a quick follow up that the changes with MacOS handling unknown inputs lagging that was fixed in I think 0.17.3 or one of those, fixed the intense lag I was getting, it's all buttery smooth now. I don't know if the map expansion bug was fixed though, need to test and double check

I've lowered all the graphic options, and I'm in the tutorial just before I finish the research that completes the last objective. The game runs fine until I'm attacked, at which point I experience intense input lag ( rendering continues ) of more than a second. The first time I died because a ...