Frostpunk 2 | City Maintenance Report - 20/09/2024

Frostpunk 2 | City Maintenance Report 20/09/2024

Day 1 Patch

20/09/2024 - 5.2.1-393919

** Please Note: Some changes may not be applied to current save files. Full patch experience is guaranteed upon starting a new session. We are aware of the stability issues MacOS players encounter as well as audio issues for users who are using 6-core processors. We are working on a solution and will send a fix as soon as possible. **

Gameplay & Balance

• Adjusted weather timeline for Steward and Captain difficulty levels

• Slightly reduced initial Trust across all difficulty levels

• Long harvesting sites last for 20% less time in Story mode

• 'Protect People' ability Guards cost changed from 16 to 24

• First Faction War spread will now occur after 10 weeks, down from 15

• 'Enforce Peace' ability now requires a Prison and no longer removes Faction Fervor

• Legionnaires community action now properly provides Prefabs

• New Home quest will no longer autocomplete when certain conditions are met

• Addressed a possible softlock in one of the paths in Chapter 5 if Steward resorted to radical solutions before Chapter 5 start

Interface

• Removed Heatstamps references from Prologue

• Zeitgeist text will no longer leak outside of the tooltip

• Major dark mode improvements and polish

• Fixed game reacting to RMB input in the save menu

• Fixed leaking tooltips between districts and buildings during construction

• Fixed trust bar not changing to 'Captain's Authority' if it was force-passed by 'Stage Coup' ability

• Fixed cases where central notification could display a different law than the one offered by Grant Agenda community action

• Fixed territory names disappearing on some occasions after loading the save file

Art

• Toxic gases VFX will now be properly removed during Chapter 4 flow

• Improved roads generation logic

• Adjusted positioning of Logistics deposit in Utopia Builder

• Fixed issues with pipes spawning in Utopia Builder colonies

• Various art tweaks & polish

Other

• Local saves will now be properly recognized if the game is launched in offline mode (if the platform supports such functionality)

• Fixed keybindings resetting to default upon relaunching the game

• Fixed a very rare crash if the game was saved before city messages were opened

• Fixed a very rare crash upon using Automaton Swarm ability

• Fixed crash occurring when Steward abandoned a colony, reestablished it again, and attempted to trade with it

• Optimized 'Roundup' ability code so it no longer causes performance issues

• Fixed the ESC button not closing some of the panels

• Audio fixes and polish

• Localization fixes