0.653.4 Hotfix 8

11 Apr 2025Developer post

Source: Steam Community (opens in a new tab)

Third hotfix of the day. Again, apologies. Thank you this time to lexilogo, NoMoreD20, and Ronin for the reports. I've been putting out builds on Steam for 16 years now, and this is maybe the fifth time I've had three hotfixes in a day. I'll try not to make a new habit of it, sigh.

0.653.4 Hotfix 8

In the event that you are not in an active analaysis mode that shows building visualization, and you try to move an android to stand on one of your structures, it now lets you do that. If you're in analysis mode that affects that specific kind of building, then it still shows the other tooltip that actually gives the stats of relevance.

Added in protection to WriteBuildingTooltipInformation() to prevent exceptions on startup if you were in an analysis lens when loading a savegame.

Full notes here.

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Here is a link to prior recent patches in case you missed them.
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/2001070/view/502822010104053992
https://steamcommunity.com/games/2001070/announcements/detail/524212840420081803
https://steamcommunity.com/games/2001070/announcements/detail/521959859806013753