Patch Notes 22.07.2026

Carrier Operations

• Assault Shuttles can now be assigned to carrier hangars during defensive missions at planets, moons, stations, outposts, and Rift objectives.

• Assigned shuttles remain protected inside their carriers during orbital combat. They cannot attack or be targeted until their carrier is destroyed.

• Carrier UI now correctly mentions the dodge bonus granted to assigned Fighters.

• Carrier assignment controls have been made consistent across defensive locations and missions.

Planetary Shields

• Planetary Shield strength now scales with the total resources invested into the Shield Generator, while retaining a guaranteed minimum strength per level.

• Shield regeneration now scales with the shield’s actual maximum strength.

• Outdated shield values are automatically refreshed before combat.

Expeditions & Wormholes

• A properly prepared expedition fleet can now detect some catastrophic events in time to perform an emergency withdrawal.

• Emergency recovery still destroys part of the fleet and all recovered cargo, but may prevent complete fleet loss. Expedition risk can be reduced, but never eliminated.

• Damaged ships are now correctly preserved between successive Wormhole encounters instead of occasionally disappearing from the expedition fleet.

Fleet & Mission Fixes

• Failed colony races now reliably return the Colony Ship and accompanying support vessels.

• Colonization processing is now protected against duplicate or interrupted arrival processing.

• Recalled missions carrying population now correctly return that population and immediately refresh production values.

• Outpost dock capacity now includes deployed and incoming ships. Simultaneous deployments can no longer overfill an outpost.

• Fleets that cannot dock due to a changed capacity limit will safely return home.

Interface

• Command Center infrastructure timers now use consistent server time.

• Active research in the Command Center now displays its target level.

• Fleet cargo, including station supplies, is now visible consistently in Fleet and Overview mission cards.

• Internal mission metadata is no longer incorrectly displayed as cargo.

• Paused Moon demolition projects now display the correct target level and can be cancelled normally.

• Updated carrier descriptions across all supported languages.