This update brings new issues into the game based upon recent political events.

NEW ISSUES:

• Firing Big Bird


• Arming Syrian Rebels (new issue corresponding to broader middle east crisis)

STAT UPDATES:

• Obama's charisma stat lowered from 9 to 8 (based on debate performance)


• Chik-fi-let issue now has lower national importance

• Adding playable Historical candidates

• Abe Lincoln


• Bill Clinton


• George Washington


• John F Kennedy


• Richard Nixon


• Ronald Reagan


• Theodore Roosevelt


• Thomas Jefferson

• Paul Ryan is now shown as the Republican VP on the main menu


• Improved description text for Cheerleader operative to more accurately describe their effect


• Fixed inaccurate tutorial values for Advertisement types


• Stability improvements


• Fixed game window positioning for users with non-standard Windows taskbar positions


• Improved error message when connection lost in lobby


• Misc minor grammatical fixes

Stardock Entertainment is pleased to release the first update for The Political Machine 2012 today. The version 1.01 patch contains several
new issues, bug fixes and some balance updates.

Change Log:

• Added new issues to reflect current political climate:


• Added "Chik-fi-let" as a new issue


• Added "Provide Tax Returns" as a new issue


• Added "Gov. Builds Business" as a new issue


• Decreased importance of "Military Strike on Iran" and "High Gas Prices" to reflect current political climate


• Updated electoral votes for states that had census changes


• Fixed issue where custom candidates couldn't be selected in multiplayer


• Fixed memory leak that could lead to poor performance in very long games


• Fixed stability issues when a second game is started after a game has already been played


• Fixed multiplayer victory achievement


• Fixed a bug with a custom female body option referencing the wrong model


• Fixes for various stability issues


• Fixed multiplayer sync issue where the turn would sometimes not advance