This update has a TON of stuff. As usual it is all detailed below, but the short version is this: Above the Fold now supports up to 3 active games at a time, and comes with a bunch new content based on Reporter personality traits.
This patch took a bit longer than the previous ones and comes with many changes - I'd love to hear what you think of them, and what else you'd like to see in the game.
Thank you to all of you who have already given me feedback, whether it was on Steam, Twitter, Discord or elsewhere. You rock!
Change list for Alpha 8.6
- Added: support for up to 3 active games at a time (slots are cleared on game over)
- Added: You can use delete button on main menu to clear unwanted games and clear a slot
- Added: main menu button that takes you to the Gamepedia wiki How-to-Play guide.
- Added: Passive effects for all 36 Personality Traits in Reporters
- Added: 72 new, rare but repeatable Events, 2 for each Personality Trait
- Added: A few more headline elements for additional variation
- Balance: Quest goals are slightly higher (except Award quests)
- Balance: Tweaked the base importance of some story genres for greater variation and trait tie-ins
- Balance: Reporters have a much greater chance of having at least 1 personality trait
- Balance: Personality trait triggered events are limited, so only a few can be queued at any time, reporters have effect cooldowns
- Balance: If a priority event is queued, it how has a 10% higher base chance of playing out each day
- UI: Story cards now show smaller stars, moved to the top for easier readability
- UI: Renamed "Manage Reporters" to "Manage Staff", because it's shorter and fits with the Retire-button
- Bug: Fixed an issue where full screen settings were not saved/loaded properly
- Bug: Lowered the max length of allowed headlines to reduce overlaps
- Bug: Fixed an event-gong sound that would sometimes play, even if no event was triggered
- Bug: Fixed an issue where the wordcount of an article was deducted twice if the reporter was fired mid-story
- Bug: Fixed an issue where word counts would update incorrectly when a story was replaced
- Bug: Fixed the awards panel to correctly reflect the number of awards needed to win the game.