Thank you all for playing and providing feedback on First Contact and 3.7!
We’ve been hard at work fixing and balancing, and are now ready to supply you with a quick patch aiming to resolve the most pertinent problems.

3.7.3 should now be available for download. Please find the changelog below.

The team is still focusing on finding and resolving incoming bugs, and we hope to have a second patch ready for you within a few weeks.

Enjoy!

Fixes and Changes

• Every single atomic pre-FTL will no longer nuke themselves if they are not being observed.
• Fixed Contingency worlds not being properly cracked by devolving beam.
• The Solarpunk Empire will no longer stay pre-FTL if you decide to steal from them.
• Admirals should no longer be able to gain both versions of the trickster trait.
• The Solarpunk empire will no longer gain a new fleet every single month.
• Fixing custom diplomatic action sounds playing for unrelated empires.
• Missing localizations are added in English. Proper translations are expected with the following patch.
• Fallen empire buildings should no longer disappear when you conquer their planets.
• The Ministry of Culture should no longer disappear after you finish building it.
• The Artist Enclave should no longer offer to sell you a Ministry of Culture if you already bought one.
• Non-Xenophobe empires can once again enable displacement purging.
• The Accepted Plea for Protection opinion modifier is now granted to the subject towards the overlord instead of to the overlord towards the subject.
• Randomly generated machine empires now have a chance to use the toxoid machine options if you own the corresponding DLC
• Removed a TODO Opinion Modifier String.
• Fixed Broken Shackles offering Payback information about the MSI even if they got already destroyed
• Fixed a bug when cloaked ship cannot progress special project inside closed borders
• Admiral doesn’t get killed anymore when you upgrade the MSI flagship
• Torpedo and Frigate technology now requires you to have researched Corvettes.
• The Separatist Planet will no longer nuke themselves if you lose your capital to space fauna.
• Broken Shackles empires with the Parliamentary System civic will instead have Unshackled Politics fire one month after game start instead of one year after game start.
• You can no longer select the Fear of the Dark version of the Sol system without the Fear of the Dark origin.
• Fixed Liberation wars not showing up for Payback empires.
• Fixed events related to the Out of Warranty event chain not firing.
• Fix being able to build an observation post over Haven using the fleet order button
• The Accepted Plea for Protection opinion modifier now grants +150 opinion.
• The Observation Insight Situation now remembers what approach you had when it last finished.