Lord of Rigel
Steam News 14 April 20261mo ago

April Community Update

Greetings Lords of Rigel! Release 1.19 includes a community requested feature, chaos mode and a community requested new beam weapon technology that can be unlocked by defeating Von Neumann space monster types. What does…

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Greetings Lords of Rigel! Release 1.19 includes a community requested feature, chaos mode and a community requested new beam weapon technology that can be unlocked by defeating Von Neumann space monster types. What does chaos mode do? When enabled in advanced settings in new game it removes the minimum turn thresholds for random events. This means that even homeworld threatening events and grand menaces can trigger early in your games for maximum chaos.

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addedGreetings Lords of Rigel! Release 1.19 includes a community requested feature, chaos mode and a community requested new beam weapon technology that can be unlocked by defeating Von Neumann space monster types. What does chaos mode do? When enabled in advanced settings in new game it removes the minimum turn thresholds for random events. This means that even homeworld threatening events and grand menaces can trigger early in your games for maximum chaos.
fixedFor those players facing issues such as with keybindings, please check out the following resources. There are some common settings and performance issues for some systems that can be easily resolved by following the steps under common issues:

This update also includes some additional minor optimizations and a fix for cases where the ironman flag did not display in the save menu for some autosaves.

Image 1. Phaser and Spatial Torpedo Weapons Against a Yalkai Scouting Fleet

For those players facing issues such as with keybindings, please check out the following resources. There are some common settings and performance issues for some systems that can be easily resolved by following the steps under common issues:

Common Issues:

Common Issues and Solutions

For players with questions on game mechanics, the Lord of Rigel Official Guide is a good reference:

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If you are experiencing an issue with your game, please let us know. Save files help with narrowing down to reproduce any issues. Strategy games are complex, and what may seem like an obvious issue could be tied to a specific game's history or a particular hardware configuration:

Reporting Issues:

Issue Reporting Guide

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