v2.01.1 Change List
Gameplay
[p align="start"]Eidolon planet development[p align="start"]The Eidolon get more out of the worlds they take, and colonizing one no longer runs into conflict with shroud limitations.Colonizing with the Izharien Demiurge now grants its free Logistics, Defense and Population track levels in full. The grants were being clipped by the shroud development cap on the planet the Eidolon had just shrouded.
City worlds: population growth at the top population track from 0.025 to 0.03.
Ferrous worlds: population growth from 0.01 to 0.015 at the third population level and from 0.01 to 0.02 at the fourth.
Volcanic, volcanic moon and ice worlds: population growth from 0.01 to 0.015 at the third population level.
Ice and oceanic worlds: planet health at the fourth influence level from 500 to 750.
Ship graveyards: metal income per population from 0.0038 to 0.0048 at the second and third population levels.
Clairvoyance grants detection quality at the target planet as well as vision, rising from +2 to +4 with ability level. Psionic divination sees through a cloak.
Cleanse now purges corruption for all nearby units based on the amount of corruption the initial target had when it was cleansed.
The bonus now grants +5 civilian and +10 military structure slots on top of its existing gravity well radius effect.
Fixes
Last Stand multiplayer lobbies can be created again.
Ships no longer drift away from a fleet whose leader is pathing to it.
Auto-cast abilities whose turn alignment covers a full circle fire again. Splice Amalgams never triggered while its carrier held an attack order, a move order to another gravity well, or Hold Position; Advent Guidance and eight other abilities were authored the same way.
Faction missions are no longer disabled for everyone when an Eidolon player is in the game. Mission UI, updates, events and rewards are now switched off per faction rather than globally.
Saves written while the Herald civilian research lab and culture center briefly carried a traffic port no longer crash on the first traffic tick. Stale traffic port components are removed on load and their traffic ships detached.
Replays recorded on the DLC release build no longer misread command serialization.
Structures built on asteroids appear as their own icons in the selection window instead of being filtered out as clutter.
Cloak controls stay hidden until the simulation is running, so a quick-load no longer reads a simulation that is still loading.
Berserk weapons pick their target correctly and can no longer return a target alongside a rejection.
Applying mods should no longer hang.
Mod Playlists can no longer be given a duplicate name; collisions get a numbering suffix and existing duplicates are migrated.
Mod Playlist names match case-insensitively, so Load and Delete work when the typed casing differs from the saved casing.
Refreshing your mod subscriptions no longer clears enabled playlists.
Mod disk space warnings no longer fire falsely when the mod install directory does not exist yet, and stale warnings are cleared when space cannot be measured.
UI
A loading spinner now appears during blocking operations such as applying mods.
Corrupted planets and fixtures show a radial progress ring around their main view icon while shrouding.
Permanent allies no longer offer an intelligence purchase, and the button explains why.
Your faction plate and primary color choices are remembered along with the faction, color, icon and portrait settings you already had saved.
The Unfollow button on a collection's playlist explains that the playlist is managed by the collection and cannot be deleted on its own.
Fixed a typo in the Vasari Alliance Gravity Pulse upgrade description.
Graphics and Performance
Particle billboards render at half resolution by default and are composited back with a depth-aware upsample. This cuts billboard pixel shader work roughly fourfold and blend traffic by around eight times, which is what keeps large battles from dropping frames on lower-end hardware. A new Full Resolution Particles setting opts back in to the old path. Beams, exhaust trails and coronas are unaffected.
Billboard buckets that never write refraction offsets now skip the refraction render target entirely and use pixel shader variants with refraction compiled out, saving up to a third of the pass's blend bandwidth with no visual change.
Shadows are filtered with nine hardware comparison fetches instead of twenty-five point samples and twenty-five shader-side compares, for the same 5x5 filter.
The parallax march is skipped on materials with no parallax, which is nearly all of them. It was previously looping and refining to displace the texture coordinate by exactly nothing on every pixel.
A cloaked ship's rim, edge line and shimmer now build and dissolve with the hull for observers who never see the steady cloak. They used to pop on at full strength over an invisible hull.
The intro movie's loading throbber has been replaced by the shared loading indicator.
Modding
Planet track grant operators accept ignore_shroud_restricted_max_track_level, letting a grant bypass a planet's shroud development cap.
Abilities accept passive_cooldown_time, and buffs can drive change_ability_remaining_cooldown with a passive cooldown type.
Action data sources can declare buff_unit_modifiers with a buff_unit_modifier_id, so a buff can carry a modifier whose value comes from an ability's level values.
New per_current_corruption action value transform.
Main view icons support a shroud_progress_arc with brush, begin and end angle, direction, and progress and background colors, configured in main_view.uniforms.
The unity_mana_use_base_asset_conversion_rates and unity_mana_use_improved_asset_conversion_rates empire modifiers have been removed. Use the per-asset unity_mana_to_*_conversion_rate modifiers.
v2.01.0 Change List
Gameplay
[p align="start"]Iskazhar Epitaph (Buff)[p align="start"]The Eidolon Starbase has grown more powerful and precise, with one new upgrade and one improved upgrade.[p align="start"]The Dimensional Shifter teleportation can now be targeted to a specific location in its destination gravity well. However, with precision comes a need for information, and the ability now requires vision over the target to activate. Fortunate then, that the Eidolon can observe a destination unseen...[p align="start"]The Phase Destablizer has been added to the Starbase as a new researchable item. This device will damage the hull and drain the antimatter of enemy forces attempting to jump away from it. This cannot kill a target... But it can leave them weakened and perilously close to death.Dimensional Shifter: now position targeted. Select a visible location in the target gravity well to begin the 30 second relocation charge up, which is now shown in the tooltip.
Phase Destablizer: unlocked by Phase Destabilizer Design (Tier 4, 235 seconds, 1400/600/600, requires the starbase). Costs 2 Utility exotics, builds in 120 seconds, one per starbase. Enemy ships that phase jump out of the gravity well lose 50% of their current hull and 50% of their current antimatter over 5 seconds.
Void Missile: range from 10,000 to 12,500, pierce from 400 to 450.
Void Blast Charge (the missile it fires): top speed from 1750 to 2000, acceleration time from 7 to 8 seconds, turn rate from 75 to 60 and time to full turn from 3 to 2 seconds, armor from 5 to 10.
Its shock cannon is now tagged as a shock cannon dealing energy damage. It was tagged as a physical autocannon, so it answered to the wrong research.
Phasic Energy Regulation: every Phase Jump Inhibitor (TEC, Advent and Vasari) now removes 0.005 corruption from its planet every second and lifts the planet's shroud restriction by one development level while it stands.
Each step reduces the planetary corruption debuff and raises how far a shrouded planet's tracks can be developed. Fully researched, every line reaches the +4 development levels the old single research gave.
TEC: Dark Zone Designation (Tier 2, 150 seconds, 750/125/150), Phasic Telemetry Monitoring (Tier 4, 360 seconds, 1700/300/500 and 2 Defense exotics), Phasic Catastrophe Mitigation (Tier 5, 525 seconds, 2200/400/700 and 1 Ultimate exotic). Each cuts the corruption debuff by 25%, for +1, +1 and +2 development levels.
Replaces the single Tier 5 research (600 seconds, 2250/425/750, 50% debuff reduction, +4 levels).
Advent Reborn: Shrouded Embrace (Tier 1, 60 seconds, 250/25/75), Corruption Redirection (Tier 2, 120 seconds, 500/125/300), Shrouded Attunement (Tier 3, 270 seconds, 850/275/650 and 1 Economic exotic). Each cuts the debuff by 25%, for +1, +1 and +2 levels.
Replaces the single Tier 3 research (50% debuff reduction, +4 levels).
Advent Wrath: Telepathic Isolation (Tier 2, 120 seconds, 500/125/300), Sacrificial Cleansing (Tier 3, 225 seconds, 800/250/600 and 1 Economic exotic), Incorruptible Unity (Tier 4, 360 seconds, 1100/425/900 and 2 Economic exotics). Each cuts the debuff by 25%, for +1, +1 and +2 levels.
Replaces the single Tier 4 research (420 seconds, 1150/450/950), which removed the debuff entirely. The full line now reaches 75%.
Vasari Exodus: Phasic Energy Suppression (Tier 2, 150 seconds, 270 metal and 240 crystal), Phasic Counter Resonance (Tier 3, 270 seconds, 450 metal, 480 crystal and 1 Utility exotic), Inhibitor Adaptation (Tier 4, 420 seconds, 630 metal, 720 crystal and 2 Utility exotics). The steps cut the debuff by 18%, 18% and 36%, for +1, +1 and +2 levels.
Replaces the single Tier 4 research (50% debuff reduction, +4 levels).
Hull from 450 to 400, shields from 400 to 350.
Plasma weapon damage from 40 to 30.
Vespa Blueprint moved from Tier 1 to Tier 2, research time from 75 to 120 seconds, cost from 300/50/100 to 500/125/300.
Telepathic Coordination (was Material Communion): Tier 1, 60 seconds, 250/25/75. Converts Focus to credits at 2 credits per point of Focus.
Collective Distribution (was Greater Material Communion): Tier 2, 150 seconds, 550/150/350 and 1 Economic exotic. Raises the rate to 5 credits per point of Focus.
Material Communion (new): Tier 5, 600 seconds, 1450/625/1250 and 1 Ultimate exotic. Adds 1 metal and 1 crystal per point of Focus.
Previously the line sat at Tiers 2 and 3 and converted Focus to credits, metal and crystal at 10 of each per point, rising to 20 of each.
Eidolon supply research is cheaper: Clandestine Caches from 155 to 105 seconds and 1000/350/350 to 650/200/200, Siphoned Industry from 235 to 175 seconds and 1400/600/600 to 1050/400/400, Vanguard Coordination from 330 to 260 seconds and 1800/850/850 to 1450/650/650.
Retributive Capacitive Shield Design: research time from 175 to 260 seconds, cost from 1050/400/400 to 1450/650/650.
Zhaltharien Anathema: the Crest cloaking buffs now end when the ability is released instead of lingering.
Shrouding a planet can now draw on the market. Hold Alt when shrouding to buy the missing resources.
Right clicking a Shroud Mode button, on the quick bar or in the Planetary Corruption window, now deactivates the planet's active mode. Previously the gesture did nothing, or focused the planet.
Alliance offers can no longer demand more influence than the ally holds or can hold. The demand tooltip shows the amount, the button is disabled when the visible side holds no influence, and a stale demand can still be taken back.
Fixes
Strikecraft are removed when their carrier's slots are removed.
Achievement progress that accumulates over a match (Systemic Corruption, Dust and Echoes, plate spins, resources raided) now survives save and load. It was silently reset by every load. The Fear of Icebergs capital-ship latch is re-derived on load so it can no longer be laundered by reloading.
Closed a desync in server-hosted games: AI diplomacy reactions to gifts and to enemy culture domination were applied on the client rather than in the simulation.
Lobbies without the Harbinger DLC can change the starting mode again.
The lobby map settings tooltip no longer crashes on an unknown starting mode.
The map preview keeps starting gravity wells accurate: overrides match the launched game, dragging a position enables and resets overrides, generated maps keep their random starts, and legend colour markup renders correctly.
News items are shown in the right (published date) order.
The pirate king's Redline Navigation tooltip uses the shared "hull lost on phase jump" line.
1.51 saves load again.
Unit item names in the faction picker's unit preview come from localized text rather than file names.
\[Harbinger DLC] Rift fixes: a rift closes when its homeworld is lost but stays open until its queued delivery lands, a rift that failed to close after a Major Portal built a capital ship now closes, and a closing rift is non-functional on the tick its close is scheduled.
\[Harbinger DLC] Shroud restriction and corruption debuff modifiers from planet-scoped sources (such as the Phase Jump Inhibitor) are applied, and a non-owner's view of a shrouded planet's development limit no longer borrows the owner's track definitions and honours future research.
\[Harbinger DLC] The Eidolon Starbase’s teleporter's landing point is clamped to the gravity well, tested at landing height with the starbase's build footprint, and an icon click lands midway between the planet and the well edge.
\[Harbinger DLC] The Scourge weapon research description now says light phase cannon, which is what it grants, not a super heavy phase dart.
UI
The main menu logo has hover and pressed states.
Save and load menus can search icons of DLC-locked players.
Enabling or disabling a mod that contains shaders now shows a Restart Required dialog, since shaders only load at startup.
The front-end welcome message was retired in favour of the news screen.
New shared tooltip lines: hull, armor, shield and antimatter lost on phase jump, charge up duration, and teleport to target location.
\[Harbinger DLC] The Cloak button tooltip shows the shortest and longest cloak cooldown remaining across the selection, and honours unity cooldown status. The button's selection walk is cached per frame.
\[Harbinger DLC] Build tooltips show cloak detection, including player and level modifiers.
\[Harbinger DLC] New Show Corruption Lines setting. Corruption spread lines and rings fade with camera distance, their fibers collapse when zoomed in, and the fade stays continuous while following a unit through a phase lane.
\[Harbinger DLC] The "cloaked unit detected by enemy" notification no longer plays a sound.
\[Harbinger DLC] Eidolon influence research and the survey research have proper descriptions, and the Corruption Reservoir description was reworded.
Modding
Abilities can be position targeted with position_target_relocates_owner_unit and position_target_gravity_well_must_be_fully_detected, and buffs can carry a destination_position of target_position with a target_gravity_well unit type. This is how the Dimensional Shifter works.
Buffs can set make_dead_on_source_ability_released.
ignore_shroud_limit and planet_corruption_debuff_strength are honored from planet-scoped modifier sources such as buffs.
Corruption line zoom fade knobs in main_view.uniforms: zoomed_in_alpha_scale, zoomed_in_unfocused_alpha_scale, zoomed_in_fade_begin_distance_scale, zoomed_in_fade_end_distance_scale.
