Secret Government gets its Fourth Major Content Update!
Greetings Brethren!
We bring you the much awaited Content Update #4! As promised, this update brings in a brand new Advisor System that will suggest what actions to take, brand new and improved sound effects and a plethora of bugfixes, performance optimization and UI / UX improvements! Below is the list of all the main changes that the fourth content update brings to you.
Also, just a reminder that last update, which will add the final touches to the game and bring it out of Early Access, has been moved to April 8, 2021 instead of March 2021 as initially scheduled. You can find all the details in the roadmap that is posted on our store page.
As always, we would like to thank all the members of our brotherhood who help us improve the game, by posting feedback and bug reports into our Steam forums!
Bugfixes
FIXED: Space did not start/stop time
FIXED: FPS in Economy window
FIXED: Wars could not be finished for countries which were destroyed
FIXED: Brother selection on performing errands in the same country
FIXED: Brothers' traits were not updated on another Brother selection
FIXED: Brothers' figures could be duplicated when a country of their location was destroyed
FIXED: Tutorial updated
FIXED: Rectangular objects on map after battle icon disappeared
FIXED: Similar traits on Brother's upgrade
FIXED: Ships could appear under other objects
FIXED: Captive brothers could perform errands
FIXED: Some errands could last forever
FIXED: Country names could
FIXED: Society - Estate Support For Parties - UI - First country region is selected by default the first time Society window is opened
FIXED: Localization issues in errands;
FIXED: Localization issue in Brotherhood Manuscripts;
FIXED: Glitching tooltips on Brothers;
FIXED: Sometimes we need to click multiple times to Brother to choose him, it’s like the game is not
registering all clicks
FIXED: Empty Manuscripts article;
FIXED: Flying Lodges icons
FIXED: Missing tooltips on Game objects.
Improvements
IMPROVED: New sounds for various game objects and windows
IMPROVED: New animated artworks
IMPROVED: New icons
IMPROVED: New tooltips for various game objects
IMPROVED: Keywords for main game terms
IMPROVED: New Government window that does not need to be closed during play
IMPROVED: New shortcut errands: blue hand cursor on shortcut actions
IMPROVED: New Brotherhood manuscripts
IMPROVED: Search in the Brotherhood manuscripts
IMPROVED: New situation tips on what is going on and what a player could do
IMPROVED: Better in-game fonts
IMPROVED: Errands settings are cached
IMPROVED: Cancelling errands by one click on an errand icon
IMPROVED: When a country is destroyed all the adepts from this country become neophytes in the conquered country
IMPROVED: Border incident icon appears in any region of a participant country
IMPROVED: Notifications are loaded with saved game
IMPROVED: Overlapping instructions in Tutorial;
IMPROVED: Button to close Tutorial instructions;
Announcement: Slight delay in Content Update Launch
Brethren,
If you’ve been following our public roadmap, you know that we were due to launch our next major content update today, December 15th.
Regretfully, we’re going to have to push the release back by a few days. Here’s why:
As with every release, our goal is to give you a better version of the game by fixing bugs and improving gameplay mechanics based on your feedback. That said, the world of coding is as treacherous as that of any secret society. Sometimes, solutions that appear simple, turn out to be convoluted and bear unforeseen challenges.
And that’s exactly what happened with this release.
You already know we’re a tiny team. But to us, that’s no excuse for putting out a sub-par release, even if we’re still in Early Access. That’s why we’ve decided to hold back on the release and put a little more work into it, so that it meets our (and more importantly, your) expectations.
On a final note, the official release date of the game has been updated to April 8th, 2021.
We apologize for keeping you waiting, and thank you for your continued patience and support.
Glory to the Brotherhood!
The Secret Government Team
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It would mean the world to us. Thank you!
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Brethren!
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Giveaway - WINNERS Announced
Brethren!
Our special Secret Government giveaway has ended and we have our ten winners!
If you want to check whether you've won, you may do so by checking the giveaway winners page
The winners will be receiving an email later today, containing their Steam key for their copy of Secret Government to claim for themselves or gift to a friend. Make sure you check your spam folder.
Thanks again for participating and helping us spread the word about Secret Government.
Watch this space for more upcoming contests!
Secret Government update 0.9.19.31 is now available!
Greetings Brethren!
After another month filled with meditations and occult rituals, where we have been shown the illuminated path to follow, we are delighted to announce that another update for Secret Government, this time inscribed with the number 0.9.19.31, is now available! As you can see in the changelog down below, we have been hard at work working on fixing numerous technical issues as well as improving the core gameplay of the title.
And as always, we would like to thank all the members of our brotherhood who help us improve the game, by posting feedback and bug reports into our Steam forums - Thank you!
Bugfixes
FIXED map display after changing country borders
FIXED abduction exception when the abduction goal escaped
FIXED: Brotherhood objectives window could be opened when locked in Tutorial
FIXED: exception when creating models on the map
FIXED: similar or same traits could appear on brothers' upgrade
FIXED: brothers with faceless feature display
FIXED: exeption on riots icon click
FIXED: battle icons are removed only if they exist
FIXED: cancelling action after game load
FIXED: tutorial load
FIXED: artifacts in errands' operands
FIXED: war logic exception when a participant country was destroyed
FIXED: display of text in the instruction window
FIXED: icons of actions / processes in the Government window were displayed for the captured brother
FIXED: notifications saving; now notifications are saved immediately when needed
FIXED: country reaction on the Brotherhood actions
FIXED: saving data of the Government
FIXED: positions in brothers' phrases
FIXED: dates in countries' reactions
FIXED: countries responses to awareness growth
FIXED: captured brothers could take appointments in the Government
FIXED: political assassination errand effect
FIXED: broken country selection in Tutorial
FIXED: brothers' conspiracy restoration
FIXED: bug report window line break
FIXED: the back arrow in manuscripts
FIXED: NaN in economy tips
FIXED: quests might automatically be passed
Improvements
UPDATED Localization
IMPROVED: brother selector highlighting
IMPROVED: errand window: errand goal disabled for errands without goals; visual improvements
IMPROVED: economic resources icons
IMPROVED: new arts in the Government window
IMPROVED: global resources view on the main screen
IMPROVED: neighboring countries detection mechanics
IMPROVED: border incident appears in the a region of the country under attack
IMPROVED: enlarged caravans
IMPROVED: re-generated navmesh to prevent ships from spawning underground or on it
IMPROVED: the code for generating objects on the map (ports, cities, ships, caravans) was refactored - it was possible to get rid of errors in the algorithm for finding points on the map
IMPROVED: new illustrations in errand window
IMPROVED: Society window opens on the first tab
IMPROVED: alphabetical order in the list of potential targets for war; list size
IMPROVED: colors of the countries names in Shadow view
IMPROVED: reduced the delay between AI actions in a country
IMPROVED: implemented hotkey (G) for the Government window
IMPROVED: by default, the country is selected, not the region in the society window
IMPROVED: new artwork in quests and Economy windows
Steam Awards
Greetings Brethren!
As you might have noticed, the Steam Awards of this year have just started and we would really appreciate your support on this! So if you feel that our game deserves your vote for any of the available categories, please head over to the dedicated Steam page and nominate us!
Thank you!
Special Secret Government Giveaway - 10 Steam Keys up for grabs!
Greetings Brethren!
Do you love strategy, intrigue, espionage, history, war and manipulation?
Do you dream of secretly controlling the world from the shadows at the helm of a mysterious brotherhood?
Then you're going to LOVE Secret Government — a grand strategy game about manipulating history through the workings of a hidden brotherhood (of which you are the leader).
The great news is that now you can win one of TEN Steam keys of the game Secret Government!
Register to the giveaway with your email address. This is required so that we have a way to send you the Steam key in case you win.
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Perform additional actions such as watching our promo video and visiting our Steam store page.
You can perform as many or as few of these actions as you wish. It's entirely up to you. But every action you perform will earn you a number of points, which in turn will increase your chances to win.
Already got your copy of Secret Government? Cool! You can always give the second copy to a friend! Secret Government is in Early Access but is just a few months away from its final release.
Check it out.
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Update 0.9.18.86 is live NOW!
Greetings Brethren!
We are back after another week, which we spent trying to understand the strange dreams that haunt our minds and decipher the true meaning of the Nostradamus prophecies. Some of these signs are still veiled in the fog of uncertainty, but those that we managed to decode have been forged into yet another update for Secret Government, this time bearing the number 0.9.18.86.
In this update, we have implemented countless smaller and bigger bugfixes, as well as numerous improvements to basically all aspects of the game, spanning from improved illustrations all the way to the fine tuning of the occult rituals running in the background. You can read the full changelog below!
As always, here is a huge THANK YOU to all members of our brotherhood who help us improve the game, by posting feedback and bug reports into our Steam forums - Thank you!❤️
Changelog Update 0.9.18.86
Bugfixes
FIXED Brothers' health display
FIXED Bug, where another Brotherhood activity caused awareness growth for player's Brotherhood
FIXED Worshipful master is now selected by default when opening Brotherhood Management window
FIXED Tutorial instructions display
FIXED Title information is now available during Tutorial
FIXED Trade partners display in Mini-trade window
FIXED Economy window values display
FIXED Riots can no longer last for negative number of days
FIXED Thin state borders on map (Linux)
FIXED Trade transport generation
FIXED Quests and notifications on quest steps
FIXED Game could freeze on answering Intrview questions during Tutorial mission fix;
FIXED Reverting captives errand
FIXED Brothers might be stuck
FIXED Localization issues in Free game
FIXED Date format in notifications
Improvements
IMPROVED Country AI reaction on awareness growth
IMPROVED game saving: local and cloud saves are synchronized, latest save for missions is selected by default
IMPROVED Trade partners display in Economy window
IMPROVED Brothers' secrecy display in notifications
IMPROVED Brothers' nationality and location display in Brothers' selector
IMPROVED Free game settings are now displayed in alphabetical order
IMPROVED Adepts errands are now cancelled when adepts are moved to neophytes
IMPROVED Values display in notifications rounding
IMPROVED Dates of information collected are removed for player's Brothers
IMPROVED Brothers information display
IMPROVED Values display in errands descriptions
IMPROVED Country pane tooltips
IMPROVED Illustrations
IMPROVED Filters are restored after switching from Shadow to Normal mode
Update v0.9.18.67 is live NOW!
Greetings brethren!
Just as was foretold in the ancient scrolls, last week Secret Government has received it's third Content Update that has added brand new campaign along with numerous other features to the game. However as you know, our work never ends or the wheels of time would stop turning altogether, so after a week of meditating and researching planetary alignment, we are proud to announce that Update 0.9.18.67 containing numerous small fixes and updates is now available to download!
We would like to thank all members of our brotherhood who help us make the best game possible, by posting feedback and bug reports into our Steam forums - Thank you! You help make the world a better place!
Changelog Update 0.9.18.67
Bugfixes
FIXED Tutorial Save / Load issues
FIXED Quests
FIXED Political assassination errand
FIXED an issue where "Build a Lodge" errand wasn't available during tutorial
FIXED issues with government panel during tutorial
FIXED Element highlighting in Tutorial
FIXED War event no longer appears during Indian raids
Features
UPDATED Localization
UPDATED Tutorial texts improvements
UPDATED Counteraction errands made available during Tutorial
