Hi, I’m Rob Myall, lead coder on Evil Genius 2 and I’d like to update you on what’s going on behind the scenes here at the moment. We’re aware of all your feedback and many of the team have been reading your discussions and review comments, even if we generally leave responding to our hardworking Community team so that we can focus our efforts on addressing your feedback in the game itself.
We’re pleased to confirm that we’ve got a fairly substantial patch coming in the next week. We’re just finalizing the last few fixes and ironing out any new bugs our fixes might have introduced but we want to give you some highlights so that you know we’re here, we’re listening, and that more updates are coming.
- Rich Edwards and his design team are finishing up a complete rebalance pass to address pacing concerns some of you have mentioned. This hasn’t been a small change and has touched nearly every system in the game. We’ll give you more information in our patch notes but you should find the pace of the game much improved, with less micromanagement of the World Map required, and less waiting for campaign progression. You can still take your time if that’s your preferred playstyle, but those of you who want swifter campaigns should find we’ve sped up the core areas where you’re currently required to wait.
- We’ve eliminated the cause of a number of progression blockers, simplifying the method of summoning Super Agents to your Lair and making sure that critical Schemes have room to spawn.
- We’ve exposed a bit more information on Lair equipment that attracts specialist Agent types and made sure Investigators summon those Agents more readily.
- We’ve toned down the consequences of Body Bags but we’ve ramped up the importance of minion salaries. So although you’re still at risk of desertions, it’s now more likely to be a result of training too many higher-level minions or running out of Gold at a bad time, rather than it being because everyone’s cleaning up after the last Agent attack.
- And we’ve fixed a lot of bugs (and where possible, fixed up existing saves to account for them).
Obviously, we’ll save a more complete list for our patch notes, but we wanted to speak to you directly ahead of the full update reaching you next week. We’ve still got a list of improvements we’d like to make in the future as our post-launch support continues, and we’ll continue to read your feedback once this patch is released to make sure we’re making the right changes for you to get the most out of Evil Genius 2.