[1.66] 1) Increased the happiness threshold beyond which voters get complacent. 2) Reduced the maximum impact of complacency on voters. 3) Rubber Bullets, Tear Gas and Water Cannons now all reduce the likelihood of Environmental Protests. 4) Enviornmental protests are more affected by the state of the Environment and number of Environmentalists than previously.
[1.64] 1) Fixed bug on low resolutions where the change indicators on new policy expected effects might overlap. 2) Fixed bug where occasionally you would see a one pixel line across the top or bottom of a window 3) Fixed bug where text could disappear from the estimated effects on the new policy screen.
1) Plane crash event now only triggers when there is a state airline policy enabled. 2) Fixed minor cosmetic issue with the rendering of some policy icons after just being cancelled on the intel screen. 3) Major update focusing on optimisation for rendering the game on low spec intel graphics cards, for much better framerate. 4) Update to starting game conditions for the USA to include the more…
Just letting you Democracy 4 players know (in case you missed it!) that we have an Event Pack expansion now available for the game! If you want more variety in your playthroughs, then you should run along to the store page and grab it right now :D Hope ya like it! :D
[1.62] 1) Post-election breakdown by voter type now sorts the groups by order of who supported you the most 2) Reduced the likelihood of the sexual assault event. 3) Reduced likelihood of the Falkland Islands event repeating for the UK. 4) You can now click anywhere on the compass timeline to jump to that point, and the cursor now highlights to show this. 5) Fixed bug where an existing manifest…
[1.61] 1) Fixed bug where the impact of corruption on the security (which affects terrorism) was sometimes inverted! 2) Appropriate music is now chosen when you load a game, instead of waiting a turn. 3) Fixed bug where you could right click an effect during the tutorial and hang the game. 4) Right clicking on the top strip of buttons or the voter strips no longer launches the new policy screen…
1) Changed impact of Crime and Violent Crime so that they actually convey a positive impact when very low. 2) Union subsidies are now incompatible with bans on unions, and vice versa. 3) Added new 'inertia boost' slider on options screen for people who want to experiment with slower-changing opinions. 4) New game and mission options screens are now modal to prevent accidental misclicks. 5) Fixe…
[1.59] 1) Social Media Ban policy now reduces chances of Cyber Bullying situation. 2) Ataturk no longer a valid name in Turkish. 3) Increased the level of state housing in Turkey. 4) Added Winter fuel subsidy to Turkey. 5) Added Import Tarrifs to Turkey. 6) Added Speed Cameras to Turkey. 7) Added Car Tax to Turkey. 8) Added Adult Education Subsidies to Turkey. 9) Fixed bug where clicking on a s…
[1.58] 1) High Speed Rail policy now directly affects Rail Usage. 2) Support for new DLC: Country Pack. 3) Mission text for almost all languages for the UK now says 'King' instead of Queen. 4) Updated old shader code to use mix instead of lerp to prevent bugs with new opengl drivers. 5) Increased severity of corporate exodus at a high level.
1) Fake News now reduces Democracy. 2) Fixed missing title text for policy income or cost history. 3) Fixed rare crash bug when viewing some policy income or cost history. 4) Fixed anomaly where voters in debt could donate negative amounts to a political party. 5) Fix for big memory leak. Ooops.
[1.56] 1) Added new feature to political compass. After a few turns have passed you can scroll through a timeline at the bottom of the graph. 2) Fixed bug in the campaign focus on unemployment (voting systems DLC). 3) Increased the political capital costs for some policies in the Voting Systems DLC. 4) Phone and internet voting now discourages turnout among the retired. (Voting Systems DLC). 5)…
Fixed bug in the campaign focus on unemployment (voting systems DLC). Increased the political capital costs for some policies in the Voting Systems DLC. Phone and internet voting now discourages turnout among the retired. (Voting Systems DLC). Fixed anomaly where voterid law could be very slightly beneficial to ethnic minorities at a minimum setting.
1) Reduced the impact that the membership of the environmentalist group has on the chances of the Environmental Protest situation developing. 2) Reduced the alarming frequency with which your national team can exit the world cup. 3) Slight reduction in chances of the Drought event. 4) Quantum Computing breakthrough event is now slightly easier to obtain. 5) Gig Economy event is now slightly mor…
[1.53] 1) Fixed bug where food shortages had a zero impact on Everyone. 2) A bunch of changes to the impacts of the global economy, which were using incorrect equations. 3) Added new economic cycle chart to the customise mission screen to explain it better. 4) Fixed a bug that would cause random bits of Russian text to be displayed in English.
[1.52] 1) Social Care policy now has a positive impact on Mental Health. 2) Police Drones policy is now popular with conservatives. 3) Finally fixed super-rare but annoying bug where some mouse clicks made some chunks of text scroll upwards. 4) Default Poverty Rate raised by 1%, but Can now be reduced by State Health Care, as it already is by other state-owned industries. 5) Climate Change Adap…
1) Added support for Arabic language. 2) Fixed bug where the impact of campaign spending may have been exaggerated on the election screen stats. 3) You can now sort ministers by suitability for the current job, and the game stores separate last sort orders for general minister browsing and hiring lists.
1) Fixed bug where focus group screen tutorial window made no sense. 2) Fixed bug where some button icons were missing during the tutorial. 3) Fixed error in food shortages event where poverty was decreased, instead of increased. 4) Changes to a whole list of in-game events to better balance difficulty. 5) Fixed broken link for fake news, which now correctly affects the violent crime rate. 6) F…
Here is a complete list of the improvements to the game for this version: (1.49) 1) The likelihood of the 'School Shooting' event is now boosted by low Mental Health, not just low Health is general. 2) The highest form of selective schooling now has a negative impact (long term) on Mental health due to childhood pressure. 3) Health is no longer a factor in state pension cost, as the impact is a…
Hi everyone! Welcome top the first update of Democracy 4 post-launch! These updates will be bigger and less frequent now its no longer an Early Access game. This is a complete list of the changes and fixes in this update to the game: · Fixed bug where the first tutorial window could be skipped, causing issues. · Fixed various situations where the tutorial window on the electioneering window cou…
[1.46] 1) Fixed bug where the mod tools would let you change the mods name without fixing the content or preview image. 2) Newly implemented policies no longer claim that cancelling has no political capital cost, when its in fact not allowed. 3) EV transition is now a factor in many of the causes of the Petrol Protests situation. 4) Rebalancing of some events, situations and dilemmas to prevent…
[1.45] 1) Added names file picker and minister art picker to the country editor mod screen. 2) Improved the way the game handles fullscreen borderless mode for better alt+tabbing. 3) The impact of food stamps on health and farmers income is now scaled by the actual number of poor people. 4) Fixed some errors regarding Inner City Riots, Race Riots and Tear Gas/Water cannon policies. 5) Fixes to…
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