Hello Commander,
A hotfix has just landed, addressing issues you have been reporting. We’re actively monitoring your feedback and will continue working on additional fixes and improvements in the days ahead.
Asteroid / Waste Rock Issue
We’ve implemented a temporary workaround to address the most severe issues currently affecting the asteroid / waste rock collection. This is a band-aid solution to get this fix to you immediately and you will need to manually initiate the asteroid lander launch.
We’re actively working on a permanent, more robust fix that will restore the intended functionality, but to not delay the patch this is a fix we could implement quickly with low risk.
Inspiring Architecture tech causing Game Freeze
This patch fixes the game freeze issue caused by the Inspiring Architecture tech. If you are playing on a save that have researched the Inspiring Architecture before this patch, you may unfortunately continue to have issues with your colonists due to them having been initialized in a broken state, to fully resolve this you need to either:
Start a new game,
Load a save from before researching Inspiring Architecture, or
Allow the broken colonists to naturally “expire.”
Thank you for your feedback and patience while we continue improving the experience.
Change Log:
Asteroids
Asteroid Lander no longer loads waste rock.
Asteroid Landers will now depart only after an explicit Liftoff order (unless its an Evacuation due to an asteroid expiring) and will no longer automatically return to the asteroid without user input.
Fixed known instances where the Asteroid Lander logic for auto-loading broke and was having difficulty calculating what to load.
Fixed an issue where an Asteroid Lander would sometimes confuse its destination and land where it departed from.
Fixed issue where using Detailed scan of an Asteroid wouldn’t show the resources on it.
Underground
Fixed an issue where a player could build a second Earth Embassy as long as its on another map
Drones can now be assigned to the Elevator
Prefabs are now shared between Surface and Underground
Performance
Fixed game freezes caused by Inspiring Architecture. This might cause savegames to be corrupted.
Fixed issue where opening an 'Advanced Sterling Generator' over a cold spot caused an FPS drop.
Added the missing “Desired Amount” control to the Dumping sites.
Fixed an issue with construction errors after landscaping on visually flat terrain
Fixed an issue where occasionally a “Domes at Risk” notification would spawn because of a starving colonists in a Naturalists Habitat which shouldn’t happen.
Fixed an issue where using "reset map" from in-game menu would would use the default mission params (IMM)
Fixed an issue where some boosts were not applied to Large Wind Turbines
Fixed issue where the "Payload" UI for the Lander while on an Asteroid was not navigable by gamepad
Politics
Fixed an issue where Brazil's tasks of building a refinery would not resolve after you'd done what they asked.
Terraforming buildings now take the proper bonus from the Terraforming Goals and Sustainable Effort law.
Description texts for Media Center, Detention Center now specify that their effects are per dome
Faction Likes / Dislikes
Fixed an issue where India's Like for populated Domes is applied even when there are no Colonists in a dome
Fix an issue in which a faction Dislike for too many Tech Deregulation Laws is applied when conditions are not met
Interplanetary Codex
Increased the cargo capacity and starting loadout for the Interplanetary Codex
Storybits
Added game rule prerequisites to some story bits so that certain events and event choices are locked when the game rule Easy Research is active
Edited a Story Bit that requires security buildings to include Security Posts, not just Stations.
Fixed an issue where some negative storybits would trigger event when Standing with all Rival Colonies is Excellent
QoL
Increased the voice lines cooldown
Reduced the use of specifically the "Orphaned Drones" VO
All values in the Cargo rocket UI now have the grey color for easier readability
After having all research done, the game now adds the excess research points to the repeatable techs.
Modding
Added some gameplay logic that was missing in the mod editor map.
Storybit ModItem tweak.
Starting a new game from the mod editor now sets the default settings.
Added LayoutConstruction mod item.
Added warning in Sponsor preset editor for exceeding the cargo weight.
Fixed updating existing mods on Steamworks
Controller
Fixed an issue where the Notifications control hint panel was remaining after deselecting the notification
Other
Added full URLs to the legal texts
Fixed and issue where some icons were not showing correctly in the infopanel
Known Issue:
Crashes Related to Outdated Video Card Drivers
We’re seeing reports of crashes caused by older GPU drivers. If you experience crashes, please ensure your video card drivers are fully updated.