Hey there survivors!
With the last patch we have adapted the settlers and their behaviour regarding hunger and thirst. This made it easier for players to deal with an emergency situation and to juggle with low resources.
Nevertheless, there seemed to be considerable problems to get out of an emergency situation and to bring heavy bursts of food and water back to a good level. In this patch we have focused on the consumption of settlers and adjusted a few things so that it is now easier to recover.
We have summarized the most important points for you and would like to explain why many questions and inconsistencies have arisen. Many players have noted. that they need to assign over 50% of their settlers just to gather water and food and still did not manage to provide enough for all settlers. Clearly this was not intended and we tackled this issue first. So, what was going wrong?
Water and food consumption was too high and players could not recover after droughts or falling below a certain threshold
- After we tried to improve the consumption of settlers overall, we noticed, that this is probably not enough. Once your settlement fell in one or both resources to 0, settler aimed on fulfilling their need for hunger and thirst so fast, that a player could simply not get out of the low resource levels. Basically settlers produced not enough to start a stockpile, but just immediately satisfied their hunger and thirst. Now, water carriers can collect more water in one sweep and plants collected in the forest yield more food. We also adjusted the behaviour of settlers even more, so being able to recover from droughts is now easier.
The Cultivated Fields were covered, even though there was no Weather Station build
- We had an issue, where starting a new game would load up certain states of the Savegame before. For this reason Fields and Rain Collectors could have been covered
- Cisterns and Water Towers will now correctly register Jettys, Wells and Rain Collectors that are farther away.
- Dirt Roads will now correctly increase settler movement speed when loading a Savegame.
- Weather Station settings are now correctly reset when loading a Savegame or starting a new game.
- The Irrigation Plant no longer radiates the surroundings when irrigation is set to “None”, has no water in inventory or is paused.
- Irrigation Plants and Rain Collectors now display the High Radiation World Icon if their water is medium or highly radiated.
- Zooming with the Keyboard now works as intended using the default or numpad - and + buttons.
- The second message when a mission was finished or failed no longer displays with a random delay.
- The intro video now respects the audio volume, set in the options menu (bound to master volume).
- Buildings now update their resources within their area of influence correctly in the UI.
- Fixed different wrong tooltips.
- Fishers are working faster.
- All Seeds on the Cultivated Field grow faster now.
- Enforced the game to continue in the background when tabbing out of the game window.
- Water Carriers get more water in one sweep (before: 20, now: 25).
- Berries and Mushrooms yield more food.
- Tweaked the hunger and thirst behaviour of settlers to make it possible to recover from extreme food/water shortages.
- The water amount stored in Rain Collectors and Wells is now taken into account in the global resource UI at the top of the screen.
- The game now starts in the monitor's native resolution instead of Full HD, when starting the game for the first time. This prevents the misconception that higher resolutions are not supported. Please note: Running the game in 1440p and above is currently not optimized.
- Changed the distribution of some ruins so it doesn’t look as artificial as before and make other ruins pop out more.
- Changed the position of tooltips on decrease production limit buttons from top to bottom in the Building UI.
- Increased default Production Limit for Water to 90,000 and for Food to 5,000.
- The water and food shortage check, which trigger the red warning in the Resource UI on top of the screen, now take the amount a children needs to eat and drink into account (previously every settler was calculated as adult, even children).
- Toggling through buildings or settlers now selects them and opens their inspector UI.
- The Forester Lodge and its work mode: “Cut & Reforest” is currently unbalanced. Trees are cut down faster than the time it takes to replant and regrow them.
- The irrigation plant currently adds radiation, instead of only leveling radiation to the current radiation level of its inventory.
- Settlers currently do not get the protection clothing with the best protection value but simply the one that is the closest.
We know that there are a few more things we need to address and we are listening to your feedback. We're trying to address all the important issues in a timely manner and make the game as a whole more understandable and fair. However, it is important to remember that Endzone - A World Apart is a survival game, so we have made it challenging with full intention.
- Your Team from Gentlymad & Assemble Entertainment
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