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5.042 contains a lot of engine improvements backported from AVWW. Rendering is now more efficient, and in theory a lot of the textbox issues should be dealt with now.
There's also a bunch of little fixes to recent stuff like the energy rework, drones, and the line-place context menu. And some balance changes to carriers and turrets that should make defense a little more pleasant from the human perspective.
But (and here's the reason for the release name) the majority of the work that's gone into this release isn't even in the notes or visible in the game, because it went into the framework for the major feature of the upcoming expansion. Still not ready to talk about it, but it's coming along well.
5.043 answers the results of our sixth "Worst Unit" poll. Our "winners" were the Zenith Reserves, the Decloaker, the Captive Human Settlement, and the Spire Armor Rotter. Everyone give them a hand! Hmm, they don't seem amused. But at least they'll enjoy the buffs!
We've also dealt with a couple longstanding player annoyances in this version:
Special Forces guard posts are no longer autotargeted so you don't have to worry about your ships (or minor faction friends) shooting them up and causing the +1 AIP per SF post. Another change was necessary to prevent that from being cheesed (to drain off AI reinforcements), but that's done too.
Now when the AI buys new stuff from the Zenith Trader, the resulting structures will not generate AIP when killed. So the AI can still replace warp gates and plant black hole machines and such with the trader, but it won't cost you AIP to take those trader-bought ones out. To compensate, there's a new item in the trader's AI-only shop. It's fairly nasty, but I'm sure the players will be the better judge of that.
And there's a few other fixes and balance changes in there.
If you are looking for an AI War, give the latest AI War Sortie Bulletin a look! Post your info in the comment section and add each other over Steam to organize a game. This is reposted every few months to refresh the list of available and eager players looking for a game, so check the Steam announcements once in a while.
This is a standard update that you can download through the in-game updater itself, if you already have 5.000 or later. When you launch the game, you'll see the notice of the update having been found if you're connected to the Internet at the time. If you don't have 5.000 or later, you can download that here.