v1.05.02 – September 15th, 2023
• Fixed bug : Confused, Buried, Possessed or Creature Bound units took no damage from effects that dealt irrecoverable damage such as Exorcise or Petrify.
• Fixed bug : Very strong units with high stats and/or many figures sometimes caused an integer overflow crash, especially modded units or units that were granted additional types of attacks by buffs.
• Fixed bug : The game crashed when combat Info was viewed while Ruler of Underworld or Eternal Night was in effect
• Fixed bug : Some script functions without parameters (such as Defender()) did not process the closing ')' in the function, which could lead to early termination of expression evaluation when the function call wasn't the last part of the expression.
• This bug affected the following functions : Attacker(), Defender(), CombatP(), CombatX(), CombatY(), Maxcities(), Maxunits(), SumResourceLines()
• Fixed bug : In the city view, right clicking on an empty unit slot could lead to the game displaying a random unit's information.
• Fixed 1.5.0 bug : When changing planes through a tower, the Patrol order was cancelled on units on the same tile.
• Fixed bug : Pressing the "Wait" button on the overland map applied to unselected units on the same tile and cancelled their orders.
• Fixed Power Link spell description ("four times" was redundant in the text)
• Fixed bug : Settlers without a race showed up as mercenaries. Using them to build a city caused the game to crash because the race was undefined. This bug disregarded the "SettlerMercenaries" setting in modding.ini.
• Fixed bug : AI Settlers with sea/air movement never used towers to go to the other plane.
• Fixed bug : AI Settlers sometimes failed to change planes when standing on a tower.
• AI players are now forbidden from disbanding Settler units when low on food/gold, and will disband other units instead, if possible.
• AI armies will now change planes in towers even if their focus plane is the current plane, if the continent on the current plane has no targets to attack but the other continent does.
• Fixed 1.5.0 bug : The item from The Gift event was given to the player before the event notification was displayed instead of after.
• Fixed bug : When building cities, unselected settlers on the same tile might have been used instead of selected settlers.
• Fixed bug : The Incarnation spell cast by AI wizards failed when the human player already had the Chosen hero summoned.
• Fixed bug : Clearing a lair that has a Vial reward before turn 24 when Undeveloped Start was enabled caused the game to freeze.
• Fixed bug : Animate Ammo added MaxMp instead of MP to units casting it, which was effectively useless.
• Fixed bug : Spell Lock had a resistance of 100 instead of 150.
• Fixed bug : Spell Lock had no effect if a version other than the overland base flag was applied (this only affects mods).

Patch 1.9.6.4 Is Now Available!

Hello Foundation community!

We've just rolled out a small patch that includes an update to the localization and various fixes. Find the details below:

Update

• Localization

Bug Fixes

• Building sub-buildings from the main monument window led to functions not being active after completion
• The dropdown for legacy monasteries wasn’t visible, which also affected some mods

Modding-specific

• Mod cache wasn’t properly updated after FBX changes

Thanks for all your valuable feedback on the recent changes. It's great to see everyone enjoying this update!

Thank you and we hope you’re having a great time with the new Desirability and Beautification changes!

Echoes Patch 4.45

September 18, 2023.

Hello everyone,

Thank you to everyone playing the No Man’s Sky Echoes update, especially those taking the time to report any issues they encounter via Zendesk or console crash reporting.

We are listening closely to your feedback, and have identified and resolved a number of issues. These fixes are included in patch 4.45, which is now live on Steam and will be coming to other platforms as soon as possible.

Bug fixes

• Fixed a very rare issue that caused the A Leap in the Dark mission to fail to advance after opening the portal.
• Fixed a rare issue that could prevent the Artemis path from correctly starting up after converting a save from Expedition mode.
• Fixed a rare issue where the story catalogue for Under a Rebel Star would not display the final entry.
• The rewards given by the Autophage when practising language skills have been improved.
• Fixed an issue that caused some Autophage text to fail to display correctly in the story catalogue.
• Expanded the list of completed objectives shown in the mission log.
• Fixed an issue that could cause some missions to direct players to the Station Core while in an abandoned system, where no station core is present.
• Fixed an issue in They Who Returned where, after resetting the mission, the Autophage at the initial harmonic camp could give the wrong dialogue, blocking mission process. Players already affected by this issue may need to reset the mission again in order to proceed.
• Fixed an issue that could cause missions to send players to crash sites that do not have a ship.
• Fixed an issue that allowed players to destroy cargo pods and turrets on their own freighters.
• The Outlaw faction milestone for killing traders has been replaced with a milestone for raiding freighters.

• The behaviour of small AI fighters around large vessels has been improved.
• Fixed an issue that allowed players to destroy salvageable scrap while their inventory was full, and thus not receive the scrap.
• Fixed a rare issue that could cause players to slowly run out of oxygen and die despite being on a planet surface.
• Fixed an issue which caused the ship inventory to be out of range.
• Fixed an issue that was preventing all creatures from pooping.
• Fixed an issue which caused incorrect multitools to be available at Sentinel Pillars.
• Fixed an issue that could cause player capes to behave erratically while placing base parts.
• Fixed a rare issue that could allow the player to fall through the floor upon loading.
• Fixed an issue that could cause players to fall through the floor when using a very specific freighter base part.
• Fixed an issue that could cause all players in the system to lose standing when another player destroyed civilian freighters.
• Fixed an issue that prevented usage of the gyro options page on the Switch under specific circumstances.
• Fixed an issue that caused the wrong icons to be used for the Returner’s Drape and Wanderer’s Cloak.
• Added new Dreadnaught warp effect.

• Introduced a performance optimisation for instance rendering.
• Introduced a slight optimisation to light rendering.
• Fixed a rendering issue that could cause a brief visual glitch.
• Fixed an issue that could cause visual glitches in some particle effects.
• Fixed a visual issue with particles when using HDR.
• Introduced an optimisation to sky and star rendering.
• Improved the visual quality of star rendering.
• Fixed a Xbox-only rendering corruption issue.
• FSR2 visuals on Nintendo Switch have been further refined and improved.
• Introduced a number of rendering optimisations for Nintendo Switch.
• Introduced a number of texture optimisations and improvements for Nintendo Switch.
• Introduced a significant memory optimisation for Switch.

• Fixed a crash related to procedural texture generation.
• Fixed a memory-related crash that could occur when returning to the mode or save select screen during a storm.
• Fixed a number of crashes related to memory management.
• Fixed a graphics memory-related crash on PC.
• Fixed a crash that could affect PC users with specific AMD video cards.
• Fixed a PC-only crash that could occur when playing No Man’s Sky at the same time as other applications are using video memory.

We will continue to release patches as issues are identified and resolved. If you experience any issues, let us know by submitting a bug report.

Thank you,
Hello Games

Crowns and Pawns MAJOR update v1.1.0! Gamepad support, Steam Deck and more

Hello, adventurers!

We have a MAJOR update for you today!

We're introducing what you've all been waiting for – gamepad support! Not only that, but the game is Verified on Steam Deck!

We also added subtitles for two new languages, some new art (the website on Milda's PC finally loaded!) and many more additional changes.

Here is the full list of what you can expect in the newest version:

• Gamepad support! Now you can play with a gamepad by controlling Milda directly.
• The game is Verified on Steam Deck!
• Added Hipstagram tab with art specially made by Bill Tiller of “The Curse of Monkey Island” fame.
• Added “Dialogue line advancement” setting with two options: “Auto advance” – dialogues continue after voiceover finishes and “Click to advance” – you need to click for the dialogues to continue.
• Added Spanish and Lithuanian translations.
• Increased quality of visuals in some scene closeup shots.
• If you want to limit fps but don't want to use Vsync, you can launch a game with a parameter, eg. “-targetFrameRate 90”.
• Performance improvements.
• Added more in-game control hints.
• Multiple small improvements and some puzzle re-balancing.

We hope you all enjoy this updated version of the game! What's more, we're also releasing Crowns and Pawns on Nintendo Switch next week, so watch out for that!

Have a great adventure!
Tag of Joy team

Patch notes v3.2.22.34491:

Balancing

Diplomacy

• You’ll start at 10 of relation with your allies
• Scouts now generate +50% more relation when assigned to Town Halls and Neutral Faction camps

Squirrel Yggdrasil Root relic

• There is now a minimum cooldown between charms (2s)
• Charm time has been reduced (5s to 4s)
• Units lose the Squirrel Relic charm when the fight is over even with allies in the tile

Clan of the Stoat

• You can now choose to share your Levies once you unlock Mutual Effort
• Shared Levies will add a Krown upkeep during the levy based on its strength (max -6)
• Only for the Stoat, the damage of the Holy Fire relic scales with the strength of the latest - Levy and can go up to a max of 50% of the usual damage

Clan of the Lion

• Steelwork now gives +5% Defense to military units (instead of +10%)

Spectral Warrior

• 10% chance to dodge attacks (melee & ranged)

Bugfix

• Chinese server are fixed
• Clan of the Stoat fixed Knowledge from Beyond not giving faith
• Clan of the Boar fixed Handiwork not boosting Mender
• Clan of the Lion fixed Holy Fire Relic not being pickable by paladin in neutral zones
• Fixed trade in Land of Oblivion conquest mission in coop
• Fixed Mimirsbrunn not working in Land of Oblivion conquest mission
• Fixed move order from a burned tile in Cataclysm conquest mission
• Fixed Dragon AI spawning multiple Surtr
• Fixed unlimited assignation to buildings for military units
• Kingdoms fixed text overall to replace Lore by Faith
• Fixed some text

Known issues:

• Some localization are missing

Decision: Red Daze EXPERIMENTAL Patch 2023.09.20

Hi Survivors!

We have released an experimental build for Decision: Red Daze, that fixes some issues from community suggestions, as well as some that we found ourselves during development.

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(Not so "experimental" on GOG as it seems! xD)

Changes:

• Melee weapons, explosions and fire are fixed to properly damage knocked down enemies.
• Fixed a visual bug in the Key Rebind menu after re-assigning keys.
• Fixed a bug that prevents assigning of Shift, Ctrl and Alt keys to alternate controls.
• Fixed a bug that removes functionality of breaking items in the workshop.
• Fixed the bug forcing bows Phantom and Rambo to have very low drop chances.
• The damage of the newly added top melee weapon has been increased.
• Price for selling items and resources has been reduced to better reflect balance of the game.
• Breaking items for resources and loot has been reduced to better reflect balance of the game.
• The weight of loot has been reduced by 30%.
• The amount of mutant and zombie boss shouts has been reduced.
• Other small bugs have been fixed.

We will fully release this build once we are able to thoroughly test it on our end.

We hope you enjoy the changes, and your time exploring the Dust Bowl!

–The Decision: Red Daze Team

Note: We're changing the version numbering from here on by simply increasing the second number. So regular updates will be 0.9, 0.10, 0.11 and so on, until 1.0 will arive. And hotfixes will be 0.9.1, 0.9.2 and so on. We're doing this because the previous numbering system lead to some confusion.

0.9

Improvements and changes

- improved quest handling and dialogue of priest quests around New Delphi
- updated mutant runner behavior: two charges instead of three, added cooldown, prevent multiple charging runners
- set shotgun and automatic weapon bullet speeds to the same value as rifle bullets
- quest inventory has unlimited space now (and added UI for handling this)
- improved perma-death mode: on death directly restart at gameplay start of game, keeping original character creation decisions
- make 'Usable Parts' stackable

Usability improvements

- overview map: mouse click on exit will lead to character using that exit after having walked over
- overview map: allow click to walk commands also for control schemes using keyboard movement exclusively
- improved handling of point and click commands in combat
- fixed point and click commands with some destructible objects
- keyboard input only: fixed usage of charge up weapons
- keyboard input only: fixed abilities using mouse cursor for direction
- co-op: fixed issues on mouse / controller combination while having multiple controller connected
- fixed default button prompts for DualSense controller
- fixed player character stopping movement when drag and drop equipping
- fixed comparison tooltip being cut off at screen border
- disabled character looking towards hovered combat target when using direct movement
- deassigned default ranged and melee selection keys (used in manual mouse input mode) due to conflicts; updated related tutorial messages

Bug fixes

- fixed issues with infection and puking in non-physical worlds
- fixed issue with blocking
- fixed animation issue with flying robots
- fixed turrets salvo visuals and actual shooting direction diverging
- fixed mutants being able to open door in some situations
- fixed some other issues with NPCs investigating doors
- fixed some NPC behavior issues
- fixes UI and other feedback issues with weapons like Flamethrower and Automatic Rifle
- fixed "Lock Mouse Cursor" setting not getting applied
- fixed potential issues in Titans Heart
- fixed some animation issues
- fixed NPC wait command (which fixes a few issues with NPC behaviors)
- fixed NPC potentially getting pushed through walls from explosions
- fixed a few potential crashes with mod loading
- fixed rare crash on NPC investigating something
- fixed a rare crash that would happen when loading save games
- fixed more rare crashes
- minor text changes

Technical improvements and changes

- improved loading times
- updated spawning NPCs: prefer level design values over values in savegame
- added "combat" playtest entry
- added missing font support for some community translations on some systems
- additional minor bug fixes, improvements and framework additions

TWO YEAR ANNIVERSARY UPDATE

2 years ago on this day Severed Steel launched,
and to celebrate we have an update!

New daily challenge mode.
Every midnight (GMT), a new challenge appears on the main menu, offering challenge coins and a fresh leaderboard.

Weapon skins.
Unlock new weapon skins using challenge coins; they inspired the following feature…

Improved raytraced reflections.
Enhancements include more objects showing in reflections and experimental support for AMD cards and FSR.

Global stats.
See total headshots and frags from all Steam players live on the main menu; hover to view your contribution.

New music.
Enjoy a new track by Floating Door and 7 other tracks, previously exclusive to bonus campaigns, in the firefight music rotation.

As always thank you for playing!

• Improved daily unlock menu.
• Give notification to players who want to do daily challenge but have leaderboards turned off.

Update 1.14.3 [September 21, 2023]
• Fixed merchant sometime not arriving at all, when a single spaceport is blocked by other traders. E.g. this lead to a quest not being started in the Joma mission
• Fixed birds sometimes flying through mountains or buildings
• Fixed crash related to birds
• Fixed incorrect number of competitors displayed for workshop planets

Update 1.14.1 [August 19, 2023]
• Fixed roads fading out too early.

Bird Watching [August 17, 2023]
Update 1.14

From now on you can watch birds in Imagine Earth. Soon, more species will surely be sighted. And then we also assign them a central role in the ecosystem or global simulation of our planet. I'm still not sure if they are the right size or if it's a pity that you never get them really close in front of your lens. For example, it was quite a challenge to take this one snapshot for the update.

① Editor improvements
In the editor, the land grab button was overlaid by the purge tool, so you couldn't expand your colony in that mode.
Also, when creating new planets, you can now again predefine the difficulty level a player must master of your planets!
Would be very interested in how accessible you find the editor as such, would it be more exciting for you if you could play multiple planets in a galaxy map or would it be more interesting for you to be able to script complex missions with a story told by voice actors in dialogues?

② New building textures
We have created new roof textures for coal-fired power plants, industrial farm and organic farm. All buildings should create a better visual balancing act between post-industrial look and futuristic appearance. At the same time, the new textures of the roofs should visually connect them, so that they also fit with the quarry and the forestry farm. They now look more like you would build these buildings if you landed on a new planet in a capsule and wanted to provide basic supplies for your colony. I personally feel the style is a successful mix of steampunk and post-industrial age, what do you think?

③ Icons for tree species
The nine tree species of the third vegetation type, which we have affectionately christened Thicket, now have individual icons that make them more recognizable when planted. Thicket tree species grow on wasteland and frost type planets, these worlds offer the most exotic plant life next to mushrooms and terrestrial forests, check them out to see how appropriate they seem to you.

④ More Features & Fixes
• Pause and select button icons were still displayed in the build menu, but did not work.
• Display category and building icons/buttons in build menu with equal spacing at the same height
• Cas in cities do not jerk anymore
• Optimized build process makes updates easier

As always, thank you very much if you had the interest to read this far!
Jens & Martin

Hotfix 1.13.1 [August 9, 2023]
• Fixed graphic errors in transparent building elements, e.g. when placing a new building or in the shield of frontier towers
• Fixed “ambient occulusion” not working
• Fixed two problems that could make the game crash

Customizable Keyboard Controls [July 28, 2023]
Update 1.13

Dear players,

Serious Bros. proudly present the latest minor update for our building and simulation game, Imagine Earth. From now on, you can enjoy customizable keyboard controls! You can imagine how busy we two are keeping the global climate simulation up to date and adding new features. Nevertheless, we wanted to prioritize this feature due to interested inquiries from players.

We know how important control and precision are in gameplay. Every second counts when you're building a thriving civilization and want to expand faster than your competitors. With this latest update, you now have the ability to fully customize your keyboard layout to suit your individual playstyle and preferences.

Efficient and intuitive navigation and management of your cities is the key to success. Above all, we look forward to seeing how you, our dedicated and creative player community, will use this feature.

We would like to take this opportunity to thank all of you. Without your support, your feedback, and your passion for Imagine Earth, this update would not have been possible either.

Further Improvements
• The duration for the production of items through buildings and upgrades has been increased by 25%.
• Additionally, the influence of additional buildings has been reduced. Previously, the time was halved with 8 buildings, but now it's only reduced by 25%.
• Rare resources are now immediately visible again after the blasting of mountains.
• Merchant Quest on Tuto and Joma is now triggered correctly again, even when a dialogue is still open.
• Merchant no longer sells Machinery on Tuto in order not to undermine the corresponding quest.
• We don't show building menu details while hovering over the CityCenter panel.
• We made explosions a bit louder.
• No more warning to be played while a message to the player is active.

In this spirit, we wish you a lot of fun with the new update! Best regards, Jens & Martin.