Change notes - “New Alliances PC patch”

Base game

General

• Added 11 new achievements:

• Base game:

• Doomsday is canceled - Complete the Doomsday Bunker Project.
• Choo-choo! - Escape the harsh winter by fixing the train in Cold Rush.
• Finnished - Survive in the Endless Winter scenario for 100 days.
• Tailored to fit - Survive until day 100 in a custom game.
• Customized calamities - Secret!

• New Alliances DLC:

• Undercover - Complete all four covert mission types.
• Best friends forever - Ally with a society.
• Binary world view - Secret!
• Diplomatic quarter - Have four embassies built at the same time.
• Dynamic Duo - Secret!
• Federation forever - Form the federation.

• Improved build menu performance dramatically.
• Fixed an issue that prevented loading a save if a resource box was out of colony bounds and the game was saved while a carrier was moving to pick up the box.

Gameplay

• Replaced the “trade offers available” text in the society menu with “trade unavailable” when there aren't enough workers in a Trade Center.
• Double-clicking now works when overwriting a save game.
• Fixed an issue that caused some buildings to not receive resources from storages if request resources was used. This was the reason that Fuel was not always delivered properly to a Garage.
• Fixed an issue that caused up and down navigation to be inverted on a controller in request board.
• Fixed an issue that caused NPC animations to freeze in combat upon selecting a specialist.
• Fixed an issue that caused the camera to move to the wrong location when pressing the resource depleted notification.
• Added a missing text in French in the custom game pregame menu.

Graphics

• Updated portraits for caribou, boar and bear in the world map.
• Added tooltips to colonists, resources and buildings tabs in the statistics menu.
• Fixed many text overflow issues in multiple languages.
• UI polish:
  • Updated some tech icons in the tech tree.
  • Added a black filler background to the society menu for ultrawide monitors.
  • New icons for group health and animal attack in the world map UI panel.
  • Many smaller button and text changes in world map panels.

• Added fake colonists to entertainment buildings and adjusted animations in them.
• Added fake workers to Forester, Maintenance Depot and Concrete Scavenger.

New Alliances

General

• Added a tooltip to the society menu that displays information about embassy bonus buildings.
  • It should now provide an easy way to see information about different buildings when allying with a society.

• Fixed an issue that prevented loading a save caused by a roaming bandit spawning incorrectly.

Gameplay

• Rival reputation gain is now visible when failing or declining a society request and in the world map when hovering over a request location.
• Added reputation markers and player/rival reputation amounts in the society menu’s reputation bar.
• Fixed an issue that caused society convoys to move out of bounds.
• Rewards from society requests are now visible after forming the federation.
• Fixed an issue that caused the carrier count to increase visually when adding and removing workers in the Academy building.
• Roaming NPCs in the World Map now face the way they’re moving.
• Replaced generic specialist mission accomplished sounds with a voice-over for covert missions.
• Added sound to Bomb Bunker.

Graphics

• UI polish:
  • Changed the coloring and reduced the size of roaming unit’s path indicator.
  • Reduced the size of request, animal and convoy floaters in the world map.
  • Many smaller button and text changes in New Alliances related menus.

• New Alliances building polish:
  • Fixed icicle placement on Society Depot.
  • Texture changes to most New Alliances buildings.
  • Reduced the size of outposts in the world map.
  • Added a missing material in Bomb Bunker.

Balance Adjustments

• Reduced silver from scavenging locations.
• Increased New Alliance tech costs.
• Requests and reputation:
  • Patrol and Teach loan request sector triggers lowered.
  • Lowered individual request type cooldowns across the board.
  • Increased rival rep gains from failed requests (by quite some margin).
  • Decreased the cooldown to spawn new requests.
  • Increased Rival reputation gains from failed requests across the board.
  • Altered request rewards to less silver and more other resources.
  • Reduced combat and loan requests slightly, increased build requests slightly (via cooldowns).
  • Reduced timeouts on almost all requests, so there’s less time completing them (esp. loans).

• Covert Missions:
  • Player:
    • Increased damage specialists take from failed covert missions.
    • Increased covert mission duration for theft and steal research mission types.
    • Reduced archetype bonus in covert missions from 85% to 75%.
    • Reduced base covert mission success chance from 60% to 55%.
    • Increased duration a specialist spends on a loan request.

  • Hostile society & rival:
    • Increased minimum silver amount stolen in Theft.
    • Increased chances to identify the culprit, especially if the hostile mission failed.
    • Decreased rival's mission cooldowns.

• Society rewards:
  • New Alliances building repair resources updated to use higher tier resources in most cases.
  • Added pollution to Chemville's tradable goods.
  • Increased Nuclear Plant’s initial resource request amount.

• Society buildings:
  • Removed tools from greenhouse society building recipe and increased plastic required.

• Population and federation:
  • Increased minimum rival population slightly.

• Roaming units:
  • Reduced the amount of roaming animals.
  • Decreased the cooldown for spawning society convoys.