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.

Las celebraciones del Año Nuevo Lunar han terminado y volvemos con una nueva actualización bastante contundente. Incluye el nuevo modo de juego "Escenarios", que ya os anunciamos, con dos experiencias temáticas de invierno además de un montón de otras mejoras de logística, estadísticas y más. ¡Pero eso no es todo! Además de este nuevo giro a la dinámica de juego habitual, os traemos el modo Partida personalizada. Os permitirá ajustar la experiencia como queráis con docenas de nuevas opciones para disfrutar de una experiencia bastante relajada o de un espectáculo de auténtico horror.

Los escenarios os permiten sumergiros en el sandbox de Surviving the Aftermath con nuevos temas y versiones de la fórmula básica que añaden más rejugabilidad. Algunas os brindarán una experiencia más compacta y narrativa, con reglas muy modificadas, mientras que otras darán un vuelco al modo en que se desarrolla el juego de gran formato. Esto podría deberse a un efecto climático permanente o a limitar las herramientas a vuestra disposición, lo que os obligaría a buscar otras formas de superar los obstáculos. En “Fiebre fría”, empezáis con una colonia pequeña que vive en una tormenta invernal permanente y los colonos no tienen más remedio que buscar una forma de escapar. Explorad y aprovechad el entorno para guiar a los colonos lejos del frío de un modo que nunca se había visto hasta ahora en el juego. “Invierno eterno” es una experiencia de sandbox más tradicional, con una tormenta invernal interminable y también reglas personalizadas. ¿Podréis sobrevivir en un entorno donde ya no se pueden cultivar alimentos al aire libre y el frío omnipresente pasa factura constantemente a vuestros colonos?

Nos habéis pedido la capacidad de personalizar todavía más el juego, así que aquí la tenéis. La nueva Partida personalizada añade docenas de opciones que podéis ajustar para adaptar la experiencia a vuestro gusto. Podéis desactivar las catástrofes, aumentar el número de especialistas iniciales y eliminar totalmente la muerte por vejez para disfrutar de un juego más relajado. O también se pueden eliminar las sociedades, reducir a la mitad las propiedades nutritivas de los alimentos y desactivar los nacimientos para elevar la dificultad. También podéis ajustar la generación de mapas más todavía con más opciones para el terreno, la cantidad de elementos del terreno, la extensión de los bosques, la cantidad de lagos y más. En PC, también es posible quitar el límite de población. Como estos ajustes cambian drásticamente el nivel de dificultad, en el modo Partida personalizada los logros están desactivados. ¡Tenéis mucho para experimentar, así que adelante!

En el campo de la logística, ahora podéis controlar qué almacenes solicitan y reciben los recursos diversos para controlar el modo en que se distribuyen los productos por la colonia. Estas "solicitudes de almacenamiento" permiten a los jugadores trasladar y conservar cantidades concretas de recursos entre los almacenes para crear áreas de producción independientes o distribuir los alimentos más equitativamente por el mapa de la colonia. Podéis, por ejemplo, agregar una solicitud de almacenamiento de comidas en el almacén de alimentos junto al lugar donde se produce el metal para que los trabajadores no tengan que ir andando hasta el centro de la colonia para comer. Esto, sumado a que desde la actualización anterior los trabajadores viven cerca del trabajo, os permite abarcar el mapa de forma más eficaz. Los portadores también se dividirán las tareas grandes entre más, así que veréis que los montones grandes de recursos se transportan más rápido, siempre y cuando dispongáis de colonos inactivos.

La semilla de mapa de vuestro mundo generado ya se puede ver y personalizar. Esto os permitirá guardar mapas que os interesen para reutilizarlos en otras sesiones de juego o compartirlos con la comunidad. La semilla de mapa actual se muestra en la esquina inferior derecha del menú de pausa. El primer conjunto de números designa los diversos parámetros del mapa, mientras que el segundo muestra vuestras selecciones previas a la partida con cifras.

Entre otras mejoras, hemos remodelado totalmente la página de resumen de las estadísticas. En lugar de una hoja de cálculo enorme con información que ya conocéis, tiene varias secciones con información general y datos más detallados en la columna derecha. Todos los tipos de turbinas eólicas ahora son menos eficaces cuando se colocan junto a árboles. De este modo, esperamos que los paneles solares sean un poco más competitivos a la hora de producir energía en vuestras colonias y que tengáis que planificar un poco más los parques de turbinas eólicas. Los especialistas ahora se moverán y gastarán sus puntos de acción inmediatamente cuando empiece un nuevo día, siempre y cuando hayáis definido un destino para ellos. Realizamos este cambio para que la función de movimientos por varios turnos resulte más clara cuando les ordenéis que vuelvan a la colonia, por ejemplo. Como siempre, podéis consultar la lista completa de cambios de equilibrado en la publicación de las notas del parche.

¡Y ya está todo! Los nuevos modos de juego, mejoras logísticas y otras incorporaciones proporcionarán un montón de rejugabilidad a Surviving the Aftermath, ¡así que deseamos de todo corazón que las disfrutéis! Nos encantaría conocer vuestras opiniones sobre los nuevos escenarios y saber qué novedades os gustaría ver.

¡Cuidaos, supervivientes, y seguid jugando!

Notas de cambios - "Actualización 3"
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General
Agregamos nuevos modos al juego.
Cuando empiecen una nueva partida, ahora les pediremos que elijan entre la nueva partida original, crear una partida personalizada o empezar un escenario.
Crear una partida personalizada les permite cambiar distintos ajustes del juego.
Los ajustes previos al juego anteriores seguirán estando presentes, pero ahora hay muchas opciones nuevas que les permiten cambiar los tamaños de los depósitos, la cantidad de elementos en el terreno de la colonia y su índice de natalidad.
Tengan en cuenta que algunos ajustes no estarán disponibles en todas las plataformas debido a limitaciones de rendimiento.
Si juegan en un modo personalizado, no podrán desbloquear los logros. Pero no se apuren, pues aún podrán desbloquearlos normalmente, jugando a la versión original del juego.
También agregamos dos escenarios nuevos.
Estos escenarios pondrán a prueba su capacidad de sobrevivencia.
El escenario Fiebre fría les propone un desafío sin igual, ¡donde deberán encontrar la forma de escapar del frío en el límite de tiempo indicado!
El escenario Invierno eterno no les pone límites de tiempo. Sin embargo, como su nombre indica, la colonia se encuentra sumida en un invierno constante. ¿Serán capaces de sobrevivir y terminar la misión principal?
También agregamos a los ajustes previos al juego la posibilidad de seleccionar la semilla de mapa para la partida normal.
Utilizar una semilla de mapa en concreto les permitirá tener exactamente la misma colonia, el mismo mapa del mundo y los mismos ajustes previos al juego que en una partida anterior.
Verán la semilla de mapa en la esquina inferior derecha cuando accedan al menú de pausa.
En PC, también podrán copiar la semilla al portapapeles clicando el botón que tiene al lado.
Solo verán la semilla de mapa en partidas nuevas que empezaran luego de la actualización del juego.
Cuando tengan la semilla de mapa que quieran aplicar a su partida próxima, podrán modificarla en la página Resumen de las selecciones previas al juego cuando empiecen una nueva partida.
También modificamos la página Resumen del menú Estadísticas.
Aclaramos la página Resumen del menú y agregamos nueva información para que sea visible.
Cada sección mostrará información más detallada cuando pasen el cursor por encima.
Tengan en cuenta que la información que aquí les mostramos no tiene en cuenta lo sucedido en la partida guardada antes de que se actualizara el juego.
Por ejemplo, solo aparecerán las tecnologías desbloqueadas que investigaron después de actualizar el juego y de continuar con su partida guardada.
Incorporamos una opción a los edificios de almacenamiento para que puedan seleccionar un recurso para que los colonos lo lleven a ese edificio en concreto.
Para seleccionar el recurso en cuestión en cada edificio de almacenamiento, primero seleccionen el edificio y luego seleccionen el espacio debajo de la sección Solicitar recursos.
Después de seleccionar un recurso, podrán elegir la cantidad de unidades que desean que lleven los portadores a ese edificio.
Este cambio también les brinda la opción de seleccionar el monto de recursos que quieren que contengan edificios como el quemador.
Mecánica de juego
Los especialistas en el mapa del mundo que tengan movimientos en cola ahora se moverán automáticamente cuando se llenen sus puntos de acción (PA).
Hasta ahora, solo se movían justo antes de que se volvieran a llenar sus PA, lo que resultaba confuso si de verdad estaban usando el movimiento en cola.
Ahora si tienen fijado un objetivo para ellos, los especialistas se moverán de inmediato o iniciarán la acción cuando se llenen los PA.
Las turbinas eólicas ahora se ven afectadas por los árboles cercanos.
Todas las turbinas eólicas tendrán un radio a su alrededor cuando las coloquen y cuando las seleccionen en la colonia.
Los árboles que haya dentro de esta zona afectarán a la eficiencia de la turbina.
Recuerdan que la eficiencia de la turbina puede cambiar si los árboles crecen o los talan.
Cambiamos el modo en que los portadores transportan recursos a las zonas de construcción.
Antes, solo un colono podía llevar un tipo de recurso en concreto, lo que provocaba que las zonas de construcción tuvieran que esperar más para obtener los recursos.
Ahora, varios portadores pueden transportar el mismo recurso a la zona de construcción, lo que debería acelerar el proceso de construcción.
La nieve sobre el terreno y el piso ahora se muestra tan pronto se cargan las partidas en lugar de tener que poner en pausa y reanudar la partida.
Corregimos un error que provocaba que algunos vectores impidieran construir puestos de avanzada sin ninguna razón visible.
Ya no se representará a los niños intentando acudir todos a la misma escuela.
Este error provocaba que se vieran a todos los niños intentar entrar en la misma escuela a pesar de estar en las listas de escuelas distintas.
Ahora verán que todos se dirigen a sus colegios correspondientes.
Los colonos ahora correrán al interior de sus casas cuando huyan en lugar de correr delante de ellas.
Resolvimos el problema que impedía guardar la partida después de que se produjera un error con los paneles solares rotos.
El juego ya no generará ningún evento si ya mostró la pantalla de fin de la partida.
Ya no tendrán la impresión de que los colonos entran dentro de las cajas de recursos por un segundo antes de agarrarlas.
Agregamos un seguro contra fallas al juego que evita que aparezcan ubicaciones de misiones en lugares inalcanzables del mapa del mundo.
Corregimos un error de las flechas del indicador por el que indicaran de forma incorrecta si jugaban con unas resoluciones específicas.
Corregimos un error que por el juego se centraba en las notificaciones en lugar de rotar el edificio cuando se pulsaba el botón correspondiente en el controlador.
La tecla Esc ahora servirá para cancelar la colocación de un edificio aún después de mover la cámara con el mouse en el modo de colocación.
Si mejoran el lugar de acampada ya no se restablecerán los recursos permitidos que se seleccionaron en su versión anterior.
Corregimos un error por el que los especialistas se quedaban atorados en la colonia hasta que les daban una orden luego de guardar y cargar la partida.
Las zonas de construcción que se cancelaron ahora mostrarán un ícono flotante igual que los edificios que están demoliendo.
Si los colonos no tienen nada que hacer, ahora permanecerán inactivos cerca de su casas o de su lugar de trabajo en lugar de quedarse al lado del lugar de acampada.
Esto debería permitir que sus colonos estén cerca del trabajo para empezar a trabajar antes tan pronto puedan hacerlo.
Corregimos un error por el cual varios tutoriales se mostraban al mismo tiempo o se quedaban atorados.
La capa de salud de edificios ahora mostrará los indicadores flotantes de reparación encima de los edificios dañados.
Gráficos
Agregamos nuevos iconos para semillas de insectos y plantas.
Ahora les resultará fácil diferenciarlos del recurso en sí, especialmente cuando comercien con sociedades.
Actualizamos el panel de encabezado de la selección previa a la partida y algunos íconos de botones.
Los íconos flotantes ya no aparecerán granulados o atenuados en el juego.
Ya no se verán los cultivos que crecen en el exterior.
Las texturas de los edificios ahora se verán siempre, aunque la configuración de los gráficos sea baja.
Los árboles ya no parpadearán cuando se produzcan catástrofes.
Este comportamiento se apreciaba sobre todo en las consolas.
Actualizamos las imágenes de algunos eventos en el juego.
Ajustes de balanceado
Ajustamos las habilidades de cada especialista inicial para garantizar que todos tienen los mejores valores posibles en sus respectivas habilidades según su arquetipo.
Cuando demuelan un edificio, ahora recuperarán el 75 % del costo de construcción.


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