Change notes - “New Alliances PC patch”

Base game

General

• Added 11 new achievements:

• Base game:

• Doomsday is canceled - Complete the Doomsday Bunker Project.

• Choo-choo! - Escape the harsh winter by fixing the train in Cold Rush.

• Finnished - Survive in the Endless Winter scenario for 100 days.

• Tailored to fit - Survive until day 100 in a custom game.

• Customized calamities - Secret!

• New Alliances DLC:

• Undercover - Complete all four covert mission types.

• Best friends forever - Ally with a society.

• Binary world view - Secret!

• Diplomatic quarter - Have four embassies built at the same time.

• Dynamic Duo - Secret!

• Federation forever - Form the federation.

• Improved build menu performance dramatically.

• Fixed an issue that prevented loading a save if a resource box was out of colony bounds and the game was saved while a carrier was moving to pick up the box.

Gameplay

• Replaced the “trade offers available” text in the society menu with “trade unavailable” when there aren't enough workers in a Trade Center.

• Double-clicking now works when overwriting a save game.

• Fixed an issue that caused some buildings to not receive resources from storages if request resources was used. This was the reason that Fuel was not always delivered properly to a Garage.

• Fixed an issue that caused up and down navigation to be inverted on a controller in request board.

• Fixed an issue that caused NPC animations to freeze in combat upon selecting a specialist.

• Fixed an issue that caused the camera to move to the wrong location when pressing the resource depleted notification.

• Added a missing text in French in the custom game pregame menu.

Graphics

• Updated portraits for caribou, boar and bear in the world map.

• Added tooltips to colonists, resources and buildings tabs in the statistics menu.

• Fixed many text overflow issues in multiple languages.

• UI polish:

• Updated some tech icons in the tech tree.

• Added a black filler background to the society menu for ultrawide monitors.

• New icons for group health and animal attack in the world map UI panel.

• Many smaller button and text changes in world map panels.

• Added fake colonists to entertainment buildings and adjusted animations in them.

• Added fake workers to Forester, Maintenance Depot and Concrete Scavenger.

New Alliances

General

• Added a tooltip to the society menu that displays information about embassy bonus buildings.

• It should now provide an easy way to see information about different buildings when allying with a society.

• Fixed an issue that prevented loading a save caused by a roaming bandit spawning incorrectly.

Gameplay

• Rival reputation gain is now visible when failing or declining a society request and in the world map when hovering over a request location.

• Added reputation markers and player/rival reputation amounts in the society menu’s reputation bar.

• Fixed an issue that caused society convoys to move out of bounds.

• Rewards from society requests are now visible after forming the federation.

• Fixed an issue that caused the carrier count to increase visually when adding and removing workers in the Academy building.

• Roaming NPCs in the World Map now face the way they’re moving.

• Replaced generic specialist mission accomplished sounds with a voice-over for covert missions.

• Added sound to Bomb Bunker.

Graphics

• UI polish:

• Changed the coloring and reduced the size of roaming unit’s path indicator.

• Reduced the size of request, animal and convoy floaters in the world map.

• Many smaller button and text changes in New Alliances related menus.

• New Alliances building polish:

• Fixed icicle placement on Society Depot.

• Texture changes to most New Alliances buildings.

• Reduced the size of outposts in the world map.

• Added a missing material in Bomb Bunker.

Balance Adjustments

• Reduced silver from scavenging locations.

• Increased New Alliance tech costs.

• Requests and reputation:

• Patrol and Teach loan request sector triggers lowered.

• Lowered individual request type cooldowns across the board.

• Increased rival rep gains from failed requests (by quite some margin).

• Decreased the cooldown to spawn new requests.

• Increased Rival reputation gains from failed requests across the board.

• Altered request rewards to less silver and more other resources.

• Reduced combat and loan requests slightly, increased build requests slightly (via cooldowns).

• Reduced timeouts on almost all requests, so there’s less time completing them (esp. loans).

• Covert Missions:

• Player:

• Increased damage specialists take from failed covert missions.

• Increased covert mission duration for theft and steal research mission types.

• Reduced archetype bonus in covert missions from 85% to 75%.

• Reduced base covert mission success chance from 60% to 55%.

• Increased duration a specialist spends on a loan request.

• Hostile society & rival:

• Increased minimum silver amount stolen in Theft.

• Increased chances to identify the culprit, especially if the hostile mission failed.

• Decreased rival's mission cooldowns.

• Society rewards:

• New Alliances building repair resources updated to use higher tier resources in most cases.

• Added pollution to Chemville's tradable goods.

• Increased Nuclear Plant’s initial resource request amount.

• Society buildings:

• Removed tools from greenhouse society building recipe and increased plastic required.

• Population and federation:

• Increased minimum rival population slightly.

• Roaming units:

• Reduced the amount of roaming animals.

• Decreased the cooldown for spawning society convoys.