Greetings Lords of Rigel! This year has had the release of additional "free LC" including new technologies, leaders, and monster specific weapons. The most recent update added an in-game codex with in-universe information that unlocks as you explore and is persistent between games. Advanced game starts also provide a wide range of options including "Lived in Galaxy" where factions start at diff…
Feature- Codex QOL- Pan to homeworld added to diplomacy menu QOL- Skip to system view option added- Will select the highest population colony in a system to enter colony view. (goes to system view for systems with only outposts or ones you do not occupy) QOL- Galaxy seed and advanced game start save in persistent settings Loading and menu performance optimizations (half loading time for some sy…
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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 communi…
Balance- Higher tech levels for elder and monster weapons for mods and miniaturization Feature- Small chance for breaching pods to capture technologies (successful attacks needed, 1% chance) QOL- Monster and elder techs no longer change tech level in research menu (only researchable techs) QOL- Disabling all filters in weapons designer menu will default to beams when re-opening menu
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QOL- Tactical no longer switches to autoresolve if there is only a starbase and support ships Critical- Fix for rare case where rapidly hitting close key in audience threat messages could cause a softlock if a treaty proposal was queued after Fix for instance of fleet defeated appearing when support ships and planetary defenses win a combat Fix for rare case of starbase appearing in balance of…
Critical- Fix for rare case where AI outpost destruction could affect system indices Optimization for galaxy menu UI Fix for sensor refresh when AI attacks (blockades) undefended planets and lacks bombs
Balance- Fighters and bombers more effective in autoresolve Fix for case where planets menu did not refresh outposts on new construction if cutscenes or GNN were disabled. Bomb icon now displays if a fleet has bombers only and no bombs Fix for breaching pod effectiveness in autoresolve
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…
Content- New monster weapon for Von Neumann Probes and Motherships (can be acquired by defeating them...) QOL- Tutorial goal window anchor adjustment and scales with content QOL- Info ranking tooltip notes spies not needed for omniscient species to have ranking data Omniscient species now display end turn names for uncontacted species Omniscient species in Info screen shows all species Fix for…
Feature- Bombers now can contribute bombs in orbital bombardment- they use best available bomb QOL- Tooltips for ship system stats in ship designer QOL- Tooltips with additional scoring information in end game menu Visual fix for case of random species button remaining on Measurement tool now disables for outliner and event ticker menu opening events Red for negative values in ground unit armor…
QOL- Custom species names in custom species menu and evolutionary mutation menu Balance- VN Drone shield strength reduced for early game Fix for rare cases of companion stars larger than central stars Critical- Fix for case where player could enter custom species menu with an invalid Galaxy ID
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Release 1.20 Hotfix #1- Visual fix for spatial torpedoes (reduced bloom) Fix for rare case of AI exiles colonizing wrong system on game start if a higher priority planet was closer Optimizations for faction lost contact and game over checks Optimization for AI system defense scores Fix for rare case where player could receive points for a victory condition when defeated
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…
Fix for case where chaos mode button saved option could reset on player Performance optimization for strategic combat AI Balance- Increased AI aggression towards undefended targets
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 gran…
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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. 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! Lord of Rigel Discord
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 a…
Fix for cases where colony focus did not correctly update with end turn changes for non-sapiophage species. Balance- In farming, industry, and research focus modes increased population assigned to focus.
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! Lord of Rigel Discord
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…
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