V1.61

V 1.61 Update

Gameplay

• The Starbase Military ring and its two upgrades now give a flat bonus.
• All other Starbase military modules still give multipliers but at higher values.
• Reduced the Starbase Range boost given by Military ring by 1.
• Starbase culture bases and modules now generate more influence per turn
• Increased the anomaly counts on mid-range settings.

Bugs

• Mercenaries
  • Fixed issue with the "The Trireme" not being able to construct a starbase
  • The Derr now gives the proper fleet defense bonus
  • The Caravan description no longer overstates its Fleet Range ability
  • Fixed typos, clarified Mercenary ship descriptions, and clean up some Tech Tree descriptions. 
  • Fix several issues with the -L -P -D versions of assorted ships not being named correctly.
  • Torians can now build research related starbase modules and run the research planetary project.
  • The Arcean Defense module starbase module no longer slows friendly ships. 
  • Campaign: Set it up so Blessing I trigger will be disabled if Blessing II is colonized first.
  • Custom factions with the "amphibious" trait should now get the proper bonuses
• Ships can no longer eject onto tiles occupied by Asteroids. 
• Fixed issue with life support and some weapons augments that weren't using the correct manufacturing cost type.
• Re-enabled multiplayer play for people with mismatched DLC in most cases. However, players with Mercenaries can only play against other Mercenary players.
• Unforgiving, Eager, and Abundant traits should properly work again.
• The Altairans can now build the Champion's Temple.
• The Elerium Defense Shields adjacency bonus now works properly.
• Fixed crashes on insane maps with 80+ factions.
• Fixed crash caused by a ship being awarded to a player that had just died or defeated.
• Creating a custom faction after playing the campaign no longer crashes the game.
• Fixed updated descriptions of the Hyperion improvements.
• Fixing a problem where the detailed match results were not always been saved properly
• Fixed an issue where a few of the Altarian ships were using the wrong thumbnails
• Addressed an issue with the AI Surveying guarded anomalies.
• Multiplayer: Addressed some desync issues.
• Ship designer no longer crashes if ship has too many support modules
• Fixed mismatched values in the starbase sensor modules descriptions.
• Reduced the mercenary cost inflation rate
• Fixed a problem with missing colony ships in the Milky Way campaign

UI

• Mercenaries:
  • Added inverted color swatches for the Arcean and Torians for custom factions
  • Desaturated the Torian Continent gradient some, to make Green hexes more visible.
  • Fixed rounding issue in the display of Mercenary abilities that caused apparent mismatch between the description and its effects
• Any ship with nebula immunity will not show nebula effects in the tooltip now when in a nebula.
• Fixed font for nebula effects in the Fleet Tooltip.
• The Required Resources will no longer double up/break in the ship designer in Medium UI.
• Increased the available space for the resource number text, in both the main game window and the shipyard window. 
• The Cancel Upgrade button would get disabled if you upgrade, then canceled, then upgraded again. This is now resolved.
• Fixed some issues with the relic icons n the resource bar looking bad on medium UI

Other Resources

V1.61 Forum Post