Suzerain is -20% off for the Steam Lunar New Year!
We have just released a major content patch so it’s the perfect time to grab it for yourself to see if you can solve the troubles of Sordland or crumble in the attempt to do so.
As President Rayne, lead Sordland into ruin or repair during your first term in this text-based role-playing game. Navigate a political drama driven by conversations with your cabinet members and other significant figures. Beware or embrace corruption; shirk or uphold ideals. How will you lead?
Patch 1.1
New Features
End Game Summary Screen
Based on the feedback we received, we decided to update the conclusion in a more visual way, outside of the Epilogue. We’ve built a summary screen, featuring three sections that display how your Anton government has done and the results of your choices. It displays data and details about the first term. Images speak louder than words so here you go!
This should give you a better overview of what you did or didn’t achieve. The compass focuses on the in-lore ideologies and shows where other characters are positioned on it. We hope you share your playthrough results with everyone!
Anton Customisation
After playing Suzerain for more hours than you can imagine, the portrait of Anton at the bottom left corner began to stare deep into our soul. So, we’ve decided to give everyone the option to change it up, and have built an Anton customization system. You can change his hairstyle, facial hair, accessories and background image. Share your Anton's on social using the hashtag #MyRayne!
Here are some images to show you potential variation! Special thanks to İpek Ünal, our talented character artist for creating these assets.
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New Content
The Election
We added a brand new election debate at turn 10 to strengthen the election ending. This scene also introduces Denis Stahler of the Communist Party as a character, who can be a potential rival for the election debate. Denis also gets a brand new portrait!
A new election calculation with more detailed voter groups has been added, Early polling have also been included at the political overview scene to show how your election prospects are. These additions come with some new newspapers and reports as well!
The War
The war plans scene has been expanded with new choices. We’ve also added new win and lose calculations for the war, which are affected by several of these choices in the scene and the ones the player has previously made that could relate to the war.
Several minor additions and changes were added to the war win and lose scenes as well. A dozen or more reports made their way into turn 10 to give a more accurate indication of how the war is going to players.
New music design and new tracks!
Our sound designer / composer James Spence has made changes to improve the music implementation and make the audioscape more dynamic. We’ve also added two brand new tracks to improve the audio experience. These will also be released for free to OST owners along with the hidden suspense track.
Here is a teaser from the new Diplomacy track!
42 new Steam achievements!
Yes you heard it right. Suzerain now will have a total of 86 achievements. The new achievements are public. Whatever you do, don't try to kill Orso please.
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1.1.0 (11/02/2021)
Features
- Added Summary screen
- Added Anton Customization screen
- Sordish political compass
Content
- Added Election Debate scene
- Added New War Plans scene
- Expanded Political Overview scene
- Added a new decision for election
- Added news and reports for all the new scenes and some more
- Implemented 42 new Steam achievements
Art
- Added Denis Stahler portrait
- Added backgrounds, hairstyles, accessories, attire and facial hair for Anton
- Added ACP and SSP symbols
Audio
- Updated music design across the game
- Added new Diplomacy track
- Added new Security track
- Added new Summary track
- Updated gavel sounds for Epilogue
Improvements:
- Added more details to "convince Gloria" scene
- Added minor details to war lose and war win
- Added more feedback to emergency success and lose
- Made Lucian more dangerous
- Added clarification for investigation switch
- Improved VP character distinctions
- Corrected several conditions and improved flow for "convince Albin" scene
- Added nuance explaining the women's rights situation better
- Small content addition to Monica
- The assembly vote is slightly more difficult - this was intended to be hard
- The economic recovery should be slightly more difficult now
- New election calculation based on voter groups and more factors
- New war calculation based on alliances, previous choices and war choices
- General proofreading and editing on a dozen scenes
- Closed some small narrative gaps like congress cancellation during future war
- Gave limited vetoes new narrative support content
- Added ACP and SSP codex entries and updates
- Fixed 50+ typos and improved English consistency
- Music trigger logic was improved
- Dozens of more minor writing additions and improvements
Bug fixes:
- We fixed a couple of remaining broken links that were super rare but would have stopped player progression nonetheless
- Economy balancing was improved and is more in sync with the narrative
- Fixed issue that caused people with a good economy to fall to depression instead of stagnation due to high debt
- Fixed wrong impeachment variable for owning Sordland Today being mistaken with having a media deal with Marcel Koronti
- Fixed wrong gendarmerie check for war calculcation
- Impeachment endings triggers fixed
- Made Assembly triggering impeachment very very difficult
- Wrong conditions for trialling Tusk after he had fled the country were corrected
- Fixed misleading public opinion and war reports
- Fixed halfway cut gavel tapping sounds for Epilogue
- Fixed wrong Aschraf anniversary trigger for scene which resulted in both decision and scene appearing at the same time
- Fixed escape to menu crash during Epilogue to Credits transition
- Removed duplicate and unused news articles
- Other wrong database implementations on several news and reports were mended
- Tooltip hover being stuck was resolved
- Fixed wrong dialogue option with Franc related to propaganda
- Fixed wrong Oligarchs discontent trigger
- Fixed a dozen wrong policy and situation triggers
- Dozens of more bugfixes!
1.1.1 (12/02/2021)
Bug Fixes
- Fixed wrong condition check for economic stagnation which could lead to depression
- Fixed rare broken link in election debate scene
- Fixed wrong relocation report
- Fixed wrong scandal news
- Fixed wrong choice of Nia mentioning Lileas in scene
- Fixed some typos and wording in codex articles
- Edited some Ciara responses about education
- Increased some Summary screen values
- Added commas to some Summary screen values
- Lowered economic protest trigger threshold
- Fixed Antel Rock codex entry typo
Hope you enjoy this major update as much as we enjoyed making it. Please drop a positive review if you liked Suzerain! Much love from from Torpor Games.
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