Version 1.2.16

This patch focuses on balance as well as minor fixes and UI improvements.

General

• Traits are now sorted (first by color: white, blue, green, red; then by rank: higher rank first; then by duration: longer duration first; then alphabetically).

• Quest objectives hint now mentions cycling between highlighted tiles.

Balance

• Hijack no longer works on Hero units.

• Increased Outrider cargo slots from 1 to 2.

• Increased Commander Orbital Bombardment damage from 8 to 12.

• Increased Commander Orbital Bombardment armor penetration from 6 to 7.

• Increased Ithuriel Harbinger Plasma Cannon damage from 6 to 8.

• Increased Ithuriel Harbinger Plasma Cannon armor penetration from 5 to 6.

• Increased Elohim Maelstrom Judgement From Above damage from +10% to +17%.

• Reduced Elohim Maelstrom Elysian Battery damage from 8 to 6.

• Reduced Elohim Maelstrom Elysian Battery armor penetration from 6 to 5.

• Reduced House on the Borderland algae from 2 to 1.5.

• Reduced Cysilical Growths chips from 2 to 1.5.

• Reduced Bio-Acid Spray armor penetration from 3 to 2.

• Reduced Something Wicked cooldown from 10 to 5.

• Neutral Abkluths are now more likely to spawn.

Rogue Operative

• Increased Independent population loyalty upkeep from +25% to +50%.

• Small Scale Op now gives +0.5 loyalty per population (only affects population 1 to 6).

• Comprehensive Connexion now gives +0.5 loyalty per population (only affects population 7 to 12).

• Increased Icarus Satellite damage from 8 to 12.

• Increased Icarus Satellite armor penetration from 6 to 7.

• Increased Trash Camo cover damage reduction from 5% to 8%.

• Increased Ghost Corps damage from 5% to 10%.

• Changed ICAR Blueprints from -25% influence cost for augments to "Allows applying other augments on already augmented units".

Furtive Tribunal

• Increased The Outsider duration from 5 to 10.

• Increased Comprador Science research from +1 to +2.

• Increased Scimystic Scismatics influence from +1 to +2.

Fallen Soldier

• Reduced Parthian Equilibrium evasion damage reduction from 25% to 17%.

• Changed Parthian Equilibrium +2 accuracy to +17% attacks.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed Storm of Storms not applying to the center tile.

• Fixed crash after a player is defeated and Stormheart Facility is taken over by an AI player.

• Fixed Something Wicked not showing damage preview.

• Fixed English language always being set when the game is first started, even if Steam is set to a different language.

Modding

• Faction xmls can now specify `headquartersUnit=""`.

• Fixed issues using the `removeBuilding` effect.

• Fixed crash that would occur because of missing patch notes translations for custom languages; now English patch notes are shown instead.