Features and improvements
- Quick battle window that pops up before a combat encounter (can be disabled in options if you want to play all battles yourself)
- Start-turn dialog in singleplayer can be disabled in options
- Allowed setting escape as a keyboard shortcut (it doesn't cancel the shortcut selection anymore)
- When setting Enter as a keyboard shortcut, it counts both Enter and numpad Enter
- ♫ Custom win and loss music stingers for each race
- ♫ Three new start-of-a-cycle music jingles/stingers (normal cycle, positive, negative)
- ♫ Updated Children of the Source campaign music
- Added stripes to tiles within the areas highlighting a danger zone, changed color to darker orange
- Animated base panels zoom in from the correct positions matching building locations at each base
- Set all new map markers on planets in the skirmish screen to be enabled by default
- Lowered requirements for a few very time-consuming achievements
- Updated checkbox and radio button UI elements so they can be easily distinguished
- Optimization: safer handling of resource memory
- Optimization: significant AI turn time improvements
Fixes
- Fixed feint ability breaking the start of combat when added to fast cast
- Fixed a specific set of actions could cause unit number manipulation: pick an incompatible unit from army A, switch for a unit in army B, switch for another unit in army B, escape
- Fixed units could get picked up in hero card and hero meeting card while moving an item from the inventory & fixed items could get picked up in hero card and hero meeting card while moving a unit
- Fixed largest dialogs not fitting on the screens in Large UI, fixed UI scale not applied after the next game launch
- Added best fit to main cutscene text and limited its height to 400 px so objectives can't extend over difficulty
- Fixed neutral day-night transforming units in slave camps in Fossorian bases ... not transforming
- Fixed skill academy panel had random size when showing that a commander had learned something there already
- Fixed portrait shader for characters "talking over radio" on Linux+AMD (incl. Ste4m Deck)
- Fixed two instances where exploration move segments could be executed while AI is running
- Implemented neutral army changes from lure/scarecrow in quick battle, fixed these not applied in hazard in tooltips, fixed equipping or unequipping these items not causing hazard to be recalculated
- Fixed map editor erroring out because of missing autosaves folder if you start the game for the first time, go directly to editor and try to playtest or exit
- Fixed position of limited range icon in small unit tooltip panel used for unit icons next to building in the building catalog
- Fix AI can sometimes trigger a battle twice
- Sovereign Fleet campaign, mission 2 - False Mother disabled by day one
- Empire campaign, mission 4 - Unreachable Fusion Core UNSS IV - fixed
- Fossorian campaign, mission 3 - added safety step on trigger that removes the objects that can block Muff form the rest of the map
- Small text improvements, fixed a few typos
