Stardock hat den ersten Patch für sein Strategiespiel Galactic Civilizations 3 veröffentlicht. Dabei bügelt das Update nach Angaben von Gamespot nicht nur Bugs aus, sondern fügt auch mehr als ein Dutzend weitere Achievements hinzu und erlaubt die Verwendung eigener Fraktionen in Mehrspieler-Partien.

Zudem soll die KI verbessert worden sein. Gleichzeitig wurden ihre Boni etwas verringert, um die richtige Balance weiter zu gewährleisten. Auch die Wartezeit bei Zügen der KI soll vor allem auf größeren Karten deutlich verkürzt worden sein. Hinzu kommt die Korrektur von Rechtschreibfehlern, die Minimierung von Abstürzen und auch der Mehrspielermodus soll stabiler laufen.

Hier die kompletten Patch Notes im Original:

Features

Enabled Custom Factions in multiplayer (with fixed to make this stable)
Added new Steam achievements for:
Survey an anomaly in a dust cloud/nebula
Declare war before you have Universal Translator
Destroying an enemy Faction
Using a wormhole
As the Iconians, take back Iconia (the Yor homeworld) from the Yor
Control all relics on the map
Survey 15 anomalies in a game
As the Yor, destroy the Iconian faction
Have 12 or more trade routes
Use Core Disruption invasion 10 times in one game
Be at war with 5 different factions at the same time
Win a battle
Destroy more than 15 enemy ships in a battle
Destroy more than 7 pirate bases
Unlock all the Benevolent ideology traits
Unlock all the Malevolent ideology traits
Unlock all the Pragmatic ideology traits

Fixes

Fixed the malevolent Mining Accident colonization event choice (it was giving +50% growth instead of -50%)
Fixed a bad adjacency bonus on the Preparedness Center (it was giving +95% resistance for each level!?!)
Fixed a crash if you hover over an out-of-bounds tile while using the teleport cheat
Fixed the "Win the Campaign" cheat
Fixed an issue causing ships to go off the screen in the battle viewer
Upgraded the version of Miles (the sound system) to fix sound issues and memory leaks
Many multiplayer fixes around lobbies and restored sessions
Fixed an issue where multiple simultaneous invasions would show the wrong info in the results window
Fixed a crash when attacking a planet with two fleets in the same action
Fixed a crash if a transport tried to invade a planet at the same time that it was joining a fleet
Fixed a crash if you fought 2 battles against one defender with spawned fighters and canceled the first battle in the same turn
Fixed an issue that would cause you to not be given ships by ideological events and anomalies if you obsoleted those ship designs in your ship lists
Fixed an issue where the planet keeps spinning in the battle viewer even if the simulation is paused
Fixed an issue where the old minimap border stuck around if you started a game within a game (only noticeable if you changed map sizes between those 2 games)
Fixed lots of typos
Didn't add any new typos!
Fixed an issue with ridiculously wide monitors (we were scoffing at the 3000 x 1080 resolution until we got a monitor to test it on, it looks pretty awesome)
Fixed an issue where you could build infinite resource requiring ships by using continuously build (When a ship is set to continuously build in a shipyard, and it requires a specific resource, it now checks if the player has enough of that resource before building. If not, it gets removed from the shipyard's queue and sends an Alert/Notification to the player to let them know)
Fixed a crash when going from the campaign to a multiplayer game
Fixed a stuck turn when the AI invades two planets at the same time
Fixed weekly treaty income not showing up in the production sub window
Fixed an issue allowing the player to get peace with the AI in scenarios (like the campaign) where peace isn't allowed
Fixed the jitterbug (AKA ships no longer wiggle when moving on large maps)
Fixed the Kinetic Accelerator to correctly boost the range of Kinetic weapons
Fixed the Quantum Leap ideological trait (it wasn't applying its +5 research per colony bonus)
Fixed the missing icon for Barrier System Focus
Fixed an issue allowing Food Distribution to be buildable while Xeno Irrigation was already built
Fixed the High Output Mining techs
Fixed the prereqs on the Biomass Resequencer
Fixed an issue where decay wasn't being applied for synthetic life. Decay is the process where population shrinks if you have more people than your population cap supports.
Fixed an issue where if a players faction power got high enough it would overrun and flip to 0, causing the AI to surrender

Balance

Canceling an improvement rush will now refund the player the cost of rushing the item and re-enable the Buy button.

AI

General AI strategy improvements
Reduced bonuses given to the AI due to the AI being smarter

Performance

Removed some release level debug
Major late game turn time improvement on large maps (from the AI calculating paths across the entire map for pirates) 

Während der Patch das Spiel auf die Version 1.01 anhebt, soll in den kommenden Wochen ein Update auf Version 1.1 erscheinen, bei dem auch die Unterstützung von Steam Workshops enthalten sein wird.
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