Patch Notes - v1.2.11 - 29th Apr 2022

Steam News - Patch 1.2.11 - 29th Apr 2022

New Content

• Pet Dog
  • Dogs can be trained to learn from a range of 18 different skills
  • Can learn skills to help explore, fight in combat, and help out around the shelter
  • The number of skills they can learn is randomised
  • Each party member can be assigned their own dog, allowing for a maximum of four dogs in a party
  • Check out the “Pets – Dog” glossary entry in-game for more details
  • There are five different coat colours for the dog

• Pet Cats
  • Cats have three skills which scale in effectiveness based on their stat levels:
    • They leave the shelter at night time to scavenge in the wastes. Returning in the morning with their bounties!
      • Could be meat, gold/silver items, bones, or junk items
    • They hunt rats that appear in the shelter
      • Any rats caught will be harvested for meat when cleaned up
    • They provide a positive mood modifier to everyone inside the shelter who likes cats
  • Check out the “Pets – Cat” glossary entry in-game for more details
  • There are six different cat fur patterns

• Pet Chicken
  • Chickens produce eggs (1 each per day) and can be harvested for meat
  • A Chicken Coop object is required to be able to keep chickens
    • Chicken coops are built on the surface of the shelter
  • Fertilised eggs must be located in the world and added to a coop in order to hatch a chicken
  • Check out the “Pets – Chicken” glossary entry in-game for more details

• Pets Management Panel
  • A new menu has been added to manage the cats and dogs you recruit
    • Can be opened using the icon with a dog on it in the top right of the screen
    • Allows you to rename them and view information such as stats, skills and age
    • An overview of your chickens can be viewed from each chicken coop

• Pet recruiting
  • Cats and dogs can be recruited when encountering them in the world
    • You will need to gain their trust to convince them to join you
  • There is no limit to the number of cats and dogs you can have in your shelter

• Pests – Rats
  • Rats can start to spawn in the shelter once the cleanliness level of a room is low enough
    • The chance a rat will spawn increases as the cleanliness level drops lower
    • Once a rat has spawned it will not leave until caught in a trap or dealt with by a cat
  • Rats will cause dirt and can spread to other rooms of the shelter
  • Rats will damage powered objects in the shelter
  • Rats can cause the plague illness which will kill your faction members if not treated with antibiotics
  • Rats will give your faction members negative mood modifiers. These will become more potent as more rats spawn

• Surface wildlife – Deer
  • Deer will now appear on the surface of the shelter
  • Can be hunted by building a Deer Stand object

New objects

• Drafting Table Tier 1
  • Dog bed
    • A place for your pet dogs to sleep
  • Feeding Bowl
    • The feeding bowl object is where cats and dogs feed from
  • Cat Scratching Post
    • Stops cats from damaging objects around the shelter
  • Litter Tray
    • Stops cats defecating in the shelter
  • Mouse on a Stick
    • Increases a cat’s prey drive stat
  • Cardboard Box
    • Increases a cat’s affection stat
  • Balls of Yarn
    • Increases a cat’s scavenging stat
  • Rat Trap
    • Can trap up to two rats
    • Rats can be released on the surface or harvested for meat

• Drafting Table Tier 3
  • Chicken Coop
    • Allows you to keep chickens
    • Holds a maximum of four chickens
    • Generates fertiliser over time
  • Deer Stand
    • Used to hunt deer on the surface of the shelter
    • New equipment

• Workbench Tier 2
  • Dog Whistle
    • Increases the range at which a party can locate a dog when exploring
  • Cat Bell
    • Increases the range at which a party can locate a cat when exploring
    • New meal recipes

• Poor Stove (Tier 1)
  • Fried egg

• Camping Stove (Tier 2)
  • Gammon Egg and Chips
  • Mushroom Omelette

• Microwave (Tier 3)
  • Meat and Mushroom Pie
  • Vegetable Pie

• Oven (Tier 4)
  • Cabbage Carbonara

New positive mood modifiers

• “Put To Rest”
  • Applies when burying shelter members

• “Had a Workout”
  • Applies when using exercise equipment

New negative mood modifier

• “Against slavery”
  • Applies whilst you have prisoners in prison cells inside the shelter

Balancing/Gameplay Changes

• The dirt value of rubbish (vomit, blood, discarded food, rubbish piles from crafting, dirty objects, corpses) has been increased
• General dirt will now build up in rooms over time, instead of only being added as part of an interaction
  • Cleaned up as part of the cleaning interactions on the Mop & Bucket object
• The Mop & Bucket now has a “Clean Level” interaction that allows you to only clean the level the mop & bucket is on

• Doubled the length of time a corpse will burn for in the Incinerator

• Stage 3 part 1 of the Church of Hope’s questline now has four opponents instead of one

• Balanced the damage output of some traps
  • Min/Max damage reduced to zero for Flashbang Proximity Mine and Gas Proximity mine
  • Min/Max damage increased for Spike Trap

• The number of items produced at workable locations is now multiplied by the number of party members
• Integrity loss on binoculars, camouflage, bags, and vehicle parts reduced by 50%
• Reduced the repair cost of all equipment and car parts
  • Max repair cost is now 50% of the original recipe

• Broken bones now persist after combat and must be cured with a splint
• A broken arm reduces repair speed by 75%
• A broken leg stops a member from going out on an expedition
• Having any broken bone stops members from using exercise equipment

• Balanced some skills
  • Pump Up
    • Instead of increasing strength it now provides a 50% damage bonus
    • Stamina cost has been reduced to 5 from 10
  • Rallying
    • Now provides a boost to dexterity instead of strength
  • Taunt
    • No longer provides +1 strength to the target
    • Reduced chance of success from 100% to 75%
  • Demoralise
    • The target now deals 25% less damage, instead of receiving -2 strength

• The randomised stats range of all normal faction grunts has been increased by one
• All opponents in faction encounters now have a chance to be equipped with armour
• Balanced the number of opponents that can appear in faction encounters
  • Difficulty 1 regions
    • 1-2 opponents
  • Difficulty 2 regions
    • 1-3 opponents
  • Difficulty 3 regions
    • 2-3 opponents
  • Difficulty 4 regions
    • 3-4 opponents
  • Difficulty 5 regions
    • 4 opponents

• The buff from using a stimulant can now increase stats past the character’s max cap
  • Up to the max limit of 20

• The effects of stimulants no longer stack

• When it’s time to spawn a new faction job it will now populate all free job slots
  • Also, now possible to have duplicate jobs spawn

• Glass jar weight changed from 1 to 3

• Reduced the rate at which heat dissipates from a room

Quality Of Life Changes

• A party can now take out multiple 1-2 person vehicles

• The weekly events report will now only start to trigger once a faction has been discovered

• All weapons, bags and equipment attached to your faction members will now remain equipped until removed
  • New individual equip menu added which can be opened using the carboard box icon on the avatar panel in the bottom left
  • Any equipped items will be displayed in all relevant equipment menus (expedition setup, breach combat setup)

• Fusebox panel updated to try to display more clearly how much power is being used to charge batteries

• Warning text added to inventory panels to remind the player when there are items in the junk pile

• Can now select combat positions on party setup and - whilst a party is out - from the party equip screen
  • Four yellow circles appear with their avatar
  • Click the circles to switch positions

• Added a UI overlay to the map which will display the name of all locations on screen
  • Hold Left Ctrl when on the map

• Added a button to the rations panel which adds 5 rations to the party

Misc Changes

• Changed the name of the Convincing Voice faction goal to Radio Experts
• Expedition setup panel layout updated to accommodate pet dogs
• New entries added to the glossary for dogs, cats, chickens, pet recruitment and rats
• Cleaning tutorial stage has been updated to cover cleaning objects
• Added two new tutorial pop-ups about summer and winter to warn of their hazards
  • Summer prompt displays after 10 days
  • Winter prompt displays after 40 days
• All weapons now display their type in their description
• Recruits turning up at the shelter door now display their traits
• Updated some glossary images

Bug Fixes

• Toxic Morningstar no longer uses the knifing animation
• Animals will no longer drop items when they run away
• Fixed issue where the Incinerating Corpse job icon would be replaced with the Walk To icon when loading a save
• The Laboratory crafting panel now displays the “refined” recipe details
• Fixed an issue where the ailments, stats, mood, and desires panels can overlap each other if their shortcut buttons are pressed too quickly
• Fixed an issue where ammunition wouldn’t deplete if it wasn’t the same quality as the weapon
• Fixed an issue where the “harvested a corpse” mood modifier was being applied to psychopaths
• Fixed an issue where the cycling animation could stop playing whilst using the Poor Bike
• Pistols now have SFX
• Fixed an issue where combat related desires weren’t fulfilling when completed
• Fixed the equals button on the rations panel
• The player’s turn will now automatically end after a failed escape attempt
• The “Comfort Prisoner” job icon no longer displays as “Talk AI job”
• Fixed an issue where items lost by the player in a previous encounter would be displayed if the opponent flees
• Burnt-out objects will no longer display their object name twice when the object integrity overlay is active
• Fixed an issue with “capture” jobs where they could be completed after the prisoner had been executed
• Fixed an issue where the item tool tip could get stuck open on the radio panel
• Fixed an issue where the item filters would not reset when the item transfer panel next opened
• Fixed an issue where “-50 rep” would be displayed when defeating a faction member even though no rep was lost
• Added missing SFX for the Disarm skill
• A character’s name no longer randomises when switching body type on character creation
• Potential further fix for characters who can become stuck
• Fixed an issue where facial hair options were available for female members when using the Ceramic Sink & Mirror object
• Fixed an issue where faction jobs and quests would remain active after wiping the faction out
• Fixed an issue where killing and looting a faction trade group would not remove the items from the faction’s trade inventory
• Fixed issue with not being able to trigger fights with breachers in front of stairwells
• Fixed an issue with some interactions (paint shelter, rearrange shelter, and setup expedition) not displaying why they are unavailable during a breach
• Fixed an issue where NPCs wouldn’t play their run animation whilst leaving the scene during an outpost attack
• Vehicle parts no longer repair themselves when being removed and added back to a vehicle
• Corpses of dead breachers can now be moved to medical beds - to use the Autopsy skill
• Fixed an issue where using the “add multiple” transfer option would let you transfer more water than the shelter could store
• Fixed an issue where a vehicle in a garage could get stuck in a “waiting modification” state
• Fixed an issue where the desire to generate an item at a workable location wouldn’t fulfil when completed
• Trading with factions now correctly grants reputation with that faction
• Fixed an issue where the rearrange shelter overlay could overlap the room management overlay
• Fixed an issue where the “Take Prisoner” option was available when the opponent fled combat
• Fixed an issue where the medicine cabinet could block object UI warnings
• The desire to “generate an item” will now spawn for characters once a workable location has been discovered
• Fixed the “Likes painted walls” mood modifier
• A skill max cap will now be displayed for characters with the “Repulsive” trait
• Fixed an issue where the bookshelf would not recognise all the books in storage
• The “Welcoming” skill now works
• Characters who talk to a leader with the “Idolised” trait can no longer be insulted
• Fixed an issue where blood pools would remain attached to fleeing enemies
• Fixed an issue where the water bucket can remain in a character’s hand if failing to extinguish a fire
• Reduced GPU usage on the main menu
• Fixed an issue where planters would stop drawing power
• Fixed an issue where fires could be extinguished when there is no water available
• Your standing with a faction now displays correctly on the faction reputation section of the weekly events panel (if allied and reputation is negative)
• Fixed issue with the end game enemy stats not displaying correctly
• Fixed an issue where it was not possible to interact with a corpse that had previously overlapped another corpse
• Can no longer deconstruct a recycler object whilst it is recycling or has output items to collect
• Assigned job icons to jobs without them
• Fixed an issue with some desires not spawning correctly
• Fixed an issue where the leader’s portrait will not be displayed on Game Over
• Updated the descriptions of the Schizophrenia and Insomnia mental ailments to match their effects
• Updated the description of the Autopsy skill to stipulate that a medical bed object is required to use the skill
• Added job icons to remaining jobs with missing icons
• Sleeping prisoners now wake up when being comforted
• Fixed issue with members not animating after using an item in combat
• Fixed an issue with goal completion prompts being automatically dismissed
• Fixed an issue where bookmarked upgrade recipes could remain bookmarked after the upgrade was crafted
• Auto Save slots will now display correctly when they are first saved to
• Glossary panel now updates correctly when changing language
• Fixed broken Japanese translation on the broken equipment popup
• Fixed an issue where the “amount to discard” menu would remain open when closing the inventory panel
• The mood modifier “interrupted healing” will no longer be triggered if cancelling the rest job before the member reaches the bed
• Fixed an issue where moving a snare trap with a snared rabbit would leave the rabbit in its original position
• CCTV fixed! Now plays an alarm sound when breachers are close to arriving at the shelter