1.1.0.9 Public Beta Update Available

[AKicebear]

Agreed - great work since release. The updates, and roadmap, have given me confidence that the future is bright for this great game.

Enjoy your holidays!

[bvoid]

Playing beta version and I notice quite often i see "disabled" ships sitting around. Both friendly and enemy, no signs of any damage - and can't repair them.

After a reload the ships appear fixed and go about their business - but this means I need to remember to save/reload periodically.

After a big war there were 20+ assorted ships sitting around near warzone in disabled state.

Not sure what is causing this, ion weapons or something?

[rxnnxs]

Happy Holidays!

[Athelas2211]

¨Game is one of those "one click more..." but constant crashing is so frustrating. Esp since after updates one should restart the game anew.
I have reported at lest two crashes with files attached.
I was though playing on AMD laptop, low on memory just 8GB ,but I hope it behves better on desktop pc.

Happy New Yer to the whole teama and please fix the things as soon as possible (re fighter issues etc...)

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[MaximKI]

Hello everyone,

Open Beta 1.0.9.8 is now live on Steam and GOG. Please see the OP for installation instructions and changelog details.

- The Matrix Team

[Erik Rutins]

Please give the 1.0.9.8 public beta update a try by starting a new game with it and let us know how it goes. We're expecting this to become an official update next week.

It fixes some important crash/hang issues and has a lot of big gameplay improvements, especially for those that enjoy ship design and fleet management. Have a read through the change list in the first post for details please.

[Buio]

Thanks, 1.0.9.8 beta looks like a fine update. I will start a new game and test.

[Silvestri]

This sounds great, really looking forward to playing with this over the weekend. Will post any issues I find.

A lot of work has obviously gone into this latest patch, so I wanted to express my appreciation for listening to your audience. Excited for the future of this game.

[Thelonelychair]

Is it safe to assume new games started with the 1.0.9.8 beta will be compatible with the next release version due to be out this coming week? Because I will wait for the official release of not since I don’t have enough time to play, to provide any useful feedback.

P.S. the multiple roles/variants/hulls sounds like a dream come true. Does this mean I will be able to tailor multiple small space port designs for different roles, which is very annoying atm early game?

[AesirAvatar]

Started a v1098 new game yesterday - went fine until I loaded up this morning and had my first CTD since launch of this game?!.

Some observations:
* Update to 1098 failed to remember config settings and I had to revalidate files via steam (about 14-15 files reported as needing fixing IIRC)
* Just before CTD I noticed research % wasnt progressing (even at 4x game speed) - I paid to crash research and a few seconds after I got CTD.
* My advisor recommended my 5th fleet (Str 1,407 - set on Attack) go attack a pirate base (Str 4,051) of much higer tech?! Recommended this both before crash and now again on reload of save

On a positive note - the game "feels" slightly faster, smoother than previous runs, and I'm playing as humans primarily missile based in early game and the ship AI seems much better at kiting using the cautious mode than I've seen previously also.

Thanks for all your efforts to date to improve and progress the game!

[Thelonelychair]

Started a v1098 new game yesterday - went fine until I loaded up this morning and had my first CTD since launch of this game?!.

Some observations:
* Update to 1098 failed to remember config settings and I had to revalidate files via steam (about 14-15 files reported as needing fixing IIRC)
* Just before CTD I noticed research % wasnt progressing (even at 4x game speed) - I paid to crash research and a few seconds after I got CTD.
* My advisor recommended my 5th fleet (Str 1,407 - set on Attack) go attack a pirate base (Str 4,051) of much higer tech?! Recommended this both before crash and now again on reload of save

On a positive note - the game "feels" slightly faster, smoother than previous runs, and I'm playing as humans primarily missile based in early game and the ship AI seems much better at kiting using the cautious mode than I've seen previously also.

Thanks for all your efforts to date to improve and progress the game!

Have you noticed any keyboard issues? My WASD keys for panning the camera, and space bar for pause aren’t working. Not deal breakers, but very nice to have nonetheless.

[AesirAvatar]

Yep - revalidating (and fixing) the game files sorted that issue for me

[Kotopup]

Button missing to upgrade recovered space stations. Can still right click, but sometimes targetting with mouse is finicky.

Good example is the ancient ackdarian space station on new ackdarian pre-warp start.

[giltirn]

Loving the update, but I feel the leader change events could do with some tweaking. In my current human military dictatorship run I've had 3 coup d'etat in the early game alone; during the first I lost one of my 3 colonies to rebellion, and on the third I was down to single digit army strength differences in defending my *homeworld* against rebellion! If this is an intended feature, please at least give us some warning that a world is on the brink of rebellion so we have a chance to do something about it; perhaps a period of civil unrest first, and some tools to increase happiness or suppress the dissidents before it reaches full scale rebellion. Also, this really should not happen for a homeworld; at least with army and taxes on default settings and controlled by the AI, we really should not be at constant risk of a random, instant game over event happening!

[dudefan]

MINING AND RESOURCES
- Significantly slowed mining rates for mining components


edit:
there is a thread about it

[MaximKI]

Hey everyone,

A new public beta is live! Please see OP for details.

- The Matrix team

[OrnluWolfjarl]

1.0.9.8 and 1.1

Finally the updates to ship design and retrofit logic I've been waiting for! Thanks Matrix! Time to spin up the game again!

[Buio]

There wasn't a new beta rolled out, but the game now has new Steam options when launching. It allows you to set and forget, to launch the game directly without the launcher. And change setting in game properties if you want to.

[MaximKI]

New public beta update available now! See OP for details.

[Erik Rutins]

Please start a new game with 1.1.0.3 beta for best results.

Also, note that it now has Steam Workshop support for modding!