So it turns out that when your game is released on Steam it suddenly gets massively playtested - and this can throw up a few bugs! Over the last two weeks I released three patches for the PC version, v28, v29 and v30. They don't add any exciting new features, they just fix a few bugs and sources of confusion that got discovered by all the new players. If you're one of those players then thanks for reporting them!
Here's the combined list of changes for all three patches:
- Added quest arrows to point to the next regional threat, if you are at war, when you select a Complete The Game quest.
- Fixed 'Sarah Slaughter has an easy quest for you' mission not going away if you chose 'au naturel'.
- Fixed being able to activate cheat mode before you were supposed to.
- Fixed being able to get Jim Gallager to join you before Cassie is dead.
- Fixed being able to trade negative items and get free stuff if you are over-encumbered.
- Fixed being able to transfer items to your inventory by dragging them across in the 'Bring Supplies Home' inventory page.
- Fixed fire and zombie sounds not being affected by the effects volume slider.
- Fixed game crashing on startup on PCs using the Turkish language.
- Fixed crash involving maize and multithreading
Reading the forums now it seems that a few other bugs have turned up, not as serious as the game crashing but still needing to be fixed, so I'm going to be working on a patch to address those. That'll take a bit longer though. I'm also looking at getting the game translated into some other languages as some folks have offered to help with that. So, that's my plan for the near future.