The Brew Barons News

- fix brewery softlock when blending animation step fails to finish
- fix brewery ingredients would be lost if you selected the contracts or recipe panel after having dropped some ingredients in the pot, now the pot keeps its contents when those panels are opened. If other brewery panels are opened then the pot will be reset and ingredients returned.
- fix Marin-Keften mission softlock in the hangar when the initial conversation failed to play
- fix wind barrier from slowing down the plane and made it more transparent
- fix controller mode roll input causes unexpected pitch up
- recipe collection UI moved to the side to prevent blocking vision
- all world quests received from NPC planes receive more money and fame, and time allowance is increased
- Damage Control heavy fuselage rewards 40% less money on damage
- Final battle time allowance increased

Thanks for your continuing patience as we work through these issues, we will keep on making these patches as frequently as we can.

- fix for salvage minigame getting stuck in black screen
- fix for crates being pushed out of reach in salvage minigame
- fix for exit button being unclickable in salvage minigame
- fix for unexpected plane deaths when returning from bars or salvage minigame
- fix mouse cursor disappearing in interiors after using pause menu
- fix smog dome not deactivating after beating boss in Gojko-Marin mission
- fix some save games fail to load with unexpected pirate data
- new games will now validate copied data files before starting the game, if an error is found a warning message box will display instead of starting
- starting a previously saved game using Load or Continue will copy the save game to a backup folder prior to starting. This folder will have the suffix _bkp and can be used to restore the game if the original gets corrupted which some people have experienced.

If you do get a problem with your save game please get in touch with us on the Discord, we may be able to fix it up.

- Fix Brewery product panel Create was not working, now it should automate the brewing process for a previously created brew as long as you have the required ingredients
- Fix bomb tutorial conversation clashing with Franci story conversation causing bomb to never be unlocked
- Added fallback for saved games which did not activate the bomb ability, this should restore the ability although it may not happen instantly
- Fixed New Chapter button in the Roster panel should not appear as it causes bugs, people who pressed it previously may have put that story into a bad state.

Sorry again for the inconvenience caused by these bugs, if you think your save game might be in a bad state please get in touch with us on our Discord where we might be able to fix the files.

Continuing apologies to everyone affected by these problems and thanks for your patience:

- Fix for softlock at the end of the Bar section of the tutorial
- Fix for loss of input after opening pause menu to change settings, and then using Escape to close menu.
- Fix for pirate smog dome not deactivating after you defeat a pirate boss with the smog engine equipped
- Fix for brews disappearing from inventory if they were discarded from the Product panel.

We will continue to fix issues as fast as we can so do keep submitting bug reports when you encounter problems.

Unfortunately the previous hotfix did not seem to fix the issue so we are trying again, sorry again for the annoyance to those who have run into this.

Also added some diagnostics for the issue where plane input control is lost following use of the settings menu.