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Master of Orion Version 43.4 Patch Notes (Early Access 3)

22 April - GeneralDirection
Welcome to Master of Orion, Early Access 3!

Need to keep this short and sweet because the patch notes take up all the characters! A note from the development team before we dive into the changes:
After a lot of work we are proud to present this massive update. As you will see this version is packed with important new features, new playable races and several improvements. We want to thank you all for your amazing feedback that is helping us improve the game.

Please remember that MOO is still in development; some of these changes may be subject to further review. As always, we are eager to get more of your feedback!

IMPORTANT NOTICE ABOUT OLD SAVED GAMES: Because of significant changes going into EA3, your old saved games from EA2 or earlier will not work with this version of the game. We are setting up a new BETA branch of the game with the previous build (Windows and Mac only) so you can continue any pending attempts to conquer the stars. This branch is called "earlyaccess2" and can be accessed via the Betas tab in Properties.

Highlights:
  • New playable races: Silicoid and Darlok
  • Espionage: Train spies and assign them to offensive and defensive missions
  • Minor Civilizations: interact with non-starfaring races to gain rewards, including influencing your diplomatic and economic victory paths
  • New Victory condition: Fill your coffers and claim economic supremacy by controlling the Galactic Monetary Fund
  • Weapon Miniaturization: Improve your legacy weapons by making them smaller and cheaper
  • Support for Linux and SteamOS
  • New galaxy size: HUGE
  • More AI improvements
  • Improved Multiplayer
  • Improved Tactical Battles
  • Improved overall balance: Better suited for both tall and wide empires and with a smoother progression in the late game
  • Improved performance (faster turn processing and less hickups when zooming in and out of the galaxy)
  • New and improved GNN gags
  • By popular demand, we added the option to mute your advisors while still retaining other voiceover audio
  • Over 400 bug fixes
Detailed list of changes:
General
  • Improved GNN animations and environment
  • New GNN Events added
  • Miniaturization added for all weapon types and bombs
  • Replaced Military Power score with Attack (average DPS) and Defense (effective hit points) ratings
  • New Espionage feature added
  • Security (Espionage-related) added to Capitol and Government Support Facility
  • New Tutorial Match added
  • Improved weapon modifiers are now unlockable through the tech tree progression
  • Improved performance: Turn processing
  • Improved performance: Diplomacy audiences
  • Improved performance: Memory management
  • Improved performance: Framerates
  • Added support to show multiple GNN events in same turn
  • Several diplomatic dialogues updated
  • Blockade income is no longer affected by empire modifiers
Visual Improvements
  • Added new Stellar Converter cutscene for destroying a planet
  • Improved emperor holograms on Diplomacy Screen
  • New ship models for transports and colony ships added for each race
  • New ship models for transports and colony ships on the galaxy map
Gameplay Balance
  • Planet population capacity increased by 4 for each planet size
  • Rebalanced planetary Biomes (adjusted: total food, available cells and diminishing returns)
  • Rebalanced planetary mineral richness (adjusted: total production output, available cells)
  • The multiplier for successive terraforming projects on the same planet has been increased, making it more difficult to terraform the poorer biomes to Terran and Gaia
  • Introduced many additional “choice required” technologies in the tech tree
  • Redistributed food buildings along the tech tree to smooth out progression and make food more important in late stages of the game
  • Rebalanced Galaxy ages
  • Uber Planets have been rebalanced to be more similar to the Terran biome
  • Colony ship production cost increased for improved pacing
  • Races with Uber Planet trait now start the game on their corresponding Uber Planet
Racial Traits
We’ve completed a major balance pass on racial traits. Below are the traits for each race as of Early Access 3.

Alkari
  • Homeworld specials: Artifacts
  • +25% Beam defense
  • Ship combat speed bonus
  • Ship travel speed bonus
  • Physics starting tech
Bulrathi
  • Large homeworld
  • Rich homeworld minerals
  • +25% ground combat rating
  • High Gravity tolerance
  • +25% Beam defense
  • Physics starting tech
Darlok
  • -25% assimilation power
  • +10% Security
  • -10% Mission duration
  • Ship improvement: Stealth (ships can get closer to enemies before being detected)
  • Government starting tech
Human
  • +10% security
  • +25% BC from Trade Treaties
  • +25% BC from Trade Goods
  • Improved Negotiations
  • Improved Disposition
  • Government starting tech
Klackon
  • Cavernous homeworld
  • Uber Planet: Cavernous
  • Poor homeworld minerals
  • +50% Food from population
  • +25% Production from population
  • Biology starting tech
Meklar
  • -50% Food consumption
  • +25% Production from population
  • +10% Morale
  • Ship auto-repair enabled
Mrrshan
  • Large homeworld
  • Grassland homeworld
  • Uber Planet: Grassland
  • +25% ground combat rating
  • Extended Barracks
  • Engineering starting tech
Psilon
  • Small homeworld
  • Homeworld specials: Artifacts
  • +50% Research from population
  • -25% ground combat rating
  • Low Gravity tolerance
  • Government starting tech
Sakkra
  • Tropical homeworld
  • Uber Planet: Tropical
  • -25% Research from population
  • +25% population growth
  • -25% Pollution generation
  • Biology starting tech
Silicoid
  • Large homeworld
  • Inferno homeworld
  • Uber Planet: Inferno
  • -25% Research from population
  • Does not consume Food
  • Does not generate Food
Terran Khanate
  • -20% ship cost
  • +25% Beam attack
  • Increased Marine training rate
  • +20% Command Points
  • Engineering starting tech
Artificial Intelligence
  • Improved Research AI efficiency
  • Improved Production AI efficiency (Better handling for new colonies)
  • Improved Deal evaluation
  • Improved threat evaluation
  • Local War AI: Now your enemies will decide to go to war for strategic targets
  • Improved invasion tactics
  • Colony ships are now escorted by military ships when threats are nearby
  • Changed colonization logic so that it considers shared systems
  • Improved Space Pirates AI
User Interface
  • Production queue visibility is now stored in saved game
  • Improved Ship Design screen
  • Added Disable Advisor option in options menu
  • Production queue visibility is now stored in turn info
  • Several fixes and tweaks for tactical UI
  • New NEW YEAR animated notification when starting a new turn
  • Updated colony ships thumbnails
  • Scrollbar has been re-skinned
  • Base icon for fleets now scale with camera distance (like ship icons)
  • Added many new tooltips across UI elements in the game
  • Added new icons to Notifications
  • Added Income from blockades on Empire Economy tooltip
  • Several minor UI tweaks
Tactical Mode
  • New special systems: Lightning Field, Plasma Web, Tractor Beam, Warp Dissipator and Wide Area Jammer
  • Improved Admiral AI (now uses match speed, and takes into account planetary defenses)
  • Improved fleet deployment
  • Auto Upgrade now considers modifiers in weapon slots
  • Added abstract representation for clearer understanding of the battlefield when zoomed out
  • New option added: reset camera on pause (on by default)
  • New hazard: Nebulae (jams missiles but blocks shield regeneration when ships are in them)
  • Combat Numbers revamped
  • Added Automated Repair visual effects
  • Blackhole now affects asteroids
  • Missile Accuracy now configurable on a per-missile basis
  • Improved balance on range dissipation damage for lasers and beams
  • After-battle combat briefing now animates damaged/destroyed ships
  • Added bombard and invade validation (specially for multiplayer)
Multiplayer
  • Removed UI lock while waiting for players
  • Turn time limit added (this is a work in progress)
  • Enabled Invite Friends button in match setup
  • Several stability-related fixes
SFX
  • New ambience sounds for colonization cutscenes
  • Added Terran Khanate audios for GNN
  • Asteroids sounds added
  • Various sound effects added to UI
Notable Bug Fixes
  • Bugfix on Galactic Council vote value
  • Bugfix for endless Processing Turn occurs when submitting turn after having max Pollution value on Uber Planet
  • Trade treaties now will deduct the cost on both parties
  • Softlock Bugfix when the AI attacked even after peace treaty was accepted
  • Bugfix on memory attacked on War Declaration
  • Bugfix when AI evaluate offer or demand deal Items on deal
  • Bugfix when being in Truce with a race AI is still cable to threaten to attack demanding something, howeveriIf player declines the demand the war won't be declared
  • Fixed combat screen sending results multiple times
  • Bugfix: when game goes into a softlock after retreating
  • Bugfix: Bombarding unfinished outposts
  • Bugfix: Softlock when Enemy AI invades player
  • Bugfix: ESC during tactical battle
  • Bugfix: Using time compression resulted in some out of syncs
  • Bugfix: A player is able to destroy other race's ships without declaring war
  • Multiplayer
  • Bugfix for locked multiplayer next turn button
  • Bugfix on match setup when updating game information for lobbies
  • Crash fix on match setup
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45 Comments
jrepin 25 May @ 10:08am 
Woohoo. Big thumbs up for GNU/Linux support.
pinky 1 May @ 1:30am 
Now there are additional research choices can you add in the racial trait creative as that use to be the point of playing the physically weak races and the opposite of it use to make the insect race more challenging
GeneralDirection 28 Apr @ 10:53am 
@tpitman: This issue is going to require a game update. We're testing out a hotfix now that should hopefully include a fix for the issue you're experiencing.
tpitman 28 Apr @ 10:39am 
My friend and I play multiplayer all the time. With this latest release we created a game and played it. We then saved and tried to load it later. When he loads it and invited me I end up in my turn, but he ends up locked up.

If I load it and invite him, he doesn't even get past the screen showing the planet without a menu.

He tried uninstalling and reinstalling and that didn't help.

He is on a PC and I am on a Mac.


We tried creating a new game and now that doesn't work either.

What can we do to figure this out?
illumaar 26 Apr @ 3:29am 
More or less, seems like you're getting there!
Really nice touch in the game already. And the game is running (at least for me) very nicely considering it's still this early in development!

I think you're not aiming to do a remake of MOO2,
and also as it seems you still have a lot of stuff coming up, all I wish to say is keep up the great work and looking forward seeing the game coming together!

And sorry, this came a bit long, but will be propably my final word as well ;)
illumaar 26 Apr @ 3:29am 
Other than that it seems to me that enemies get a bit too much help as they get one to three colony ships done and also a nice fleet to back them up and
still their planets seem like they look quite as good as mine even though I've been only focusing on structures. But this is on very hard, and this might
be the thing why it IS very hard :). All in all, I'd like to see a little bit more from the ship design (more variety, maybe) as well as spying
(as I was playing the ultimate spies, Darloks, and still, all my spies were useless, only could do initial analyzing untill they were discovered/killed).
But you seem to know you're game so I leave this part to you ;).
illumaar 26 Apr @ 3:28am 
Still, as others too, I compare this game to MOO2 quite a lot, and maybe even think/hope that this would be more like an upgrade of that game. Mainly it's nice exploring and getting the techs is cool too, but still I think the research is too good for everyone IMHO. You only miss a tech here and there and then able to trade it quite soon. Also I seem to be "stuck" in researching and building stuff around turns 50-100 rather than building ships as you can't start invading yet and the pirates keep coming at me all the time (and yes I know you can turn them off).
illumaar 26 Apr @ 3:26am 
First the one bug i've encountered so far:
Invaded enemy (sakkra) planet, then scrapped all of the buildings as it was going to be invaded again next turn. Before the invasion screen, the color of the planet already changed to Sakkra again and when the invasion screen came up, the roles were the opposite, i was the invader and sakkra the defender. All I could do was "start bombardment" and at the bottom the button was blurry (seemed like it was "abort" and "close" overlapping). No way to get out of the screen so totally jammed. Luckily i saved the game a couple of turns back.. but this is more like a "bug report".
hottt3 24 Apr @ 11:52pm 
Weapon modifiers have no tooltips! If they work at all.
Fello 24 Apr @ 9:08pm 
The old-style ship design window was better, really, those drag'n'drop are quite clumsy
Also, would be nice if you added hints on the weapon modifiers
And, just encountered a funny mission for my small civ ally: said that they needed 'app_cloning_center" tech and i had 2139 turns to complete, this must be some kind of bug
Otherwise, very, very good=)
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