good news after installing the patch today its working

Thank you.
Unfortunately the logs do not contain where you tried to host a multiplayer game. The log is wiped every time the game is started up. Could you please try the following steps and send us the log again?

it also does it for any multiplayer mode not just strategy. i even tried turning off my firewall.

Hello skidmorep.
Please make sure firewall is not blocking Steam or Silica.
Also would it be possible to upload player log for us?

Recommendation to add feature into game:
Allow commanders assign and control to multiple units/vehicles to on ground players just like bannerlord and totalwar. This allows much more subordinate command ability for ground players that can use and maneuver units better than the commander who is focused on logistics and resource management. This would be awesome since also allows ground troops won't be forgotten or unused.

I found a fix to this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQL7fCvbpTM
Please check that out and see what you can do to fix this

ok managed to reproduce it ..
this time it was just a 3 players match, we talked, the other guy bailed and I just started to put text .. until it stop refreshing , which was just 3-4 inputs after we said bye ( see attached screenshots )

Sadly not really, it only happened once and I haven't try to reproduce it, all I remember was that it was a multiplayer game with more than 8 players , and after exchanging messages back and forth until the chat text box reached the end, the messages didn't seem to scroll or update anymore .
Just the last written line at the bottom was visible . Everybody had the issue and noticed it during the game .
One odd thing during the game was a player on the alien side managed to glitch himself invisible and floating forcing AI to aggro him, his player name had some special characters so maybe that participated to it ?
I'll try to see if I can get it to bug again and will take screenshots this time . Or is there a debug log that I can activate to give you more info ?

Hello Tony_1961.
Can you please upload your dxdiag file from your computer and the player log file found here? C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\LocalLow\Bohemia Interactive\Silica\Player.log

Hello jmartin.
Do you have any other information that you could provide, which would help us in producing this bug on our end?