Lord of Rigel News

• Ticket #1804 QOL – Don’t include government trait in species trait count
  
• Ticket #1801 QOL – Build Queue arrows – Shift-click moves to top or bottom of queue
  
• Ticket #1795 QOL – Moving items in build queue keeps progress
  
• Ticket #1794 One off diplomacy messages during turn causing GNN messages fix
  
• Ticket #1790 Event ticker clear option in settings off by a turn fix
  
• Ticket #1799 Phantom parked fleet using Planets menu fix
  
• Ticket #1797 Ship Designer – Editing an existing design weapon size and ship design space mismatch fix
  
• Ticket #1796 Torpedo mods not present in ship designer fix
  
• Ticket #1800 QOL – Ship Designer - Reset design button enabled when using pulldown to modify a design
  
• Ticket #1803 Additional fixes for duplicate ship class names when refitting
  
• Ticket #1806 Gravity penalty for Low G fix
  
• Ticket #1798 Blank counter proposal text in Diplomacy fix
  
• Ticket #1802 QOL – Revised war event ticker
  

Based on your feedback and save games our latest update has a number of quality of life fixes and bug fixes requested by the community.

Some updates to the refitting system to give refit designs unique names (ex. Lexington-A, Lexington-B) and to allow use of the pulldown menu to select existing designs of a hull class have been added.

Additionally, leftover production on a completed item will now move over to the next item in the build queue.


Image 1. One of your legendary galaxy saves!

One requested technology was added to the high end social science branch, "Advanced Settlement." This technology when researched will upgrade colony ships to automatically produce initial economic buildings if you have already researched them. While in the end game many of these items may quickly produce or be purchased time is a resource and this can save 5-10 turns of starting a new world.


Image 2. Advanced Settlement technology

We also added in a toggle option for pause in tactical (Default: Space Bar) to help with real time with pause combat for players. Bandbox optimizations have also been added.


Image 3. Tactical pause toggle

Sometimes your saves can also show us bugs you haven't reported in this case nebulas, neutron stars, and black holes when together could result in a ship having the reason it can't travel near a black hole as due to fuel range and not due to the black hole.


Image 4. Debugging an issue

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What is coming next?

In addition to any critical bugs reported we're looking at:

• Event ticker dismiss- clear turns adjustments.
  
• Saving build progress if an item is moved down build queue.
  
• Torpedo weapon mods.
  
• Threatening the AI in diplomacy. (territory, spies)
  

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As this patch added new hotkeys, if you are having issues with key bindings, please check the settings menu or look under common issues.

Our first update for 2024 includes some long-awaited features and nears the end of our roadmap for LoR early access.

This patch includes some critical fixes:

• Tutorial planets menu fix
  
• Blank autosave display data fix
  
• Autoturn fixes for some menu transitions
  

In addition, two end game features you've been patiently waiting for have been added: Research Victories and Grand Menaces.

Research Victories
Once you've reached the end of a research field, you can choose hyper advanced technologies for upgrades or select the Path of Ascension technologies.

There is one technology for each field, which unlocks a special project that can be constructed on your homeworld to trigger civilization-wide ascension.

Grand Menaces
These are galaxy threatening foes that are end game threats. Defeating a grand menace reduces galactic tension and can help keep a galaxy from the edge of all out war.

Threats include a full invasion of the exiled forces chasing the Synth from their home galaxy, the mothership of the mysterious Von Neumann probes, the extra-dimensional "System Killer," and the Infection Mothership.


Image 1. The Infection Mothership- An extragalactic threat that uses biological agents to sterilize worlds.

Ship Refitting
Ship refitting has also been added. This will take existing designs and you can upgrade ship weapons and systems but not change the underlying hull type (ex. a frigate remains a frigate). Ship crews and experience are transferred.

Ships can be refitted as long as there is a Starbase, Battlestation, or Citadel.

Image 2. Ship refitting in the build menu

Research Menu Updates
Another requested change was adding a filter to the research menu to hide technologies not currently researchable. The tech filter button at the bottom of the screen can be toggled to show all possible technologies.

Image 3. Research menu tech filter.

Other changes this update include additional optimizations to end turn, tactical AI, and diplomacy.

What's Next?
With the core features we aimed to include with the rework of LoR in Unreal now available, we want to work in additional requested community features and bug fixes. So please keep reporting any encountered bugs, quality of life suggestions. Also please keep sending us your save files as they help with balancing and tuning!