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The whole game looks better. Every screen had been graded into brown mud: dark, warm, vignetted to black at the edges. A new global tone map lifts the shadows to slate, opens the midrange and keeps brass, paper and portraits exactly as they were. The office finally reads as lit.
Vengeful employees (ones you fired) were receiving bugged out stats, resulting in absurd difficulty spikes. behavior has been corrected.
Weekend nights finally hit like they should. Open, control, and finish are real phases, and every move does something specific. Sucker Punch opens hard, Rattle shreds their guard for the whole fight, Liquidate executes anything under 40 percent. The catalog doubled to 12 moves so
after latest Twitch playthrough, found some new Weekend Vigilante bugs fixed progression issues, difficulty balance added new moves, restored some back-end connections that regressed
fixed various bugs across portrait mode, including older style pixel parts sneaking in the generator started streamlining Weekend Vigilante mode various changes to mechanics, wrapping in a larger update in a day or two
quick fix pass. bunch of stuff that was quietly broken, now it isn't. - rare locked achievements actually fire now. "promote an employee" (and the demote one) were checking a counter nothing ever wrote to, so they never popped no matter how many people you promoted or dumped. fou
bug fixes prep for the Exec on Deck free DLC major bug squash related to map progression for some origin departments
A smaller cleanup update following yesterday’s big Succession release: Added a shared Expense Account for Dream Office decor and Weekend Vigilante purchases, so fun customization no longer competes with payroll. Loosened the early-game Budget economy to leave more room for hiring
Fixed duplicated employees and missing high-star employees in battle setup. Repaired regular Fieldwork battles after the expedition work disrupted them. Made failure understandable: total wipe means game over; abandoning preserves survivors but restarts the building. Shared Theme
Gideon Dunne-Wright is stepping down. Everyone else is stepping over someone. Eleven contenders have entered the succession contest: nine approved claimants, you as the final official entrant, and one rival who broke in and was allowed to stay because the company admired the init
fixed some balance issues with the main game as well as weekend vigilante squashed a few more bugs visible and unseen
Sunday nights have a real difficulty curve now. No more coasting to an easy win one week and slamming into a brick wall the next. The fight now scales with how strong your vigilante actually is — eases off if you're behind, ramps up if you're ahead — and there's a new safety net
-bug squashed -weekend vigilante ui adjustment -balance adjustment -weekend vigilante skill fix
Monday through Friday, you run a department. What you do on the weekend is between you and the city. ☰ WEEKEND VIGILANTE — a free update, live now. Every building you clear banks a weekend. Spend Saturday getting ready — train, gear up, work your informants, pick the fight — then
Your boss has a second job. Monday through Friday, you run the department. Hire, assign, review, survive. Same impossible office. But the weekend belongs to you . WEEKEND VIGILANTE is a free update in the works for Downer Management — and your boss is about to start moonlighting.
Relationship effects are now visible in the dossier, showing the exact stat changes each relationship provides. Stat caps are now displayed, making it clear when a character has reached their maximum potential. Skill evolution readiness is now shown directly in the roster and dos
Fixed: Overkill and Clutch Heal achievements could unlock when triggered by enemy units Fixed: skill evolution paths introduced in a previous content pass were silently inactive — 15 evolution chains now work correctly (e.g. Viral Campaign now evolves to Motivational Campaign as
fixed issues with Mac OS and Steam's overlay other versions of the game were unaffected
fixed issues with Mac OS and Steam's overlay other versions of the game were unaffected
fixed bugs related to nemesis proc gen fixed achievement bugs small polish touches