The Last Federation:Post-1.0 Release Notes

Version 1.002

(This isn't done yet, we're still working on it.)

Balance Updates And Fixes

• Fixed an exploit where some ability counts would reset back to the values they started out at, leading to a save/reload exploit.
  • Thanks to Azurian and alocritani for reporting.

• Fixed a bug where the Shortwave Virus's range was being displayed as much larger than the 1000 units specified in its description (and unit definition).
  • Thanks to topper, Faulty Logic, Mick, and pepboy for the reports and saves.

• Fixed a bug where the Shortwave Virus would only affect about half of the targets in its actual range (due to how the data was stored internally; if we later _want_ it to be only partly effective we can add that back in a non-buggy manner).
  • Thanks to topper, Faulty Logic, Mick, and pepboy for the reports and saves.

• For the sake of narrative consistency, the Acutians no longer care at all if you sell slaves.

• The races now react with proper pleasure or alarm at the following things that you can do:
  • Undermine Rival Economy (10 pos, 30 neg).
  • Dump Toxic Waste On Planet (50 pos, 150 neg).
  • Are there others you notice? If so, please let us know!
  • Thanks to Total Biscuit for pointing this out.

• Races which are not yet spacefaring no longer know about your selling of slaves, or acts of extreme brutality, etc.
  • Thanks to Total Biscuit for pointing this out.

• Made the alliances follow the rule of "if it's a hostile-to-player alliance, they cannot join the federation" that was being assumed in various descriptions, etc.
  • Incidentally, all non-Federation alliances are hostile to the player. Thankfully they all begin in a non-aligned state.
  • Thanks to Konqq for the report and save.

GUI Enhancements

• After completing an instant action (buying or selling something, political deals, whatever), it now just does a smaller popup rather than the full "contract complete" screen. This popup also is just over the normal actions list screen rather than taking you out of it, so you can do multiple political deals or actions repeatedly with ease.
  • Thanks to 6xsnake6x and others for suggesting.

• The "you've been attacked by the AFA" and "you've been attacked by Assassins" combats now start with a popup to more prominently display the scenario description that also shows in the bottom-left-hand-corner of the screen, since there's generally no preceding context for the player to realize what's going on.
  • Thanks to Tridus for inspiring this change.

Misc Fixes

• Put in an adjustment so that the textbox when you are first selecting your profile name should be selected automatically when you first come into the game, if it was not before. This is in an effort to help compatibility with tablet PCs, although honestly whether or not the game will work with them is a BIG question mark, as it isn't designed for games without a physical mouse and keyboard by nature.
  • Thanks to Madmarcus for suggesting.

• Additionally, the starting name for your profile now defaults to Hydral, just in case the above does not work.
  • Thanks to Azurian for suggesting.

• For races that are at war with one another or in an alliance with one another, but both have neutral-range attitudes to one another, previously the war or alliance lines were not showing on the race relations screen. Fixed.
  • Thanks to Misery, alocritani, and pepboy for reporting.

• The Burlust Duels no longer start out with a voiceover comment about having been hunted down.
  • Thanks to topper for reporting.

• Fixed a bug where the Help Research Vaccine action was forgetting which tech it was supposed to research before it actually ended, resulting in no tech for anyone.
  • Thanks to wyvern83 for the report and save.

• Fixed a bug in the Contract-results text logic was giving an error message when trying to tell you about a negative RCI trend ending.
  • Thanks to BobTheJanitor and Phlarr for the reports and saves.

Version 1.001 - Bugfixes, Large Screen Resolution Support

(Released April 19th, 2014)

• Fixed a bug that could cause an exception when trying to launch a planetcracker at another planet.
  • Thanks to Techmech, WhiteSeraph, shrikey, Orelius, MaxAstro, and ussdefiant for reporting.

• Fixed a bug where looking at the options to give blackmail to the burlust warlords would give you the leverage immediately.
  • Thanks to SNAFU for reporting.

• Fixed an exception that could happen when trying to do a random number that has a negative max range.
  • Thanks to Feragore for reporting.

• Put in an extra bit of code that should make sure that the "Valuable Learning Experience" achievement properly triggers. In some cases apparently it was not doing so before.
  • Thanks to Chthon for reporting.

• When a planet only has a single armada at it, ground combat is now allowed to still happen. This way planets can't avoid ground combat simply by virtue of being able to crank out a single armada too quickly.
  • Thanks to Histidine for inspiring this change.

• The game now allows you to select screen resolutions larger than 1920x1080.
  • Thanks to Volkira, Azurian, havlentia, Dav, Zero, LintMan, Penumbra, and MattyMuc for suggesting.

• Put in an update so that if steamworks fails to initialize for whatever reason on the steam versions of the game, it will not stop the application from loading.
  • Thanks to Red_Machine for reporting.

Previous Release Notes

The Last Federation Alpha Release Notes