Bugs I've noticed in the new patch

The new patch seems to have made things worse. Strategic icons are sometimes not showing up, there also seems to be an issue with the contrast, when the moon passes over everything turns into an ugly dark gray and I can barely see anything, then when the sun shines it's way too intense. Smashing a moon into a planet no longer animates, it just lags and then suddenly a crater pops in. I will try to get some screenshots of this tonight.

Try to disable HDR

I can confirm all of these issues. A hotfix would be great. The smashed planet doesn't even have any animations in chronocam. HDR is turned off for me.

Disable HDR, it's not yet ready feature. At least for part of graphics cards.

I disabled HDR because I thought it was causing the lighting issue but it didn't seem to change much.

Can you make few screenshots and upload them here? So we'll see how your problem looks like.