• Fixed welfare! (For this time, I think/hope)
  
• Fixed more issues with new items in the shop
  
• Fixed a few freezing issues
  

• Fixed various issues with new items
  
• Fixed freezing issues if your player level got to a certain amount
  

• Fixed buildings and things buildings contain being regenerated on load
  
• Fixed some crash issues
  
• Fixed city changing on reload
  
• Fixed shelter charity/conditions changing on reload
  
• Fixed quit button in main menu
  

Changes and new stuff

• We’ve added 27 items! These can be unlocked by getting through the new player levels you’ll need to beat with EXP by playing. One of them… is a MAP!
  
• The base game now has: 10 New items & max player level increased to 25!
  
• The Living city now has: 17 New items have been added & max player level increased to 32!
  
• Added a NO CHALLENGE button to the challenge selection menu, and updated a few other bits of UI in the DLC menu sections.
  

Balancing

• Slightly increased begging perk earn rate
  
• Fixed searching trash causing barely any hygiene to be lost
  
• Spending time in the Arcade or restaurant now provides warmth
  
• When you beat a run, you now get 400 bonus xp
  

Bug fixes and improvements

• Fixed the sun wiping out the screen during heatwaves when playing in EXTREME WEATHER challenge mode
  
• Fixed DLC perks not displaying names
  
• Fixed the parent and child walking backwards
  
• Made an improvement to the Special/Perm item inventory, items are now ordered based on how often you use them, so the items you use the most/daily will always be near the top and you don’t have to scroll around so much
  
• Fixed challenge mode buttons not displaying as completed until you deselect them
  
• Fixed some of the newer food items not being detected as food to show the starving quick eat button when starving
  
• Fixed some issues with speech bubbles dismissing too early sometimes on interrupt
  
• FIXED WELFARE!
  
• Fixed some medical/utility items possibly showing in certain circumstances before you unlocked them
  
• Fixed street savvy showing as a perk selection twice sometimes
  
• Fixed Big pasta pots being endless (sigh)
  
• Fixed still being able to use some welfare office options when your crime level is too high
  
• Fixed final perk for perk collector achievement
  
• Improved timing for welfare clock popups
  

Changes and new stuff

• Added a 4th slot to shops that shows a particular use item permanently. (This is often particular items needed for certain runs like dogfood, alcohol, sanitaries, sandwiches etc)
  

Balancing

• Reduced dog hunger decay when studying/working/passing time a bit
  
• Slightly increased city density, so more buildings spawn on average and there’s less walk time between buildings on average. (WARNING: This means your city will generate differently if continuing a run)
  

Bug fixes and improvements

• Fixed issues selecting new perks with certain customisation/challenge/character selection combos
  
• Fixed Slow player perk as final perk being bugged
  

Bug fixes and improvements

• Minimum amount to gamble in the arcade is now £2, since that’s what it is in the menu…
  
• Paperwork tooltip in jobs menu now displays higher up so it’s not cut off
  
• Fixed the trading menu not updating after rerolling the tradeable items with the Lucky Coin item until you close the trade popup and ask to trade again with that character
  
• Fixed Welfare office being assigned when player doesn’t have welfare after moving areas
  
• Fixed Unlocks for challenge modes and challenge mode completion still being reset!
  
• Fixed the new hygiene decrease rules via trash not working as intended
  

Changes and new stuff

• Certain texts have been updated/improved
  
• (LC) These are really bug fixes, but since this content is now working it may come as a surprise to some players:
  
• Fixed one of the new homeless characters not functioning as they should (the bearded one with blondish hair). He makes begging less successful in his area and may berate you if your reputation isn’t very good. He may distract the police if your reputation is high. He does other stuff too…
  
• Subway busking is now working! (All because the “Buy busking licence” button was hidden due to a bug…)
  

Balancing

• Slowed down the default pace of time a tiny bit more.
  
• Made various changes to homeless reputation and your relationships with Joe, Bill and Maggie, making it easier to build friendships with them and sooner.
  
• Various jobs have additional work hours (more time used, but also more pay), have slightly lower paperwork requirements and slightly higher study requirements
  
• Successful job applications increases paperwork more
  
• When cheap items come up for trading, you’ll have to give over more on average, so you can’t cheat the previously broken system by trading 2 snack bars for a winter coat or something. Now it’ll probably take as much as, ahem, 5 snack bars…
  
• Jobs with lower paperwork requirements have a much higher chance of showing in the job office when you don’t have much paperwork yet
  
• Base begging success chance slightly increased, but pedestrians who notice you commit a crime will be less kind/generous
  
• Pedestrians carry a tiny bit more cash on average
  
• Reduced base hunger loss over time while studying in library a bit
  
• Searching trash now takes a little less hygiene from you when below 50 hygiene. It takes more when at full hygiene.
  
• Updated the amount of perk points required for new perks at certain levels, mid-late game perks are earned slightly faster
  
• When bargaining for day labour, your competitors won’t keep offering to do it for less until it’s just not worth it
  
• Significantly increased the number of benches that spawn in cities
  
• Hunger/happiness ticks can no longer happen within the first and last few minutes of each day, so you won’t tick over just as you enter/exit a building on time at certain times
  
• The previous patch reduced how long you remain drunk for quite a bit. Added a few seconds to how long you are drunk for this time.
  
• Having the freezing status has a tiny bit less effect on walk speed
  
• (LC) “ALL ALONE” Challenge now has way less people on the streets
  
• (LC) You now need a minimum of £3 to start gambling in the arcade
  
• (LC) The fence will be tradeable if you’ve been arrested once, regardless of reputation
  
• (LC) Dumpsters now only have 3 uses by default, as intended
  

Bug fixes and improvements

• NIGHT EVENT CHANGE - The game now remembers what night events you’ve seen the most across runs, and makes those events less likely to show in the future so that rarer events have a better chance of showing, and making runs more unique overall.
  
• (LC) Fixed the 3rd shop item possibly being a newspaper token or silver bracelet, which would break stuff
  
• (LC) Fixed the 3rd shop item showing it was discounted by a newspaper token when it wasn’t
  
• (LC) Fixed the charity assistance in the welfare building possibly pointing you to shelters with no current event that would have an event the next day instead
  
• (LC) Fixed being able to enter the gambling menu in the arcade when you didn’t have enough to actually gamble, causing stuckness
  
• (LC) Fixed the wise trader sometimes breaking if you had max perks or near max perks
  
• (LC) Fixed challenges not being set as complete after completing them
  
• (LC) Fixed xp bonuses/negatives from custom games not always working
  
• Fixed the True ending not always showing under certain circumstances
  
• (LC) Fixed newspaper coupon not showing what item it discounts when you hover over it in the inventory, as well as some other newspaper coupon related bugs
  
• Fixed a bug that could cause you to be assigned a random job when moving areas under some circumstances
  
• Fixed the daytime marker under the time getting stuck
  
• Some little extra improvements for immersion, the fence and dealer characters won’t talk with you while police are nearby
  
• Fixed pedestrians not speaking when reacting to crime
  
• Fixed getting stuck zoomed in if certain popups or events happened at the start/end of the day
  
• Fixed Music starting near the end of tracks too often
  
• Fixed being able to reselect an already selected character, which just made the char name text unhighlight
  
• Fixed cases where starting a new run after abandoning a challenge one could have you start the new run with the previous run’s selected challenge
  
• Fixed issues with arcade ambience/music being heard when moving to another building after going to arcade
  
• Fixed the Illness cured popup showing text for Injury cured popup
  
• Fixed tooltips from the pause menu still showing after closing it
  
• (LC) Fixed “Go to park” option incorrectly showing for Abandoned character in street when talking to them
  
• (LC) Fixed Addict character in street using text “Ah I shouldn’t but i’ll take it” after talking to them first time
  
• (LC) Fixed z positioning of some new street characters
  
• Fixed issues with perk collector achievement and max level busking perks. Lots of things have changed or become available in terms of changing the perk cap over the last several updates, and busking doesn’t have as many perks as the other categories. The max cap for busking is lower if you increase the max cap too much in a custom game to compensate for this, up to the limit of how many busking perks actually exist.
  
• OFTEN music mode now plays music… more often.
  
• Updated sfx mixing, so sounds sound better
  
• The dogs walk speed has been improved so he can keep up when you have loads of walk speed buffs
  
• Fixed food stamp icons incorrectly showing in shop sometimes
  
• Fixed the MARTYR perk icon having crime colours when it’s a begging perk
  
• Fixed beg reactions in the subway showing broken text in non english languages
  
• Fixed flask item showing a water bottle icon when it contains nothing
  
• Fixed charity events reading “in 2 days - in 2 DAYS” twice
  
• Fixed not being able to hear the guitar when playing it
  
• Tips in the loading screen now stay up for a minimum time to make them more readable
  
• Fixed text of map buttons in phone menu
  
• Fixed music mix/mode text in the options menu initially reading as the wrong mode text
  
• Fixed cigarettes not showing a proper description in various menus
  
• Fixed the music mode button being hidden when initially loading into the main menu
  
• Fixed being able to spam the rest button in shelter to get additional hunger
  
• Fixed shelter regular perk also applying to shelters with the same company/owner
  
• Fixed more issues in some translated text in certain languages
  
• Fixed inventory not being sorted correctly when first opening it
  
• Fixed perks not being scrollable until you visit other left side menus
  
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Changes and new stuff

• (LC) Added a “Defaults” button to customiser, so you can easily reset everything
  
• Over 20 new night events have been added!
  

Balancing

• When competing for day labour, you can’t just accept the new values if someone bargains for their own work, you have to change your bid.
  
• Pedestrians walk slightly slower. While this makes it easier to not beg accidentally, it does reduce crowd volume a tiny bit.
  

Bug fixes and improvements

• Improved clock icon timer timing in popups
  
• Fixed getting stuck at water fountain with the pristine perk (YEEEEEEEEEESSSSS!)
  
• Fixed various issues with welfare appointments
  
• Fixed main character not doing their end day speech
  
• Fixed title of talking ui being too big when talking to certain characters
  
• Fixed certain characters having options to take you to the park when they shouldn’t
  
• Directions shown for buildings now stays on screen longer, like when using the phone map or asking someone
  
• Fixed some cases or events where a random perk could be awarded and this could possibly be a dlc perk when you don’t own the dlc, which would break quite a few things…
  
• Fixed various issues with challenges and unlocks in the character customiser
  
• Fixed the welfare office mentioning your hygiene is too low, when it’s actually your crime level being too high that’s stopping you getting in
  
• Fixed issues with popups causing a hang if they occur right at the end of the day
  
• Fixed winter happiness decays effects occurring in certain new buildings
  
• Fixed multiple versions of the same story character type showing up in one day (like seeing two veteran characters in the same day)
  
• Fixed certain hygiene effects not restoring as much hygiene as they should when you had increased your max hygiene
  
• Fixed the 3rd shop item bugging out
  
• Fixed more issues with the parent and child pedestrian
  
• Fixed some new item icons being too small compared to the rest
  
• Fixed some typos
  

Changes and new stuff

• If you are friends with both Joe and Maggie and have joined their syndicate, sometimes they’ll give you some minor items if you pay over the average into the pot
  
• Updated the new item icon on the bag
  
• CLINIC UPDATE: The clinic is one of the least used buildings in the game and has been in need of an update for awhile, even though it is one of the minor buildings. Here it is:
  
• If you have particular maladies like being on your period or illness, the clinic may give you a free item to help with it once when you visit.
  
• If you don’t have any of the item on sale in the clinic within your inventory, your first purchase will come with a free extra. This can only trigger once per day.
  
• The pool of items that clinics sell has been increased slightly.
  

Balancing

• Perks are earned Slightly faster at various levels
  
• (LC) The first welfare appointment now occurs 2 days later rather than 5. However, it’ll take longer to get welfare again if you lose it by being arrested or anything like that.
  
• (LC) Welfare now gives even more based on how many appointments you’ve had, and the maximum possible cap has been increased.
  

Bug fixes and improvements

• Fixed the red car graphical bug
  
• Improved click boxes for pedestrians and scrap to make accidental begging less of a thing, working on some new control schemes as feedback suggests though!
  
• Increased base volume of guitar sfx
  
• Fixed that sitting homeless character’s positioning so it didn’t look like they were floating sometimes
  
• Various optimisations have been made, so the game uses up 100-300 mb less ram at all times
  
• Fixed some cases where you couldn’t increase hygiene past 100 even though your max hygiene was more than 100
  
• Further improved bus positioning when dropped off
  
• Bus: res shelter button now takes you to in progress shelter if you have one, so you don’t have to be resident before it shows in the bus menu
  
• Fixed toilet bugging out late in the day
  
• Fixed vsync issues, vsync options have been removed, but now it’s set automatically based on your hardware.
  
• (LC) Fixed parent and child moonwalking
  
• (LC) Fixed not being able to move after begging from the parent and child