Thank you for your help in testing the stability, improvements and fixes of the preview patch! 

[1.0.11] Patch Notes

[FIXES]

• Fixed an issue where events and Academy quests had missing texts
• Fixed an issue where political events of global, Academy and Academy - Finale quests had missing GUI elements
• Fixed a problem in some broken saves due to outpost migration (reported here)
• Fixed issues where the depletion was broken depending of game speed
• Fixed an issue on the victory stats screen where the stats displayed were broken
• Fixed Rebellion value not being saved when a Vodyani ark detaches/reattaches
• Fixed an issue where the Pacifist Conversion icon didn't appear on the colonized systems after the Unfallen entwine them
• Fixed the faction displayed in the save files list
• Fixed an issue where it was possible to queue multiple terraformation actions for the same planet
• Fixed an issue where the "Probe instructions" were still active after opening a Game Menu sub screen
• Fixed some bleeding text
• Fixed tooltip for science, economic and wonder victories
• Fixed   empire swap in diplomacy screen when in alliance (sometimes, the  sector shows the Unknown (?) state instead of the correct diplomatic  state between the inspected empire and your alliance)
• Fixed infinite buildings auto replacement causing issues
• Fixed Vodyani system capture causing errors in rare cases
• Fixed issue with metaplot achievements "Sins of the Fathers" & "Ctrl + Alt + Delete", they now work as intended
• Fixed Unique Planets not getting the destroyed planet visual
• Fixed Game Creation Screen messed up in some resolutions
• Fixed new game Multiplayer Join button missing translation in some languages
• Fixed ground battle infinite turn
• Fixed 'Blockade Breakers' trait not working
• Fixed Guardian curiosities being triggered on Vodyani systems
• Fixed siege status not updating when the diplomatic relation with the node influence owner changed
• Fixed Vodyani leechers behaving incorrectly on systems with low population
• Fixed an error with Riftborn Carriers stuck warping into battle
• Fixed the victory progression feedbacks for Wonder victory in the Empire screen and take into account alliances
• Fixed anarchy duration estimation in Government Selection screen
• Fixed Unfallen systems becoming unentwined after a successful invasion
• Fixed the 'Implant Beacon' action canceling itself on Lost star systems
• Fixed  a bug where the button for loading the last mods were enabled even if  it contained missing mods, causing the game to crash if the user used  the feature
• Fixed an infinite turn caused by fleets which couldn't be sold by the bailiff when in orbit
• Effects of the starting technologies are now displayed in their tooltips
• Loading a save game while the Client is in the space battle loading screen no longer results in a stuck state
• The minor faction influence bar is no longer inconsistent with the current diplomatic relation after using the Cease Fire action
• Arrow keys are now functional in the "System management" or "Planet" scan views
• The user is now able to use the Destroy Planet action in his own influence area
• Laws can no longer be abolished on the same turn they were passed
• Exiting to Desktop menu option no longer takes the user to the title screen instead of the Desktop
• User cannot take over Unfallen systems using Pacifist Conversion
• Dust, Influence and Manpower now display accurate values in there tooltip
• United Empire Chapter 3. No Turning Back Icons are no longer cut off at the top in the Quest panel
• Fixed the war exhaustion trend which was not working with game speed
• Fixed an issue where activatated a mod and try to change the victories option wasn't working
• Fixed several flow problems at the end of the game in multiplayer:
  •   The client now handles the host disconnection better
  •   The end game videos are launched after the game is done unloading (to avoid odd behaviors like the video being launched twice)

[PERFORMANCE]

• The technology helper is now active only for human players making the end turn less long

[AI]

• Added more accurate handling of ship design and strategic resources for hulls and advanced slots
• Unfallen will not detect your system as theirs in regards to trespassing anymore when they have rooted it
• Added a failsafe to allow the AI to keep making decisions if it enters a stuck state
• Removed lifeforce compensation for easier AIs
• Quest   armies no longer try to roam outside of the assigned constellation,   causing them to get stuck (Issue was visible in Cravers Quest Of Our  Own  Brood - Part 1). Now the Quest armies continue to roam in their own   constellation
• The AI no longer spams mood messages
• The AI now retreats less frequently
• Fixed AI refusing map sharing after having hinted at it with a mood message
• The AI will now check it is not at war with the player before going for an opportunistic war
• The AI will now evaluate Map Sharing better
• Fixed handling of rare resources
• Fixed a loop in AI behavior when idle
• Fixed allocation of Influence
• Fixed all costs of diplomatic terms for AI
• Tweaked transitions duration so AI asks for map sharing less often and can ask for peace more often
• Fixed assessment of shipdesign costs for AI
• Improved AI colonization behavior
• Increased AI aggressiveness
• Better evaluation of trade agreement terms

[BALANCING]

• Fixed Ace/Lousy Senator traits effect on Election Actions costs
• Fixed Optimal Defense I, II and Sub-Optimal Defense traits not affecting ships' maximum health
• Fixed the missing lava colonization for custom timelords
• now the system with the academy will at least have 2 planets in order to be colonized
• Fixed an issue where the Stage 2 Science & Exploration deed was giving a stage 5 Luxury reward
• Fixed a weapon short range issue
• Fixed Endless Research Park happiness bonus displayed as coming from Obelisk of All Space-Time
• Cravers' third population collection bonus is now functional
• Fixed "Deadly Intent Bill" Law not increasing Weapon modules damage correctly
• Fixed "Mine's Bigger Decree" Law not increasing Weapon modules damage correctly
• Gargantuan Populations now impact System Growth rather than Net System Growth for a more consistent behavior
• Changed cost of the Blockade Breakers faction trait from 25 to 15
• Scrapping now gives a very small amount of Dust (1% of Industry cost)
• Reduced base value for ship sales
• Fixed feedback of the Cravers Hero skill "Endless Consumption"
• Fixed approval level of Empire not affecting Empire Dust & Science
• "Endless Research Parks and Endless World" now applies bonuses to Empire
• Fixed prerequisite for Map Sharing now properly available in Cold War & Peace
• FIxed an issue where the hero prices sometimes fall to 0
• Deposits are now forbidden on Destroyed planets
• Fixed Wonder quantity based on galaxy size
• Dense atmosphere are now forbidden on Barren planets
• Refined the experience threshold to fit with the name associated to the experience level
• Updated constraints for neutral laws to fit with the new experience threshold
• Minor factions on their home systems will now grow twice as slowly
• Increased resource cost of the System Modernization
• Fixed the primary trait Extreme Foremen not working in certain custom faction cases
• Fixed custom faction with Lumeris visual affinity being unable to build or create Colonizer ships
• Fixed Ship Bound custom factions with Lumeris visual affinity not being able to produce more Arks
• Fixed Ship Bound factions starting with no colonizable planets
• Starting on a planet now allows the player to colonize all planets of this type

[UI]

• Synchronized the AI states for clients in order to update correctly the end turn tooltip in multiplayer games
• Added  a non-blocking message window, used when the host leaves or returns to  lobby, so that the client starts returning to the lobby without waiting  for the player to validate
• Fixed the objective tooltip in Notifications Deeds
• Fixed some tooltips in the Custom Faction screen
• Fixed tooltips in Empire Screen for Science, Economic and Wonder victories

[QUEST]

• The quest Flight of Prototype (Minor Faction Quest) no longer displays a placeholder name
• Vodyani are now able to achieve the competitive quest Founders Keepers
• Added effects feedbacks on Unfallen last Rewards Fireforming and Heart's Embrace
• Inverted the two rewards of Chapter 2 of the Riftborn Faction > A Rebuke From High
• Objective  of Chapter 4. Who are we? (RiftbornFaction Quest) was too difficult.  Its new objective is "pass X Ecologist laws" instead of a required  amount of support of the Ecologist ideology in the Senate
• In the  Lumeris Main Quest Chapter 2. A Matter of Influence Part 1, the  objective wasn't well communicated. New Objective: C1: reach 20%  Industrialist score in X Systems / C2: reach 20% Ecologist score in X  Systems
• In the Vodyani Chapter 4. Hope in Heresy Part 1, destroying 3 planets was too difficult. The player must now destroy 2 planets
• A hidden quest track if the player find Sykagoja planet. If they finds it, the quest Cartographer request will not be triggered
• If the player finds the planet Sykagoja while doing the Cartographer Request Quest, then the quest fails

[DESYNCS]

• Fixed numerous sources of desyncs (if you encounter some, please report them using this template: https://www.games2gether.com/endless-space-2/forums/114-bug-reports/threads/25086-tester-s-guide-addendum-multiplayer-desyncs )

[TUTORIAL]

• Updated the tutorial to allow to build the Wonder Victory
• Fixed Academy discovery not working in beginner tutorial

[IMPROVEMENTS]

• Added an initial random rotation to each planet in the system management view
• Players (not only the host) in a multiplayer session can now save the game
• Added two Minor Faction notifications (Suzerain Changed and Under Influence)
• Added feedback in the report notification and advance report screens
  • The user was not informed about the resources won in a space battle  
  • Added a feedback when the opponent retreats

[GALAXY GENERATION]

• Added constraints on deposit / anomaly placement to avoid duplicate elements on the same planets and more than 2 of an element
• Added a constraint to have at least 1 quantity of lux / strat deposits 

[VISUAL]

• Added more nebulae and stellar winds in Galaxy Spiral 8

[MISC]

• Updated credits

Important  note: in the event that you would encounter unexpected issues with this  build, we are keeping version 1.0.52 available as a back-up branch. 

How to access this 1.0.52 backup version if necessary:

• Right click on the game in your Steam Library
• Go to the "Betas" tab
• Select the 1.0.52 backup version in the drown-down list

Thank you for your feedback and bug reports, here are the release notes for patch 1.0.5!

[1.0.5] Patch Notes

[WIP]

• Destroying a gas planet is not going to trigger the cinematic – The FX will however be visible in the galaxy view 

[IMPROVEMENT]

• Added a pop-up to inform players who play on the public 1.0.5 build with an old AMD card to play on the fixAMD branch
• Added several bits of missing localisation that remained in English until now
• Added a cinematic for the discovery of the Academy
• Added a failure tooltip on ships in the fleet list if the Drag'n'Drop between flotillas wasn’t possible
• Improved the planet destruction tooltip error message
• Fleets Labels for cargo Ships are now hidden

[UI]

• Changed the custom faction button from "Add" to "Custom Factions"
• Improved the Game Creation screen to show that the faction portrait is clickable

[FIXES]

• Fixed an issue with saves with broken deposits
• Fixed an issue with several faction traits that weren't functional with custom factions
• Fixed an issue with the Cravers Prime ship skin: it can now be used in custom factions with the Cravers affinity
• Fixed  an issue in multiplayer where players remained stuck in the loading  screen after quitting to main menu if they used custom factions created  by the host
• Fixed an issue in Multiplayer where the nodes discovery status of remote players was not properly saved by the host
• Fixed an issue with the Implant Beacon battle action which was unavailable because the fleet was erroneously considered "busy"
• Fixed an issue with the end of turn timer not resolving encounters
• Fixed an exploit with technologies: they can’t be traded to prevent Scientific Victory exploits
• Fixed an issue with custom factions that couldn’t be created with more than 7 faction traits in Multiplayer
• Fixed some diplomacy localization lines for custom factions
• Fixed an issue with minor factions spending all their Dust on colonization that they couldn't achieve
• Players won’t be able to save during the end turn anymore
• Fixed vined systems bonus/malus only applied to Unfallen
• Fixed an issue with troops count
• Fixed an issue with the Unfallen vine action feedback which was displayed for all orbiting fleets
• Added  a failure tooltip in galaxy view to inform the user when the  curiosities that he wants to explore with probes are already in the  queue construction
• Fixed an issue on the Asian font which corrupted them overtime
• Fixed double click on ship allowing to see ship design even if ship is not editable or hidden
• Fixed an issue with the feedback of Third Vodyani population collection bonus
• Fixed the Amateur and Kingpin Executive traits
• Fixed  the Center of Light and Life and Harmony of the Heart improvements  which had incorrect pre-requisites, allowing them to be built multiple  times
• Removed Home System Depletion from the Cravers Affinity to move it to the population trait Extreme Foremen
• Changed the faction trait "Strange but Bad" faction trait cost from 10 to -10
• Fixed Apathetic/Fervent colonists traits
• Fixed Blockade Breakers trait
• Added the Naturalists population trait
• Fixed the Singularity creation and destruction sound effects
• Fixed the Luxuries Lottery system improvement
• Fixed the Righteous Fury law
• Fixed  an issue where the failure condition didn't work properly in a  competitive quest when players were the first to colonize a system
• Fixed an issue with a parasitic sound heard during the beginning of turn
• Fixed an issue with the final reward of the Riftborn main quest
• Fixed an issue where the Unfallen couldn't use the spaceport

[BALANCING]

• Increased the effect of the Vodyani Dust for Alms improvement from 25% to 50% of Dust converted into Essence
• Changed the Papers Please hero skill: increased manpower refill rate gain on skills
• Changed the Conscription Genius hero skill: doubled manpower gain
• Changed the Bespoke Arms hero skill: increased damage given to the hero ship
• Changed the Sensitive Systems hero skill: changed vision range bonus from % to flat
• Fixed the Infallible Authority hero skill: it is now not as strong
• Increased the Riftborn colonizer cost, as they do not have to manage migration to outpost
• Decreased Cravers depletion points per turn from +2 to +1
• Added a temporary bonus to population collection level 3 for the Lumeris
• Fixed Permanent Monsoon tooltip: it now displays -10 Happiness
• Wonders & Unique buildings are now impacted by the game speed
• Fixed an issue that made conquest victory require a lower percentage of the galaxy to win while in an alliance
• Fixed the Lumeris buyout improvement "Workers' Campus" being allowed to be built multiple times

[AI]

• Fixed the AI abusive migration
• Fixed an issue with the AI stuck in an infinite battle
• Added transitions so the AI is not stuck in war when Peace or an Alliance is signed
• Fixed an error that occurred when the game was saved at the beginning of the turn

[TUTORIAL]

• Fixed an issue where 3 conflicting tutorial windows were displayed in the star system view
• Fixed an issue where in the Beginner tutorial the empire screen was displayed 1 turn too early
• Fixed an issue where the laws tutorial window was displayed even in galaxy view
• Fixed an issue with the battle tutorial that remained stuck

[OPENGL/ DX10]

• Fixed an issue for Mac players: ground units now appear properly

[QUESTS]

• Fixed an issue where the Academy quest chapter 1 part 1 didn't resolve like a normal competitive quest
• Fixed an issue where the Academy quest on minor factions didn't trigger the next quest after it failed
• Fixed an issue with the Vodyani quest chapter 1 part 2 where the second choice didn't work with custom factions
• Fixed an issue with the Vodyani quest chapter 1 where the objective used to be obsolete
• Fixed  an issue with the United Empire "The Cult of the Strongman" quest where  the player didn't receive any reward upon completion
• Fixed an issue where spawning fleets to destroy in Academy quest 3-B were too far from the Academy
• Added a missing pre-requisite to the pre-Metaplot Academy quests to make sure Academy must be found in the first place
• Fixed an issue with the 10/10 With Spice quest: it will now be triggered only after the 50th turn (in normal speed)
• Fixed  an issue where the Academy quest "Build the Academy"  didn't work as   expected, preventing players from reaching the next Academy chapter
• Fixed and issue where the Academy quest was spawning Pirate fleets instead of the Vodyani fleets as suggested in the lore
• ENFER ship can be dragged into the hangar in the Sophons main quest

[NOTE OF INTENT] 

The patch coming along the Hissho expansion packs quite a few changes.

Jhell, backstabber extraordinaire and Lead Game Designer on Endless Space 2, wrote the following:

“We wanted players to have more options after invasions, and how they went about their invasions. The manpower modules will now be much more effective, as they’re going to also increase the deployment limit, and there are choices to be made about sieging a system or swarming it with numbers. You will also be prompted on what to do after a successful invasion: occupy the system, pillage the system, or simply raze it. This should allow huge empires to more relentlessly wage war, leaving only a trail of razed and pillaged systems in their wake. We don’t want to spoil the surprise, but some empires have unique outcomes replacing regular pillage or raze actions.

The ground battles visual pacing has also been heavily tweaked; no more will you see two blobs of units against each other, now each ground battle tactic has its dedicated visual formation, unit types attack independently, and impacts are focused on units.

Another focus to wage war as comfortably as possible was to rework how diplomacy is handled during Isyander’s “metaplot” quest. You will now be able to attack foes AND friends on Lodestone nodes, provided you are on different teams. Your allies will hopefully understand that it’s “nothing personal, kid”.

On a different note, to acknowledge that the galaxy is a violent place, we’ve added the “System Relics” feature. Significant events like huge space or ground battles taking place on star systems may now leave permanent traces, and some anomalies or new curiosities may even emerge… All of this visible in scan view.

Lastly, to make them on par with the military victory conditions, the non-military ones have been reworked to last longer so you can enjoy the late-game content longer regardless of the victory type you’re pursuing.

Along with numerous fixes and the content of the expansion, you should now be able to utterly lay waste to the whole galaxy.”

[HISSHO EXPANSION CONTENT]

• New Major Faction: the Hissho
  • Main gameplay (Affinity, Traits, Population, Technologies) - see enemy pathfinding
  • New specific resource: Keii
  • New theme music
  • New unique planet: Uchi
  • Hissho main quest 
  • Hissho Fleet
  • 1 leader + 4 new Hissho heroes
  • New Hissho technologies
    New Hissho Empire & Star system improvements
  • New Minor Faction: the Illo
  • New Illo Hero
• New Feature: Behemoths
  • New quest introducing Behemoths and unlocking specific technologies
  • New ship hull: Behemoth (Economic, Scientific, Military)
  • New ship hull: Obliterator (Can destroy a whole system)
  • New ship hull: Juggernaut
  • New Behemoth specific modules (Mining probes, Planet rejuvenation, ...)
  • New faction specific modules (1 per existing faction)
  • New Behemoth technologies
    New Behemoth Empire & Star system improvements

[FREE UPDATE CONTENT]

Reworked Ground battles

• New setup and report screens
• New features: Winning a ground battle now gives you the following options

  • Occupy

  • Raze

  • Pillage

Some factions have specific variants of these actions.

• Battle simulation changes

  • Implemented new damage computation (damage bonuses/maluses are now properly computed)

  • Implemented new bombardments (bombardment damage is shared between unit types)

  • Implemented new improvements/populations destruction (may destroy more than 1 of each - Blitz can now be quite destructive!)

• Academy questline

  • Alliances no longer matter when orbiting Lodestones: you may now attack an alliance member who is part of the opposing faction without having to fear any diplomatic repercussions.

  • Improved feedback around lodestones and lodestone specific battles

• Music
  • The Surround soundtrack was completely re-encoded in WMA. It is available in the following install folder:

..\Steam\steamapps\common\Endless Space 2\OST\Surround

• Vodyani
  • Added Vodyani "anchored Ark protection" module: an Ark with this module equipped will not be attackable in space battle while attached to a System (it can still be attacked via Invasion)
  • Vodyanis can now use the pacific conversion feature: it will convert 1 population unit on the target system and grant 500 Essence

[IMPROVEMENTS]

• Hissho Minor faction is now called Yuusho

• Updated Core cracker quest restrictions

• Rearranged technologies in the Technology tree to add the new content

• Reworked Victory conditions:

  • Wonders:
    - Wonders can now only be built one at a time
    - Wonders can now only be built one at a time
    - Wonders base costs increase with each Wonder built
    - Wonders cost more to buy out
    
    

  • Economy
    - Increased required Dust from 450k to 700k (notifications have been updated accordingly)
    
    

  • Science
    - Technology cost reduction impact lowered by 50% on victory technologies
    - Moved Science Victory Technologies to an Era 6 placed between quadrants
    - You will now need to unlock techs from 2 different quadrants to unlock this Era 6

• Academy Quest "Ghosts and Dust" is now deactivated if one of the living Empires uses the Hissho affinity (objective requires a Happiness contest)

• Added a feedback when a fleet in guard mode intercepts an opponent’s fleet (The fleet will also appear and cycle in the “idle” fleets)

• Sleeping fleets no longer wake up when they notice an enemy they were already aware of

• The stage unlock notification is now an auto pop-up

• Reworked the Empire Information toggle in the empire introduction notification in order to make it more visible/appealing

• Temporary effects listed on the side panel of the system management view now only shows icon if there is too many of them (more than 2 lines).

• Added info on star system label when a home system is destroyed.
• Added different backgrounds for the Victory window
• Added technology hints to the fleet action buttons
• Fully destroyed home systems no longer count towards required colonized home planets count 
• If all home systems are destroyed, the victory is no longer attainable, unless the planets are "repaired"
• Creating a ship or ship design now takes slightly less time
• Starting the game now takes less time and memory
• A tutorial is triggered when researching the technology that unlocks Behemoth Hulls when using Advanced or Expert tutorials 
• Added some distance between flotilla in space battle to make space for the Juggernauts.
• Updated Golden Age effect to be more readable
• Added message explaining why a law isn't activatable when its upkeep would be too high for the player's stock + net influence
• Added dynamic costs for research stages depending on whether DLCs are active or not

[BALANCE]

• Custom Factions:
  • Made corsair and pirates slayer mutually exclusive
• Diplomacy:
  • Increased cooldown of Cold War Attack contextual term from 1 to 3 turns
  • The contextual diplomatic term "remove tendrils" no longer removes tendrils that are completed, only the ones in progress
• Heroes:
  • Modified Haroshem hero political alignment to fit his description
• Factions:
  • Vodyani Arks: Base HP increased from 10000 to 14000
• Ground Battle:
  • All manpower modules for ships now also increase manpower deployment limit
    Added manpower deployment bonus to all defensive improvements (to accompany modules)
  • Changed manpower upgrades resources so each unit has the same progression in terms of strategic tiers
• Linked conscription to ownership: You can now only use it if you have more than 50% Ownership on the system. 
  • The amount of Manpower you get also depends on your current Ownership (multiplication): for example, if you use Conscription on a System with 75% Ownership, you'll gain 175 * 0.75 additional Manpower on the System
• Added a bonus to attacker manpower deployment limit in case they have remaining ownership on the system (currently 400 * ownership)- Added effect to "Para-raiders" tactic: it now has 90% health multiplier and 110% damage multiplier
• Besieged systems no longer lose manpower the turns they have been invaded
• Economy:
  • Reduced average and abundant strategic deposit value from 3 to 2 and from 5 to 3 respectively
  • Ship retrofit no longer refills the ship's probes/mining probes stock
  • Added a “+2 Vision to all systems” effect on the "Ultra-IR Astronomy" unlock
  • Outposts no longer leech growth from a parent system when they are full

[QUEST]

• Due to Ground Battle changes, a large amount of quests have a new way to be failed: if one of their system is razed or captured (but not pillaged in case of invasion)
• The third objective (Bullet) of "The Gunfather" quest is now unlockable if the player possesses non-custom Riftborn
• The quest fleet for "Flight of Eyder" now roams in order to reach a special node
• A large amount of Quests, system improvements, technologies, populations bonuses, … have been updated to be used by Hissho
• Quests will not grant net science bonus as reward anymore.
• The Metaplot's planets cannot be destroyed anymore
• Isyander's quest: players will not be able to colonize the loadstone, no matter the winning team
• Added technology era 6
• The second part of the endgame academy quest is now won when a team has secured more than half of the objectives, instead of when all objectives have been secured. Unsecured objectives will be transformed as if they had been secured by the winning team

[FIXES]

• Fixed supremacy victory alerts being fired on turn 1 when only 2 players are in the game
• Fixed a situation where the game failed to restart after failing to start once
• Fixed rare error occuring when the game was quick-saved in the same frame a fleet action concluded
• Fixed rare blocking error occuring when a fleet is destroyed while exploring a curiosity
• Special nodes and quest nodes are not selected anymore for the "A Fly in the Ointment" quest
• Fixed some saves failing to load because of Guardians not having spawned
• Fixed military ship cost increase being a reduction
• Fixed an issue where the hero ship upkeep costs were still displayed in the Hero Ship Design Screen
• Deposits now remain when a planet is destroyed
• Fixed an issue where the skip button hitbox in election window was not right
• Fixed Minor factions being assimilable while a ground battle outcome was being picked
• Fixed trying to remove populations not concerned by growth (like Riftborn) when having a negative growth on a colonized star system
• Fixed memory issue when a battle was pending
• Fixed Depletion not being shown on uncolonized planets, and not being counted for Hissho Mining probes
• Fixed an issue where the tooltip from the Lodestone recovered/destroyed system displayed misleading information about its effect
• Eternal improvements are not added twice when a system is captured anymore
• Fixed an issue where war momentum in battle notification was not displayed if the value was 0
• The second objective of the "To do, or not to do... (Part 2)" quest is now available
• Fixed an issue where long technology names overlapped the buyout technology option in the empire banner
• Fixed issues related to migration & Riftborn/Guardian populations
• Fix the Vodyani base improvement not being built on the first turn
• Fixed error when Vodyanis capture Riftborn system with Influence
• Fixed an issue where the displayed tooltip effects of a colonizable planet made reference to the Approval mechanic when overcolonization limit had been reached
• Fixed a cause of freeze when quitting the game
• The technology helper no longer suggests incorrect faction-specific technologies anymore (for instance, Sophon technologies for the Unfallen)
• Fixed Vaulters Leader Background visual issue
• Fixed critical error on Riftborn outposts which caused the game to get stuck
• Fixed critical error on ship repair cost AI synchronization
• Fixed an issue where Pirates would not be Cordial with anyone when several players had maximum relation with them
• Fixed overlapping module slots on the Leecher hull when using a custom Vaulters faction with the Ship Bound affinity
• Fixed ships sold on ht Marketplace not being listed if the maximum number of stocked ships is reached
• The "Founders Keepers" quest will not fail anymore if the quest planet was destroyed 
• Fixed an issue where the Horatio 50 pop collection bonus were incorrect
• Fixed an issue where fleet lines would occasionally have bad alignment
• Fixed the champion's pod that wouldn't appear on custom faction with the Vaulters visual affinity
• Fixed tooltip of diplomatic term "technology exchange" displaying unlocks of the empire which proposes the exchange, instead of the empire which receives the technology.
• Fixed Gnashast strategy pre-battle damage
• Fixed an issue where the game did not remember the "Tactics" set if a card was swapped with a newly added card
• Fixed errors in tech helper data
• Custom factions using the Metafolding affinity will no longer have a duplicated technology in Empire & Development quadrant stage 4
• Custom factions with United Empire visual affinity and Involuntary Nomad trait will no longer have access to a Colonizer hull
• Fixed rip singularity not working properly in some cases.
• The "Zelevas Incarnate" unique improvement will now properly display all of its effect in the star system management view 
• Fixed Trade Companies requiring 0 XP for their first 3 levels 
• Fixed "Coordinated Bunkers" not applying the siege damage reduction in all cases
• Fixed ground battle being replayable only once instead of once per turn as long as the bubble is present
• Fixed any empire being able to replay a space battle instead of the one who owns the singularity.
• Fixed Vineships being scrapped in higher priority than colonizers
• Planetary colonization industry cost inside a star system is now correctly linked to game speed 
• Fixed memory leak in planet rendering process.
• Fixed Supremacy victory not working well with planet/system destructions  
• Fixed an issue where a team’s legend in the diplomacy screen during the metaplot was inaccurate
• Fixed Lumeris ship design (small defender lacked an engine on base design)
• Fixed an issue where the user was not informed if a Contextual Diplomacy exchange was occurring between other players when hovering over the End Turn button
• Fixed bug colonizer affinity visual Vodyani & Lumeris (had attack slot but couldn't fill it)
• Fixed salvo pooling being completely broken
• Fixed an issue where hero ship upkeep cost were still displayed in the Hero Ship Design Screen
• Fixed an issue where war momentum in battle notification were not displayed currently if value is 0
• Fixed an issue where Long technology names overlapped the buyout technology option in the empire banner 
• Fixed the Vodyani's base improvement not being built on the first turn.
• Fixed an issue where whispered messages were not received by players who joined ongoing sessions
• The technology helper does not suggest incorrect faction-specific technologies anymore (for instance, Sophon technologies for the Unfallen)
• Fixed infantry bonus damage on planes going over 100
• Galaxy Age will now have an impact on galaxy generation
• Removed Horatio specific tag from the "Neural Robotics" tech as the unlocks were similar to the regular one

[MULTIPLAYER FIXES]

• Fixed desync happening when Unfallen factions vine a minor faction's system
• Fixed an issue where whispered messages were not received by players who joined ongoing sessions

[SOUND FIX]

• The Vaulters Leaders no longer plays her voice line when selecting her in the Faction Choice screen, even with sound deactivated

[AI]

• Massive performance update.
• AIs now understand more improvements and gains from previous content and are capable of using them in the right context. eg:

  • Multiple FIDS and FIDSI gains are now properly understood as such

  • Overcolonization is now considered as a usable / needed resource

• Ground battle understanding has been reworked.

  • AIs now better understand their chances of winning

  • AIs are more inclined to invade winnable systems

  • AIs will chose their tactics in a more sensible way (e.g. based on incoming reinforcements)

• AIs will now act properly on Metaplot nodes: they will attack the other team members and will not attack the same team members, regardless of their diplomatic status.
• Vodyani AIs will now use Anchored Arks modules when possible.
• Various improvements:

  • Better production of colonizers, war fleets and explorers

  • Diplomacy contract balancing offers more constant results

  • Avoid being stuck in a war state with an AI

  • Proper law activation and deactivation

  • AIs no better avoid empty modules in ship designs and can a wider variety of modules

  • Hero ship are now properly retrofitted

  • Fixed a bug when AI attacked a system

  • Fixed a bug when achieving elimination victory

  • Fixed a bug when AI could get stuck upon dealing with a new ground battle

PATCH 1.3.9

DISCLAIMER: Because of changes to C3 Centers, games with lots of these built might be very hard to get back to. The previous patch is available in a branch if you wish to finish your game before moving over.

[OPTIMIZATION]

• General performance optimizations

[AI] 

• General bugfixes
• Fixed an issue when AI would not properly seek to unlock a technological stage
• Fixed an issue where pathfinding would use an invalid node
• Fixed an issue where Behemoths would not be able to restore planets properly
• Fixed AI Hissho being able to interact with pirates
• Fixed an issue where debug text was displayed when the United Empire AI proposed contracts or sent mood messages
• Fixed an issue where AIs would not send diplomatic contracts when they *totally* should

[BALANCE]

• Vodyani "Hunt" and "Raze" actions will no longer have an Approval penalty
• Changed Hissho population trait to +1 Manpower per turn
• Obliterator cooldown reduction exclusive tech is now at -25% on all game speeds

[IMPROVEMENTS]

• Added a scroll view to the Side Panels Area to avoid side panels exiting through the bottom of the screen in the System Management View in some rare cases
• Added a tooltip to inform players about unlocking population slots when upgrading their Arks
• Added a new Empire Improvement to unlock more Singularity slots for Riftborn empires on stages 3, 4 and 5 of the Science and Exploration quadrant

[FIXES] 

[BEHEMOTHS]

• Fixed health discrepancy issue between ship designer and ship design for Behemoths when technologies increasing Behemoths health were researched
• Fixed an issue where the Behemoth bonuses system label icon was not visible when playing as a custom faction with the Extreme Foremen Population Bonus
• Fixed an error when a Behemoth terraformation was cancelled due to fleets having moved
• Vodyani Behemoth-specific technologies in the Science and Exploration quadrant now have the correct Vodyani-specific icon
• Unfallen will no longer obtain an automatic Citadel shield on captured enemy Home Systems
• Fixed an inconsistency between the "Launch Mining Probe" tooltip and the tooltip of empire resources regarding mined resource income rounding
• Fixed Citadels having no upkeep (it is now feedbacked in the System Dust)
  • C3 Centers will also affect Citadel upkeep
  • Added a cap to C3 Center upkeep multiplier
• Technology stage cost reductions from Behemoths will now cap at 75% even if you stack Behemoths on a node
• Made starting with a juggernaut a faction trait instead of a specific of the Hissho affinity

[ECONOMY]

• Having low Approval while having a negative Dust upkeep will not generate Dust anymore

[POLITICS]

• The Z'vali unique law will now bypass blockades and sieges
• Fixed an assert upon accessing the Senate screen with an empty political assembly
• Added Keii cost to changing government for Hissho empires

[RELICS]

• Slightly increased probability for curiosities to spawn for pirate lairs and minor faction assimilation system relics
• The System Relics: Pre-Galactic Markers notification no longer lists the names of custom factions as debug text
• Fixed an issue where the anomaly spawned from Remains that are generated after ground battles did not have an image

[ACHIEVEMENTS]

• Fixed "Are you not entertained" achievement unlocking at the end of the turn it was actually unlocked

[FACTIONS]

• Fixed Illo assimilation trait
• Added missing tooltips for minor factions in the Custom Faction Screen
• Fixed minor relations bonuses and quests not being lost when the minor faction's system is razed
• Extracted unfallen specific empire improvement from coordination pact unlock (caused confusion)
• Fixed an issue where a misleading message was displayed on a system for pirate marks when the player plays as the Hissho faction
• The "Meditation" module for the Vodyani will no longer be displayed for custom factions with the Vodyani visual affinity
• Corrected the Sisters of Mercy Citizen trait not being grayed out when Illo Citizen was selected

[TECHNOLOGIES]

• Fixed an issue where debug text was displayed when hovering over technology unlocks from the "Research completed" notification
• Fixed issue with Hissho being unable to colonize Steppe and Tundra planets with Hardship ready
• Fixed Description of Fealty Fundation level 2 & 3 (used the same title and description as level 1)

[QUESTS]

• Fixed an issue where the reward for the Take Arms objective of the "To do or not to do" Sower population quest was not fully visible when playing as Hissho
• The "Words in Private" Behemoth quest is not triggered anymore when the Supremacy DLC is disabled
• Fixed an issue where the tooltip of the Academy Quest special Attack Fleet Action displayed an incorrect battle icon
• Changed the objective of Cultural Appropriation in order to add Dust-related buildings (like trading Companies" or "Buyout"
• Population quests are no longer triggered for custom factions
• The Pilgrims "Muddled Mystics" minor faction quest objective made reference to the Approval mechanic when playing with an Honor Bound faction, now it's over
• In Galvran "The Good Old Days" minor faction: "House" quest option made reference to the Approval mechanic when playing with an Honor Bound faction
• "Ghosts and Dust" Academy quest: if there is no Trade route: the quest is failed. There is no specific failure message (waiting for a proper translation)
• The "Reclaim" objective of the "Veneration or Vilification" Hissho population quest can be completed via invasion if Sykagoja is colonized by another faction

[SYSTEM MANAGEMENT]

• Fixed an issue where the Fealty Foundation Hissho specific planetary specialization displayed a placeholder icon in the system scan view
• Fixed an issue where the Fealty Foundation specialization was not grayed out when the user did not have enough Keii
• Fixed two issues with Hissho's ancestral reverence (couldn't be queued on Major Home System that belonged to other Major factions and had no effect if used on minor faction home system)
• Corrected the effect description tooltip of the "Resilience" trait
• Modified inner working of Ancestral Deference to solve a tooltip issue
• Fixed an issue where the Spaceport section of the System Command Banner exits through the base of the screen when a wrecked ark is present in the system
• Added a tooltip to warn players you can't reconstruct unique planets

[FLEET]

• Fixed an issue where the "Merge" fleet action button was available when selecting a non-specialized Behemoth and a Hero only fleet
• Fixed wrong base loadout of the Hissho medium coordinator
• Removed Kamikaze fleet action on Argosy of custom faction with Hissho gameplay + involuntary nomad
• Removed exception when healing the fighter bombers at the end of a battle
• Fixed vision sharing not working properly when a fleet is created
• Fixed mining probe (stacked even though they shouldn't)
• Fixed hissho specific mining module "Gouge of the Tonatsi" which didn't have a FIDS mining effect
• Fixed honor zone being displayed in scan view (MAC)
• Basic Entropy Missiles are now going straight to avoid missing
• Ground Battle: Fixed defender damage multiplier being multiplied by 1000 when applying the Amianthoid system upgrade recipe

[HEROES]

• Fixed an issue where the "Select a Hero" button in the Military screen fleet list was enabled for non-specialized Behemoths
• Hero Management Screen tutorial doesn't display a flat amount of turns before the next assignment in order to avoid confusion

[NOTIFICATIONS]

• Added a notification toggle option for the post ground battle decision notification in the Options screen
• Players are no longer falsely informed at the end of the ground battle cinematic when claiming a decisive victory against a pirate lair that they can choose the fate of the system
• Reduced the appearance parameters for the Remains notification in order to have them pop only for involved empires
• The Mining Probe tutorial does trigger when conditions are met: right after the Behemoth tutorial
• Several parts of the tutorial mentioned Approval when playing as Hissho
• The player is no longer falsely informed that the ground invasion may continue next turn when he is defeated during a failed ground invasion attempt
• Fixed an issue where the "Outpost alert" notification displayed the same image as the Hissho specific "Outpost maxed out" notification
• Added option to enable/disable notification about minor introduced in rev#40801
• Fixed Hissho outpost actions tutorial not showing up when the "Enable colonization cutscenes" option is set to true

[MULTIPLAYER]

• Fixed desync on hot join related to Special node control effects
• Fixed desync on unfallen colonization
• Fixed desync on visibility caused by guard/blockade combo
• Fixed desync on hot join caused by alliance & vision sharing
• Fixed desync on hot join related to relation with pirates

Patch 1.3.27

[BALANCE]

Lumeris:

• Added a repeatable improvement to reduce inflation on Empire by 25%
• Added an effect to tier 3 population collection: 5% of net Dust added to influence
• Colonisation cost is now less impacted by inflation
• Added 2 new traits to the faction:
• "Free Market Experts" trait gives -5% inflation per Trading Company on Empire
• "Alternative Imports" trait gives -50% on Marketplace tax

Vodyani:

• Unlocked Ark ship designs (yes, finally!)
• Added an effect to tier 3 population collection: +2 movement points on Fleets
• Added a natural conversion of Essence -> Manpower (5% of Essence consumed, granting the equivalent of 10% to Manpower)
• Added an "Essence upkeep" to keep track of consumed Essence
• Changed Vodyani Food consumption: it will now scale depending on the proportion of Vodyani pops on the system, up to -50% like before
• Lowered advanced leeching module techs by 1 stage (they're now in S3 and S4 of Science and Exploration)
• Leeching modules effects will now scale with hull size
• Lowered all % values of "All must..." modules
• Leeching module will now also grant Essence per destroyed CP in battle

Horatio:

• Added a weapon availability on existing slots for the following ships:

  • Small attacker

  • Small support

  • Medium attacker

  • Carrier

• Reduced the custom faction cost of Perfect genes from 20 to 10
• Tweaked the Price of Perfection trait:

  • Industry malus has been reduced from  25 to 20%

  • Added a 10% damage bonus to ships

  • Reduced the cost of the trait for custom factions from -20 to -10

• Converting a population into a new Horatio with Genetic Alteration Lab will now only cost 640 Industry

Riftborn:

• Biophobic trait will now add population slots on Sterile planets and remove some on Fertile planets
• Added a star system improvement and an empire improvement to add population slots on Sterile planets
• Reduced Riftborn Singularities Empire effects from 25% to 10% Empire-wide bonus 
• Swapped Freeze and Rip Empire-wide effects

Hissho:

• Observances can not be stacked anymore
• Hissho will now suffer a malus of 5% FIDS on their Home System (or Best System) for each system above over-colonization threshold
• Lowered over-colonization threshold by 1
• Hissho AI now has a base Keii income (stronger when under colonization threshold) depending on game difficulty

Unfallen:

• Unfallen vines will now take time to recede even when incomplete
• Unfallen vining modules are now 20% faster

United Empire:

• Mezari Population will now grant +0.5 Influence and + 1 Science per pop
• Mezari Population collection bonus 2 will now grant +10% Science on system with Mezari pops (instead of + 15%)
• Mezari Population collection bonus 3 will now grant -10% Technology cost (instead of -20%)
• Martial Science will now grant a + 10% Science on Empire (instead of +15%)
• Sheredyn population will now grant +0.5 Influence and +20 Manpower capacity on System
• Increased Science gains of Science agreement
• Mount of Zelevas will now grant +2% industry on System per pop type in Empire in addition to its other bonuses
• United Empire Population Collection Bonus will now grant +0.1 Influence per Industry spent (cumulative with the original bonus due to Emperor's Will)
• Silken Diplomacy was replaced by Iron Will which grant a +10% Industry to all Systems when staying United Empire
• United Empire military choice of "A hidden Rebellion - Part 1" quest will now only ask the player to reach 800 maximum Manpower on Empire
• Sheredyn 50 population collection bonus will now grant +5 Influence per 100 Manpower on System

Accompanying tweaks:

Economy:

• Reduced effect of Militarist super law from 25 to 15 approval for wars with minor factions
• Inflation formula now also depends on the number of players on a map
• Trading companies:
• Costs of Dust/Luxury improvements are now more tightly linked to their types (there still is a base increase for each bought upgrade)
• Lowered Costs of Dust/Luxury improvements

Space Battle:

• Changed starting tactics
• Put some tactics usually found in curiosities inside the tech tree so as to remove effects that were too similar or situational
• Put some tactics that were in the tech tree but didn't fit with the new repartition anymore in curiosities
• Removed tactics playdecks granted in the 5th era of the military quadrant to reduce the clutter in the total amount of tactics
• Rebalanced the effect of some of the tactics as they were put in the tech tree
• Changed the composition of tactics playdeck in the tech tree
• Boosted DPS of Basic Plasma Beam to 11 (instead of 9)
• Science from scrap will now grant 20 science per CP destroyed
• Cravers « Hive Mind Extender » module effect reduced from 10% to 5% ; it’s also now « unique equipped »
• Riftborn « Quantum Shield » module effect reduced from 33% to 15%

Others:

• Dirty Hand Acts is now 50% weaker
• Corsair faction trait now only costs 5 points
• Sowers "Planet Menders" trait reduced from -1 depletion points to -0.5 per turn

[FIXES] 

• Fixed game getting stuck when a mining probe is placed on a Lodestone (Academy quest) and the Lodestone is captured by any side of the quest (as reported in this thread)
• Illo hero (Tlikkit Goktok) was changed to Technologist - Overseer as intended (had the class but not the related skill tree). Any skill point invested in the Counselor or Primitive branches of Tlikkit Goktok in previous saves will be lost, as the branches have been replaced with the Technologist and Overseer branches. This implies a potential re-lock of higher tier skills, depending on how the remaining skill points have been spent
• Fixed an issue that made the Behemoth Discoverer trait not appear in the Empire summary
• Fixed an issue where Wrath of Tonatsi would appear in the list of available modules when equipping a destruction module
• Fixed Ancestral reverence conversion description in System Food & Industry tooltip
• Fixed non-functional boost experience module for hero ships
• Solved custom faction Ship Bound + any affinity mapping that caused a crash
• Corrected an issue where 2 technologies were overlapping when playing as a custom Vaulters Gene Hunter faction
• AI's Behemoth Terraform Planet action can no longer be used by players when clicking on Behemoth then on the orbited System
• All Juggernaut weapons are now functional, fully loaded and operational
• The module for hero ships that boosts the morale during battles now works as intended
• The lowered Military technology cost effects of the Stellar Node Study 1 and Stellar Node Study 2 modules tooltips display the Supremacy victory icon instead of the Military quadrant icon
• Fixed an issue where the core cracker cooldown duration could be 0 turn in Fast game speed allowing a ship to destroy many planets during the same turn. Now this duration is at least 1 turn
• The formula used to compute the amount of population to remove from a star system after a rebellion has been adapted to fit with Vodyani's specific population management system: it is based on the mothership's population instead of the star system's

Patch 1.4.3

[FIXES]

• The Second and subsequent Trade Companies now unlock properly.
• Minor factions and Pirates now start using hacking action (offensive and defensive) at a later point in the game. This is linked to game speed and leaves them a little more vulnerable at the start of the game
• The hacking/tracing speed for Minor factions & Pirates is now tied to their difficulty settings
• Offensive hacking programs placed on a system are no longer cancel if the corresponding hacking/ operation has not yet reached its designated target
• Fixed some faulty localization keys that didn't help by displaying in the wrong language

WARNING:

Previous Saves (Version 1.4.2 or prior) may not appear in your list of save games. If this happens, log out of Steam and back in, and they should re-appear.

Games started on the Preview Branch are only compatible with the Preview Branch. You can still access this branch, but it will be removed in about a week.

Hey everyone,

the next patch has finally arrived. In addition to many fixes, this patch includes many improvements to tooltips and accessibility. We've strived to make sure that hacking gives clearer feedback, but we will continue keep an eye on this, so feel free to give it another try and let us know what you think now (perhaps in a Steam User Review).

However, let me remind you that this version is not compatible with saves from the 1.4.3 S10 Preview Branch, so you will need to stay on the preview to finish those saves. The Preview Branch will be active for about one more week, but will be disabled after.

PATCH 1.4.6

[Accessibility]

• Added icon in the Scan view legend to illustrate the different hacking routes and traces
• Added the fact (in tooltip) that all defensive programs remove detected backdoors on the node they're placed on
• Added a Notification for when Minor And Pirate get access to Hacking
• Reworked “Hostile Trace Detected!” notification
• Added tooltip to sleeper count element in the hacking banner 
• When a hacking operation and its trace finish at the same time, the operation will always have priority and the trace will be cancelled
• Pre-allocated Program Icons now Blink
• Improved the tooltip of the "Piggyback" offensive program
• Tooltip now displays click instruction for Hacking Op Cancellation Allocation
• Changed failure message when trying to hack Vaulters' special node
• Show the possible colonizable planet on system label, even if colonized by another major empire, to better reflect the ability of UC to install sanctuaries on almost any system.
• Formated “Overcloaker” module tooltip for clarity

[Balancing]

• Increased cost of specialization for Obliterator
• Increased cost of Obliterator shot when not loaded
• Added vision bonuses on Citadel specialization and Obliterator Shield system improvement
• Tweaked United Empire faction quest chapter 1 part 2 Industrialist objective value
• Added bonuses in hacking (very light speed bonus and Bandwidth) for higher difficulty AIs

[Perfs]

• Reduced end turn framerate drops by highly reducing the time spent in the influence refresh and visibility refresh algorithms

[FIX]

• Increased Vodyani base food output so that they won't start with -1 food in endless speed
• Users can now properly use keyboard shortcuts to navigate the galaxy map after successfully placing a sanctuary on a neutral system
• Made sure the deed asking for multiple trade companies doesn't appear when there's an UC in the game
• Hacking a system with another UC sanctuaries will reveal them
• Fixed Core Cracker modules not being correctly forbidden by the "Enable super weapon" setting
• Systems which are under Blackout effect can no longer launch hacks, and a tooltips feedbacks why
• When an offensive programs is on two operations, it will automatically be cancelled if the operation that triggered it finishes before the next one reaches it
• Made sure custom factions with the "In the Sahdows" affinity can not take the following traits:
  • "Fervent Colonists" and "Apathetic Colonists"
  • "Resilient" (Free Obliterator Shield on home system) as it is useless to them
  • "Involuntary Nomads" (Argosy)
  • "Guardians"
  • All Minor Faction Population traits
• Made sure the custom faction trait "Xenolinguistics" that provides said technology only appears once in the list
• Fixed unoperational hacking speed boost from Umbral choir cooperation protocol
• The UC can no longer impose a closed borders treaty, as it has no effect on the systems they control. Other factions can still use it against a UC player
• Added a specific improvement for Umbral Choir affinity / Riftborn visual affinity so the faction can extend its population to Sanctuaries
• Tooltip of "Purge" Ground Battle Outcome for Minor Faction systems now correctly states that the faction trait will be gained
• Operation cancellation bandwidth cost cannot be increased by enemy or allied programs anymore
• Forbid sending "stop hacking" contextual term when at war
• Added Crescent-only anomalies. Prevented custom factions with UC gameplay from having any Anomaly starting modifier traits
• Fixed situation where the game crashed because of diplomacy being way too harsh on performances.
• Construction items are now properly displayed on monitors with native 1600x900 resolution and Custom Interface Size below 80
• Made sure the Compression Singularity is consistent with the tooltips of other singularities
• Fixed Cathedral of the Swarm displaying the wrong category in the tech tree
• Removed weapons from available module list when designing a Horatio/Cravers/Riftborn colonizer
• Fleet line elements don't flicker anymore whenever a fleet performs an action
• The Riftborn Explorer module slot obtained from Adaptive Colonies technology was not properly positioned in Ship Design Screen while Redshifted skin enabled
• Corrected the political impact of the "Immaterial Connection" improvement; also made sure it couldn't be built until the player gets a sanctuary on a gas planet
• Orbital stations of the Umbral Choir are now displayed around planet to reflect the level of population
• Assimilated Illo, Kalmat and Harmony minor civilizations will now be shown in the conquest counter
• Removed Colonizer module unlocks from the tech tree when playing a faction without colonizer
• Removed useless colonizer ship design when creating custom faction with UC gameplay and any other visual affinity
• Enemy Best System Indicator in scan view no longer informs the player about hacking outcomes while having the DLC 3 Content disabled
• Umbral Choir players are no longer unable to move population units from Sanctuaries to planets containing outposts
• Corrected a variable for the UC faction quest chapter 4B
• Fixing Achievement “Thank god they use USB too” to only rewarding it when hacking major home systems
• Fixed Striker module effect not being functional
• Disabled animated hero portraits in academy screen if you have over 5 heroes in order to lessen the performance impact of hero cards when you have a lot of heroes
• Moved the "Turns" legend of System Info graph in System Overview scan view to avoid overlap with the end turn button
• Fixed an issue when trying to place a sleeper on a vodiany system
• Corrected an Endless Day quest: no more skippable assert when playing with too many players compared to the map size
• The "Enable Hacking Outcome timer" is no longer available for the player while having DLC 3 Content disabled
• Made the quest "Your Bag, Please" take the diplomatic status into account
• The notification for pacific conversion is no longer triggered for Umbral Choir
• Fixed UC having some ground battle strategies effect not applying for Sanctuaries
• Fixed some glitch in the portrait of Imane (pilgrim hero)
• Changed System level improvements for UC and Vodyani to remove mention of unlocking space port - Part1
• Fleet Expedition action on Systems with only curiosities which need Curiosity Power higher by at least 2 Levels than the player's current power will now display the proper failure message
• The tooltips for the Crescent expansion (and other terraformation) unlocks in the Technology screen no longer falsely inform the user they are planetary specializations
• Fixing an issue when a Sanctuary is destroyed and is a ship spawn point
• Added a political event for population slot SSI (not considered as "approval" improvements anymore)
• Sleepers are now destroyed when they failed to be transferred to a planet from an automated delivery
• The Sanctuary Management screen "link destination" button is now properly grayed out when having no functionality while the sanctuary is invaded
• Prohibited "Force Immigration" for UC Empires
• Removed outdated scan view caption info and added Hacking info
• Fixed confusing or debug response notification messages generated after/during contextual diplomatic exchanges
• Made sure the military Deed asking the player to destroy 4 planets doesn't trigger when super-weapons are disabled
• Made sure the sophon quest curiosities could not be researched before the relevant quest is triggered
• Prohibited the placement of sanctuary on a planet if there is already one from another empire regardless of visibility
• Sleepers are no longer revealed on security breach (the first system of a trace).
• Fixed "Immaterial connection" effect not showing in the empire science tooltip despite being correctly applied
• Fixed some Sleeper detection actions being available when Penumbra content was disabled 
• The infinite improvements which converts Industry will now be also consuming the Industry generated by Sanctuaries
• Populations on the spaceport are now destroyed when the system is lost. This fixes numerous issues with undead pops and Sleepers in lost systems' spaceport.

[AI]

• UC AIs will now seek to use further beacons if possible
• UC AIs will now seek to place more beacons in order to gain the nodes' bonuses
• UC AIs will now seek to place backdoors on pirate systems
• UC AIs will avoid firing on their sanctuaries if possible
• AIs will now seek to push max population improvement
• AIs are now less likely to chose hacking routes on which there are consecutive enemy colonies
• AIs will focus their influence on one minor at a time
• AIs use Sanctuary-specific variants of Ground Battle Tactics more effectively

[AI][FIX]

• Fixed an issue where AIs would not explore other constellations than their own
• Fixed an issue when determining if a fleet could attack another
• Fixed an issue during the operation need computation
• Fixed an issue preventing laws from being pushed
• Fixed an issue when selecting a hacking outcome
• Fixed an issue where Arks could not properly attach themselves

Hello everybody,

We want to thank you for the feedback you have given us since the release of Awakening, and want to let you know that we are paying close attention on it. We’re already working on a patch to address many of the issues you have brought up regarding bugs, balance, and presentation. For example, we are reworking the texture and artwork of the planet Sobra to be closer to the landscape seen in the trailer (we want to avoid any confusion with another famous Home Planet… )

In the meantime, we have prepared a hotfix to the progression-blocking bug in the Nakalim Main Quest, and some other small fixes.

1.5.3 Hotfix

• Nakalim Quest Chapter 4 now takes into account if you researched Evaporation Inhibitors or Climate Engineering before accepting the quest. Unfortunately, this does not take retroactively and you will have to start a new campaign to finish this objective (though the other objectives work fine in existing campaigns.)
• Nakalim can no longer construct infinite copies of the Graviton-Shielded Laboratory
• Added a missing text when forcing peace on a Nakalim Empire
• Fixed localization displaying “TBD” even though a localized text existed