0.652.5 Hotfix 5

05 Mar 2025Developer post

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Here’s a quick hotfix that improves a couple of things from the prior build, and also adds a few bits of balance and QoL items requested by players.

0.652.5 Hotfix 5

Armor piercing improvements have been removed from all of the research categories except for Item Development. These were diluting the pools of small arms research in particular, but also vehicular development and similar.

Rebalanced the Worker androids entirely. The PMC Impostors are 80% as strong as before, and the Predators and Sledges are 133% stronger than before. This mostly affects Extreme mode, making them more balanced as a group.

Tooltips with status effects on them now show how many more turns that status effect will last.

Fixed an issue where if you were doing the new People Watching project, but had not already done the steal corporate records project, then it would constantly start the investigation for stealing corporate records and then stop it.

Fixed a minor typo in Gang Akimbo dialogue.

Fixed an issue where the ArcenExternalDllInitialLoadCallTable changes were not working properly for modders.

Full notes here.

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Here is a link to prior recent patches in case you missed them.
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https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/2001070/view/530965072572320673
https://steamcommunity.com/games/2001070/announcements/detail/530965072572317985