• Battle changes:
• Seriously ill/injured or actively dying party members will now start battles with a permanent Weak debuff
• Almost all species/personalities now have a chance to become Enraged when damaged
• Shell skins are now properly memorised
• Added colour sprites for ~349 out of 400 items

• Home relation screen oddities:
• Potential game crash from Away/Work icons not showing on missing party members
• Away conditions not being reset for the visitor when the Active Reverian is missing
• Colour sprite oddities:
• Adult/Handler Merciren's jaw lacking the proper colouring in multiple frames, as well as stray pixels and colour bleeding
• Adult/Child Alt B Valzaios having uncoloured teeth
• Adult/Handler male Meicynia having stray pixels on their Battle frame
• Primordial ability and weather (de)buffs not always activating during battles
• Potential game crash from shell skins not being set properly while backing out of that scene
• Load screen not disabling backing out while a save file is being loaded
• Helpers' gender not being acknowledged in their initial sprite frame during SHIELD and TUG minigame

Hi everyone,

A quick update from me. I had to hit pause for a while, but... I’m building again.

I’m sorry for the delay and for keeping the release window open-ended. I don’t want to pin a date and then crunch or cut corners. I’d rather ship something I’m proud of than rush it just to meet a deadline.

What’s next

• Updates here on Steam: progress notes, screenshots, and tiny clips (or just a release).

• Devlog videos on my YouTube channel.

• A release date once I’m confident the core is solid and fun.

If you want to follow along, please Follow the store page and subscribe on YouTube-your comments help me decide what to polish first (don't forget to test demo if you didn't do it yet)

Your patience and support mean a lot and keep me going.

-Yours solo dev

Additions:

• Fisher unlockable class and associated weapons

• Mac Support

• Balancing to Classic Mode

• Bug Fixes

• Fixed areas where copy-paste didn't work on the grid

Document Reading Bug Fix

Some players were experiencing issues when trying to read multiple documents at the same time. We’ve fixed this issue by allowing zoom only once per document and reactivating it only after closing the current document. This way, it’s no longer possible to read more than one at a time, preventing the errors that affected the more impatient players.

Final Item Pickup Bug Fix

I just watched a streamer finish the game live and discover a bug right at the end. What an embarrassing moment! Thanks to them, I was able to fix an issue that occurred when picking up the last item of the game, where the character would get stuck with their eyes closed and couldn’t continue. Now it’s fixed!

Graphics Menu Improvements

Several issues in the graphics options menu have been fixed. All settings are now properly available, including Lumen, Screen Space, or Disabled (which is the default option). Additionally, all other graphical features have been adjusted to be fully accessible and work more reliably.

Optimization and Performance

We’ve made several internal improvements to optimize the game’s overall performance and slightly increase FPS.

Personal Note from the Developer

I say this with all my heart:
To everyone leaving negative reviews without any kind of context or explanation… I still love you too.
But it would help me a lot if, when something doesn’t work properly, you could add a bit more detail or context in your comments. That way I can identify and fix issues much faster.

My goal is always to make the game run as smoothly as possible and to give you the best experience I can.

Fixed some bugs introduced in 1.5.

Fixes

• Fixed Elf Sister (Tall)'s new male animation.

• Fixed buildable visuals sometimes staying permanent invisible until you restarted your game.

The bug causing buildables to stay invisible was challenging to fix due to how difficult it was to recreate. Lots of oddly specific requirements needed to be met for the bug to occur. But we got it fixed in record time!

~Captain Cake

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This patch adds improved AI for the teammate BOTS, as well as the following fixes:
- Add more details to some of the environment props.
- Fixed bug with the enemy driver sometimes appearing sunk inside of his seat and unable to be shot at
- Fixed some bugs with drone spazzing out like crazy when they crash
- Fixed a bug with the player unable to defuse bombs
- Prevent bots from targeting and shooting enemies that are far far away ( before the player even spots them )
- Fixed some bugs with the bots in an elevator

• Added a new transparent windowed mode setting to make it simpler to stream Familiar Findings using Game Capture source in OBS

We're back with another regular patch. Small but meaningful. Just how you like it.

This time we’re expanding the reach of Plains of Pain by adding new languages for two of our most passionate and growing communities. Alongside that, we’ve made technical improvements to help the world load faster when driving and cleaned up some things under the hood.

Let’s get into the details.

We’ve added full support for Polish and Korean. You can now play the game with all menus, UI, and in-game text localized for your region. Welcome to all new players joining from these communities. We’re happy to have you here.

Languages can be changed in the game settings at any time.

• Server prediction implemented to improve terrain generation during fast vehicle travel

• Fixed bad quest title and description

• Renamed faction reputation loot boxes for clarity

• Minor engine-level polish and technical improvements

Thanks again to every one of you for the support, feedback, bug reports, and ideas.

We’re building this world together and your motivation is what drives us to keep improving every single day. New languages, new players, better systems. And this is still just the beginning.

See you out there
Your Plains of Pain Dev Team

GHPC Early Access has been updated to version 20251030. As always, you can get additional info on this and future updates by visiting our Discord server and YouTube channel. Links are on the GHPC website.

The bulk of the team's efforts are now dedicated to finishing the remaining roadmap phases. These are longer-running tasks that don't fit cleanly into the typical update cadence we've established. Despite this, we're still able to bring smaller batches of regular improvements to the game, and we look forward to launching the more anticipated features when they're ready.

For more information, check out our recent developer stream.

This update introduces one additional Command Mode mission: "Support Strike", located in the Eastern Hills list in the Instant Action section. You'll be in charge of a T-72 force, tasked with overrunning a vulnerable NATO position and then holding it against any counterattacks.

As usual, the mission customization feature allows you to swap out vehicles and ammo at will once you've completed a mission at least once, so if you want to try this scenario with a different equipment matchup, the sky's the limit.

In the early days of the 125mm main gun on Soviet tanks, subcaliber ammunition wasn't quite as advanced as it became in the mid to late 1980s. The first main service round to hit the inventory was the 3BM9 APFSDS, a maraging steel dart designed to defeat the M60 series tanks of its day.

This round will appear on the Pact side of the campaign mode, should the logistics situation become truly dire. It's also quite useful for pairing with the early T-64 and T-72 models to create 1970s-style scenarios using the mission customizer.

In the midst of the many larger tasks on the board, we've finally found a moment to touch up the equipment on the BMP-1. The gunsight now features its complete ballistic markings for high explosive (HE) rounds and a more useful vertical position for the reticle, which should help aim shots at longer ranges, should the need arise.

We've also added the PG-15VS ammunition, an improved 73mm HEAT round that iterates on the original PG-15V. Soviet BMP-1s and the East German BMP-1P now have this revised round in their default ammunition load. You can select any 73mm HEAT round for use by BMP-1s in the mission customizer.

Our audio engineer continues to plug away at improving immersion through new sound effects. In this update we introduce impact sounds - the clangs and crunches that happen when you run your vehicle into things. We've also added some impact sounds for turrets landing on the ground after an unscheduled flight.

The NSVT machine gun has also had its audio updated to convey its correct fire rate. You can use this gun on the T-64 series tanks as a remote-controlled weapon system.

Soviet tanks during the Cold War era were often fitted with a special polymer lining to counteract neutron radiation, keeping the crew safer in the event of a battle unfolding against the backdrop of nuclear war. This material was a specially crafted blend similar to modern polymer body armor (UHMWPE), but infused with boron and other substances to enhance anti-radiation properties. A layer of this "podboi" cladding covered most interior surfaces of some tanks, starting with the T-55A.

It turns out, this dense material also served as a fairly effective spall liner. We were able to locate documentation of the anti-spall effects, which can be summarized broadly as a reduced spall cone angle and slightly reduced spall lethality. It will not remove all spall, stop primary penetrators, or anything of the sort - but in some very specific cases it could make the difference between surviving a hit and taking mission kill level damage.

We've now added podboi cladding, with the proper effectiveness, to the T-55A in GHPC. We'll see how the feature turns out on this vehicle and then consider what to do about the others in this era that were outfitted with similar linings.

• Added new command mission "Support Strike" in the Eastern Hills instant action list

• Added 125mm 3BM9 APFSDS round to the customizer and campaign system

• Added 73mm PG-15VS HEAT round as standard on BMP-1P and Soviet BMP-1

• Added 73mm HEAT options to the customizer

• Added impact sounds when vehicle hulls collide with solid objects

• Added impact sounds when falling turrets strike the ground

• Added "podboi" lining to T-55A crew compartment (this functions as a spall liner)

• Panning the map view can now be done with left-click drag again due to confusion over the previous control change (center-click still works as well)

• Updated rain rendering for more consistent visuals and much lower performance impact

• Updated BMP-1 gunsight reticle with more ballistic markings and a more usable center point

• Increased BMP-1 Malyutka missile count

• Updated NSVT machine gun audio

• Changed Pact Partnership mission name (note that this will reset completion status if it was already completed)

• Improved rendering of mission boundary zones on the in-game map screen

• Optimized some systems in the game code

• Fixed an issue that caused the friendly fire prevention checks to not function

• Fixed an issue that could lead to platoon members not remaining halted when waiting for go code

• Fixed an issue that could lead to a strange red glow in reflection highlights

• Fixed some issues with rocket trails and other VFX