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.