1.6.1 Changelog

Hello!

We've addressed numerous bugs both with Mercenaries and the 1.6 patch.

To enable the patch, please do the following:

• Select Galactic Civilization III in your Steam Library list

• Right-click and select Properties

• Select the BETAS tab

• From the dropdown, select opt-in and click Close (if you don't see this option, restart Steam)

• Steam should pull down the changed files; if you ever want to go back, do the same as above but select default

Please note: The opt-in is an early preview of the next update and you might experience bugs or other issues. We encourage players who try the opt-in to report any issues to the support forum or via support ticket so we can address them.

Known Issues

The following will be addressed before the 1.6.1 release:

• The AI is surveying anomalies without fighting defenders

• Some tooltips are scaling properly

Gameplay

• The starbase Military ring and its two upgrades now give a flat bonus.

• All other Starbase military modules still give multipliers but at higher values.

• Reduced the Starbase Range boost given by Military ring by 1.

• Starbase culture bases and modules now generate more influence per turn

• Increased the anomaly counts on mid-range settings.

Bugs

• Re-enabled multiplayer play for people with different DLC

• Unforgiving,Eager, and Abundant traits should properly work again

• Fixed issue with the "The Trireme" not being able to construct a starbase

• Fix several issues with the -L -P -D versions of assorted ships not being named correctly.

• Fixing a problem where the detailed match results were not always been saved properly

• Fixed crash where a ship is awarded to a player that just died

• Creating a custom faction after playing the campaign no longer crashes the game.

• Fixed typos and clarified Mercenary ship descriptions.    

• Fixed an issue where a few of the Altarian ships were using the wrong thumbnails

• Fixed issue with Mercenary ship the Caravan description that overstated its Fleet Range ability

• Ships can no longer eject onto tiles occupied by Asteroids.

• Torians can now build the Research related starbase modules and run the research planetary project.

• Fixed a problem where some ship data was being needless duplicated.  This could cause crashes on large maps with lots of players.

• The Altairans can now build the Champion's Temple.

• The Elerium Defense Shields adjacency bonus now works properly.

• Fixed a late game crash on insane maps with dozens of factions.

• Campaign: Set it up so Blessing I trigger will be disabled if Blessing II is colonized first.

Multiplayer

• Addressed some issues that were causing desync problems.

UI

• Mercenaries that you can afford are now highlighted in the Bazaar.

• Added inverted color swatches for the Arcean and Torians for custom factions

• Desaturated the Torian Continent gradient some, to make Green hexes more visible.

• Fixed rounding issue in the display of Mercenary abilities that caused apparent mismatch between the description and its effects

• Any ship with nebula immunity will not show nebula effects in the tooltip now when in a nebula.

• Fixed font for nebula effects in fleet tooltip.

• The Required Resources will no longer double up/break in the ship designer in Medium UI.

• Increased the available space for the resource number text, in both the main game window and the shipyard window.

• The Cancel Upgrade button would get disabled if you upgrade, then cancelled, then upgraded again. This is now resolved.

• Fixed some issues with the relic icons in the resource bar looking bad on medium UI.