Dear citizens of Sordland,
We are thrilled to share with you the moment we've all been eagerly waiting for – the unveiling of the 2.0 "Amendment" update for Suzerain! This update marks a true rebirth for our beloved Suzerain, taking it to a new level. Experience fresh dialogues, impactful choices, and tangible consequences that shape your nation's destiny. Enhanced visuals, an interactive world map, and an immersive narrative await you.
We've made the game more accessible and enjoyable for everyone, whether you're a seasoned player or new to political games. This comprehensive overhaul refines the game narrative, improves quality, and elevates the audiovisual experience, making every moment in Suzerain even more memorable.
"We are thrilled to announce the Suzerain 2.0 "Amendment" update release," says Ata Sergey Nowak. "It is a major overhaul that improves every game aspect with new features, content, and audiovisual enhancements. The update also includes many bug fixes, further balancing, writing improvements, and more."
The Suzerain 2.0 "Amendment" update is the culmination of a year-long endeavor by the Torpor Games team to refine and expand upon the original game and is the first release in a long-term plan for expanding and supporting the game, including more free updates and a series of premium DLC campaigns, the first of which - Suzerain: Kingdom of Rizia - will launch in Q4 this year.
Indeed, refining and expanding upon the original game is important for us, driven by our passion to create unique gaming experiences that deeply resonate with all of you, our amazing community.
The update also marks the start of a new arrangement with our dear publisher, Fellow Traveller, with us, taking up co-publishing duties, expanding our experience, and growing our skills and capabilities.
The update will debut with a limited-time discount of 70 percent off the game's current price of $14.99, which will run until the 13th of August. On the 14th of August, the game's price will increase to $19.99 to reflect the added value and enhancements in this update and support the continued development of further free updates.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2435940/Suzerain_Support_the_Developers__Vulpitzer_Award/
Last but not least, we want to introduce our latest special addition: the exclusive "Vulpitzer Award" item, now available for purchase!
It's important to note that this item is entirely optional and purely aesthetic. With the acquisition of the "Vulpitzer Award," you not only improve the decor of your president’s desk but also extend your invaluable support to Torpor Games in their endeavor to deliver more updates like this.
https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/16847/
You can also discover our latest offering - the Supporter’s Edition, the Supporter’s Edition includes the game Suzerain and its Original Soundtrack, as well as the Vulpitzer Award cosmetic DLC. By choosing the Supporter's Edition, you'll enjoy a 15% bundle discount, making it an irresistible deal.
Moreover, the Supporter's Edition is designed as a "complete the set" bundle. This means that if you happen to already own any of the items included, you can still take advantage of the bundle discount by purchasing just the remaining items you need.
If you haven't tried Suzerain yet, it will be the best moment to get it!
[Please note that this latest update requires starting a new save to be played. The previous save system will no longer function due to the implementation of a new technical infrastructure. However, we understand the value of preserving the legacy version 1.9 for those who wish to access it for nostalgic purposes.
Follow these simple steps to access Suzerain's legacy build:
- Open your Steam library.
- Right-click on Suzerain and select "Properties."
- Go to the "Betas" tab.
- Enter the code: "hsuarchive1954."
- Choose the "legacy1.9" branch.
- Download and play.
It's important to mention that the old version will not receive any further support or updates. We've introduced the 1.9 branches primarily to support players with in-progress saves, as we recognize the critical importance of accommodating their ongoing game experiences.
You can access the Legacy Suzerain 1.9 until the end of the year after which it will no longer be available.]
The full changelog of additions in the 2.0 "Amendment" update is below:
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Patch 2.0.0
(31/07/2023)
This update only applies to new games and is deployed to the default branch.
Features
- New interface and user experience
- Gamepad support with full verification for Steam Deck
- Story selection screen and campaign system
- Torpor mode (Ironman), can be disabled after the first completed playthrough
- Manual save/load system
- World map integration
- Additional interactable objects on the desk
- 15 new collectible story items, one supporting the dev's item
- Story, country, and leader information panels
- Projected economic growth graph
- Dynamic event tokens, including operations on the map
- Status effects for cities and countries
- New sound effects for key story moments
- New ambient room sounds and map music
- UI scaling bar and new font options, including OpenDyslexic
- Text animations for key moments and typewriter animation toggle
- Reminder panel for constitutional changes
- New notification system
- New construction bar for infrastructure projects and progress updates
- Analytics added for improving balancing and game design outcomes
- Complete technical infrastructure overhaul allowing for faster and easier content development
- Improved look-at mode
- 11 new game achievements
- Added news feature to the main menu
Content
- 12 new scenes
- 9 new decisions
- 6 new bills
- New prologue lore content and choice
- Modifications and additions to over 20 existing scenes
- 40 new faction reports
- 30 new country reports
- Over 300 new news articles and city reports
- Bludish amendment storyline, Bergia special zone storyline, Gasom, and Energy Protection Act storyline
- Character content expansions: Ewald Alphonso, Tarquin Soll, Fetih Ejall, Gus Manger, Lucian Galade, Remus Holstron, and many more
- Crisis events to highlight big issues that players missed when not reading narrative support like news, reports, situations
- New additions to Monica Rayne-related content
- New VAT presidential decree option
- Revamped and expanded many news articles
- Added reports about some successful synergies
- Added unfriendly and hostile country relations
- Added progressing status effects for trade and the border fortification
- 20+ new codex entries and edits to dozens more
- First-pass implementation of status effects feature content
- Detailed demographics content for all cities and player countries with graphs
- New Suzerain Universe lore outside of Sordland
- Updates and corrections to existing Suzerain Universe lore
- New historical lore about the 30s and 40s of Sordland from The Conformist
- New Holsord-related lore from The Conformist
- Added new autocrat path content with Young Sords involvement
- Added USP obstruction path that causes late-game bills to be blocked or forced
Art
- New table decorations
- New country tokens
- New city tokens
- New event tokens
- 16 new 3D collectibles
- New world map
- Two new character portraits
- Epilogue silhouette images for all endings
- Map overlays for visual changes
- Interactable objects on the table open UI elements
- Updated portrait holders for characters
- Updated Sordland map with new sections
- Higher quality codex art
Audio
- Map music addition and neutral, tense variations
- 20+ new sound effects for key moments
- New main menu music
- Ambient room audio
- Sordish National Anthem verse sound added to a special moment
- New Torpor sound logo
- Added audio ducking
Design & Balancing
- Government budget system overhaul with high (3), medium (2), and low (1) spending values
- Changed starting government budget to 7
- Economy system revamp with recovery options from crises and increased synergies
- Re-balanced triggers of impeachment trial, war, and coup endings
- The projected economic growth graph shows trends, not economic state
- Updated certain ending flows about war, exile, and a few others to improve the narrative design
- New tourism policy and situations
- New energy policy and situations
- New BFF policy and situations
- New Bergia and Article 6&7 policy and situations
- Changed Lucian's enemy condition
- Slightly updated family relation balance
- Updated regional economy balancing and changes
- Increased threshold of late-game crisis disabling early, mid-game returns
- Lowered trade war and market crash damages
- New economy gain and loss changes, more early game opportunities to gain and lose
- Improved crisis variable stats and allowed more gains if only a few late-game crises occurred
- Increased difficulty of ATO and CSP factions join offer
- Removed impeachment of President by Assembly due to lack of proper content
- New election balancing and calculation additions based on new content
- New ideological leaning balancing and improvements
- USP obstruction path leads to disabling or enabling certain late-game bills
- Added a few inter-regional economic synergy opportunities
- The added impact of energy prices on some regional economies
- New assembly and court vote calculation for new amendment content
Bug Fixes and Polish
- Over 300 typos and grammatical errors fixed
- More than 200 bugs fixed
- Optimization pass for lower-end devices
- Improved several game flow errors that impacted balancing negatively
- Improved situations and policies text descriptions
- Extended and improved dozens of short and low-quality news articles and reports
- More feedback about certain parts of the story with little feedback
And before we sign off, remember that Kingdom Of Rizia, our much-anticipated first premium DLC, will be making its grand debut in Q4 this year! Don't forget to wishlist. Prepare for a thrilling adventure filled with new challenges and captivating stories.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2352340/Suzerain_Kingdom_of_Rizia/
Thank you for tuning in, and we look forward to seeing you soon!
Vectern sis da!
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