Stardock Entertainment is pleased to announce the release of v1.3 for its epic, turn-based strategy game, Fallen Enchantress today. This latest update adds the new Majesty spell, AI improvements, balance adjustments, UI improvements and bug fixes.

Version 1.30 Changelog:

New Features:

• Added the Majesty spell


• Added 115 new unit designs for the AI to use (designs from Kongdej, thanks!)

Balance Updates:

• Conclaves generate more Research but less Gold


• Forts generate more Production but less Gold


• Animal Husbandry gives +10 food per grain


• Granary gives +35 food per grain instead of +25


• Mill gives +4 production per material instead of +3


• Slave Pen gives +4 production per material instead of +3


• Labor Guild gives +6 production per material instead of +5


• Refined Agriculture gives +10 food per grain instead of +5


• Overhauled the tile yield system, in general the crappy tiles no longer show up, the good tiles do and are more varied (no more oceans of tile yields, instead you see 5-6 spots with different yields)


• Increased the base production per material from 6 to 8


• Towns people automatically destroy the Forge of the Overlord components when they're conquered to prevent them from falling into enemy hands


• Champion Recruitment cost gets gradually more expensive based on the # of champions the player has


• Tireless March can only be cast on one unit at a time


• Blindness lowers the victims Accuracy by 25% instead of 50%

Fixes:

• Fixed the quest that reduced the occupation unrest penalty (bonus: modders can now modify any elementaldef attr)


• Fixed the Blood Season event


• Fixed an issue that caused Deorcnysse to not have any production or food


• Fixed Shadow World to be castable anywhere


• Fixed an issue keeping the Confusion spell from showing up as a spell


• Fixed a gamesave corruption issue


• Fixed crashes


• Fixed an issue that can cause bounding boxes to get offset (ie: you click on one tile/unit and it selects a different tile)


• Fixed an issue keeping the Cloak of Thorns spell from working


• Fixed the Strange Noises quest to correctly give the wolf pups


• Fixed a hang issue (game goes not responding)


• Fixed an issue not allowing players to settle in the Ruins of the Imperium wildland (and therfor be unable to conquer it)


• Fixed the Loner trait


• Fixed an issue causing plague stalker lairs to look like empty tiles (this is why many people thought the asaq wildland was broken, there were other goodie huts you needed to clear but there was literally nothing in the tile displaying them or icon indicating they were there)

AI:

• AI is more aggressive about researching and completing the Spell of Making victory


• AI more likely to value lumber improvements as production boosts


• AI players now sell their loot to the item shop


• Reduced AI valuing of various treaties to get rid of the "If you pay me 120 gildar I'll give you a trade agreement worth 1 gildar per turn" popups


• AI is more likely to ask for peace in war based on larger strategic considerations (rather than a simple military might calculation)


• AI is more likely to bribe a player (human or machine) to go after other players IF the other player already has poor relations


• Modified AI relation weights


• AI players will try to acquire mounted units more effectively on normal and higher difficulty level


• Updated Diplomacy Relations system: Relations are no longer calculated. Instead, each turn, a player's opinion of another player is measured and then trickles into an overall bucket that results in relations slowly changing over time


• AI interacts more with players


• AI Sovereign does a better job of searching for a good place for its capital rather than relying on its starting tile


• Only certain types of AI personalities will aggressively target the spell of making victory path


• AI Sovereign and champions more insistant on having support units before going out into combat


• AI is smarter about where and when it builds the various Forge of the Overlord components (more defensible)


• Fixed glitch that caused the AI not to "see" certain tiles as being able to be settled on


• Added 115 new unit designs for the AI to use (designs from Kongdej, thanks!)

UI:

• We've add an indicator on the faction power panel when a player controls the towers for the spell of making victory (so players have an earlier indication that the AI is about to end the game)


• Lots of good typo and desc fixes from TBS Gamer (Thanks!)

Stardock Entertainment is pleased to present the v1.20 update for its turn-based fantasy strategy game, Fallen Enchantress today. This latest update contains a number of balance changes, bug fixes, crash fixes, AI improvements and more.

Balance

Reduced Wealthy from +800 Gildar to +500 Gildar

Ancient Temples are more common and they give +1 Research per turn instead of +1 Mana

Pastures gives +3% hit points to all your units instead of increasing the grains of the attached city

Increased the default players on small, medium and large maps slightly

Increased the labor costs of bows and ranged staves

Fruit Groves, Twilight Bees, Wild Game and Whild Grain are now more common

Increased the amount of resources spawned

Monsters still raze city but it no longer salts the land

Twilight Honey now provides a faction wide -2% to unrest

Gold deposits are more common but produce less gildar

Grain provies 25 food instead of 20 by default

Modified rarity of different world resources and their availability to have more variety

Goodie huts are slightly more common

Shards are slightly rarer

Default turn limit reduced to 800 (from 1000)

Blizzard can be cast in an area will hit your units (and it will damage them)

Pioneers cost 30 population when trained



Fixes

Fixed a bug where the hit point bar wouldn't update when the crushing blow ability was used

Fixed bug where AI units would sometimes get stuck (like watching while their city was taken over or not going out to get goodie huts or going after an easy kill unit)

Fixed bug where AI knowledge trading didn't always reduce tradeable knowledge

Fixed an issue keeping the Growth potion from increasing blunt damage

Fixed an issue where the Paragon spell could be cast indefinitly

Fixed an issue where units will now exit cities in the best way to reach their specified destination

Fixed crashes


AI

AI more intelligent about when and what it builds in its cities

AI evaluates whether it should be training archers/catapults/mounted units more effectively

Fixed but that caused AI to disproportionately choose the first level up perk (like Assassin)

AI more aggressive about getting to goodie huts



UI

Fixed glitch that caused the arrow cursor to show instead of the hour glass when the player dragged the map between turns

Reduced ground cover on terrain with the exception of deserts

Added an icon to all the Refined techs to indicate that they can be researched multiple times

Fixed lots of typos

Resource tooltip no longer lists the tech requirement if the player already has the tech

Removed references to techs unlocking quests in the tech descriptions

Stardock Entertainment is pleased to announce the release of v1.12 for Fallen Enchantress today. This minor update resolves a number of issues reported to us by players.

Fixes

Crash while loading saves (especially old version saves)

Correctly sets the Heroic trait to cost 2 instead of 0

Removed the setting of arctic terrain from Vetrar's Howl (it was overwriting cities)

Fixed a bug that caused auto-targeting of tactical units when all you did was previously set them as a target, but have since only walked up next to them

Fixed datadef corruption issues (which caused issues like trolls losing their death animation and crashing the game when they were killed)

Fallen Enchantress has been updated to v1.1

This update includes:

Fixes

Fixed Armor Piercing on all the Pikes, Shadow Broadsword, Druss Blade and the Ram’s Head Longbow

Fixed warg sweep animation

Fixed lots of crashes

Fixed the Heart of Stone ability

Fixed a bunch of clothes that had invalid color settings

Fixed a hang if you have Blood Sigil on a city

Fixed invalid color settings on the Bard and Shieldbearer henchmen

Big change to reduce memory usage in the late game

Fixed blue lines (they look like straight rivers) on the cloth map

Fixed an issue that could cause the AI to autocomplete all improvements when under threat.


Balance

Amethyst Vault provides 2 crystal/season (instead of 1)

Base city Gildar is reduced slightly

Guild Grocer bonus hit points reduced from +10% to +5%

Units trained in a city with an Infirmary start with the Endurance trait

Mining Guild provide 2 metal/season (instead of 1)

Pyre of Anniellum gives +2 fire power (instead of 1) but doesn’t give mana

Reduced the unrest penalty from slums from 10% to 5%

Guild Warehouse gives +4 gildar/season along with the existing bonus when the queue is empty

Watchtower gives units trained in the city the Charge trait (instead of bonus init to defending units)

Curgen’s Volcano has a 10 turn casting time and its casting cost is raised from 500 to 2000

Destiny’s Gift casting cost raised from 100 to 200 and the buffs were decreased

Earthquake casting cost raised from 100 to 300

Destiny’s Insight casting cost raised from 100 to 150

Pralius no longer has a sword that’s too high a level for him

Brutal Nature juggernaut trait reduced from +100% Attack to +50% and its training cost increased from 16 to 60

Frenzy juggernaut trait adds +1 Moves and its training cost increased from 10 to 50

Ignore Pain juggernaut trait reduced from +40 hp to +30 hp and its training cost increased from 35 to 50

Maul juggernaut trait training cost increased from 0 to 60

Uncontrolled Rage juggernaut trait training cost increased from 16 to 30

Juggernaut base hp increased from 40 to 50

Reduced the base cost of Juggernauts from 400 to 250

Reduced the Training Time on the Cook trait from 20 to 6

Heroic trait now gives +20 Influence when completing a quest (instead of 50)

Heroic trait gets +40 base Influence

Diplomat trait gives +40 base Influence (instead of +20)

Henchmen Influence cost reduced from 50 to 40

Bard henchmen starts with the best armor available

Shieldman henchman starts with the best shield and armor available

Torch Bearer henchmen starts with the Ring of Embers, Ring of Life, Belt of Speed and the best fire staff possible

Mercenaries dont have a Wage cost anymore

Tweaked the formula which determines the threat rating of units/armies

Modified the combat rating calcualtor to consider defense a bit more

Wraith race gains +20 Dodge

Amarian race loses the -1 hp per level

Quest scrolls now cost 100 gildar (instead of 50)



AI

AI trait weighting reduced from 1000 to 100 for researching techs purposes

AI checks to make sure a given unit isn't a city guardian unit before doing AI on it (to keep the AI from taking city defenders out of cities)

AI calculates the battle rank of its champions and sovereigns each turn afresh to accurately reflect how strong it is prior to operating on it

AI caps how much it will count crystal, influence and metal when factoring what it should research

AI vastly better at choosing technologies to research

AI is more protective of its cities

Fixed bug where AI pioneers couldn't build outposts if they were in an army with a champion or a sovereign (hence, armies of pioneers late game)

Fixed AI bug where sovereigns and champions, late game, would tend to lone wolf attack cities

AI pioneers better about staying put if there is an area threat around them (i.e. will stay inside a city)

AI values armor more than before when designing units

AI champions now care more about whether the city is defended well enough before leaving a city

Fixed bug that prevented AI from casting strategic attack spells on enemy units

AI interacts more with players

Fixed path finding bug that caused any AI units that intersected during movement to cancel their destinations. This prevented AI units from being able to effectively create armies or get around late game (basically crippled AI movement late game)

Stardock is pleased to announce that the v1.02 for Elemental: Fallen Enchantress is now available. This update includes various fix, AI and Balance improvements, and more. Fallen Enchantress launched recently and has received some great reviews from sites like Game Informer, GamingOgre, the Escapist, and more!

Highlights:

-Added edge scrolling in tactical
-Reduced memory consumption
-Player created sovereigns get random traits based on their race when played by the AI
-Custom faction unit and building colors are now retained between games
-AI improvements
-Performance improvements
-Memory optimization

Stardock Entertainment and Ironclad Games are happy to announce v1.1 for Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion. This latest update adds dozens of new maps, balance changes and bug fixes as noted below. Version 1.1 is save game compatible with the previous v1.041.

[ Gameplay ]

New Maps! We've added dozens of new maps, including competitive multiplayer variants which normalize resources, militia and other factors (thanks to Pbhead and GoaFan77 for these). New maps include:
The Art of War Competitive
Battle Lines / Battle Lines Competitive
Blitz / Blitz Competitive
Close Encounters Competitive
Crystal Storm / Crystal Storm Competitive
Double Cross Competitive
Empires at War
Foreign Invasion Competitive
Fractured Lands / Fractured Lands Competitive
Gemini / Gemini Competitive
Hostile Orbits / Hostile Orbits Competitive
Kabel Competitive
Maelstrom Competitive
Melting Point Competitive
New Dawn / New Dawn Competitive
Pandemonium Competitive
Quick Strike Competitive
Random - Huge Multi-Star Competitive
Random - Huge Ring Competitive
Random - Huge Single-Star Competitive
Random - Large Multi-Star Competitive
Random - Large Single-Star Competitive
Random - Medium Competitive
Random - Mini / Random - Mini Competitive
Random - Small Competitive
Random - Vast / Random - Vast Competitive
Razor's Edge Competitive
Storm Front Competitive
Tempest Competitive
The Void
Triple Entente Competitive
Twin Empires Competitive
Typhoon Competitive
Unstable Alliance Competitive
Whirlwind Competitive
All corvettes are now unaffected by most harmful Titan abilitiesExceptions are Explosive Shot, which will still knockback corvettes in the AoE, and The Maw, which will still potentially draw in corvettes in the AoE (but won't specifically target them).
Ships should no longer try to use abilities on invulnerable targets.
Corvettes will no longer be explicitly targeted by Cleansing Brilliance or Reverie abilities (but may still be affected by them).
Corvettes are no longer affected by Magnetic Clouds.
Adjusted relationship bonuses per Pact with allies to grant a 0.2 Diplomatic Actions bonus per unique Pact (to a maximum of 2.4).
Adjusted relationship penalties per Pact with enemies to grant a -0.5 Diplomatic Actions penalty per unique Pact (to a maximum of -6.0).
TEC Loyalists
Titan: Can now cast Group Shield on itself.
Titan: Increased started HP from 5400 to 5500; increased starting Armor from 11 to 12.
TEC Rebels
Titan: AutoCannon damage increased from 110.5 to 121.52; Missile damage increased from 127.5 to 140.25.
Advent (General)
Deliverance Engine Balance Changes:
Cannonshell speed increased from 12000 to 36000 (moving at the speed of thought!).
Culture Spread effect increased from 5 to 15.
The 25% damage buff to Advent player owned ships will now affect incoming ships as well as those already in the gravity well when the shot hits.
Deliverance Engine shots will now reduce an enemy planet's Allegiance by 10% (stacks 3 times).
Advent Loyalists
Global Unity now adds a 5% bonus to max. planet allegiance in addition to its other effects.
Advent Rebels
Wail of the Sacrificed has been changed to affect all adjacent planets, ships and structures regardless of ownership.
Titan: Chastic Burst antimatter cost increased from 70 to 80; cooldown increased from 20 to 30.
Titan: Side Beam damage reduced from 130 to 117.
Fixed Expulsion tech to properly give its 20% culture spread bonus.
Vasari Loyalists
Titan: The Maw will no longer explicitly target corvettes (though they may still be affected if caught in the ability AoE).
Titan: Increased the cooldown on The Maw from 175 to 210.
Titan: Starting HP increased from 4802 to 5042; HP per level decreased from 459 to 436; starting Shields increased from 2567 to 2696; Shields per level decreased from 533 to 507.
Vasari Rebels
Titan: HP per level increased from 405 to 445; Shields per level increased from 529 to 582; Armor per level increased from 0.58 to 0.64.
Rebel Starbases will now suffer from additional debuffs after a phase jump: Passive shield regeneration is decreased by 50%, Armor is reduced by 1.5 and weapon damage received is increased by 25%. Negative effects after phase jumping a Starbase now stack 3 times; debuff duration of all effects increased to 600 seconds from 60.
Armor Restoration technology bonus reduced from +25% HP / +5 Armor to +15% HP / +3 Armor.
Pirates
Ships spawned from bounty raids made less random and weaker earlier in the game.
Pirate raids spawned via Diplomatic mission costs adjusted for revised raid levels above (i.e., much cheaper).
[ Misc. ]

Fixed reported null pointer crash related to buff spawning (thanks ezeltje299).
Fixed reported null check on first spawner buffs (thanks ateague1987).
Fixed broken Pirate Exterminator Steam Achievement.
Fixed broken Outstanding Resume Steam Achievement.
Steam Cloud Saves re-enabled and should now work as intended in multiplayer games.
Checksum detection added on multiplayer saves to validate that saves aren't corrupted.
Fixed Pact related crash that would occur if a player had more than six unique Pacts established.
Fixed null pointer crash related to Wail of the Sacrificed.
[ Modding ]

Added new icons to Galaxy Forge for competitive map types.

Stardock Entertainment is pleased to announce the release of Fallen Enchantress v1.01 today. This first update contains a new content, bug fixes, balance changes, AI and UI enhancements, plus refinements to the included Scenario.

Content:

Add the Iru Elixir (replaces the Strong Healing Potion), it heals 80 damage and removes a random injury from the champion that drinks it, it can be found as loot
Added ability to have spell-like effects with no casting (i dont want pariden units to do their spellcast animation at the start of every battle)
Custom factions get a music theme now
The Flesh Bound Tome faction ability unlocks the Consume spell, which allows a player to destroy a shard in his territory for 200 mana
Added Dragonfly Bracers as a custom sovereign item (increases init by 2)
Added Rebels as a faction weakness (increases unrest)
Fixes

Fixed a crash if you create a sovereign with mods enabled and then disable mods
Fixed an issue where if you got a new unit form a random event and your sovereign was in a city it would be lost
Fixed an issue where negative enchantments could stick around on a city even after it was conquered
Fixed an issue where you may still be paying a summons maintenance even after the summon was dead if you save and reload before the end of the turn after the summon dies
Fixed a crash if you go from the tutorial to the scenario without restarting
Improvements that level up trained units now allow units that can select their level-up traits to pick all their level-up traits
Changing the game pace now also modified production times
Fixed an issue causing Trog Pioneers to go Beserk in battle (and then run away)
Fixed Propaganda to update if the cities essence changes
The Darkling Shaman's shrink ability now has a cooldown of 3
The Spellbooks tech correctly unlocks with the Decalon faction ability
When placing random quests during the game (like by using the Quest Map item), no longer chooses non-repeatable quests that have already been completed or are assigned to an existing quest location
Fixed an issue where shrunken units would play their death animations twice
Fixed a issue where units would play their last spell animation when shrunk
Fixed an issue where only the group leader would be grown/shrunk by spells with units with multiple members
Fixed a bug where units with shrink and growth both cast on them could get wonky
Fixed bug with paths where sometimes path dots would skip first tile
Fixed bug where path was not updated to show newly uncovered tiles when FoW was cleared
Fixed a memory leak that occured on each reload
Fixed bug where parchment background image of kingdom window would disappear after game within game
Fixed crashes (if anyone has had a crash with FE we have gotten the log and checked it out)
Fixed a crash in the custom faction color picker window (if you click a tab to leave that screen incorrectly)
Fixed tactical battle hang if you tamed the creature you are fighting, causing there to be no one left on the opponent's side of the battle
Fixed an issue where you units would be healed if you tamed a unit in combat (the "Jesus Bear" issue)
Fixed Death Ward (it was working before but now it displays it particles to give an indication of what is happening and correctly removes itself)
Fixed floating waterfalls
Fixed an issue where jamming on some keys (like the 'E' hotkey) can open multiple redudant windows
Fix for deadlocks (hangs)
Fixed the duration on the Prismatic Potion
Fixed an issue where you got no score if you won by the time limit
Fixed an issue keeping Raise Land from being able to be cast on ocean tiles
Lots of performance improvements both in between turn time and in smoothness of animations while other actions are occuring
Fixed bug that caused the loading screen not to show when loading up saved games
Spell Damage modifiers now work on CurHealth spells (like Shadowbolt)
Fixed a bug where negative player bonuses weren't being included in stat calculations (like the Vulnerable to Magic faction weakness)
Fixed the Infection spell
fixed Ritressa and Miredesi so they wouldn't be offered redundant Spell Resistance traits at levelup anymore
Fixed bug where if you went from one scenario map to another, then loaded a save from that second map, the champions that were carried over from the previous map would duplicate
Fixed bug where sometimes the AI would force complete all of its construciton projects on the first turn after loading a game because it was using stale city defender power ratings (these are now recalced and cached while the game is loading)
Fixed an issue with some champions getting the Spell Resistance trait option twice
Fixed weapons that give mana from kills
Fixed a mod bug where random event quest mods would spawn the wrong quest when randomly chosen
Balance

Procipinee gets the Weak sovereign weakness instead of Inefficient
Marked the random even that spawns THE Dark Sorcerer as Epic (anyone who has faced him will agree)
Added Call of the Titans spell unlock on Breon's Letters tech
More quests made available to be placed by the Quest map
You have to have the Dances with Dragons tech to recruit Ashwake Dragons from the Temple of the Dragon
Typhoid Fever gives -1 to the army's hit points instead of -2
Ice Elemental Sanctum now gives loot
Novice difficulty level reduces AI money starting from 75% of base to 50%
Beginning increases HP penalty against AI from 1.0 to 0.75 of what the player has
Beginner reduces AI money starting from 100% to 50%
Easy reduces AI money starting from 100% to 50%
Fixed AI bug where challenging was rated at 1.25 instead of 1.30
Expert AI increases HP advantage of AI from 1.0 of player to 1.1
Ridiculous AI reduces HP advantage from 2.0 to 1.5
Ridiculous AI reduces sovereign HP advantage from 3.0 to 1.5
Ridiculous AI reduces intelligence from 10.0 to 3.0
Insane AI reduces economic advantage from 5X to 2X
Insane AI reduces HP advantage from 3.0 to 2.0
Insane AI reduces Sovereign HP advantage from 5X to 2X
Reduced the Krax blood trait to +8 defense (from +10)
Reduced the HSieldwall trait to +3 defense (from +5)
Stealth faction ability now costs 2
Increased the min distance between Ashwake and Clambercoil dragons and starting locations
Reduced the base level of the Great Wolf to 3 (from 5)
Tarth starts with the Rebels faction weakness
Irane starts with the Dragonfly Bracers instead of the Impulsive trait
Reduce the amount of lairs placed in the world at the default level slightly
Reduced the amount of monster placed arounf the players starting location slightly
Obsession's production bonus is no longer multiplied by the amount of materials in the city (I'm going to pretend like this is a balance change because it makes me feel better than admitting that I implemented it incorrectly)
Changed the starting positions on all tactical maps so that units arent squished together and blocking each other
Units that are immune to spells will be immune to spells even if they are marked as abilities
Tilda Herbs can be used in battle
Increased the duration of the Freeze and Tremor spell to 3 turns from 2
Fixed an issue with some champions getting the Spell Resistance trait option twice
Reduced Dagger init to +3 (from +4)
Reduced Maces to 15 attack (from 16), and increased init to -3 (from -4)
Increased Battle Axes to 17 attack (from 15) and decreased init to -1 (from 0)
Increased the Great Axe to 23 attack (from 21)
AI

Improved AI's decision making on what unit is best for a given city based on its cost
Monster AI is generally slightly less aggressive about attacking
Monsters are harder difficulties are even tougher
Monsters on easy difficulty (or lower) are less aggressive
Fixed bug that allowed monsters to roam far away from their original lairs
On challenging or less difficulty the lair monsters are less inclined to attack passing units
Verified Monsters on challenging or less attack humans as much as AI opponents
Fixed bug where recruiting champions wasn't charging them appropriate $$$
Made AI more aggressive about getting goodie huts when on challenging or higher difficulty levels
AI now determines when it is done "farming" monster lairs and eliminates them when they've..outlived their use
Increased value of the Towers of Magic to encourage AI to more aggressively pursue the spell of making victory
UI

Better display on the outpost window (showing whats building, and when it will be complete)
Mousing over the race on the custom faction screen shows you the race information
Build/Train window won't close when you auto-turn
Fixed the tooltip on the Enchanters faction ability to include the Scrying Pool
Fixed the tooltip for the Fire Adept III trait
Fixed tooltips on the Town Hall and Palace to reflect their ZoC bonuses
Fixed a typo with the Ram's Horn Longbow
Equipped accessories now show up in your unit window like weapons and armor
Some info card tweaks to make more item type info cards throughout the game show either shop cost, labor cost, or customization cost as appropriate, since most tooltips were just defaulting to shop value even when it wasn't really relevant
Fixed bug where if you opened the kingdom wnd while the build list wnd was open, it didn't get hidden and it went back into the city construction mode in a bad state
Faction power window is no longer dragable (players were accidently getting it dropped places)
When you finish the tutorial, instead of rolling the credits, added a message box that says basically "thanks for playing the tutorial" and then takes you to the title wnd when you hit the OK button
In the customize faction and create sovereign screens, the race/faction spinner tooltip now updates when changing the spinner selection with the buttons
Fixed bug in the intro book where only 4 of the 5 available slots were used to show faction traits
The "Improvement Destroyed" message now includes a button to go to the site of the former improvement
Amarian units don't need to pause to activate their Noble Legacy ability at the start of combat anymore
Scenario

Items don't "transform" in the scenario anymore (most commonly the Yew Longbow into a Banishing Staff)
Fixed a missing icon on the Lannarg Plant Seeds
Fixed a missing map icon on the Umberdroth Lair
Fixed bad references for the Krax faction in the campaign
Gnarri starts with the Muscle and Strength traits so he can wield that Maul
Fixed Blessing of Restoration to give a viable Heal ability
Fixed an issue allowing K'uo Sian to get the Finesse trait twice
Fixed a crash loading the 2nd map of the scenario if the player didn't have rights
Added functionality to the KillChampion trigger so that we can give all of the dead champ's items/equipment to the sovereign
Updated custom campaign versions of the city to match the sandbox game, so they now produce Research
Weakened Cutting stat on the Sword of Wrath from 25 to 15
Fixed bug where ‘dummy' versions of the human villages of Ammarkan and Bruka were spawning in each other's spots instead of their own
The naming of the "Timber Warg Meat" is now consistent throughout "Taevish's Quest."
Fixed bug where the Crystal Shield didn't provide defense like other shields.
Changed the model scale on the custom campaign version of the Lurk from 1.0 to 2.0 on the main map, and 1.5 to 2.0 in tactical combat. This makes it easier for players to spot them when trying to complete the Abbey quest chain
Added a few triggers that fire when a player's champion dies, and bring up a conversation to remind the player that he can buy a potion in the minor civ city which will heal injuries
The chapter 5 campaign book no longer lists "found new settlements" as an objective
Added Optional Objective entry to "The Fugitive" campaign book screen
Empty Objectives panel no longer appears for the map 3 "The Crypt of the Tazzars" campaign book
Can no longer purchase "Quendar Wine" quest item from the map 3 minor civ city
Fixed bug where map 3 "Demon Lair" cloth map icon wasn't showing
Fixed bug where map 1 "Traveler's Tent" cloth map icon wasn't showing
Fixed "the the" & "also and" in the map 1 "Journey's End" campaign book
Changed "taken back" to "taken aback" in the map 1 "The Path" campaign book
Changed "fine breastplate" to "fine piece of armor" in the map 1 conversation with Garen
Fixed "saly" to "slay" in "The Gates of Redstone" Quest
Added missing word to the description for Procipinee's Amulet
Fixed a shadow that appeared on the medallions of some of the scenario units
Fixed an issue that could cause units to get dropped if you had more than 9 going into a tactical battle
Reduced the level of the River Slag on map 2 and reduced the amount of Mire Skaths in that battle form 4 to 2

Stardock has released an update for the popular The Political Machine 2012. The Political Machine 2012 allows players to hit the virtual campaign trail by creating your own custom candidate or choosing from a variety of candidates, such as Barack Obama, Mitt Romney, Hillary Clinton or Ron Paul.

This update brings new issues into the game based upon recent political events.

NEW ISSUES:

• Firing Big Bird


• Arming Syrian Rebels (new issue corresponding to broader middle east crisis)

STAT UPDATES:

• Obama's charisma stat lowered from 9 to 8 (based on debate performance)


• Chik-fi-let issue now has lower national importance

Ironclad Games and Stardock Entertainment are pleased to present the 1.04 update notes for Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion to customers.

NOTE: VERSION 1.04 IS NOT SAVE GAME COMPATIBLE WITH PREVIOUS UPDATES.

 

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Version 1.04 Change Log:

[ Graphics ]

• Added new loading screen image.


• Fixed some button highlight bugs in the create mission system.


• Updated UI not to display game speed Infocards in multiplayer matches.


• Updated texture on Advent Rebel Titan.


• Updated texture on Vasari Loyalist Titan.


• Fixed Resource Drain particle on Vasari Colony capital ship that would start past moon/asteroids.

[ Gameplay ]

• Added five new maps:  Kabel, The Art of War, Triple Entente, Unstable Alliance and Random Huge - Ring. (Special thanks to Pbhead and Goafan77 for assisting with some of these.)


• Added new Corvette weapon damage type which all corvettes now use for their fore/aft weapons.


• Updated Corvette damage balance per new weapon damage type.


• The maximum number of superweapons a faction can field is now based on the number of planets they own. By default a faction can field 1 superweapon for every 4 owned gravity wells.


• The Frigate target filter will no longer improperly target Corvettes.


• Fixed bug with aiUseTime - OnlyWhenAboutToDie that was causing it not to activate in some circumstances.


• Changed all Flagships' Overload Engines ability aiUsetime to OnlyWhenMovingThresholdDistance; reduced cooldown from 300 to 120; increased duraction from 30 to 45.


• Players may no longer contract Pirate missions (via Diplomacy) against TEC Rebel factions who have researched Truce Amongst Rogues.


• Destroyed Titans now cost an additional 10% per level in resources and build time.


• Steam Cloud saves are now fully functional in multiplayer.


• Pirates -


• Pirate raiders will no longer linger at the Pirate planet when their missions are complete. They will now despawn after returning to base.


• TEC (All)


• Corsev Battlecruiser: Capped the maximum number of targets on Demolition Teams to 25 from unlimited.


• Corsev Battlecruiser: Updated Demolition Teams autocast to target Boarded vessels.


• Updated Proximity Mines to have a small HP restore rate.


• TEC Loyalists


• Novalith Deregulation now allows TEC Loyalists to field 2 superweapons for every 4 owned gravity wells.


• Fixed bug that caused the bonuses from Hardened Defenses to only be applied to Gauss Turrets.


• Removed duplicate PlanetModule entry in Disruption Matrix target filter. This was replaced with a Titan entry.


• TEC Rebels


• Changed Snipe aiUseTime to IsCapitalShipOrStarbaseOrTitan.


• Advent Loyalists


• Changed Coward's Submission to no longer convert friendly ships, Flagships, starbase constructors or temporary/illusion ships.


• The culture benefits of Global Unity will now properly dissipate if the player doesn't maintain enough research labs for the subject.


• Fury of the Unity damage bonus increased from 10% to 20%.


• Assimilated Populace updated to now provided 20 population every 60 seconds, three times.


• Coronata Titan:  Unity Mass changes - aiUseTime changed to IsCapitalShipOrStarbaseOrTitan; antimatter cost changed from 65/70/75/80 to 80/75/70/65; base damage increased from 1000/1500/2000/2500 to 2500/3500/4500/5500; damagetype changed from Physical to Energy.


• Advent Rebels


• Expulsion now uses a new buff modifier and will only modify existing culture, not create new culture.


• Eradica Titan:  Strength of the Fallen duration increased to 400 from 120.


• Eradica Titan:  Unyielding Will re-designed - the effects now scale as the titan takes hull damage (75%/50%/25%), granting higher levels of ability cooldown, antimatter restoration and damage negation. When destroyed, the Eradica become invulnerable and may chase enemies down.


• Updated string for Protection of the Unity to make it clear the effect only works within the player's culture.


• Vasari (All)


• Rankulas' Create Combat/Assault/Support Naintes and Reassemble abilities are now untargeted. The nano ship will appear adjacent to the caster.


• Updated nanite swarm strings to indicate the ability is no longer targeted.


• Changed Disintegration aiUseTime to IsCapitalShipOrStarbaseOrTitan.


• Vasari Loyalists


• Vorastra Titan: Fixed bug that caused the Maw's attract range to be slightly lower than its target range.


• Vorastra Titan: Removed Corvettes from the Maw's target filter.


• Stripped to the Core scuttle time is now dependent on the planet being stripped:  Asteroids/Dead Asteroids - 60 seconds; Desert - 240 seconds; Ice - 260 seconds; Volcanic - 280 seconds; Terran - 300 seconds; Home worlds - 400 seconds.


• Stripped to the Core income is now affected by Fleet Upkeep penalties.


• Shipboard Labs has been split into two research subjects:


• Shipboard Labs (Tier 7) will grant 1 military lab per capital ship.


• Empire Integration (Tier 7) will grant 1 civilian lab per capital ship.


• Civilian Evacuations income bonus is now affected by the global Income Speed option.


• The Capital Loss voiceover will no longer play if you haven't actually lost due to Mobile Rulership.


• Vasari Rebels


• Moved Starbase Mobilization from Defense to NonCombat tech tree with a pre-req. of Enhanced Tunneling.


• Starbase Mobilization is now disabled if the player doesn't maintain enough labs for the research to remain active.


• Vasari Rebel starbases now suffer a 25% weapon damage penalty for 60 seconds after exiting phase space.


• Added an appropriate error message when a starbase fails to jump to a gravity well due to their already being a player starbase present.


• Kultorask Titan:  Removed unintended 0 from AntiMatterRestoreRate passive upgrade.

[ Modding ]

• Added new Corvette ChanceToHitTargetType to gameplay.constants.


• Added new Corvette weapon damage type to gameplay.constants.


• DamagePercentBonus:CORVETTE:CapitalShip 0.65


• DamagePercentBonus:CORVETTE:VeryLight 0.50


• DamagePercentBonus:CORVETTE:Light 1.5


• DamagePercentBonus:CORVETTE:Medium 0.6


• DamagePercentBonus:CORVETTE:Heavy 0.5


• DamagePercentBonus:CORVETTE:VeryHeavy 0.55


• DamagePercentBonus:CORVETTE:Module 0.35


• DamagePercentBonus:CORVETTE:Pirate 0.50


• DamagePercentBonus:CORVETTE:Titan 0.7


• Added cannonsPerGravityWellRatio to gameplay.constants.


• Added cannonGravityWellRatioDenominator to gameplay.constants.


• Added new buff modifier - CultureSpreadModifier.


• New aiUseTargetCondition - HasBuff. Only autocasts on targets who have the specified buff.
  Form:
  aiUseTargetCondition "HasBuff"
  buffType "BuffMyBuff"


• Increased iconBackdropDefs from 3 to 5.


• New buffInstantActionType: ApplyBuffToFirstSpawnerNoFilterNoRange. Same usage as ApplyBuffToLastSpawnerNoFilterNoRange. 


• Galaxy Forge Updates:


• Added galaxy name to save file.


• Updated GalaxyScenarioDef with planet bonuses and other additions for future maps.


• Normalized some line endings.

 [ Misc ]

• Fixed bug that caused some of the research achievements not to unlock.
  


• Removed un-needed semicolon in gameplay.constants after enemyDPSInOrbitBodyISquadOwnerBuildRateScalar.


• Fixed incorrect effect entry in PlanetAsteroidBelt.entity for Stripped to the Core particle.


• Removed un-needed tilde from Effect_CoinDrop in SoundEffects.sounddata.


• Truncated file locations from all particle files.


• Various optimizations made to movement, IAttacker and rendering systems for improved performance.


• Removed un-needed .mesh extension from Vasari Loyalist Titan Factory MeshNameInfo entry.


• Removed un-needed .mesh extension from Vasari Rebel Titan Factory MeshNameInfo entry.


• Minor string adjustments to clarify when a ship can't phase jump.


• Increased formation distances between frigates and capital ships to prevent ships from clustering too closely during group phase jumps (which slowed things down while they waited for formation).


• Potential fix for iHyperspace related crash bug - this was a major culprit of many crash reports.


• Fixed AttackPlanet bug that caused the game to crash - this was a major culprit of many crash reports.


• Fixed a Checksum crash bug - this was another major culprit of many crash reports.

• Adding playable Historical candidates

• Abe Lincoln


• Bill Clinton


• George Washington


• John F Kennedy


• Richard Nixon


• Ronald Reagan


• Theodore Roosevelt


• Thomas Jefferson

• Paul Ryan is now shown as the Republican VP on the main menu


• Improved description text for Cheerleader operative to more accurately describe their effect


• Fixed inaccurate tutorial values for Advertisement types


• Stability improvements


• Fixed game window positioning for users with non-standard Windows taskbar positions


• Improved error message when connection lost in lobby


• Misc minor grammatical fixes