Open Beta Patch v1.27b (4 september 2025)

[jimwinsor]

1.03 beta 2: I have another case here of a minor (Raiders) refusing to surrender after it's only city (Avigancon) is taken. Instead, it counter-attacks along the line, then it persists in the game with it's old hexes getting renamed to a new zone (Madeleine, named after a free folk city to the north). Save here: https://we.tl/t-WrRe6NOITp

[Vic]

ORIGINAL: Medway

Does using lastplanetgenerated count as a new game when trying the latest beta?

No. lastplanet is a save-game, albeit saved before round 1.

[Vic]

Bump. Made some fixes. Some really long turn times in games where player had a lot of Stratagems should be much quicker now.
And some other fixes!

[cspringer1234]

1.03-beta2 new game
solider salary slider no longer seems to work. My soldiers reflect no pay on the treasury report in subsequent turns and if I do another salary request with the secretary, it's back down to 0 again.

If you need a save file, let me know.

[oldspec4]

Same for me..can't get the soldier salary slider to work under 1.03-beta 2 and beta 3

[Cornuthaum]

-Fixed Archeology Stratagem *

I assume this means that it actually works at finding artefact locations instead of being a higher-difficulty, lower-pp-cost Prospecting Effort?

[eddieballgame]

ORIGINAL: oldspec4

Same for me..can't get the soldier salary slider to work under 1.03-beta 2 and beta 3

Can confirm this. [&:]

I will add, the slider works, just does not save the correct new salary per the next turn.
Always stays at 0.

[GeBuch]

Version: 1.03-beta 3
Issue: Significantly lower pre-apocalypse population on habitable Siwa planets
Details:
Previously the population for Siwa-Class planets could reach several billions if the planet had sufficient rainfall (Possible results within 50 rerolls: 4 billion at 1500mm & 10billion at 2500mm).
Now even under ideal circumstances 1 billion people is extremly rare.

Steps to reproduce:

• Create Siwa Planet with high rainfall. Temperature of 30°C or more increases average rainfall result.
• Ensure the planet has a breathable Atmosphere
• Reroll Colonization history. Previously very high population counts could be reached reliably under above circumstances.

Expected outcome:
High poulations are the only way to create a planet with sprawling ruins. That type of planet offers many interesting and different challenges compared to other planets. Therefore I would appreciate the abilty to create such a planet again.

[Vhalor]

Seems that I'm facing the same bug as GeBuch. Population on Siwa-Class appears to be drastically lower now. I assume this is a bug too, as you stated that low rainfall was actually lowering population far too much, not the other way around.

As high billion planets indeed offered a different play style and lot of excitement, I hope you can restore them soon.

[Tree Dog]

Playing PBEM with a friend, we're on turn 92 and getting a crash while processing the next, on both our machines. That's on 1.03 beta 3.
https://we.tl/t-cmlVWE186K

[Ekaton]

Every save crashes made in beta 2 crashes when playing beta 3.

EDIT: Actually, only the latest three do, but I had to restart the game twice for some to work.

[Vic]

Bump.
There was some issues with v1.03-beta3.
Thanks for testing and reporting them!
v1.03-beta4 should be more stable.

[eddieballgame]

Thank you for these updates, very much appreciated.

[Vic]

edited.

[Vic]

Made an note for the high ruin count lovers

[Vic]

ORIGINAL: Tree Dog

Playing PBEM with a friend, we're on turn 92 and getting a crash while processing the next, on both our machines. That's on 1.03 beta 3.
https://we.tl/t-cmlVWE186K

In fact i caused a lot of damage to the Stratagems of the players with v1.03. To the point it can lead to crashes.

With 1.03 beta-5 you'll be able to continue your game. (see changelist though.. there might be some stratagem loss)

best,
Vic

[shi4stone]

Happiest moment of a day is to see another new beta release with more improvements and fixes to a superb game.

[Destragon]

ORIGINAL: Vic
-Added “Unification” and “Annexation” Minor Dip Stratagems *

Can't wait to try these. That sounds exactly like something I wanted.
Your daily patch support is pretty great.

-Fixed glitch with Task priority sliders not doing exactly what they were supposed to do.

This fixed what this thread was about, right?
https://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=4829216

-Fixed a Model stat calculation bug that was not properly reading the actual Base Design value resulting in too low Armour,Weapon and Engine Design scores.

What exactly were these unit base design fixes about? Did it have to do with what was written here?
fb.asp?m=4831154

[Prussia]

On v1.03 beta 5: created an MG Division, but counter shows Brigade symbol (X vs XX). See pic, never mind on pic- image limit is 200kb??? Flashback to 1986. Pic is 3.4meg.

Possible cause: in recent beta patches, the icon for Divisions are installed in root directory of "ShadowSMALL" and "ShadowBig" not in a sub-folder (Nato?).

In the subfolders there is a symbol for Battalion, Regiment, and Division; but Division uses the Brigade symbol in current configuration. The current Division counter needs to be renamed to Brigade; and the Division in root directory needs to be moved.

The Division symbol in the root of ShadowSmall appears to be corrupted; whereas the one in ShadowBig looks fine.

Hope that helps.

Regards

[Destragon]

I'm trying the annexation and unification cards right now. Their difficulty is sometimes getting displayed as "no tests", but I'm not sure what causes that. My guess is that it says "no tests" when the difficulty modifier is negative. For example, the difficulty is 2d100 - 28, but gets displayed as "no tests".

Unification sounds a hell of a lot better then annexation right now. 50 less difficulty and no danger of accidenally declaring war.

Oh, also, right now when you activate these cards, the popup just says success or failure. I think it would be nice to display the die roll results.

I was just able to play two unification cards on the same regime on the same turn. It looks like this card does not trigger the "can only play one card on the regime per turn" flag.

If anyone's interested, these are the new annexation stratagems: