Surviving the Aftermath: Neue Anführer, überarbeiteter Tech-Tree und Grafik-Verbesserungen verfügbar

General

• Completely new Tech tree with new techs and tech types!
  • 79 techs to unlock In total.
  • Inside each main line there are alternative routes and optional sub-branches.
  • Techs now unlock buildings and as a new feature, other improvements as well.
  • Unlocking tech now also requires time in addition to science points.
• [Community request] Specialists and Vehicles can now be automatically sent back to the colony.
• Hovering over resources in Storage buildings will now show a tooltip with the name of the resource.
• Updates to Twitch integration settings.
• Survivor group icon at the gate will no longer disappear during save & load.
• Improvements to command handling in the World Map.
• Hovering over multiple overlapping objects in the colony now works in a more intuitive way.
• Water quality setting is now correctly selected with the running GPU type.
• Time of day and speed controls now have tooltips.
• Multiple localization issues fixed.
• Zoom In and Zoom Out keybindings reversed for correct behavior.
• Status of persons clothes and tools are now shown as color bars in the person’s info panel.
• Xbox: Mouse cursor is no longer visible in the Main Menu when launching the game.

Gameplay

• Societies now have Leaders and they can be interacted with! This will be improved in the future with new mechanics to interact with societies, improved trading etc.
  • Selecting a society in the world map opens a society menu where the leader greets the player in different ways based on the reputation level.
• [Community request] World map movement lines now show how many days each movement action will take to complete.
• Fixes to the Vehicle repair system:
  • More assigned Specialists means faster repairs.
  • Vehicles take damage while traveling on the World Map.
  • Fuel resource is used to repair the damage.
  • Garage UI now properly updates while the info panel is open.
• Trapper efficiency now correctly changes after trees are cut from the work area.
• Medicine and Iodine amounts are now correctly shown in the top bar.
• Amount of survivors in a survivor group will no longer scale too much with the population.
• Large plank deposit added, with multiple graphical variations.
• Seven new events added with new illustrations.

Graphics

• General visual overhaul was done to the game:
  • Post processing and lighting greatly improved.
  • Normal maps for most of the objects improved.
  • Height variation added to full grown trees.
  • Ground texture improvements.
• Concrete extractor no longer rotates incorrectly during animation.
• All colonist 3D models have been updated.
• Specialist 3D models now display additional items on the world map. Can’t venture into the wasteland without the proper equipment!
• Vehicle and their damage models improved, sounds were added to vehicles.
• Crops are now correctly aligned in the medium-sized field.
• Food storage building model changed.
• Gate now has banners with the colony symbol instead of a flag.
• Gate now opens when accepting a survivor group.
• Colonists and Specialists now have variations to their idle animations.
• Depleting large resource deposits can be seen visually in the 3D model.

Balancing

• [Community request] Birth rate algorithm in the colony has been changed, this should reduce the number of babies born in the colony.
• Sawmill now needs to be unlocked in the tech tree and uses Energy.
• Several “un-teched” building values adjusted down to balance them with the new Techs.
• Reduced the amount of Fiber production from Trapper, Recycler and Plastic Extractor.
• Sunflower seeds can now be gained from events.
• Locations now have more Science Points to compensate for the greatly increased tech count.
• Catastrophe warning time reduced to one day without a Radar, which increases it to three.
• Number of vehicles on the World Map reduced slightly.
• Soybean yield decreased, insect farm production increased to compensate for spending more resources on them.
• Increased the time Specialists need to recover back to full health.
• Increased the amount of resources Specialists scavenge per action.

Modding

• Added support for setting building animations and state through WorkStateConfig.
• Added support for adding DamageVisualizer to building prefabs to show custom building damage models.