Financial v0.5.0

Hello employees! Momentous day! The latest version of Under Contract is now ready and we are excited to get you all playing. With this patch, the first version of Department 2 aka the first half of the Finance Department is ready to play!

Money talks, and bullshit walks…

The second department is MASSIVE. The first half of it which is ready to play as of this patch is the same length as the entire Marketing Department in terms of gameplay nodes and narrative. Let’s run down the specifics of what's been added.

       • 25,000 words of dialogue
       • 8 new sex scenes with finishing animations
       • 2 new gem hazards
       • 1 new upgrade power
       • 2 new arcade levels
       • 15 new arcade rewards
       • 10 minutes of new music

Three new demons are on the prowl

The first half of the Finance Department comes with three new characters.

Sinder: Head of Finance

This pint-sized punk runs the Finance Department, her no-bullshit attitude is the reason the soul-conomy has only ever seen growth. What she lacks in stature she makes up for pushing her employees to their breaking point without purging what's useful about them. Expect long hours of cold-calling everyone walking the earth before she is satisfied.

Puck and Mare: Minions extraordinaire

The twin sister succubi turned sales reps make up the demon staff of the Finance Department. The twins are opposites to each other, one a boot licker, over-achiever, and sadist. The other is a lazy, incompetent, punk with a can-don’t attitude. Both will find creative ways to make the dosh and stand tall in front of Richard.

A new Dreamscape to explore

The Finance Department has its overworld to explore! Climb the pyramid scheme and knock the boots out of the demonesses standing in your way! 50 new nodes to overcome, with two brand new hazards!

       • Thorns: A standard gem, but a little spiker. If you’re careless and you grab this sucker, you’re in for a world of hurt.
       • Combo: A gem with extra lives? Who’d a thunk? To clear a combo gem ya gotta combo that bad boi several times over.

Changes and Fixes

Along with the new content to explore sweeping changes have affected the full Under Contract experience! Some of the more notable changes and fixes include:

       • Under Contract is now saving after every node is completed as the player enters the overworld screen. This should correct a lot of save file corruption bugs
       • Arcade mode has additional checks for game stability crashes
       • Gems no longer bounce off the bottom level if particular conditions are met
       • Windowed Mode has additional fixes for the black border issue
       • Green nodes now offer unique teleportation fast travel options along with a terminal screen for future content
       • Shooter Minion hazard bullets can now destroy gems
       • Shield Minion hazards have a new icon
       • Richard's chibi has a slew of new victory chibi poses
       • + Many many more!

Future Focus and Plans

So some things are missing from Department 2. Our immediate plans will be focused on finishing up the department content. Here is a list you can expect from us, in no particular order.

       • audio for sex scenes
       • marketing department sex scene overhaul (it is already done just needs audio)
       • coworker/boss dates (narrative, new outfits, sex scenes)
       • arcade mode content (levels, coworker reward images)
       • finance department coworkers and their date content
       • finance department ending narrative
       • human resources department boss model and poses done
       • a handful of finance department ost tracks

Once all of that is done, our focus will move on to building Department 3, Human Resources!

We hope you all enjoy this massive new update to the game, and we are eagerly awaiting your feedback!

Patch Notes [16.05.24]

The latest Disco Elysium update includes bug fixes for the following:

• Visible boxes in a few dialogues (while reading The Man from Hjelmdall, during the Tribunal, and in the final dialogue of the game).
• Arabic words and letters not displaying correctly in specific circumstances.
• Full stops and dashes displaying on the wrong side of numbers in dialogues.
• Errors with saving/loading right after quick-swapping between two different languages.
• The hover text "Uses Left" (e.g. for Substances) being displayed in the wrong colour.
• A minor visual menu overlap in the Thought Cabinet when playing with the biggest menu size setting.
• Dialogue text not displaying correctly when choosing what to paint on the wall.
• A text overlap in the "Thought Complete" screen when playing with a controller.
• Bonus text not being displayed correctly for the "White Mourning" thought.
• The remaining time displayed incorrectly on any unlocked but un-internalised thought.
• Extra quotation marks being displayed when speaking with The Deserter.

يشمل تحديث Disco Elysium الأخير إصلاحات أخطاء لما يلي:

مربعات مرئية في بعض الحوارات (أثناء قراءة رجل هيمدال، وأثناء المحاكمة، وفي الحوار الأخير للعبة).
لا تظهر بعض الكلمات والحروف العربية بشكل صحيح في بعض الحالات.
تُعرض النقاط والشرطات المائلة على الجانب الخطأ من الأرقام في مربعات الحوار.
أخطاء في الحفظ/التحميل مباشرة بعد التبديل السريع بين لغتين مختلفتين.
يتم عرض نص التمرير "مرات التعاطي المتبقية" (على سبيل المثال للمواد المخدرة) بلون خاطئ.
تتداخل قائمة مرئية صغيرة في كابينة الأفكار عند اللعب باستخدام إعداد أكبر حجم للقائمة.
لا يتم عرض نص الحوار بشكل صحيح عند اختيار ما تريد طلاءه على الحائط.
يتداخل النص في شاشة "اكتملت الفكرة" عند اللعب بوحدة التحكم.
لا يتم عرض النص الإضافي بشكل صحيح لفكرة "الحداد الأبيض".
يتم عرض الوقت المتبقي بشكل غير صحيح على أي فكرة مفتوحة ولكن غير مستوعبة.
يتم عرض علامات اقتباس إضافية عند التحدث مع الهارب.

1.50.4 - Autonomous Cargo

* You can now refuel your THI Cargo Containers. This includes the ability to tune the propellant buffer.
* You can give more detailed commands to your THICCs. This allows for new playstyles, including releasing the containers to follow you in a formation while you mine and only re-docking them for processed ore transfer.
* The presence of some drones prevented the correct fracture of asteroids near them, resulting in worse yields with some playstyles. This affected mostly excavating asteroids with grinders and built-in excavators while having NT Mining Companions or THI Cargo Containers attached near such an excavator, but also lowered they yields from mining companions using their own grinders.
* Adjusted spawning routines for ore in close proximity to other entities, such as ships, cargo holds, grinders and more. This should greatly improve the odds of having good yields when mining with an excavator or grinder directly.
* Some drones did not power up their autopilots when released. Machines have a hard time flying when they are powered off. They will be turned on again.
* The ship HUD boot sequence was missing from the Enceladus launch sequence cutscene.
* Updated translations.

Wildermyth: Omenroad is Available NOW!!!

1.16+533 Omenroad

Added sfx for bird legs, volley of arrows, drauvenBirdMarkPrey,
ratErraticMovement
Adjusted tile range feedback for barrage and stunning barrage
Drauven Wingbeat and Bird Debuff now deal Physical Damage instead of True Damage
Adjusted Ulstryx chapter 1 objective text to clarify that other
sites must be cleared before doing the capstone fight
Double-hyphens replaced with em-dashes
Screen edge pan no longer happens while in controller mode
(fixes issue where sometimes the screen would scroll to the
top-left if the mouse position was there)
Legacy saving now happens less often in certain cases, resulting in
less hitches during gameplay
Save file note dialog is now a single-line text input
Shred sound no longer plays when shredding warding
Various translation fixes
Fix a bug where dreamsOfIcarus could happen multiple times per campaign
Fix a bug with ambient audio often being silent when it shouldn't be
(You may hear more nature noises now during battles than you used to)
Fix a bug where set pieces that were very close to the camera
would be visible, blocking the player's view
Fix a bug where loredump could happen through walls
Fix a bug where Stalwart+ prevented Crystal Chrysalis
Fix a bug where sometimes enemies would visually hover over their ending tile
Fixed issue with mysticF mythic vines theme skin
Fix a bug with burning arrow not being able to shoot at as
long a range with elemental bows
Fixed bug where scenery with >20 health couldn't be splinterblasted
Friendly Fire warning no longer shows damage dealt to scenery
Tools:
"Refresh" editor button now does a better job of actually refreshing mods
Combat Lab can now show any mission plan, even without a scenario
Added "ignoreRestrictions" option to ApplyTheme Outcome
Added "ifChoiceNumLessThanOrEquals" and "sortByScore" fields to
AbilityTarget Options
Added NUM_ENEMIES expression variable, which will get the number
of enemies in the current mission
Added isMatchText expression, useful for checking parameter text
Added "particleNumData_V" particle function, which can be used to
get data from a given particle number
Can now match ONE_FURTHEST relative to a role with multiple matches
Added "CAN_ROMANCE_LOOSE" variable, which checks family and forbidden
romance (e.g. skeleton), but ignores existing relationships,
forbidRandomRomances, and attraction.
Particles: adjusted e.life and e.time to not reset when done looping
Particles: added tileIsVisible variable, which returns 1 if the mission
tile is not in fog of war, and 0 otherwise
Particles: Added vx, vy, vz, and velocity particle vars
Added "useExistingEmitter" option to particle animation outcomes
Added alwaysShow and forbidMonsterDestroy options to CountScenery objective
Added ONE_FURTHEST_OPTIONAL match type
Added animationCustom field for movement animations
Can now spawn a random card of a monster type via Spawn Outcome
Added LIVE_ALLIES LOS test
Fixed bug where rigOverridePriority aspect was deleted
Added "For" outcome, which can be used to execute an outcome
a certain number of times
Added WAS_ATTACKED_DELAYED effect trigger
Added MISSION_VICTORY hero trigger
Added POSITION_X and POSITION_Y expression variables
Fixed bug where Loop Next Action checkbox in combat lab would
sometimes use a previous action
Added DIFFICULTY_COMBAT and DIFFICULTY_OVERLAND expression variables
Added grant random gear cheat (Shift+Ctrl+G) that grants some gear
based on class and randomness
Added EQUAL_TO Test

Patch note 2.1.0 [May 14, 2024]

The update fixes some annoying bugs and improves the overall experience.

① Improvements
• Improved scenes of Yuriko & her friend.
• Buying items on the Amazoo App now allows inputting quantities for convenience.
• Option to choose to sleep through multiple sessions.
• Some locations will unlock when reaching the Festival instead of completing missions.
• Added some objectives related to the Social App.
• Texting: Added casual texting content. When there are no new messages, the texting theme button will display in red.
• The Gallery button will move to the settings section in the game.
• Added Language selection popup the first time entering the game.

② Game Balance
• Added items to increase Personal Trait points: Bad Boy, Honest, Sensitive are sold in the entertainment center shop.
• Balance: Festival and Reset Day buttons will unlock earlier.
• Balance: Reduced difficulty of some objectives.

③ Bug Fixes
• Fixed bug where chibi does not show in the tea room for the 2k screen.
• And some other minor bugs.

Hot Fix 2.0.1 [April 27, 2024]

• Fixed the minigame bug that caused the ball to get stuck.
• Fixed chibi postures not unlocked even when having enough correct points.
• Fixed the bug that didn't allow the camera to be installed.
• Fixed the bug missed text of button hotel location.
• Fixed wrong display of rewards when claiming all rewards from the missions.

Big Update 2.0.0 Available Now! [April 26, 2024]

① New Features
We've added some fun activities and introduced more time management challenges to enhance immersion.
• Two new seasonal events, Spring Festival, and Cherry Blossom Festival, will take place on days 25 and 55 respectively. During these times, reaching a certain level of affection allows you to undertake missions with the girls.
• Social App: More engaging posts that allow reactions, comments, and posting.
• Texting: Proactively messaging girls to create memorable romantic moments.
• New Mini Game in the Entertainment District (Note: temporary art, mechanics still being refined).
• New Locations: Mall, Farm, Hospital - these locations will be expanded with additional interactive elements in the future.
• Introducing a new currency: Reputation Points (RP), earned by completing missions and used for exchanging gifts.
• New Shop in the Mall where RP can be used to exchange for special items.
• Addition of new NPCs.

② Improvements
Adjustments have been made to provide space for players to strategize and balance
• activities to optimize various stats.
• Traits such as bad boy, honest, or sensitive now allow you to unlock chibi variations.
• New Mood depletion mechanism: Continuous work leads to increased mood depletion. With each promotion and salary increase, mood depletion also increases.
• New Energy depletion mechanism: Working out at the gym consumes more energy with each subsequent workout in a day. Energy depletion increases by 20% when stressed.

③ Affection
• Added level 6 (Intimacy): When at the Intimacy level, you can message the girl with a new intimacy level. If this level isn't maintained over time, affection will decrease back to level 5.
• Each higher affection level requires more affection to increase the level.
• Improved graphics and detail on the world map.
• Improved appearance of MC.

④ Game Balance
• Increased the price of some gifts.
• Added items to increase energy.
• Adjusted the values of some items to increase mood and energy
• Plus various other improvements and minor bug fixes.

Headline changes

Allowed buying water tiles adjacent to land
Improvement adjacency restrictions removed
Added Resource improvement ping
AI improvements

Design

You can now buy water tiles that are adjacent to land in the same way as land tiles (with Colonies / Landowners seat)
Removed restriction on Shrines not being adjacent and the adjacency requirements for Cathedrals and the Courthouse line of improvements
Temples now give +1 happiness per adjacent Cathedral
Unit vision is now consistently equal to their movement plus 2
Removed VP cap. Large and Huge maps with few players can now have a victory point requirement of more than 100 VPs on Normal Points to Win setting
The AI now builds fewer units at the lower aggression settings

Programming

AI now takes into account improvements and specialists already being built when evaluating border expansions
AI now saves kills for units that can gain XP, all else being equal
AI now less eager to replace improvements
AI no longer swaps unit positions
AI no longer treats vacant city sites as available to settle unless it has visibility, or unless they are reserved sites
Fixed AI valuation of Divine Rule
Fixed AI effectCity valuation for units that require resources
Better recovery from network games being unlisted from Unity’s relay servers

UI

Added a new improvement ping ‘Resource’ for specifying the location of new resources (i.e. from Riders Import Horses project)
Moved Scenario button from single player to main menu
Added button to start multiplayer scenario games to the scenario screen
World map scenarios now have all game options available
Multiplayer specific game options are now always available for MP scenarios
Moved map options up so that they are next to the scenario dropdown in the MP setup screen
MP scenario setup screen defaults to having the maximum number of teams and players for the scenario, with players assigned to random nations.
Connected foreign cities at Peace now show an icon, its tooltip lists connection yields
Clicking on a gift unit/city notification now pans the camera to the location of the gift
Tooltip behavior when hovering over links now more consistent
Tooltip now warns if a character who’s about to leave a job is currently running a mission
Added suitor opinion to marriage tooltip
Moved land unit vision bonuses to effectUnits, so that they are more visible on the UI
VP breakdown now combines endgame techs as one line
Disabled word wrapping for city production button cost line for potential mods with additional costs
History values for military power and yield rates are now set to zero on the turn a player is eliminated so they display correctly on the Records screen after the game has finished
Expanded river clutter splats to improve river visibility in vegetation

Bug Fixes

Units from eliminated players that are inside another player’s borders are bumped before turning into Rebels
Fixed improvement pings producing log entries and sound effects for teammates
Fixed turn style and turn timer dropdowns bug
Fixed hotseat selection cycling
Fixed Fortify and Testudo actions not immediately triggering the relevant unit animation
Fixed default teams on MP Scenario setup screen
Fixed Opulence VPs showing in the VP tooltip if Behind the Throne isn’t active
Fixed council conversion ambitions counting council slots from unavailable DLCs
Fixed language mods not displaying some icons on first load
Fixed encyclopedia vision value
Fixed missing links in turn summary and notifications
Fixed portrait editor failing to load portraits on second load
Fixed culture reduction bug in game editor
Fixed Destroy Fleet goal not completing in Heroes of the Aegean scenario 2
Fixed Carthage 2 resource goal not completing
Fixed Carthage 3 scenario Epic victory not being granted if Messana is not owned
Fixed multiple influence icons showing in events and goals in Learn to Play 3
Fixed unset player language causing Unity text asset unload from worker thread
Fixed a nested link issue with council characters
Fixed load save inconsistency
Fixed characters getting dynasty specific traits in Pharaohs of the Nile scenario 4
Fixed some Occurrence bugs
Fixed tile issue in Dead Sea Duel map
Text and event fixes

Patch 1.3.2.12219d

Small patch to improve save/load function.

This patch is a potential fix for corrupted save files (empty house) being generated sometimes for some players. We haven't been able to reproduce the issue in our testing environment, but we have been analyzing our code closely to identify what could be causing the issue. This patch will not fix save files that have already been corrupted, but it we hope it will prevent the creation of corrupted save files going forward. This patch may also improve performance of some older saves (pre 1.3.0), although saves from 1.3.0 forward are still recommended for the best experience with the new system.

1.16+536 Omenroad Hotfix

• Fixed bug where controller input couldn't use Omenroad Gear Upgrade or Relationship shrines
• Several Translation fixes

1.16+537 Omenroad Hotfix

• Fixed bug where Starwing could cause a StackOverflow crash
• Fixed bug where legacy Omenroad boss weapons weren't carrying over into new campaigns
• Fixed bug where no unlocked Omenroad boss items would spawn in regular campaigns
• Fixed bug where getting a Shadow Spirit would cause a crash in German, Spanish, and French
• Fixed bug where game wouldn't shut down fully if you opened Omenroad Achievements page
• Spanish translation progress, German and Chinese translation fixes