This update is focused on making Choi Sunja’s game easier to play and smoothing out Im Seokdae’s difficulty curve across the full run.
Previously, the game may have felt as though it applied too much pressure too heavily in the late game, which could have made progression feel “unfair.” We want to alleviate that.
This update includes a large number of changes, so there is a risk that we may not have tuned the difficulty perfectly. This update is by no means final or permanent, and depending on the data, we may make the game easier or harder through follow-up patches. So... we’d really appreciate lots of feedback!
Balance
Decisions
Choi Sunja is getting buffed. It is time for this brilliant engineer from the academy to deliver an even better performance.
Illicit Asset Recovery: Gain 1 Backlash, gain 3 Artifact Drone Supplies. → Gain 2 Backlash, gain 3 Artifact Drone Supplies.
Deregulation: Lose Job Scarcity. → Lose Job Shortage, gain 1 random Artifact.
Meritocracy Adoption: All carriages produce +20% Happiness. This effect is active when you have at least 2 Backlash. → All carriages produce +30% Happiness. This effect is active when you have at least 2 Backlash.
Easy Dismissal: All carriages produce +30% Happiness. This effect is active when you have at least 4 Backlash. → All carriages produce +35% Happiness. This effect is active when you have at least 4 Backlash.
Trickle-Down Effect: All your carriasges with 4 or more floors produce 20% more Happiness. → All your carriages with 4 or more floors produce 30% more Happiness.
Domestic Market Reinforcement: All carriages produce +15% Happiness. → All carriages gain +5% Final Happiness Production.
Population Control: Lose 1 Passenger, EXP +11. → Lose 2 Passengers, EXP +19.
Labor Cost Reduction: All carriages produce 4% more Happiness per Slum Car. → All carriages produce 6% more Happiness per Slum Car.
Command Hierarchy Establishment: If Train Length is 6 or higher, all Trains produce 3% more Happiness. This increases by 3% for each additional Car. → If Train Length is 6 or higher, all Trains produce 4% more Happiness. This increases by 4% for each additional Car.
Balanced Growth Plan: All carriages produce 5% more Happiness per Floor. → All carriages produce 8% more Happiness per Floor.
Monopoly: The frontmost carriage produces 40% more Happiness. All other carriages produce 10% less Happiness. → The frontmost carriage produces 65% more Happiness. All other carriages produce 5% less Happiness.
Supercritical CO2 Recirculating Turbine: Speed +7%. → +8%.
Material Extraction: Gain 2 Supplies upon arriving at an Exploration Zone. → Gain 3 Supplies upon arriving at an Exploration Zone.
Parallel Multiprocessor Array: Speed -2%, EXP +10. → Speed -1%, EXP +10.
Rebuild Infrastructure: Speed -2%, EXP +13. → Speed -2%, EXP +20.
Standard Exploration System: Gain 2 EXP upon arriving at an Exploration Zone. → Gain 3 EXP upon arriving at an Exploration Zone.
Telescoping Observation Mast: Vision +2. → Vision +1.
Arc Lamp Serchlight: Move Speed -4%, Vision +1. → Speed -3%, Vision +3.
And… Im Seokdae is being adjusted as well. Until now, it has been too difficult to relieve Tension. This rigid atmosphere needed to loosen up a bit.
Remember History: Lose 1 Tension. → Lose 2 Tension.
Cooperation Declaration: Lose 2 Tension, gain 6 Supply Shortage. → Lose 2 Tension, gain 8 Supply Shortage.
Infrastructure Improvement Pledge: Lose 2 Tension, lose 2 Backlash, Speed -5%. → Lose 3 Tension, lose 3 Backlash, Speed -9%.
Bill of Rights: Lose 2 Tension, Cycle Time +1 second. → Lose 3 Tension, Cycle Time +2 seconds.
Soul Binding: Whenever you gain 2 EXP, gain 1 more. → Whenever you gain 3 EXP, gain 1 more.
Gradual Power Transfer: All carriages produce 20% more Happiness. → All carriages produce 25% more Happiness.
Separation of Powers: All carriages produce 35% more Happiness. → All carriages produce 40% more Happiness.
Constitutional Revision: All carriages produce 50% more Happiness. → All carriages produce 55% more Happiness.
Artifacts
Process Automation: Whenever 3 Passengers enter a carriage, it produces Happiness 1 additional time, and all carriages lose 20% Final Happiness Production. → Whenever 3 Passengers enter a carriage, it produces Happiness 1 additional time, and all carriages lose 15% Final Happiness Production.
High Speed Growth Project: Whenever you gain 1 EXP, gain 1 more, Drone Supply choices are reduced by 2. → Whenever you gain 1 EXP, gain 1 more, all carriages lose 15% Final Happiness Production.
Eyed Ossuary: Cycle Time +1 second, gain 2 Artifact Drone Supplies. → Cycle Time +1 second, gain 3 Artifact Drone Supplies.
Eyed Basket: Cycle Time +1 second, whenever you gain 16 Supplies, gain 1 random Artifact. → Cycle Time +1 second, whenever you gain 14 Supplies, gain 1 random Artifact.
Corrupted Official : Value increased by Embezzlement 3% → 5%.
Bronze Resolve: Quest: Acquire 12 Bronze Trains. → Quest: Acquire 8 Bronze Trains.
Catastrophe: All Carriages lose 45% Final Happiness Production, Speed -20% → All Carriages lose 55% Final Happiness Production.
Events
The following rewards from the “Retrospection” event have been changed.
Established Social Order: After 1050 seconds, gain 3 Artifact Drone Supplies. → After 1050 seconds, gain 2 Artifact Drone Supplies.
Excellent Infrastructure: Drone Supply choices increase by 1. Disappears after 600 seconds. → Drone Supply choices increase by 1. Disappears after 750 seconds.
The following reward from the “Cleaning Up the Surroundings” event has been changed.
Lose 1 Passenger, gain 1 random Artifact. → Lose 1 Passenger, gain 2 random Artifacts.
‘Operation Prepration’ has been renamed to ‘Brotherhood Agitation’, and its effect has been changed: Happiness -150/sec → Happiness -70/sec. This increases by 20% per Tension you have.
The following Artifact is now obtained from the “Counging up Blood” event.
Bad Cough: Happiness -0/sec. This increases by -1 every 3 days that have passed.
The effect of the “Preparation of the Mind” event has been changed.
Lose Bad Cough
Lung Cancer: Happiness -100/sec → Happiness -0/sec. This increases by -2 every 1 day that has passed.
Frost Mode
Im Seokdae’s Frost difficulty had too much variance between levels. We want to reduce that gap somewhat.
Endless Winter: Blizzard moves 5% faster, Dissatisfaction increases by 14%. → Blizzard moves 5% faster, Dissatisfaction increases by 25%.
Life Precipice: Start with 6 Tension, Dissatisfaction increases by 44%. → Start with 6 Tension, Dissatisfaction increases by 35%.
Gameplay
The following languages are now supported. We don’t currently have enough manpower, so there may be some errors in the translations. Please report them through our Discord server or to [email protected], and we’ll fix them as quickly as possible.
Spanish
French
Tooltips now show why you received that specific amount when gaining Purple Coins.
Lighting now looks a bit more natural. Trains now receive light as well, and tunnel interiors are darker. Along with this, the background colors of some terrains have been slightly adjusted.
A sprite for the Reassembly Workshop has been added.
Medal sprites related to Extreme Cold progression have been updated.
The number of nodes on Im Seokdae’s map has been slightly increased.
Bug Fixes
Fixed a crash that occurred on Im Seokdae Extreme Cold Stage 3 when Tension was reduced to 0 or below and the game was then saved/loaded.
Fixed a bug where loading an invalid save file caused the game to remain stuck on a black screen.