Sins of a Solar Empire developers Ironclad Games continue to work on their upcoming and large 1.1 patch for their hit space strategy game. This week a second beta version of 1.1 went out to beta testers who can downloaded via publisher Stardock's Impulse client.

The beta 2 release notes have all the details in the second beta patch which contains a number of gameplay and unit balances changes along with graphical, multiplayer and other changes and bug fixes. Version 1.1 is expected to officially release sometime in September. Meanwhile, Ironclad is working on the first of three planned commercial micro-expansions to the game with the first due out in December.