Development Update: 18 July 2020

Hudson: Well that’s great… that’s just fuckin’ great, man. Now what the fuck are we supposed to do? We’re in some real pretty shit now, man! Hicks: Are you finished? Newt: I guess we’re not going to be leaving now, right? Ripley: I’m sorry, Newt. Newt: You don’t have to be sorry. It wasn’t your fault. Hudson: That’s it, man. Game over, man! Game over! What the fuck are we gonna do now? What are we gonna do?! Burke: Maybe we could build a fire, sing a couple of songs, eh? Why don’t we try that? Newt: We better get back, ‘cause it’ll be dark soon, and they mostly come at night. Mostly.

Patch Notes for 18 July 2020 (ver. r38753)

Gameplay Additions and Changes

• A new "Faction Relations" pane can now be found in the Intelligence Briefing screen under Diplomacy. This is a visual display of which contacted factions are at war, have open ports treaties or alliances.

• Added +1 System Slot to the Phidi "Armed Merchant" and "Military Transport" hulls.

• Humans now start with an extra 100 coins in "Marathon" games.

• Increased Stellar Surge Beam damage.

• Updated Stellar Surge Beam animation.

• Added a "Dangerous Rising Power" issue that may cause weaker empires to resent and fear you.

• Various changes to the way AIs evaluate and offer peace treaties.

• The "alien rulers" penalty should no longer apply to the populations of annexed empires.

• Added a 'None' option to 'Native Races' advanced map setting.

• Annexed outpost transports should now be scrappable.

• Lowered the rep penalty for refusing to abandon a colony site, when requested.

• Added a small rep penalty for denying the AI a colony site using military intervention.

• Allied AIs should now request permission before building colonies inside your territory.

• Updated the planet texture management system to make more efficient use of memory.

• Tweaked AI Humanity behavior to better deal with starvation in the early game.

Fixes

• Fix for a rare bug related to space habitats.

• Fixes for various display issues when the game is played at 4K resolution.

• Fixes for marauder tech and fleet scaling on 'marathon' and 'epic' game speeds.

• Fix for a rare bug in the ship status pane.

• Fixes for some rare bugs involving captured transports.

• Splinter colonies should no longer offer to join monster factions.

• Stations should no longer be able to retreat from combat (except for Tinkers' stations).

• Attempting to trade with Marauders who have captured an outpost should no longer cause an error.

• Fix for an error in the tradeship recall hover text.

• Completing combat should no longer cause harpies to be assigned negative crew values.

• Planetary shield values are now displayed correctly when viewing a planet's defenses.

• Fix for a bug that could cause the "Build Outpost" button to be displayed in place of the defensive actions buttons.

• Fix for a rare bug in the planet info pane.

• Fix for a bug that could cause androids to lower the population growth rates of other colonists.

• Minor fixes for the allied "colony request" event.

• Fix for a bug that could occur when switching to a queued "City Planning" activity while low on food.

• Fix for a bug that could case "error in the food shortage report" exceptions.

Hicks: Hey, listen. We’re all in strung out shape. But stay frosty, and alert. We can’t afford to let one of those bastards in here. Vasquez: All right... vamonos!