Release 1.22 Hotfix #2
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Fix for random events not triggering for AI factions for some galaxy seeds
Shader optimization for tactical and planet view scenes
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Greetings Lords of Rigel! The most recent update included performance enhancements and bug fixes for reported issues. The update also included a new weapon available from engaging various types of pirate forces, the Coilgun. Coilguns are a "middle of the road" kinetic weapon providing a more "vanilla" option that pairs well with laser cannons for the early to mid game.
Additionally, two community requests have been added namely breaching pods providing a small chance for technology capture when used and rebalancing of some of the higher end monster weapons when acquired so they start with less tech miniaturization. This mostly reduces the early game effectiveness of Phasers.
The August update and two year anniversary will introduce the requested Codex feature, which provides a way of accessing information from the art book in game as well as additional in-universe information:
In game codex preview.
For those players facing issues such as with keybindings, please check out the following resources. There are some common settings and performance issues for some systems that can be easily resolved by following the steps under common issues:Common Issues:Common Issues and SolutionsFor players with questions on game mechanics, the Lord of Rigel Official Guide is a good reference:If you are experiencing an issue with your game, please let us know. Save files help with narrowing down to reproduce any issues. Strategy games are complex, and what may seem like an obvious issue could be tied to a specific game's history or a particular hardware configuration:
Reporting Issues:Issue Reporting GuideIf you enjoy the game please leave a review!Greetings current and future Lords of Rigel! This week Lord of Rigel is 75% off. Help shape the galaxy or free it from those who would control it!
The Lord of Rigel demo and soundtrack are available for free download.
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Greetings Lords of Rigel! Release 1.21 includes a new monster weapon that can be acquired by defeating the grand menace Von Neumann Mothership or Von Neumann Probes. Updates over May also include community requested features including customization features, namely renaming species in the Evolutionary Mutation menu and bombers contributing to bomb counts in the orbital bombardment menu.
What is coming next as a roadmap? Some more community requested features are planned, including a codex in the info screen with gameplay hints and lore. Codex entries will be unlocked based on encountering monsters and species, but persistent between games.
For those players facing issues such as with keybindings, please check out the following resources. There are some common settings and performance issues for some systems that can be easily resolved by following the steps under common issues:Common Issues:Common Issues and SolutionsFor players with questions on game mechanics, the Lord of Rigel Official Guide is a good reference:If you are experiencing an issue with your game, please let us know. Save files help with narrowing down to reproduce any issues. Strategy games are complex, and what may seem like an obvious issue could be tied to a specific game's history or a particular hardware configuration:
Reporting Issues:Issue Reporting GuideIf you enjoy the game please leave a review!Greetings current and future Lords of Rigel! This week Lord of Rigel is 75% off. Help shape the galaxy or free it from those who would control it!
The Lord of Rigel demo and soundtrack are available for free download.
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Greetings Lords of Rigel! Release 1.20 includes performance optimizations for AI research, rebellions, and AI destruction of planets. it also includes a fix for a rare end turn stall case. Additionally, five new logos have been added to the new game menu:
Image 1. New Logos
For those players facing issues such as with keybindings, please check out the following resources. There are some common settings and performance issues for some systems that can be easily resolved by following the steps under common issues:Common Issues:Common Issues and SolutionsFor players with questions on game mechanics, the Lord of Rigel Official Guide is a good reference:If you are experiencing an issue with your game, please let us know. Save files help with narrowing down to reproduce any issues. Strategy games are complex, and what may seem like an obvious issue could be tied to a specific game's history or a particular hardware configuration:Reporting Issues:Issue Reporting GuideIf you enjoy the game please leave a review!Greetings Lords of Rigel! Release 1.19 includes a community requested feature, chaos mode and a community requested new beam weapon technology that can be unlocked by defeating Von Neumann space monster types. What does chaos mode do? When enabled in advanced settings in new game it removes the minimum turn thresholds for random events. This means that even homeworld threatening events and grand menaces can trigger early in your games for maximum chaos.
This update also includes some additional minor optimizations and a fix for cases where the ironman flag did not display in the save menu for some autosaves.
Image 1. Phaser and Spatial Torpedo Weapons Against a Yalkai Scouting Fleet
For those players facing issues such as with keybindings, please check out the following resources. There are some common settings and performance issues for some systems that can be easily resolved by following the steps under common issues:Common Issues:Common Issues and SolutionsFor players with questions on game mechanics, the Lord of Rigel Official Guide is a good reference:If you are experiencing an issue with your game, please let us know. Save files help with narrowing down to reproduce any issues. Strategy games are complex, and what may seem like an obvious issue could be tied to a specific game's history or a particular hardware configuration:Reporting Issues:Issue Reporting GuideIf you enjoy the game please leave a review!Greetings current and future Lords of Rigel! This week Lord of Rigel is 75% off. Help shape the galaxy or free it from those who would control it!
The Lord of Rigel demo and soundtrack are available for free download.
If you have comments, suggestions, feedback, or reporting issues check out our steam forums and discord. If you enjoy the game please leave a review!
Balance- Adjustments for population focus for single population planets. Will force assignment for industry and research, balance will focus on food for non-barren planets if a species is not Mechanoid or Lithovore.
Greetings current and future Lords of Rigel! This week Lord of Rigel is 75% off. Help shape the galaxy or free it from those who would control it!
The Lord of Rigel demo and soundtrack are available for free download.
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Greetings Lords of Rigel! Release 1.18 includes a new leader, Tssardak the Enforcer and a new ship system, the Tholon Detonator. The Tholon Detonator makes a ship's warp core unstable, quadrupling the damage from warp core breaches caused by an engine system being destroyed or a ship self-destructing. As this damage also scales up with drive type small suicide ships are an option. This update also includes some balance adjustments including reduced subsistence now lowers the amount of population assigned to farming once researched.
Image 1. The Tholon Detonator in the Tech Tree
For those players facing issues such as with keybindings, please check out the following resources. There are some common settings and performance issues for some systems that can be easily resolved by following the steps under common issues:Common Issues:Common Issues and SolutionsFor players with questions on game mechanics, the Lord of Rigel Official Guide is a good reference:If you are experiencing an issue with your game, please let us know. Save files help with narrowing down to reproduce any issues. Strategy games are complex, and what may seem like an obvious issue could be tied to a specific game's history or a particular hardware configuration:Reporting Issues:Issue Reporting GuideIf you enjoy the game please leave a review!Greetings current and future Lords of Rigel! This week Lord of Rigel is 75% off. Help shape the galaxy or free it from those who would control it!
The Lord of Rigel demo and soundtrack are available for free download.
If you have comments, suggestions, feedback, or reporting issues check out our steam forums and discord. If you enjoy the game please leave a review!
Greetings Lords of Rigel! Release 1.17 adds a community requested feature, special weapons unique to space monsters that can be available to the player.
Now when defeating space monsters in addition to a chance for rescuing a leader, or finding a cache of BCs in the case of defeating pirates, there is a chance to recover a technology.
Some technologies are unique takes on ones you can research such as the Positron Flux which is a longer range version of the ELF, or the Magnetar which increases damage based on the ship it hits unlike the Pulsar which does damage based on the size of the firing ship. Spatial torpedoes are a new type of direct fire torpedo that also has limited seeking abilities making it a mix between the Antimatter and Plasma types and Ionic and Proton torpedoes.
You may also notice tweaks to other weapons such as anti missile rockets creating a flak screen against incoming missiles.
This update also has a fix for a rare case where destroyed outposts could result in the orbit being lost, which could also cause performance issues for the AI as games progressed.
In the coming months expect to see some new spy mechanics (namely assassinating enemy spies) and some requested advanced settings for galaxy generation.
For those players facing issues such as with keybindings, please check out the following resources. There are some common settings and performance issues for some systems that can be easily resolved by following the steps under common issues:
Common Issues:
For players with questions on game mechanics, the Lord of Rigel Official Guide is a good reference:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3291496385
If you are experiencing an issue with your game, please let us know. Save files help with narrowing down to reproduce any issues. Strategy games are complex, and what may seem like an obvious issue could be tied to a specific game's history or a particular hardware configuration:
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As requested by the community, release 1.16 includes a new autopause feature that can be adjusted in settings. Whether autopause is on or off by default and the autopause timer can all be set. It can be toggled at any time in tactical. The balance of power bars also have a tooltip breaking down contributions to the estimates. A balance of power bar has also been added into tactical that updates during combat. Additionally by default Q and E also cycle through selected ships, matching the system and planet view hotkeys.
This update also includes performance and AI updates, AI ship designs will better utilize a number of special systems which should result in more challenging games.
Below is a tactical battle between Humans and Tulocks showing off autopause:
As this update includes new key bindings, please check that the new hotkeys are bound in the options settings if returning to the game as old saves and .inis do not include new bindings.
For those players facing issues such as with keybindings, please check out the following resources. There are some common settings and performance issues for some systems that can be easily resolved by following the steps under common issues:
Common Issues:
For players with questions on game mechanics, the Lord of Rigel Official Guide is a good reference:
If you are experiencing an issue with your game, please let us know. Save files help with narrowing down to reproduce any issues. Strategy games are complex, and what may seem like an obvious issue could be tied to a specific game's history or a particular hardware configuration:
Reporting Issues:
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