v1.96 Release Notes

Ironclad Games and Stardock are pleased to announce the release of version 1.96 for Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion. This latest update includes a number of bug fixes and quality of life improvements that players have been asking for.

Change Log

Gameplay
General
• Fixed exploit that would allow players to build extra free capital ships at game start.
• Updated the damageUpdater code to refresh more frequently. Damage now applies faster (closer to actual impact) and may resolve various issues besides being generally good.
• Fixed Social Specialization and Industry Specialization planet upgrades from not applying their population growth modifiers.
• Updated stat type counters: Colony capital ships are now counted under Utility2, siege units under Utility1 and actual utility ships under Utility0. Updated related strings to match.
• 'Mad Dark Fleet Titan' event has been updated - will now only appear after at least 1 hour of gameplay and will send out scouts and warnings to herald its arrival. Thanks to Goafan42!

TEC
• Fixed Counter-Deployment (TEC Loyalist) technology not working.
• Changed Hoshinko's Demolition Bots ability to affect corvettes.
• Changed Marza's Radiation Bomb ability to affect corvettes.
• TEC Rebel titan's Explosive Shot and Overcharged Explosive Shot abilities will now affect titans.

Advent
• Changed strikecraft to no longer gain a buff from Assimilated Populace tech.
• Fixed Acclimatization of Will tech to work as intended.
• Titans are no longer affected by Iconus Guardians' Repulse ability.

Vasari
• Changed Vasari Loyalist titan's phase missiles to Physical damage type.
• Changed Stilakus Subverter's Distortion Field ability to affect corvettes.
• Fixed Vasari Loyalist Jump Stabilization tech to now properly affect friendly and enemy ships.

Video
• Borderless Window mode has been added and can be found under Video Options.

Hotfix for v1.96
• Fixed desync in multiplayer caused by the fix for Counter-Deployment.
• Fixed assert spamming with the dev exe for planetupgradepathtype.
• Dialed back the damage updater change we made a bit. Can hit older CPUs harder than we thought.

Ironclad Games and Stardock are pleased to announce Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion v1.97. Change notes are below.

Change Notes:
• All localisations are now part of the base game.
• Language can be changed via the in-game options. We strongly recommend restarting the game after changing language to update cached strings.
• Changed hardware cursor to be the default; this prevents crashes with some systems.
• All online interactions are now encrypted.
• Misc. other stability fixes.

Hotfix for v1.97

Ironclad Games and Stardock Entertainment have released a small hotfix for v1.97 of Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion today. This update should resolve the issues reported in running the game.

• Removed incorrect dinput8.dll file that prevented the game from launching for some users - especially on Windows 8. (Note that if you added this manually, you can safely delete it).
• Updated some code in the file system that may help fix with issues where the game can't read/write to is settings directory.
• Resolved (hopefully) multiplayer server stability issues.

v1.973 Hotfix Change List

• Startup crash fixes
• Fixed it so you can no longer change language from within an active game
• Misc. stability improvements

Update Notes for v1.974

• Minor update to address multiplayer compatibility with Gamepass crossplay.

Update Notes for v1.975

Very minor update.
• Fix for some achievements not unlocking as intended.

Update Notes for October 13, 2022

• Minor update to resolve file mis-match with Gamepass (affected multiplayer)