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Hollywood AnimalNewsUpdate 0.8.72EA
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Update 0.8.72EA

Hollywood Animal · published 3 Aug 2026, 10:07 UTC

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Work on Act 2 is in full swing, but we didn't want to leave you without any updates in the meantime. So we've taken some of your most requested features, polished a few long-standing rough edges, and put them all together for you.Have fun!

  • INTRODUCING: Relaxed Mode! Want to focus on creativity, experiment freely, or just chill? This more forgiving mode, with reduced financial pressure, is made just for you.

  • Holding the right mouse button (or Left Alt on the keyboard) now speeds up many animations by x2,5.

  • Research time for many early-game upgrades has been reduced.

  • Heads of Security, Producers Offices, and Engineering departments now gain more experience.

  • Added the Film Crew Protection upgrade. It lets you protect your film crew from competitor attacks by assigning a security agent to the film.

  • Added the Retribution upgrade. It lets you sue whoever ordered a beating, kidnapping, or murder on your employees.

  • Fixed a bug which caused landscaping to display incorrectly when building several buildings at the same time.

  • If you forced an employee to sign a contract with you, they will no longer come back to ask for a raise a month later.

  • Fixed a bug which prevented you from using Friends' services while your studio had a negative balance.

  • You can now cancel the following processes: creating or upgrading technology, researching story elements, writing a script.

  • Fixed a bug which caused a security agent to keep protecting an employee after they were fired.

  • Fixed a bug where a film could get stuck during the production.

  • Fixed a bug which could cause characters to react incorrectly to an offered illegal present.

  • Added 150 new posters. We will never stop with them posters.

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