GC4 EA Feedback Test Branch | VERSION 0.81.280177

This survey result still has major clipping, it does not scroll.  I also assume the "+" should be inside the box with at a minimum the wording "Experience Points +5 (for each ship in fleet)"

Ok, so I had a 2 ship Terran fleet (with the Gaze) survey a ship graveyard. Killed the 3 pirate ships with no problem.  Decided to watch the battle using the new battle viewer.  Cinematics were pretty good.  The video ended just as the 2 fleets were getting ready to engage.  I think your battle viewer needs some TLC   

Went back and replayed the survey.  This time battle viewer showed the Gaze taking a bunch of hits & then destroying 1 pirate ship.  On a scale of 1-10 I give that video a 7!  Obviously the battle viewer is timed way to short.  It will not give the player a satisfying experience once the battles have bigger fleets unless it really scales up with the # of ships.

Just surveyed different ship graveyard.  Video was still short but this time it showed the entire battle.  That was very engaging - a 10!

What am I missing? Why can't I build shipyards on my core worlds? 

I struggled with that same issue but then noticed they moved the “build shipyard” icon to the top of the screen.

Battle Viewer Failure

I'm not getting the battle viewer to show the battles.  I have a save that shows this.  The save is available here.  Load the save.  You should be at my survey ship which is close to a defended anomaly, the yellow one.  Use the survey ship to attack the anomaly, then try to view the battle.  It has never worked for me.

EDIT on Friday

I have more information.  Here is what I see.

I have learned that there is supposed be text at the top and bottom of the screen, including controls for the battle viewer at the bottom of the screen.  They never appear for me.  They are there, but they are invisible.  I can put my cursor on them to get the tool tip to show.

I can also click on them to get things to work.

In the options I have Autostart Battle Viewer turned off.  When I changed it so that autostart was on, I got the same screen shown above, then the battle viewer started, all the text appeared, and the battle viewer worked correctly.

The problem occurs when the battle viewer is not set to autostart.

This is straight out of my home planet at the start of the game. I'm trying to move a probe 6 hexes and it makes a wide swing, taking twice the distance. 

Gamebreaker:

- Colonyship spawns on shipyard and I am not able to move it. I tried auto colonization but this did not move the ship neither: Loading save game did not help. This is game breaking and I will stop

Edit: The Go To menu worked.

Bugs:

- Policies: dragging and dropping policies results in some wierd sorting. This applies to the center and to the list to the right. Sometimes tooltips of policies are not shown

- During game setup: victory options resets your chosen faction to terrans

- Tooltip+Shift does not work at Tech Navigator

Feedback:

- Tooltips of improvements (before you place them) should show what you get for each level-up

- I like the changes to zoom levels and grid. Currently I play with grid always on and icons at "14". View 3 has no icons and I only need to zoom out once if I want to see icons. View 4 instantly shows icons - what I prefer at such a high zoom level.

The letter "a" should be deleted.

Sometimes the probes appear normally in the shipyard, like this.

Other times they are invisible, like this.

They are there and can be selected, but they are invisible.  This applies to all races that I have played.

There should be a comma after raiders.  their should be its.

There should be a comma after old, and by should be but.

The comma after reaction is not needed.

Is it ever useful? Isn't the penalty for starving 10% approval? Just let them starve. There has got to be a more useful card than something that gives you a maximum of a 4% approval boost.

The AI player is still taking down defended anomalies without a survey ship.