Hi everyone,
Beta 18 is now available! Restart Steam to get it right away!
With Beta 18 being live right now we've added a bunch of new features, fixed a lot of issues and listened closely to what the community wanted.
We're very excited and nervous at the same time, as releasing new features that change the game in many different ways result in a lot of new feedback and buzz in our community.
As always, with an update there might be some bugs. But rest assured, we're focused on making sure that everything gets fixed as soon as possible with potential hotfixes. We're going to release hotfixes on a daily basis until everything is stable but it should all be good - as we tested stuff internally as well.
New Queue Feature
We’ve implemented a new queue system for all production employees (Developers, Designers, Lead Developers, SysAdmins and Marketeers). This is very useful during the early game when players are not able to employ a manager. You can also toggle it to ‘’Repeater’’-mode (top right corner) to make it all work smoothly!
Contract Expiration
This new handy bar will show you when a contract is about to end, making sure you can plan accordingly with your Sales Executives.
Highscore
Once you've completed everything there is to do in Startup Company you will be rewarded a (high)-score, which lets you measure yourself up against other CEO's playing the game!
Once this feature is up and running the most seasoned CEO's will be able to earn bragging rights by posting their highest scores!
'Random Events'
''Random Events'' are now in the game, which as the name suggest happen on random occasions during the game to spice things up.
Some of the random events that you will encounter once BETA 18 has been released:
🔵Viral Boost: your product goes viral and generates a lot of new users.
🔵DDoS attacks: an unknown group will attack your servers.
🔵Poaching: your competitors will try to steal your best employees.
🔵Employee decisions: employees want raises or else they quit.
Random events only happen if you have more than 100K users using your product. In addition to that you can only get the random viral boost effect if your user satisfaction is above 70%.
Other features
🔵Ad Deals are now called Ad Contracts
🔵Time slots are now implemented
🔵We updated the Sales Executive dialog
🔵We added a money animation
Solved bugs & issues
🔵Fixed bug where developer dialog would crash with some old save games.
🔵Fixed bug causing the game to crash while running at full speed and moving workstations between floors.
🔵Fixed bug causing game to fail startup on slower machine
🔵Removed employee specific events when employees gets fired.
🔵Fixed bug causing the game to break if an employee with an active contract was fired.
As always, we're dedicated to make sure everything runs smoothly by fixing potential issues, listening to the community and continue the development by working towards Beta 19. In case you're wondering what's coming up in Beta 19 make sure to take a look at our updated roadmap.
Do you have suggestions or ideas for the game?
Check out our Conflux board.
Best,
Jonas & Robert
