*** Released 4/3/2014 ***
First of all please let me offer a huge thanks to those participating in our Alpha program. We have been reading the forums diligently and we are grateful both for the great feedback as well as your reports of bugs and ideas for improvement.
The focus of this patch is to address as many bugs as possible so that people can be focusing on gameplay.
Features
Added Multiplayer lobby version matching- Some of you may have noticed developers jumping in and out of lobbies as we tested and fixed multiplayer issues, this will keep you form seeing lobbies of people on different versions and keep us from bugging you with our test games, sorry for the confusion
Added support for loading games from other versions (not relevant yet, but it will be when you get this patch)
The game now detects if your video card can use compute shaders, if not it automatically disables those effects (fixing an issue causing some players to just see black screens)
UI
Clicking a starbase now centers the camera on them
Improved income tooltip on the planet screen
Fixed the research tooltip
Fixed lots of typos
Added more typos
Chat now unhides automatically when you receive a message form another player
Added more verbose messages when players disconnect in multiplayer explaining what happened
Balance
Update GlobalDefs, increased base growth rate to .25
Reduced some overpowered adjacency bonuses
Increases “Base” value on tiny maps, to increase numbers of planets and anomalies to be closer to Small maps values
Removed Population Improvement Blocking from Arid Terrain
Rebalanced costs
Rebalanced growth rate
Fixes
Fixed a minor issue with the anti-aliasing display on the options screen where you wouldn't see your anti-aliasing level set (it was actually at 2x, though the display didn't show it)
Fixed an issue that could cause ship strategic icons to me lost when you reloaded a save game.
Fixed an issue where a planet could become uncolonizable if you sent a colony ship to it and that ship got destroyed
Fixed an issue where the music would start over when jumping into the multiplayer lobby
Fixed an issue reloading a multiplayer game if the host wasnt ready
Fixed an issue causing ships to form fleets twice
Fixed an issue where the mouse curser could be offset from its actual location on some resolutions
Fixed a multiplayer desync being caused by FoW calculations
Fixed an issue that could cause the command button to become disabled for fleets
Fixed an issue that causes a green flicker before any movies play
Fixed an issue that could leave buttons highlighted if you mouse dragged over them
Fixed an issue where you wouldnt be able to type in a save game name if you were in the chat window
Fixed a display issue with error code tooltips
Drengin toilets unclogged
Fixed an issue using the construct action from the fleet context window
Fixed strings in Starbase modules, were names and descriptions were inverted
Fix missing icons on several improvements
Fixed double growth bonus on Ghost World
Fixed bad Icons in Ship Defs
Fixed an issue which caused all improvement to generate culture after a culture improvement was built
Fixed an issue where the turn turn button never stops prompting for research after all the games techs are learned
Fixed an issue causing a multiplayer game mismatch if one of the players had previously generated a game
Fixed an issue causing a hang if you pressed tab while the game was generating the map
Fixed an issue where the game could run out of graphic nodes if there were a lot of ships in the game