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June Community Update- New Monster Weapon and Community Requested Features

Greetings Lords of Rigel! Release 1.21 includes a new monster weapon that can be acquired by defeating the grand menace Von Neumann Mothership or Von Neumann Probes.

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Greetings Lords of Rigel! Release 1.21 includes a new monster weapon that can be acquired by defeating the grand menace Von Neumann Mothership or Von Neumann Probes. Updates over May also include community requested features including customization features, namely renaming species in the Evolutionary Mutation menu and bombers contributing to bomb counts in the orbital bombardment menu.

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addedGreetings Lords of Rigel! Release 1.21 includes a new monster weapon that can be acquired by defeating the grand menace Von Neumann Mothership or Von Neumann Probes. Updates over May also include community requested features including customization features, namely renaming species in the Evolutionary Mutation menu and bombers contributing to bomb counts in the orbital bombardment menu.
changedWhat is coming next as a roadmap? Some more community requested features are planned, including a codex in the info screen with gameplay hints and lore. Codex entries will be unlocked based on encountering monsters and species, but persistent between games.
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:

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addedGreetings Lords of Rigel! Release 1.21 includes a new monster weapon that can be acquired by defeating the grand menace Von Neumann Mothership or Von Neumann Probes. Updates over May also include community requested features including customization features, namely renaming species in the Evolutionary Mutation menu and bombers contributing to bomb counts in the orbital bombardment menu.
changedWhat is coming next as a roadmap? Some more community requested features are planned, including a codex in the info screen with gameplay hints and lore. Codex entries will be unlocked based on encountering monsters and species, but persistent between games.
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:

What is coming next as a roadmap? Some more community requested features are planned, including a codex in the info screen with gameplay hints and lore. Codex entries will be unlocked based on encountering monsters and species, but persistent between games.

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:

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