Ironclad Games and Stardock Entertainment are pleased to present the 1.04 update notes for Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion to customers. You may need to restart the Steam client if the update doesn't initially appear.

NOTE: VERSION 1.04 IS NOT SAVE GAME COMPATIBLE WITH PREVIOUS UPDATES.

Version 1.04 Change Log:

[ Graphics ]

• Added new loading screen image.
• Fixed some button highlight bugs in the create mission system.
• Updated UI not to display game speed Infocards in multiplayer matches.
• Updated texture on Advent Rebel Titan.
• Updated texture on Vasari Loyalist Titan.
• Fixed Resource Drain particle on Vasari Colony capital ship that would start past moon/asteroids.

[ Gameplay ]

• Added five new maps:  Kabel, The Art of War, Triple Entente, Unstable Alliance and Random Huge - Ring. (Special thanks to Pbhead and Goafan77 for assisting with some of these.)
• Added new Corvette weapon damage type which all corvettes now use for their fore/aft weapons.
• Updated Corvette damage balance per new weapon damage type.
• The maximum number of superweapons a faction can field is now based on the number of planets they own. By default a faction can field 1 superweapon for every 4 owned gravity wells.
• The Frigate target filter will no longer improperly target Corvettes.
• Fixed bug with aiUseTime - OnlyWhenAboutToDie that was causing it not to activate in some circumstances.
• Changed all Flagships' Overload Engines ability aiUsetime to OnlyWhenMovingThresholdDistance; reduced cooldown from 300 to 120; increased duraction from 30 to 45.
• Players may no longer contract Pirate missions (via Diplomacy) against TEC Rebel factions who have researched Truce Amongst Rogues.
• Destroyed Titans now cost an additional 10% per level in resources and build time.
• Steam Cloud saves are now fully functional in multiplayer.
• Pirates -
• Pirate raiders will no longer linger at the Pirate planet when their missions are complete. They will now despawn after returning to base.
• TEC (All)
• Corsev Battlecruiser: Capped the maximum number of targets on Demolition Teams to 25 from unlimited.
• Corsev Battlecruiser: Updated Demolition Teams autocast to target Boarded vessels.
• Updated Proximity Mines to have a small HP restore rate.
• TEC Loyalists
• Novalith Deregulation now allows TEC Loyalists to field 2 superweapons for every 4 owned gravity wells.
• Fixed bug that caused the bonuses from Hardened Defenses to only be applied to Gauss Turrets.
• Removed duplicate PlanetModule entry in Disruption Matrix target filter. This was replaced with a Titan entry.
• TEC Rebels
• Changed Snipe aiUseTime to IsCapitalShipOrStarbaseOrTitan.
• Advent Loyalists
• Changed Coward's Submission to no longer convert friendly ships, Flagships, starbase constructors or temporary/illusion ships.
• The culture benefits of Global Unity will now properly dissipate if the player doesn't maintain enough research labs for the subject.
• Fury of the Unity damage bonus increased from 10% to 20%.
• Assimilated Populace updated to now provided 20 population every 60 seconds, three times.
• Coronata Titan:  Unity Mass changes - aiUseTime changed to IsCapitalShipOrStarbaseOrTitan; antimatter cost changed from 65/70/75/80 to 80/75/70/65; base damage increased from 1000/1500/2000/2500 to 2500/3500/4500/5500; damagetype changed from Physical to Energy.
• Advent Rebels
• Expulsion now uses a new buff modifier and will only modify existing culture, not create new culture.
• Eradica Titan:  Strength of the Fallen duration increased to 400 from 120.
• Eradica Titan:  Unyielding Will re-designed - the effects now scale as the titan takes hull damage (75%/50%/25%), granting higher levels of ability cooldown, antimatter restoration and damage negation. When destroyed, the Eradica become invulnerable and may chase enemies down.
• Updated string for Protection of the Unity to make it clear the effect only works within the player's culture.
• Vasari (All)
• Rankulas' Create Combat/Assault/Support Naintes and Reassemble abilities are now untargeted. The nano ship will appear adjacent to the caster.
• Updated nanite swarm strings to indicate the ability is no longer targeted.
• Changed Disintegration aiUseTime to IsCapitalShipOrStarbaseOrTitan.
• Vasari Loyalists
• Vorastra Titan: Fixed bug that caused the Maw's attract range to be slightly lower than its target range.
• Vorastra Titan: Removed Corvettes from the Maw's target filter.
• Stripped to the Core scuttle time is now dependent on the planet being stripped:  Asteroids/Dead Asteroids - 60 seconds; Desert - 240 seconds; Ice - 260 seconds; Volcanic - 280 seconds; Terran - 300 seconds; Home worlds - 400 seconds.
• Stripped to the Core income is now affected by Fleet Upkeep penalties.
• Shipboard Labs has been split into two research subjects:
• Shipboard Labs (Tier 7) will grant 1 military lab per capital ship.
• Empire Integration (Tier 7) will grant 1 civilian lab per capital ship.
• Civilian Evacuations income bonus is now affected by the global Income Speed option.
• The Capital Loss voiceover will no longer play if you haven't actually lost due to Mobile Rulership.
• Vasari Rebels
• Moved Starbase Mobilization from Defense to NonCombat tech tree with a pre-req. of Enhanced Tunneling.
• Starbase Mobilization is now disabled if the player doesn't maintain enough labs for the research to remain active.
• Vasari Rebel starbases now suffer a 25% weapon damage penalty for 60 seconds after exiting phase space.
• Added an appropriate error message when a starbase fails to jump to a gravity well due to their already being a player starbase present.
• Kultorask Titan:  Removed unintended 0 from AntiMatterRestoreRate passive upgrade.

[ Modding ]

• Added new Corvette ChanceToHitTargetType to gameplay.constants.
• Added new Corvette weapon damage type to gameplay.constants.
• DamagePercentBonus:CORVETTE:CapitalShip 0.65
• DamagePercentBonus:CORVETTE:VeryLight 0.50
• DamagePercentBonus:CORVETTE:Light 1.5
• DamagePercentBonus:CORVETTE:Medium 0.6
• DamagePercentBonus:CORVETTE:Heavy 0.5
• DamagePercentBonus:CORVETTE:VeryHeavy 0.55
• DamagePercentBonus:CORVETTE:Module 0.35
• DamagePercentBonus:CORVETTE:Pirate 0.50
• DamagePercentBonus:CORVETTE:Titan 0.7
• Added cannonsPerGravityWellRatio to gameplay.constants.
• Added cannonGravityWellRatioDenominator to gameplay.constants.
• Added new buff modifier - CultureSpreadModifier.
• New aiUseTargetCondition - HasBuff. Only autocasts on targets who have the specified buff.
  Form:
  aiUseTargetCondition "HasBuff"
  buffType "BuffMyBuff"
• Increased iconBackdropDefs from 3 to 5.
• New buffInstantActionType: ApplyBuffToFirstSpawnerNoFilterNoRange. Same usage as ApplyBuffToLastSpawnerNoFilterNoRange. 
• Galaxy Forge Updates:
• Added galaxy name to save file.
• Updated GalaxyScenarioDef with planet bonuses and other additions for future maps.
• Normalized some line endings.

 [ Misc ]

• Fixed bug that caused some of the research achievements not to unlock.
  
• Removed un-needed semicolon in gameplay.constants after enemyDPSInOrbitBodyISquadOwnerBuildRateScalar.
• Fixed incorrect effect entry in PlanetAsteroidBelt.entity for Stripped to the Core particle.
• Removed un-needed tilde from Effect_CoinDrop in SoundEffects.sounddata.
• Truncated file locations from all particle files.
• Various optimizations made to movement, IAttacker and rendering systems for improved performance.
• Removed un-needed .mesh extension from Vasari Loyalist Titan Factory MeshNameInfo entry.
• Removed un-needed .mesh extension from Vasari Rebel Titan Factory MeshNameInfo entry.
• Minor string adjustments to clarify when a ship can't phase jump.
• Increased formation distances between frigates and capital ships to prevent ships from clustering too closely during group phase jumps (which slowed things down while they waited for formation).
• Potential fix for iHyperspace related crash bug - this was a major culprit of many crash reports.
• Fixed AttackPlanet bug that caused the game to crash - this was a major culprit of many crash reports.
• Fixed a Checksum crash bug - this was another major culprit of many crash reports.