Patch 1.3.X

Version history

  Astral Planes

 3.10 • 3.10.1 • 3.10.2

  Galactic Paragons

 3.9 • 3.9.2 • 3.9.3

 3.8 • 3.8.2 • 3.8.3 • 3.8.4

  First Contact

 3.7 • 3.7.3 • 3.7.4

  Overlord

 3.6 • 3.6.1

 3.5 • 3.5.2 • 3.5.3

 3.4 • 3.4.3 • 3.4.4 • 3.4.5

  Nemesis

 3.3 • 3.3.2 • 3.3.3 • 3.3.4

 3.2 • 3.2.1 • 3.2.2

 3.1 • 3.1.2

 3.0 • 3.0.1 • 3.0.2 • 3.0.3 • 3.0.4

  Federations

 2.8 • 2.8.1

 2.7 • 2.7.2

 2.6 • 2.6.1 • 2.6.2 • 2.6.3

  Ancient Relics

 2.5 • 2.5.1

 2.4 • 2.4.1

 2.3 • 2.3.1 • 2.3.2 • 2.3.3

  MegaCorp

 2.2.4 • 2.2.5 • 2.2.6 • 2.2.7

 2.2 • 2.2.1 • 2.2.2 • 2.2.3

  Distant Stars

 2.1 • 2.1.1 • 2.1.2 • 2.1.3

  Apocalypse

 2.0 • 2.0.1 • 2.0.2 • 2.0.4 • 2.0.5

  Synthetic Dawn

 1.9 • 1.9.1

 1.8 • 1.8.2 • 1.8.3

  Utopia

 1.6 • 1.6.1 • 1.6.2

 1.5 • 1.5.1

  Leviathans

 1.4 • 1.4.1

 1.3 • 1.3.1 • 1.3.2

  Base version

 1.2 • 1.2.1 • 1.2.2 • 1.2.3 • 1.2.4 • 1.2.5

 1.1

 1.0 • 1.0.1 • 1.0.2 • 1.0.3

**Patch 1.3.X** are all patches beginning with 1.3. There has been one 1.3.X patch.

## 1.3.1

**Patch 1.3.1** was released on 2016-10-27 with Checksum "f100".

### Features

General
* Fleets that go MIA will now prioritize retreating to spaceports they can repair at or where there are rally points
* Disabling the tutorial now recycles the Advisor's RAM, granting 2 Minerals (once per game)
* Returning MIA fleets will now appear at the edge of the system's gravity well, with an order to orbit a friendly colony queued
* Removed restriction on moving pops in sectors, as it caused some issues with resettlement
* Empires get high intel level in systems with Enclaves they have communications with
* Purging now prevents all population growth

Diplomacy
* It is no longer possible to offer Non-Aggression Pacts while at war

### Balance

General
* Scaled spawn chance of the second Enclave station of each type has been doubled, resulting in 24/64/96/100/100% spawn rate in Tiny/Small/Medium/Large/Huge galaxies
* Scaled spawn chance of the third Enclave station of each type has been increased, resulting in 18/48/72/96/100% spawn rate in Tiny/Small/Medium/Large/Huge galaxies
* Civilian fleets can now emergency FTL much faster than military ones
* Reduced frequency of planets with Stone Age Primitives
* 'Alien Overlords' happiness modifier is now affected by policy happiness modifier

Diplomacy & War
* Reduced the extra warscore cost for taking Capitals

Encounters & End Game Crises
* Unbidden Escort ship base evasion reduced from 80 to 20
* Swarm orbital bombards
* Swarm changes bombardment stance
* Swarm only builds stations within borders
* Swarm sends fleet if it's small but can't be merged
* Swarm can now use Full Orbital Bombardment

### AI

War
* AI no longer uses torpedoes until cruisers are available

Sector
* Fixed bug causing sectors to destroy empire and planet unique buildings when redevelopment is toggled off
* Fixed a case where sectors would not properly keep pops enslaved
* Sector AI now only builds military stations in systems with colonies, outpost stations and wormhole stations

Diplomacy
* AI countries who join the League of Non-Aligned Powers will now always stay in it for at least 20 years
* AI will no longer ask you to become their vassal multiple times in a row

Misc
* Fixed bug causing AI not to build stations
* Fixed bug causing AI to build empire and planet unique buildings just to destroy them a second after
* AI does no longer know that player is building a Spaceport
* Fixed bug that caused AI not to build armies sometimes

### User Interface

* Save game incompatibility is indicated by gray text
* Expansion planner shows colony ship type

### Graphics

* Added new environment for Gaia planet, added new surface tiles for savannah and alpine, and fixed the LUT for alpine and savannah planets
* Stellar Devourer spawn VFX duration reduced to 1 day
* Added missing tech icon for tomb world adaptation

### Bugfixes

* Frontier Hospital technology now properly requires Frontier Health
* Fleets can now attack during warp drive wind-down
* Added missing localization for Kicked from Federation notification text
* Added missing localization for Federation Association Request
* Added missing localization for Federation Association Ended
* Added missing component set for Enigmatic Disruption Field which broke localization
* Display all DLCs enabled by the host for clients in the multiplayer lobby
* Fixed Fallen Empires spamming threats and remove flag effect being shown in tooltips
* Transports now also showing fleet status
* Fixed some events attempting to spawn removed ship designs
* Slaver mandate is no longer valid if the country's policies disallow slavery
* Fixed a bug where Colony Influence Cost would sometimes be too high
* Fixed Alpine and Savannah worlds not counting towards the Habitable Worlds Survey event chain
* Fixed CTD caused by ships trying to shoot at entities that did not exist
* Fixed an issue with a slave faction tooltip
* Fixed CTD when an event timed out without any valid options
* The event window will now properly close when the event times out
* Fixed visual artifacts on pulsar and neutron stars
* Added missing localization for Plantoid 4 name list
* Launcher DLC tab scrollbar appears with correct position and size when content overflows container
* Founder species now changes when no pops of that species exist after gene modification
* No longer possible to generate infinite resources by trading non-existent resources
* No longer possible to trade last resource via multiple trade deals
* Tooltip for sector settings was missing localization
* Fixed bug causing ship designer to choose components that haven't yet been researched by player
* Rebuilding Automated Dreadnought now gives you a ship with the same FTL system you have
* Fixed a bug where robots could sometimes get ethics
* Don't send double notification messages when notifying all communications
* Fixed mapicons showing 100% habitability after building a robot pop
* Colonization orders only cancel if player lacks resources when resources haven't yet been allocated. Canceling colonization order for colony ship built via expansion planner returns allocated resources.
* Special projects in the same option group which time out on the same day no longer get blocked from failing properly
* Fix an Infinity Machine event bug where a Spiritualist empire modifier from the Infinity Machine would be removed from one empire if the Infinity Machine killed a fleet from another empire
* Second Infinity Machine contact event will no longer occur if Infinity Machine is hostile
* Wrong event will no longer fire if fleet is destroyed by Infinity Machine
* Dimensional Horror special project now appears in system view
* DPS calculator and military power now take ship firing speed modifiers into account
* Fixed missing graphics on sanctuary guardians
* Fixed conflicting traits for Kel-Azaan
* Fixed materialist Fallen Empire task not giving opinion boost
* Fixed bug causing wrong player to get removed from federation in multiplayer
* Fixed CTD when using polish or russian on Linux/OSX
* Fixed CTD caused by game not having write privileges to its cache files

## 1.3.2

**Patch 1.3.2** was released on 2016-11-10 with Checksum "2620".

### Balance

General
* Particle Lance damage increased from 74-213 to 144-273
* Tachyon Lance damage increased from 85-232 to 169-331
* Arc Emitter damage increased from 1-170 to 1-184
* Focused Arc Emitter damage increased from 1-190 to 1-221
* Mega Cannon damage increased from 111-249 to 92-300
* Giga Cannon damage increased from 133-265 to 121-350
* Shield Capacitors now increase shield regeneration by +50% instead of a fixed +15.0

Guardians
* Infinity Machine rewards are now distributed more even-handedly
* Now possible to get the best result for helping Infinity Machine regardless of ethos

### AI

War
* Federation AI is now better at picking wargoals for non-conqueror federations, will focus on retaking planets and liberating larger countries

Sector
* Fixed some more cases of Sector AI removing +happiness buildings from planets
* Fixed a budgeting issue that was causing sectors to sometimes not build buildings when space construction was toggled on

Diplomacy
* Fixed an issue where AI would guarantee and then almost immediately revoke their guarantee towards a nation they are protective of
* Fixed an issue where the 'Wary' and 'Receptive' attitudes would sometimes not be used
* AIs that are in Federations are now more likely to stay neutral during the War in Heaven
* Slowed down AI requests for federation membership/association status to cut down on message spam

Misc
* Fixed a bug where AI would not rebuild depleted navies while at war because it prioritized armies first
* Fixed a bug where AI was not budgeting for buildings and colonies in some circumstances in early game

### Bugfixes

* Fixed a bug where the first federation member would leave, if any player tried to leave a federation, instead of the player leaving
* Fixed auto-generated ship designs getting wrong combat computers
* Ships and weapon components targeting logic now correctly accounts for evasion
* Fixed armor absorbing too much damage if the ship also had shields left
* Pops working on guardian buildings no longer appear unemployed
* No longer possible to guarantee an empire while at war with them
* Fixed missing localisation key FEDERATION\_ACCEPTANCE\_FACTOR
* Fixed a bug where the Non-Aligned League winning the War in Heaven could result in endless event spam
* Enclave governments now get a new ruler when the first one dies
* Non-playable countries can no longer win the game
* Fixed an issue where Awakened Empire subjects would not join the War in Heaven if they became a subject before it started
* Fixed a case where declared wars would become invalid due to attackers' subjects guaranteeing the target
* Fixed an issue where some Awakened Empires would have their 'crisis fighter' AI kick in during a War in Heaven
* Fixed some cases where Diplomatic Incident events were firing inappropriately
* Infinity Machine interaction events should no longer fire if the Infinity Machine has been destroyed
* Fixed Enigmatic Fortress event chain not reacting appropriately when special projects time out
* Fixed Drake Egg Incubation project not timing out properly
* Fixed Infinity Machine destruction event triggering after destroying non-Infinity Machine fleets in some circumstances
* Fixed Terraforming achievement not working
* Fixed Continental, Savanna and Alpine worlds not being used for primitive civs
* Fixed CTD that could happen when building tooltip for relative power in the diplomacy screen
* Fixed rare CTD that could happen when changing policies
* Fixed rare CTD related to anomalies
* Fixed CTD when completing a certain Special Project

## References

1. ↑ Update 1.3.1 Released [checksum f100]
2. ↑ Update 1.3.2 Released [checksum 2620]