Hey everyone,
After all the work over the past few months, we`re finally in a much happier place with City States - from performance and visuals to gameplay. The game has come a long way during Early Access, and your reports, feedback, and support have helped a lot along the way.
This week`s update continues that work, with a focus on world map performance, visual improvements, camera scrolling, and additional campaign polish.
The biggest part of this update is a major improvement to world map performance. Most systems should now see a noticeable FPS increase on the world map, along with smoother scrolling and reduced lag during movement.
We`ve also improved the look of the world map, especially during winter. Trees have received new art and animations, along with better performance handling, helping the campaign map both look and run better.
This update also includes additional campaign polish, UI improvements, AI improvements, cinematic fixes, and another round of balancing work across research, resources, and the campaign economy.
And once again - thank you so much for the reports, feedback, and support during Early Access!
And now, here are the full notes for this update:
Performance Improvements
Greatly improved World Map performance
Most systems will gain 10-15 FPS on the World Map
Fixed various issues with lag during map scrolling
Visual Improvements
Improved the look of World Map trees during winter
Greatly improved art for World Map fir trees
New animations for World Map fir trees
Improved World Map performance with updated fir trees
Other Improvements
Greatly reduced camera scrolling deceleration effect
Camera scrolling has been greatly improved in many regards
Faster World Map scroll speed
Can no longer build Trebuchets on Genoa towers during the tutorial without research
Main menu welcome message rewritten
Improved main menu news and welcome message windows
AI now constructs proper field tent buildings in its army camps
AI now constructs army camp buildings faster when attacking
During attacks on Home City, AI will now have time to construct buildings and train at least some replacement units
Campaign Work
Tutorial Chapter 1 - additional polish
Tutorial Chapter 5 - if the player recruits the wrong unit by mistake, the tutorial can still continue
Victory and defeat cinematics now properly hide World Map town banners
Victory and defeat cinematics no longer lag on the World Map
Various improvements to campaign scripted attack on Genoa
Balancing
Rebalanced a lot of research technology costs
A lot more research technologies now require trade goods
Stone is now a lot harder to acquire
Stone Mine and Masonry income reduced by 40%
Price to buy Stone on town markets increased by 30%