamer on Steam posted this workaround:

Originally posted by Groo the one:

You can wait for a new patch, or choose to roll back the Endless Space 2 version (right mouse click on Endless Space 2 in Steam library -> Properties -> Betas -> choose an earlier game version) to fix this display bug.

I can confirm that version 1.5.28 runs with the proper Nakalim ship skins.

The tradeoff is that you can't use Dark Matter DLC with 1.5.28 and there are couple other bugs that were fixed since that version

We have the fix for this and a few other bugs being tested, to be released either today or tomorrow.

Thank you!  Downloaded the latest version and my Nakalim ships have their skins back!

Much appreciated.