Update #68: Compromised and Imprisoned

Knight and mercs, we're excited to be rolling out a new Contact-driven story that can come from a Compromised Contact, better Contact job targeting based on their faction and contact relationships, improvements to the Exposure flow for Contacts, fixes for AI allies, improvements to how passive Talents that work on Sec Level rise activate, and a big pile of other F10s submitted by you!

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Compromised and Imprisoned

We have now added a new and awful result for Contacts who become Compromised. This state may happen as the result of a Exposure Limit Break and once Compromised a Contact opens up a set of additionally bad possible results already - going into hiding for twice as long, gaining worse negative temp Traits, suffering Influence wipes.

But with Update #68, we've enabled the first storyline that can spin out of a Compromised Contact, much like a Contact on a Power Play can start a storyline to gain a new service. Well ... the Compromised storyline can get your Contact killed, dead, permanently. They need your help - its now or never, do you like them enough to risk saving their lives from prison and death?

If its your Gun Runner with the 3 extra upgraded services you helped her achieve with Power Plays, you'd better jump!

These new multi-stage missions help build up relationships and hatred between Contacts and within Factions as well, strengthening the web of the underworld.

Mission Expiration Exposure 20%

If you allow a Contact's mission to expire without helping them, the penalty has been hiked from 10% to 20%. This matches the baseline Influence gain they can get if you do complete the mission and increases risk that ignored Contacts will end up Compromised and possibly dead.

Contact Job Targeting

We have also improved the decision matrix that helps Contacts generate jobs so that the target faction of the job is the most appropriate option. If a Contact has a relationship with a Faction (Hates, Loves) or a Contact (Ex-Lover, Rival) then these tags now have a much larger influence on the factions your Contact will be aggressive against with jobs.

This upgrade help better reinforce the flow of power, revenge and pay back in the underworld and we're excited to be making other improvements (such as the Compromised stories) that will further reinforce it.

Steam Deck Improvements

With Update #68, we've fixed a number of places where on Steam Deck you could accidentally enter a new screen and immediately activate (as if you had hit (A)) the default selected element. In market, this could result in trying to sell the first item. In Safehouse Manage Rooms, this was resulting in building the