Hello everyone! The first major update - Alpha Build #2 (0.4.58) - is now available on Steam! As we announced earlier, we focused on making the game more enjoyable for you and also adding new quality of life features and improvements proposed by the community.
Changelog:
New Features:
- Added commissions manager
- Added employees manager
- Added locations manager
- Added the possibility of canceling the learning of skills
- Added the required level of the company in its upgrades
- Added support for additional components in projects from commissions (chance for additional reward)
- Added easier removal and replacement of employees in components and searches
- Added limitation of the maximum number of components in projects (new company upgrade)
- Added a new company upgrade that enables automatic assignment of components required in commissions to the project
- Added additional tooltips in the skills trees
- Added the ability to change employees in the skills trees
- Added the ability to select / upgrade skills in the Skill Tree with a double click on LPM
- Added unchecking of the currently selected skill in the skill tree by clicking on its background
- Added the ability to return from the skills trees with the Escape button
- Added the ability to control the camera by dragging while holding the LPM
- Added the possibility of not accepting commissions from fans
- Added automatic deletion of outdated messages
- Added more certain company goals activated to guide the player to further growth
- Added a panel summarizing the company's goals in the company manager
- Added a button to prematurely finish the distribution of own project
- Added shortcuts in company upgrades (same as in skills trees)
- Added additional tooltips for company upgrades
- Added information about available company upgrade points in the Company Manager
- Added information about the possibility of increasing the level of company upgrade
- Added minimum values for additional rewards for the fulfillment of company goals
- Added additional buttons to Social Media in Main Menu
- Added translations of the game into other languages created by the community
- Added translators to credits
- Added information about the translation created by the community
Mechanic Changes:
- The game time has been accelerated twice (month lasts 30 seconds)
- From now on, the personal bills of the characters will be calculated on a quarterly basis (company bills without changes)
- The amount of energy that an employee uses to create components now depends on the time elapsed between adding progress points
- Modified the number of skills points received for higher levels of experience
- Limited number of company upgrade points available after the establishment of another company when the previous one was dissolved / bankrupt
- Improved the algorithm calculating the required experience for advancement to the next levels
- From now on, experience from commissions will be also obtained if there is at least one completed but not tested component in it
- From now on, an additional reward for the company's goals will be received after completing 4 goals in a year
Game Balance:
- Reduced penalties for bugs in commissions
- Improved balance of own projects (greater impact of components, reduction of maximum cost, the overall increase of costs and awards)
- Improved balance of company goals in the late game
- Adjusted number of bugs in test components
Corrections:
- Corrected project and search panels (if they were previously collapsed, they remain so)
- Fixed the lack of display of the Context Menu for selecting the employee to search after clicking on the employee's avatar in the search panel
- Fixed the lack of display of the workstation menu after clicking on the employee avatar in the workstation tracker
- Fixed the volume sliders in the settings (they now work more linearly)
- Fixed the tooltip background in the skills trees
- Fixed the missing translation of information about the lack of employees who worked on the commission
- Improved formatting of the company's annual money balance value in the company's financial summary message
- Reduced speed and increased lifetime of programming points appearing above the workstations
- Changed the messages button icon
- Changed the color of the maximum energy of an employee in the employee's energy bar to make it more readable
- Removed % from the description of the current value of the Creditworthiness company upgrade
- Improved formatting of large numbers in tooltips with experience
- Fixed tooltip with level progression in the skills trees (always showed the player's character)
- Fixed the non-fading car in the City Center Office location
- Optimized clamping of the main camera position
- Fixed the double minus and color of the company's negative balance in the message with the company's annual finances
- Fixed scaling of checkboxes descriptions in settings
- Fixed the position of the list of company goals after entering the build mode
- Improved formatting of large numbers in the message about additional awards for company goals
- Improved text scaling in employee and commission search settings
- Corrected the display of inappropriate notifications in some combinations of adding/deleting required components / skills in the searches
- Fixed missing light sources in objects that are supposed to emit light
- Reduced resolution of volumetric illumination (performance improvement without visible quality change)
Bugs Fixes:
- Fixed a bug that damaged saves after an employee who was learning a skill was fired / retired
- Fixed incorrect assignment of employees to components after closing the Context Menu with employees without selecting an employee
- Fixed the remaining of an employee in the search after removing them from the workstation
- Fixed blocking of the game after double-clicking on the permanent notification
- Fixed graphic artifacts in the City Center Office location
- Fixed loading of night lights (windows)
- Fixed incorrect loading of furniture unlocks
- Fixed a bug that blocked work on components after the project panel was collapsed
- Fixed a bug that allowed you to exit the build mode using a shortcut while moving the furniture
- Fixed a bug blocking the save after buying a new location when one of the employees was learning a skill
- Fixed the company's non-disappearing transactions, which caused a very long loading of the company's finance panel
- Fixed the fading of the UI after double-clicking on the buttons in the Main Menu
- Fixed bugs caused by double-clicking on shortcuts to the Skills Trees / Company Upgrades
- Fixed an issue with loading Interactive Tutorial videos when using a language created by the community
- Fixed an error with leaving the camera between locations when the game was saved while moving between them
- Fixed incorrectly loading furniture category buttons in build mode
- Fixed errors related to dragging the required components / skills in the search of commissions / employees
- Fixed the lack of refreshing of the character's name in the project / search panels after their change
- Fixed a bug that made it impossible to start distribution of your own project after loading the game
- Fixed no renaming of locations after changing the game language
We hope that you will enjoy the changes and that we have managed to eliminate all critical bugs. If you have any comments or new suggestions about the game, feel free to let us know at any time! Found a new bug? You can report it on mesotegames.com/bugsreport or on our Discord server.
Have a wonderful day!
Roman