Sent a recon plane to 8,60. Noticed that AI puts recon planes ("firefly") in fighter squadrons. Guess that is not intended.



Sent save to your email.

Vic is currently online on the Shadow empire discord https://discord.com/channels/1375391758 ... 1642028032.


Already contacted Vic on discord and asked for clarification.

That is not it works; downloading the file from page 1 & changing the name of it still shows 1.31a in the game.
Ofc. You have to update the page 1 link by changing the "132a" part to 132b, then download the correct file from Vics site.


The link you posted has a '.dll' file which does not exist ...

For the impatient:
If you simply change the version letter from a to b in the url, the most recent patch is instantly available

Open Beta Patch v1.32b (27 may 2026)
https://www.vrdesigns.net/openbeta/Shad ... Matrix.zip

Saves sent for turn start + after I realized there is an issue. Issue is very tricky to reproduce. Exiting the game and reloading the save typically fixes it.

Already sent you save (mail 19.05) - but no problem. Sent you an additional save. Private sector has a total of at least 5 broken ice mines.

Kind of sad to see the private sector saving up for an ice mine, then burning up the funds for non-functional buildings. Will the patch also fix existing ...

I was training the oratory skill of my foreign affairs council by selecting map outlines of available minors and using the minor diplo stratagem "propose peace".

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After selecting the map outline of a major regime I noticed in the left ...

Had roughly 20 private ice mines created by the game on three different worlds.

Problem: private ice mines always stayed completely nonfunctional all game
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Based on the asset log, critical issue in all cases seems to be that the game ...

Unlocked fertility tech does not show up in the tech tree info screen. Visual tech tree info screen is typically used as the primary information & decisionmaking source regarding selection of future research projects. Unlocked fertility not showing up in the primary tech tree info screen makes ...

Thank you - Reports => Overviews => Technology Overview worked

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However, regarding "known & reseach in progress" - hopefully Vic adds a way to let players know how to proceed with that tech. Maybe add a "requires unlock of ... to ...

A successful attempt to talk to AI usually results in a tech discovery. Player is then able to research discovered tech to fully unlock it. However, I discovered "fertility" by talking to the AI.
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No such tech available for research in ...

[1.32a] Error during world generation

System.IndexOutOfRangeException: Index was outside the bounds of the array.
at WindowsApplication1.EventRelatedClass.ExecMakeSurvivors(String libname, String dataLib, String linguisticLib, Int32 dat4, String datastring) in C:\VR\VRDevelopment ...

Lol, actually not a bug :lol: .

Game settings are tech level 4 and included nemesis AI. Nemesis and strongest maior AI player on the map seems to have lost one of his 2 starting cities to the scavengers - and strangely enough, seems not to prioritize to take it back :? . Scavengers got comfy and ...

Turn 45: Defeated city defenders and moved troops in zone Gigamas city
Turn 46: Gigamas scavengers trigger empty trade offer dialogue

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... and Gigamas scavenger troops are still present on the map.
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Letterbox contains a broken text message regarding law upkeep cost.

Issue can be reproduced e.g. send scout plane from airfield 97,27 to sea tile 99,23

Edit - attaching save does not work for some reason; save is mailed directly to Vic instead,

Navigating scout plane on sea tile caused crash.

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See the end of this message for details on invoking
just-in-time (JIT) debugging instead of this dialog box.

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System ...

Guessing it's having trouble drawing the commander portrait at the top of the battle window since I don't see one up there.


Game also does crash with new leader images already drawn ;)

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Pretty sure Vic will figure it out ;) .

Anyway, interestingly unhandled exception error issue is tricky to reproduce - sometimes game crashes sometimes combat proceeds as designed.

Specific unhandled exception error in previous screenshot (fight in hex 97,29, save included) did not reappear after ...

And again :D ... - please fix the issue.

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************** Exception Text **************
System.IndexOutOfRangeException ...