City of Gangsters: Criminal Record is available now!
Hello everyone!
City of Gangsters: Criminal Record is now available! Discover and profit from expanded Roles and Schemes as you take on new challenges in historic Philadelphia!
On the streets of Philadelphia, you’ll discover countless banks and jewelry stores ripe for the taking, along with homemade brandy, a new type of booze to make and sell. On top of all of that, we’ve added a unique starting condition which gets you a Captain on your crew from the get go.
You’ll also have 5 new Roles to explore for your crew, each with their own requirements and capabilities:
Enforcer Captain requirements: Attack and take over rival territory Role bonus: Fronts will become cheaper
Jailbird Captain requirements: Fight and kill rival gang members, and get arrested Role bonus: Excels at non-firearm weapons
Lookout Captain requirements: Discover corners and drive around the map Role bonus: Drive 50% further
Mouthpiece Captain requirements: Establish fronts and bribe cops Role bonus: Bribing cops will become cheaper
Closer Captain requirements: Complete business deals with corner hooligans, trade in favors and attend events Role bonus: Taking over buildings becomes cheaper
Each of these Roles includes a unique Scheme. Want to organize a bank heist with an Enforcer? Blackmail businesses around town with a Mouthpiece? Set up a new front across town? It’s up to you decide which of your Captains’ ideas you’ll agree to and which you decide are just too risky.
You’ll also have a new way to show off what you and your outfit have accomplished during Prohibition! As your wealth grows, the time will come to set up Your Office. You’ll have to decide between a secluded woodland lodge or glitzy penthouse where you’ll stash trophies and rewards from your criminal escapades.
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We can’t wait to see how your criminal empire grows in Philadelphia! Come chat with us and other crew members over on Twitter and Discord once your new operations are up and running!
Until then!
Matt & Rob SomaSim
Free Update 1.3: Roles & Schemes is now live!
Hi everyone!
Ready to expand your criminal empire with a whole new host of abilities and activities? Then good news - our latest FREE 1.3 Update “Roles & Schemes” - is now available!
As your Captains work to grow your empire, they’ll pick up their own, unique experiences. You can now use that experience to elevate them to a new Role in your crew. Once they’re in a role, they’ll be able to start their own Schemes - ongoing activities that will give you an opportunity to make some big scores. You’ll use the new organization chart to see each crew member and Captain and their progress toward a Role.
Each Role also comes with unique abilities. For example, Intimidators can help you discover what rival gangs are storing in their hideouts, while Accountants will help you purchase buildings at cheaper rates. All Captains are eligible for promotion into a Role and you can have several of the same Role.
Based on their experience and Role, your promoted Captains will have some ideas of their own that they’ll want to pitch to you as the Boss. Once you agree to one of their cunning Schemes - and after some investment on your part - they’ll get down to business.
Schemes come with risks as well as a variety of rewards, each depending on what you choose to have your Captain do, so choose carefully. Get it right and the rewards will be worth the risk. Get it wrong and all your investment will go down the drain, or worse - your Captain could get arrested or killed.
We’d love to know how you’re enjoying the latest update, so as always you can find us over on Twitter and Discord.
Hope to see you there!
Matt & Rob SomaSim
Update notes for version 1.3.0
Major update that includes new specialization roles for captain-level crew members, new schemes for them to start up, organizational UI to inspect your outfit and individual crew members, and more.
More details in our Steam announcement: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1386780/view/3133947359567721593
Note: this build is not backward compatible! Please start new save files.
Free Update & DLC coming March 15th!
Hello everyone!
Our free update 1.3 “Roles & Schemes” & new ‘Criminal Record’ DLC will be available to play from March 15th!
The team has been working hard on these new systems & mechanics and we can’t wait for everyone to get stuck in!
In our free 1.3 update “Roles & Schemes” you’ll be able to:
specialize your captains into specific roles
access new abilities & actions
inspect your outfit in a new organization chart
Alongside our update, we’re also launching our City of Gangsters: Criminal Record DLC!
Kicking off in a new Philadelphia map, you’ll be able to expand on these new mechanics with even more roles and schemes available to you and your crew. You’ll also get access to a novel starting condition and a brand new feature, “Your Office”, where you can collect various mementos from your criminal escapades.
Now’s your chance to develop your crew into a highly specialized criminal machine!
With just one week to go, we’re also holding a competition over on Twitter where we’re giving away 3 copies of the City of Gangsters: Criminal Record DLC!
Good luck and we’ll see you next week!
Update notes for verson 1.2.11
Crew and delivery reordering using click-and-drop:
In the right-hand side crew dialog, click the "reorder" button to change ordering of crew/building/vehicle/delivery cards in each section.
Delivery step reordering works the same way as well.
Bug fix: Not enough beer keg consumption in Cincinnati, Detroit and Atlantic City
Bug fix: Crew dialog header text didn't refresh when switching languages
Upgraded Unity engine to 2020.3 LTS
Announcing free update 1.3 “Roles & Schemes” + new Criminal Record DLC!
Hey everyone, since our last post we’ve been hard at work on some new mechanics and content for City of Gangsters, and today we’re announcing the impending arrival of Roles and Schemes in the main game!
These new systems will be released in free update 1.3, arriving in early March. You will be able to specialize your captains into specific roles, gain access to a variety of new abilities and actions, which we’re calling schemes, and inspect your entire outfit in a new organization chart.
Along with version 1.3, we will be launching a new DLC which extends these new mechanics! Unfolding in the streets of Philadelphia, City of Gangsters: Criminal Record will not only add more roles and schemes, but also provide a new city map, with a fascinating novel starting condition, and a brand new view of “Your Office” where you will collect mementos of your various criminal deeds and exploits.
The times have changed
Captain roles let you specialize your crew further. Your new and improved outfits will be more diverse and adaptable with their own distinct hierarchy and feel. Once a crew member gains enough experience and ascends to captain level, they’ll have the opportunity to work towards an advanced role such as:
Enforcer
Intimidator
Jailbird
Lookout
Mouthpiece
Closer
Accountant
Attaining a specialized role requires very specific experience and expertise, which differs from role to role. For example, to become an enforcer, a candidate must have been successful at a number of combat and enforcement operations in the past, in addition to attaining the rank of a captain. And remember, a captain can only have one role, so choose wisely!
The less I say the more my work gets done
These roles in turn unlock role-specific abilities. As your gang moves through the 1920s, you will discover that your new captains will develop ideas for their own personal schemes. Maybe they will want to stage a bank robbery or blackmail a local crooked cop, based on their prior experience.
Schemes are elaborate illicit activities that unfold over a number of stages, and each stage has a number of different options and potential consequences. Will you be able to leverage the scheme to your long-term advantage? Or will your captain fall prey to their own ambitions, the law, or your rivals?
Philadelphia freedom
Beyond update 1.3, the Criminal Record DLC will bring extra roles and schemes into the game, along with some new content. It also unlocks the city of Philadelphia, with a unique starting condition that is sure to be incredibly profitable. And no matter which city you pick, you will now be able to set up an office, in a country lodge or in a downtown penthouse, and it will fill up over time with spoils of victory and mementos of your escapades.
Shine the light
We can’t wait for you to dig into these new mechanics, and develop your crew into a highly specialized criminal machine! We’ll be back soon with another update to break down the new systems and discuss the additions in City of Gangsters: Criminal Record, so take care of yourselves until then!
Matt & Rob SomaSim
Update notes for 1.2.10
Improved Backroom Distillery can now produce neutral alcohol from industrial alcohol in addition to corn syrup
Added a conversation option with your gambling house manager about healing your crew member (when hurt)
Added production details to controlled business mouseovers
Detroit: buildings with npcs that are relevant to your interests in Canada will now display a special marker
Bug fix: Rarely, territory expansion would stop working in the late game due to a smaller bug interrupting expansion
Bug fix: Player controlled garages would only appear as options for automation after interacting with the npc
Bug fix: Gambling feature mouseover for Rake games should no longer erroneously display that "nobody won this turn"
Update notes for version 1.2.9
Added experimental support for Japanese and Korean font rendering
Showing boss's relationship arrows no longer pauses the game A few missing business icons were updated Slight UI tweaks
Bug fix: ambient vehicles glitching at very low framerates Bug fix: zoomed-out markers showed out-of-date favor icons even when favor was not available
Update notes for version 1.2.8
New vehicle! Very fast sport car, which can only be gained by extorting gamblers who are deep in debt
Automated delivery drivers have an updated marker that shows they're automated Added ambient vehicle traffic around the city (can be turned off in settings) Graphics: Updated/improved background images for gambling house and casino features
Bug fix: after you unassign a casino manager, conversations with debtors used to be broken
Update notes for version 1.2.7
Encyclopedia update - added all the skills, resources, weapons and gambling features to the in-game encyclopedia
Bug fix: This time the speakeasy, supper club and venue icons should match Fixed various typos
