Console version/1.09

Previous Version: Console version/1.08 Released on: 25 August 2022

Next Version: Console version/1.10 Released on: 29 September 2022

Released on: 21 September 2022

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Features/Improvements

Gameplay

• Added: Poison synthesis to research tree
• Added: When creating a colony, if there is a task which no selected character can perform, a dialog warning is now shown
• Added: Postpone option for a number of wanderer will join quests
• Added: Bills which include the ability to smelt, destroy or burn weapons and apparel now have options to choose between biocoded, non-biocoded, clean or tainted. Other special allowances for ingredient menus also added with this feature
• Improved: Memory usage during randomisation of characters
• Improved: Scrolling through history records for colonist with a lot of past/recent log previously caused performance to drop
• Improved: When multiple of the same object were selected, choosing to build a copy previously caused performance stuttering

UI

• Added: Ability to delete a restriction group which is applied to a colonist in the “Assign menu” with a warning
• Added: On-screen UI showing distance between landing beacons
• Added: The expiring quest message now has jump to option
• Added: The alerts and messages for the mech buildings now has jump to the source option
• Added: Cancel option to “Abandon All” items confirmation prompt in the Caravan UI
• Added: Change tab prompt on each tab on form caravan to improve player experience
• Added: Select prompt to extras menu
• Added: custom language-based styling to support upcoming language additions
• Improved: “Allow all” toggling no longer affects special filters
• Improved: UI only enters area build mode, if player confirms selection from area menu instead of every time the player exits area management screens
• Improved: Scroll position correctly resets when tab change occurs
• Improved: Moved control prompts on build mode to differentiate between actions and make the actions clearer
• Improved: The button prompt to close the completed research message was not consistent to other dialogs - changed to X/A
• Improved: Warning, alert and good colours adjust to new levels when forming a caravan to better reflect status
• Improved: Info button when multiple objects are selected only shows when option is possible

Localisation

• Added: Translations for labels in Animal pen management screens and Permit tabs

Audio

• Added: Sound effects in Bills and trade menus

Fixes

Gameplay

• Balanced: Corrected filth generation rate
• Balanced: Wild plant regrowth
• Balanced: XP gained for crafting and creating art
• Balanced: Weather updating and rate of change
• Balanced: Ground penetrating mineral scanner speed
• Fixed: Opening content of Shuttle after instructing a colonist to enter would sometimes cause a soft-lock for shuttle-related Royalty quests
• Fixed: Inventory bindings now consistently apply when entering the game for a second time
• Fixed: Threat pause setting is now working consistently
• Fixed: Error on suspending and returning to the game while loading
• Fixed: Debug warning when multiple use of psylink abilities occur
• Fixed: Errors on entirely dead or empty colony
• Fixed: Pressing the Cross/A button in social tab of caravan details did not switch selection to the log panel
• Fixed: Attempting to replant a tree caused the controller to not respond, on occasions when the interact option was displayed
• Fixed: Gracefully handling a colonist dying while player is in the mood menu
• Removed: unintentional ability to rename dead colonists

UI

• Fix: Pregnancy icon now updates correctly for animal menu
• Fixed: The Scrollbar to navigate the quest description within the “Quests” UI wasn’t functioning on occasion
• Fixed: Operation names could be too long causing the pause UI to overflow or disappear from the health bill list
• Fixed: Selecting details via the “i” prompt in gear page of an active caravan will now correctly show detailed information
• Fixed: Occasions when a details card blocked the view of stats for items in various screens
• Fixed: Issue caused when no colonists left in your colony, and you opened the Work or Schedule menu
• Fixed: Having a Colonist who is "Incapable of Violence" as your warden caused the "None of your wardens is capable of violence" pop-up to incorrectly appear when you open the "Prisoner" tab
• Fixed: The highlight of items within the “Allowed” list of bills ingredients was partially cut off when the last item in the list was selected
• Fixed: Holding down the button to confirm trade would previously open the interact menu of a faction on the world map
• Fixed: ‘Caravan arrived at weather controller’ message could not be deleted after reforming caravan from a site
• Fixed: Overflowing text in the Difficulty level section of the pause menu
• Fixed: Forming a caravan while leaving details page open caused the details page to remain on the screen
• Fixed: Navigating to Needs tab of a refugee pawn causes an error to occur. Players may have seen incorrect details
• Fixed: Highlight selection bar disappeared when scrolling through long social logs while at 3x speed
• Removed: Spacing and line breaks being added when the work description is updated
• Removed: Incorrect L1/LB prompts from non-colonist objects in target mode, such as queue actions and cancel when transport pods were selected
• Removed: Incorrect option to train “guard” appeared on animals with “Trainability - None”
• Removed: UI being rendered twice which caused map appears too dark under translucent windows

Audio

• Fixed: Changes to Ambient sounds options didn’t take immediate effect when adjusted in Settings menu

Localisation

• Fixed: Missing characters in Korean localisations when italics were used in English