New Update! - Alpha Build #5 (0.7.75)

Hi everyone! As we announced previously in a post here on Steam we decided to split content planned for the next update and release as soon as possible which is now! This update introduces a lot of new furniture and random decorations on them that allow you for even more personalization of your workspace! And that's not all of them. There are also 6 new Interactive Events and many other changes that you can find listed below ;)

As always if you find any new bugs or have suggestions about the game, you can leave them at our Discord server or on mestoegames.com/bugsreport ;)

Changelog:

New Features:

• Added 112 new furniture and their variants as well as variants of existing furniture

• Added random decorations on furniture

• Added separate statistics for each character specialization

• Added 6 new Interactive Events

• Added global pandemic variant of energy drink overdose event

• Added Russian translation (courtesy of @ZHE5TJ)

Mechanic Changes:

• Blocked the ability to hire and fire employees during Interactive Events that indicate a player character is away from work.

• Blocked the ability to dismiss employees in the Employee Manager when this option should have been blocked by an Interactive Event

• Blocked the ability to activate Interactive Events that require employees to be present when they have blocked actions

• Blocked the ability to find employees with no skills

• From now on, when an employee overdose on energy drinks and is hospitalized, their energy will regenerate ( this does not apply to the player character as they are not hospitalized)

Game Balance:

• From now on, the Wroth trait is not mutually exclusive with Generosity and Good at Communication traits

• From now on, the Rude trait is not mutually exclusive with the Shy trait

• From now on, the Rude trait is not mutually exclusive with the Good at Communication trait

• From now on, choosing to pay for a birthday party at the Beer'n'Grill pub is not blocked by having the Greedy trait, instead choosing this option gives you a 25% chance of losing it

• Increased the difference between the employee's suggested salary and the current one needed to start Interactive Events about the employee's too-low salary and add mood modifiers by 10%

Corrections:

• Changed the default furniture of the City Center Office and Desert Office locations

• Improved location lights look at night

• Quick notifications in Build Mode have been hidden

• Improved the look of some furniture

• Improved the display of furniture outlines

• Fixed many typos and errors in the English translation (courtesy of @DomsTSGS)

• Added missing translations for the bills of the Desert Office location

• Added missing translations for trait gain / loss notifications

• Removed two languages that didn't have any translated lines (German and Japanese)

• Fixed formatting of text in furniture info depending on the length of its name

• Improved description of company accounts transactions

Bugs Fixes:

• Fixed a bug with the UI elements not displaying after starting a new game

• Fixed the incorrect loading of the status of the bills (after loading the game, the bills were accrued after 3 months of play, instead of at the end of the corresponding quarter)

• Fixed the incorrect behavior of bills after a change of location (they were accrued after 3 months from purchase, instead of at the end of the corresponding quarter)

• Fixed the remaining of selected search criteria for commissions and employees after the company has been dissolved

• Fixed the possibility of selecting the search criteria for commissions and employees by changing the value of the slider when it should not be possible

• Fixed the search criteria for commissions and employees not resetting after loading / starting a new game

• Fixed a bug with the ransom request in the Hacker event being too small when the player's company had more than 10.000.000$

• Fixed a bug causing zero investment cost in the “Investment Proposition” Interactive Event

• Blocked the possibility of duplicating the “Employee Leave Request” Interactive Event for the same employee

• Fixed a bug that allowed you to select a piece of furniture through the UI element after loading the game

• Fixed the lack of display of the button to change employees in Skill Trees

• Fixed incorrect display of text messages

• Fixed the incorrect marking of the currently opened message in the message list

• Fixed a bug that caused skill learning to remain active after purchasing a new location

• Fixed an issue with the notification about ending skill learning that could prevent you from finishing a learning project

• Fixed the incorrect functioning of condition checks in Interactive Events in case the next node was only one Text Node that had a condition for its activation

• Fixed the ability for Interactive Events to remain active after returning to the Main Menu which caused errors in the console

• Fixed the appearance of the Pause Menu when exiting a window using the Escape button

• Fixed the appearance of the Pause Menu when exiting Build Mode using the Escape button

• Fixed an issue with taking screenshots for save thumbnails when playing in a window mode at a resolution other than the native