LUNAR UPDATE

26 Jan 2017Developer post

This update is about fixing different things, as well as adding few more special items to the in-game pool – plus the special Lunar New Year content!

A2. NEW FEATURES

Preview of emoticons. Now you will be able to see the animation of the emoticon in your collection (whether you have it or not) by pressing the "PLAY" button below it.

Winter collection awards. These limited items will be awarded automatically to anyone who has completed the winter set of items in their collection:
- Lobby icon – Foil Gremlin in Disguise.
- Profile background – The Foil Frozen Machinery (animated).

A limited one-time only item. A global effect "Flying lanterns" that will be automatically granted to the owners of the game and all 5 of it's DLC's (А.К.А Тhe Governor Edition) who have logged into the game between Jan 26th and Feb 05th. This award will be automatically grated to all players who have “The Governor Edition” medal. If you own all 5 DLCs but don’t have the medal, please download OST and Artbook DLCs in their default folders and launch the game at least once. The medal should appear in your profile after that.

Celebrating the Lunar New Year! Two new items that are going to be available for a limited time through regular chests.
- Main menu background – The Automated Rooster.
- Main menu music – Melody of the Automated Rooster.

New blueprints. Few new items added to the game and they will only be available through blueprints, if you're lucky enough to get them.
- Emoticon – Bored.
- Emoticon – Gotcha!
- Special – The Governor of Swindlers.
- Lobby icon – Ruffian (this blueprint available in Tournament chests only).

Number of players in multiplayer sessions that use mods, can be freely changed after a mod was loaded in the session lobby. Keep in mind that some mods are specially adjusted to specific number of players, and won't work as intended with another number.
The tournament algorithm has been changed to now include the tournament win-rate of players during matchmaking.
The Misfortune "Depression" is now orange.
The in-game menu's information block was visually improved to be in line with the rest of the interface.
The "Achievement unlocked" window has been returned to the game.
Added an additional explanation to the card "An Interesting Find".

The AI will use the cards "Jailbreak" and "A Deal with the Prosecution" more consistently when it has them.
Fixed a bug where the name of a player would not fit in the Conflict window.
Fixed a visual bug where players would "lose" charges after converting a nonexistent item.
Fixed a bug where in some cases the previous games list was shown incorrectly in the player profile.
Fixed a visual bug with a wrong number on the icon of the "Global Celebrity" achievement.
Fixed a visual bug with a wrong number on the icon of the Misfortune "Kidnapping".
Fixed a bug where when changing servers the game would crash with an error if the "favorites" emoticon panel had any emoticons unavailable to the player on that server.
Fixed a bug where players would be highlighted in the wrong way at some point during the first tutorial of the game.
Fixed the text for the Politician when winning the elections.
Fixed the indicators of the player most likely to win the upcoming elections taking in account the malice if the number of votes are equal.
Fixed a rare bug with the card "Investigation" where the game would get stuck if the chosen opponent had only secret and criminal cards on hand.
Fixed the Pauper's ability "Smooth sailing" to work with all sources of bribes.
Fixed a bug with the text for the Manager's ability "Risky Business".
Fixed a rare bug when in some cases the training mission could start with only 1 opponent.

Permanent indicators next to player avatars sometimes remain blinking despite corresponding events being over.
The permanent card "The Astral Elevator" might still work in the next round even after being destroyed.
If the Astral Plane window is open, you cannot switch between Chaos Cards and the cards on your hand.
If you disconnected and an AI won the game instead of you, the game will get stuck on re-connecting.
The dice-roller animation will be visually bugged when rolling two or more times in a row.
Sometimes when loading single-player session, certain indicators will not appear on the playing field/will appear incorrectly.
When activating "An Automated Bureaucrat", values of bribes next to player avatars may not refresh for a few turns.
The stats for the most recently added single-player challenge – A Secret Assignment – do not count the score points that the AI bot already had at the beginning to the session.

Currently unable to reproduce at the studio:

In very rare cases, selection of random spots or locations will not work.
Sometimes, when having a jail rank that allows you to select from 3 jail events, the UI will only show two, but the third will still be clickable.
In some rare cases, activated card "The Astral Elevator" still does not allow you to get to the Astral Plane through the Bank.
Sometimes the "skip turn" icon will not show when working in The Plant.
Single-player sessions will not save when, during that session, you agree to join a ranked session.
Using the card "Secret Knowledge" sometimes might not work properly and will give random cards instead of the chosen ones.
When playing the game on Ubuntu 14.04 x64, some Chinese characters will disappear in the Chinese version of the game.
The visual representation of resources will sometime lose its background.

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