UPDATE ONE - [0.1.19]

[MAJOR CHANGES]

• A new faction has been added to the game: the United Empire
• The Marketplace is now available
• Added Mercenaries system action that will allow you to use mercenary units not showing their owner's flag
• You can now raze your systems
• Added Pillage: in addition to razing the systems, players will generate Dust based on the destroyed Star System Improvements and the killed population
• Reworked Truce system. Truce won't be forced anymore but will be based on civil unrest. The only way to remove the civil unrest is to end the war.
• Added the Eusocial minor culture
• Added 3 news minor faction (Z'vali / Pilgrim / Amoeba)
• Changed Deuyivan minor faction from Scavenger to Eusocial culture
• Added Manpower panel
• Added Era 4 of the Technology Tree
• System Influence conversion buyout: when a Star System is passively converted by another Empire's area of influence, this Empire can pay Influence to capture the system
• Increased turn limit to 200 turns: the score victory will now trigger at turn 200!
• Technology cost increases more slowly within an era but the steps from an era to another is bigger
• New technologies have been added to the three first eras, related to different features
  • Marketplace
  • Privateers
  • Manpower management
• Manpower quantity on systems, ships, and empire has been increased
• Ground Battle plan has been updated
• Ownership mechanics have been added: it will take turns before gaining ownership on a system, affecting the approval and forbidding the deployment of the influence
• Minor faction can be assimilated through the resolution of specific quests
• Wonders related to Deeds have been implemented but the Deeds are still WIP (interface and implementation)
• The global enrolment has been replaced by a local enrolment converting 1 population into Manpower

[UI]

• Added the star system list population management
• Added the star system planetary management
• Victory screen has been retaken

[IMPROVEMENTS]

• Added health regeneration on ships
• Heroes can now be hidden (received only via quests)
• Heroes recruited by empires when the game starts will not be available in the first pool of heroes
• AI can now attack when another player declares war
• Improved the way hero unlock points are displayed in the Academy screen
• Added several shortcuts: 
  • Page Up and Down to zoom in and out in the galaxy view
  • Enter and Escape to close a notification
• It is no longer possible to have the same hero twice in a hero recruitment notification
• Several missing texts have been added in game
• Improved performance especially with fastest settings
• A system can't be besieged if it has personal or allied fleets in orbit.
• A system can't be invaded if it is under siege.
• Systems become under siege when enemy fleet leave the attacked system.
• When a system is under your influence you’ll be able to buyout it with influence
• Minor factions now all spawn fleet which belong to the same rebel empire
• Removed weapons restrictions on hull, all hulls can use kinetics, beams, lasers and missiles
• Strategic resources on weapon and defence modules have been spread out in a different way (exotic effects are still WIP)
• Tweaked some values and costs of the weapon and defence modules
• Increased range efficiency of the weapon modules (now more spread out and you can see the efficiency percentages in the tooltip)
• Added bonuses on Attacker and Support hulls (currently the same for all the factions but will eventually be different):
  • Attacker: Focuses fire with the flotilla to quickly eliminate ships + weapon damage bonus
  • Support: Attracts fire from enemy to protect the other ships + defence module bonus
• Added different target orders for attacker, support and carrier ships (hover the role to see them)
• Fixed strategic resource costs for all the enhanced module slots
• The defensive military power now takes into account the initial hull health
• Added health bonus on ships when they level up

[GROUND BATTLE]

• The manpower of both all attacker and defender fleets are used in the ground BattleReport
• The fleet manpower is given back at the end of the ground battle
• Ground battles can be aborted with a diplomatic relation change or if the defender colonised system disappears
• Improved a bit the feedback on the notification (more improvements coming soon)

[AI]

• AI refreshes and creates new ship designs for specialized roles
• AI takes more meaningful military decisions
• AI uses advanced manpower system
• AI protects its outposts, harasses the player's outposts, and handles outpost equality
• Fixed several issues leading to infinite end of turn
• Fixed Fleets in order to go to the right goal with minimum moves
• Limited the number of concurrent exploration
• Raised the number of concurrent colonization
• Players can now attack in different fronts in same time when a war is launch
• The AI should be more reactive when attacked
• Fixed the drop of some missions 
• AI can now block other outposts
• AI can now use all possible actions to accelerate the capture of an outpost
• Guard system has been added
• Added cancellable missions
• AI can now repair and retrofit fleets
• The AI will retreat its fleet in a suicidal encounter
• AI can now buy manpower upgrade
• The AI can now cancel infinite building when something better is available

[FIXES]

• Fixed inconsistency in several tooltips
• Fixed an issue where players are not informed that anarchy duration is modified by the empire approval rating
• Fixed an issue where there are no tooltips in the Post Game Screen
• Fixed an issue where the fleet indicator does not properly work on systems with motherships and fleets
• Fixed an issue where minor factions create fleets which exceed their command point limit
• Fixed expedition buttons not refreshing properly in orbital view
• Pressing escape when launching a probe will now quit probe launching mode
• Fixed attack button saying "cannot attack allies" when there is nobody around the node
• Improved the objective for the "Those Darn Kids" quest which was misleading
• Fixed an issue where several technologies overlapped the category symbols from the technology screen
• Reorganised the technologies category symbols
• Autosaves no longer overwrite the user's manual save if the manual save is named "Autosave"
• A system can no longer be invaded while it has personal or allied fleets in orbit.
• The "Ship design" screen now inform the user about the retrofit cost
• Added "Show location" on mothership notifications
• Fixed error occurring when using a slider in the NewGameScreen and pressing ESC at the same time.
• Fixed many errors occurring when exiting a game, due to windows trying to access released data.
• Fixed motherships being detachable when under siege/invaded
• Retreat button is no longer visible when the ground battle has ended
• Fixed laws received as quest rewards not being received
• Fixed non-major empires being able to discover the Academy
• The user can now interact with elements that are situated on the far right of the Technology Screen
• Empire Dust is now displayed in the Ship Design screen
• Fixed an issue where the icon of the faction was visible even though that faction was unknown
• Fixed hulls & modules not having the right price in tooltips
• Fixed Vodyani happiness not refreshing properly
• Added in the control banner the political party unlocked and their trend
• User are now informed that ships costs are increased when a new era is reached
• The scan view button is now clickable
• The user is now informed that he can lose his fleet when attempting to retreat to a undiscovered system
• Added a "remaining turns" section to the constructible tooltip.

PATCH - [0.1.21]

[FIXES]

• Fixed an issue that corrupted saves when saving the game [Note that this fix is not retroactive: you will need to start a new game]
• Fixed some stuttering issues to improve performance
• Fixed exiting the game through Alt F4 making the game unresponsive
• Fixed an issue that would cause turns to hang indefinitely after clicking End Turn

[BALANCE]

• Reduced Influence area progression on Systems by approximately 33% [This is a temporary fix while waiting for a more complete change for Update 2]

[DISCLAIMER] OLD SAVES (UPDATE 1) ARE NOT COMPATIBLE WITH THIS VERSION - REMEMBER TO START A NEW GAME

[DISCLAIMER 2] PREVIOUS VERSIONS OF THE GAME ARE NOW AVAILABLE ON THE BETA TAB (Right click on the game in your library > Properties > Beta): YOU CAN NOW CHOOSE TO GO BACK TO A PREVIOUS VERSION

[0.2.3] HORATIO UPDATE

[MAJOR CHANGES]

• Added a new major faction: the Horatio (more info on the Wiki Page) 
• Implemented a new technology tree (more info on the Dev Blog)
• Added Battle Play Cards
• Reworked the game options menu
• Added Advanced Culture in addition to Scavengers and Eucosial (Z'vali & Epistis are now advanced)
• Added the Gnashast (Scavengers) minor faction
• Added the Tikanan (Eusocial) minor faction
• Added the Eyder, a scavenger minor faction created by the community
• Added 5 new victory conditions:
  • Supremacy
  • Conquest
  • Science
  • Economy
  • Wonder
• Added 2 new galaxy shapes:
  • 4-disks
  • Ring

[GAMEPLAY]

• Heroes skill levels don’t stack anymore
• Added ads in the marketplace (WIP)
• Added Dust Inflation effects on buyouts, retrofits, repair costs, marketplace prices
• Added a Rebellion system
• Added a Space port
• Added a Migration system
• Dictatorship can now use propaganda in star system to influence political orientation
• Added population collection bonus when hitting certain thresholds
• Updated the planet grid along the lines of temperature & biodiversity (previously temperature and humidity), along with terraforming process & FIDSI distribution
• Implemented Supervisor (auto management of construction queue and population)
• Quests:
  • Implemented the Horatio Chapter 1 and 2
  • Implemented the Sophons Chapter 3 and 4 (no Final Reward)
  • Implemented the Cravers Chapter 3 and 4 (no Final Reward)
  • Implemented the Lumeris Chapter 3 and 4 (no Final Reward)
  • Implemented the Vodyani Chapter 3 and 4 (no Final Reward)
  • Implemented the United Empire Chapter 3 and 4 (no Final Reward)
  • Achieving Minor Faction Quests with the Vodyani now doesn’t raze the Minor System but Brainwashes its population
  • Implemented 8 Deeds
  • Implemented 4 Wonders

[BATTLE]

• Deck building:
  • Added 16 battle play cards in the game:
    • 5 cards by default for a deck of 3
    • Added technologies to increase deck size and unlock cards
    • Cards have more complex effects, useful or not depending on the situation
  • Added deck panel in the military screen sidebar:
    • Free deck changes every ten turns, otherwise it will cost influence
• Before battle:
  • Added automated defensive fleet merging before battle
  • Added window to select which Empire to attack on a system
• Advanced battle screen:
  • Changed the layout to highlight the play card choice
  • It is no longer possible to simulate your opponent’s plays:
    • Added the 3 last plays used against you by the opponent
  • Added drag and drop to move the ships between your flotillas:
    • Reduced minimum CP to unlock more flotillas
    • Added 3 sorting presets to sort the ships
    • Added locking state on ships to force them in a flotilla
    • Saved the fleet configurations from battle to battle
    • Added new ship icons to show the roles
  • Added 3 stats buttons to compare the 2 fleets:
    • Military power (as currently)
    • Energy / Projectile power (takes into account the weapon and defence)
    • Range compatibility
• During battle:
  • Firing ranges are now fixed by phase:
    • There are 3 phases with the same duration
    • Ranges between peered flotillas are set based on the intentions (e.g. Short vs Long => Long, Medium, Short // Short vs Short => Short, Short, Short)
    • Peered flotilla is the priority target, other flotillas can be targeted based on distance
  • Improved Scan view:
    • Improved ship labels: the left-side gauge shows damage taken (with misses, shield damage reduction and hull plating), the right-side gauge shows damage inflicted (same details), shield gage is now around the HP gage
    • Added flotilla label when the camera is far away
    • Added trajectories and targeting on the galaxy floor (thickness of the line shows the DPS)
    • Added damage taken numbers above the ships
  • Added Flotillas HUD:
    • Shows a list of ships per flotilla (with HP state and destruction feedback) 
    • Shows the morale feedback (fleet gains bonus if there are more alive flotillas compared to the opponent)
  • Improved free cam:
    • Use shift to accelerate the camera move
    • Left click to lock the camera on a ship then use arrows or right click to rotate and mouse wheel to zoom
• Data:
  • Reduced range penalties (especially lasers and slugs)
  • Reduced the energy / projectile “hard counter” effect (e.g. shields also slightly stop projectile weapons and never completely stop energy weapons)
  • Increased defence module efficiency
  • Temporary removed critical hit stats (waiting for an implementation fix and a better effect)
  • Added damage bonus for strategic weapons (waiting for exotic effects)
  • Multiplied cost and damage of the missile and beam weapons by 1.5
  • Global weapon damage balancing
    
    

[DIPLOMACY]

• Cravers can now close borders when the Militarists have a majority
• The following terms are no longer blocked by the "Eternal War" trait: open/close borders, vision sharing, map sharing, trade agreement, science agreement. Note that most of these are already gated by the peace relation state, so it is redundant to block them directly
• Eternal War no longer prevents empires from sending Dust to reduce pressure (the description of the trait only talks about peace)
• Map sharing is no longer possible in Cold War

[UI]

• You can now rename planets that you colonise, except unique ones
• Changed enemy plays display on Advanced battle setup screen
• Improved diplomacy screen and truce notifications
• Added a notification for rebellion
• Added a modal panel for the system political event (accessible with a button in the system management)
• Scan view economy has been modified (last stage added (system rank))
• Changed position of the open political overview system button in the colony side panels
• Changed how enemy plays are displayed

[VFX]

• Added new skyboxes: Red Dwarf and Binary Solar System, 
• Shield Fx has been improved
• Added transition between ground battle notification and ground battle visual
• Added special nodes: 
  • BlackHole
  • SolarNebular
  • SpaceCloud

[AI]

• Fleet behaviour tweaks: 
  • More reactive fleet mission
  • Mothership can now detach to attack
  • Invader ships wait to have full manpower to leave to attack
    Added buyout of system by influence
• Added buyout of system by influence
• First Spaceport use (only when system is over populated and unhappy)
• A first version of the Migration has been implemented
• the AI can now send civilian ships from systems to outposts
• AI's desire for more systems increases as its planets are depleted (whether they are Cravers or not). AI will raze its worst depleted planets when over its over-colonization threshold
• Added the ability to propose Open Borders in specific cases
• AI now evaluates map exchange in diplomacy
• Reinforced buying luxury when a rebellion is on the way
• Forced root priority of buying resource to 1 instead of 0.2
• AI now declares war before moving if the player closes its borders to the AI

[FIXES]

• Improved the overall stability and performance
• Fixed several serious errors
• Prevented the garrison button from being displayed uninitialised in some situations
• Fixed Lumeris being able to colonize planets they haven't discovered yet
• Fixed game speed multiplier being applied to Emperor's Will state
• Fixed Benthys not using second assimilation trait. Improved tooltip for the trait
• Image and description of unique planet are now related to the unique planet instead of its type
• Fixed Outpost buyout button appearing on colonized systems
• Updated Planet tooltip to display origin of effects, instead of grouping everything.
• Fixed camera not zooming on fleets when the player does not own a system
• Numerous minor fixes!

[KNOWN ISSUE]

• When playing as a Vodyani, the Supervisor will generate a crash

[UPDATE 0.2.5]

[FIXES]

- Fixed Food consumption bug related to Horatio Affinity

- Fixed an error message when using system supervisors on exploited star systems, preventing the Vodyani from being played

- Fixed a series of error messages generated when a pirate fleet was orbiting a rival star system
- Fixed a skippable error message generated when entering a Space Battle with the minor faction types "Technologist"
- Fixed an issue where damage that destroyed an external section of a ship was not applied to the core section.
- Fixed Short vs Short and Medium vs Medium trajectories

- Fixed an issue where shields absorbed damage after the shield was disabled

- Orichalcix and Quadrinix exploitation resources are now implemented & functional

[BALANCE CHANGES]

- Science victory is now 5 times harder to research

- Reduced engine and exploration modules cost and health bonuses

- Reduced targeting weight of the civilian ships

- Lowered number of Representative for Dictatorship and Federation, and the penalty per Representative not in Senate

- Increased manpower given by Impervious Bunkers from 50 to 150

[GROUND BATTLE]

- Added a prerequisite, forbidding to use the Local Resistance Ground Battle action when there is no more population

RELEASE NOTES [0.3.2]

[New Content]

• The Riftborn major faction has been added [Wiki]

• Two additional minor factions have been added: the Bhagaba & the Niris

• Multiplayer has been enabled

• Games can now be played with up to 8 empires

• Added the “Large” size galaxies

• Added two new galaxy shapes: Spiral-8 and Ovoid

• Hero ships are now visible on the fleet by left-clicking on the hero's portrait in the galaxy view 

• Hero renaming has been enabled

• Empire / player renaming has been enabled

• 3D feedback of certain anomalies has been added

• Game settings are now visible and some are modifiable ingame (only timers and animation speed)

• Galaxy life animations have been added

• Market events: market context can trigger highs and lows of prices

• Population growth control: all population is linked to a luxury that can be used to favor its growth within the empire

• The election process has been redone: now the political parties that will not end in the Senate report their votes to the closest party, which can change the winner at the last minute!

• Added Natural Wonders (no visuals yet)

[Narrative Content]

• Added chapter 3 & 4 of the Horatio quest

• Added chapter 1 & 2 of the Riftborn quest

• Added most of Tutorial, Advanced level

• Updated Expert Tutorial

• Added 6 new Minor Faction Quests

• Added 5 new Population Quests

• Added Community Quest (Mysterious Plague Ship is now known as “The Living Plague”)

• Added 7 Alternative Deeds

• Added Community Event (An Unexpected Visitor is now known as “An Unexpected Guest”

• Added Community Event (Hear my Last Cry)

[Manpower & Ground Battle]

• Manpower is now divided in three elements: 

  • Manpower on empire is a resource consumed by Systems and Ships

  • On system: defenses defines the strength of the system defense and how much troops it will generate

  • On ships: crews provide a boost in space battle, and is consumed for invasion. They can also be killed during space battle

• All empires start with a full stock of Manpower on their empire

• Manpower is now equally split between all entities requiring some.

• Improved feedback related to troop generation (directly display how the system defense and crews will be converted)

• Added a specific Ground Battle strategy and Space Battle Tactic for the Privateers and Minor Factions

• Triggered a notification when the manpower drops close to 0

[Minor Faction Rework]

• Revamped the Minor Faction interface 

• Added a new Minor Factions Ideology: Pragmatist

• More actions to improve relations with Minor Factions

• Actions are now based on a trend rather than a flat point value

• Changed thresholds on the bar as follows: Neutral, Cordial, Amicable, Friendly. Each threshold corresponds to a different level of reward

• Having the best relation with a Minor Faction may now grant access to special actions with a cost in Luxury Resources

[Pirates]

• Harmonized Pirate ship designs 

  • Nerfed certain Prowler designs that were too strong

  • Buffed certain Positron designs that were too weak

• Changed the way Pirates spawn to prevent the unwanted Pirate spam

  • Pirates now spawn at a slightly slower rate

  • Pirates are now limited in number and won't spawn anymore if there's already a certain number of them.

• Pirates have been given new behaviors allowing them to blockade systems, and target specific nodes

[Senate & Politics]

• Rebellion: now the government after a rebellion depends on the current government, cycling through all of them.

• Removed Rebellion progress while in Anarchy

• Added an experience systems for political parties: reaching certain experience levels unlocks new laws

• Added independent laws that are always available, and free to maintain

• Refined laws content: there are less but more powerful, and they cost an influence upkeep to be maintained

• Reinforce differences between each government

  • Democracy: no election actions to influence the result, but better diversity in senate and provide approval boost on population

  • Republic: election actions using Dust and stronger alternative version of the Laws

  • Federation: bonuses on industry and expansion

  • Dictatorship: one party that you select and higher chance of rebellion

[Space Battle]

• Ship Design

  • Refactored UI

  • New module icons that reflect the power progression

  • Added detailed data about ship (DPS per weapon, efficiency, DPS per range, defense absorption, energy / projectile balance, upgrade cost), also displayed in ship tooltip

  • Added toggle to hide / show obsolete modules

  • Added the possibility to drag and drop modules between slots

  • Added double click on any player’s ship thumbnail to open the ship design (in military screen but also in the galaxy)

  • Removed module symmetrical multiplayer cost

  • Harmonized module multiplayer cost per ship size

  • Tweaked heavy mounted slot and add effect explanation in tooltip

  • Added a button in the Military Screen under the Ship Designs frame.

    • One click upgrades all the modules of the selected Ship Design to their latest version

    • Does not replace or remove existing modules, does not fill empty slots

• Deck panel

  • Cards are now called tactics

  • You can open the battle tactics (new deck panel) even during battle

  • Added description in tactics’ tooltip

• Advanced battle screen

  • Improved trajectories / stats display

  • Improved ship hover feedback (don’t forget: you can move them among flotillas!)

  • Added flotilla compatibility feedback of the ship when dragging it

  • Added command point required to unlock flotillas

• During battle

  • Improved scan view (damage lines, trajectories, shaders etc.)

  • Added overview (show entire battle with appropriate feedback included range between paired flotilla)

  • Added locked ship feedback

  • Added zoom with mouse wheel in free cam even without ship locked

• Battle Report

  • Added advanced battle report (first version)

    • Added damage gauges with detailed data (weapon type, defense absorption, misses shot, critical hit)

    • Added range per paired flotillas per phase with damage ratio

• Battle system            

  • Changed critic damage: if critical hit, the salvo dismisses all defense absorptions

  • Added ship damage bonus when crew on board (some weapons kill crew)

  • Added theatre effect: check the battle effect on the special nodes

  • Changed the random generator which should give you the same result if you load a save

• Content

  • Added 15 support modules to diversify the strategies

  • The module that affects fleet and flotilla are exclusive to support ships

  • Fixed and increased several battle order effects (battle card new name)

  • Increased flak effect (and feedback it in the weapon tooltip)

  • Balanced / Tweaked Weapons, Defenses and Hulls (reduced cost, reduced progression, damage and health x2, increase strategic module interest)

[Technology]

• Reworked the whole Military Quadrant to implement the new modules

• Reworked the Science & Exploration Quadrant to implement support modules

  • Also added new modules for the Ark, and technologies to unlock them through the game

• Added political impact on technologies

[AI]

• Diplomacy:

  • The AI now handles Peace behaviors

  • The AI now handles minimal Alliance behaviors

  • The AI is now able to detect player actions (regarding itself) and send reactions

  • The AI can now create and balance contracts to propose to players

  • Improved AI attitudes and attitude annotations

  • Improved contract evaluation overall

• Economy:

  • System improvement and technologies gains have been reworked

  • The AI can now use more exotic improvements like infinite buildings and manpower conversion

  • The AI should colonize in a better fashion (more grouped)

  • The AI can now handle the new Minor Faction system

  • The AI should use the marketplace better overall

  • The AI can now buy mercenaries on the marketplace to complete its taskforces

  • The AI now make event choices

  • Many many tweaks in the decision making process

• Military:

  • The AI changes its tactics set according its current strengths and weaknesses

  • The AI should now select the most efficient play considering its fleet

  • The AI should now redesign its ships to counter its main enemy

  • The AI is now capable of understanding when fleets which will be auto-merged before it will attack

  • The AI should be more reactive especially in early game

  • The AI should keep less ships in its hangars

• Heroes:

  • The AI can now assign heroes as admirals

  • The AI now assigns all hero skills (governors and admirals) depending on hero role

  • The AI can now buy heroes on the marketplace

• Quests:

  • The AI can now solve certain quests

• Multiplayer:

  • The AI can now take over in "minimal" mode for a few turns if a player drops out

• Faction:

  • The AI is able to play as a Riftborn with its specific gameplay

• Performance:

  • A LOT of memory and CPU optimizations

[User Interface]

• The Diplomatic and negotiation screens have been reworked

• The ship design screen has been reworked

• The new game screen has been redone

• Reworked the left banner in all menus

• Polished Diplomacy screen

  • Demand button now located on the Negotiation screen (above the pressure gauge)

• HD GUI for any resolution

• New scaling option improved (4K mode)

• Modules icons are brand new! (quest icons are not done yet)

• New display options are now available for tooltip display: Compact, Full & Progressive. By default, Progressive is enabled, which goes from a Compact to a Full Display after a short moment when hovering the mouse. This setting can be changed in the UI Options menu

[Balancing]

• Horatio ideology is now Ecologists (foood!)

• Government changes are more accessible (less anarchy and lower happiness prerequisite) but they have a dynamic influence cost

• Reworked the Lumeris outpost buyout curve to lower their explosive expansion

• Reworked the technology cost curve: the game pace will be slower and feel more engaging

• Diplomatic costs are now dynamic and based on the number of systems owned by the Empire

• Assimilation costs is now dynamic and based on the number of systems owned by the Empire

• First balancing of Minor Faction Quests (not complete yet)

• Strategic deposits quantity has been halved but their individual production increased (1 / 3 / 5 instead of 1 / 2 / 3)

• Hero skills: effects related to size has been generalized 

• Hero skills: effects on deposit output has been nerfed 

• Rebellion: lowered the threshold which triggers the start of the rebellion

• Increased the number of nodes generated for all sizes 

• Added a limit on how many ships can be send to an outpost at a time, making distant outpost harder to feed

[Known Issues]

• Possible loss of sync in Multiplayer if Fast speed animations are used

• Possible loss of sync in Multiplayer if two players have the same wonder in the construction queue and finish it on the same turn

• In Multiplayer, players get a message when another player joins that they have been renamed with that player’s name. This message actually has no effect

• In the diplomacy screen, the contract evaluation bar sometimes fails to update

• In the Advanced Play settings, enemy flotillas sometimes do not appear if the Advanced Play button is clicked too fast. In the case this happens, right click and re-enter the window

• The Riftborn have a strategic issue on their home system: with Many constellations, they won't have their starting resources. With Few/Unique, they will have Titanium & Hyperium on all planets in their home system. We still recommend playing with Few or Unique constellations if you want a challenging game (this issue will be fixed in an upcoming patch)

• Selecting a "Random" galaxy type in multiplayer results in the host and other players not necessarily having the same galaxy appearance (eg a Spiral 8 can have the appearance of an Ovoid galaxy). This has no impact on actual gameplay

• When using the Splicing mechanic with the Horatio, the splicing bonus is added, but the visual feedback doesn't show that bonus

AMD Fix on the beta branch:

PATCH NOTES [0.3.7]

[FIX]

• Fixed a shader issue with AMD cards preventing from seeing the main menu

How to access it:

In your Steam Games Library, right-click on Endless Space 2, select Properties, then Betas tab. Select update3(0.3.7) - AMD fix. Click on OK, the loading should start immediately. If it doesn't, restart Steam.

Soft Launch Changelog 1.0

REMINDER: Old saves are no longer compatible with the game! We've removed a lot of old files that were only kept in there to keep the saves working between beta versions. We're now removing all that to start with a clean slate!

 We strongly recommend you delete your Registry.xml file. It is normally located in:  C:\Users\[yourusername]\Documents\Endless Space 2\Users\

[GENERAL]

• Added Unfallen Games2Gether Faction
• Modding implemented
• New Scanview system management implemented
• Added planet scanview
• Auto ship design / upgrade implemented
• Cloud saves are now available
• Game can now have 12 competitors!
• Academy/metaplot quests have been added
• Beginner Tutorial implemented
• Custom Factions implemented
• Added colonization videos
• Auto-ship design implemented
• Added technology Helper to suggest technologies to the player

[CONTENT]

• Added faction-specific technologies
• Added 2 new minor factions, Remnant and Pulsos
• Added Events quest Political
• Added new random events
• Added new market events
• Added 23 new space battle tactics
• Added “exotic” effects on strategic weapons and defenses
• Added planet destruction module
• Added a specific star type for the academy
• Added founder heroes and the 5th Sophon hero
• Added new content to curiosities (Modules / Space battle tactics / Star system improvements...)
• Added final rewards of all Main Quests (Chapter 4)
• Added population swap in United Empire Main Quest

[TECHNICAL]

• Saves are now in a binary format
• Several optimizations have been made for different parts of the game (GUI, Computation...)
• Refined some behaviors in the galaxy generator

[AI]

• Pirates now wait fleets that are coming to their systems before moving to another system (depending on their mission)
• Added: Planet destruction mission
• Added: AI is now able to activate laws (knowing that it costs Influence points)
• Added: AI is now able to cancel laws to retrieve the empire points
• Added: AI is now able to trade technologies by diplomacy
• Added: AI now research military modules technologies
• Added: AI now play elections
• Added: AI is now able to attack enemies it finds on its mission path
• Added: AI is now able to propose alliances, map and vision sharing (if it has the tech)
• Added: AI now feedbacks more game events and takes into account more player actions (leeching, time bubbles, blockades, attacking civilians, Unfallen actions etc.)
• Changed: Globally improved the military attack, defense and invasion
• Changed: Improved the way AI uses support modules
• Changed: Increased AI desire for trade (in particularly for mercantile AIs)
• Changed: Improved map and vision sharing evaluation and open borders
• Changed: Improved main enemy selection
• Improved invasion behaviour
• Improved behaviour and technology choice for colonization
• Improved node strategic score heuristic
• Fixed: Issue where AI fleets were staying in hangar forever in some specific cases
• Fixed: AI colonization behavior
• Fixed: AI now doesn't cancel missions without any reasons.
• Fixed: Ark generation and leecher use are now working correctly
• Fixed: Issues for hull and affinities
• Fixed: AI now researches new military modules

[IMPROVEMENTS]

• Put back the Surveyed support at the end of the Election process
• Stat buttons on the Advanced Battle Setup Screen are "togglable"
• Added a timer for the auto battle start
• Screen/button tooltips display information about their keyboard shortcuts
• Automated ships are no longer sent to besieged outposts
• Refund value is now displayed in "Deed failed" notification when relevant
• Neutral propaganda is no longer queued when colonizing a system
• Motherships now start the game with 1 action point
• Fleets that cannot fight cannot be used as reinforcements in space battle
• The game should automatically choose the compatibility mode
• Key binding has been improved (detect if the key is used, …)
• Added localized subtitles for all the introductions
• Updated the look of outgame screens
• Probes are now allowed on Hero ships
• Improved module icons: larger on the ships, improved progression details, redone support module, removed kinetic trail, changed category module orientation  
• Ship modules category icons are now colored based on their strategic resource in the tech tree
• Added module computation formulas in the ship design stat tooltips
• Mezari or Sheredyn populations are now effective at the end of the United Empire Chapter 3
• AI behavior has been improved, notably with regards to its aggressiveness
• Polished end turn timers & added "out of time" animations
• Improved notification flow: click on a button which open a menu no longer displays the next notification
• Improved Ground Battle: there is now a maximum manpower that can be deployed per turn. The limit can be increased with technologies and temporary modified by ground battle tactics.

[BALANCE]

• Population collection bonuses for Riftborns: movement points are only halved when going through wormholes (temporary - will change for release)
• Brainwashed factions can no longer start a new assimilation quest
• Use of Crew Modules on hero ships is now forbidden
• Added a turn action on Time Bubbles, so they need to be in the first position to be completed
• Reduced AI Prestige bonus in higher difficulties
• Minor Factions with Cordial relation or better now don't block trade routes
• Reduced hero experience from improvement built, increased from battle and nodes / curiosities discovered
• Reduced crew given by crew modules
• Added different Demand management on Marketplace prices
• Balancing of Market events
• Fixed issues of Singularity: FIDSI and depletion effects
• Added political impact to Leech (Religious) and Planet Destruction (Military) entity actions
• Removed description panels from Faction Trait tooltip
• Infinite improvements are now compatible with Food to Industry
• Fixed issue on exclusive technologies which were not exclusives
• Increased free movement speed
• Increased food consumption
• Increased influence zone progression rate
• Removed duplicate of exploration stage 1
• Added negotiable truce (not managed by AI, missing negotiable terms)
• Increased hull health and upkeeps (slightly increased medium ship cost and greatly the large ship cost)
• Balanced support module effects
• Balanced weapon module: reduced missile power, increased flack effect, increased beam power)
• Balanced space battle tactics and changed unlock distribution
• Improved ground battle tactics: balanced effect, removed round number modifiers (replaced with manpower deployment limit modifiers), added ownership malus for the surrender tactic 
• Balanced random events appearance rhythm
• Balanced Trading Companies: improvement costs are now linked, and can either increase luxury or dust production. They take longer to level up, and Trading Companies unlocks are slower.

[FIXES]

• Fix  for non-repeating minor factions
• Fix for abundance of strats and luxes
• Fixed an issue where ships in flotilla without direct opponent could not shoot
• Fixed space battle trajectories orientations
• Fix error sometimes occurring when opening the advanced play screen directly after the start of the battle, causing the enemy play cards and ships to be broken. We now simulate the enemy play if needed so we can show the information correctly.
• Fix for number of nodes was still affected by density
• Fix for isolated nodes spawning too far away
• Fixed slider settings flicking between 2 (or more) values if they are quickly changed by the host in multiplayer.
• Fixed error in economy screen system tab related to Riftborn population construction
• Fixed the issue where the cost of the "Praise" action (Minor faction interaction) was not influenced by the "We are equals" law
• Fix Venetians T2/3 Turrets Orientation