STONKS-9800: 0.4 Update - The Beginning of Entertainment
This update is just the beginning of a series of updates with fun and more!
[h2]New features:[/h2]
- At the end of each year, the financial publication will create a selection of the best companies of the year and the top most influential people of the year, which the player can get to: both wealth and reputation are taken into account;
- New opportunity to go to the arcade and play a Shoot'em'up game and collect gachapon toys (more games will be added later);
- A few new events in the bar;
- Your friends can invite you to go for a walk in the city, and then you can choose where you want to go;
- A map with possible places for entertainment (will be greatly expanded);
- The ability to go to the temple and park with friends;
- New very rare real estate offers with discounts with new events;
- A player can be expelled from the company's board of directors if his reputation in the company is very low;
- New possible event for the company director;
- Yakuza now require regular payments for their services;
- Yakuza now provide more services;
- Some employees with a yakuza connection can provide "special services" if the player also has a yakuza connection;
- You can now become an enemy of the Yakuza and they will make your life miserable;
- If a player is in a high position in a company, their actions in the market regarding this company become more influential and can cause new events and news;
- More different news;
- Companies will now issue new shares, and the player, if he owns a large stake, will give his consent to this. Without issuing new shares, companies will hit a ceiling at some point;
- New achievements.
[h2]Amenities:[/h2]
- Improved Japanese translation;
- The game now has partial support for Steam Input, which means the buttons are displayed correctly for different gamepads (Xbox, Dualshock, Dualsense, Pro Controller). However, the correct display of buttons is not guaranteed when changing configurations in Steam settings;
- Gamepad controls: the ability to exit various menus by pressing the button, as well as to scroll through various lists using the D-pad, for example, in the list of real estate, cars, jobs, etc.
- The portfolio menu can now be found on the stock exchange, and you can now see the dividend yield of companies there;
- The portfolio now has a guide to "?", as well as an explanation of each column;
- The speech mini-game has been slightly redesigned to make it easier to understand what you need to do;
- The sound of the phone ringing is now quieter;
- Pop-up notifications can now appear several at a time to make it easier to deal with them;
[h2]Balance:[/h2]
- Selling and buying large portions of your company's shares instantly affects your company's reputation and makes news;
- Penalties for market manipulation are now more severe;
- The daily growth of R&D points in a company has been reduced under certain conditions;
- Donations no longer give as much public reputation growth;
[h2]Bug fixes:[/h2]
- Fixed a bug with calculating the efficiency of the main department in your own company;
- Now you will not see the connections of a potential employee with the Yakuza if you do not have any connections with them;
- Fixed a bug that prevented the field of activity chosen by the player from being taken into account when creating a company;
- Fixed a bug that prevented clicking on company names on the second page of the portfolio;
- Fixed a bug with an incorrect message for the player as the head of the company;
- Receiving insider information now lowers ethics instead of raising it;
- Fixed a bug that sometimes miscalculated the player's wealth in terms of houses and cars.
- The game no longer crashes if you exclude all companies on the chart;
- Fixed a bug that prevented special achievements for CEO mode from being credited if the game was loaded (unfortunately, it will only work in new games);
- Fixed a bunch of other minor bugs.
