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New and improved staircases

Beta 1.4.17 fixes feedback reports and error logging not working after a change from webhosting company Beta 1.4.16 fixes error when editing or placing modded furniture

Patch notes for Beta 1.4.15

Changes

Overhauled stairs, added railings and ability to customize look
Default priority is now 5
Improved employee selection highlighting

Fixes

Fixed roof texture mapping being bugged when roof is curved
Fixed food despawning on load
Fixed employee hair not greying
Fixed being able to overlap cubicle walls
Fixed being able to merge rooms in a way that would make them unsupported
Fixed the Game feature Digital exclusive music being limited by physical stock and causing unwarranted out of stock messages

New building materials out

Patch notes for Beta 1.4.14

Changes

Added ability to rotate, offset and scale floor textures

Fixes

Fixed roof texture tiling
Fixed car wheels being visible in basement
Fixed error when placing room on top of existing room and undoing

Patch notes for Beta 1.4.13

Changes

New materials added for buildings and most of the old ones have been overhauled
Building material system has been overhauled such that you can map 2 colors instead of just 1 and a metallic channel has been added
Added a simple skybox for reflections, even if SSR is disabled, so metallic materials still look decent
Hub caps are now varied across cars and randomized
New surveillance desk 3D model dropped
Made security's reaction to catching burglars red-handed a little more convincing

Fixes

Fixed grid missing in furniture editor
Fixed founders overlapping other UI elements in character menu if UI scaling is used on smaller screen resolutions
Fixed UI sometimes breaking after loading a game if pixel perfect UI was disabled
Fixed skyscraper window rendering being broken for like 3 years
Fixed sky not rendering as a gradient using OpenGL
Fixed wall drag tool not properly checking whether rooms are supported after change in some cases

New building materials out on unstable branch

Click here to see how to join the Unstable branch.

Patch notes for Beta 1.4.13

Changes

New materials added for buildings and most of the old ones have been overhauled
Building material system has been overhauled such that you can map 2 colors instead of just 1 and a metallic channel has been added
Added a simple skybox for reflections, even if SSR is disabled, so metallic materials still look decent
Hub caps are now varied across cars and randomized
New surveillance desk 3D model dropped
Made security's reaction to catching burglars red-handed a little more convincing

Fixes

Fixed grid missing in furniture editor
Fixed founders overlapping other UI elements in character menu if UI scaling is used on smaller screen resolutions
Fixed UI sometimes breaking after loading a game if pixel perfect UI was disabled
Fixed skyscraper window rendering being broken for like 3 years
Fixed sky not rendering as a gradient using OpenGL
Fixed wall drag tool not properly checking whether rooms are supported after change in some cases

Patch notes for Beta 1.4.6

Patch notes for Beta 1.4.12

Changes

Added auto-complete to some of the console command parameters

Fixes

Fixed freeware not being taken into account for digital distribution use
Growth and take over newspaper articles can now be translated
Employees can no longer complain after they have already quit or been fired

Patch notes for Beta 1.4.11

Changes

Localizor is now integrated into the language selection menu

Fixes

Fixed game breaking when getting hint notification about blocked assembly lines

Beta 1.4.10 Fixes save game window still bugging out if you scroll past corrupted saves

Beta 1.4.9 Fixes save game window bugging out if there are corrupted or no saves present at all

Patch notes for Beta 1.4.8

Changes

Complaint notifications wil now be removed for employees who are sick or on vacation
Heavily optimized save file window, which should decrease overall load times on computers with a lot of saves
Game will now also show grid aligned lengths of a wall when placing it at angles

Fixes

Staff will now take assigned rooms into account when deciding where to park
Fixed issue where empty elevator could get stuck thinking it was farty inside and not allowing anyone on again

Patch notes for Beta 1.4.7

Fixes

Fixed wall removal tool not working since last patch
Fixed atrium breaking when splitting it starting and ending on the same wall
Employees will no longer complain about benefits getting worse below a certain threshold (Some benefits affect employees differently as they age)

Patch notes for Beta 1.4.6

Changes

Added avoidance algorithm to avoid employees clipping into buildings and each other as much

Fixes

Fixed employee thumbnails missing beard textures
Fixed Big Brain trait being impossible to pick with high creativity in new game menu
Adjusted some floating point comparisons to reduce false positive wall intersection and room around room issues
Fixed not being able to place a duplicated room such that it is twisted around an existing room
Fixed out of stock notification breaking since changing when stock deduction is handled in previous patch

Patch notes for Beta 1.4.3

Beta 1.4.5 fixes project info window

Beta 1.4.4 fixes game breaking when trying to iterate in alpha

Patch notes for Beta 1.4.3

Changes

Introduced male pattern baldness
Added more coloring options to wind turbine

Fixes

Fixed bug that caused all add-on feature multipliers to be wrong, this also resets all factors to 1 for existing projects in save files
Optimized despawning of actors in-game to reduce "tearing down" time
Fixed undoing cloning room on top of existing not undoing style change
Fixed not being able to make tasks show up when loading save if they were all filtered out to begin with
Product stock is now deducted later in sales calculation so scripts can kick in beforehand, to fix Digital exclusive music feature