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Hello everyone, Due to a Unity engine security issue, we’re releasing a Hotfix update for the game. You can read more about the security issue here:
Hello everyone,
Due to a Unity engine security issue, we’re releasing a Hotfix update for the game.
You can read more about the security issue here: https://unity.com/security/sept-2025-01
Hello Survivors! We have something new to share with fans of sci-fi! Paradox Interactive just released a new, futuristic mech wargame! Check out this trailer! Mechabellum is a tactical wargame where you gain victory by adapting your strategy and outthinking your opponents. You co
Hello Survivors!
We have something new to share with fans of sci-fi! Paradox Interactive just released a new, futuristic mech wargame! Check out this trailer!
Mechabellum is a tactical wargame where you gain victory by adapting your strategy and outthinking your opponents. You command varied, mechanized armies in battle against AI or other humans, customize your units and place them strategically on the battlefield to watch them destroy your enemies.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/669330/Mechabellum/
We hope you’ll give it a shot and meet us on the battlefield!
Survival strategy games like Frostpunk offer a glimpse of the fantastic tension that comes from holding out in a devastated post-apocalyptic world. Surviving the Aftermath captures that essence and blends it with the ever-present hostility of The Last of Us and The Walking Dead,
Survival strategy games like Frostpunk offer a glimpse of the fantastic tension that comes from holding out in a devastated post-apocalyptic world. Surviving the Aftermath captures that essence and blends it with the ever-present hostility of The Last of Us and The Walking Dead, along with colony sims like Rimworld, to create a harsh, punishing city builder that's yours as a free game, but only if you're quick.
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Greetings survivors! Our third DLC is now available! “Rebirth” offers a new way to literally transform your colony into a post-apocalyptic paradise! Clear the waters and purify the soil with new terraforming discoveries to bring back the once green fields and lush forests. The jo
Our third DLC is now available! “Rebirth” offers a new way to literally transform your colony into a post-apocalyptic paradise! Clear the waters and purify the soil with new terraforming discoveries to bring back the once green fields and lush forests. The journey is not without its perils though, as a new threat is on the rise. A mysterious fungal disease called the blight has infected both animals and plants, creating new challenges for the player. But their wild mutations also hold the key to victory!
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The DLC includes a modular Blight Lab, which allows players to advance in the new “Discoveries” tech tree. This can be used to unlock new buildings and permanent improvements for your fight against the blight, eventually turning the threat into an advantage. Seeing the colony’s grim and hostile beginnings turn into a beautiful and inviting landscape is truly something special.
New terraformers allow players to transform the barren soil and murky waters into a healthy, vibrant environment. These advanced buildings can be discovered via the Blight Lab, which players unlock after completing a special quest. Once built, you can order its workers to plant new soil within the work area, transforming the very earth patch by patch.
The terraformers are fueled by blight samples that you collect from numerous sources during your fight against mutated creatures that seem oddly determined to stop your progress. In addition to striking visuals, terraformed soil offers superior production with fields and water wells in its area.
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The fungal blight is tainting the very soil and everything living on it. It grows fast, infecting animals and plants alike, centering on blight cores, which infect the soil and cause blighted nests, hives and lair to emerge. You’ll see its effects everywhere from strange-looking fungi to enemies that roam the lands. The blight is not without its merits though, as it can be studied and turned into beneficial discoveries in the blight lab. These blight samples can be collected from multiple sources such as carcasses, blighted trees, deposits and even farmable crops and mutated ranch animals.
New blighted enemies are a constant, evolving threat to the colony. They spawn from nests, hives and lairs around the colony. The initial encounters with these creatures should pose little problems, but their dangers become stronger as the colony grows. The largest enemies can infect the colonists with an incurable condition with horrific consequences. These creatures can also appear on the world map and might attack your specialists if you cross their path. So stock up on weapons and build guard towers to protect the colony.
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Rebirth has several new buildings which allow the player to fight against the blight and turn the rapidly mutating threat into an advantage. It all starts after unlocking the new Blight Lab by completing a special quest. This modular building grows in size as you unlock new discovery tiers by supplying it with blight samples to study.
Purification Posts clear blighted trees and corpses to extract blight samples from them, but can also clear small pollution patches early in the game. It’s highly polluting, though, so build it on the outskirts of your colony. Its "Exterminators" upgrade allows clearing enemy-spawning nests, hives and lairs for a brief respite from enemy attacks and as an additional source of blight samples. And finally, upgrading your Environmental Station to a new Hazmat Station unlocks the ability to clear the blight cores - the root cause of the infestation.
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Scout Towers and Guard Posts have been revamped and are now more efficient than ever before as a stationary line of defense. New attack animations have been added to emphasize their new role. On the world map, some of the early research outpost spots have been turned to regular science locations, allowing easier access to your first science points. Colony has more metal deposits than before and pollution spreads more evenly. Pollution overlay is also now clearer on which areas are affected. Several combat-heavy quests have been pushed back so the player has a better chance of completing them with multiple specialists.
IMAGE: Guard posts shooting at blighted creatures
On the visual side, buildings remove less foliage when placed, creatíng a nicer-looking colony. Various user interface and usability improvements include “Specialist ready” indicator pulsing faster, more visible blocked tile overlay in build mode, reworked soil overlay color with color-blindness in mind and an “exit vehicle” icon for the vehicle UI. Society list also shows all tradable resources instead of just the first five.
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A while ago we asked you to design a new specialist. After considering all your wonderful applications, we ended up with "Gloriosa"! She’s a born-and-raised doomsday prepper who turned scavenger and can be selected as a starting specialist in a new game.
We’re eager to see you turn the inhospitable wasteland into a lush and green paradise!
Surviving the Aftermath: Rebirth is now available both as a part of the Ultimate Colony Edition or separate purchase.
For the longest time, you strove to survive the aftermath on planet Earth. Now, thanks to your knowledge, skills, and leadership, you can finally look forward to a new chapter for humankind. “Rebirth” is your mantra, your goal, the dream that will make you overcome old and new ch
For the longest time, you strove to survive the aftermath on planet Earth. Now, thanks to your knowledge, skills, and leadership, you can finally look forward to a new chapter for humankind. “Rebirth” is your mantra, your goal, the dream that will make you overcome old and new challenges, for your survivors and all humanity...
Greetings, survivors!
We’re almost ready to release something we’ve wanted to share with you for quite some time - our third DLC, Rebirth! It features an all-new way to literally transform your colony via terraforming the very soil it’s built on as well as a new, ever-present threat.
Surviving the Aftermath: Rebirth launches on March 16th for PC, Xbox One, and Playstation4 at a suggested retail price of 14.99 USD / 11.99 GBP / 14.99 EUR.
More details are to come in the upcoming weeks, but here are its core features:
Watch the reveal trailer on YouTube:
Greeting survivors! We have just released our patch for the “Shattered Hope” DLC—including some bigger changes as well. Here we will go through them with some brief explanations as to why they have been made. As usual, the full patch notes can be found at the end of this post. DI
Greeting survivors!
We have just released our patch for the “Shattered Hope” DLC—including some bigger changes as well. Here we will go through them with some brief explanations as to why they have been made. As usual, the full patch notes can be found at the end of this post.
DIFFICULTY REWORKED
We have gone and reduced the DLC’s overall difficulty in many different ways. If you look at the Hope bar for example, you can see that it looks a bit different than before. The “safe zone” where no negative effects can happen is larger and the Hope levels have been adjusted accordingly. This means there are now bigger and clearer changes between the levels, but also much more time before Hope becomes a serious issue. This allows players to divide their attention to other things, without Hope constantly demanding actions by causing Anguish.
We have also done multiple smaller adjustments to balance the difficulty. For example, the negative impact of disasters and catastrophes has been reduced. Positive Hope effects have been added to accepting survivor groups and when gate combat is won without the bandits breaching the gate. Trauma centers now also offer two patient slots, which should alleviate the situations where many colonists are in anguish at once. The negative event results and the cost of feasts have been slightly tweaked to a more balanced direction as well.
Trauma centers now offer two patient slots instead of one.
HOPE AND HAPPINESS CONNECTED
One major rework ties Hope together with Happiness, which was heavily requested by our players. Previously we had a system where Hope would drop daily with no way to counter the nasty effect. Now, the player can counter this effect and even turn it into a positive, just by keeping the colony happy!
This is easier said than done however, and there is a catch. “Challenge” selected in the pregame determines how much Happiness will affect Hope. With harder difficulties, low Happiness also hits the colony harder. This is one of the ways we hope those players who like a bit of difficulty can still challenge themselves. Connecting Happiness and Hope also gives the players a chance to eventually progress into a situation where hope is less demanding when the colonists feel satisfied in the safety of the colony.
The daily Hope effect is now tied to the difficulty level selected in the pregame.
OTHER CHANGES
One of the smaller adjustments we made was to push the start of the DLC’s questline to appear a little earlier in the game. While this change allows the quest to spawn already at day 29, the random nature of the quests can cause it to be slightly delayed. Always remember to check your side quest status when waiting for a specific one—there can only be one side quest active at any given time!
We also want to encourage our players to use the building overtime feature to overcome the new challenges, which is why we added some lunar dust as a reward to the starter event. This allows the players to start boosting production in buildings right away!
The introduction event now encourages the player to start overtiming buildings with some free lunar dust.
If you want to know more details please refer to our patch notes and feel free to ask questions! Once again we thank all of you for your feedback and hope you’ll enjoy the new and improved experience with Surviving the Aftermath ”Shattered Hope”.
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Greetings survivors! Our latest DLC “Shattered Hope” has just been released and we are excited to shed light on its features. Brand new challenges await as fading hope risks the entire colony’s survival. Other improvements include a new moon rock disaster, an ability to boost pro
Our latest DLC “Shattered Hope” has just been released and we are excited to shed light on its features. Brand new challenges await as fading hope risks the entire colony’s survival. Other improvements include a new moon rock disaster, an ability to boost production with overtime and being able to hold special feasts! A new questline adds interesting buildings and resources to the mix, giving Surviving the Aftermath even more variety than before.
IMAGE: Surviving the Aftermath: Shattered Hope
Let’s first talk about the Moon and the features tied to it. As previously established, the Earth’s Moon shattered at the start of the cataclysm years ago and now the consequences of that can be felt in the colonies. Falling pieces of the Moon can be seen plummeting from the skies at night. However, these moon rocks are not just another hazard but can be gathered and turned into valuable lunar dust. This rare material is in high demand by societies and bandits alike, but its most interesting function is its ability to greatly boost buildings’ efficiency. It allows the use of overtime, hastening production and healing speed for 48 hours!
IMAGE: Lunar dust can be used to increase buildings’ efficiency
This all comes in handy when trying to overcome new hope-related challenges. Colonists’ hope for the future is constantly shifting from good to bad to worse. Colonists are disheartened by setbacks such as being defeated in combat, dismissing events or quests and especially catastrophes such as fallout or winter storms. If hope falls too low, the colonists can become anguished. Anguish cannot be treated in normal medical buildings, but requires special treatment at trauma centers. Anguished colonists can eventually become hostile, turning against their peers if they are not treated in time! Recovering from this condition is a lengthy process, so it is wise to try to keep hope from falling into dangerous levels.
IMAGE: Colony hope must be kept high to avoid negative consequences
Hope can be increased by completing quests, making the right decisions in events, combat victories and most importantly, holding special feasts. These can be held at the colony square, a new building fit for holding these kinds of festivities. The special feasts can be costly but drastically increase hope and happiness by providing momentary entertainment. To hold larger feasts for larger colonies the building must be upgraded, which can only be done after completing the new questline.
IMAGE: Feast selection at the colony square
“The Shattered Moon” quest opens the lore behind the broken moon and how the people of the wasteland have come to exploit its fallen riches. The quest also introduces the mysterious group of bandits some players might recognize from the main quest. These fellows can also sometimes appear at the colony gates demanding lunar dust with the threat of violence. Whilst uncovering their secrets you’ll be unlocking new buildings and resources, such as the med hut and mushroom farm, which can make recovering from anguish much quicker. The med hut can also produce antibodies for treating mutations much faster than before.
IMAGE: “The Shattered Moon” quest illustrations
Other improvements include new events, some unique to the DLC and others for the base game for everyone to enjoy. Events coming with the free update aim to make the early game experience a little more varied than before. The colony clock has also gotten a facelift visible to all users, making it easier to track the shift between day and night and when specialists’ action points are replenished.
The free update includes balance adjustments, quality of life improvements, bug fixes and new visuals. We have updated over 30 building textures to make them more recognizable and added more colonist portraits for women and children. Additionally, we present our special seasonal content in the spirit of Halloween! Check all improvements and fixes from the changelog(link below).
IMAGE: Halloween pack includes new decorations and spooky variations to existing buildings
We hope that you’ll have a great time with all the new features, buildings and other improvements in "Shattered Hope". It has a lot to offer whether you’re looking for additional challenges or just more buildings to construct. You can continue your old save or begin a new one to start boosting your production, hold great feasts and mend the broken hope!
Surviving the Aftermath: Shattered Hope is available now on Steam, Epic Store, the PlayStation™ Store and Microsoft Store on Xbox. It is also included as a part of the Ultimate Colony Upgrade with more DLC to come later.
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Hello survivors! It's the spookiest time of year, and we are excited to bring you a free in-game event on Steam and Epic that includes Halloween themed decorations and buildings. This also includes a free patch of some gameplay fixes, such as improvement to the day and night mete
It's the spookiest time of year, and we are excited to bring you a free in-game event on Steam and Epic that includes Halloween themed decorations and buildings. This also includes a free patch of some gameplay fixes, such as improvement to the day and night meter to display when night starts and ends, as well as some graphics and balance adjustments like increased fiber production in the fields. What better way to prepare for the moon shattering DLC Shattered Hope that comes out the week after?
The event visuals will include:
The Halloween event will turn on automatically on the 24th of October, but can of course be turned off in the settings if you prefer playing without it.
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Hello survivors! We are pleased to announce the new DLC for Surviving the Aftermath . Shattered Hope introduces the Shattered Moon calamity, giving players the ability to boost resource production and the task of maintaining survivor’s hope. Surviving the Aftermath: Shattered Hop
Hello survivors!
We are pleased to announce the new DLC for Surviving the Aftermath. Shattered Hope introduces the Shattered Moon calamity, giving players the ability to boost resource production and the task of maintaining survivor’s hope. Surviving the Aftermath: Shattered Hope launches on November 3rd for Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and PC at a suggested retail price of 9.99 USD / 7.99 GBP / 9.99 EUR.
During the apocalypse, the Moon was destroyed and now the consequences of that are showering down from the sky in an unforeseen disaster. By gathering resources from Moon Rock deposits and coming together as a people, the survivors must find hope to proceed and prosper. Shattered Hope focuses around increasing resource production in the colony while attempting to keep up Hope for the colonists - otherwise the new Anguish condition can cause trouble for them and the entire colony.
Surviving the Aftermath: Shattered Hope Key Features include:
Base game General Added 11 new achievements: Base game: Doomsday is canceled - Complete the Doomsday Bunker Project. Choo-choo! - Escape the harsh winter by fixing the train in Cold Rush. Finnished - Survive in the Endless Winter scenario for 100 days. Tailored to fit - Survive u
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Dev Diary #23 - New Alliances DLC Greetings survivors! “New Alliances” is here and we can finally share more details about what it means for Surviving the Aftermath. We’ve already teased its contents a bit, so let’s dig deeper into what makes it special. Society requests, allianc
Greetings survivors!
“New Alliances” is here and we can finally share more details about what it means for Surviving the Aftermath. We’ve already teased its contents a bit, so let’s dig deeper into what makes it special. Society requests, alliances and federation add a fresh dimension to societies, while roaming bandits, covert missions and a new powerful Rival faction challenge you in new ways.
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New Alliances adds a new, more dynamic layer to the world map and how you interact with societies. Instead of just having nice trade partners, you can now befriend and eventually ally with them with the ultimate goal of creating a federation! To do this, you must help your soon-to-be allies by completing requests and assisting them against various threats in the wasteland. But if making friends isn’t your thing, you can raid their convoys for resources or have your specialists complete covert missions inside the societies to steal loot, science points and other benefits. But note that you’re not alone in your ambitions, as a mysterious Rival faction has taken an interest in your part of the wasteland.
IMAGE: Build request
Forming a federation and solidifying your status as its leader will take some time. Once you’ve met the first societies, a new society depot building becomes available. It allows you to construct helpful buildings inside societies to raise their population, protect them from bandit raids or provide alternative sources of science points and silver. You can construct these buildings for a society whenever you want, even if they haven’t specifically sent a request for them. In addition to building requests, societies might also ask you to hunt bothersome animals, deal with dangerous bandit forts or loan one of your specialists to them.
IMAGE: Federation screen
Each completed request gives you rewards and brings your two colonies closer. Once you’ve gained enough reputation, they’ll offer to ally with you and share their secrets after you’ve built their embassy in the colony. These unique, society-specific benefits range from nuclear power plant blueprints from Chemville to extra action points for every specialist from Dead Creek. Discover all the perks in the new federation status screen and choose which ones you want the most! New Alliances features eight new reward buildings and 13 permanent bonuses for your colony.
IMAGE: Part of the rival illustration with failed request
But as you encounter more societies while still dealing with all the hardships of catastrophes and bandit assaults against your own colony, you’ll be forced to decide who to help and who’s plea for aid goes unheard. Each failed request pushes them closer to your Rival, who will turn them against you! To end their influence in the wasteland, you must create a strong federation with your closest allies.
To form the federation you must get the majority of the wasteland’s population on your side. Raise your allies’ population by constructing shelters and food production facilities while embarking on propaganda missions to draw people away from hostile societies. Once the majority has been achieved, you’ll be rewarded with sharing the spoils of war your Rival left behind along with other benefits.
IMAGE: Successful covert mission end screen
Another major aspect in New Alliances involves a bit more shadier tactics. Your specialists can now embark on four different types of covert missions against other societies for various benefits. You can for example steal science points for your research via espionage with your scientists or sabotage Rival operations with scavengers to reduce their influence. Different specialist types have a higher chance to succeed on these missions, so pick your operative carefully as failure means a big drop in reputation and a potentially lethal escape from the rather offended society.
IMAGE: Anti-covert mission buildings
But be on your guard as these covert missions can also be used against you. Both your Rival and other societies can infiltrate your colony to steal, disrupt your research or even set off explosives! To combat this, unlock protective buildings like anti-propaganda towers and surveillance vans from the new tech branch and have them staffed at all times. The more workers you have stationed, the greater the chance you’ll prevent anything bad from happening and maybe even uncover the culprit in the process.
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The world map is also more active than ever before. You might spot a herd of deer roaming around looking for food or a group of bandits searching for prey. Hostile units might chase your specialists who are moving on foot or decide to take over your world map outpost, halting its operations until you clear them out. For best protection, have a fleet of capable vehicles on hand at all times, as the bandit hordes are unable to catch a fast-moving car with all your scavenged loot inside. As the game progresses, you’ll start seeing more powerful Rival troops on the world map. Approach them with caution (and several specialists).
The base game is also receiving an update with a number of quality-of-life improvements, user interface additions and bug fixes. Most notably the main quest now has mid-quest rewards, permanent effects are now visible in the Statistics screen so you can see which affect your colony, and a toggle for faster world map animations has been added to the Settings menu. Check all improvements and fixes from the Changelog: Update 4 link below.
IMAGE: Colony beauty shot
We hope you’ll jump in and discover all that the New Alliances DLC has to offer in terms of new buildings, tactics and decisions. There’s a lot to play around with from deciding who to help and who to hinder, and which powerful rewards to go for. So prepare yourself against bandits, rivals and sandworms alike to unite the wasteland!
As we’ve mentioned before, New Alliances will be released for PC platforms first while we continue working on the console counterparts, so stay tuned!
Surviving the Aftermath: New Alliances is available now on Steam and Epic Store. It is also included as a part of the Ultimate Colony Upgrade with more DLC to come later.
Added Main Quest rewards.
Added a new Global Effects tab in the statistics menu:
Added a setting for faster World Map animations.
Added the New Alliances DLC banner to the Main Menu.
The carrier bringing the last resource to a construction zone should now start constructing the building.
Defeating bandit camps in the World Map now gives resource rewards based on the location.
Notifications that have many targets can now be selected multiple times to go through all the affected targets.
Research queue now takes the active research into account when choosing its path. This should make the research queue work much smoother.
Low HP colonists will now visit Medical Tents or Field Hospitals to heal themselves.
Critical conditions from workers in entertainment and sanitary buildings are not instantly removed anymore.
Specialists can now be commanded to move to the exact same location as the previous specialist. This was mainly an issue on a controller.
Removed camera centering when exiting specialist menu while using a controller.
Added a notification when finding a new building in the colony view. Mainly affects the Cold Rush scenario right now.
Percentage bonuses from techs now stack cumulatively. Only the latest percentage bonus was active previously.
Polished the Society Menu.
Polished all World Map panels.
Added resource rewards to the early stages of the main quest.
Hungry colonists now seek food when hunger is at 20%, was 10% previously
Tired colonists now seek shelter to sleep in when tiredness is at 20%, was 10% previously.
Greetings survivors old and new! We’re very excited to reveal what we’ve been doing amidst all the updates up to this point. It’s the first part of our Season Pass and will be released very soon. Here are some of its key features which gives the game’s sandbox a whole new dimensi
Greetings survivors old and new!
We’re very excited to reveal what we’ve been doing amidst all the updates up to this point. It’s the first part of our Season Pass and will be released very soon. Here are some of its key features which gives the game’s sandbox a whole new dimension with more replayability and new challenges!
Surviving the Aftermath: ”New Alliances” adds an in-depth layer to world map societies and a new, powerful rival faction as your adversary. Help your neighbours deal with new threats and gain unique rewards while uniting the wasteland under a single banner! Or use your specialists to conduct covert missions inside other societies for your own gain…
Form the federation
Assist societies and complete requests to gain enough reputation to ally with them. Build embassies to unlock unique permanent bonuses and buildings for your colony. Help your alliance population grow and bring the wasteland on your side by forming a federation!
Rival faction
A powerful opposing faction has taken an interest in your part of the world. Their control over societies grows every time you ignore or fail requests, so fight back by helping those in need or use specialists to reduce rival influence.
Covert missions
Your specialists can now embark on covert missions within societies to steal resources or incite its population. But beware as the same tricks can be used against you! Build new protective buildings such as Surveillance Vans and Anti-propaganda Towers to defend against these attacks.
Roaming bandits and animals
Bandits, society convoys and even animals are now active on the world map. Move out of their way or risk an attack. Raid convoys for loot or defeat bandits for loot and reputation. Hostile units can even take over your outposts, so be prepared to clear them out to resume production.
Greetings once again, survivors! With the Lunar New Year celebrations passed, we’re back with a new and quite a hefty update. It includes the already teased new game mode “Scenarios” with two winter-themed experiences along with a ton of other improvements to logistics, statistic
With the Lunar New Year celebrations passed, we’re back with a new and quite a hefty update. It includes the already teased new game mode “Scenarios” with two winter-themed experiences along with a ton of other improvements to logistics, statistics and so on. But wait, there’s more! In addition to this new twist on the familiar gameplay, we’re also bringing you Custom Game mode. It allows players to really tweak the experience how they want with dozens of new settings from a very laid-back experience to a pure horror show.
Scenarios allow you to dive into Surviving the Aftermath’s sandbox with new themes and twists on the basic formula, adding more replayability to the game. Some offer a more compact and narrative-driven experience with heavily modified rules while others throw a wrench in the works on how the long-form game plays out. This might mean a permanent weather effect or limiting the tools at your disposal, forcing you to overcome obstacles in new ways. In “Cold Rush” you start with a small colony suffering from a permanent winter storm with no other option than to find a way out. Explore and exploit your surroundings to guide the colonists away from the cold in a way previously unseen in the game. “Eternal Winter” is a more traditional sandbox experience with a never-ending winter storm along with custom rules. Can you survive in an environment where open field farming is no longer an option and the ever-present cold takes a constant toll on your colonists?
You’ve requested the ability to customize your playthrough further, and here it is. The new Custom Game adds dozens of settings you can flip around to tailor the experience to your liking. Disable catastrophes, increase the number of starting specialists and remove death by old age completely for a more chill game. Remove societies, halve food nutrition and disable childbirth to really ramp up the difficulty. You can also adjust map generation even further with more soil settings, amount of terrain features, forest coverage, amount of lakes and more. On PC it’s also possible to remove the population cap completely. Since these settings can drastically change the difficulty level, achievements will be disabled in custom game mode. There’s a lot to experiment with, so give it a go!
On the logistics front, you can now control how goods are distributed around the colony by controlling which storages request and receive various resources. These “storage requests” allow players to move and maintain specific amounts of resources between storages to create independent production areas or distribute food more evenly around the colony map. You can, for example, add a storage request for meals at the food storage next to a metal production site, so your workers don’t need to walk all the way to the colony center to eat. This, with workers living close to their job from the previous update, allows you to spread around the map more efficiently. Carriers will also divide big tasks between more people, so you should see large stacks of resources move faster - provided you have idle colonists available.
The map seed for your generated game world is now visible and customizable. This allows you to save interesting maps to be reused on subsequent playthroughs or shared with the community. Your current map seed is visible in the lower right corner in the pause menu. The first set of numbers refers to the various map parameters while the second set shows your pregame selections in numerical fashion.
In other improvements, the statistics overview page has been completely overhauled. Instead of the massive spreadsheet of already known info, it has several sections with high-level info with more detailed data in the right column. All types of wind turbines are now less effective when placed next to trees to make solar panels a bit more competitive in your colony’s energy production and add a layer of planning required for your wind parks. Specialists will now move and spend their Action Points immediately at the beginning of a new day, if you’ve set a destination for them. This was done to make the multi-turn movement feature clearer when you order them to return to the colony, for example. The full list of balance changes and improvements can be found in the patch notes post, as usual.
And here we are! The new game modes, logistics upgrades and other additions should provide a lot of replayability for Surviving the Aftermath, so we sincerely hope you’ll enjoy them! We’d love to hear in comments what you think of the new scenarios, and what you’d want to see next.
Stay safe, survivors, and play games!
Change notes - “Update #3”
Hello, survivors! The team here has been hard at work since our last free update in January, and we now want to share with you what’s coming next. We are working on our third free update that will add new ways to play our game and bring you some of the most requested features and
Hello, survivors! The team here has been hard at work since our last free update in January, and we now want to share with you what’s coming next.
We are working on our third free update that will add new ways to play our game and bring you some of the most requested features and improvements.
We’ll share all the details once the update is closer to release (very soon) but here’s what you can expect:
Happy Year of the Tiger, survivors! We’re continuing our free 2022 updates with a celebration of the Lunar New Year. This includes new cosmetic buildings along with a new system, which allows you to change how your colony looks like in a flash! It’s not all tigers and fireworks,
Happy Year of the Tiger, survivors!
We’re continuing our free 2022 updates with a celebration of the Lunar New Year. This includes new cosmetic buildings along with a new system, which allows you to change how your colony looks like in a flash! It’s not all tigers and fireworks, though, as we’re including quality-of-life improvements to colony combat, how people choose where they live and more.
Buildings with and without Lunar New Year pack enabled
The Lunar New Year content pack includes a banner stand to display your colony flag (also available as a non-themed version), a tiger flag symbol, a red Double Lantern, a mighty Scrap Tiger statue and a cute Waving Cat statue for you to build. Regular torches and lamps are replaced with Lunar-themed versions for the duration of the event. You might also spot some of the colonists wearing festive hats. And last but not least, the Fireworks Launcher allows you to light up the sky in red and gold to kick off the celebrations! You can unlock all the new decorative buildings in two parts by completing colony milestones for prestige. We’d very much like to see how your colonies are transformed, so maybe post a screenshot here?
Lunar decorations can be toggled on or off at any time from the main menu banner, or from Settings -> General. The event ends at the end of February, but you can restore the Lunar theme via the Settings menu after that date. Please note that you must enable or disable the content pack BEFORE loading a saved game or starting a new one.
New unit highlights in combat
In addition to the more cosmetic aspects of the game, we’ve added several quality-of-life improvements for colony combat. All units that are engaged in combat have color-coded outlines, so you can spot bandits running and rat beetles scurrying around much easier. Guard and specialist hitboxes have also been enlarged to help you select and order them around better. Colonists will now flee from combat by default to save themselves and will retaliate only as a last resort. They will no longer attempt to defeat a sandworm in hand-to-hand combat. Be sure to have guards and specialists around to deal with hostiles, as you’ll be relying on them more than before. Colony alarm happiness penalty has also been drastically reduced so you can call people to safety and increase guard aggression range without a major hit to morale.
Isolated working area
On more peaceful news, colonists will now attempt to automatically move close to their place of work if there’s capacity available, but will never kick current tenants out. When you load up a large colony for the first time, this process might take awhile. This aims to allow players to create specialized production areas further away from the main colony and speed up production.
Other notable changes include storage, which now dump out all resources marked as “blocked”. Previously this only prevented bringing in new items of that type. Incorrect processing cycles in scavenge buildings such as Scrapper and Lumber Yard have been fixed, and workers will now refine the collected resources inside the building before handing them out. Since this increases the total processing times, production output quantities have been slightly increased in several buildings. And as a small but significant change, both transformers’ area of effect has been increased.
Hope you’ll have an awesome Year of the Tiger. Post a screenshot of your Lunar Year themed colony on this thread to celebrate together and stay safe out there! And as a final teaser, the next update will have a new game mode to look forward to!
Fireworks over the colony
Greetings, Survivors! It’s time for the next free update, which brings quite a few new things to the game. It’s the Year of the Tiger, and to celebrate it we’re giving you several cosmetic buildings, lights and even hats! We’ve improved the lives of your colony in a few intense w
Greetings, Survivors! It’s time for the next free update, which brings quite a few new things to the game. It’s the Year of the Tiger, and to celebrate it we’re giving you several cosmetic buildings, lights and even hats! We’ve improved the lives of your colony in a few intense ways, like colonists running away from a fight and guards being more effective. We’ve also included some quality of life updates for you as a player, like the return of the feedback button and that colonists will now try to move closer to where they are assigned to work which will lead to shorter commutes and improvements to the AI.
General
Added Lunar New Year content to the game.
Colonists will now prefer housing buildings that are closer to their workplaces.
Improvements and fixes to the colony combat.
Gameplay
PC Only: Added back the possibility to write feedback of the game to the developers.
When a resource is now disallowed from a specific storage building, the building will eject all units of that resource onto the ground.
The resource order shown in Allowed Resources for the Campsite, Warehouse and the General Storage has been changed.
The Colonists working at the Gate will remain working there even after upgrading the Gate.
Fixed an issue with the Industrialist ideology that would cause two techs to overlap each other.
Changed the way how tooltips for resource deposits and work areas are shown in the colony.
Also changed the way how panels are shown in the World Map.
Fixed an issue that would cause the game to become stuck if events were closed too quickly.
Fixed an issue that would cause the Work Area tooltip to change resources to different ones after hovering over the same resources for a while.
Fixed an issue that would cause small decorations to switch their location if they were rotated when placing.
Fixed an issue that would cause the Trade button to move in the Society window based on the length of the description of the other society.
The work area resource tooltip should no longer overlap with the repair mode tooltip.
The Specialist Menu tooltip now shows the prompts on how to select and focus the camera on the specialist.
Fixed an issue that would cause the extra panels shown for specific buildings (such as the recipe selection panel) to not close when the cross icon at the top right corner was pressed.
Fixed an issue that would cause the achievement “Look, No Hands” to not complete if the Metal Extractor had been upgraded to the Magnetic Separator.
Fixed an issue that would cause green highlights to remain visible constantly for multiple buildings around the colony.
Changed the way how buildings which require colonists to gather resources work.
The colonists will now take resources inside production buildings instead of dropping them off at the corner of the building.
Fixed the description of the Motorization tech.
Fixed an issue that would cause a combat event at the gate to result in combat instead of avoiding it despite the text indicating that you have avoided combat.
Graphics
Updated some of the icons of the Build Menu categories.
Tweaked the visual look and animations of the following buildings:
Widened the panel shown when a trade needs to be confirmed.
Added a resource box for Medicinal Herb.
Fixed an issue with the icicles shown on the Botanical Garden.
Balance Adjustments
Updated the resources the society Coalition offers to be more consistent.
Slightly increased the work area of the Radiator and its upgrade.
Increased the work area of the Transformer and its upgrade.
Happy wintery greetings, survivors We’re back at work in snowy Finland and ramping up development for a fresh new year! The first of the free updates in 2022 includes a dedicated repair and demolish button to make those tasks faster without a need to select each building individu
We’re back at work in snowy Finland and ramping up development for a fresh new year! The first of the free updates in 2022 includes a dedicated repair and demolish button to make those tasks faster without a need to select each building individually. Victories in gate combat are now rewarded with loot left behind by the defeated bandits.
Something that has been requested a lot is restoring rare metal production to the colony via a new late-game tech. It allows you to upgrade the Metal Auto-Extractor into a Magnetic Separator with production options for regular or rare metal production. We’ve also updated over a dozen building models to be more distinctive and easier to recognize in your colony.
A new “Very Hard” difficulty option has been added for those looking to really challenge themselves. It starts you in a very barren climate with limited resources, reduced water and energy production outputs and also increases the amount and severity of catastrophes. Balancing the game’s overall difficulty continues in the meanwhile and we’ll share more news on that later on.
Smaller features and updates include balance fixes such as more aggressive guard and specialist AI with better target prioritization especially during an alarm, limitations to fishing building placement, removal of bandits that attack you from behind and so on. Once the alarm is enabled, guards and specialists search for hostile targets in a much wider area than before and engage them more aggressively.
Along with lots of bugs we’ve also fixed the Twitch integration, so you’ll be able to vote on event and quest results, and which catastrophe your favorite streamer will face next! Check the detailed bug fix list in the patch notes. Notable balance changes include reduced silver gains from selling weapons, faster but more resource-consuming meal production and increased metal/concrete deposits around the colony.
We'll be revealing more about the future updates later on, but they include a new, customizable game mode and scenarios for more replayability with all-new challenges. And as always, updates will have more new content, bug fixes, balancing and QoL improvements.
And that is it! We’ll be releasing more free updates and DLC throughout the year and are excited to share all about them as soon as possible! In the meanwhile, stay safe and play some games!
Changelog - “Free Update 1” - 4th of January 022 Version number Steam / Epic / Paradox Plaza: 1.21.3.1473 General Added Demolish and Repair modes to the game. These modes allow you to set buildings to be Demolished or Repaired faster. With a keyboard and mouse these can be access
Steam / Epic / Paradox Plaza: 1.21.3.1473
Before our team heads to a holiday break we wanted to thank you, our fantastic community, for all the support you have given us during the past year! We also take the chance and recap some of the highlights from the year 2021 and in the end also take a peek into the future of wha
Before our team heads to a holiday break we wanted to thank you, our fantastic community, for all the support you have given us during the past year! We also take the chance and recap some of the highlights from the year 2021 and in the end also take a peek into the future of what is coming in 2022.
In 2021 we had eight major updates and many smaller ones in between. The update pace was a little less frequent as before, but it helped to produce more meaningful content to each update
The latest major release was obviously the 1.0 update, which upgraded the game in significant ways:
These were only a few examples of what happened during the last year, but since the release we have been working on the upcoming updates as well. Unfortunately the update we intended to come out in December did not make it before the holidays, but we will be releasing that early January. Currently our plan is to have three updates before March.
If nothing changes, the first update includes dedicated repair and demolish buttons to make repairing and demolishing buildings easy and fast without a need to select each building individually. Victory in gate combat is rewarded with loot left behind by the defeated bandits. And something that has been requested a lot is a new tech that enables the production of Rare Metal in the colony once more by upgrading the Metal Auto-Extractor into a Magnetic Separator. One more thing that we’ve been experimenting with is a new “Very Hard” difficulty option has been added for those looking to really challenge themselves.
Other smaller things include balance fixes such as more aggressive guard and specialist AI with better target prioritization especially during an alarm, limitations to fishing building placement, removal of bandits that attack you from behind and so on. But we’ll come back to these in more detail as the update is released!
We’re not ready to reveal all details of what will come in the later updates, but as a teaser we are planning to add new game modes that allow customizing the start settings with more freedom and make scenarios that make the game playable and challenging in completely new ways. Also each update will have new content, fixes and QoL improvements. But let’s come back to these early next year!
Now we head out to have a short break and return back in January to make the game we love as good as possible. Thank you for the past year and we wish everyone of you happy holidays!
The latest patch for post-apocalyptic city-building game Surviving the Aftermath moves it out of Early Access and into full launch, and with that comes a raft of new content that fills out the story of the nuclear apocalypse - and a challenge to prepare your band of survivors for
The latest patch for post-apocalyptic city-building game Surviving the Aftermath moves it out of Early Access and into full launch, and with that comes a raft of new content that fills out the story of the nuclear apocalypse - and a challenge to prepare your band of survivors for the next one.
Along with the launch, Paradox has announced an expansion pass for Surviving the Aftermath, which includes the first three major expansions for the game. For now, however, there's plenty more to do even if you've been playing Surviving the Aftermath since its Early Access version debuted: you'll be able to hunt for clues that shed light on the nuclear disaster that led to the downfall of civilisation, and get to work preparing your population for the next disaster.
"Surviving the Aftermath had 20 content updates throughout Early Access, all of which incorporated player feedback," says game director Lasse Liljedhal. "This was a tremendous undertaking during unprecedented times, but as we say at the studio, 'the end of Early Access is only the beginning.' We have plans for more content for Surviving the Aftermath, so you can plan on enjoying the end of the world for years to come!"
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