Frostpunk 2 | City Maintenance Report - 20/09/2024

[h2] Day 1 Patch [/h2]

[h3] 20/09/2024 - 5.2.1-393919 [/h3]

Please Note: Some changes may not be applied to current save files. Full patch experience is guaranteed upon starting a new session.
We are aware of the stability issues MacOS players encounter as well as audio issues for users who are using 6-core processors. We are working on a solution and will send a fix as soon as possible.



[h3] Gameplay & Balance [/h3]

• Adjusted weather timeline for Steward and Captain difficulty levels
  
• Slightly reduced initial Trust across all difficulty levels
  
• Long harvesting sites last for 20% less time in Story mode
  
• 'Protect People' ability Guards cost changed from 16 to 24
  
• First Faction War spread will now occur after 10 weeks, down from 15
  
• 'Enforce Peace' ability now requires a Prison and no longer removes Faction Fervor
  
• Legionnaires community action now properly provides Prefabs
  
• New Home quest will no longer autocomplete when certain conditions are met
  
• Addressed a possible softlock in one of the paths in Chapter 5 if Steward resorted to radical solutions before Chapter 5 start
  

[h3] Interface [/h3]

• Removed Heatstamps references from Prologue
  
• Zeitgeist text will no longer leak outside of the tooltip
  
• Major dark mode improvements and polish
  
• Fixed game reacting to RMB input in the save menu
  
• Fixed leaking tooltips between districts and buildings during construction
  
• Fixed trust bar not changing to 'Captain's Authority' if it was force-passed by 'Stage Coup' ability
  
• Fixed cases where central notification could display a different law than the one offered by Grant Agenda community action
  
• Fixed territory names disappearing on some occasions after loading the save file
  

[h3] Art [/h3]

• Toxic gases VFX will now be properly removed during Chapter 4 flow
  
• Improved roads generation logic
  
• Adjusted positioning of Logistics deposit in Utopia Builder
  
• Fixed issues with pipes spawning in Utopia Builder colonies
  
• Various art tweaks & polish
  

[h3] Other [/h3]

• Local saves will now be properly recognized if the game is launched in offline mode (if the platform supports such functionality)
  
• Fixed keybindings resetting to default upon relaunching the game
  
• Fixed a very rare crash if the game was saved before city messages were opened
  
• Fixed a very rare crash upon using Automaton Swarm ability
  
• Fixed crash occurring when Steward abandoned a colony, reestablished it again, and attempted to trade with it
  
• Optimized 'Roundup' ability code so it no longer causes performance issues
  
• Fixed the ESC button not closing some of the panels
  
• Audio fixes and polish
  
• Localization fixes