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Genre: Real Time Strategy (RTS), Simulator, Strategy, Indie

Offworld Trading Company

OTC Beta 8 with New and Improved Buyout Mode is Now Available!

Mercy is for the weak. Crush your enemies -- and your friends! -- one share at a time with the new "No Buyout!" Mode in Offworld Trading Company Beta 8!

The new "No Buyout" mode makes it so that rival corporations must buy out your shares one at a time instead of all at once. When your shares are out, you are eliminated from the game.
 

Full Change Log:



New stock mode: “No Buyout!”, new music, and leaderboards for multiplayer!

[ Gameplay ]
 
  • No Buyout mode (on by default): Rival corporations can buyout your own shares one at a time. Once your own shares are gone, you are eliminated from the game, and your corporation becomes a subsidiary of its shareholders, who then receive a dividend from your old company three times a day.
  • When you buyout yourself, other players get double values of the shares as cash.
  • Offworld prices raise slowly throughout the game.
  • Energy Vault now fills automatically at 1 unit per tick.
  • Engineering Lab is now called the Upgrade Lab.
  • Patent Office is now Patent Lab.
  • Pleasure Dome and Hacker Array can only be built at level 3.
  • First Offworld Market can be built at level 4, and the second one can be built at level 5.
  • Fixed a number of bugs involving buying stock in a team game.
  • Added better, more thematic events.
  • “Days” are now “Sols”.
  • Added colony names.
  • Fixed for how adjacency is calculated.
  • Adjusted difficulty at lower settings and in the tutorials.
  • Added terrain regions to scanning phase.
  • Improved AI for placing Pleasure Domes.
  • Will auction tiles near the colony for Pleasure Domes.
  • Expansive HQs now have a higher entertainment demand than Scavenger HQs.
  • Added some AI quips from various events.
  • Player buy percentage now include resources stored in orders (like launches and research).
  • Workshop is now Toolshop.
  • Improved AI.
  • Improved Campaign AI.

[ Multiplayer ] 
  • Only the lobby owner can change the difficulty and team settings in a custom game.
  • Added lost communications messages to loading screen in case we lose communications to the server during the game load.

[ Art ] 
  • New Glass Furnace model and construction animation.
  • New Electronics Factory.
  • Added Expansive HQ construction.
  • Improved Robotics HQ construction.
  • New Upgrade Lab construction animation.
  • New Solar Condenser model and animation.
  • New Dry Ice Condenser animation.
  • New scientific version of Electrolysis Reactor with animations.

[ UI ] 
  • Made buying and price text bigger. (Thanks blackmagic1!)
  • Added outline around chat messages. (Thanks blackmagic1!)
  • Building tooltips now show unused resources (Thanks blackmagic1!)
  • Fixed black market items not appearing a second time. (Thanks GalacticWino!)
  • New leaderboards with rankings on the quickmatch menu.
  • In team game, when your teammate is in danger of being bought out, a percentage number shows up next to their name.
  • When a building or claim is in progress, meaning that a vehicle is moving to do the action, it appears in the list at the top of the screen. While it is in transit, you can right click on the button to cancel it.
  • Fixed not showing “off” when a building is virused.
  • Removed player dropdown from summary screen.
  • Charts & graphs screen now shows all players when appropriate.
  • Added colony stock purchase button for 7 Sols mode.
  • During found mode, grey out undiscovered resources.
  • Fixed incorrect resource level showing on UI when player has slant drilling.
  • Putting active player at the top of the player list at game start.
  • You can now click on the alerts in the top right to pan the camera to the location that is associated with the event.
  • Improved end-of-game stats screen.
  • Fixed a bug where reveal map text was not being rendered at certain resolutions.
  • Tile tips for scientific don't point to tiles adjacent to the HQ for factories.
  • Black market buttons slightly improved. Removed false-positive state.
  • Improved cost tooltip layout.
  • Selected tile UI betrays a hologrammed building 100% less.

[ General ] 
  • Added loading screen to the game.
  • Saving skirmish setting file so it persists between games.
  • SHIFT-A will skip auctions in single-player.
  • Can now fast forward during replays.
  • Fixed achievements with the campaign.

[ Audio ] 
  • Two new in-game dynamic songs and a new version of the existing one.
  • Audio now plays when you sell all. (Still needs new sound.) (Thanks blackmagic1!)
  • Added new building construction sounds.
  • Selecting a building to construct plays a click sound.
  • Added audio for reveal map mode when money and credit ranking is dropping.
 

Majority Buyout and Subsidiaries added to Offworld Trading Company Beta 7 -- Available Now


Majority buyout and subsidiaries have been added to Beta 7. The brand new UI is also live in this update. The team continues to work on performance and bug fixes while continuing to add new game play content. 

We appreciate the continued support from our great community!You can see the full list of changes here: http://forums.offworldgame.com/472417

Every Thursday at 10am ET you can watch our developer livestream on the Mohawk Games Twitch channel. To stay updated with other news and happenings with Offworld Trading Company, be sure to follow us on Twitter and Facebook.

Offworld Trading Company Beta 6 Now Available

Beta 6 includes a new Destroy Buyout game mode, new UI, faster patent research, and the Robotic HQs now get a bonus from power buildings.You can see the full list of changes here: Link

Every Thursday at 10am ET you can watch our developer livestream on the Mohawk Games Twitch channel. To stay updated with other news and happenings with Offworld Trading Company, be sure to follow us on Twitter and Facebook.

Offworld Trading Company Beta 5 Now Available

The Beta 5 update includes the new MULE unit, between-turn events in the campaign, localizations (German, Russian, Korean), and new music tracks.

Various other fixes and improvements are also included with this update.The full list of changes can be found here: http://steamcommunity.com/app/271240/discussions/0/541906989413658278/

New! Two and four game packs to play with your friends. Purchase the packs now, available exclusively through Stardock: www.offworldgame.com/store

Every Thursday at 10am ET you can watch our developer livestream on the Mohawk Games Twitch channel. To stay updated with other news and happenings with Offworld Trading Company, be sure to follow us on Twitter and Facebook.

Offworld Trading Company Beta 4 Now Available

The Beta 4 update includes several Black Market improvements, adds a new matchmaking system, and enables single-player games to be played while waiting in the matchmaking queue.

Various other fixes and improvements are also included with this update. The full list of changes can be found here: http://forums.offworldgame.com/467568/

Every Thursday at 10am ET you can watch our developer livestream on the Mohawk Games Twitch channel. To stay updated with other news and happenings with Offworld Trading Company, be sure to follow us on Twitter and Facebook.

Offworld Trading Company Beta 3 Released

Mohawk and Stardock have released beta 3 of Offworld Trading Company today for all customers. Beta 3 contains a number of gameplay updates, art improvements, UI improvements and more!

For a full change log, see: http://steamcommunity.com/app/271240/discussions/0/618463106372497793/

Offworld Trading Company Beta 2 Released

Mohawk Games and Stardock Entertainment have just released Beta 2 of Offworld Trading Company for Early Access players. This new update contains a number of new features which we've laid out in this change log.

Offworld Trading Company Beta 1 (v0.1.5301) Change Log

Mohawk Games and Stardock have updated Offworld Trading Company to v0.1.5301 today. This new update contains a number of balance updates, new art, updated terrain and much more! For a full change log, just visit our Steam forum.

Offworld Trading Company v0.1.5062 Available

Mohawk Games has released a new patch today for Offworld Trading Company. This patch includes fixes for a variety of issues, and we appreciate the feedback you have been giving so far.

You can see the full list of updates in the change log.

Offworld Trading Company v0.0.4853 Available

Mohawk Games and Stardock Entertainment have released version 0.0.4853 of Offworld Trading Company to all owners today. This latest update fixes and improves various UI issues, disables hardware UI rendering (so hopefully everyone can see the UI again), adds back 4:3 and 5:4 aspect ratios and more.

For a full run down of the changes, please see the Change Log.