Spore PC Patch Released

Earlier today, Maxis released its first patch for Spore.
Patch notes can be found here and they include:

• Improved the planets fogging, blooming and lighting
• Fixed animation issues with tool handling, hand walking and some of the more oddly shaped creatures
• Added 70 new planet scripts with a low terraform score, especially of the "hot and high atmosphere" type
• Creature phase: Improved the pacing towards the end of the game, and increased the challenge in Normal and Hard modes.
• Tribe phase: Increased the challenge in Normal and Hard difficulty modes.
• Civilization phase: Increased the challenge in Normal and Hard difficulty modes.
• Creature phase: Improved the way posse members behave during threatening situations and fights.
• Fixed problems with the "Rolling Thunder" and "Déjà Vu" achievements not being awarded as they should.
• Fixed an issue where the terraforming score of planet could differ when revisiting a solar system
• Fixed some issues where the game would freeze when using the Creature Tweaker tool or when capturing a planet in solar view

Check the patch notes to see all changes.