v1.6 (LIVE) Changelog - Galactic Civilizations IV: Supernova

Hello all,

We are moving v1.6 from the Insider build to live later today. Below you can find a detailed changelog.

Major changes

• Visual improvements to the battle viewer
• German language enabled
• New Anomalies
• New Culture Traits

...and more!

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06/27/23 Hot Patch | v1.6 Changelog

• Today's hot patch removes 8x anti-aliasing as it was causing issues for some users.

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Art:

• Lots of new artifact images.
• Lots of new leader backgrounds to spawn quests from.
• New civ capital image.
• New anomaly backgrounds.
• Added new event images. 

Audio:

• Altarian peace music theme added.
• Rebalance SFX and UI volume 
• Added new battle tracks.
• Added new unit selection sound fx

Battles:

• Battle Viewer selected ship tooltip now correctly updates its "in range/out of range" status.
• Larger ships should move toward the target until all weapons are in range, and then hover in place.
• Ships are no longer on top of each other Increased weapon ranges proportionally.
• Increased acceleration of tiny and small ships.
• Increased the battle space size for engagements.
• Improved battle viewer graphics.
• Moved ships slightly closer together in battle viewer.
• Visual polish pass on battle viewer.
• Battle viewer formation placement updated to provide more pleasing results.

Civ Creator:

• You can now only choose one Cultural Affinity and behavior.
• Old faction portraits now display correctly.
• Names being AI generated in quotes/with punctuation.
• Updated Civ Creator Screen layout.

Gameplay:

• Eye of the Universe culture point bonus moved up to 10 Culture Points.
• Unique ship reward events like Praxis now occur once per player.
• "You Paid your debt" now gives proper relation bonus.
• Changed confusing text describing Hydra Star system to reflect it starts with a class 20 jungle planet and not a class 28 Oceanic one.
• Added more Culture Traits.
  • Private Property Rights:
    • Unlocks Entrepreneur Citizen Specialization.
    • All planets get +1orbital Improvements slots.
  • Criminal Ties: Unlocks Crime Wave Executive Order.
  • Exploit Population: Unlocks Exploit Population Executive Order.
  • Sacred History: Unlocks Hall of Tradition Improvement.
  • Mass Mobilization:
    • Unlocks Mobilize Executive order.
    • When at war +25% manufacturing.
• Minor Civs give resources to their owner Civ.
• Chaotic Particle Absorption System Module tech requirement changed to Starbase Defense Grid tech.
• Fixed a stuck turn related to Defenders.
• Lots of new Artifacts that reward weapons, planetary models, and leaders. Not fully tested yet. Mostly tested. One annoying thing: Artifacts that change planets don't show their effect until the next turn. BOO!
• Hyperwave radio now provides the player with an additional Flag ship.
• All Custom civ governors no longer had the Malevolence trait.
• All Custom Civs leaders have the "Focus" trait; adjusted the text so that it sounds like a benefit.
• AI updated to support using new artifacts.
• Crystaline races now spell out that their population growth is tied to how much Promethion they have.
• Continuation of removing culture awareness based on faction abilities.
• Ships can longer be stationed at besieged worlds.
• Navigation techs are now available to any civ who has the Vigilant ability, not just the Arceans.
• Changing a citizen’s job costs 5 control.
• Vigilance now advertises it's cool techs.
• New Navigation related improvements to go with the techs that come with the Vigilance ability.
• Weapon balance update:
  • Missile range reduced from 4500km to 2000km.
  • Beam range reduced from 1500km to 70 km.
  • Kinetic range reduced from 50 km to 10 km.
• Updated formations to deal with larger fleets.
• Made new galactic wonders much more expensive to build.
• Fix for Support Field Stabilization Module on Mining Starbases.
• Kinetic weapons now typically use a couple percent of the hull size for storage.
• New artifacts resized.
• Make it so that you can target ships with artifact powers.
• Added new culture traits.
• Reduced the weight of the probe module.
• Prisons made available to lower crime.
• Planets generally provide a bit less food by default.
• New anomalies.
• Re-added Promethium Drive.
• Unhiding previously hidden Events outcomes.
• "Hall of Tradition" improvement can now only be built once per civ.
• Your population will no longer grow if there's no food.
• Added background image for the "Lost Propagandize" module.

Localization:

• Enabled German.

Text:

• Renamed Arcean Siege Ship to "Trebuchet" (addresses a duplicated name).
• Fixed missing event text.
• Added new survey ship name.
• Point Defense renamed to Evasion.
• Typo correction in Sovereign Immunity Description text. 

UI:

• The civ creator window dropdowns no longer get stuck open.
• Fix text overlap and frame issues on the Artifact Popup card.
• Leaders gained from an event are no longer hidden on your "Available Leader List."
• Remove Combat Role from ship tooltips.
• Fixed map marker.
• Updated planetary defense tooltips .
• Add tutorial button to main game pause menu.
• Science Advisor no longer makes impossible demands.
• Colony orbital upgrades are now calculated correctly.
• Make the readout text on the Shipyard screen more readable.
• Move proximity slider to left bar, re-hook up star frequency slider.
• Making sure speaker is added to trade flavor text, and in color of the faction.
• Make shipyard queue look more like planet queue.
• Fix mixed up tooltips on Galaxy Proximity, and Star setting.
• Fix planet stats that were being displayed with 1 decimal point to show 0 instead.

Weapons:

• Beam range increased from 700KM to 1000KM (not that it's 700KM not 70).
• Missile range increased from 2000KM to 3000KM.
• Kinetic range increased from 100KM to 250KM.
• Weapon mass requirement reduced from 3 to 2.
• More Commander ships have been given a Survey Module.
• Updated weight of new anomaly events to be consistent with others.
• Fix for access to Largest Commander Ships.