Surviving the Aftermath: Trailer und Patch Notes zum Law & Order-Update

General

• Hostile colonists:
  • Colonists can now turn hostile against each other, if their happiness gets too low.
  • Survivor groups can sometimes contain hostile colonists.
• Colonist Guards:
  • Colonist guards can now be used to improve defense against attacks and to handle hostile colonists in the colony.
  • Guards can use weapons if they are available. Weapons make them more effective against enemies.
  • Guards patrol around the Guard Post buildings.
• Malnutrition: [Community request]
  • Colonists now track what type of food they have eaten.
  • Food is divided into three groups. Meats, vegetables and basic. Basic food keeps hunger away, but to avoid malnutrition colonists need a balanced diet of meats and vegetables.
  • Eating only one type of food causes malnutrition.
  • Different foods affect malnutrition in different amounts, meals are always the best food to eat.
• New event features:
  • 16 new events.
  • Some events have several steps and they might reoccur based on the selections in the previous event.
  • Events can now involve societies found from the World Map.
  • Event results can now increase or decrease the reputation between the colony and a society.
  • Resource amounts and rewards from events now scale based on the colony’s resource amount.
• New weapon resource type added that can be produced in Gunsmith, or found in the World Map. Guards equip weapons if available.
• Mouse cursor now shows different states, such as loading, attacking enemy, scouting a sector etc. [Community request]
• Colonists and enemies in melee combat no longer stack over each other. [Community request]
• Notifications added for combat damage and for spawning enemies. [Community request]
• Tech tree has new technologies that unlock Gunsmith and Guard post buildings.
• Tooltips added to the tech tree and trade menu.

Gameplay

• The Sandworm is changed to do ranged attacks instead of melee attacks.
• Enemy unit spawn points improved inside the colony. [Community request]
• Some bandits now target buildings instead of colonists.
• Colonists no longer chase enemies too far from their start location.

Graphics

• Health bars are now hidden when the unit hasn’t taken damage in a while. [Community request]
• The roads are now rendered in a completely new way with new graphics.
• Colonist and Building info panel tabs moved from the edge of the window to inside of the window.
• Fallout catastrophe now has a more intense acid rain effect.
• Colonists now have guard and hostile versions of themselves.
• Sawmill now shows electricity effects during magnetic storms.
• Animal textures have been updated that makes them easier to spot from the environment. [Community request]

Balancing

• Increased bandit health and decreased their damage overall to make combats last longer.
• Colonists at the gate now have slightly stronger defense against attacks.
• Increased Fuel value and decreased Oil value, to make trading refined Fuel profitable.
• Weapons added to world map locations.
• Meals are now more expensive to produce, but they have higher nutritional value than normal food.