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ANNOUNCING: New "Interdimensional" DLC for Offworld Trading Company!

Stardock and Mohawk Games Announce New Interdimensional DLC for Offworld Trading Company


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Stardock and Mohawk Games announced a new DLC, called Interdimensional, for their critically acclaimed real-time strategy game, Offworld Trading Company, today.





Offworld Trading Company is an economic strategy game by Soren Johnson, lead designer for Civilization IV. Players are trying to build a corporation on Mars, but the competition is fierce - others are standing in the way of success, and victory is hard-earned through mastering and manipulating the Martian stock market.

The Interdimensional DLC explores an alternate reality by combining all of the challenges players have faced on Jupiter’s moons Io and Europa, as well as on Mars’ moon, Ceres. Players will vy for economic dominance on maps with mixed terrain where all the rules of different worlds are in play at once.





A variety of terrain types and custom maps adds new challenges for any aspiring offworld traders. The frozen tundra of Europa could exist right beside the hot volcanic surface of Io on these worlds, making careful decisions a necessity of survival. Players will need to think ahead about building placement, since structures that were previously only available on one world can now all appear on the same map together.

Players will have the opportunity to both explore pre-made custom maps as well as create and share their own maps via the Steam Workshop. Offworld Trading Company’s other DLC and expansions are not required to play Interdimensional.



“We wanted to give players a challenge,” said lead designer Soren Johnson. “I think that Interdimensional provides a unique experience for both seasoned veterans and newcomers. We’re excited to see what kinds of maps people create, too.”

[h2]Offworld Trading Company: Interdimensional DLC is coming soon. [/h2]
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Have You Played… Offworld Trading Company?


Have You Played? is an endless stream of game retrospectives. One a day, every day, perhaps for all time.

OK, I know this is my second Have You Played…? to find an excuse to start by talking about Age Of Empires 2, and I imagine Alice Bee is making a proper wolf noise out of frustration as she edits this. I am almost sorry. But like a smug schoolboy proclaiming he’s “home” in a game of “it” by touching a tree, I’ve got a cast iron excuse here. Because Offworld Trading Company‘s lead developer Soren Johnson told me himself that this cracking solar-system economics-’em-up was directly inspired by the simple yet robust supply/demand modelling behind the market building in AoE2.


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Offworld Trading Company 1.23.40207 Update Notes

Mohawk Games and Stardock are pleased to announce a new update for Offworld Trading Company. This new patch contains the following changes:

  • Fixed lobby chat to show "[AI Player]" team change instead of "Unknown"
  • Direct connection attempt if NAT fails, kick player from lobby (with informational popup) if both fail so game doesn't hang on start
  • Fix for doubled observer text
  • Toggle AI icon appropriately when players join/leave AI slots
  • Fixed an issue where restore code prevented players from building multiple times on a tile
  • Fixed Show ELO option
  • Temporarily removed PIRATE_HIT_TARGET audio (too harsh and unclear)
  • No longer send game starting message until all clients are connected to server
  • Improved leave lobby if game fails to start so failed lobby can get cleaned up
  • Highlight tiles adjacent to HQ if the only tiles with adjacency bonuses are remote
  • Re-sort leaderboards after adding the player's new score
  • Fix for player messages showing up as observer messages after the game ends
  • Extra checks and logging at game start added
  • Only increment global hack counters when hacks finish
  • Restore robotic adjacency in tutorial 1
  • Fix for matches not starting properly on first attempts
  • Fix for infinite map challenge progress incorrectly overwriting existing progress
  • Fix for remote buildings not sharing resources properly
  • Fix for event state help formatting
  • Looser conditions for transferring resources to buildings in group
  • Fix for ranked matches not always starting properly
  • Fix for campaign unlocks not working consistently on Epic
  • Correcting Russian singular/plural expressions with feedback from the OW discord
  • Fix for null reference in server logs

Offworld Trading Company 1.23.35836 Patch Notes

Mohawk Games and Stardock are pleased to announce the release of version 1.23.35836 of Offworld Trading Company today!

Changes include the following:

[h2]Features[/h2]
+ Crossplay between Steam and Epic Games Store owners is now enabled for multiplayer games, as well as on the leaderboards for daily changes and infinite map challenges.

[h2]Fixes[/h2]
+ Improved performance.
+ Fixed some terrain icon issues.
+ Fix for Liquid Batteries tooltip, special building cycling in replays
+ Fixed an issue where some players were unable to install if they had a - in the path name
+ Fixed an issue where auctions sometimes didn't trigger in the campaign
+ Players marked as timed out while still being connected (AI player starts playing with you bug)
+ Change clients to ping more consistently (disconnects in MP bug)
+ Can't start a game if anyone other than the host is an observer
+ AI Players option disabled when Random Location is selected
+ Allow layout to recalculate with string length compares (to avoid weird formatting issues)
+ Restore chat scroll to bottom and message recycling
+ Reduce network traffic for lobbies
+ Fix for too many query stat requests
+ Fixed a bug that was keeping campaign and scenarios progress from being saved
+ Observer fixes and clearer lobby connection warnings
+ Leaderboard fixes (hide missing avatars, actually load data)

[h2]UI[/h2]
+ More Granular volume sliders.
+ UI optimization.
+ Colorized net revenue text for the import buttons.

Offworld Trading Company is 50% Off During the Winter Sale

For a limited time, pick up Offworld Trading Company for 50% off its regular price during the Steam Winter sale! Need even more Offworld action? Complete your collection with the Gold bundle for an even bigger discount.