Patch Notes: Cartel Tycoon V 0.9.0.1239
Thank you everyone for your incredible feedback! The primary goal of this patch is to fix some of the most annoying bugs while also improving the approachability of Cartel Tycoon for new players by making the early game less punishing.
Updates & Changes
- Hire confirmation dialog
- Add “Skip movies” option in Settings (please pick this option if you have Story crashing at the start of new game, this should fix it)
- Updated Mayor dialogues
- New Chinese font (easier to read)
Balance
- “Truck Supplier” ability now affects all kind of buildings and always gives the fixed count of trucks
- Terror does not rise from Residences overflowing with money any more
- Lower Raid probability
- Increased the required number of terror points for 4th, 5th and 6th stars
- Applied some tweaks to Terror and Loyalty
- Increased max Residences amount from 7 to 10
- Increased Lab’s cash storage (prevent Dirty Money overflow)
- Mayor’s “Freeze Star” favor now costs $150k (was $500k) and the freeze continues for 40 days (was 15 days)
Visual updates
- Fixed the activation and position of some particles
Bug Fix
- Building deconstruction would not protect from attacks and prevent losing control any more
- Fixed CONTROL quest soft lock
- Return wind sounds on high camera position
- Fixed some Deals texts (wrong numbers)
- Localization issues
- Domination quest does not count city buildings any more
- Fixed system menu button layout
- Fixed event log entry tooltip markup for all localizations
- Rogue lieutenants won’t burn blockaded buildings now
- Fix Almagro Torres city conquest dialogs
Known issues
- On some of the Windows versions (specifically if something has been done with the default Media Player) our animated intro causes the game crash. The temporary workaround is to turn on“Skip movies” in the settings settings.
- There is a very small possibility that rogue lieutenant will destroy the city
- Aerodrome deconstruction causes its progress bar to roll back.
- Some of your crash dumps were not processed yet, we are working on it
- Some Nvidia cards cause D3D to crash at start-up (https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/forums/g
- ame-ready-drivers/13/256280/unreal-engine-is-exiting-due-to-d3d-device-being-l/)The main menu UI is bugged at some laptops - switching from Fullscreen to Windowed or Borderless usually fixes this.
Let us know what you think in the comments! We'll continue rolling out patches to improve approachability, but we're also planning to dive deeper into the logistics flow for late-game Cartels by reducing some of the more nuanced micro-management requirements. Stay tuned to our news for updates!
For more details on upcoming features and plans, please check out our official development roadmap.
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