Edit: Disregard 8.5.3, 8.5.4 fixes a major bug in the design document window
Edit: Alpha 8.5.3 fixes work not updating in the GUI among other things

Changes

• Right click to minimize work

Fixes

• Limit maximum gridsize to 1 unit
  
• AI not picking OSs for software with OS category lock

Optimizations

• Do not update work items in GUI if they are out of view

Edit: Disregard 8.5.3, 8.5.4 fixes a major bug in the design document window
Edit: Alpha 8.5.3 fixes work not updating in the GUI among other things

Changes

• Right click to minimize work

Fixes

• Limit maximum gridsize to 1 unit
  
• AI not picking OSs for software with OS category lock

Optimizations

• Do not update work items in GUI if they are out of view

Changes

• Widget to indicate current building height in buildmode
  
• Make AI pick operating systems in different categories more
  
• Decreased chance of new AI companies being incompetent
  
• Higher patent royalties
  
• Boost product sales if they're using features for the first time
  
• Increased CMS and Office Software competition
  
• Lowered dividends
  
• Add total company value in company list
  
• Ability to re-order workitems with drag and drop

Fixes

• AC and central heating should only be disabled for rooms based on whether the rooms is already heated/cooled
  
• Force un-jam cars after one in-game hour

Changes

• Widget to indicate current building height in buildmode
  
• Make AI pick operating systems in different categories more
  
• Decreased chance of new AI companies being incompetent
  
• Higher patent royalties
  
• Boost product sales if they're using features for the first time
  
• Increased CMS and Office Software competition
  
• Lowered dividends
  
• Add total company value in company list
  
• Ability to re-order workitems with drag and drop

Fixes

• AC and central heating should only be disabled for rooms based on whether the rooms is already heated/cooled
  
• Force un-jam cars after one in-game hour

Edit: 8.4.4 fixes not being able to release a 3D editor.
Quick patch. If nothing goes wrong I'll work on balancing for the next update.

Fixes

• Moving a bunch of furniture, so that some furniture is invalid and snaps back into its last place, can cause "valid" ones to clip them
  
• Fixed forced features with dependencies
  
• Audio tools have mismatched dependencies
  
• Fixed some furniture turning red when coloring

Optimizations

• More furniture state optimization/parallelization to make merging and splitting rooms less laggy

Edit: 8.4.4 fixes not being able to release a 3D editor.
Quick patch. If nothing goes wrong I'll work on balancing for the next update.

Fixes

• Moving a bunch of furniture, so that some furniture is invalid and snaps back into its last place, can cause "valid" ones to clip them
  
• Fixed forced features with dependencies
  
• Audio tools have mismatched dependencies
  
• Fixed some furniture turning red when coloring

Optimizations

• More furniture state optimization/parallelization to make merging and splitting rooms less laggy

I've tried out something new performance-wise, basically trading out GPU memory for performance, so if you experience any crashes it might be out-of-memory stuff, please let me know! Conversely, you can also tell me if the game is running much better now! :D

Fixes

• Smaller Computer collision boxes
  
• All furniture no longer needs repair or IT support due to never degrading
  
• Add angle relative to grid when placing first wall edge
  
• Reduce far clipping plane, fog distance and bounding area in first person mode to avoid z fighting issues
  
• Pathfinding issues, heuristic not taking into account where it's coming from
  
• Fixed patent lists not sorting name and software correctly
  
• Employee miniature not showing properly in wage negotiation menu
  
• Employees sitting backwards on bench

Optimizations

• Standardized furniture material to enable batching all furniture in one draw call

I've tried out something new performance-wise, basically trading out GPU memory for performance, so if you experience any crashes it might be out-of-memory stuff, please let me know! Conversely, you can also tell me if the game is running much better now! :D

Fixes

• Smaller Computer collision boxes
  
• All furniture no longer needs repair or IT support due to never degrading
  
• Add angle relative to grid when placing first wall edge
  
• Reduce far clipping plane, fog distance and bounding area in first person mode to avoid z fighting issues
  
• Pathfinding issues, heuristic not taking into account where it's coming from
  
• Fixed patent lists not sorting name and software correctly
  
• Employee miniature not showing properly in wage negotiation menu
  
• Employees sitting backwards on bench

Optimizations

• Standardized furniture material to enable batching all furniture in one draw call

I've focused mostly on bug fixes and optimizations for this update.

Changes

• You can now use <!-- something here --> to add comments in mods
  
• Buildings now cast shadows regardless of the floor you're on
  
• Ignore central heating and AC for rooms using other types of temperature regulating furniture

Fixes

• LOADS of random bug fixes
  
• HR used the current date instead of when employees are done with classes to decide when to send the next employee
  
• Windows and wall objects getting selected even though walls are down
  
• ETA in design document was wrong with more teams
  
• Can't select employees in outdoors areas if not on the same floor
  
• Cars will now match the speed of the car they're behind
  
• Outdoor areas affecting AC and central heating
  
• Old products randomly resurface 10-20 years after release and take over market
  
• Old companies survive for way too long
  
• Disabled temporal SMAA due to flickering at below 60 FPS
  
• Fix wallsegment autoscaling behaving weird due to floating point precision
  
• Fix picnic table width
  
• Employees will no longer take the bus to work if they have to wait more than two hours, so they can take the car instead if a parking spot frees up meanwhile
  
• Fixed CompanyType removal using Delete.xml in mods
  
• Fixed bugs in personality modding and personality pairing in general
  
• Added recursive dependency tree check to software loading

Optimizations

• LOADS of random optimizations
  
• Put dirt in quad tree to optimize all dirt operations
  
• Put trees in quad tree to optimize tree removal
  
• Reduce mesh polycount to improve dynamic batching
  
• Only have 25 shades of room darkness to enable dynamic batching

I've focused mostly on bug fixes and optimizations for this update.

Changes

• You can now use <!-- something here --> to add comments in mods
  
• Buildings now cast shadows regardless of the floor you're on
  
• Ignore central heating and AC for rooms using other types of temperature regulating furniture

Fixes

• LOADS of random bug fixes
  
• HR used the current date instead of when employees are done with classes to decide when to send the next employee
  
• Windows and wall objects getting selected even though walls are down
  
• ETA in design document was wrong with more teams
  
• Can't select employees in outdoors areas if not on the same floor
  
• Cars will now match the speed of the car they're behind
  
• Outdoor areas affecting AC and central heating
  
• Old products randomly resurface 10-20 years after release and take over market
  
• Old companies survive for way too long
  
• Disabled temporal SMAA due to flickering at below 60 FPS
  
• Fix wallsegment autoscaling behaving weird due to floating point precision
  
• Fix picnic table width
  
• Employees will no longer take the bus to work if they have to wait more than two hours, so they can take the car instead if a parking spot frees up meanwhile
  
• Fixed CompanyType removal using Delete.xml in mods
  
• Fixed bugs in personality modding and personality pairing in general
  
• Added recursive dependency tree check to software loading

Optimizations

• LOADS of random optimizations
  
• Put dirt in quad tree to optimize all dirt operations
  
• Put trees in quad tree to optimize tree removal
  
• Reduce mesh polycount to improve dynamic batching
  
• Only have 25 shades of room darkness to enable dynamic batching