Update 1.0.3

Hello everyone! We're pushign an update with quite some changes on a lot of different levels to make ewveyrhting more balanced, clearer, and more stable! You can see a list of all the changes in the full changelog below.

And as usual, thank you very much for playing Synergy, and a friendly reminder that if you like the game and want to give us an extra bit of help, you can always review the game! Thanks a lot! Here's the full changelog :

Update 1.0.3 - Full changelog

Balancing

• Changed Satisfaction requirement from 12 Social to 12 Knowledge in the “Salvation Through Science” step of the “Calamity” Scenario in the “Firestorms” Campaign

• Rearranged the display order of trades in Bartering Outpost

• Changed Fountain district score:

  • Replaced the storage category of following building giving 150 points (3x50): Small Warehouse, Water Tower, Cellar or/and Starting Stock by a satisfaction category of following building giving 150 points : Cold Bathhouse or Scent Garden

  • Changed the “featured building” list in the district tooltip : the “suggested building” of this list has been updated, replacing Sandglider Garage with Cold Bathhouse

• Increased resource the storage capacity of the active Kitchen to have x3 the recipe requirement (instead of x2)

Interface & Feedback

• The victory popup will no longer reappear when loading a save where the quest is already completed

• Satisfaction heatmaps’s icons are slightly smaller to better match other icon’s size

• It is now possible to see selected or hovered buildings through environmental elements

• When selecting a district, buildings that contribute points but are not yet unlocked now appear desaturated

• Added "Kill Plant" feedback to all Rip Out actions on all plants

• District feedback when selected a district or place a building in range is now more transparent

• While placing a building, hovered district will always display the score contribution even it’s 0 to improve understanding

• Sandglider Garage and Fountain tooltips now display their range of effect

• Collect zones are now visible in Rip Out mode (paint or cancel)

• The district contribution parabola is now hidden during building placement, road placement, or plantation mode if the selected element does not increase the score of the hovered district

• During exploration, selecting the starting zone will no longer display the expedition size slider

Bugfix

• Fixed a bug where citizens were not bringing water to water towers after ripping out water gourd

• Fixed default interface scaling option when starting game for first time with non full hd resolution

• Fixed a bug where the analysis notification didn’t show when loading a save

• Fixed a bug where the the missing resources feedbacks was not matching the requested amount

• Fixed a bug where the missing resource feedbacks would sometimes not appear on the Plant Nursery

• Fixed a bug where the confirmation popup to trade a tablet for Science or Legacy points would not show up the first time it is requested

• Fixed feedback worldspace not correctly refreshing on irrigation pump

• Fixed exploration map destinations icon for quest destinations because it was not the right icons sometime

• Fixed a bug where citizens would not correctly move to or from housings when the food distribution capacity of near cellars changed

• Fixed plants incorrect state on map loading

• Fixed quality settings on several depth texture, improving shadow quality

• Fixed Pontoon incoherency of the shadows and outline on floats

• Fixed footprint outline being seen through other land props

• Fixed footprint going through dynamic terrain props

• Made a check to avoid rendering an outline of all variants of a building at the same time

• Fixed a bug where the rip out action selection wasn’t showing all consequences on plants when an harvest building was selected

• Fixed a bug where plants feedback weren’t disabled when switching order type

• Fixed the science gauge tooltip mentioning the wrong district (in polish only)

• Fixed a bug where the same source range feedback wasn’t showing when entering construction mode with a building selected

• Fixed a bug where the buildings’ outline was not now correctly refreshed when selected and its state changes

• Fixed a bug where the title of the selected research panel could overlap the close button in some languages

• Fixed a bug where outline on road and irrigation canals were not displayed properly (on MacOS only)

• Added a security to prevent the game from becoming unplayable if it was saved with a dead citizen embarked in an exploration expedition

• Fixed a bug where the highlight of a selected building in the construction menu stayed active even if the building wasn’t selected anymore

• Fixed a bug where resources dropped on the ground could not be prioritized after reloading a save

Visuals

• Grassy props now react on dynamic terrain

• Integrated animated Art Workshop

• Global tweaks on depth and shadows to improve quality

• Improved shadows of various buildings :

• Explorer Nexus

• Water Extractor

• Sand Collector

• Tweak characters to avoid issues when UI is scaled down and resolution is lower

• Changes on shader to make the outline mask working with antialiasing off