Precipice
Multiplayer Notice
I want to update you all on where things are at with multiplayer connectivity issues at present.
What we know is that for some players, but not all players, the game either fails to connect or disconnects after a few turns. We are unable to find a common thread between players who are having issues, and our remaining working theories will require bringing in engine developer expertise to assess.
We haven't given in, and there are things we will be experimenting with in the future to see if we can find a fix for affected players, but until we have a solution we cannot in good conscience promise a solid multiplayer experience for everyone and will be describing multiplayer as "experimental" for now.
We are deeply disappointed about this and look forward to putting out another notice in the future promising a flawless multiplayer experience. In the interim, we will continue to work on making the single-player experience that much stronger.
Precipice Update 1.2.1 (McNamara)
* AI now performs Counterspy, Aid Partisan and Support Partisan actions.
Precipice Update 1.2.0 (McNamara)
* New Action: Sabotage allows spies to permanently reduce resource generation in rival-secured countries, and reduce rival stockpiles. This will be detected, but cannot be challenged. Shore up your stability to make this harder for your rival to accomplish.
* New Action: Martial Law can be declared in your home country to reduce your domestic unrest levels if you have sufficient reserve troops available. This will reduce your popularity with other nations.
* You can now check your rival's held scoring-regions and resource inventory by holding the TAB key.
* Space race actions now require a manufactured good.
* Invasions now require oil.
* Escalating wars now require food.
* Supporting partisan fighters now requires 1/2 raw resources.
* Game tutorial updated.
* Game manual updated.
* South African speech bubble made larger.
* Minor cosmetic fixes.
Precipice Update 1.14 (Khrushchev)
* Lens buttons now bound to number keys.
* Colombia now spelled correctly.
* Manual updated to reflect recent changes in the game mechanics.
* Civil unrest due to war fatigue reduced by 30%.
* Bugfix: Starting a land rush, then aborting the game could make a classic map game inaccessible without pushing the arrow buttons first. That has been resolved.
Precipice Update 1.13 (Khrushchev)
* Turn history now broken up with turn markers.
* Achievement "Annihilation" now triggers as intended.
* Countries that are the subject of a dispute will not lose loyalty based on decisions made in that dispute.
* Can no longer coup a country with enemy troops stationed.
Precipice Update 1.12 (Khrushchev)
* The challenge UI has been updated to more clearly show the consequences of each decision.
* Babrak Karmal achievement fixed.
* Invaders cannot leave a country in the turn they invade.
* Foreign aid success rate is now guaranteed for countries in anarchy, 90% at one stability, 75% at two stability and 60% at three stability. It's easy to pull them out of being a complete train-wreck, but difficult to secure their safety.
* Stability icons have had filtering removed and should look a little more sharp now when zoomed in.
Precipice Update 1.11 (Khrushchev)
* Network fix for connectivity issues when the host network is slow and the host player is running a comparatively fast computer. This fix is anticipated to solve a large number of connectivity problems.
Precipice Update 1.10 (Khrushchev)
AI
* AI is less likely to attack random countries.
* AI rarely if ever commits a single troop to an invasion.
* AI behaves more conservatively in the early game.
* AI less likely to challenge minor actions in countries that it considers of modest importance.
* AI is less likely to risk a nuclear war.
* AI more likely to challenge if the player attacks a country that it considers strategically important for it's long-term goals.
* AI takes the cost of escalation into account in its decision-making process.
* Ending where a nuclear launch is aborted and you are removed from power by your own generals has been removed completely from the game. While this was intended to give pause to those who would escalate every action, the new escalation mechanics perform the same function better, and nobody wants to win/lose on the basis of a low-probability outcome.
* Escalating a challenge beyond a certain point now has an immediate cost of country loyalties associated with it.
* Doomsday Perk now altered to affect the loyalty cost associated with escalation.
* Country resource demands now range from needing anything between 20 and 50 of a given resource. The exact number is mentioned by the leader upon clicking on the country.
* In cases where there are both zero local troops and zero invading troops, the country stays in a state of anarchy.
* Baseline insurgency detection dropped to 20%. Tutorial figures also updated to reflect this.
* Local troop quantities are now a little more realistic, based on a combination of chance and historical data, rather than complete chance.
* Bugfix: Certain rare cases where a player's country collapses into anarchy yet they are able to still win the game have been resolved.
* Bugfix: Resolved diplomacy edge case crash.
* Bugfix: Flag button in the endgame now points to the correct nation.
* Bugfix: Backing down from stationing troops in a friendly country wasn't removing the troops from the country in question.
* Bugfix: Troop deployments in friendly countries weren't being mentioned in the newspaper.
* Players are instructed to wait until both players have selected their perk before the game begins.
* Map selection arrows made more visible.
Short-Term Roadmap
We wanted to share what we've been working on in an update that will be coming later tomorrow.
First, thank you so much for your support and constructive feedback. We know this game can't be all things to all people, but we think we're steering it in a positive direction and we hope you like the changes that are coming.
We've been working with a few players still experiencing connectivity issues with debug builds of the game to help isolate where the issues are occurring. We're ruled out a lot and it's clear that in many of these cases, when the connection fails, it fails after joining the Steam lobby. We are investigating whether there is something going on in our code that affects the connection in a minority of networks, or if there exists a bug in the game's engine that again only affects certain networks. In many cases, however, resolutions could be found on the network side. We will continue to do all we can.
Mechanically, we are changing things so that escalating a situation past a given threshold will have a guaranteed cost in country loyalty. While these costs are always lesser than the cost of backing down from an escalation, we hope this will give players pause as to whether an issue that is caught is truly important enough to dig one's heels in on. This will likely change player strategies significantly.
Also, we agree it's kind of weird to face a 6-army resistance in Greenland. In the new update, the randomness of local army strengths has been softened significantly. Local army strengths will be calculated as a range between two reasonable figures based on historical data.
And most importantly, the AI is getting a major behavioral update that is going to push us into the weekend. We've heard a lot of your feedback about the AI, and we'll be ensuring that the cost of escalating a challenge is also built into the new AI decision-matrix.
There will also be many bugfixes and quality of life improvements coming tomorrow.
Again, thank you for your patience and for being a supportive fanbase.
Precipice Update 1.04
* Critical information on the intended target in a brushfire conflict will no longer be revealed.
* The game history now includes all actions witnessed in the game.
* Achievement "fortunate son" no longer occurs for the USSR.
* Achievement "no time to explain" no longer occurs when you exit the tutorial prematurely.
* AI tenacity has been reduced significantly.
* The Linux build should now be working.
* Several typos addressed.
* Menu buttons now explain their purpose on a mouseover.
* Game now features a history of all changes to country loyalty and their causes.
* Latin America has been renamed to Central America.