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Week One Update

Greetings Lords of Rigel! It's been a busy week with hotfixes implementing fixes to some critical issues, balance, and quality of life adjustments.

[h2]Fixes:[/h2]
  • Gaia and terraformer build queue filter
  • Elder species tank firing points
  • Autoexplore range rounding, sorting by distance, and updating unexplored list fixes
  • Disruptor weapons no longer have separate no range penalty mod
  • Morale technology calculation fixes
  • Cases where ship designer system pulldowns could have not refreshed data
  • Disabling retreat when you have one system and it is under attack
  • Critical- Fix for cases where tutorial text would not save between game sessions depending on how game was exited. Note: It will still reset if entering the tutorial or applying changes with the tutorial text option on.


[h2]Quality of Life Improvements:[/h2]
  • Research tooltips show researchable, discovered, or requirements for future research.
  • Double click to save game in a slot
  • Ctrl+Hover scan ship in tactical
  • Keybinding conflict mentions conflicting binding


[h2]Balance:[/h2]
  • Planetary shield damage reduction
  • AI is smarter on bombardment use with planetary shields
  • Ground combat and surrender technology capture chance reduced
  • Early warning for space monsters


[h2]Content:[/h2]
Turvari the Yalkai Exile joins the fray. Unwilling to use their telepathy to hide their true form, Turvari was banished by their sisters.


What to Expect Next:

A warpout timer for tactical was a community requested feature. This will be based on drive type.

Additionally, the tutorial text reset will be tied to a separate button so hitting apply in the settings menu won't reset tutorial text.

Also a special shout out to Spacegamejunkie for their kind review, comments, and bugs they encountered which have been resolved this week.

While we are out of Early Access, we want to focus on critical issues and community quality of life improvements over the next few months.

Release 1.0 Hotfix #4

Change Log:

Ticket #1915 Autoexplore check
Ticket #1917 QOL- Save slot double click
Ticket #1922 QOL- Tactical attack move shows move line
Ticket #1927 QOL- Keybinding Warning Mentions Conflicting Key
Ticket #1929 Fix for cases where ship system data pulldowns did not refresh
Ticket #1932 Balance- Ground combat and surrender tech capture chance reduction
Ticket #1933 AI will continue bombardment instead of doomed invasion efforts on fortress shields

For Returning Players

If you are having control issues or settings issues:
1) Turn off Steam cloud save sync
2) Clear out your Local folder for Lord of Rigel which can be found at:

C:\Users\ YOUR USER NAME \AppData\Local\LordofRigel

3) Turn on steam cloud sync

If you have had Steam installs on different drives be sure to clear out local app data on each drive for LoR.

Alternatively you can delete the local data folders while the game is running with cloud sync on.

Release 1.0 Hotfix #3

Change Log

Ticket #1926 QOL- Ctrl+Hover for Tactical Scan Tooltip
Ticket #1925 Empire achievement morale calculation fixes
Ticket #1924 Balance- Early warning for space monsters (comets, amoebas, etc.)
Ticket #1923 Disable retreat when you only have one system and it is under attack

Bonus Content

A mysterious new leader, a Yalkai exile, joins the great war...

For Returning Players

If you are having control issues or settings issues:
1) Turn off Steam cloud save sync
2) Clear out your Local folder for Lord of Rigel which can be found at:

C:\Users\ YOUR USER NAME \AppData\Local\LordofRigel

3) Turn on steam cloud sync

If you have had Steam installs on different drives be sure to clear out local app data on each drive for LoR.

Alternatively you can delete the local data folders while the game is running with cloud sync on.

Release 1.0 Hotfix #2

Change Log:

Ticket #1914 QOL- Research Tech tree tooltip extra data
Ticket #1916 Elder species hovertank firing point fixes
Ticket #1918 Disruptor tech NR mod disabled (has it automatically)
Ticket #1919 Gaia terraformer filter fix, terraforming time fixes
Ticket #1920 Planetary shield balance fixes, Fortress shield bioweapon and invasion immunity
Ticket #1921 QOL- Custom species menu sorted by point amount and alphabetical

For Returning Players

If you are having control issues or settings issues:
1) Turn off Steam cloud save sync
2) Clear out your Local folder for Lord of Rigel which can be found at:

C:\Users\ YOUR USER NAME \AppData\Local\LordofRigel

3) Turn on steam cloud sync

If you have had Steam installs on different drives be sure to clear out local app data on each drive for LoR.

Alternatively you can delete the local data folders while the game is running with cloud sync on.

Release 1.0 Hotfix #1

Change Log:

Ticket #1912 Fix for case with rescued leader loop
Ticket #1913 Fix for case where rebel factions impacted info screen spy data

Minor end turn optimizations

For Returning Players

If you are having control issues or settings issues:
1) Turn off Steam cloud save sync
2) Clear out your Local folder for Lord of Rigel which can be found at:

C:\Users\ YOUR USER NAME \AppData\Local\LordofRigel

3) Turn on steam cloud sync

If you have had Steam installs on different drives be sure to clear out local app data on each drive for LoR.

Alternatively you can delete the local data folders while the game is running with cloud sync on.