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.

Ora che i festeggiamenti del Capodanno lunare sono finiti, siamo tornati con un nuovo aggiornamento di una certa importanza. Abbiamo incluso la nuova modalità di gioco già annunciata degli scenari, che vi offre due esperienze a tema invernale e tanti miglioramenti a logistica e statistiche, fra le altre cose. E non è finita qui! Oltre a questa novità nel gameplay come lo conoscete, abbiamo introdotto anche la modalità di partita personalizzata, che permetterà ai giocatori di modificare l'esperienza di gioco come vogliono grazie a decine di nuove impostazioni, così potranno godersi tutte le sfumature che vanno dall'avventura più rilassata alla quintessenza dell'incubo.

Gli scenari vi permetteranno di immergervi nel sandbox di Surviving the Aftermath con nuovi temi e colpi di scena rispetto alla formula di base, per una maggiore rigiocabilità. Alcuni offriranno un'esperienza più compatta e narrativa con regole notevolmente modificate, mentre altri vi daranno del filo da torcere nel corso del gioco, anche sul lungo termine. In sostanza, potete aspettarvi un effetto meteorologico permanente o un limite agli strumenti a vostra disposizione, condizioni che possono costringervi a trovare nuovi modi per superare gli ostacoli. In "Corsa nel gelo" inizierete con una piccola colonia intrappolata in una tempesta invernale permanente, che non ha altra scelta se non quella di trovare una via per la salvezza. Dovrete esplorare e sfruttare l'ambiente circostante per guidare i coloni lontano dal freddo in un modo mai visto prima nel gioco. "Inverno eterno" è un'esperienza sandbox più tradizionale, caratterizzata da una tempesta invernale senza fine e regole personalizzate. Riuscirete a sopravvivere in un ambiente in cui l'agricoltura nei campi non è più possibile e il freddo onnipresente grava costantemente sui vostri coloni?

Avete richiesto la possibilità di personalizzare ulteriormente le vostre partite, ed eccovi accontentati. La nuova partita personalizzata aggiunge decine di impostazioni che potete cambiare per creare un'esperienza su misura per voi. Potrete disattivare le catastrofi, aumentare il numero di specialisti di partenza e cancellare del tutto la morte per vecchiaia, così vi godrete una partita all'insegna del relax. Inoltre, rimuovendo le società, dimezzando i livelli di nutrizione e disattivando la natalità, la difficoltà vedrà una vera impennata. Potrete anche regolare ulteriormente la generazione della mappa con più impostazioni del suolo, tra cui le caratteristiche del terreno, l'estensione forestale, la presenza di laghi e altro ancora. Su PC, poi, è anche possibile rimuovere completamente il limite della popolazione. Dal momento che queste impostazioni possono cambiare drasticamente il livello di difficoltà, gli obiettivi saranno disattivati nella modalità di gioco personalizzata. C'è molto da sperimentare, quindi buttatevi!

Sul fronte della logistica, ora potrete controllare come vengono distribuite le merci nella colonia definendo i punti di stoccaggio che richiedono e che ricevono le varie risorse. Queste richieste di stoccaggio permettono ai giocatori di movimentare e mantenere specifiche quantità di risorse nei vari punti di stoccaggio per creare aree di produzione indipendenti o distribuire il cibo in modo più uniforme all'interno della mappa della colonia. Potrete, ad esempio, aggiungere una richiesta di stoccaggio per il vitto al deposito alimentare accanto a un sito di produzione di metallo, in modo che i lavoratori non abbiano bisogno di camminare fino al centro della colonia per mangiare. Questa novità, in aggiunta a quella dell'aggiornamento precedente, grazie alla quale i lavoratori vivono vicino al proprio posto di lavoro, permetterà una distribuzione più efficiente in tutta la mappa. I corrieri, inoltre, divideranno gli incarichi grandi tra più persone, quindi dovreste vedere grandi pile di risorse muoversi più velocemente, sempre che abbiate coloni disponibili.

Il seme della mappa del mondo di gioco che avete generato sarà ora visibile e personalizzabile, e vi permetterà di salvare le mappe interessanti da riutilizzare in altre partite o da condividere con la community. Il vostro attuale seme della mappa è visibile nell'angolo in basso a destra nel menu di pausa. La prima serie di numeri si riferisce ai vari parametri della mappa, mentre la seconda rappresenta numericamente le vostre selezioni pre-partita.

Tra gli altri miglioramenti, la pagina di riepilogo delle statistiche è stata completamente aggiornata. Invece dell'enorme tabella contenente informazioni già note, ora sarà divisa in sezioni di dati generali con i relativi dettagli nella colonna di destra. Le turbine eoliche di tutti i tipi saranno ora meno efficaci, se posizionate vicino agli alberi, al fine di rendere i pannelli solari un po' più competitivi nella produzione di energia della colonia e aggiungere un livello di pianificazione necessario per i parchi eolici. Gli specialisti ora si muoveranno e spenderanno i loro punti azione non appena inizia un nuovo giorno, se avrete impostato per loro una destinazione. Questa modifica è stata implementata per rendere più chiara la funzione di movimento in più turni quando si comanda alle persone di tornare alla colonia, ad esempio. L'elenco completo delle modifiche di bilanciamento e dei miglioramenti è disponibile nel post sulle note della patch, come sempre.

E questo è quanto! Le nuove modalità di gioco, i potenziamenti logistici e le altre aggiunte dovrebbero fornire molta rigiocabilità a Surviving the Aftermath, quindi speriamo sinceramente che vi piacciano! Ci piacerebbe sapere nei commenti cosa ne pensate dei nuovi scenari e cosa vorreste che introducessimo in futuro.

State sempre al sicuro, sopravvissuti, e giocate!

Note sulle modifiche - "Aggiornamento 3"
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Generale
Sono state aggiunte nuove modalità di gioco.
Quando inizi una nuova partita, ora ti verrà chiesto di scegliere tra la versione del gioco originale, la creazione di una partita personalizzata o l'avvio di uno scenario.
La creazione di una partita personalizzata ti permette di cambiare diverse impostazioni di gioco.
Le vecchie impostazioni pre-partita sono ancora presenti, così come molte nuove impostazioni, ad esempio la modifica delle dimensioni dei depositi, della quantità di elementi del terreno e del tasso di natalità della colonia.
Alcune impostazioni non saranno disponibili su tutte le piattaforme a causa di limitazioni di prestazioni.
La modalità personalizzata impedirà di sbloccare gli obiettivi, i quali, però, potranno essere sbloccati normalmente giocando la versione originale del gioco.
Abbiamo anche aggiunto due nuovi scenari al gioco.
Essi metteranno alla prova le tue abilità di sopravvivenza.
Lo scenario Corsa nel gelo ti darà del filo da torcere come neanche immagini: infatti, dovrai trovare un modo per sfuggire al freddo entro un tempo limite!
Lo scenario Inverno eterno non porrà limiti al tempo a tua disposizione ma, come suggerisce il nome, la colonia sarà intrappolata in un costante inverno! Riuscirai a sopravvivere e a portare a termine la missione principale?
La possibilità di selezionare il seme della mappa è stata aggiunta alle impostazioni pre-partita della partita normale.
L'utilizzo di un seme della mappa specifico ti permetterà di avere esattamente la stessa colonia, la stessa mappa del mondo e le stesse impostazioni pre-partita che hai già utilizzato in precedenza.
Il seme della mappa è visibile nell'angolo in basso a destra quando nel gioco accedi al menu di pausa.
Su PC il seme può anche essere copiato negli appunti facendo clic sul pulsante accanto a esso.
Il seme della mappa è visibile solo nelle nuove partite iniziate dopo l'aggiornamento del gioco.
Una volta che avrai il seme della mappa che desideri applicare, puoi passare alla pagina di riepilogo delle selezioni pre-partita e impostarlo quando inizi la nuova partita.
La pagina di riepilogo del menu delle statistiche è stata aggiornata.
Abbiamo chiarito la pagina di panoramica del menu e reso visibili nuove informazioni.
Ogni sezione mostrerà informazioni più dettagliate al passaggio del mouse.
Le informazioni mostrate non conteranno ciò che è successo nel salvataggio precedente all'aggiornamento del gioco.
Ad esempio, tra le tecnologie sbloccate compariranno solo quelle ricercate dopo l'aggiornamento e quelle la cui ricerca prosegue nel tuo salvataggio.
Abbiamo aggiunto un'opzione per gli edifici di stoccaggio che permette di selezionare una risorsa che i coloni porteranno negli edifici specifici.
Puoi selezionare la risorsa in ogni edificio di stoccaggio, selezionando prima l'edificio e poi lo slot nella sezione per richiedere risorse.
Dopo aver selezionato una risorsa, potrai selezionarne la quantità che vuoi che i corrieri recapitino nello specifico edificio di stoccaggio.
Questa modifica ha anche aggiunto l'opzione per selezionare quante risorse vuoi che contengano gli edifici come l'inceneritore.
Gameplay
Gli specialisti sulla mappa del mondo che hanno un movimento in coda ora si sposteranno automaticamente quando i loro punti azione saranno pieni.
In precedenza, essi si spostavano solo poco prima che i loro punti azione venissero riempiti di nuovo, causando confusione sul fatto che stessero effettivamente eseguendo o meno il movimento in coda.
Ora, se hanno un obiettivo impostato, gli specialisti si sposteranno immediatamente o inizieranno l'azione una volta che i punti azione saranno pieni.
Le turbine eoliche sono ora influenzate dagli alberi che si trovano nelle vicinanze.
Tutte le turbine eoliche ora mostreranno un'area d'effetto intorno a loro quando vengono posizionate e selezionate nella colonia.
Tutti gli alberi all'interno di quest'area influiranno sull'efficienza della turbina.
Tieni presente che l'efficienza della turbina cambia a seconda che gli alberi circostanti vengano lasciati crescere o abbattuti.
Abbiamo modificato il modo in cui i corrieri possono trasportare le risorse ai cantieri.
In precedenza, solo un colono poteva trasportare un tipo specifico di risorsa, e ciò implicava un'attesa prolungata da parte dei cantieri.
Ora più corrieri possono recapitare la stessa risorsa al cantiere, il che dovrebbe velocizzare notevolmente il processo di costruzione.
La neve sul terreno ora è subito visibile quando vengono caricati i salvataggi, anziché dopo aver messo in pausa il gioco.
Abbiamo risolto un problema che bloccava la costruzione di avamposti in alcuni settori senza una ragione evidente.
A livello visivo, i bambini non cercheranno più di andare tutti nella stessa scuola.
Il bug faceva sì che tutti i bambini cercassero visivamente di entrare nella stessa scuola nonostante fossero in liste di occupanti relative a scuole diverse.
Ora si recheranno tutti nella scuola corrispondente.
I coloni in fuga ora correranno all'interno delle loro case, anziché di fronte ad esse.
Abbiamo risolto un problema che impediva di salvare la partita a seguito di un errore con i pannelli solari rotti.
Il gioco non genererà più eventi, se è stata visualizzata la schermata di fine partita.
I coloni non correranno più all'interno delle scatole delle risorse per un momento prima di raccoglierle.
Abbiamo aggiunto un sistema di sicurezza al gioco che impedisce la generazione dei luoghi delle missioni in posizioni irraggiungibili della mappa del mondo.
Abbiamo risolto un problema con le frecce dell'indicatore che le faceva puntare in modo errato quando si giocava a determinate risoluzioni.
Abbiamo risolto un problema che portava il gioco a concentrarsi sulle notifiche invece di ruotare l'edificio quando si premeva il pulsante corrispondente sul controller.
Il pulsante Esc ora annulla il posizionamento dell'edificio anche dopo aver spostato la telecamera con il mouse in modalità di posizionamento.
Il potenziamento dell'accampamento non resetterà più le risorse accettate che erano state selezionate nella sua versione precedente.
Abbiamo risolto il problema per cui uno specialista rimaneva bloccato nella colonia fino al successivo comando, dopo aver salvato e caricato il gioco.
I cantieri che vengono cancellati ora mostreranno un segnalino, come gli edifici demoliti.
Se i coloni non hanno niente da fare, ora ozieranno vicino alla loro casa o al loro posto di lavoro invece che vicino all'accampamento.
Questo permetterà ai tuoi coloni di essere vicini al loro posto di lavoro e di iniziare a lavorare più velocemente quando ne hanno la possibilità.
Abbiamo risolto un problema che causava la visualizzazione di più tutorial alla volta o il loro blocco totale.
L'overlay dello stato degli edifici ora mostrerà i segnalini di riparazione sopra gli edifici danneggiati.
Grafica
Abbiamo aggiunto nuove icone al gioco per semi di piante e insetti.
Ora sarà facile distinguerli dall'effettiva risorsa, specialmente quando si commercia con le società.
Abbiamo aggiornato il pannello di intestazione delle selezioni pre-partita e alcune icone dei pulsanti.
I segnalini non appariranno più sgranati o sbiaditi nel gioco.
I raccolti che crescono nei campi aperti non saranno più invisibili.
La texture degli edifici ora sarà sempre visibile, anche in caso di impostazioni grafiche minime.
Non sarà più visibile lo sfarfallio sugli alberi durante le catastrofi.
Questo problema era evidente soprattutto giocando su console.
Abbiamo aggiornato le immagini di alcuni eventi di gioco.
Modifiche di bilanciamento
Le abilità di partenza di ogni specialista sono state regolate per garantire che tutti abbiano delle peculiarità di valore nelle proprie abilità in base all'archetipo di appartenenza.
Quando un edificio viene demolito, ora recuperi il 75% dei costi di costruzione.


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