Decision: Red Daze - Update 3 Patch Notes

Greetings, Survivors!

Whether you're a new survivor or an old-time veteran, right now is the best time to jump into the Dust Bowl. Why's that, you ask? Well, we have a new update for you, and it's a BIG one!

This update features:

Turret Repair

• Players can now repair and restore destroyed turrets to their previous level in one go.

User Interface Enhancements

• Added a Clear button to the Key Bindings window to empty hotkeys.
• Added icons for all keyboard control buttons.
• Hotkey icons are now displayed below the squad list to switch members quickly.
• Camera rotation option hotkeys can now be assigned with the keyboard.
• Added a grid to the map for easy orientation.

Balance, Gameplay, and QOL

• Survivors now equip melee weapons when they run out of ammo in any formation.
• Bosses consistently turn to the character when attacking or taking a hit.
• Almost completely removed self-healing from regular enemies.
• Boss self-healing speed reduced by two times.
• Increased health regeneration for some dogs.
• Guards won't leave the team outside settlement boundaries.
• Melee weapons, explosions, and fire now do damage to lying units.
• Addressed a missing button issue when breaking items in the workshop. Workshop item-breaking button is now placed at the bottom of the window and assigned a designated hotkey.
• Optimized unit loading for reduced delays during long-distance runs.

Visual Quality Improvements

• Improved the quality of achievement icons in the achievement window.
• Various small visual quality improvements.

Balance Changes:

Survivor Skills and Abilities

• Increased the Medic skill requirement for research in the lab.
• Increased the Worker skill requirement for food production on the farm.
• High-level zombies and mutants now have a chance to drop mines and grenades.

Economy and Crafting

• Increased farm food production by 20%.
• Reduced loot weight by 30%.

Weapons and Items

• Removed the power bar from the "Rambo" bow.
• Increased damage for the new top melee weapon.
• Adjusted the drop probability for new bows.

Audio

• Reduced the volume of mutant and zombie boss shouts.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a control bug that appeared after changing characters in the team window.
• Fixed the camera behavior on the first launch and when using a gamepad.
• Fixed a bug that sometimes caused the interface not to display squad members.
• Fixed some key-binding bugs.
• The camera is now fixed on the character when using a gamepad.
• Gamepad users can again switch between squad members with the [Back] button.
• Various small fixes.

These changes were made based on player feedback with the aim of enhancing the overall gameplay experience and addressing reported issues. Thank you for your continued support!

We hope you enjoy the changes and your time exploring the Dust Bowl!

—The Decision: Red Daze Team

Version 1.6.9

① ELO Ranking System
• An ELO ranking system has been added for MP games.
• This is optional and challenges can be set as ranked or unranked.
• A green ranked game symbol appears in the MP lobby for ranked games.
• Ranked challenges show the challenger’s current ELO rating in the “Accept Challenge” Tab.
• On-going ranked challenges show both players’ rankings (at the time that the challenge was accepted) in the tooltip in the “My Games” tabs. These are the values that will determine the adjustment to the players ELO rankings at the end of the game.
• A player’s ranking starts at 1000 and then goes up or down depending on victories or defeats in ranked games. The amount it goes up or down depends on the relative existing rankings of the two players at the time when the challenge was accepted.
• ELO rankings for FOG2 Ancients are shown here: https://www.slitherine.com/leaderboard/elorating/field-of-glory-ii

(Until there are some results in, the ElO rankings page will just show "The leaderboard is on maintenance, please wait")

② MP Chat Box
• This now allows text in the chat box to be selected and copied to the Windows clipboard using CTRL-C. It can then be pasted into other documents using CTRL-V.
• It also allows CTRL-V pasting from the clipboard to the chat box.

③ Unit Costs
• Heavy artillery increased from 36 to 40.
• Light artillery increased from 24 to 30.

④ Army Lists
• Added Philistine 800-600 BC allies to Assyrian 681-609 BC and Hebrew 681- 586 BC lists.
• Changed Apulian start date to 473 BC.
• Added Apulian allies to Roman 320-281 BC, Roman 280-220 BC, Roman 219-200 BC and Pyrrhic 280-275 BC lists.

⑤ Key Bindings
• Added Key Bindings to More Options panel.
• This allows the main map control keys to be rebound.
• You should not change the key bindings to use any of the following keys, which are used for other purposes : 1, 2, 3, B, C, CTRL, ESC, F, F1, F2, F3, F4, F6, G, K, L, N, R, X, SPACE.
• You should not use any of the following unless you are also altering their binding in the Key Binding UI: A, D, E, M, Q, S, W, Left Arrow, Right Arrow, Up Arrow, Down arrow, TAB.
• If your changes have any unforeseen effects, you can reset to the default settings.

⑥ Bug Fixes
• Anglo-Saxon Hirdsmen cost increased from 60 to 64.
• Fixed issue with Syrian Spearmen textures.
• Fixed bug that prevented men from stepping forward correctly when unit attacked in rear right corner.
• Fixed program flow issue that prevented custom battle mods altering the default map sizes (e.g. Ancient Greek mod) from working correctly in MP mirror matches.

Knights of the Chalice 2 Version 1.66

Hi everyone! Here's version 1.66 of Knights of the Chalice 2. Here's the list of changes:

• Fixed a source of crashes when transitioning to a different map and the mouse cursor is positioned over an inter-square door.
• Fixed a display bug when casting spells out of combat, which also prevented the casting of the single-effect version of Dispel Magic out of combat.
• Mousing over the class name in the character sheet of Bishops will also display the character's domain names.
• In the module Hearkenwold, the Mysticism Cleric Domain will correctly grant its bonus to the spells Bless and Bane.
• When mousing over both a character and an activable object that can be clicked, the game will now focus on the object.
• In the Creature Editor and Template Editor, clicking the button labelled 'Recalculate Slots' will now remove all of the spell slots of the character if the character has the class Warrior, Aristocrat or Commoner.
• In the Module Editor, in the 'Equipped Items' page of the Creature Editor, the tooltip information will now be correctly updated when you change the torso (armour) item or one of the weapons of the creature. Also fixed the tooltips when switching the position of two items.

Please don't hesitate to email me at enquiries@heroicfantasygames.com if you find any bugs and annoyances, so that I can fix the game quickly. A saved game may be very helpful, too.

I'll post a Kickstarter update soon.

Thank You So Much For Your Support, Valiant Knights and Wise Wizards! Enjoy :-)

3.10.2 “PYXIS” PATCH NOTES

① Features
• Added custom tab functionality to the outliner

② Balance
• Paragon leader Nasuz Demetor is now reclassed as Scholar and only has one Destiny trait (Vibrant Storyteller)
• Payback Origin: the "Declining Healthcare" modifier acquired during the "Out Of Warranty" event chain is now automatically removed after 5 years
• The Agrarian Upbringing trait can now be gained by all leader classes
• The Agrarian Upbringing trait is less likely to be rolled if another leader has the trait
• The Architectural Interest trait can now be gained by both officials and scientists
• The Army Veteran trait can now be gained by both scientists and officials
• The Army Veteran trait is less likely to be rolled if another leader has the trait
• The Enlister trait has been moved from officials to commanders and now gives soldiers to the governed planet (tier 1) and sector (tier 2)
• The Entangled Dark Matter astral rift now completely overwrites the personalty of the selected scientist if they are not psionic
• The Environmental Engineering trait can now be gained by all leader classes
• The Environmental Engineering trait is less likely to be rolled if the leader's empire has the Environmentalist civic
• The Environmental Engineering trait now requires a blocker removal tech to be researched
• The Foreign Consciousness trait is now a destiny trait
• The Kaleidoscope now has a chance of appearing anytime after midgame starts, instead of always appearing at the start of midgame
• The Mining, Farming and Generator focus traits have moved from officials to commanders
• The Planetary Analyst destiny trait can now be gained by both commanders and scientists
• The Retired Fleet Officer trait can now be gained by both scientists and officials
• The Retired Fleet Officer trait is less likely to be rolled if another leader has the trait
• The Righteous trait can now be gained by both commanders and officials
• The Traumatized trait now negatively impacts Astral Rift Exploration Speed
• The Unifier trait is less likely to be rolled if another leader has the trait
• The Xeno-Mediator destiny trait can now be gained by all classes

③ Bugfixes
• Astral Rifts now appear as not leading to anywhere when the player's astral rift pool is empty
• Blocked commanders for end-game crisis factions having non-admiral traits
• Corrected draw weight for Shipbreaker trait
• Corrected modifiers on Agrarian Upbringing
• Corrected some trait names
• Correctly locked a number of Delegate GalCom focus traits to require the DLC that unlocks their resolution category
• Dimensional Locks now forbid access to countries without communications
• Fixed a number of opposite trait pairs not taking into account their levelled versions
• Fixed a visible trigger check in the first contact description for Amoebas and Crystalline Entities
• Fixed all leaders in imperial empires using the regnal namelists instead of only the ruler and heir
• Fixed an error in the "Out of Warranty" event chain that occasionally left you stuck with a permanent "Declining Healthcare" modifier
• Fixed Ancient Rampart not applying its modifiers correctly
• Fixed astral rifts exploration UI getting locked when all narratives had been explored
• Fixed dimensional dump astral rift sometimes creating a leader with no name
• Fixed Dimensional Shrine not being buildable in Terminal Egress system
• Fixed discoveries tab not being displayed when tabs order has been customized
• Fixed heirs being able to have planar theorist trait despite not being capable of exploring astral rifts
• Fixed leader age staying frozen after leaving an Astral Rift
• Fixed missing 0 on Collaborator II's sector modifier
• Fixed outliner sometimes opening the astral rift view on the wrong rift when clicking on a ship exploring an astral rift
• Fixed reformating regulatory node agenda for machine empires
• Fixed Revolutionary Medi-Gel not affecting Pharma State civic production for Medical Workers
• Fixed ship build cost modifiers not being applied
• Fixed starting gestalt nodes not benefiting from initial leader level modifiers
• Fixed the Numistic Administration species trait
• Fixed the right-click menu not appearing for archaeology sites
• Fixed some modifiers with a multiplier not being applied
• Fixed the Surveyor relic trying to fire an effect on a habitat orbital when none exists
• The Ancient Ramparts Starbase Module now mentions what modifiers it has to Defense Platforms
• The astral rifts now correctly check for Chosen One traits in addition to the Psionic trait
• The empire created by the Animator of Clay now correctly spawns their council
• The Factory Focus trait is no longer blocked for gestalts, but instead checks that they have a use for consumer goods instead (ie it is valid for Rogue Servitors)
• The Sensor Array Power Surge event can no longer target Astral Scars, planets with deposits or planets that have a habitat orbital
• Updated science nexus events to check for renowned and legendary paragon scientists

④ Stability
• Mac crash fix (one of threads run out of the stack mem by alloca in a loop)
• Workaround for rare crash when rendering empire borders

⑤ Performance
• Fixed performance issues caused by outliner notification.

⑥ AI
• When adding council positions, AI will prioritize Head of Research, Minister of Defense and Minister of State if it doesn't have them

⑦ Modding
• Added @anti_synergy_weight_mult scripted variable for leader trait weights
• Added ai_priority to councilor type
• Added background_planet scope for leaders
• Added has_blocker_removal_tech scripted trigger
• Added Ship Class modifiers for armor and shield hardening, `shipclass_<class>_armor_hardening_add` and `shipclass_<class>_shield_hardening_add`
• Updated LEADER_GOVERNOR_MONTHLY_EXPERIENCE to LEADER_ASSIGNED_MONTHLY_EXPERIENCE
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This release does not yet have fixes for two Linux issues, but we have workarounds for two of them:
• If you are crashing on startup, players have reported that starting Steam, disabling the internet, then loading the game bypasses the issue. Internet can be reenabled afterwards.
• If you are crashing while hosting a multiplayer game on Ubuntu 20.04, switching to Cross Platform multiplayer appears to resolve the issue. It is also not present on Ubuntu 22.04.

Players have also reported issues with certain event leaders missing traits and envoys convincing themselves they're real people, these will be fixed in 3.10.3.

Outliner Customization
In 3.10.2, we've added the ability to fully customize your Outliner tabs. In your Outliner Options, there is now a toggle for Custom Outliner Tab, which will let you select any elements you wish to show on that particular tab. This should allow you to set up your tabs however you desire, including putting everything on a single tab or duplicating the same information across different tabs if you wish. (For example, if you want a "Peace" and "War" tab, with different information or sorting.)

So What's Next?
We're continuing to focus on stability and bugfixing for the next few weeks.

3.10.3 is planned for next week, and we plan on continuing the pattern of releasing the build early as an Open Beta while it's undergoing certification.

3.10.4 is expected the week after that, and will include translated localization for the various changes made in the first three patches. (As well as further bugfixing as needed.)

And After That?
The 3.11 "Eridanus" update in 2024Q1 will focus on stability, AI, and balance.

We're planning on running a balance related Open Beta over the holidays to collect feedback regarding some experiments around Research.

1.9 Update

This months update contains the following changes:

New content

• added a bonus scenario designed by Astrotron (requires both DLCs and beating the base campaign to appear)
• added cleaning threshold setting to shops
• added car spawner and meteorite spawner effects (only available in scenario editor)
• added modding support for light sequences (thanks to tristar!)
• added Polish translation (thanks to Artur!)

Fixes and improvements

• updated game loading screen (apart from looking nicer it should also load slightly faster)
• fixed refund amounts for destroyed objects not working as intended (before, you'd get a full refund for about 20 minutes and a 20% refund afterwards; now, objects slowly start losing value once they are older than 5 minutes until the 20% refund value is reached after about 45 minutes)
• fixed advertisement campaign UI sometimes not working as expected
• fixed custom music song title not being displayed when starting the game for the first time after adding the song
• fixed modded paths not connecting to rides properly
• fixed two rocks in the Sheer Cliffs scenario that couldn't be removed

November 2023 Build Challenge Results

Here are the winning entries:

These workshop items are now included as default blueprints in the game

Hero's Journey (Updated)

Excitement: 75.9 (Extreme)
Intensity: 36.7 (Medium)
Nausea: 14.4 (Very low)

Approximate Cost: ~$12,822.57
Approximate Cost (without decoration): ~$7,391.00

+++

Mountainhome

Excitement: 90.5 (Extreme)
Intensity: 31.7 (Medium)
Nausea: 16.3 (Low)

Approximate Cost: ~$13,000.03
Approximate Cost (without decoration): ~$7,661.00

+++

Screech Owl

Excitement: 63.0 (Very high)
Intensity: 27.5 (Low)
Nausea: 16.0 (Low)

Approximate Cost: ~$12,472.00
Approximate Cost (without decoration): ~$8,203.00

+++

Escape from the Golden Temple

Excitement: 81.9 (Extreme)
Intensity: 55.8 (Medium)
Nausea: 23.1 (Low)

Approximate Cost: ~$12,996.01
Approximate Cost (without decoration): ~$8,487.00

+++

Kutumbaba

Excitement: 84.1 (Extreme)
Intensity: 36.9 (Medium)
Nausea: 19.3 (Low)

Approximate Cost: ~$12,337.90
Approximate Cost (without decoration): ~$8,203.00

Version 1.2.0.13

⯈ Bugs
---• Fixed one noise-related way of breaking Zaman's introductory cutscene; also, Chop Chop will now properly go to his guard spot after certain things happen
---• Fixed the bug that prevented the player from toggling off auras when they do not meet the requirements for turning it on (e.g. not being able to turn off Precognition because you don't have enough psi points)
---• [Expedition] Text in the specialization list search bar will now again be visible in Classic UI mode
---• [Heavy Duty] Fixed the bug that caused a certain special weapon not to trigger on hit effects such as Hit and Run
---• [Heavy Duty] Secondary ammo belt on miniguns will now properly increase weapon's value and weight
---• [Heavy Duty] Fixed railcar still having full power even after getting EMPd
---• [Heavy Duty] Fixed an occasional crash in one of the Compound zones
---• [Heavy Duty] Fixed missing music in the zone you meet the crew after returning from the Compound
---• [Heavy Duty] Fixed incorrect music and portrait background while in Rag's boutique
---• [Heavy Duty] Fixed technomedic armor's injection and recharge abilities only working on some npcs
---• Minor dialog/zone fixes

Patch 1.6.1 Adds some extra shine to the latest patch!

Bug Fixes

• Edge barriers and rift shard cores can be destroyed when you are awakened and attack them.
• Scrying stones and vantage points cannot detect themselves.
• When you stumble upon a clue for a quest you don’t have yet, that quest automatically unlocks.
• Unlocked quests are correctly transferred to the next wayfarer.
• Fixes an issue with rumors being cleared accidentally between runs.
• If you travel past a site, the wayfarer remembers its name and features.
• The loremaster correctly reports about the previous wayfarer again.
• Removes obsolete hint spots.

Gameplay Changes

• Quests objectives that aren’t completed have more prominent indicators on the map.
• The shelves in the library Haven indicate the starting letters of the books they contain. (This might be further refined in the future).
• The legendary items you can find each have their own side quest.
• Researching anything other than recipes now costs 10 sparks.
• The element attuned conditions grant you the possibility of controlling sources of that type directly.
• Wearing an elemental mask makes you attuned to that element.

Patch note Ver2.08

Fix for Spider in Act 12

• Fixed situation to take friends off-stage
• Fixed an issue where pathways were not working properly
• Fixed an issue where attack actions were confusing

Fixes to Act 13 boss

• Fixed an issue where the change in attack patterns was not working
• Adjusted strength.
• Fixed an issue where binding attacks were not occurring
• Fixed an issue where summoning reinforcements was not functioning properly

Fixes for Idol mode

• Improved lag in Idol mode
• Fixed issue with failures in free live

Fixes for combat

• Fixed an issue with zipline behavior where heroines would not assemble
• Fixed an issue where turrets were not attacking some enemies effectively
• Fixed an issue where the clothing portion of the idol decoys did not become a hologram and remained in normal clothing
• Fixed an issue where the "The shaking thing" achievement would not unlock
• Fixed an issue with the Halloween and Christmas Sudage best score display
• Fixed an issue where Act 10 bosse would not die if they took lethal damage from falling damage
• Fixed an issue where death during siege is treated as clear in Act 9

Fixes for costume

• Adjusted the physics of the skirt part of the Chinese clothing
• Fixed an issue in which a part of Enomaru's outfit was out of place
• Fixed an issue where Hikari's facial expressions did not work properly when she was wearing her gym uniform

Fixes for mini-games

• Fixed an issue where background musics were not played
• Fixed an issue where the controls would not work properly when returning to the hometown from the photo studio.

Fixes for death scenes

• Fixed issues with some death scene playback

Fixes for for scenes

• Fixed some translation errors and Fixed an issue

HOTFIX 1.0.2 Spacecraft Repairs: PC requirements, DLSS & hardlocks

Big thank you to every astronaut who has submitted bugs/feedback, and thank you all for taking part in The Invincible’s cosmic adventure!
Since the release we have been working hard to solve as many of the reported issues as possible. Here’s another part of spacecraft improvements.

Improvements

Save system

• Thank you for all your feedback about the game's save system. We have made a small improvement for now, but we plan to make more fundamental changes to this system in the near future as a part of a larger patch.
Since this hotfix, a separate backup of your save is made before every new checkpoint. This will allow you to manually overwrite your chosen slot save in case you meet any hardlock or want to go back to the exact moment of your playthrough.

All your saves can be found in this folder:
C:\Users\<user_name>\AppData\Local\TheInvincible\Saved\SaveGames

Minimal requirements

• More astronauts are now able to take part in the mission on Regis III as we have optimized the game for older graphics cards with 2GB or 3GB RAM. In Full HD on High and Epic settings, the game should work at around 25-30 FPS.
Due to this improvement, we are changing the minimal requirements for graphics to AMD R7 260x (2GB) or Nvidia GTX 760 (2GB).

DLSS

• Added presets for DLSS quality settings.

Other improvements

• Fixed various hardlocks and softlocks reported by players (old saves should also work properly in these cases):
• further fixes for a missing interaction of the passage between rocks in the City area,
• further fixes for Yasna getting stuck next to the window in one of the game's endings (the song's fault!),
• the possibility of getting blocked by an invisible wall on the 4th point looking for Gorsky and on the Convoy force field area,
• some cases with missing rover interactions,
• a possibility to avoid climbing interaction and blocking the game ending on the cliff,
• a double hint for a stuck vehicle in the Convoy area,
• a possibility to get stuck next to the landed probe in the Base area,
• general problems with hiding the equipment or map.
• Fixed several areas where players were able to get stuck between the landscape/props collisions (e.g. Base, City).
• Improved teleprobe behavior (crazy speeding and duplicating itself).
• Different minor quest/level design fixes.
• Default frame rate settings are now set based on the graphic quality preset.
• Fixed map layout reload from checkpoint.
• Fixed lighting parameters for Rohytra mesh during the battle scene.
• Some animation, environmental, and lighting fixes and polishing.
• Audio volume fixes for character voice-overs (e.g. inaudible Novik lines) and SFX for footsteps.

Issue reporting

From now on, when encountering any issues, you can also send us additional telemetric data from the game level, which will significantly speed up the debugging process. Just press CTRL+C during the game, open a Notepad, press CTRL+V and save the file, and include this as an attachment in the support form. Please, also attach your save files and a DxDiag report:

1. How to save a DxDiag report?

1. Click on Start.
2. Type "DxDiag" and launch DxDiag.
3. Click on "Save all information".
4. Save "Dxdiag.txt" file.

2. How to find your saves from the game?

If you downloaded the game to the C disk, you should find them in:
C:\Users\user_name\AppData\Local\TheInvincible\Saved\SaveGames

HOTFIX 1.0.3 Spacecraft Repairs: ultrawide support, hardlocks & UI

We want to thank every astronaut who has submitted a bug report or shared their feedback with us, and all of the astroscientists that have already taken part in The Invincible’s cosmic adventure! Together with your help, we have improved the playing experience on Regis III. Here is the list of changes coming with hotfix 1.0.3.

Minimum requirements

PS Just a reminder: after the hotfix 1.0.2. we have lowered the PC requirements. Our performance tests proved that The Invincible will run on graphics cards with 2GB or 3GB RAM. In Full HD on High and Epic settings, the game should work at around 25-30 FPS. If you have AMD R7 260x (2GB) or Nvidia GTX 760 (2GB), you can enjoy the cosmic adventure to the fullest now.

Improvements:

We have heard loud and clear the voice of our supporters who would enjoy playing The Invincible on ultrawide resolutions, so we added the ultra widescreen support to the game. Enjoy!

• Fixed various hardlocks and softlocks reported by players (old saves should also work properly in these cases):
(a) the possibility of getting stuck before reaching 4th Gorsky's point in the objective ‘Find Dr. Gorsky’,
(b) the incorrect checkpoint save on the 4th point, which spawned the player in the wrong place after loading,
(c) the possibility of getting stuck next to the antimat in the convoy area.
• Fixed the position of a saucer after the crash.
• Fixed a relay transmitter usage (showing/hiding) and added its missing shadow.
• Different minor quest/level design bug fixing (e.g. dialogue timings, hints and interaction improvements).
• Improved body and camera movement while holding or using equipment.
• Improved controller input (it should feel more natural now).
• Improvements and further optimization for screen resolution and other graphic settings.
• UI/UX improvement for language settings (full language names instead of codes).
• UI/UX improvements for gamma settings.
• Some animation and environmental polishing.
• Minor SFX/VFX bug fixing and polishing.
• Several localization fixes.

Improvements

• Improved Crystal Sentry monster detection
• Improved Player collision with Monsters
• Improved inertia feeling of the player movement

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where monsters would glide around
• Fixed monsters dodging through pillars, walls and obstacles.
• Fixed "item fountain" problem with high combo values
• Fixed Tutorial screen missing graphics in Episode 1
• Fixed Bloom setting not working correctly
• Fixed an issue when game might softlock after being killed when Armored Spike perk was equipped in Episode 2

Misc

• Removed edge-detection effect
• Removed an out-of-date Color Shader setting which did not work