v0.20.4 Patch

New Features

• Friends system with Steam and Nakama integration — add friends, see their status (online, in-game, in-lobby), and invite them directly to games.

• Beautiful Shadows toggle in Graphics settings for the new lighting pipeline.

• Game end screen redesign with full-screen overlay, financial graphs (revenue, expenses, company value, profit, debt), per-resource production tables, and complete player leaderboard ranked by company value.

• Spectate mode for eliminated players — watch the rest of the game without access to building, demolishing, or sabotage menus.

• Expanded lobby hosting and connection flow with signal-driven status updates.

Improvements

• Host migration now elects a new host automatically when the current host disconnects, with high priority notifications.

• Host disconnection detection prevents players from getting stuck in zombie states.

• Reconnect prompt now validates against live Nakama matches to prevent connecting to dead lobbies.

• All players can now see every player's sync status, not just the host.

• Building stats rebalanced for better economy flow.

• Dynamic map viewport bounds computed from terrain for better rendering efficiency.

• Notification panel enhanced for better event visibility.

• Per-transaction price sync rate limited to prevent network flooding.

• Building state flushes capped to prevent burst RPC traffic.

• Stock broadcasts batched for smoother network performance.

• AI will buy/sell stocks slightly more realistically, they won't just go for the cheapest company, they will invest in companies that are doing slightly better so they can benefit from dividends.

• Updated the main menu background image.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed lobby sometimes displaying as greyed out when joining.

• Fixed players unable to join games after leaving due to version mismatch.

• Fixed buying your own stock not actually costing money.

• Fixed stock data resetting when a bought-out player disconnects.

• Fixed manual wage not syncing in multiplayer.

• Fixed long player names breaking labour tab layout.

• Fixed housing texture missing in exported builds.

• Fixed game won screen not showing for non-host winner.

• Fixed building colours not refreshing when changing custom colour in stock menu.

• Fixed bought-out and eliminated player notifications showing raw peer IDs instead of display names.

• Fixed bought-out players being able to rejoin games.

• Fixed SubViewport leak on map restart that was consuming memory.

• Fixed disconnect calls that were crashing the networking layer.

• Fixed player reconnection, requires testing but this should now allow players to reconnect if they crash or get disconnected.