0.98.27 Out Now!

Update 0.98.27 is out now! This is on the main stable branch. … Please report any bugs, gameplay or balancing feedback etc to either the Steam or Lo-Fi forums. Thank you

0.98.27

• German language is now in game! Translation is mostly complete but there may be brand new dialogue that still needs translating.
• Crossbow damage increased by around 20%Crossbows now affected by the global combat damage multiplier
• Crossbow global damage multipliers added to FCS
• When you select a character who is being carried by another player character, you will give orders to the carrier instead
• Shop guards don’t track your position when they can’t see or hear you, they go by your last known position
• Fixed a freeze when you press CONFIRM in the character editor that increases in size based on how long you spent on your character, if blood was enabled
• Severed limbs on the ground disappear after 24 hours
• Fixed ally campaigns, where allied factions came to support you against a common enemy campaign but left too soon
• Fixed the import with “NPC states” causing previously encountered living NPCs to be missing (requires re-import to fix)

0.98.26

• Added a target distance influence to the “protect allies” AI
• Police no longer take your weapons when you are arrested (unless they were stolen)
• Police only confiscate stolen items if they are recently stolen, and not stolen from a bandit
• Fixed another AI problem where escaped slaves and prisoners could be “magically” spotted by police
• Fixed hostile campaigns not looting food
• Fixed AI stealing building materials from towns
• Fixed player AI not auto-using beds
• Fixed player idle AI all trying to sit in the same chair
• Fixed player characters trying to sleep in NPC beds
• Fixed characters attacking police when released from prison if in HOLD mode
• Fixed items disappearing from animal inventory if right clicked when your inventory is full
• Fixed characters not attacking when ordered
• Fixed another termites bug
• Character sleeping position not affected by character height
• Fixed shackles display bug on single robot legs
• Fixed crossbow range, dodge, and hunger rate tooltips
• Stopped animals patrolling towns from going indoors

0.98.25

• Hunger rate now varies with activity:
• Running around while encumbered or fighting with very heavy weapons will make you get hungry faster
• Working at mines will make you get hungry faster
• Sitting around will make you use less energy and get hungry slower
• Added options sliders to adjust frequency and size of base attacks and AI campaigns
• Toughness XP gain rate reduced by a third, setting added in FCS
• You now get some toughness XP when you lose a limb
• Fixed dead people screaming
• Fixed a bug where an NPC you did a crime to could magically see you afterwards even if you hid
• Fixed animals not eating foul meat from animal feeder
• Fixed NPCs getting stuck confiscating weapons if nothing to take
• Fixed slavers re-capturing slaves after you buy them
• Stopped mouse buttons 4 and 5 acting as left mouse button
• Fixed AI getting food from storage in NPC towns
• Fixed a crash

0.98.24

• Cost to buy buildings in towns has doubled
• Characters with damaged robot limbs won’t keep trying to sleep it off
• Enabled stealing from prisoners, no thievery XP gains
• Fixed an AI bug preventing the Medic job from automatically healing NPC allies (eg hired mercs, fellow escapees)
• Import now has the option to import the unique NPC states, eg if you’ve killed phoenix, he will still be dead when you import your game
• Fixed characters getting Toughness XP when getting picked up
• Fixed Toughness damage resistance not being applied to armour’s “cut to stun” damage
• Toughness damage resistance is now also applied to pierce damage
• Disabled putting items in dead animals
• Fixed raid announcement dialogues repeating
• Additional power requirement added to building upgrade tooltip
• A rare crashfix and some minor AI fixes