Dear Citizens of the Suzerainverse, It’s been a while since our last patch for the 3.1 update! While we’ve been hard at work on several new projects behind the scenes, we also wanted to continue improving the live game experience.
With the help of our internal QA team, community testers, and all of your feedback, we’ve resolved an incredible 150+ bug tickets and made a wide range of fixes, improvements, and polish updates across Suzerain and Kingdom of Rizia. We’re incredibly grateful to everyone who helped us track down issues and improve the experience for all players.
If you want to support the team and help improve the playing experience, please report all bugs, feedback, and ideas through the Suzerain Discord server, which you can find here and in the bug report channel.
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Patch 3.1.0 Build 175
(09/06/2026)
This update applies to new games only and has been deployed to the default branch.
Technical
Fixed an issue preventing certain story fragments from saving correctly.
Updated backend game flow systems to improve turn management and fix issues where some decisions could fail to appear after reloading a save.
Updated the project to Unity version 6000.3.9f1.
Optimized animation and transition systems to improve performance and transition cleanup.
Improved offline handling and internet connectivity checks.
Fixed a race condition issue by improving data caching and loading behavior.
Updated new game progression flow to disable loading from FinalSave files.
Fixed an issue with Torpor newsletter unsubscribe requests.
Content
Added new Codex entries expanding the history and arc of the Dome conflict, including wars, treaties, battles, and postwar economic developments.
Added new Codex entries for major industrial and dynastic actors connected to Dome, including Rumburg Emerald Energy and the Halsecroft-Denwald family.
Expanded regional lore with new Codex entries covering Heljiland, the War of the Ridges, and Central Merkopa.
Added new Codex entries for Soradis, Markanissa, Erdmarg.
Added new Codex entries of Geopolitico, the Konstantium Defender, and Tuomas Sacker.
Updated several existing Codex entries, including the Alliance of Nations, Valgslandian Socialism, Agnolia, GRACE, and Arcasia.
Art
Updated Tuomas Sacker’s Codex portrait.
Added Geopolitico Codex entry image.
UI/UX improvements
Improved UI state handling to prevent non-interactable map tokens and lingering warning messages during Pales war gameplay.
Improved menu focus behavior after confirming a new game.
Improved Profile HUD show/hide behavior across New Game, Collections, Options, Summary, and Credits screens.
Improved UI layering and sorting behavior across several menus.
Improved clarity on the archetype selection screen with new explanatory text replacing the previous confirmation prompt.
Gamepad Improvements
Improved controller navigation across multiple UI panels, including the Codex, Journal, Connections, Overview, and Royal Decrees screens.
Added additional controller shortcuts and shoulder button navigation for filters, categories, and carousel-based menus.
Improved gamepad usability in Collections, Economic Stability graphs, Skip Prologue choices, and other carousel components.
Updated controller focus navigation behavior in panels to provide smoother and more consistent menu interaction.
Fixed an issue where rapid gamepad inputs during menu transitions could unintentionally trigger the Continue button and reload the current save.
Improved Codex menu navigation and fixed initial selection issues.
Improved gamepad navigation for the campaign deletion menu.
Fixed an issue preventing players from navigating the Term Budget Panel with a gamepad during the Turn 3 Government of Sordland budget allocation dialogue due to a missing selection cursor.
Resolved token overlap issues on the Rizia national map for gamepad users, including Fort Ales and Invasion of Pales.
Bug Fixes and Polish
Fixed collectibles not appearing correctly in the main menu.
Fixed dialogue quote behavior when skipping or hiding text.
Corrected inconsistencies in Alvarez’s Codex entry.
Fixed missing Arcasian Capitalism Codex links within the CSP entry.
Improved overall text quality by fixing 30+ typos, grammatical issues, and text inconsistencies across story events, journals, reports, in-game articles, and Codex entries.
Design & Balancing
Increased the influence of living standards and worker conditions on reform movement strength.
Corrected the Future of RRG outcome incorrectly stating that Rusty was arrested instead of fleeing Rizia.
Rico Toras now properly reacts to residence permit discussions during council meetings.
Added penalty warning and penalty decision for west trade reduction.
Added positive and negative leaning integers to some late-game content.
Art
Updated the Wruhec’s Guardians Codex entry image.
Bug Fixes and Polish
Improved UI state handling to prevent non-interactable map tokens and lingering warning messages during Pales war gameplay.
Fixed an issue during manual control war sequences where the objective to rescue Vina could fail to appear or become non-interactable.
Fixed the Merkopa University of Theology curriculum decision triggering multiple times.
Fixed an issue where Vina’s surname change logic could behave incorrectly during Turn 7.
Fixed Pales being annexed after outcomes where only a partial victory was achieved.
Fixed dialogue inconsistencies related to drinking options for dry Romus playthroughs.
Fixed incorrect revolution conditions during the Rizia Civil War epilogue.
Fixed Zille negotiations not correctly accounting for BFF outcomes in non-Pales war paths.
Fixed the Valgsland commercial pier buyout event not triggering correctly.
Fixed Daria remaining as a speaker in House of Delegates scene in a branch.
Fixed the Valero investigation results not triggering correctly when investigating Lucita Azaro.
Fixed Rizia incorrectly retaining GRACE affiliation after being expelled from GRACE.
Fixed an issue preventing the Elite Flight School decree from being selected after restarting a turn.
Fixed broken instruction triggers for certain decrees, portraits, codex entries.
Fixed players incorrectly retaining decree powers after the Adarfo House strike.
Fixed an incorrect phantom budget cost related to Rizia boat restoration.
Fixed Daria de Rava incorrectly appearing during the Turn 10 revolutionary house sequence.
Fixed Titus Gordion not appearing correctly in the bomber facility decree.
Fixed Lucita Azaro being treated as alive after her death in certain outcomes.
Fixed cases where Lucita Azaro could incorrectly disappear from story events.
Fixed duplicate and incorrect surname options during marriage to Axel Reinhart.
Fixed Sal Ignacius appearing with incorrect facial expressions in certain scenes.
Fixed duplicate quotation marks from the player Archetype title in the Archetype panel.
Fixed an issue that caused player tokens to lose selection functionality when the War Tutorial was restarted.
Bug Fixes and Polish
Fixed Petr Vectern’s Codex entry not updating after his death.
Fixed Evelyn Vectern’s Codex entry not updating after separating from Petr.
Fixed lore inconsistencies related to the founding of the NFP.
Fixed lore inconsistencies related to the founding of the PFJP.
Fixed missing Sordish Grid Corporation Codex links within the Morna entry.
Fixed Mansoun Leke legislative change as WPB leader not appearing.
Fixed several wrong instruction triggers not firing.
Bug Fixes and Polish
Added multiple stability, performance, and compatibility improvements for console platforms.
Fixed Rizia collectibles appearing under “All Story Packs” for players who do not own the DLC.
Fixed an Xbox Play Anywhere (XPA) issue affecting save functionality.
Reduced unnecessary error messages appearing while Nintendo Switch is in Airplane Mode.
Updated Nintendo Switch platform naming in the Main Menu version display for improved consistency.
Fixed an issue where Nintendo Switch Pro Controllers were not correctly identified on PC.
Fixed a Nintendo Switch-specific issue where certain Joy-Con special characters could display incorrectly.
Bug Fixes and Polish
Fixed several issues that could cause freezes or unresponsive behavior on all mobile devices.
Improved mobile Profile UI stability to prevent brief flashing issues.
Limited the maximum number of mobile save files to 100.
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