Patch 380 (21 July 2016)

- (MTE denominates More To Explore-only content)

NEW:

- Hatice has a new captain perk! Investor: +10 Collect at the start of each expedition. Gain 2 insight if you end an expedition with 50 Collect or more.
- Added a new treasure in Shangri-La!
- Added a few events in Shangri-La!
- The L A N D D E L V E R now actually puts some time pressure on you. Be quick to explore the Lost Island!

BALANCE:
ENTOURAGE:

- Auctioneer and Impressionist Entourage removed from Stockholm due to misfitting
- All Stockholm entourage now give +1 token at level 4 instead of +1/+2 on level 2/5 (More To Explore)
- All Rio entourage now gives +2 tokens at level 6 instead of +1/+3 on level 3/6 (More To Explore)

CARDS:

- Lowered Earl's bonus from Weird Patents to 3% (More To Explore)
- Agatha's German Import will now only penalize 5 Study, 25 Speech Defense, and give 3 Campaign instead of 1 (More To Explore)
- It's not longer possible to bring the same Campfire Story twice. Any doubles will be left out of your deck at game start.

TREASURES:

- Garb and starter treasures that give X tokens at the end of an expedition are a bit toned down (More To Explore)
- Shambhala Keys give 250 Renown instead of 150
- All final treasures from Shangri-La now have pool bonuses (More To Explore)
MISC:
- Removed the skip encounter events in Shangri-La
- TRex and Darwin are significantly tougher
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Roll-games and encounter arena seeds are now pre-determined, which means loading to an earlier point no longer gives you a different chance. There's an exception for 'Retry Encounter' in Discovery mode, which still refreshes the seed.
FIXED:

- Can't get a rank A treasure in Turf house any more
- missing images, spelling errors
- Phillipe's card now works correctly
- Perk UI scroll resets to top when switching crewmembers.
- Exploit where opening inventory during events, saved the game state (but not the event progress).
- Issue where items could be lost by dragging and dropping an item from an incompatible slot on it.
- Issue where profile switching could recover a pre-win save from a finished adventure mode run.
- Issue where double clicking crewmember for targeted Campfire Stories triggered the story twice.

Patch 1.02 (21 July 2016)

- Text descriptions of the magical codexes in the Scriptorium are more informative. This change is included in Release 1.02 today for English speaking countries. Other languages will receive that update next week after translation.
- Resolved issue that prevented a menu option from displaying text in several languages.
- Found a workaround for crashes at launch when using a Razer headset.
- Removed developer console access.
- Resolved an issue that could prevent the main menu from opening on launch when Necropolis was set to several non-English languages.

Patch 5.3.1 (21 July 2016)

- Adds French subtitles for Book Five

Patch (22 July 2016)

- fixed: issues with Squadron Insigina test on Windows (choosing any option in the test will unlock the full game now)

Patch 46.4.1.2.27472 (21 July 2016)
General

- Added gamepad support
- Added options for Start button, new navigation bindings, tactical camera modifier
- L1 + right stick rotates tactical camera
- Added Tobii eye-tracking support
- Added profile for Logitech keyboards
- Race-specific civilian transports can now be built to expand assimilation gameplay
- Added auto-turn option
- Added 100 achievements
- New and improved tutorial
- Updated cluster galaxy visuals
- Small improvement to planet rating regarding max pop. size
- Changed fleet repair and upgrade logic, to allow it on any colony owned or from an ally or any finished node development with a military structure
- Updated logic for learning techs via perks
- Blueprint limit is now increased when discovering a new blueprint
- Added victory cutscenes for every race for the Conquest, Technological and Economic victory conditions

Game Setup

- Added new Game Pace option that uses predefined Research, Production and Population Growth speeds; pacing can still be manually set in Advanced Options
- Added perks validation when creating a custom race
- Additional options added for Research, Production and Population Growth speed

AI

- Improved planet evaluation for colonization
- Fix for invasion issue where it was regrouping next to the target and it would expect "already moved" ships to move with the invasion forces, but they were exhausted and they couldn't
- Improved strategic analysis
- Heat maps are now connected to memory system
- Improved Share Charts evaluation to account for revealed colony information
- Improved Alliance evaluation to consider alliances imply a vote in the Galactic Council
- AI will now offer Share Charts in a smarter way
- Improved Invasion by building closer to targets
- Improved Bombard by considering invasion targets
- Improved heat map by considering only dynamic FP (making the AI more aggressive)
- Workers optimization for military outpost construction according to heat map. Now also considers war when settling colonies.
- Fix for colonization and unreachable planets
- The AI now focuses on colony expansion in their early stages before starting research
- Protects new colonies from pirates, considers hostile firepower when colonizing and tries to build escorts
- Production Focus will be set when building ships and at war, or terraforming
- New colonization & civil transports heuristics and AI flow: Avoids low food production planets,
- Optimized Needs for security and economy, better handling of pirates by AI races
- Removed duplicated targets for blocking fleets
- Rebalanced Alkari so that they build heavier ships

Balance

- Revamped combat victory chance heuristics
- Shield & Armor Rescaling
- Increased Base Armor Cost (2/3/4/5/6/7 -> 2/4/6/8/10/11)
- Increased Base Shield Cost (4/5/6/7/8 -> 4/7/10/16/20)(Higher Shield Tech remains increasingly more SP per Size Efficient, Shields and Armor Tech now become increasingly less HP/SP per PP efficient)
- Battle Pod changes
- Added a Size Cost to Battle Pods (Base Size 0 -> 20, size Factor 0 -> 1)(Battle Pods are now less suited for Frigates and Destroyers, more efficient in Larger Hulls)
- Guardian of Orion changes
- Hull Space Reduced (3000 -> 2500)
- Hull Points Reduced (3000 -> 2000)
- Terraforming incremental cost factor reduced from 2 to 1.5
- Fixed Gravity Tolerance costs
- Balanced food requirements per planet size
- Pirate spawn rates are now connected to game difficulty
- Food requirement curve adapts to changing population limit instead of using final planet capacity
- Rebalanced Share Charts so that it's not so exploitable
- Rebalanced Accept Embassy option to make symmetric deals easier
- Balance Tweaks:
- CO Mod Cost & Size (0.5 -> 0.25)
- Lightning Field Base Size (4 -> 2)
- Augmented Engines Size (5/2.5 -> 4/2.2)
- Fixed conservative rule about hostile systems that blocked the movement of scouts with auto explore on the presence of pirates
- Nebula missile avoidance bonus changed from 100% to 50%

Tactical

- Changed strafing to look more natural
- New abstract representation in zoomed-out view
- Added specific Blueprints for each Race when played by AI
- Ship health bars now display with mouseover
- Pixel ships FX & Prefabs fixes
- Battle results: Beam accuracy and PD accuracy changed
- Trails are now solid lines instead of dotted
- Added Battle Pods to Player Destroyer as an Improvement
- Transition intro is now mirrored depending on which side the player is placed

Diplomacy

- Added confirmation before declaring war
- Disposition changes are now highlighted in the UI

Multiplayer

- AI in multiplayer from load will now automatically connect

UI

- Colonies with a star base now have an icon in the galaxy view
- New design for most buttons in game
- Victory chance and power are now shown for colonies on mouseover
- Diplomatic information toggle is now saved
- Improved cell modifiers feedback in colony management
- Improved planet degradation Feedback
- [Ship Design] Added Upgrade All button
- Added filter to selection of colony where to request invasion ships
- Added Auto turn beside the TURN counter
- Added colonize icon to colonize button
- Improvements in audience screen
- Flipping combat assets horizontally so they match the civilians assets facing left
- New in-progress animation for planet and build popup
- Now Population circle in Colony widget becomes red when starving
- Renamed SHIP DESIGN button to BLUEPRINTS for consistency
- Workers now show a "+" icon when the number is bigger than the one displayed
- Added icon space factory in references of tech-tree
- Fix for Equipped core system modules icons can overlap module scrap hint
- Added notification for loading a game from main menu when a current game is in progress
- Add new icons tooltip for tactical
- Added confirmation dialogs for new game, load and exit if unsaved changes will be lost
- Added notification for loading a game from main menu when a current game is in progress
- Art pass for tutorial widgets and positions
- New icon Anti-Gravity Harness for tech apps
- Added diplomacy icon for empire top bar
- Added icon for electronic computer in tech apps
- Added bg to each button in the Empire top bar
- Added URGENCY PULSING ANIMATION to Food widget when starvation occurs

UX

- [Colony Management] Colonies are now shown in alphabetical order when pressing next and previous colony buttons

Audio

- Added sounds: Wormhole, Jump Gate, Ship Specials, Repair Beam and Pulsar Fire
- Added Star Map click on planet
- Added audio for Scientific and Conquest victory cutscenes
- Added Audience Sounds for Bulrathi Emperor

Visual

- Updated background for cluster galaxies

Localization

- Subtitles language is now independent from UI and Voices
- Subtitles added to research screen
- Added demonyms keys
- Marine Pods description fix (removed the "marines defend the ship and board enemy ships" bit)
- Updated localizations
- [RU] VO: Silicoid Advisor updated. Now it has the same sound effect as the english version
- Victory subtitles synchronization (ENG/SPA)