Ladies and gentlemen, we're excited to present a major update for the game that introduces both new cards and new features, as well as launches the long-expected :flake: Winter Season :flake: ! In this update, you will find:

A1. NEW FEATURES

• :steampunk: STEAM WORKSHOP: have you ever wondered about trying your hand at re-balancing the game? Now you can do it – with the all-new Workshop system!
  1. Create modes for custom single-player and multiplayer sessions as well as for challenges.
  2. Change the rules: you can now add new goals for all types of sessions as well as turn on the special rules that can completely change the pace of the game.
  3. Balance the deck of the game the way you see it: you can completely overhaul the deck, including quantity and availability of specific cards in your mod.
  4. Adjust the starting resources and starting permanent cards: you can preset the resources, as well as starting permanent cards and starting hands, plus the starting location of each character.
• :steampunk: BLACK MARKET: with this update we introduce our own item shop where you can purchase a new kind of in-game items: consumables. These items are neither cosmetic nor affect the mechanics of the game, but rather they affect the meta-game of item drops. NB: the items from the Black Market affect not only their owner, but also every other player in the same session. So you are going to change the item drop probabilities not only for yourself, but also for everyone else on the playing field. Items currently available in the shop: The Miraculous Magnet of Dr. Brooms, The Warping Seeker and A Smart Plug. Attention: items purchased on the Black Market can only be used only in the custom single-player (including challenges) and multiplayer sessions, but not in mods or ranked sessions.

A2. NEW CONTENT

• :cards: New card: «Riskomatic-30» (played in the Casino)
• :cards: New card: «Business development» (played in the Office)
• New achievement: «A Follower»
• New achievement: «A Fan»
• New achievement: «Local Celebrity»
• New achievement: «Global Celebrity»
• New secret achievement

A3. NEW DROP ITEMS

WINTER SEASON:

UNCOMMON (:flake::flake:)

• Emoticon – Festive Mood
• Emoticon - Party!
• Main Menu Music - Festive tune
• Main Menu Background - Frozen Town

RARE (:flake::flake::flake:)

• Lobby Icon - Gremlin in Disguise
• Global Effect - Festive Lights
• Player Profile - Frozen Machinery

CONTRABAND (:flake::flake::flake::flake:)

• Other - Snowball Blaster

ILLEGAL (:flake::flake::flake::flake::flake:)

• Token Trail - Frosty Footsteps

NEW ITEMS NOT FROM THE WINTER SEASON (:score:)

• Blueprint – «Winter Chest»*
• Lobby Icon – Foil Pumpkin-head**
• Player Profile – The Foil Sentient Machine**

* Blueprints are not a part of the seasonal Collections anymore, but still they can only be obtained from the chests of the corresponding season.

** This item cannot be obtained from a chest. It is automatically granted to the players who collect all 8 items of the Autumn season in their Collection (you can also find them via a trade with another player).

B. BALANCING

• The initiative of the characters has changed, and now it is as follows: 1. The Engineer 2. The Politician 3. The Manager 4. The Pauper 5. The Gambler 6. The Damned 7. The Banker 8. The Collector 9. The Secret Agent 10. The Merchant 11. The Prosecutor 12. The Thief

Character balancing:

• The Merchant – the ability "Stop!" now works for cards with both 1 and 2 move points (instead of just 1 move point).
• The Merchant – the ability "Move it!" now works for cards with both 5 and 6 move points (instead of just 6 move points).
• The Prosecutor – the ability "Stamp Duty" is modified: you will now get a double Bribe from other players in the same location (instead of just a regular Bribe).

Cards:

• :cards: "The Astral Elevator" – you will now have to skip a turn if you use this card to move..

Locations:

• The Plant – the Plant now also removes :malice:1 (in addition to giving you $50) when skipping a turn there.
• The Jail – the jail card "Amnesty" now no longer gives you an additional turn.

Tournament rules:

• In addition to the tournament points that players score for their place (1st, 2nd, etc.), there will be bonus tournament points awarded to the 1st player, equal to the lead in score that this player has from the 2nd place (1 score = 1 point).

C. CHANGES

• End of the Autumn Season: the end of the Autumn Season brings with it the awards not only for those who reached the top of the ultimate ladder, but also for those who collect all of the 8 items from the Autumn Set. Once you collect all the items in the Autumn Set in your Collection, you will be awarded two prestigious items: a foil Lobby Icon and an animated player profile! These are unavailable anywhere else, and we expect them to be very rare.
• All the emoticons belonging to the Autumn set have had their initial number of uses reduced from 20 to 10.
• UI upgrade – "Tips & Tricks" window can now be minimised.
• UI upgrade – the Inventory window has been visually upgraded, there is now a separate "Crafting" page and a separate "Consumables" page.
• UI upgrade – the items in your Collection can now be filtered by type and by set.

D. FIXES

• Fixed a visual bug where, when loading а session, permanent indicators would not show properly.

F. KNOWN ISSUES

1. Permanent indicators next to player avatars sometimes remain blinking despite corresponding events being over.
2. The permanent card "The Astral Elevator" might still work in the next round even after being destroyed.
3. If the Astral Plane window is open, you cannot switch between Chaos Cards and the cards on your hand.
4. If you disconnected and an AI won the game instead of you, the game will get stuck on re-connecting.
5. The dice-roller animation will be visually bugged when rolling two or more times in a row.
6. Sometimes when loading single-player session, certain indicators will not appear on the playing field/will appear incorrectly.
7. When activating "An Automated Bureaucrat", values of bribes next to player avatars may not refresh for a few turns.
8. A Misfortune "Kidnapping" was rebalanced, leading to $100 shown in its description but still $80 displayed in its illustration. We will update the illustration soon enough!
9. 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:

1. In very rare cases, selection of random spots or locations will not work.
2. 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.
3. In some rare cases, activated card "The Astral Elevator" still does not allow you to get to the Astral Plane through the Bank.
4. Sometimes the "skip turn" icon will not show when working in The Plant.
5. Single-player sessions will not save when, during that session, you agree to join a ranked session.
6. Using the card "Secret Knowledge" sometimes might not work properly and will give random cards instead of the chosen ones.
7. When playing the game on Ubuntu 14.04 x64, some Chinese characters will disappear in the Chinese version of the game.
8. The visual representation of resources will sometime lose its background.

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