Patch 2.8.X

Version history

Astral Planes

3.10 • 3.10.1 • 3.10.2

Galactic Paragons

3.9 • 3.9.2 • 3.9.3

3.8 • 3.8.2 • 3.8.3 • 3.8.4

First Contact

3.7 • 3.7.3 • 3.7.4

Overlord

3.6 • 3.6.1

3.5 • 3.5.2 • 3.5.3

3.4 • 3.4.3 • 3.4.4 • 3.4.5

Nemesis

3.3 • 3.3.2 • 3.3.3 • 3.3.4

3.2 • 3.2.1 • 3.2.2

3.1 • 3.1.2

3.0 • 3.0.1 • 3.0.2 • 3.0.3 • 3.0.4

Federations

2.8 • 2.8.1

2.7 • 2.7.2

2.6 • 2.6.1 • 2.6.2 • 2.6.3

Ancient Relics

2.5 • 2.5.1

2.4 • 2.4.1

2.3 • 2.3.1 • 2.3.2 • 2.3.3

MegaCorp

2.2.4 • 2.2.5 • 2.2.6 • 2.2.7

2.2 • 2.2.1 • 2.2.2 • 2.2.3

Distant Stars

2.1 • 2.1.1 • 2.1.2 • 2.1.3

Apocalypse

2.0 • 2.0.1 • 2.0.2 • 2.0.4 • 2.0.5

Synthetic Dawn

1.9 • 1.9.1

1.8 • 1.8.2 • 1.8.3

Utopia

1.6 • 1.6.1 • 1.6.2

1.5 • 1.5.1

Leviathans

1.4 • 1.4.1

1.3 • 1.3.1 • 1.3.2

Base version

1.2 • 1.2.1 • 1.2.2 • 1.2.3 • 1.2.4 • 1.2.5

1.1

1.0 • 1.0.1 • 1.0.2 • 1.0.3

Patch 2.8.X are all patches beginning with 2.8.

2.8

Main article: Patch 2.8

2.8.1

Patch 2.8.1 was released on 2020-11-19 with the checksum dfce.

Balance

• Added a define OVERCROWDING_ABSOLUTE_THRESHOLD_FOR_NO_GROWTH that sets the minimum number that overcrowding must be for a planet's population to stop growing, set it to 5.
• Redid sector automation scripts and code with the following goals:
  • Closed vital gaps in sectors' knowledge concerning the likes of nonstandard planet (habitat etc) districts and bureaucracy buildings.
  • All sectors now know about all buildings, i.e. if you put an alloys foundry on a science sector, it will still know how to upgrade it (it will of course still favour research buildings).
  • Made checking for whether building a certain building would cause resource shortages and whether there were pops ready to take the job more reliable by shifting them to hardcoded checks.
  • The automation will no longer clear blockers before districts are blocked by them.

Stability & Performance

• Moved the calculations for attack radius to threaded code instead of serial.
• Update trade routes every 7 days instead of every day.
• Fixed a nasty slow down when owning many many many planets and opening the planet view
• Fixed an OOS related to fleets.
• Fixed an issue where loading would get stuck when trying to load a lot of mods.
• Fixed being unable to load 2.7.2 saves in 2.7.2 made after installing Necroids.

UI

• Added debug tooltips to the fleet view header and rename button.
• Experimental DX11 mode now supports Chinese, Polish and Russian

AI

• The AI will not try to build a megastructure if it's already building or upgrading one.
• Fixed a case of the AI wanting to attack disabled starbases and getting stuck in a loop.
• The economic AI will now take better account of the resources a district would provide when choosing whether to build one.
• The AI will now check whether it would have any pops on the planet willing and able to take a job before building a building providing that job (i.e. Necrophages will not spam consumer goods buildings when there are no necrophage pops on the planet).
• Made the contingency constructor choose better systems to build in, and fixed their getting stuck after a while.
• Massively sped up all types of purging, with the crisis factions now purging 2 pops per month.
• Various improvements to crisis military AI.
• Fix issue with military AI ping-ponging fleets.
• Fixed AI not changing fleet bombardment stances.
• Crisis countries will now use Armageddon Bombardment.
• Augmented the distance at which AI looks for targets on larger maps.
• The Unbidden will no longer wait patiently to be allowed out of their initial system.
• The AI will no longer sell the last pop of a planet.
• Made the crisis worry less about ship health and more about taking over the galaxy.
• The Necrophage AI will no longer build Houses of Apotheosis so as to make it less likely it'll run out of necrophytes.
• AI considers "Take Point" fleet as objective when appropriate(*)
• The AI is now drastically more likely to know to build shipyards and titan/colossus factories

Modding

• Added "ignores_sapience" flag to job types to say a job works for both sapients and presapients.

Bugfixes

• Corrected name for necroid titan engine effect so the effect spawns in the correct position.
• Added missing undead army translations for Chinese.
• Fixed a layering issue with Necroid Portrait 11.
• Fixed a black face-tentacle on a Necroid Portrait to have color.
• Fix Ships not reaching their assigned slots when there are too many ships
• Evasive fleet now cancel order if the path to their targets contain hostiles
• Made it so the positions of hostile forces are remembered while you're at war.
• Fixed purging and assimilation not working on presapients
• Setting a sector to Production focus now correctly updates the icon in the UI.
• Necrophages with Glandular Acclimatisation will now make pops that suit the local planet, even if they have Necrophage pops that don't on the planet already.
• Death Priest job upkeep raised to 3 Consumer Goods in addition to the baseline level for specialist workers.
• Fixed the Pasharti Absorbers' default purge type being Displacement rather than Necropurging
• Fixed a bug with a Necroid Battleship weapon slot.
• Increased Necroid Corvette size and optimized some other textures.
• Fixed leader clearing by right-clicking.
• Fixed impossibility of swapping scientists between research areas.
• Fixed the Death Cult sacrifice effects so that the counting of Mortal Initiates proceeds as intended.
• The option to play as the Machine Uprising when that happens is now back.