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Death Trader: Cold War

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Autumn Sale
Autumn Sale is here! So we have some interesting offer for you - our game Death Trader: Cold War is with a 45% discount and will be so during all Autumn Sale!

Summer Sale!
Summer Sale is here! So we have some interesting offer for you - our game Death Trader: Cold War is with a 75% discount and will be so during all Summer Sale!

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Patch 1.0.6
Hey folks! Here we are with another patch:

  • Steam leaderboard added;
  • Fixed bug with dates in saved games caused by previous patch. If your in-game date changed to 01.01.1990 or later, all events and conflicts will be reset as at 09.06.1975.


We look forward to hearing your further thoughts and ideas!

Patch 1.0.5
Merry Christmas, everyone! We've made another patch which contains a couple of new features and bugfixes:

  • Added Statistics window (you can open it by clicking the budget section);
  • Fixed bug when the game time stops at 06.09.1975;
  • Fixed Cold War Veteran achievement;
  • Now opening the pause menu freezes the game time;
  • Fixed game time speed changing;
  • The highest game time speed increased;
  • Fixed bug when after you sell all transport units and reload your save, a new airplane appears;
  • The cost of bribes to the military increased;
  • Added new background music.


We look forward to your comments and ideas, so don't hesitate to leave a message.
Happy holidays!

Death Trader: Cold War - Special Offer


If you wish for peace, prepare for war. And where is war, there’re weapons. And that's where you come in. An arms dealer knows exactly how to make a good bargain. That’s why you’ll surely enjoy a 75% discount on our game! By purchasing Death Trader: Cold War you’d support the development team, and also make the full release of the game, which is scheduled for 2019, come sooner.

Patch 1.0.4
Greetings! Another patch is already here, and it brings a number of useful changes and bugfixes. As always, thanks a lot for your feedback!

Mechanics and balance changes:
1. Added the recent sale of weapons modifier. Parties to a conflict will be less likely to buy weapons if you recently made a deal with them;
2.The cost of bribes to the security services will decrease, as long as you don't buy weapons from their country;
3. Chance of a deal is now depend on the technical level of weapons for sale;
4. Added the ability to sell unnecessary transports.

Interface changes:
1. Added the ability to view the cargo carried by a transport when hovering the mouse over its icon in the right panel;
2. Added displaying transport route;
3. Improved pop up messages with information about buying and selling weapons.

General changes and fixes:
1. Improved screen resolution settings, fixed incorrect sizes in window mode;
2. Fixed saving and loading, increased operating speed;
3. Added saving log of game events;
4. Improved transport localization;
5. Added messages about the search warrants when the critical level of attention of the security services is exceeded, as well as about the suspension of investigation when trading's becomes available again;
6. Improved sound connected to the conflicts;
7. Other minor bugfixes.

We look forward to your further comments and ideas!

Patch 1.0.3
Hey everyone!

Based on your feedback, we've made some more improvements to the game:

  • Fixed bug when one of the parties to a conflict isn't able to win;
  • Now it's possible to see information about last 100 events in the history log;
  • Fixed color text highlighting;
  • Information in the panel of the purchase/sale of weapons is now updating when a new transport arrives in a conflict zone;
  • Fixed speed of both conflict progress and reputation change when selling weapons;
  • Improved displaying of the сonflict progress.


We look forward to hearing your thoughts and ideas!

Patch 1.0.2
Hey everyone,

A new patch is out, and we hope that your experience from playing the game would be different now.
We appreciate your interest in the game as well as your feedback. Thank you!

What was changed?

  • It is now possible to move across the map using WASD;
  • Added double-clicking a message in the history log to get to the location of this event (if possible);
  • Added the ability to add 1000 items holding down Ctrl+Shift;
  • Fixed balance of adding reputation to the parties to conflicts, the reputation and chance of making a deal now increase if selling at below market prices;
  • The level of special services alert is now reduced by 0.5 per month. If the level is above 90, you can’t give a bribe or decrease the value until it decreases to a level below 90;
  • Reduced influence on victory rate when selling weapons to the parties to conflicts;
  • Added a visual display of how close is a party to a conflict to victory, as well as of the speed of change of this parameter;
  • Added hovering over a conflict icon to display its name.


Other fixes

  • Balance fixes;
  • Fixed pathfinding for transport, path across the Pacific Ocean is now processed correctly;
  • Fixed bug with sound and music settings;
  • Fixed resolution settings bug;
  • Fixed cut off numbers bug;
  • Other fixes and improvements.
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