Greetings, fellow leaders!
Realpolitiks 3: Earth and Beyond has been in Early Access for a little over a day now, and thanks to your feedback, we've already prepared a patch fixing various bugs, improving the optimization, adding quality of life features and overall making parts of the game clearer to understand - the full Change Log can be found below. We would recommend starting a new campaign in order to make sure all fixes are applied properly and that you get the best possible gameplay experience.
Please continue giving us your feedback here in the comments, in the Steam discussions, or join the Realpolitiks HQ Discord - we need your input in order to make this the best grand strategy experience for you!
We are already working on a next patch, as we would like to release hotfixes similar to this one about once a week; while these are a priority right now and our focus is on fixing any technical issues and making the current content playable as smoothly as possible for you, we have plans for bigger updates throughout the Early Access period as well. Those will bring new features that will give you an even wider variety of tools for ruling your country, the world and the Solar system. Take a peek at some of the things the first two Content Updates will bring:
We would also like to address one significant point many of you have raised: Realpolitiks 3 is not designed to accurately simulate existing countries or their cultures. Instead, it is focused on providing a fun gameplay experience, letting you lead a country in a modern setting and rule it however you choose. To keep each playthrough fresh, countries are partially randomized at the start of every campaign. While borders, political systems, and overall power stay the same, the starting stats and policies will be different each time, providing new challenges and opportunities. We have included this clarification at the start of the game and in its store description - it was never our intention to create any different expectations.
And now, without further ado, the full Change Log of our first Hotfix:
- Set default autosave interval to 15 min (only for new users - the update does not overwrite existing settings profiles, but you can set your autosave interval in Options => Other)
- Changed the name of "Realism" mode to "Standard" to avoid confusion
- Added the initial character creator for standard mode
- Added several new information tooltips to various windows
- Improved several tooltips in the economy manager
- Removed the ability to focus on the game, and to manually save the game during autosave, to prevent corrupt autosaves
- Added protection against loading a corrupted save
- Declaring war action is now possible for countries in the same political bloc (such as the UN)
- Reduced the cost of maintaining a political bloc
- Fixed air officer being blocked in some cases after ending a war
- Fixed incorrect info on several projects in the Military Policy tree that claimed to modify "Population" instead of Unrest
- The poorest countries will now start the game with a slightly better financial balance
- Fixed a talent tree that was missing in some instances
- Corrected a few typos in Main Menu and Credits
- Fixed a bug preventing players from closing the Province window
- Fixed a bug allowing values to exceed set minimums and maximums
- Fixed effects related to party ideology
- Included value settings in their initialization - this caused strange errors in calculations at a game start
- Fixed various events that were incorrectly checking for initial conditions before applying their effects
- Fixed the change log window in main menu - it will no longer show in a loading scene
- Increased HDI gains from basic projects
- Reduced the impact of Stability on annual HDI change
- Fixed a bug causing the action "add to block" to be sometimes unavailable
- Improved the balance of tasks related to GDP Growth
- Improved the mechanic of choosing a ruler during elections.
- Improved several icons and visual effects for taking various actions
Happy Strategizing!
P.S.: If you encounter any issues or bugs, please report them either through Discord, here on Steam or by email to [email protected].
Be sure to describe the problem in detail, and include your save file and log file, which you can find here: C:\Users\%username%\AppData\LocalLow\Jujubee\RP3
(Simply archive all the contents of the folder and upload it to gdrive, wetransfer or any other file sharing service, sending us the link)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2298690/Realpolitiks_3_Earth_and_Beyond/