Hello and Happy Holidays!
This update focuses on balancing and updating Corporate as well as clarifying a few points!
More Character Immersion
New Year
When the New Year rolls around, either your Mom (levels 1-4) will pop up and use your Studio as a charity tax write-off, or Chad (levels 5+) will awkwardly tell you Happy New Year before telling you to get back to work!
Executive Tutorial
Since the Executive is a friend of mom's you get the first one for free (just like the producer). She also instructs you on two topics:
- At Level 4 you can start to make Full TV Seasons
- At level 6 you unlock your first Add-Ons
Producer Tutorial
The Producer now instructs you on three topics if you're having trouble:
- At Level 5+, the first time your Corporate Issues get above 25%, the producer pulls you into a quick meeting to make sure you notice. This replaces a previous Pop-Up
- At level 6+, you can start getting Boycotted if your Fan Rating is too low. The first time this happens, the Producer lets you know what you need to do to fix it.
- At Level 7+, if you fail an Awards Show (as long as it's not the first time when your mom is guiding you), the Producer will let you know how you can improve your Awards Points next time.
Employee Bays
Just like in the Production Room where you can see each Department's Employees in their Bays, you can now see them in Corporate as well.
If you resume a previous save game, your current Corporate Employees should all become Rank 1 and should be visible in their Bays. Corporate bays don't need to be upgraded, they start at full capacity.
- Your Corporate crew will Rank up
- Individual Employees will get sick instead of the entire Department
- Track Walk-Outs / Poached Employees
Corporate Crises
Previously, there were three types of Corporate Crises - Employee Fights, Computer Viruses and Hackers. However, these would just pop up and last 24 hours and there was nothing you could do about it, which was…pointless.
Now Employee Fights have been removed, since Happiness is being impacted by enough other things, but the other two issues now prompt a quick challenge. How well you do at the challenge determines how many issues you receive.
If you have the IT and Security toggles enabled, you are less likely to receive hacks/viruses, however, the more corrupt you are, the more likely you are to receive them.
Hackers
You are prompted to figure out a 5 digit code. Using brute-force guessing, you get three attempts to enter the correct code. If you get any digit of the code correct during any attempt, that digit locks into place.
- You can pay a large bribe to get the full code.
- You can pay a small bribe to get the first 2 digits.
- You can pay nothing, and get no hints.
The punishment is reduced for each digit you have figured out, and if you figure out all 5 digits, there are no Security issues.
Viruses
You are shown 3 obscured/corrupted images of Inventory items. The image fades out as a timer counts down from 9. The faster you can correctly identify the Inventory, the fewer issues you will receive.
To-Do List:
- Tutorial To-Do list now lists Editor above Animator since that's what you are instructed to hire first
- Level 4 To-Do List replaces "10% Rotted Potatoes Score" with having the Executive throw 5 Departments Parties.
- Level 6 To-Do List increases 40% Rotted Potatoes Score to 50%
Balancing
- Your odds at a good Risky Business pull are increased the more corrupt you are. This is still true, but the numbers have been toned down a little - way too many jackpots were being won!
- Award Show points that your opponents had were a bit too high in medium and hard modes, and have been balanced slightly.
- Skipping to Friday makes your Employees sad…but it was way to sad. It has been toned down from -5% to -1%
- Executive speed for increasing Rotted Potatoes score has been increased by a factor of 5.
Random Changes/Additions
- Changed the Starting year to 2022 to match when the game will be coming out of Early Access.
- Added 40 new Questions to the Hot-Seat Minigame for more variety.
- Added more variety to each section of Chad's random meeting - especially when you pick your topic for the "metaphor". Previously it was always the same set of topics, now it randomly chooses from 6 sets of topics.
- Added the current number of episodes below the "Add to Season" button to show your current progress (i.e 2/24)
- If you click "Quick Brew" in the Coffee Room, it now plays the Sound FX just like when you click the actual Coffee Brew button. ("Quick Brew" doesn't play the Sound FX normally to avoid too many overlapping noises)
- Added a prompt to remind you to manually save after reloading a crashed autosave game - it will only reload the one time, so be sure to manually save if this happens!
Random Fixes
- Fixed a few minor typos and graphical/layering issues
- Fixed a glitch where the game and ambient audio would start automatically if you skipped the tutorial
- Fixed a glitch where the Tutorial XP Clipboard wouldn't close properly if you tried to open another Clipboard before unlocking the XP Clipboard
- Fixed a glitch where Marketing, Distribution and Marketing displayed text that falsely indicate they were still only making 1 inventory item per week after the Corruption Perk had been selected (when it should be doubled).
- Fixed a glitch where the Publicist would do his Fan duty when the QC option was selected instead of his own button
- Fixed a glitch where the Season Renewal would always show your first show first, even when another show was being renewed/cancelled.
- Fixed a glitch where Corporate Department's Happiness wasn't turning red when it was below 70%
- Fixed a glitch where it was possible for a Department to get sick when they were already sick.