It's time for our very own Christmas Update! (And some fixes)

GREEETINGS NEWSBEARERS!

As we're hitting the holiday seasons, we too wanted to bring gifts to you all!

First of all, a little reminder that, beside our ongoing Leaderboard contest, we also launched a giveaway. Running until January 1st, all you have to do is take part and boost your chances to win one of those sweet vinyl of the soundtrack of the game.

Steam post image We also wanted to take a moment and thank you all as we reach 3,000 reviews! This is a huge achievement and helps the game get the visibility it deserves!

Let it print, let it print, let it print! ❄❄❄

We came bearing in-game gifts! More items to customize your tower with some Christmas Spirit! Find those items and more in our detailed patch-note below:

Bug Fixes

• Fixed “Print x the most” requirement still considering European and Quest tags. They will now only consider the 6 base categories

• “Print x the most” will now result in more items being added in the news pool with the requested tag

• Fixed Boycott risks not working correctly when triggered from calendars

• Fixed Boycott risk popup sometimes showing an ad deal was lost even though the boycott was dodged

• Fixed the calendar view on the prognosis board sometimes not showing the tooltip for events on the far right side

• Fixed top Perception rules displaying incorrect count and bonus sales

• Fixed an issue that could prevent the “Brain Drain” achievement from unlocking

• Fixed a couple desks having sitting idle animations when the desk has no chair

• Fixed a bug where telegraphers would be unable to go to the bathroom or grab a snack during the weekend (Saturday/Sunday), causing them to all go when Monday rolls around, when you actually need them to work

• The "Place above the fold" quest requirement could sometimes ask for a tag that wasn't present in the pool. The algorithm has been adjusted to handle this and this should never occur anymore

• Fixed a bug where the automatic ordering of resources like paper, food and coal did not cost anything

Transport AI Changes

• Employees that support floor assignments, such as Transporters, now will only idle on floors that are included in their assignments

• In previous versions, once you had at least one transporter that could handle articles, your production staff would not, or rarely, transport articles themselves. This hard lockout is no longer the case, but transporters are preferred to handle the work if they can

• A bug which could sometimes lead to pneumatic tubes not being used has been fixed

Quality of Life improvements

• Addition of a “Disable Screen Shake” setting

• Addition of new keybindings to navigate your tower more easily:

  • Page up: Navigate up floors (zoom sensitive)

  • Page down: Navigate down floors (zoom sensitive)

  • Home: Navigate to street level

  • End: Navigate to top floor

Other improvements

• Dragging and dropping employees now resets a small timer which prevented them from relieving themselves or eating

• Individual stories of a news item can now be prioritized ahead of time on the story files

• Addition of European news in 1935

New content / Christmas update

• Added 5 new wallpapers:

  • Blue Tile Wallpaper

  • Checkered Wallpaper

  • Green Panel Wallpaper

  • Reindeer Wallpaper

  • Snowflake Wallpaper

• Added 3 new objects:

  • Christmas Tree

  • Christmas Wreath

  • Christmas Lights

The new objects, the Reindeer and Snowflake wallpapers may be obtained in Christmas themed news during in-game December months. The Blue Tile, Checkered and Green Panel wallpapers may be obtained from random object rewards from news and/or the calendar.

The Christmas Tree is moody and will only show itself in full Christmas glory during in-game December months!

One last mention, as the Steam Winter Sales are about to begin, News Tower will once again be 20% off until January 5th. It's the perfect gift I am telling you! As a reminder the Sales will start today December 18th on 10AM PT and run until January 5th.

[dynamiclink href="https://store.steampowered.com/app/1649950/News_Tower/"]Steam post imageThank you all so much for the love and care for the game. We are committed to make it one of the best tycoon-management game ever.

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