Nov 19, 2018

General Practitioner - Bruni Multimedia

GENERAL PRACTITIONER 0.0.19 ALPHA RELEASE - "What happens in St. Mary's..."

GENERAL:
We recommend starting a new game if you're experiencing issues regarding the game's behavior with Elisa's pregnancy and her overall story.
If you pursued another story saved games are compatible.

!PLEASE NOTE!
An overhaul of the Main Character (The Doctor) is in progress. I switched to the new Genesis 8 model to replace the older one which was made in Genesis 2.
Some images involving The Doctor may be outdated and they still need the update to be installed, so you might experience some differences between images. That's not a bug and will be fixed when the new ones will be ready.
Sorry for any discomfort this might cause.

* Bug fixing
- Typo fixing
- Code Optimization
- Fixed an issue where a perfect exam showed no outcome in Paul's Examination
- Fixed Daisy's exam not giving the appropriate points for a correct diagnosis
- Fixed a small issue in Fanny's exam giving an incoherent reply to a question during her interview
- Fixed an issue with Elisa's pregnancy test behaving erratically.
- Fixed an issue that caused the days to behave erratically while skipping to next exam
- Fixed an issue that made hard-working staff members take too many days off
- Removed Medical Equipment requirements from Fanny's examination (it's performed at the hospital)
- Fixed Fanny's fame point grant
- Kiko's surname is Xuan and not Xhuan. Fixed the typo wherever it happened.
- Fixed Laura's exam penalties which were too severe compared to the other ones
- Fixed Robyn's examination's MRI Exam which in rare occasions told the player that a "Breast Exam" was not doable.
- Fixed an issue in Serena's exam not granting you the 7500$ in case you blackmailed her
- Fixed an issue in Julie's MRI exam which automatically went to also examine her vitals without any prior notice to the player
- Fixed an issue in Jaden's advanced exams not checking for the available equipment of the clinic
- Fixed a very rare issue that prevented wages to be calculated and paid if an event triggered on the 1st day of a month
- Removed the check over medical equipment on Sam's EKG's exam since it plays in the hospital
- Fixed an issue with Kathlyn's and Merlin's EEN exams not showing correctly when selected
- Maggie's examination was not playable in story mode. This has been corrected.
- Viola's examination was not granting achievements in Steam's releases of the game. This has been fixed.
- Fixed an issue on some examinations that was preventing to examine a female patient's abdomen even if it was correctly exposed
- Fixed the suggestion statement in Summer's Examination discharge orders
- Nancy's examination is now correctly showing her trust level
- Fixed Relative's final Main story scene looping after her encounter with her. This time for real.
- Christina's conversations in Ray's bar won't be repeated in time
* Removed obsolete informations from Examinations tooltips
* Added compatibility with Steam's Community rules
* Added Achievement compatibility with Steam
* All medical exams have been completely reviewed in preparation to Steam Workshop and mods compatibility
* A new visual interface has been added to all game screens
* Added Codex information for Nolan
* Fixed an issue where player's energy was drown just by going to the clinic, instead of actually performing any work there
* Changed Miranda's Icecream Shop's conversations to suit the changes in Rita's story
* Fixed an issue in Aria's exam which, in rare occasions, was giving the incorrect amount of Trust points towards Claudia
* Changed the color of Input text to be easily recognizable
* Added a new graphic interface for the Daily Report Screen
* Added five new Achievements:
- Kingslayer
- Non c'è cosa più divina...
- Varicocele
- Alone
- Marathonist
* The conversation with Dr. Richards during Stephany's exam is no longer played while in Exam Mode since it is related to the story

RANDOM EXAMS:
* Coding optimization
* Corrected an issue where sometimes a question made during the interview received no reply at all
* Fixed all improper use of personal pronouns between genders
* Fixed an issue that made the same two choices in the diagnosis choice behave differently

GAMEPLAY:
* You can visit the waiting room after Paul's exam to manually input the patient's ID you wish to examine. You can find patient's ID in their Codex.
* You can now turn down Clara if you are not interested in having an affair with her during her sexual event
* Added a suggestion on how to continue the story when you skip to August 2nd by using the "Next Event" button
* Paul's after-exam sex encounter is now available
- After the exam, if your score is high enough, you can phone Paul's mother Judith to pursue a sexual event with her
* Selma's after-exam sex encounter is now available
- After the exam, if your score is high enough, you can keep conversating with her to pursue a sexual event involving her boyfriend as well
* Changed some conversations with Elisa in "Our Clinic My Baby" which resulted inconsistent with some of the choices made by Rita
* Elisa will tell the Doctor he's the father if your relationship with her is high enough, else she will tell he's Greg's. Before this change she told the Doctor he was his child only if they were living together, which is inconsistent.
* Skip to the update feature has been removed as it created more inconsistencies as the story gets bigger and bigger. You can use the "Skip to the event" button to play a faster game.
* If you halted Rita's relationship after you told her about Elisa you can now phone back Rita after the paternity test to tell her about the results.
* New conversations with Rita have been added if you chose her to live with you.
* Added more conversations and sex scenes with your relative
* In order to unlock Rita's Living Together conversations you now have to click on Rita's portrait in the "House Choices" screen rather then the "Relax" button as you did before.
* Technicians now grant a -8 fame penalty in case of their Skill Test failure (from -20)
* Technicians now grant a -5 fame bonus in case of their Skill Test success (from +10)

EXAMINATIONS:
* New exam available (#48): Selma. You can access her exam via the waiting room either by clicking on her or by typing her ID (3831971048) or by going to the Exam Room after November 12th
* New exam available (#49): Maryanne. You can access her exam via the waiting room either by clicking on her or by typing her ID (7190442949) or by going to the Exam Room after November 15th
* New exam available (#50): Kenny. You can access his exam via the waiting room either by clicking on him or by typing his ID (6713489450) or by going to the Exam Room after November 20th
* If you don't own some medical equipment needed for examinations the game will automatically have you send the patient to an external clinic to perform the test in your place. This will still grant bonuses and maluses according to the exam's true necessity albeit in a smaller amount. To do so every exam that required medical equipment has been modified to show the new conversation. The patient will also decrease his/her trust upon you since he/she will be disappointed that you lack equipment, although you won't lose any fame from this either.
* The Medical Board will now tell you if one particular examination was necessary or not and why. This has been removed by the exam review final part.
* Every patient will now recognize Mr. Xuan's agreement after you met him. The only exception for that are the "Tutorial Patients" (Rita, Clara, Paul)
* An exam review screen has been added after an examination has ended. This replaces the long list of explanations that was sometimes confusing.
- End Exam's explanations for each examination made have been deleted. The medical explanations have been replaced by a comment by the Medical Board.

STORY:
* What happens in St. Mary's story arc is playable. To play the story you will need to have Rita's story play out until she asks you about joining Jos・ for massages. That can be achieved by spending time with her whenever it's possible.
Rita's path has also been integrated with Elisa's pregnancy story, so if you chose to let her know about the pregnancy she will react differently if the baby is yours or not, possibly disappearing completely from the game, thus saying farewell to the Doctor. The possibility of the Doctor to be Elisa's baby's father are listed in the "GENERAL" section of this changelog but requires you to follow Elisa path since Trip to Seattle Chapter.
Claudia (your relative) story also mixes with Rita's and after the "Netorare/Cuckold experience" she will ask you to join you at your place to discuss your mutual feelings. Beware that this part of the story is only available in Story mode and not in Vanilla Mode. Your choices in this part of the game could also cause Rita to go away from you forever.
This particular event isn't accessible via the "Skip to the Event" feature since it's tied to Rita's relationship and not to a game event.

* Chapter 10 events will now start in October and not before, regardless of the sequence of story actions made by the player. Before this change inconsistencies in the game's script could have happened, even though in very rare cases.

OTHER:
* The game will end on December 31st.

Known issues:
* "After-exam" sexy scenes for story mode are in development
* Nolan has no character box
* Stats review shows 1 girlfriend even if you have more
* New Clothes for Erika is still an in-development feature. I'm still thinking about it in the actual gameplay.
* Nolan's exam will be completely re-done in a future update

Nov 19, 2018

The biggest Frostpunk DLC so far: ENDLESS MODE - AVAILABLE NOW for free!

Frostpunk - Rufus Blackwood

Hello there, fellow Citizens!

We have some amazing and long-awaited news to share! As planned, and promised in the development roadmap, the Endless Mode for Frostpunk is available now (for free) for all owners of the base game.

Watch the Features Overview video: https://youtu.be/_A2pVJc0ddg

About the DLC:
Endless playthrough
3 new maps
2 brand new game modes
Randomised frostlands
New Archives mechanic
New city decorations
Available for free

Watch the Dev Diary about Endless Mode:
https://youtu.be/aln3KJYvwW4

List of additional fixes:

People can no longer be arrested while all the wardens are busy, for example building something
Gravely ill should head to Infirmary more timely
Hungry or ill people on scout teams no longer make completing certain quests impossible
Wall Drill line has now proper heating level progression
Using RMB to move the camera no longer closes the construction panel
Videos should no longer disappear after using Alt+Tab
Fixed a bug with Automaton Scouts not always revealing new sites
The economy panel now shows the correct number of free places in a Care House
Fixed a bug which sometimes caused the list of saved games to disappear from Save menu
Automatons assigned to Charcoal Kilns are now counted towards the quest goal in The Arks
Fixed an exploit with rebuilding the Outpost for extra Coal in The Fall of Winterhome
Shadow rendering system optimization and quality improvements
Other small fixes and tweaks

We've put a lot of effort to deliver you this mode. We hope you're going to enjoy it immensely! Also, we tried to test both modes as thoroughly as possible - but being a really big piece of content that you can play, well, endlessly - some non-standard issues may occur in the late game. Worry not, though, 'cause our brave QA guys are always waiting for your feedback at techsupport@11bitstudios.com! Don't hesitate to contact us about any bugs/crashes.

Stay safe, stay warm. See you next time!

Nov 19, 2018

Update 4 - Survival

Bunny Minesweeper - LadyDilly

New mode and winter map.

Survive in the cold, playing the minesweeper, get all the game awards, moving lower into the bowels of the earth.

Chickens can't stand cold and freeze. They will still prevent you from playing, but now they can be easily rolled back to the far corner.

Starting from round 2, the temperature will start to fall - you can follow the percentage of cold in the left corner of your screen. When the cold reaches 50% - your speed will decrease by 2 times. When it comes to 90 or more - 4 times. The only way to avoid it - is playing.

Each opening of the cell triggers warmer for 4 seconds, after which it will become colder again if you do not open the cells.
Also opening a cell gives you survival points - from 1 to 10 depending on the cold. The higher the percentage of cold - the less survival points you get. These survival points will go to the leaderboard when you finish surviving (defeat).

Rotation awards

Each successful opening of the field no longer ends the game, but gives you a reward depending on the round. The rotation of awards on the shooting range is as follows: 1-1-1-2-3-4, i.e. from 1-3 round - awards fall from tier 1, 4 round - tier 2, 5 round - tier 3, 6 round - tier 4. Then again, i.e. Round 7 is again tier 1, and round 12 is tier 4. This will be repeated until you lose, which means the end of survival.

On the right you can see a list of the awards received during the game match and the time spent on each round.
The current tier will be displayed on the screen so that you don't get confused.

Field rotation

In survival, you do not choose the size of the field and the number of bombs, they change themselves depending on the round.

from 1-3 the field is similar to the easy mode 9x9
the 4th round is a new 12x12 field with 16 bombs
5-6 rounds are the field similar to the medium 16x16 mode with 30 bombs

And so in a circle until you lose.

Entertainment

After finishing survival there can be too many frozen chickens, and the only way to get rid of them is to cut in the new device - Chicken Slicer.
Just push the chicken closer to it and the slicer will cut it into pieces.

Achievement

3 new achievements are timed to the mode, which will allow you to feel the whole new mode.
- Survivor
- Chicken Lunch
- Frozen rabbit

Nov 19, 2018

Katyusha alpha features #1: Dynamic weather/camera, Advanced A.I./Stealth kill system

Katyusha - Loresoft

Road to alpha has officially begun!

Loresoft is proud to announce the new features of our current alpha version, which are now live on Steam!

The new Katyusha demo provides:
✓ Dynamic weather
✓ Dynamic camera
✓ New environment for the first level
✓ Vastly improved A.I. in enemy soldiers.
✓ Advanced stealth kill system.
✓ Sound effects for all characters and environmental sounds.

Watch our new gameplay trailer with all the new features.

Dynamic weather
Our dynamic weather system which is still in progress, will allow you to have a different experience each time. There are specific weather conditions for each level (sun, rain, snow or combinations of them), which occur randomly (in terms of both place and duration) as you play.

Advanced stealth kill system
Our new stealth kill system allows you to kill an enemy and do damage to him according to the accuracy that you have by pressing the use button ("E"). Loading the bar between 50-75% will allow you to do a single hit. 75-90% does critical hit while over 90% does instant kill. This applies to all soldiers in the game, as the wild animals (which mostly appear in the first level and pretty much less in the others) are getting killed more easily.

A.I. improvement
In the first demo of Katyusha the A.I. had a standard behavior. In the new early alpha version enemy soldiers are more aggresive and efficient. They have a random behavior when walking, while when they detect you they shoot way more often and constantly. The same goes with melee attacks as they become very aggresive when you are close to them, while at the same time they chase Katyusha. They will even shoot when they are next to you, so beware. The new A.I. mechanics will make the game more difficult but using stealth you can kill or avoid enemies by hiding in the environment.

The new early alpha demo (v0.21) is available now on Steam.