Macht: Cosmic Engine

1.1.0.2 Hotfix This patch works through the reports players sent in. The big one: the crash that happened every time you closed the game is gone. Fixed Crash on exit is fixed. A memory fault made every normal shutdown crash; the root cause was found and closed. Fly-to-favourite took you to the wrong body. It now goes to the planet you saved. Saved entries are verified by type, radius and name, and rebound to the correct body when needed. Changing a planet's colour did not show on its surface. The chosen colour now appears on the planet itself. A planet moved into the habitable zone still read "not habitable". The badge now reflects the real state. Some interface icons rendered as boxes. The missing glyphs were added to the font. Freeze in the events and chronicle panel. Two separate infinite loops that locked the game while the panel opened were closed. Graphics driver errors now show a readable message instead of a raw Vulkan string. Languages The system editor and every panel are now translated into 9 languages (Chinese included, 858 strings). These panels used to stay almost entirely in English. Language selection sometimes failed to apply because of letter case.

Macht: Cosmic Engine 1.1.0.1 (Hotfix) Thank you for all the reports since the major update. This hotfix closes the critical issues that came out of it, including one that could make planetary landing impossible for an entire session. Critical fixes Landing on planets works again A memory protection latch introduced in the major update could get stuck permanently. Once it triggered, terrain streaming stopped opening new detail levels, so approaching a planet produced no surface at all no matter how slowly you descended. Because the flag lived on the renderer rather than on the planet, it carried over between worlds: a single trigger meant you could not land anywhere for the rest of the session. The latch now resets whenever you travel to a new planet, and it also releases on its own once video memory recovers. The protection itself is unchanged, it simply can no longer become permanent. Galactic Forge galaxies are now saved Galaxies created with the Galactic Forge lived only in memory and were never written to the save file. This was most obvious in Void, where you could fill the sky with galaxies and find it empty after restarting. The save format has been extended to version 23. E

MACHT 1.1.0.0: THE LIVING GALAXY UPDATE {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/46166048/24417be7d23dfe4e423224d0f84a4f273ec9e717.png This is the largest update Macht has ever received. Since 1.0.1.14 the engine has taken on 385 changes, and most of them are not tweaks. They are entire systems that did not exist before. Civilizations now have people in them. Fleets cross the galaxy through a stargate network instead of crawling at sub-light forever. Battles are fought by a real combat AI and end with a winner. Planets die in a staged, cinematic collapse driven by Houdini pyro simulation. And you can now walk on Earth. Thank you to everyone who reported bugs, posted screenshots, and kept telling us what was broken. A very large share of this changelog exists because a player pointed at something and said "that's wrong." CHARACTER ACTIONS Civilizations are no longer faceless statistics. They are populated by independent characters who live, act, marry, scheme and die on their own timeline. Characters Independent character simulation: characters tick on their own, separate from the civilization layer Character Creator: build your own character and drop them into the living galaxy Real 3D ch

Hey everyone,Big news. In a week or two at most I'm putting out an update that basically adds a whole new layer to the game. Some of it is stuff that was supposed to be in at launch but was too buggy to ship, some of it is new. You'll be able to create your own character and play as them, and Events are finally going in. Custom Character UpdateSo yeah, not just civilizations anymore. You'll be able to control characters down to micro actions. One thing to be clear about though: this new part isn't about creating things or ruling the universe like everything else in the game so far. It's much closer to an open world RPG, or a life sim. (For now it's isometric only, and your character is represented by your ship moving through space rather than a character model. It runs on a new Character Actions system I built for this.)This time you're not a creator. You're just a person with goals. (or one of the other life forms :) )Events.Civilization scale, local system scale, galaxy scale and universe scale events are all going in.Some of you probably saw the events listed in the universe laws on panel 4 and wondered why nothing happened. That's be