The focus of this patch is to fix some bugs that have been reported and to respond to feedback we've been seeing from the community about tuning and stability. It comes packed with a a few fun things too such as a cheat that allows you to turn your creature into a blocky representation of themselves, a new "inspection" feature for the creature creator to browse the parts stats that you have applied to your creature, and the much-requested "evoadvantage" cheat - you'll now be able to start a new creature game with a more evolved creature of your choice!

Requirements:

Windows XP 
· 2.0 GHz P4 processor or equivalent 
· 512 MB RAM 
·  A 128 MB Video Card, with support for Pixel Shader 2.0 
·  At least 4 GB of hard drive space, with at least 1 GB additional space for creations.

Windows VISTA 
·  2.0 GHz P4 processor or equivalent 
·  768 MB RAM 
·  A 128 MB Video Card, with support for Pixel Shader 2.0 
·  At least 4 GB of hard drive space, with at least 1 GB additional space for creations.

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· Object orientation near water or lava can appear incorrectly when Playing or
· Testing an Adventure.
· Fixes a crash in the Building Creator when holding CTRL or Shift and moving a
· part.

Spore Improvements:
· Asymmetry is now available for creatures! Details on new Asymmetry features for
· Creatures and Vehicles can be found here.
· This patch fixes several crashes in Space Game.
· Many tuning improvements to Space Game, including reduced disaster rates at all
· levels of difficulty, adjustments to Hard Mode, increased limits on concurrent trade
· routes, as well as changes to tool unlocks for the Knights.
· Creator Lineage appears correctly for all creation types shared after this
· patch is installed.
· Cheat is included that permits Creators to export creatures in Collada format
· for use in Maya. Creators must acknowledge and accept a Tools EULA to perform this
· operation. An additional cheat has been provided to enable highest quality textures
· to appear on vehicles, where it is supported by user hardware.
· Fixed a problem where creations would go missing if a user quits the game in
· any way while downloads are in progress.
· Fixed a bug where achievements were disappearing.
· Fixed a bug where some Sporepedia cards had corrupted backgrounds.
· Fixed a problem in Space where some Grox planets were unreachable.

Galactic Adventures Improvements:
· This patch must be installed again after installing Galactic Adventures, even
· if you have installed this patch previously.
· You can now place the avatar, NPCs, and handheld objects on top of air, land,
· and sea vehicles in the Adventure Creator. Get more info here.
· Improvements are made to the Adventure Creator, including right-click camera
· behavior, and User Interface enhancements.
· In EP1 open gates were not working correctly when they were disguised
· Some customer-reported crashes in Galactic Adventures have been fixed.