Hey all, thanks for the Steam feedback — a lot of this came straight from your reviews and refund notes, especially about the translations. Any issues let me know on this post or the forum. Open to your ideas to improve the game also.
Highlights
- Chinese rewritten from scratch — the old text was machine-translated and hard to read. It is now natural Simplified Chinese, with one consistent word for each thing across the whole game
- Every translation redone by hand — Japanese, Korean, Russian, French, German, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese, line by line from the English, then checked by a second reviewer
- New Menu — top right or Esc: Resume, Language, How to play, Settings and Quit game
- Choose your language — every language listed in its own writing, or "Use Steam's language". The game now starts in your Steam language
- How to play — a short guide on your first launch, there again any time from the Menu
- Smoother late game — lists no longer re-sort under your cursor, screens refresh only what changed, music streams from disk
Translations
- Russian and Portuguese — no more lines from another game, and over a hundred blank lines filled
- Japanese and Korean — no more English words inside sentences, one polite tone throughout
- French, German, Spanish and Italian — checked line by line, so lines translated without context now say the right thing ("Close" on a contract no longer reads as "near")
- Now translated too: the meme-coin market, the casino (blackjack and poker), the Orders timer and the help on every Boosts tab
- Japanese and Russian use fonts made for them now, as Chinese already did
- Craft buttons no longer stick English plural endings onto item names in other languages
Clearer names
- 213 job words, item names and messages that were left over from other games, or told you nothing, have new names
- The Courier runs shipments now instead of "salvaging", and "Ready to neutralize hostiles" is "Ready to take a contract"
- Stellar, Nova and Singularis Smuggled Roe are now Beluga, Golden and Albino Caviar
- Paradigm Diamond Jar → Cartel Diamond Jar, Pantheon / Accord Forged Seal → Diplomatic / Embassy Forged Seal
Gameplay & Fixes
- The 14 most valuable late-game items (Master Heist Parcel, Crown Jewel Parcel, Kingpin Banner…) now sell for their full price
- Stacks past 2,147,483,647 no longer drop to 0 — if it happened in your save, the stack comes back full on load
- Gang members working in the background now find rare items too
- Coming back after a while no longer dumps a burst of instant crafts
- B and N no longer fire while you type in a search box
Balance
- Boost prices keep rising past ~2.1 million BTC (their bonuses kept growing while the price stopped) — very high levels will see a much higher next price, that's the fix
- Resourcefulness tops out at 50% (at 100% every craft was free)
- Make the Getaway — one set of five claims every 30 minutes for the whole gang, not five per member
- After you ship a Bulk Drop, the next arrives an hour later (buying its items at the Darknet Market and shipping for double could repeat forever)
- Extra copies of a job keep getting dearer past the fifth (they stuck at ~214.7 BTC)
Your saves carry over — only names you see have changed.