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Lord of Rigel — patch notes and updates

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Lord of Rigel Autumn Sale 85% Off2026-10-31Greetings current and future Lords of Rigel! This week Lord of Rigel is 85% 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
Lord of Rigel October Community Update2026-10-18Greetings Lords of Rigel! Update 1.24 includes additional custom faction logos for new game and several community requested quality of life features. A research prior technologies option has been added to new game. For species that are not Creative or Uncreative this alternative rule allows for researching the applications not selected for a research field. For games without this option on, unavailable technologies now have crossed out text. A copy ship design option has also been added to skirmish and the build queue. The galactic council vote menu for elections and council decrees also has updated tooltips breaking down faction votes and wh
Release 1.23 Hotfix #32026-10-06Change Log: Visual- Texture variation increased for planet terrains and planets Critical- fix for rare case where autoresolve would destroy both fleets Fix for case where starvation calculation could result in a population growth boost if there was a surplus Fix for custom species names and rebellions
Lord of Rigel Autumn Sale 85% Off2026-10-01Greetings current and future Lords of Rigel! This week Lord of Rigel is 85% 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
Lord of Rigel Weekly Sale 85% Off2026-09-25Greetings current and future Lords of Rigel! This week Lord of Rigel is 85% 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
Lord of Rigel September Community Update2026-09-17Greetings Lords of Rigel! Update 1.23 adds a number of community requested features including sorting options for the galaxy outliner, and subtooltips for the empire leaders. Outliner sorts include the most used options in the Empire and Fleets menus and will automatically adjust the filter to Colony or Fleet modes. More economy sliders have also been added per a community request, allowing for income, agriculture, and production to all be adjusted along with research to set the game pace and difficulty. This update also includes numerous performance improvements that should help with memory and load times on lower end systems.This update als
Release 1.232026-09-17Change Log: Ticket #2169 Content- Tetryon Projector special weapon Ticket #2168 Content- Additional logos Ticket #2167 Feature- BC, Agriculture, and Industry economy speed options in advanced settings Ticket #2166 QOL- Subtooltips for leaders in empire menu Ticket #2165 QOL- Outliner sort Balance- Von Neumann Drones now use Class I shields instead of Class III (applies to new games) Performance and memory management improvements
Release 1.22 Hotfix #62026-08-26Change Log: QOL- Hyperspace navigation added to support ships (applies to new games or games without the tech researched yet) QOL- Extended Fuel Cell and Hyperspace Navigation tech descriptions mention support ships being fitted with them QOL- Diplomacy and Spy Event Ticker Pan to System goes to system of mission or homeworld of faction (applies to new events if playing an old save) QOL- Added full screen resolution to convenient window resolutions for windowed mode in options Balance- Coalition AI personality types have a higher chance of accepting stop expansion and stop spying demands Minor performance optimization for some achievement tri
Lord of Rigel- Year Two Anniversary2026-08-24Greetings 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 different tech levels. Community feedback has also been important, and many of the quality of life improvements and balance adjustments such as autopause in tactical, skip to system view, and bombers adding to orbital bombardment are all based on your feedb
Release 1.22 Hotfix #22026-07-29Fix for random events not triggering for AI factions for some galaxy seeds Shader optimization for tactical and planet view scenes
Release 1.22- Codex and QOL Additions2026-07-21Feature- 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 systems) Fix for display case for subterranean and planner hero trait Fix for case where housing could terminate early for subterranean and planner hero trait
Lord of Rigel Weekly Sale 75% Off2026-07-13Greetings 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
July Community Update- Space Pirates, Breaching Pods, and Codex2026-07-09Greetings 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 community requests have been added namely breaching pods providing a small chance for technology capture when used and rebalancing of some of the higher end monster weapons when acquired so they start with less tech miniaturization. This mostly reduces the earl
Release 1.21 Hotfix #52026-06-27Balance- 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
Lord of Rigel Steam Summer Sale 75% Off2026-06-25Greetings 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
Release 1.21 Hotfix #42026-06-24QOL- 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 power tooltip if not present Fix for case of tactical over prompt showing support ships as destroyed Fix for case where starbase balance of power was not calculated correctly in autoresolve Fixes for cases where balance of power amounts differed at tact
Release 1.21 Hotfix #32026-06-17Critical- 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
Release 1.21 Hotfix #22026-06-09Balance- 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
June Community Update- New Monster Weapon and Community Requested Features2026-06-05Greetings 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 coming next as a roadmap? Some more community requested features are planned, including a codex in the info screen with gameplay hints and lore. Codex entries will be unlocked based on encountering monsters and species, but persistent between games.For
Release 1.212026-06-05Content- 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 tutorial click to planet view in sidebar cases Optimizations for sensors
Release 1.20 Hotfix #32026-05-29Feature- 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 tooltip Fix for case where scrapping didn't refresh fleet tooltip data
Release 1.20 Hotfix #22026-05-25QOL- 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
Lord of Rigel Weekly Sale 75% Off2026-05-18Greetings 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
Release 1.20 Hotfix #12026-05-15Release 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
May Community Update- Performance Optimizations and New Logos2026-05-13Greetings 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 LogosFor those players facing issues such as with keybindings, please check out the following resources. There are some common settings and performance issues for some systems that can be easily resolved by following the steps under common issues:Common Issues:Common Issues and SolutionsFor players with questions on game mechanics, the Lord of Rigel Official Guide is a good refer
Release 1.19 Hotfix #22026-04-24Fix 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
April Community Update2026-04-14Greetings 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 grand menaces can trigger early in your games for maximum chaos.This update also includes some additional minor optimizations and a fix for cases where the ironman flag did not display in the save menu for some autosaves.Image 1. Phaser and Spatial Torpedo
Lord of Rigel Weekly Sale 75% Off2026-04-06Greetings 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
Release 1.18 Hotfix #22026-03-30Fix for achievement sync issue with Ironman and 1999 mode achievements experienced by some players.
Release 1.18 Hotfix #12026-03-21Balance- 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.