Nov 29, 2018

Townsmen VR - HandyGames

Many of you have asked us about the current state of the game and why there were no updates for several months. So we decided to give you a little insight into the development process.
We are still rewriting many of the game's base systems, a decision that we knew, would allow the final game to be bigger and better, but also stop us from doing regular updates for a longer time.
Most of the game code (buildings, combat, work, resources, controls, VR framework) has been updated to the new system. We have also added localization (the game now supports different languages) and are currently working on the UI, the save game system and the tutorial/quest system, with music and animations still untouched. Most of this progress is “invisible”, so unfortunately we don’t have anything new to show there.

But we have also been working on the level creation tools. The first island was entirely built by one artist, without any ways to reuse parts easily. As we want to create many more and also bigger islands, we knew we had to add tools the level designers can use to directly realize their ideas.

Before building tools, it is a good idea to write down what you want to achieve with them and set boundaries.

These are the things we want from our tools:

Easy to prototype and test new maps
Easy texturing without external tools
Not just a heightmap terrain but overhanging parts, bridges, caves and a bottom
Good performance (limited materials and polygons)

Things the tools won't achieve:

Procedural creation and/or levels with basically infinite size (hard for balancing and performance)
A level editor we can ship as part of the game (this would take a big amount of extra time and effort)

We will show you a rough idea of how many steps it takes to build a new level for Townsmen VR:

VOXELS

To decide on the basic shape of a level we do a quick voxel sketch. This is very helpful to define the coastline as well as the location of mountains, rivers and lakes.
We can also take a smoothed version of this island to do first gameplay tests, but as soon as we are happy with the voxel sketch, we start production of the full level.

TILES

The voxel island is then used as a template to place 3D tiles. We currently have over 100 different tiles and are constantly increasing this number.
This is actually the most time consuming part of level creation. In this highly sped up time-lapse you can also see the old island in the background for comparison.

TEXTURES, SCULPTING AND OBJECTS

Textures: Having the textures on the small tiles fit with any tile combination would make the textures very small and repetitive. After building the base geometry the wall textures are automatically redistributed. Then the top and bottom stone edges are recalculated to fit the walls. Finally the grass border textures are redistributed randomly to not show the same variation over and over.
Distort: The whole island can be distorted based on a 3d noise function to break up the underlying grid. The stone walls are also being modified so they are not just straight but slightly dented to produce overhangs.
Splat Map: The grass surfaces are merged into one big texture. This “splat map” allows us to directly draw different textures (grass, mud, sand, stones) on the surface with nice transitions between the materials.
Smooth normals: As tiles can be placed in many different combinations, there might be visible edges where they meet. This is due to the normals pointing into different directions. Most of these edges are unintended, so we smooth them.
Sculpt: We have tools to modify the height of the ground to make it look more natural. This is especially being used on beach and river tiles as well as to smooth out slopes. The tools can also be used to move geometry in any direction or even move single vertices, making it easy to modify the geometry anywhere.
Place objects: To decorate the island, we have brushes to draw grass and trees or place single objects like big rocks to further improve the mountains.

WATER

Rivers are filled with water by creating and modifying control points for the water flow mesh.

RESULT

This is the result we can achieve with the current state of our level creation tools. Please note that all the tile models, textures and decoration objects are still not final, but it should give you a good overview how the level creation process works right now.

We hope this has given you some insight into what we are currently working on. Unfortunately we still can't promise a release date for new content, but we are working hard to create the best medieval town simulation/strategy game for VR.

Nov 29, 2018

Traitor system update & tons of improvements! (Update v.0.8.7.5 – Steam Patch 152)

Gloria Victis: Medieval MMORPG - BartoldGV

Hello warriors!

New update is live, and it introduces the recently requested improvements to the traitor system! Also, from now on, your entire nation receives bonus to experience gained for capturing locations controlled by a dominating nation. There are also next improvements to the player-built furnaces system, several gameplay improvements, as well as further changes to the servers’ performance and numerous bugfixes. Check these changes on your own!

See you in battle!

Changelog v.0.8.7.5

Traitor system update:

– From now on, the player’s reputation is account-wide in order to prevent situations where one of the player’s characters is being used only to harm one of the nations, while others are being used for regular playing; for already existing accounts with multiple characters, the highest reputation has been assigned
– Introduced a separate Traitor status applied by the game’s moderation for given time, i.e. one week, which is independent to the regular Traitor status – it will be applied to punish players who’ve been reported multiple times (with proofs) for harming the gameplay experience to others, i.e. standing in the doors to block the allies, using alternative characters to gather data about the enemy’s numbers and sharing it in the global chat etc; the expiration time of this status is counted only when the player is logged in
– From now on, the penalty for killing an ally player is increasing with each kill committed recently – up to 3 – and the increased penalty for the next kills remains for a week, although each next kill resets the timer
– From now on, the only way to make back the negative reputation is to complete dedicated penal work events located near the prison camps
– From now on, looting the ally players (even with Wanted status) requires additional confirmation and causes losing reputation; the only exception is looting a traitor
– Changed the reputation threshold to apply a Traitor status from -1000 to -1 (and below)
– Increased the base expiration time for a single stack of the time-limited Traitor and Wanted statuses – from 10 minutes to 1 hour for Traitor and from 1 minute to 10 minutes for Wanted
– From now on, making the reputation back through the penal work doesn’t count to the daily reputation cap
– Increased the maximum reputation cap from 27050 to 30000
– From now on, new players start having 3000 reputation points
– Added deposit chests in the prison camps (traitors’ spawnpoints)
– Fixed an issue causing that the Traitor status was being displayed on other players until they relogged, even if the status was gone
– Fixed an issue causing that traitors could spawn in their nation’s locations while logging in
– Fixed an issue allowing to remove the time-limited Traitor status by advancing a reputation threshold

Gameplay:

– Introduced bonus to experience gained by all players of a nation for capturing locations controlled by a dominating nation
– From now on, the ally players of a player who captures a location earn extra experience only if the location was controlled by a dominating nation
– Increased the buffs strength for controlling the enemy non-loot forts (Dundrum, Ystad, Eaglenest)
– Further server-side performance improvements
– From now on, the furnace’s owner receives crafting experience for each item created in the furnace
– From now on, it’s not possible to plunder furnaces built by the same nation’s players, although it's still possible to plunder the enemy-built furnaces
– Added displaying the player-built furnace’s nation in its’ window
– Several client-server synchronization improvements, especially visible when kicking an enemy
– Increased the maximum temperature level of Bark and Charcoal in order to make them more useful
– From now on, new characters with the light-armored starting archetypes (Scout/Raider/Nomad) are being equipped with bow at start
– Replaced the Midlandic light-armored archetype’s starting armor with a better looking one
– Added new item available in the Supporter Shop: Bald Scavenger’s Chest, which contains one of the all available Skin items
– Updated the Guild window help panel
– Updated the PVP events memorials in the arena

Fixes:

– Fixed an issue with the size-limited world event party causing that a player taking part in the world event, who was revived during it, wasn’t being moved back from the event area in the end
– Fixed an issue allowing to trade other players with “/trade” or “/t” chat commands on large distances
– Fixed an issue allowing to revive other players while swimming
– Fixed reported invisible NPC enemies
– Fixed an issue causing that the player-built objects couldn’t be destroyed in the same server session in which it has been created
– Fixed displaying the guild chat and whispers in the Alliance chat
– Fixed an issue causing that only guild’s leader and officers could open the storehouse’s door
– Fixed an issue causing that some skins weren’t being displayed in the Skins window on resolutions higher than 1920x1080
– Fixed the textures issues of the Champion’s Hood’s skins
– Fixed an issue causing that rejecting a guild invite caused re-sending it
– Fixed an issue allowing a player to send the guild offline invites to the same player multiple times
– Fixed displaying proper player’s name in the guild invite confirmation message
– Fixed displaying the furnaces’ tutorial text
– Fixed the message displayed when a player-built workshop is being destroyed by an enemy player
– Fixed a client-side issue causing that the gate in Sangmarian quest “It's time to take revenge” wasn’t being displayed

Nov 29, 2018

Patch Notes - Stellaris Update 2.2 "Le Guin" & MegaCorp

Stellaris - demasiri_pdx

The time has finally come to present the full patch notes for the 2.2 'Le Guin' update and the accompanying MegaCorp expansion coming out on December 6!

VERSION 2.2.0

DESIGNERS' NOTE

Greetings!

Stellaris has (once again) undergone bold changes! In 2.2 the focus of the changes has been to rework how you develop planets and to deepen the game's economy. The purpose is to make the management of planets more fun and engaging.

Tiles are gone, and have been replaced with Districts, Buildings, and Jobs. You will now instead construct City Districts, Farming Districts, Mining Districts, and Generator Districts, as well as various Buildings with more specialized roles. Districts and buildings provide Jobs, and a job worked by a Pop will produce resources.

As a planet gains more Pops it will unlock more Building Slots. Buildings work similar to how they did before, but now most of them provide Jobs instead of producing resources directly.

2.2 also introduces a new Trade Route system. What you essentially want to do is to collect Trade Value (found in space and produced on planets) by upgrading a nearby starbase. You should then set up a Trade Route leading back to your home system. Trade Value is converted into usable resources when it reaches your Trade Capital.

We recommend you to take a look at the updated tutorial!

Megacorp Expansion Features

Megacorps

Added the Megacorporation empire type, which features unique civics as well as the ability to become an economic powerhouse by spreading branch offices on the planets of other empires

Ecumenopolis

Added new ascension perk: Arcology Project, enabling the Decision to convert a planet to an City-World completely covered in urban sprawl

Xeno-Compatibility

Added new ascension perk: Xeno-Compatibility, which allows cross-breeding between species

Universal Transactions

Added new ascension perk: Universal Transactions, which makes it easier for Megacorporation empires to establish branch offices and commercial pacts

Caravaneers

Added the Caravaneers, nomadic space traders who will give unique offers in exchange for a variety of resources, and also offer games of chance in their home system

New Civics

Added new civic: Byzantine Bureaucracy, that reduces housing/amenities usage and allows for the construction of Bureaucratic Complex building that adds administrator jobs
Added new civic: Merchant Guilds, that add a merchant job to capitol buildings, and merchants provide unity
Added Shared Burden civic for all your luxury space communism needs, with a new prescripted empire using it, the Kilik Cooperative

New Megastructures

Added new Megastructures: the Matter Decompressor, Mega-Art Installation, Interstellar Assembly, and Strategic Coordination Center, including ruined versions you can discover

Slave Market

Added a galactic Slave Market so you can buy or sell slave Pops and robots (once the Galactic Market is established)

New Voices and Music

Added 3 new advisor voice sets as well as 16 minutes of new music (added to the soundtrack DLC as well)

New Canon Empires

Added new pre-scripted Empires using Megacorp mechanics, and changed the existing Chinorr to a Megacorp

Achievements

Added 10 new achievements

New Utopia Expansion Features

Hive Worlds

Added new ascension perk: Hive Worlds, similar to Machine Worlds but for Hive Minds, which allows them to terraform planets into living planets on which only hive drones can live. Hive Worlds gain a bonus to resource output and are not limited by deposits in how many resource districts they can support

2.2 ‘Le Guin’ Free Features

Added Simplified Chinese localization
Removed planet/habitat tile system, replaced with districts, jobs
Pops and Pop Jobs now belong to a social class (Pop Category) that determines their luxury needs. Social classes are ranked, and Pops that belong to a higher social class will refuse to take jobs belonging to a lower class until they demote over time
Added unemployment for pops without suitable jobs, which lowers planetary stability if their living standards are low
Added planetary housing, which is not a hard cap. Lack of sufficient housing causes planetary instability
More dynamic pop growth system: populations can grow and decline based on their rights, living standards, immigration/emigration
Added crime. Crime is generated by overcrowding and poor living conditions, and negatively affects planet stability. It can also generate events
Added new and reworked planetary decisions and empire edicts
Added new resource types (alloys, consumer goods, etc) which tie in to the economic simulation in many ways, diversifying the domestic activity of empires considerably
Added the Internal Market, where resources can be converted into other resources at a cost
Added the Galactic Market, in which all game resources can be bought and sold in open exchange between empires, with prices fluctuating based on supply and demand. This is formed when enough Empires are in contact with each other, replacing the Internal Market. Genocidal empires do not get access to the Galactic Market
Added trade routes, where you can collect trade value from upgraded starbases and send it back to your trade capital to convert to wealth for your empire. Reworked piracy system to link in to this, and added a patrol order so your fleets can actively suppress piracy
Added commercial pact diplomatic agreement, where the signatories gain trade value equal to 10% of the other party
Added Administrative Cap based on owned systems, districts, and colonies. It is a soft cap that, when exceeded, applies scaling penalties to leader cost, edict cost, research speed, etc. This replaces the old system of static penalties based only on systems owned, and more accurately reflects the size and complexity of your empire. Administrative Cap can be increased with techs and ascension perks
Introduced a new concept called Empire Cohesion. Empire Cohesion is increased by each owned system, and decreased by each external hyperlane connection and cut-off (non-owned) system inside your borders. If cohesion loss goes above cohesion gain, you will suffer penalties in the form of increased empire size and the corresponding costs it brings
Added 9 new basic Mandates relating to your empire's internal economy
Tweaked army display and ground combat screens, with improved army icons
Reworked planetary bombardment to produce devastation, which damages housing, amenities, trade value, and pop growth. High devastation will ruin buildings and kill pops
Reworked sectors to be automatically generated, removing the "mini-economies" and having them directly contribute to your empire stockpiles
Reworked factions to always give an amount of influence based on their faction approval, rather than having a hard cutoff below which they would contribute nothing
Reworked the Tradition Trees to synchronize with all the new systems
Replaced authoritarian Caste System with Stratified Economy living standards: does not use slavery but has a similar effect (happy rulers, downtrodden masses). Authoritarians can still use species-wide slavery. Slaver guilds civic is now required to enslave own species
Added alert messages for completing a Megastructure's intermediate upgrade steps
Added a conclusion to the Strong Magnetic Field events
Unity Ambitions are now a free feature, and no longer restricted to owners of Apocalypse
Added new single star custom system options
Created and implemented new SFX for Natural Wormholes which have been silent until now. No more.
Since the Chinorr have become a Megacorporation, replaced them in non-Megacorp games with a new prescripted empire, the Glebsig Foundation
Added technology Resort Worlds that unlocks the ability to designate a colony as a Resort World. This colony will be unable to have districts and most buildings built on it, but will increase amenities and immigration pull across the empire.
Added tech for Penal Colony worlds which have high crime rates but decrease crime on other planets
Added a tech for slaver empires to designate a world as a Thrall-World. Thrall-Worlds cannot support city districts or manufacturing/research buildings, but get vastly increased growth rate and access to special buildings and jobs for slaves
Updated tutorial to explain the new systems
Added the multiplayer observer mode from the 2.1.4 beta to the default game version
Deploy Hunter-Killer Drones decision can now be toggled on and off
Added a game setup setting for how many habitable worlds are guaranteed to spawn near your starting system
Research Agreements are now diplomatic actions, rather than being part of trade deals
End game victory conditions reworked into a score system, tallying up your total empire accomplishment based on size, population, military, tech, federations, and many other measures
Added some new Colony events.
Civilian ships are now constructed at starbase rather than planets
Added pop selection view to colony ship construction in starbases
Colony ships can now be built populated with any species which you have a migration treaty with
Colony ships built via the expansion planner will be automatically constructed at the starbase nearest the target planet
Planets have a decision to stop pop growth, although this comes with a penalty to stability for regular empires.
Blockers now generally reduce the usable districts on a planet, while clearing them often unlocks additional district types.
Clearing Blockers can now also give one time bonuses, i.e. clearing a slum grants a pop.
The homeworld of the First League is now an Ecumenopolis
Notifications dealing with the player’s own empire are now marked with a golden yellow rim to distinguish them from those affecting only other empires
Added 6 new corporate-themed empire flags

Balance

Improved distribution of space creatures and unique systems
Leader Capacity has been removed from the game and replaced with energy credits upkeep for each leader
Subterranean civilization famine event now uses food rather than energy
Increased the delay between the Prethoryn Vanguard and the main swarm arriving
You no longer get influence when another empire finishes first contact project before you do
Teachings of Warriors event now only gives energy as reward for selling to a private collector
Removed neighbor restrictions on rivals and most CBs
No longer possible to pick Imperial Prerogative as first ascension perk
Federation members now automatically have a commercial agreement with each other, but have to pay 15% of their energy credit income in federation taxes
Federations are now always led by the most powerful member empire rather than having a rotating presidency (25% more power than leader is required to replace an existing president)
Added a decision to curtail planetary growth through voluntary measures, available to empires that don't allow other forms of growth control. It reduces growth by 75% at the expense of increased pop upkeep
Reworked relative empire power to be based on fleet power, economic power and tech power (in order of descending importance). Economic power is calculated as the amount of resources produced by the empire each month, multiplied by the base value of said resources, while tech power is calculated by the total cost of researched techs
Added two new technologies for machine empires that improve pop assembly speed
Nivlac pops now generally spawn in groups of 15
Nivlac species trait effect on habitability and pop growth has been significantly reduced
Added Cadet difficulty setting as an 'easy' level below Ensign, granting the player economic buffs
Admirals no longer gain the Fleet Logistician trait from a random (MTTH) event
Changed Forlorn Ruins modifier to be -5% happiness instead of -20%
Drastically reduced the research cost for Entropic Recursion and Doctrine: Strange Loop, and removed their associated buildings
Drastically reduced the Machine Uprising's starting fleets so they shouldn't immediately economically collapse
Habitats now have a monthly alloy upkeep on their capital building
Strong/Weak traits now have a small effect on worker output
Culture shock is now a planet modifier rather than a pop modifier
Assimilation now faster, and planetary culture shock will be removed if there is only hive/cyborg/machine pops on the planet, because free will is a painful illusion
Xenophobes now get +10%/+20% pop growth instead of claim cost reduction (to balance for not having as much growth from migration, etc)
Ascension perk Defender of the Galaxy now grants bonus damage against the Tempest too
Ascension perk Galactic Contender also grants bonus damage vs the gate builders
Yuht, Vultaum, and Irassian Home systems now have some additional resources
Having an L-gate in your space increases the odds of rolling gateway tech if you don’t have a regular gateway
Spiritualist faction will no longer be unhappy about Tomb Worlds if you get Wormed
Having Psionic pops in your empire allows for the possibility of rolling the Psionic theory tech if not otherwise possible
Several existing civics have been adjusted to affect the new jobs system: Police State, Agrarian Idyll, Aristocratic Elite, Citizen Service, Exalted Priesthood and Technocracy
Species trait Thrifty now increases Trade Value production, new trait Ingenious increases Energy Production
Reduced cost of robo-modding a species
Reduced the cost of bio-modding a species
Databanks Uplinks tradition now increases research station output instead of unlocking assist research
Assist Research is now available from the start of the game
Ending a resource deal with a merchant enclave early now gives -5 opinion
Distinguished Admiralty civic effect on admiral level cap reduced from 2 to 1. In addition, the effect on naval capacity has been replaced with ship fire rate

Split the policies and edicts view into their own views
You can now start the game with the "-console" argument and it will dump all console commands to the info.log file
Added various info about target planets in the Resettlement dropdown list
Colonization screens only show the list of species and will generate a ship from the closest shipyard
Species are sorted in habitability order on the colonize "select species" window
Expansion planner now shows scripted district in a moddable way instead of being hardcoded into energy, minerals, food
The expansion planner now shows Rare Deposits
Added navigation sidebar and moved all topbar menu items to it
Reworked planet battle view to show frontline, reserved and disengaged armies separately
Standardized colors for displaying cost and time

AI now considers the potential resource gain against its system upkeep cost when deciding whether to build an outpost
Adapted AI to new economy system
Improved early game economy AI
AI will now revoke claims it has on empires it wants to maintain a long-term alliance with

Modding

Added scriptable leader classes, old classes are now attributes for the new ones
Added on_crossing_border on-action
You can now set an arrival_effect on auto_move_to_target, this will fire that scripted effect on arrival
Added "on_fleet_combat_joined_attacker" and "on_fleet_combat_joined_defender" on_action. Both are fired when fleet enter combat, scopes etc in the file "00_on_actions.txt"
Added country_trade_fee modifier
Replaced free_pop_slots trigger with free_housing trigger
Updated the "if" trigger to work in the same way as the "if" effect: if { limit = {...} } else_if { limit = {...} } else { ... }
Added define for default trade change
Added MARKET_FLUCTUATION_EPSILON define to avoid useless calculations
Added last_building_changed / last_district changed triggers
Added on_system_lost and on_system_gained on-actions
Create Species can now accept an event_target for the species class create_species = { class = event_target:caravaneer_fleet2_country.species }
Most modifiers in the game now take custom_tooltip to print a custom desc
Added perc_communications_with_playable trigger
Added triggers "has_rival = <Target>" and "has_overlord=<Target>"
Added is_half_species trigger
Added create_half_species effect
Added country-scoped variants of event pulses. Which countries get these is controlled in country type settings
Added GetRulerName to localization script in Leader scope
The "has_colonization_control" trigger now works like other species rights trigger: has_colonization_control = { value = no country =root }
Added a "can_colonize_with_species" game rule
It is now possible to directly script a civic as changing the empire's homeworld class, and this will be reflected properly in empire designer
The number of district types shown in the expansion planner is now fully moddable through a Define ( EXPANSION_VIEW_NUM_DISTRICTS ) However, the gui files must also be changed to have that number of district buttons/icons
Added set_market_leader effect
Anomalies with a null_spawn_chance set that are set to only happen once for the country/game will now be blocked from being rolled again if they fail to pass the null spawn chance check, meaning that some anomalies can be made properly rare and not occur in every game
Added the "diplomacy_economy" database where you can defines upkeep and production of resources for various types of diplomatic relations.
Added remove_deposit effect
Added is_deposit_type trigger
Add define for resource base, min and max price on the market
Add defines for constants in price change equation
Buildings can now have a custom tooltip effect

Bugfixes

Fixed incorrect starbase Missile Battery description
Restoring changes to Impossible Organism event to allow Nivlacs to be spawned on any planet, not just the capital
Fixed Contact Report: Primitives event sometimes fetching the wrong text key
Fixed incorrect pluralization for Gene Warrior armies
Fixed a handful of Crystalline Entities not being affected by the Crystal Pacification project
Fixed the Lokken Mechanists pre-scripted empire using the wrong ruler title
Fixed a bunch of old sound files that had bad loops or other cruddiness
Fixed literally unplayable localization bugs
Removed references to a nonexistent special project in an event chain
Fixed an edge case where paying off Marauders would cost you nothing
Fixed "The Xvan Labs" special project spawning in too-distant systems
Preventing Ketling planets subject to ongoing invasion, orbital bombardment and/or starbase construction from progressing to spacefaring Ketlings
Fix crash at start when the outliner settings contain double entries
Fixed Leviathans first contact report not firing in some cases
Scavenger Bot and Tiyanki Matriarch systems are now flagged as hostile (and guardian) systems
Fixed bug where upon re-election a ruler would not get a proper new mandate
Fixed Crisis ambient audio continuing to loop after Crisis has been defeated
Fixed an issue where Primitives would accumulate too many Ethics over time
Removed arrow from peace messages since they were misleading
Added localization that had been missing from Observation events that had been missing since 2015, good golly Miss Molly
Pacifists are now blocked from Aggressive First Contact protocols, as charming as it was that they had a loophole in their ethical structure that permitted unlimited violence until polite first greetings had been exchanged
Leviathan Death Notification message should now function
Fixed the bug when in the MP Lobby create new empire tab was shown beneath custom empires
Fixed the multiplayer "show players" mapmode being saved and reloaded in single player mode, resulting in all-grey maps
Fixed tutorial making observer mode outline visible in single player
Master Builders Ascension Perk no longer applies twice to Habitats
Marauder fleets now actually show up in the Marauder Vengeance event, rather than merely threatening to do so
Fixed a crash when deleting an empire led to having a corrupted empire design selected
Create vassal button now checks properly if a vassal can actually be created
Fixed multiple contact from same empire
Fixed empires created by rebellion, being released as a vassal always showing up with grey map colour
Fixed the "blue solution" sometimes not granting a trait
The red/green/blue event now adds a custom free trait so as not to mess with trait points.
There will now always be a minimum of one L-Gate system when playing with the Distant Stars Story Pack, regardless of galaxy size
Fixed peace deal localization
Fixed some loc references in post-war messages from Fallen Empires
Fixed the Horizon Signal event chain sometimes resulting in Pops getting incompatible traits
Fixed the Grateful Refugee pop modifier potentially stacking (modifier is now instead refreshed if the pop becomes a refugee again)
Contact Report: Leviathans (story.8) should now fire for all leviathans (will now display a special desc for mechanical leviathans)
Fixed an issue with terraforming in the Atomic Clock event
Numerous other bugfixes and performance improvements

Also, for our awesome modding community, here's the DD we did detailing the latest moddability changes.

We worked hard on this one. It changes the game in dramatic ways. Please enjoy it when 2.2/MegaCorp debuts next Thursday, December 6th!