Did Patch 1.02 even change the balance?

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I noticed that steam had updated Rebellion, and the title screen says it's now version 1.02, so I went and checked the main balance issues that have been repeatedly hammered in almost since Beta 3 began.  Nano leech?  Same as before.  Strip to the core?  Research is in the same place as before, and still gives you insane resources if you can just ninja-colonize a planet and hold it for 40 seconds.  Starbase mobilization and Unyielding Will seem to have remained as they were in 1.0 - that is to say, still on polar opposite ends of the power spectrum.

 

Suggestions on how to fix each these abilities can be found all over the forums - there's a thread open right now on fixes to Starbase Mobilization.  ANY of them would be preferable to what we have now.  Yet the ostensible balance patch has hit, and nothing significant has changed.  WHY?  :bangsheadagainstwall:

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top

No 1.02 was a hotfix to prevent desynchs from occurring due to players having different auto saving settings enabled.

Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top

1.02 was originally going to be the balance patch.  Then they decided to hotfix.  This wasn't the balance patch, that'll probably be 1.03 now...

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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top

As the others have mentioned, 1.02 was just a hotfix to fix the false positive desync issue in multiplayer. It also hooked up some missing music for Loyalist players. The balance updating is still pending at will likely be 1.03 (unless another hotfix needs to come out first).

Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting Yarlen, reply 3
he balance updating is still pending at will likely be 1.03 (unless another hotfix needs to come out first).
End of Yarlen's quote

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Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top

But what about the lotto?  ;P

Reply #6 from Sins Forums Top

yarlen, the 1.02 also BROKE the reading of old galaxyforge maps in the galaxyforge folder, in that it still tries to read the mapversion 3 files, but crashes when it finds a single line different from the mapversion 4 structure. if a patch soon could either put back the mapversion 3 reading OR check for mapversion 4 only and refuse to read/see mapversion 3 maps it would help all players/modders/mappers

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