Sword of the Stars II: Lords of Winter Update Released

[Dirty]

r17948b

 

*** This update hasn't been tested extensively on old save games. ***

 

Critical fixes:

- Fixed a bug that prevented income from being generated when doing a feasibility study.

- Fixed a crash that could occur when trying to automatically distribute sliders from a hidden slider.

- Fixed a crash with support missions trying to open a dialog twice in a turn.

- Fixed a crash that would occur if closing the game while it was booting up.

- Fixed a von neumann crash caused by the faction running out of resources for a new collector fleet.

- Fixed an issue with crashing gem/forge world events from trying to apply moral bonus.

- Drones can now be designed and assigned to ships.

- Battle Riders may now be launched and recovered via their weapon icons in combat.

- Combat turn flow was rewritten. All combat queries are now answered at once, and then all combat simulations play out.

- Fixed a bug that stopped biome colonizers from improving terraforming values.

 

Other fixes:

- Fixed a recent issue where only the default player profile would be used.

- Fixed tech requirements on a few freighter ship sections.

- Removed "freighter" designation from ship sections to which it was incorrectly applied.

- Tarka freighter savings cost has been reduced from 1.5-million to 150,000.

- Leviathan stats have been improved.

- Tweaked turret arcs on a number of ship and station sections.

- Stations whose crew die off stop rotating in combat.

- Patrol battle riders now follow their tenders better.

- Fixed an issue where battle riders were not swarming around stations effectively.

- Fixed feasibility speech cues from using wrong speech library.

- Fixed admiral driven speech to use proper case.

- Fixed researching sound.

- Fixed research completed early sound cue.

- Fixed the battle draw and winning battle speech cues.

- Fixed under-the-hood sliders to automatically reset themselves to zero.

- Fixed an issue with swarmers trying to assign themselves to systems with no planets.

- Fixed an issue with the flock bonus not being used as a percentage.

- Moved the overharvest warning event to the correct location to stop it spamming every time the IO was queried.

- Fixed an issue that caused the gem and forge world events to spam.

- Fixed battle manager bug when entering system with no Naval base.

- Made visual culling much more subtle on star map to avoid labels popping in and out.

- Cleaned up view filter modes, populated list through code instead of through xml.

- Fixed issue in battle manager where station slots where being displayed even if no CP was available.

- Properly hooked up Mission/Engine section name display to riders in rider manager.

- Combat ready animations no longer loop incorrectly on ships.

- Save games should stay significantly smaller now due to the disabling of a debug feature that was storing a detailed history of all previous changes.

- Fixed a visual issue where tracking torpedoes would draw erroneous lines across the screen.

- The trade view filter on the star map now shows different icons for star systems.

- Fixed a bug that caused the admirals to return an incorrect admiral prefix to sound cues.

- Fixed a bug where Liir Naval Stations were displaying Hiver station assets.

- Fixed visual jitter for battle riders returning to tender.

- Fixed an issue where turn events were not displaying for some.

- Fixed various sizing bugs in GUI lists.

- Protean pods will return attacks.

- Fixed incorrect terrain names in Clouds and Ring star maps.

 

Other changes:

- New entries have been added to the encyclopedia's Galactic Atlas.

- Added new weapons: Blast Storm Missile, Polaris Blast Beam Missile

- Added new Rift star map.

- Added the ability to skip camera transitions with the escape key.

- Added a tutorial help screen for trade.

- Added Zuul freighters.

- Added missing Von Neumann PD weapons.

- Adjusted station visibility distances for combat.

- Added default ship names for command ships, bore ships, and gate ships.

- Implementation of initial, new post combat dialog.

- Added trade Modifier for trade distances.

- Added a table to keep track of trade results to stop clients from not being able to see trade.

- Stopped the ability to trade with someone you are at war with.

- Increased the max planet range for provinces by 1 ly.

- Added a configuration ability for disabling the main menu combat scene. There is no user interface for this diagnostic option, but it can be modified at your own risk in

 

'%localappdata%\Sword of the Stars II\settings\settings.xml' by adding or modifying the LoadMenuCombat element with a True or False value.

- Added launch effects for planet-to-orbit weapons.

- Added "Reserve Slot" label to reserve rider slots.

- Added events for post combat.

- Added realtime feedback to trade slider adjustment in trade view.

- Added filter to battle rider manager to display only carriers in widget.

- Added color coding to riders in rider manager.

- Added max flock bonus to strat mods and hooked it up to morrigi drive tech.

- Added a function for adding orbits with orbit numbers.

 

Key known issues:

- There is no post-combat popup.

- Screen transition time still slow for some.

- Game not running in 64-bit for some (running 32-bit works).

- Looking for people unable to connect to GameSpy for MP.

 

 

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