Floodland

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• Optimization of paths taken by citizen and improved management of their journeys
  
• Optimization of stored pathways
  
• Optimization of how citizens choose their activities and how they walk to make those activities happen, for example citizen belonging to a clan that does not like some activities will avoid its building
  
• Time manager optimization improves the allocation of in game time
  
• Improved grouping for citizens activities, making them perform faster.
  
• Optimization of terrain around areas where the elevation of the ground changes
  
• Fixed an image processing operation used to create the illusion of color depth in images with a limited color palette
  
• Light VFX flickering no longer occurs when enabling Water Reflections Quality and FX Quality in video settings
  
• Exploration flags optimization
  
• Fixed and issue whereby memory leaks were created after a save games load upon initialization of the birds work

• Optimization of paths taken by citizen and improved management of their journeys
  
• Optimization of stored pathways
  
• Optimization of how citizens choose their activities and how they walk to make those activities happen, for example citizen belonging to a clan that does not like some activities will avoid its building
  
• Time manager optimization improves the allocation of in game time
  
• Improved grouping for citizens activities, making them perform faster.
  
• Optimization of terrain around areas where the elevation of the ground changes
  
• Fixed an image processing operation used to create the illusion of color depth in images with a limited color palette
  
• Light VFX flickering no longer occurs when enabling Water Reflections Quality and FX Quality in video settings
  
• Exploration flags optimization
  
• Fixed and issue whereby memory leaks were created after a save games load upon initialization of the birds work

• The depth of field - Objects closer to the camera appear in focus, and objects farther are less detailed, and now games work faster on computers with lower specs.
  
• Volumetric - Optimization of volume rendering which creates a 2D projection from a 3D data set.
  
• Optimized some building models.
  
• Memory heavy and non-interactive sections of the map edge have been removed to lower the strain on memory usage.

• Flags are now hidden behind the buildings/map elements
  
• Rafts now move close to each other, not through each other
  
• Small storage was visibly offset - now fixed
  
• Now the Grain Mill and Advanced Grain Mill building models don’t have electricity pillars upon being built if they’re not electrified.

• Water balance now includes water use by farms.
  
• Sorting Station: Electrified Rubble Mode and Electrified Scrap Mode names are now referring to the correct resources.
  
• Fixed issue: Electrified Scrap Mode unexpectedly no longer adds an additional Unskilled workpost in the Sorting Station building.
  
• Risky Food balance display now includes that which is consumed by kitchens.
  
• Clicked Pathfinder Camp shows a range similar to that shown with a Storage.
  
• Differentiation between active and inactive Storage range - if there are no workers in the Storage the range is shown in a different way than when workers are in the Storage.
  
• The long road between home and workplace has been fixed concerning Storage Workers living in tents near a Storage building.
  
• Balanced Work Schedule law effect is now included in Max Satisfaction value in the Bonfire and Canteen recreational buildings.
  
• District view fixes - the “murders” are now properly called “injuries”.
  
• After being developed, certain upgrades now change the number of work posts for their respective buildings in Technology Development and Building Panel.
  
• Fixed the rare occurrence of the "infinity" icon that was presented for Rubble on the scavenge area panel (this issue occurred at a specific spot near Radio Tower on the starting island).
  
• The battery was unnecessarily shown in the Radio Tower as a resource in the building tasklist.
  
• The Study, Research Facility and Research Institute now are showing experience produced in the Technology Development screen.
  
• Buildings' production modes now unlock consistently.
  
• Fish School Spotting is now shown as a building, not a trait.
  
• Fixed the yellow dot showing the possible new building to be researched in Technology Development.
  
• Night Shift’s effect is now added to the balance in the resource bar at the top of the screen.
  
• The yellow dot in Technology Development shows the category with possible new buildings to research.
  
• The Pathway on Shallow Water in Technology Development now shows their costs.
  
• The amount of fish was sometimes wrongly shown when three schools of fish were taken into account.
  
• New notification with information for the player showing that the Night Shift law needs to be used manually.
  
• The tooltip for the “Academy“ word now clearly shows the tooltip of Academy, not Self Learning.
  
• Prepare for a looming fish crisis - the crisis’s objective now has a proper tooltip.
  
• The Meat Prohibition law's description now mentions that it affects Pool Shellfish Farm and Adapted Fisherman’s Hut buildings.
  
• The Industrial Baking trait’s description is consistent with its effect.
  
• Meat Prohibition Trait is now present in the Farm type buildings after establishing the respective law.
  
• Fixed an inconsistency with “The Law” saying it should only take 15% more time for people to get better, but Medical Tent says 18%.
  
• The “Centralized Health Services” law now consistently affects the number of patients in Hospitals and Clinics.
  
• The Autopsy law now mentions that it affects the Clinic building.
  
• Clan Satisfaction in buildings is more clearly shown.
  
• Information now clearly shows on the building panel the excess limit of resources or too small amount of resources.
  
• Oakhill Survivors’ Perk Ascetic is now included in the food balance.
  
• “Academic Debate” mode of the Study building (and its upgrades) is now called “Scholars’ Debate” so it’s not confused with “Academy” mode.

• Electrifying production is now more effective than the standard mode in Farmstead, Steelworks, Blacksmith, Lumber.
  
• Small Farm is now more effective (with all work posts manned) after upgrading to Farm, as originally intended.
  
• The adaptable Herbalist House is less effective now, as it was overpowered in comparison to the similar buildings.
  
• Rubble and Scrap deposits now contain more resources.
  
• The chance of contracting the disease in some of the buildings searched has increased.
  
• The ruins on the starting island now contain more relics, so it's less likely to get stuck with Research early in the game.
  
• Reduced effects of some of the crises, so they're less likely to break the whole economy.
  
• Changes in thefts: The theft values are now more reasonable, with a low crime rate they are low and with a high one they are high and coincide with the percentages displayed in the U.I.
  
• Clans now have less Recreation activities that they disapprove of, so it's a bit easier to set up Recreation for many clans.
  
• Mushroom Regulation and Fish Farm Regulation laws are now consistently improving Mushroom Cluster and Fish School production.

• Some texts (Laws’, tooltips’ or buildings’ descriptions) are now clarified.
  
• Better resources management of Pathfinder Camp due to the ability to now hold the mouse button to accelerates speed of adding and subtracting resources (+/-) as well as an added option to throw all resources.
  
• mouse button hold accelerates speed of adding and subtracting resources (+/-)
  
• Option added to throw all resources.
  
• An issue with the Electrified modes of certain buildings unexpectedly affecting the number of work posts has now been fixed.
  
• Deep water buildings don’t have a deconstruction option now. It was mistakenly present and the button didn’t work.
  
• Fixed the green seal being displayed improperly after establishing the law and suspending it in quick succession.
  
• U.I. fixes concerning long words in different languages, overlapping or corrupted icons, color corrections etc.
  
• The "i" icon after objectives shown in the left part of the screen won't appear in a separate line.
  
• Missing Keys error fixes - the “Missing Key” texts do not appear in the middle of other information.
  
• The player is able to interact with save slots in the Save Game menu when saving the game.
  
• Translation and localization completion - small amounts of texts were still in English and are now translated.
  
• Leaders’ comments are fixed. Some comments were displayed at the wrong moment, were connected to the wrong leader or law, repeated too many times.
  
• We’ve also added some new comments.

• Events are now better balanced and generally polished.
  
• Some events no longer pop up consecutively.
  
• Events that were meant to generate Unrest now do.
  
• Changed in the time of occurrence of certain events.
  
• Quests fixed - some weren’t finished even though conditions have been met.
  
• Songs with words are now playing till the end, not finishing in the middle.
  
• Music mood now changes straight after the crisis finishes.
  
• The campfire ambient sound is added when the campfire is present in the Encampments Model.
  
• More songs are played during end game credits.
  
• Ambient music and sounds now repeat less frequently.
  
• "Live Long and Prosper" achievement now unlocks upon meeting the criteria.
  
• “The Friends Will Be Friends” achievement unlocks consistently with its description.
  
• The button setting up priority for derelicts is now disabled by design.
  
• Fixed issues with keybindings.
  
• The Forager with electrified mode now gathers herbs with relevant mode
  
• Pathfinder Companies law fixes.
  
• True full-screen mode added.

• Texture optimizations, to put less load and strain on the graphics card
  
• Game logic optimization, including calculating recreation and displayed resource balance, this also puts less load on the CPU and memory
  
• Construction/deconstruction optimization
  
• Shaders optimization
  
• Tweaks for the level of detail settings of objects

• Important Relations fix! “Contact in Recreation Buildings” could have been much too low than intended (or even negative) due to an error. With the new fix you’ll notice that the more Recreation buildings you have and the more your people mingle there, the better for Relations.
  
• An objective to place a Storage near a Turbine could never be completed in some cases
  
• The objective to gather enough Influence could have shown a wrong value, so the objective wasn’t completed when the player expected.
  
• Transfers through the pier could be blocked in several situations (e.g. deconstruction during transfer)
  
• Some laws could have granted excessive resources (e.g. Protect the Family)
  
• A Pathfinder Camp could have been blocked when someone starved during expedition
  
• Issues with loading the list of save files
  
• VFX for gathered resources could persist too long
  
• Cluttered screen could lead to severe visual corruption
  
• We’ve handled more instances of the game saving corrupted files that couldn’t be loaded later.
  
• This fix made it less likely that new saves will have this error but won’t unstuck all of the old ones. If this happens, please reach out to us and we should be able to help (see the info below)
  

• Excess resources can now be removed from Stock
  
• The Radio Tower now requires story progression to be unlocked, so it’s less likely for someone to be blocked due to unusual order of technology development
  
• It is now possible to disable the FX in Video Settings
  
• Exclusive Fullscreen option has been temporarily removed due to issues with it (we plan to bring it back soon, after more tests)

• More variety on the game start, increasing replayability
  
• Balance tweaks
  
• Sound fx changes (yes, the bell sound as well)
  
• Dozens of small clarity-related tweaks (more/better text information in various places)
  
• Fixed missing and untranslated keys
  
• Other small fixes and tweaks
  

• We'll be constantly optimizing the game in the following updates of which this is the 2nd.
  
• The risk of corrupted saves should be far lower now. Plus autosaves were too frequent in earlier builds. We suggest saving frequently and make backups of the saves from time to time
  
• In fairness, please don't expect miracles - if you have a low-end machine, play at lower resolution and reduce visual effects. Please check the suggested specs below.
  
• Our "Painterly" art style doesn't automatically mean it's "cheaper" performance-wise. There's plenty of detail, lighting and effects that will keep the GPU busy.
  
• The game's complexity also naturally means that the more buildings/people you have, the more power it demands, which is especially visible on fast forward (more calculations in a time frame).

• Create a ticket using our Discord bot here
  Join our server here
  and click “open a ticket” from the left hand menu
  
  
• Email the Developers directly at: support@vilemonarch.com
  
  
• Our Publishers Support page here

• Important! On some system configurations the game can freeze/crash. While we’re working on a permanent fix, it’s advised to keep plenty of free storage space (see the SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS) for the system to cache data more efficiently. Also, try lowering down graphics settings if this happens to you.
  
• In rare cases autosave can not work. Try turning it off and on again in the settings.
  
• Framerate still isn’t ideal, it’ll be improved in the coming patches
  
• Turning off shadows in the Settings may make them unable to turn on again, despite clicking the option in the menu. Clicking different shadow options back and forth should fix the problem.
  
• Pathfinder Camp occasionally does not allow the expedition to come back home. This issue is extremely rare but unfortunately can make the game unplayable after that (loading an earlier save state is advised)
  
• Very few bits of text were not translated
  
• Visual issue - fishing boats may sail on the land in some specific cases
  
• In rare scenarios, survivors may choose a shelter that is too far from their workplace. This will result in the in-game 'long way from home' warning messages
  
• Specific antivirus/firewall software may occasionally block access to save data files
  
• In rare cases, when expeditors in Pathfinder Camp die, they might not properly leave the remains
  
• Ferries traveling between Districts can occasionally go through buildings (visual issue)
  
• Not all achievements work as expected
  

• Small optimization tweaks, more coming soon:
  
• “Exclusive Full Screen” mode can now be toggled
  
• Additional graphics options for fine-tuning settings to a given machine (in practice, the game can now work on lower system specifications than in previous versions)

• In some cases, upgrading a Storage could result in locking the ability to add workers, which might made the game unplayable
  
• Expeditions/Pathfinder Camps could have got stuck, which might made the game unplayable
  
• We’ve handled instances of the game saving corrupted files that couldn’t be loaded later.
  
• This fix makes it less likely that new saves will have this error but won’t unstuck all of the old ones. If this happens, please reach out to us and we should be able to help (see the info below)
  
• In some cases, connecting rooftops made it unable to build on them.
  
• In rare cases, the number of Clans in the community could have exceeded the limit (which is 5)

• We'll be constantly optimizing the game in the following updates of which this is the 2nd.
  
• The risk of corrupted saves should be far lower now. Plus autosaves were too frequent in earlier builds. We suggest saving frequently and make backups of the saves from time to time
  
• In fairness, please don't expect miracles - if you have a low-end machine, play at lower resolution and reduce visual effects. Please check the suggested specs below.
  
• Our "Painterly" art style doesn't automatically mean it's "cheaper" performance-wise. There's plenty of detail, lighting and effects that will keep the GPU busy.
  
• The game's complexity also naturally means that the more buildings/people you have, the more power it demands, which is especially visible on fast forward (more calculations in a time frame).

• Create a ticket using our Discord bot here
  Join our server here
  and click “open a ticket” from the left hand menu
  
  
• Email the Developers directly at: support@vilemonarch.com
  
  
• Our Publishers Support page here

• Smoother gameplay during the late-game and fast forward
  
• Level of Detail refinements
  
• Responsiveness tweaks in Technology Development and Law Committee views
  
• Reduced memory usage (which fixes some of the crashes)
  
• Shorter save game time

• Mouse scroll doesn’t work for zoom-in/zoom-out after the game is started with skip prologue and tutorial turned on
  
• During story events, when the cursor hovers on choices for the first time, it tends to show wrong suggestions
  
• Large UI.. scaling issues
  
• Electronic chips could be produced far beyond the storage capacity limit, resulting in a potential progression blocker
  
• Having saved games from the demo on the drive occasionally crashed the full version of the game
  
• Autosaves could have been more frequent than the set number
  
• People were taking paths that were too long to get ot the Canteens, sometimes resulting in disturbed productivity

• Bad Relations now affect Unrest less harshly
  
• System profiler which sets up settings based on player’s computer specs.
  
• Weather effects now have different quality levels, which affects performance.

• We'll be constantly optimizing the game in the following updates of which this is the 2nd.
  
• The risk of corrupted saves should be far lower now. Plus autosaves were too frequent in earlier builds. We suggest saving frequently and make backups of the saves from time to time
  
• In fairness, please don't expect miracles - if you have a low-end machine, play at lower resolution and reduce visual effects. Please check the suggested specs below.
  
• Our "Painterly" art style doesn't automatically mean it's "cheaper" performance-wise. There's plenty of detail, lighting and effects that will keep the GPU busy.
  
• The game's complexity also naturally means that the more buildings/people you have, the more power it demands, which is especially visible on fast forward (more calculations in a time frame).

• Create a ticket using our Discord bot here
  Join our server here
  and click “open a ticket” from the left hand menu
  
  
• Email the Developers directly at: support@vilemonarch.com
  
  
• Our Publishers Support page here

• Framerate still isn’t ideal, it’ll be improved in the coming patches
  
• In some cases, upgrading a Storage can result in locking the ability to add workers, which may make the game unplayable - it’s advised to load a save state from before it.
  
• Contact in Recreation Buildings may be miscalculated in some cases, resulting in negative Relations numbers.
  
• Turning off shadows in the Settings may make them unable to turn on again, despite clicking the option in the menu. Clicking different shadow options back and forth should fix the problem.
  
• “Protect The Family” law can sometimes take too much resources and return even more when suspended.
  
• In rare cases, the number of Clans can exceed the limit (which is 5)
  
• Pathfinder Camp occasionally does not allow the expedition to come back home. This issue is extremely rare but unfortunately can make the game unplayable after that (loading an earlier save state is advised)
  
• Very few bits of text were not translated
  
• Visual issue - fishing boats may sail on the land in some specific cases
  
• In rare scenarios, survivors may choose a shelter that is too far from their workplace. This will result in the in-game 'long way from home' warning messages
  
• Specific antivirus/firewall software may occasionally block access to save data files
  
• In rare cases, when expeditors in Pathfinder Camp die, they might not properly leave the remains
  
• Ferries traveling between Districts can occasionally go through buildings (visual issue)
  
• Not all achievements work as expected
  

• We'll be constantly optimizing the game in the following updates of which this is the 1st.
  
• In fairness, please don't expect miracles - if you have a low-end machine, play at lower resolution and reduce visual effects. Please check the suggested specs below.
  
• Our "Painterly" art style doesn't automatically mean it's "cheaper" performance-wise. There's plenty of detail, lighting and effects that will keep the GPU busy.
  
• The game's complexity also naturally means that the more buildings/people you have, the more power it demands, which is especially visible on fast forward (more calculations in a time frame).

• Create a ticket using our Discord bot here
  Join our server here
  and click “open a ticket” from the left hand menu
  
  
• Email the Developers directly at: support@vilemonarch.com
  
  
• Our Publishers Support page here

• Pathfinder Camp occasionally does not allow the expedition to come back home. This issue is extremely rare
  
• Very few bits of text were not translated
  
• Visual issue - fishing boats may sail on the land in some specific cases
  
• In rare scenarios, survivors may choose a shelter that is too far from their workplace. This will result in the in-game 'long way from home' warning messages
  
• Specific antivirus/firewall software may occasionally block access to save data files
  
• On specific seeds some objects, especially trees have position changed in reference to the water surface
  
• The saving options may not work when the scavenger camp is partially on the water and partially on land
  
• A person may appear in the district in which he/she doesn't belong
  
• In rare cases, when expeditors in pathfinder camp die, the new building is not established when travelers are on board
  
• Lack of colliders in some objects on pathfinders or ferries way
  
• Not all achievements work as expected
  
• Rarely one of the assets is shown as a small black cube in the fog
  
• Contact in Recreation Buildings may be miscalculated in some cases, resulting in negative Relations numbers.
  
• People may take too long paths to Canteens, sometimes resulting in their disturbed productivity (when they can’t make it to work on time)
  
• In case of some changes between the versions, the warning concerning saves appears: “Save version mismatch detected! This save comes from another version of the game and may differ e.g. in game balance, but continuing the playthrough is possible”. The saves will work in such a situation
  

• Pathfinder Camp occasionally does not allow the expedition to come back home. This issue is extremely rare
  
• Very few bits of text were not translated
  
• Visual issue - fishing boats may sail on the land in some specific cases
  
• In rare scenarios, survivors may choose a shelter that is too far from their workplace. This will result in the in-game 'long way from home' warning messages
  
• Specific antivirus/firewall software may occasionally block access to save data files
  
• On specific seeds some objects, especially trees have position changed in reference to the water surface
  
• The saving options may not work when the scavenger camp is partially on the water and partially on land
  
• A person may appear in the district in which he/she doesn't belong
  
• In rare cases, when expeditors in pathfinder camp die, the new building is not established when travelers are on board
  
• Lack of colliders in some objects on pathfinders or ferries way
  
• Not all achievements work as expected
  
• Rarely one of the assets is shown as a small black cube in the fog
  
• Contact in Recreation Buildings may be miscalculated in some cases, resulting in negative Relations numbers.
  
• People may take too long paths to Canteens, sometimes resulting in their disturbed productivity (when they can’t make it to work on time)
  
• In case of some changes between the versions, the warning concerning saves appears: “Save version mismatch detected! This save comes from another version of the game and may differ e.g. in game balance, but continuing the playthrough is possible”. The saves will work in such a situation