DescriptionCommand sprawling empires across orbiting planets, seamlessly zooming between empire-level management and precise fleet engagements—deploy titans, influence rivals, and exploit orbital mechanics to outmaneuver opponents.
ARES AI, alliance transfers, and the Eidolon's Dark Star victory arrive in the v2.1 updateView the full changelog
ARES AI Is Live
The AI has been rebuilt on the ARES decision model, and it's now on for every AI player by default. ARES opponents expand harder, defend their important worlds, keep research moving, and commit to a war instead of drifting between targets. They hold a besieged home world instead of retreating...
Fix (we hope) for rare instances where the game refuses to launch on Steam with an Epic ownership error. This was caused by having the Epic launcher running and not owning the game there.
GameplayEidolon Planet Development
The Eidolon get more out of the worlds they take, and colonizing one no longer runs into conflict with shroud limitations.
Colonizing with the Izharien Demiurge now grants its free Logistics, Defense and Population track levels in full. The grants were being clipped by the shroud development cap on the planet the Eidolon had just shrouded.
City worlds: population growth at the top population track from 0.025 to 0.03.
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More than a hotfix, but we’re calling it one anyway!
NEW - Texture Quality Setting
We’ve added a new setting to Settings → Graphics → Rendering Device to adjust the texture quality of units in the game.
Adjust this if you’re on a laptop or on Steam Deck, as those systems use Shared Memory for graphics and will crash if you run out of it. This is the #1 cause of crashes for players on these systems.
Custom Portraits
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