For the longest time, you strove to survive the aftermath on planet Earth. Now, thanks to your knowledge, skills, and leadership, you can finally look forward to a new chapter for humankind. “Rebirth” is your mantra, your goal, the dream that will make you overcome old and new challenges, for your survivors and all humanity...


Greetings, survivors!

We’re almost ready to release something we’ve wanted to share with you for quite some time - our third DLC, Rebirth! It features an all-new way to literally transform your colony via terraforming the very soil it’s built on as well as a new, ever-present threat.

Surviving the Aftermath: Rebirth launches on March 16th for PC, Xbox One, and Playstation4 at a suggested retail price of 14.99 USD / 11.99 GBP / 14.99 EUR.

More details are to come in the upcoming weeks, but here are its core features:

• The Blight: from threat to resource
  After decades of exposure to radioactive pollution, a new infestation called Blight has emerged. Mutated fungi have started to infect the animals, causing them to become aggressive and dangerous. This infection has spread through the wasteland and is threatening to take over. You will need to find a cure for the Blight to defend against it. Gather Blight samples, study them in a new research building and make discoveries to unlock new buildings, resources, and upgrades.
  
  
  
• Terraforming: from a wasteland to green pastures
  Let’s turn this barren land into fertile soil! With the Terraformer, you will be able to welcome new life: the more you terraform, the more your map will turn green and lush with vegetation and animals. Be aware of the blighted areas that you will terraform, here, blight monsters will spawn and attack your survivors.
  
  
  
• Blight Lab - plus other new buildings and upgrades
  “Rebirth” adds three new buildings, three building upgrades, plus an all-new multi-stage Blight lab with its own Research tree. Embark on a quest to find a scientist with the means of fighting against the blight and build the modular Blight Lab to make discoveries to aid and overcome the threat. A Purification post will allow you to remove small pollution deposits and it can be upgraded to an Extermination post to clear blighted nests, hives, and lairs. The Basic Terraformer turns the land into terraformed soil and it can be upgraded to Advanced Terraformer. The Environmental Station becomes the Hazmat station: with it, survivors can clear the blight cores and stop the creatures' attacks. While not a new building, the Guard Posts have received significant improvements and will now be more critical than ever when defending your colony.

Watch the reveal trailer on YouTube:

Greeting survivors!

We have just released our patch for the “Shattered Hope” DLC—including some bigger changes as well. Here we will go through them with some brief explanations as to why they have been made. As usual, the full patch notes can be found at the end of this post.

DIFFICULTY REWORKED

We have gone and reduced the DLC’s overall difficulty in many different ways. If you look at the Hope bar for example, you can see that it looks a bit different than before. The “safe zone” where no negative effects can happen is larger and the Hope levels have been adjusted accordingly. This means there are now bigger and clearer changes between the levels, but also much more time before Hope becomes a serious issue. This allows players to divide their attention to other things, without Hope constantly demanding actions by causing Anguish.

We have also done multiple smaller adjustments to balance the difficulty. For example, the negative impact of disasters and catastrophes has been reduced. Positive Hope effects have been added to accepting survivor groups and when gate combat is won without the bandits breaching the gate. Trauma centers now also offer two patient slots, which should alleviate the situations where many colonists are in anguish at once. The negative event results and the cost of feasts have been slightly tweaked to a more balanced direction as well.

Trauma centers now offer two patient slots instead of one.

HOPE AND HAPPINESS CONNECTED

One major rework ties Hope together with Happiness, which was heavily requested by our players. Previously we had a system where Hope would drop daily with no way to counter the nasty effect. Now, the player can counter this effect and even turn it into a positive, just by keeping the colony happy!

This is easier said than done however, and there is a catch. “Challenge” selected in the pregame determines how much Happiness will affect Hope. With harder difficulties, low Happiness also hits the colony harder. This is one of the ways we hope those players who like a bit of difficulty can still challenge themselves. Connecting Happiness and Hope also gives the players a chance to eventually progress into a situation where hope is less demanding when the colonists feel satisfied in the safety of the colony.

The daily Hope effect is now tied to the difficulty level selected in the pregame.

OTHER CHANGES

One of the smaller adjustments we made was to push the start of the DLC’s questline to appear a little earlier in the game. While this change allows the quest to spawn already at day 29, the random nature of the quests can cause it to be slightly delayed. Always remember to check your side quest status when waiting for a specific one—there can only be one side quest active at any given time!

We also want to encourage our players to use the building overtime feature to overcome the new challenges, which is why we added some lunar dust as a reward to the starter event. This allows the players to start boosting production in buildings right away!

The introduction event now encourages the player to start overtiming buildings with some free lunar dust.

If you want to know more details please refer to our patch notes and feel free to ask questions! Once again we thank all of you for your feedback and hope you’ll enjoy the new and improved experience with Surviving the Aftermath ”Shattered Hope”.

General

• Daily decrease of hope now scales with game difficulty.
  
• Easier difficulties still have almost the same baseline daily hope change, but harder difficulties now have a steeper daily decrease.
  
• This is a way for us to provide a smoother gameplay experience for those who wish to play with easier settings, but still be able to provide a challenge for the daring.
  
• Daily decrease of hope is now tied to colony happiness.
  
• Unhappy colony loses hope faster while the hope for a happy colony increases per day.
  
• The current daily effect of happiness can be seen in the hope bar tooltip.
  
• Hope bar now functions more accurately.
  
• Previously, there was some scaling which made the hope drops seem more drastic than they actually were when the hope bar was close to full.
  
• Adjusted the thresholds for when anguish is given to colonists accordingly.

Gameplay

• Added hope reward when accepting survivor groups.
  
• Fixed an issue that caused gate combat to not give hope when defeating bandits directly at the gate.
  
• Many text changes related to Shattered Hope features.
  
• Added daily effect text to the hope bar tooltip.
  
• Added overtime text to the Lunar Dust tooltip.
  
• Tweaked hope description in the hope bar tooltip.
  
• Tweaked anguish description in the help menu.
  
• Tweaked the descriptions of Shattered Hope buildings.
  
• And other smaller text changes.

Balance Adjustments

• Reduced hope impact of all catastrophes and disasters.
  
• Reduced catastrophe hope impact by around 30%.
  
• Reduced pollution cloud and space junk disasters’ hope impact by around 30%.
  
• Reduced moonfall, rat swarm and overcharge disasters’ hope impact by 50%.
  
• Adjusted the hope impact of most events.
  
• Reduced the impact of negative event results by 30%.
  
• Positive event results mostly unchanged.
  
• Increased patient slot count in Trauma Center from 1 to 2.
  
• The Shattered Moon quest can now trigger after day 29, this was day 32 previously.
  
• Please note that the Shattered Moon quest cannot trigger if you already have another regular quest active.
  
• Slightly decreased the baseline food and plastic cost of the small feast.
  
• Added and adjusted hope rewards slightly in multiple quests.
  
• Slightly increased the negative hope impact when abandoning a quest.
  
• The initial Shattered Moon event now gives 20 Lunar Dust.

Our latest DLC “Shattered Hope” has just been released and we are excited to shed light on its features. Brand new challenges await as fading hope risks the entire colony’s survival. Other improvements include a new moon rock disaster, an ability to boost production with overtime and being able to hold special feasts! A new questline adds interesting buildings and resources to the mix, giving Surviving the Aftermath even more variety than before.

IMAGE: Surviving the Aftermath: Shattered Hope

Let’s first talk about the Moon and the features tied to it. As previously established, the Earth’s Moon shattered at the start of the cataclysm years ago and now the consequences of that can be felt in the colonies. Falling pieces of the Moon can be seen plummeting from the skies at night. However, these moon rocks are not just another hazard but can be gathered and turned into valuable lunar dust. This rare material is in high demand by societies and bandits alike, but its most interesting function is its ability to greatly boost buildings’ efficiency. It allows the use of overtime, hastening production and healing speed for 48 hours!

IMAGE: Lunar dust can be used to increase buildings’ efficiency

This all comes in handy when trying to overcome new hope-related challenges. Colonists’ hope for the future is constantly shifting from good to bad to worse. Colonists are disheartened by setbacks such as being defeated in combat, dismissing events or quests and especially catastrophes such as fallout or winter storms. If hope falls too low, the colonists can become anguished. Anguish cannot be treated in normal medical buildings, but requires special treatment at trauma centers. Anguished colonists can eventually become hostile, turning against their peers if they are not treated in time! Recovering from this condition is a lengthy process, so it is wise to try to keep hope from falling into dangerous levels.

IMAGE: Colony hope must be kept high to avoid negative consequences

Hope can be increased by completing quests, making the right decisions in events, combat victories and most importantly, holding special feasts. These can be held at the colony square, a new building fit for holding these kinds of festivities. The special feasts can be costly but drastically increase hope and happiness by providing momentary entertainment. To hold larger feasts for larger colonies the building must be upgraded, which can only be done after completing the new questline.

IMAGE: Feast selection at the colony square

“The Shattered Moon” quest opens the lore behind the broken moon and how the people of the wasteland have come to exploit its fallen riches. The quest also introduces the mysterious group of bandits some players might recognize from the main quest. These fellows can also sometimes appear at the colony gates demanding lunar dust with the threat of violence. Whilst uncovering their secrets you’ll be unlocking new buildings and resources, such as the med hut and mushroom farm, which can make recovering from anguish much quicker. The med hut can also produce antibodies for treating mutations much faster than before.

IMAGE: “The Shattered Moon” quest illustrations

Other improvements include new events, some unique to the DLC and others for the base game for everyone to enjoy. Events coming with the free update aim to make the early game experience a little more varied than before. The colony clock has also gotten a facelift visible to all users, making it easier to track the shift between day and night and when specialists’ action points are replenished.

The free update includes balance adjustments, quality of life improvements, bug fixes and new visuals. We have updated over 30 building textures to make them more recognizable and added more colonist portraits for women and children. Additionally, we present our special seasonal content in the spirit of Halloween! Check all improvements and fixes from the changelog(link below).

IMAGE: Halloween pack includes new decorations and spooky variations to existing buildings

We hope that you’ll have a great time with all the new features, buildings and other improvements in "Shattered Hope". It has a lot to offer whether you’re looking for additional challenges or just more buildings to construct. You can continue your old save or begin a new one to start boosting your production, hold great feasts and mend the broken hope!

Surviving the Aftermath: Shattered Hope is available now on Steam, Epic Store, the PlayStation™ Store and Microsoft Store on Xbox. It is also included as a part of the Ultimate Colony Upgrade with more DLC to come later.

Change notes - “Shattered Hope Xbox and PS4 release”

General

• Added Halloween content to the game. Spooky! The content can be toggled on or off in the settings.
  
• Added Goo Cauldron and Scarecrow decorations that can be unlocked by Prestige.
  
• Torch, Lantern and all Street Light decorations change to more Halloween themed lights.
  
• Added jack o'lanterns and other halloween props to colony buildings.
  
• Added halloween themed hats for colonists.
  
• Added three new Shattered Hope DLC achievements/trophies:
  
• Hero of the Wasteland - Complete "The Shattered Moon" quest.
  
• Mean Boss - Overtime 100 buildings.
  
• Beacon of Hope - Hold a special feast.
  
• Memory optimization. These changes improve the stability of the game especially on consoles and low-end PCs.
  
• Removed unused buildings, shaders and other assets from the build.
  
• Improved memory management of tutorial popups and help menu images.

Gameplay

• Added six new events. These should improve the early game event variation so that the same events don’t happen that often.
  
• Improved the way that queued movement works when sending specialists to combat in the World Map. Specialists should no longer get stuck on each other when pathing to a location.
  
• Happiness effects in events and quests now show an icon instead of the “+10 Happiness” text.
  
• Added a tooltip for repair tool that displays the amount of resources required to repair a building.
  
• Added a tooltip for demolish tool that displays the amount of resources gained when demolishing a building.
  
• Improved the day and night meter to display when night starts and ends.
  
• Notifications display hours instead of days when there’s less than a day remaining. Previously notifications had texts such as “0 days remaining” and that is now displayed in hours.
  
• Changed the way that quick tool can be accessed on a controller. Quick tool now has a single button that activates it and then it’s possible to change between repair/demolish/overtime mode with another button.
  
• Destroyed buildings can now be removed with the demolish tool.
  
• Well, Well, Well event had a hidden effect that is now visible.
  
• Fixed an issue that occurred in custom games when the animals option was set to ‘None’ and then selecting a resource deposit in the game.
  
• Fixed an issue that caused pause and demolish hotkeys to be usable on construction zones that had those functionalities disabled e.g. Campsite could be paused during the intro and would cause a softlock.
  
• Fixed an issue that occurred when saving and loading the game just as colony combat was about to finish.
  
• Fixed an issue that caused disasters to disappear after saving and loading a game while the disaster was ongoing.
  
• Fixed an issue that caused minor disasters and Winter Storm catastrophe to not update properly in the statistics menu.

Graphics

• Added four new child portraits and seven new female portraits for colonists.
  
• Updated textures for over 30 buildings.
  
• Added and adjusted animation visuals in most entertainment buildings. For example, Stormdome now has colonists battling in the building while other colonists cheer the fighters on.
  
• Added DLC icons to save game menu that displays which DLCs are enabled in the save.
  
• Added a tooltip to main menu DLC buttons that displays if the DLC requires a new game to be active.
  
• Added a popup to save game menu that informs if activated DLCs cannot be applied to a save that is being loaded.

Balance Adjustments

• Changed the way that scaling works for catastrophes. The goal is to make all catastrophes scale better with game difficulty. Previously catastrophes had the same “effective phase” that affected conditions, damage and other factors.
  
• Increased the happiness effects in The Great Unknown and Hidden Fortunes events.
  
• Reduced the fiber cost of Basic Clothing.
  
• Slightly lowered the protection value of Basic Clothing.
  
• Very slightly lowered the protection value of Sturdy Clothing.
  
• Increased fiber production in Fields.

It's the spookiest time of year, and we are excited to bring you a free in-game event on Steam and Epic that includes Halloween themed decorations and buildings. This also includes a free patch of some gameplay fixes, such as improvement to the day and night meter to display when night starts and ends, as well as some graphics and balance adjustments like increased fiber production in the fields. What better way to prepare for the moon shattering DLC Shattered Hope that comes out the week after?

The event visuals will include:

• Halloween themed hats and masks for colonists.
  
• Two new decoration "buildings":
  
• A Scarecrow
  
• A Cauldron full of nuclear liquids
  
• Buildings with lights will change their appearance with more Halloween themed lights:
  
• Regular lights/lanterns in buildings in the game will now turn into Halloween themed lanterns, such as jack-o'-lanterns
  
• Halloween Decorative lamps

The Halloween event will turn on automatically on the 24th of October, but can of course be turned off in the settings if you prefer playing without it.



General

• Added Halloween content to the game. Spooky! The Halloween content is turned on automatically on the 24th of October and turned off on the 7th of November. The content can also be toggled on or off in the settings.
  
• Added Goo Cauldron and Scarecrow decorations that can be unlocked by Prestige.
  
• Torch, Lantern and all Street Light decorations change to more Halloween themed lights.
  
• Added jack o'lanterns and other halloween props to colony buildings.
  
• Added halloween themed hats for colonists.
  
• Added six new events. These should improve the early game event variation so that the same events don’t happen that often.

Gameplay

• Improved the way that queued movement works when sending specialists to combat in the World Map. Specialists should no longer get stuck on each other when pathing to a location.
  
• Added a tooltip for repair tool that displays the amount of resources required to repair a building.
  
• Added a tooltip for demolish tool that displays the amount of resources gained when demolishing a building.
  
• Improved the day and night meter to display when night starts and ends.
  
• Notifications display hours instead of days when there’s less than a day remaining. Previously notifications had texts such as “0 days remaining” and that is now displayed in hours.
  
• Changed the way that quick tool can be accessed on a controller. Quick tool now has a single button that activates it and then it’s possible to change between repair/demolish/overtime mode with another button.
  
• Destroyed buildings can now be removed with the demolish tool.
  
• Fixed an issue that caused pause and demolish hotkeys to be usable on construction zones that had those functionalities disabled e.g. Campsite could be paused during the intro and would cause a softlock.
  
• Fixed an issue that occurred when saving and loading the game just as colony combat was about to finish.
  
• Fixed an issue that caused disasters to disappear after saving and loading a game while the disaster was ongoing.

Graphics

• Added four new child portraits and seven new female portraits for colonists.
  
• Updated textures for over 30 buildings.
  
• Added DLC icons to save game menu that displays which DLCs are enabled in the save.
  
• Added a tooltip to main menu DLC buttons that displays if the DLC requires a new game to be active.
  
• Added a popup to save game menu that informs if activated DLCs cannot be applied to a save that is being loaded.

Balance Adjustments

• Reduced the fiber cost of Basic Clothing.
  
• Slightly lowered the protection value of Basic Clothing.
  
• Very slightly lowered the protection value of Sturdy Clothing.
  
• Increased fiber production in Fields.
  
• Changed the way that scaling works for catastrophes. The goal is to make all catastrophes scale better with game difficulty. Previously catastrophes had the same “effective phase” that affected conditions, damage and other factors.

Hello survivors!

We are pleased to announce the new DLC for Surviving the Aftermath. Shattered Hope introduces the Shattered Moon calamity, giving players the ability to boost resource production and the task of maintaining survivor’s hope. Surviving the Aftermath: Shattered Hope launches on November 3rd for Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and PC at a suggested retail price of 9.99 USD / 7.99 GBP / 9.99 EUR.

During the apocalypse, the Moon was destroyed and now the consequences of that are showering down from the sky in an unforeseen disaster. By gathering resources from Moon Rock deposits and coming together as a people, the survivors must find hope to proceed and prosper. Shattered Hope focuses around increasing resource production in the colony while attempting to keep up Hope for the colonists - otherwise the new Anguish condition can cause trouble for them and the entire colony.

Surviving the Aftermath: Shattered Hope Key Features include:

• Face the Moonfall and use it to your advantage with the new Building Boost mechanic
  The Moon is shattered in the sky and its fragments are crushing down on Earth leaving behind them devastation - but also moon rock deposits. You can refine lunar fragments and obtain lunar dust which will be used to increase the production of your buildings for a limited time. This new building boost mechanic is called overtime.
  
  
• Keep your hopes up, and feast!
  Hope is a new global value that decreases over time and when catastrophes happen in the game. If kept too low for too long, it will trigger a new condition called anguish that, if left untreated, may turn your colonists hostile. So, keep your hope as high as possible by holding feasts at the new colony square building.
  
  
• New production chain: take care of your colonists
  When colonists experience anguish, you can help them by building a trauma centre where they will heal. They will recover faster thanks to a brand new medicine called antistress. To make it, you’ll have to grow raw resources on the mushroom farm, then refine them into the actual medicine in the med hut building.

Greetings survivors!

“New Alliances” is here and we can finally share more details about what it means for Surviving the Aftermath. We’ve already teased its contents a bit, so let’s dig deeper into what makes it special. Society requests, alliances and federation add a fresh dimension to societies, while roaming bandits, covert missions and a new powerful Rival faction challenge you in new ways.

IMAGE: Keyart

New Alliances adds a new, more dynamic layer to the world map and how you interact with societies. Instead of just having nice trade partners, you can now befriend and eventually ally with them with the ultimate goal of creating a federation! To do this, you must help your soon-to-be allies by completing requests and assisting them against various threats in the wasteland. But if making friends isn’t your thing, you can raid their convoys for resources or have your specialists complete covert missions inside the societies to steal loot, science points and other benefits. But note that you’re not alone in your ambitions, as a mysterious Rival faction has taken an interest in your part of the wasteland.

IMAGE: Build request

Forming a federation and solidifying your status as its leader will take some time. Once you’ve met the first societies, a new society depot building becomes available. It allows you to construct helpful buildings inside societies to raise their population, protect them from bandit raids or provide alternative sources of science points and silver. You can construct these buildings for a society whenever you want, even if they haven’t specifically sent a request for them. In addition to building requests, societies might also ask you to hunt bothersome animals, deal with dangerous bandit forts or loan one of your specialists to them.

IMAGE: Federation screen

Each completed request gives you rewards and brings your two colonies closer. Once you’ve gained enough reputation, they’ll offer to ally with you and share their secrets after you’ve built their embassy in the colony. These unique, society-specific benefits range from nuclear power plant blueprints from Chemville to extra action points for every specialist from Dead Creek. Discover all the perks in the new federation status screen and choose which ones you want the most! New Alliances features eight new reward buildings and 13 permanent bonuses for your colony.

IMAGE: Part of the rival illustration with failed request

But as you encounter more societies while still dealing with all the hardships of catastrophes and bandit assaults against your own colony, you’ll be forced to decide who to help and who’s plea for aid goes unheard. Each failed request pushes them closer to your Rival, who will turn them against you! To end their influence in the wasteland, you must create a strong federation with your closest allies.

To form the federation you must get the majority of the wasteland’s population on your side. Raise your allies’ population by constructing shelters and food production facilities while embarking on propaganda missions to draw people away from hostile societies. Once the majority has been achieved, you’ll be rewarded with sharing the spoils of war your Rival left behind along with other benefits.

IMAGE: Successful covert mission end screen

Another major aspect in New Alliances involves a bit more shadier tactics. Your specialists can now embark on four different types of covert missions against other societies for various benefits. You can for example steal science points for your research via espionage with your scientists or sabotage Rival operations with scavengers to reduce their influence. Different specialist types have a higher chance to succeed on these missions, so pick your operative carefully as failure means a big drop in reputation and a potentially lethal escape from the rather offended society.

IMAGE: Anti-covert mission buildings

But be on your guard as these covert missions can also be used against you. Both your Rival and other societies can infiltrate your colony to steal, disrupt your research or even set off explosives! To combat this, unlock protective buildings like anti-propaganda towers and surveillance vans from the new tech branch and have them staffed at all times. The more workers you have stationed, the greater the chance you’ll prevent anything bad from happening and maybe even uncover the culprit in the process.

IMAGE: Roaming animal

The world map is also more active than ever before. You might spot a herd of deer roaming around looking for food or a group of bandits searching for prey. Hostile units might chase your specialists who are moving on foot or decide to take over your world map outpost, halting its operations until you clear them out. For best protection, have a fleet of capable vehicles on hand at all times, as the bandit hordes are unable to catch a fast-moving car with all your scavenged loot inside. As the game progresses, you’ll start seeing more powerful Rival troops on the world map. Approach them with caution (and several specialists).

The base game is also receiving an update with a number of quality-of-life improvements, user interface additions and bug fixes. Most notably the main quest now has mid-quest rewards, permanent effects are now visible in the Statistics screen so you can see which affect your colony, and a toggle for faster world map animations has been added to the Settings menu. Check all improvements and fixes from the Changelog: Update 4 link below.

IMAGE: Colony beauty shot

We hope you’ll jump in and discover all that the New Alliances DLC has to offer in terms of new buildings, tactics and decisions. There’s a lot to play around with from deciding who to help and who to hinder, and which powerful rewards to go for. So prepare yourself against bandits, rivals and sandworms alike to unite the wasteland!

As we’ve mentioned before, New Alliances will be released for PC platforms first while we continue working on the console counterparts, so stay tuned!

Surviving the Aftermath: New Alliances is available now on Steam and Epic Store. It is also included as a part of the Ultimate Colony Upgrade with more DLC to come later.



Added Main Quest rewards.

• Gather enough Main Quest knowledge to unlock new modifiers that improve your colony, or alternatively, choose a resource reward instead.
  
• Each knowledge type (Life Support, Medicine, Defense and Ecosystem) gives different rewards.

Added a new Global Effects tab in the statistics menu:

• Other: displays modifiers that affect the whole colony.
  
• Custom game settings: displays the chosen custom game settings.

Added a setting for faster World Map animations.

• Increases the animation speed of World Map actions, such as specialist movement.
  
• Changed the way that other societies spawn in the World Map.
  
• Societies now spawn randomly to improve gameplay variation.
  
• Previously certain societies always spawned in the World Map, such as Lushton.

Added the New Alliances DLC banner to the Main Menu.

• The banner is visible for players that do not have the New Alliances DLC.
  
• The banner changes to a DLC toggle button for players that have the New Alliances DLC enabled.

The carrier bringing the last resource to a construction zone should now start constructing the building.

• Previously a random worker would start constructing the building.

Defeating bandit camps in the World Map now gives resource rewards based on the location.

• For example, defeating bandits in a research location will reward the player with science points.
  
• Defeating bandit sectors gives a currency reward.

Notifications that have many targets can now be selected multiple times to go through all the affected targets.

• Affects all notifications, such as “constructions finished” and “colonists are injured”.
  
• Previously, clicking on the notification moved the camera to the first affected target.

Research queue now takes the active research into account when choosing its path. This should make the research queue work much smoother.

• The top row was prioritized before. This change fixes the issue where a tech has been researched on the bottom row and it would still queue techs through the top row.

Low HP colonists will now visit Medical Tents or Field Hospitals to heal themselves.

• Colonists often had very low health that caused unintended deaths caused by hunger, malnutrition etc.
  
• Guards are now more effective as they will heal themselves if their health drops low enough.

Critical conditions from workers in entertainment and sanitary buildings are not instantly removed anymore.

• Building many saunas or entertainment buildings reduced the amount of conditions given to colonists in different situations.

Specialists can now be commanded to move to the exact same location as the previous specialist. This was mainly an issue on a controller.

Removed camera centering when exiting specialist menu while using a controller.

• Previously, the camera moved to the player’s colony when the specialist menu was exited.

Added a notification when finding a new building in the colony view. Mainly affects the Cold Rush scenario right now.

Percentage bonuses from techs now stack cumulatively. Only the latest percentage bonus was active previously.

• Main quest gives percentage rewards that affect the whole colony. This change was added so that the rewards can stack with all other percentage modifiers e.g. building durability.

Polished the Society Menu.

• Removed unnecessary society introduction texts.
  
• Added “Trade offers available” text.
  
• Added reputation text and icon.
  
• Other smaller image, text and icon changes in different society menu panels.

Polished all World Map panels.

• Increased the size of World Map panels and the texts in them.
  
• Made the Society panel more concise.
  
• Improved textures for Wind Turbine, Food Storage, Tent, Emergency Shelter and Trapper.

Balance Adjustments

Added resource rewards to the early stages of the main quest.

• Rewards have been added throughout the main quest to make it more compelling to do.

Hungry colonists now seek food when hunger is at 20%, was 10% previously

• We received many comments about colonists dying from hunger, even though there was plenty of food available in the colony. This change should reduce the times random hunger deaths happen.

Tired colonists now seek shelter to sleep in when tiredness is at 20%, was 10% previously.

Bug Fixes

• Xbox only: fixed an issue that caused Wind Turbine, Lightning Rod, Lightning Tower and Martian Wind Turbine to be unrepairable when the Ultimate Colony DLC was active.
  
• Fixed an issue that caused the colonists to run in place and the game would reset to day 0 when loading a save where a building has just been destroyed before saving.
  
• Changed the wording for “wasteland biome” in multiple languages in the main quest. This caused misunderstandings in the main quest step that required an outpost to be built on the wasteland biome.

Greetings survivors old and new!

We’re very excited to reveal what we’ve been doing amidst all the updates up to this point. It’s the first part of our Season Pass and will be released very soon. Here are some of its key features which gives the game’s sandbox a whole new dimension with more replayability and new challenges!

Surviving the Aftermath: ”New Alliances” adds an in-depth layer to world map societies and a new, powerful rival faction as your adversary. Help your neighbours deal with new threats and gain unique rewards while uniting the wasteland under a single banner! Or use your specialists to conduct covert missions inside other societies for your own gain…

Form the federation
Assist societies and complete requests to gain enough reputation to ally with them. Build embassies to unlock unique permanent bonuses and buildings for your colony. Help your alliance population grow and bring the wasteland on your side by forming a federation!

Rival faction
A powerful opposing faction has taken an interest in your part of the world. Their control over societies grows every time you ignore or fail requests, so fight back by helping those in need or use specialists to reduce rival influence.

Covert missions
Your specialists can now embark on covert missions within societies to steal resources or incite its population. But beware as the same tricks can be used against you! Build new protective buildings such as Surveillance Vans and Anti-propaganda Towers to defend against these attacks.

Roaming bandits and animals
Bandits, society convoys and even animals are now active on the world map. Move out of their way or risk an attack. Raid convoys for loot or defeat bandits for loot and reputation. Hostile units can even take over your outposts, so be prepared to clear them out to resume production.

Månenytåret er overstået, og vi er tilbage med en ny og temmelig heftig opdatering. Den indeholder den tidligere omtalte nye spiltype “Scenarios” med to vinter-tematiserede udvidelser sammen med et væld af andre forbedringer af logistik, statistik og så videre. Men vent, der er mere endnu! Ud over dette nye twist af det velkendte gameplay kommer der nemlig også Custom Game-spiltypen. Den lader spillerne justere spiloplevelsen med en masse nye indstillinger, så I selv kan bestemme, om I vil have en helt rolig og afslappet spiloplevelse, eller om den skal minde mere om en horrorfilm!

Scenarios lader jer dykke ned i Surviving the Aftermaths sandkasse med nye temaer og twists af grundformlen, hvilket gør det endnu sjovere at spille spillet igen. Nogle af dem byder på mere kompakte og historiefokuserede oplevelser med markant modificerede regler, mens andre laver helt om på, hvordan det langstrakte spil udspiller sig. Det kan for eksempel være med permanente vejreffekter eller begrænsning af dine redskaber, så I bliver tvunget til at overvinde forhindringer på helt nye måder. I “Cold Rush” starter I med en lille koloni, der lider under en permanent vinterstorm, og her har I intet andet valg end at forsøge at slippe væk. I skal udforske og udnytte jeres omgivelser for at føre kolonisterne væk fra kulden på en helt ny måde i spillet. “Eternal Winter” er en mere traditionel sandkasse-oplevelse med en uendelig vinterstorm og tilpassede regler. Kan I overleve i omgivelser, hvor åbne marker ikke er mulige, og den konstante kulde slider jeres kolonister op?

I spillere har bedt om mulighed for at tilpasse spiloplevelsen yderligere, og den kommer her. Den nye Custom Game-spiltype tilføjer en masse indstillinger, I kan eksperimentere med for at skræddersy spiloplevelsen, så den passer lige til jer. I kan deaktivere katastrofer, forøge antallet af Specialists, I starter med, og fjerne død ved alderdom fuldstændigt for at få en mere afslappet spiloplevelse. Fjern Societies, halvér madens næringsværdi, og deaktivér fødsler for at hæve sværhedsgraden betragteligt. I kan også justere banegenerationen yderligere med flere jordindstillinger, mængde af terrænelementer, skovdækning, mængde af søer og meget andet. På pc kan I også fjerne befolkningsbegrænsningen fuldstændigt. Eftersom disse indstillinger kan påvirke sværhedsgraden markant, vil gennemførelser være deaktiveret i Custom Game-spiltypen. Der er rigtigt meget at eksperimentere med, så giv den hele armen!

På logistiksiden kan I nu styre, hvordan varer bliver fordelt i kolonien, ved at kontrollere, hvilke lagre, der anmoder om og modtager forskellige ressourcer. Disse lageranmodninger lader spillerne flytte og bevare specifikke mængder ressourcer i lagre for at skabe uafhængige produktionsområder eller fordele mad mere ligeligt på kolonikortet. I kan for eksempel tilføje en lageranmodning om måltider til madlageret ved siden af et sted, der producerer metal, så jeres arbejdere ikke skal gå hele vejen ind til midten af kolonien for at spise. Sammen med arbejdere, der bor tæt på deres job, fra den tidligere opdatering giver dette mulighed for at sprede jer mere effektivt på kortet. Bærere vil også dele store opgaver op mellem flere personer, så I nu kan flytte større mængder ressourcer hurtigere, såfremt I altså har nok inaktive kolonister tilgængelige.

Jeres genererede spilverdens Map Seed er nu synligt og kan tilpasses. Dette lader jer gemme interessante baner, så I kan genbruge dem, næste gang I spiller, eller dele dem med resten af fællesskabet. Jeres nuværende Map Seed kan ses i nederste højre hjørne af pausemenuen. Det første sæt tal refererer til de forskellige kortparametre, mens det andet sæt viser jeres valg før spillet numerisk.

Af andre forbedringer har spillets statistikoverbliksside også fået en gevaldig overhaling. I stedet for det enorme regneark over allerede kendte oplysninger er der nu kommet adskillige sektioner med de vigtigste oplysninger med mere detaljerede data i højre kolonne. Alle typer Wind Turbines er nu mindre effektive, når de placeres ved siden af træer, for at gøre Solar Panels mere konkurrencedygtige i din kolonis energiproduktion og tilføje et ekstra lag af planlægning til dine vindparker. Specialists vil nu bevæge sig og bruge deres Action Points med det samme i starten af en ny dag, hvis I har valgt en destination til dem. Denne ændring er foretaget for at gøre det mere tydeligt, når de bevæger sig hen over flere ture, som for eksempel når I sender dem tilbage til kolonien. Den fulde liste over balanceændringer og forbedringer kan som sædvanlig ses i opslaget med patchnoter.

Det var det hele! De nye spiltyper, logistikopgraderinger og andre tilføjelser skulle gerne gøre det ekstra sjovt at spille Surviving the Aftermath igen, så vi håber, at I bliver rigtigt glade for dem! Vi vil meget gerne høre, hvad I synes om de nye scenarier, og hvad I gerne vil se næste gang, så skriv endelig i kommentarsporet.

Pas på jer selv, overlevere — og husk at spille spil!

Ændringsnoter - “Update 3”
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Generelt
Nye spiltyper er blevet tilføjet til spillet.
Når du starter på et nyt spil, vil du nu blive bedt om at vælge mellem enten det originale New Game, oprette et Custom Game eller starte på et scenarie.
Hvis du opretter et Custom Game, kan du ændre på diverse indstillinger for spillet.
De ældre indstillinger er stadig til stede sammen med en masse nye indstillinger, der for eksempel lader dig ændre på størrelsen på depoter, mængden af elementer i koloniterrænet og fødselsraten i kolonien.
Bemærk venligst, at visse indstillinger ikke er tilgængelige på alle platforme på grund af ydelsesbegrænsninger.
Hvis du spiller et Custom Game, vil du ikke kunne låse op for nogen gennemførelser. Du kan stadig låse op for dem ved at spille den originale version af spillet.
Vi har også tilføjet to nye scenarier til spillet.
De vil udfordre dine overlevelsesevner.
Cold Rush-scenariet giver dig en helt ny udfordring, hvor du skal forsøge at slippe væk fra kulden inden for den angivne tidsgrænse!
Eternal Winter-scenariet vil ikke begrænse mængden af tid, du har til rådighed, men som navnet antyder, er kolonien her ramt af en konstant vinter! Kan du overleve og klare den sidste mission?
Muligheden for at vælge Map Seed er også blevet tilføjet til spilindstillingerne for Normal Game.
Hvis du bruger et specifikt Map Seed, vil du få præcis den samme koloni, verdenskort og indstillinger som i et tidligere spil.
Du kan se dit Map Seed i nederste højre hjørne i spillets pausemenu.
På pc kan du opså kopiere dit Map Seed til Udklipsholder ved at klikke på knappen ved siden af det.
Map Seed er kun synligt i nye spil, der startes, efter at spillet er blevet opdateret.
Når du har det Map Seed, du vil bruge i dit næste spil, kan du ændre det på siden Summary under Pregame Selections, når du starter det nye spil.
Statistikmenuens Overview-side er blevet omdesignet.
Vi gjort menuens Overview-side mere overskuelig og tilføjet nye oplysninger til den.
Hver af sektionerne viser nu mere detaljerede oplysninger, når du holder musen hen over dem.
Bemærk, at oplysningerne her ikke vil afspejle, hvad der er sket i spillet, før det blev opdateret.
Techs unlocked vil for eksempel kun vise, hvilke teknologier du har researchet, efter at du har opdateret og er fortsat på dit gemte spil.
Tilføjet mulighed til lagerbygning, der lader dig vælge en ressource, som kolonisterne vil bringe til dén specifikke bygning.
Du kan vælge denne ressource i hver lagerbygning ved først at vælge bygningen og derefter pladsen under sektionen Request resources.
Når du har valgt en ressource, kan du vælge mængden af denne ressource, som bærere skal tage med til denne lagerbygning.
Denne ændring indebærer også mulighed for at vælge, hvor mange ressourcer bygninger, som for eksempel The Burner, skal opbevare.
Gameplay
Specialister på verdenskortet med bevægelser sat i kø vil nu bevæge sig automatisk, når de får AP igen.
Tidligere ville de kun bevæge sig, lige før deres AP ville blive fyldt op igen, hvilket skabte forvirring, hvis de brugte den bevægelse, der var sat i kø.
Hvis Specialists har fået angivet et mål, vil de øjeblikkeligt bevæge sig eller starte på en handling, når deres AP er fyldt.
Wind Turbines bliver nu påvirket af træer i nærheden.
Alle Wind Turbines vil nu vise en radius omkring sig, når de placeres og vælges i kolonien.
Alle træer inden for dette område vil påvirke turbinens effektivitet.
Bemærk, at turbinens effektivitet kan ændre sig, hvis træer vokser op eller bliver fældet rundt omkring den.
Ændring af, hvordan bærere bærer ressourcer hen til byggezoner.
Tidligere kunne kun én kolonist bære en specifik ressourcetype, hvilket gjorde, at byggezoner måtte vente længere på ressourcer.
Nu kan flere bærere bære den samme ressource hen til byggezonen, hvilket giver mulighed for at bygge hurtigere.
Sne på terrænet og jorden bliver nu vist øjeblikkeligt, når gemte spil bliver indlæst, i stedet for at spillet skal ud af pausetilstand først.
Løst et problem, der fik visse sektorer til at forhindre konstruktion af Outposts uden nogen synlig årsag.
Børn vil rent visuelt ikke længere forsøge at gå i samme skole alle sammen.
Fejlen gjorde, at alle børn rent visuelt prøvede at gå i den samme skole, selvom de var indskrevet på forskellige skoler.
Nu burde de alle sammen gå til deres respektive skoler.
Kolonister burde nu løbe ind i deres hjem, hvis de flygter, frem for bare at løbe foran truslen.
Løst et problem, hvor spillet ikke kunne gemmes efter en fejl med ødelagte Solar Panels.
Spillet burde ikke længere starte nogen begivenheder, hvis Game Over-skærmen er blevet vist.
Kolonister burde ikke længere løbe ind i ressourcekasser, før de samler dem op.
Tilføjet en fejlsikring til spillet, der forhindrer missionsplaceringer i at dukke op på utilgængelige steder på verdenskortet.
Løst et problem med indikatorpilene, der fik dem til at pege i den forkerte retning, når man spillede med specifikke opløsninger.
Løst et problem, der fik spillet til at fokusere på notifikationerne i stedet for at vende bygningen, når man trykkede på den tilknyttede knap på controlleren.
Escape-knappen vil nu annullere placering af bygninger, også efter at kameraet er blevet flyttet med musen, i placeringstilstand.
Opgradering af lejrpladsen burde ikke længe nulstille de tilladte ressourcer, der var valgt i den tidligere version af den.
Løst et problem, der forårsagede, at en Specialst ville sidde fast i kolonien, indtil den fik en kommando, efter at spillet var blevet gemt og indlæst.
Byggezoner, der er blevet annulleret, vil nu også vise en Floater lig bygninger, der er ved at blive revet ned.
Hvis kolonister ikke har noget at lave, burde de nu være inaktive tæt på deres hjem eller arbejdsplads i stedet for tæt på lejrpladsen.
Dette burde nu lade dine kolonister komme tæt på deres arbejdsplads, så de kan komme hurtigere i gang med at arbejde, når det er muligt for dem.
Løst et problem, der fik flere vejledninger til at blive vist samtidig eller fik dem til at sidde fast.
Building Health Overlay vil nu også vise Repair-Floaters oven på skadede bygninger.
Grafik
Tilføjet nye ikoner for Insect og Plant Seeds i spillet.
Disse skulle nu være nemme at skelne fra selve ressourcen, særligt når du handler med samfund.
Opdateret Pregame-valgpanelet og nogle knapikoner.
Floaters ser ikke længere kornede eller blege ud i spillet.
Afgrøder på åbne marker burde ikke længere være usynlige.
Bygnings-decals burde nu altid blive vist, også ved lave grafikindstillinger.
Træer burde ikke længere flimre under katastrofer.
Denne adfærd var særligt synlig ved spil på konsol.
Opdateret billeder til visse begivenheder i spillet.
Balancejusteringer
Evnerne hos alle Specialists, du starter med, er blevet justeret for at sikre, at de alle sammen har de bedste værdier i deres respektive evner baseret på deres arketype.
Når en bygning rives ned, vil du nu få refunderet 75% af byggeomkostningerne.


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