Patch v1.27.0-rc4

Default version of the game, we want to make sure to have a chance to discover bugs and adjust the balancing, to give you the best game experience possible. Access the Unstable branch on Steam by right clicking City Game Studio in your Steam library, and then select ‘Properties’. In the new window, select ‘Betas’. The Unstable branch should now be available for you to choose from. Please leave any feedback you may have in the appropriate channel in our Discord, or in the subforum on Steam. As always, remember to be considerate towards players not partaking in the Unstable, in case they want to avoid spoilers. Please make sure to make backups of your save files before playing.

Changelog - rc4

Balancing

• The number of generated contracts now depends on the difficulty

• Contract generation is capped per month relative to the total number of contracts to generate. It may take up to 3 months to generate the full batch

Mod

• Added a new attribute to the difficulty mod to balance the number of contracts to generate

Studio Director

• When porting a game, the platform with the highest market share is now selected by default (minimum threshold)

Bugfix

• Fixed firing a studio director not canceling their active project (game, update, or game port)

• Fixed missing tooltip on the Start button when no studio was available for a contract

• Fixed the Start button not refreshing correctly after unlocking a platform for a contract

Previous changes

Feature

• Added a new server item to furnish your studio

Interface

• Added the hype value of announced games directly to the in-dev game panel

• Improved the server panel readability

Publishing Offers

• Reworked publishing offers to make them more interesting: theme/genre and genre/platform matches now give a proper boost

• Capped simultaneous publishing offers at 24, as generating more is resource intensive

• Fixed the platform panel not updating when viewing a publishing offer

• Fixed currency formatting in publishing offers

Localization

• Months are now translated

• Scientific units are now translated

Cheat Codes

• Added the ability to set the custom platform score

• Added a 'man' command that lists all existing cheat codes

• Added a cheat code to instantly complete a DLC or an update

Balancing

• Set the maximum number of units sold for custom platforms to 1.25 billion

• Servers from 2007 are no longer available after 2020

Bugfix

• Fixed a bug in the studio view preventing the computer upgrade panel from showing on the desk itself

• Fixed a bug when manually upgrading a server

• Fixed a save game corruption caused by a 6th difficulty slot becoming selectable after starting and canceling a new game. Selecting it worked once, but the dynamic difficulty data was never loaded, corrupting the save on subsequent loads

Hack Mini-game

• Added a button to pay $1,000,000 to skip the hacking mini-game permanently

Misc

• Reworked the number formatting algorithm to be more efficient and to support localization