Hi everyone! We are releasing a new patch for Astra Exodus, updating the game to version 1.00.06. Update 1.00.06 mostly focuses on fixes and both performance and quality-of-life improvements. Once again, thanks to everyone who provided their feedback to us, so that we could keep improving the game. Atomic Kaiser in the meantime will continue to work on their plans to further improve the game... stay tuned! [h1]Version 1.00.06 Changes[/h1] + Reduced the default difficulty to Captain and the difficulty to get bonus plaques to General + Fixed a significant bug in which the AI retrofiting starships disabled the end turn button + Made sure the AI gets a bit angry with constant demands, even if it accepts them due to high relations or threat. There are new modifiers for this. + Added the current selected Operative mission description to the corresponding panel + Now the file saves are ordered by date and time in the load game main panel + Added your/theirs to the tech being requested/granted in the audience screen to highlight who gets what + Improve the description/stats of the specialization picks so it's clear what you get + Improved english localization campaign messages and heroes + Removed the file extension in the name of a file save within the load game panel + Improved the visibility of of the board button in the colonists + Increased the upkeep/fee of the Ancient hero skill + Made sure to update heroes stats and skills as soon as they gain a level + Added the timestamp to the load screen of file saves + Improved performance by delaying loading audio files until they are absolutely necessary and added audio cue to the selected fleet panel + Improved load performance of graphic files from the hard drive + Added missing sound effects for troops in battle + Improved overall space battles performance, thanks to audio improvements + Strike craft now spawn further away from the carrier starship + Made sure assault starships(specially strikecraft) get the correct heading when you speed up the battle. + Improve significantly the initial game's startup time + Parametrize the Creative trait to set the number of techs available per level + Reduced minimum material efficiency to 20% to make mining more important + Pollution installations/techs affect morale instead for factions with the plantoids trait + Lowered the megafauna and native population peculiarity bonus to 6 food + Improved DataNet UI feedback on failed operative missions + Fixed a rare hero bug in which an operative is able to sabotage fleets of ships + Added an option to flip the mouse zoom scrollwheel direction + Fixed a bug in which support module space specialization picks were not working correctly