Changelog.ggBeta
HomeGamesUpdatesPricingMethodology
Steam News4 September 202510mo ago

Unstable Branch Update

Having weird vote issues? Give this a try. To switch to the unstable branch, right click on Political Arena in your Steam library, select "Betas" and choose "unstable" from the dropdown. No password required.

In this update1

Full notes

Full Political Arena update

Read the full published notes in a cleaner layout. The original post stays linked below.

What changed

1 fix0 additions1 change0 removals
  • UI and audio
  • Events
changedHaving weird vote issues? Give this a try.Updated tracking of UI votes and UI vote queue. Previously a shared "CurrentVote" reference may have been improperly transitioned across votes, leading to tracking issues and passed votes being listed as failed, etc.
fixedHaving weird vote issues? Give this a try.Fixed Event Window issue. The game's event queue was being dequeued twice when closing the vote window, potentially leading to race conditions

Political Arena changes

changedUpdated tracking of UI votes and UI vote queue. Previously a shared "CurrentVote" reference may have been improperly transitioned across votes, leading to tracking issues and passed votes being listed as failed, etc.
fixedFixed Event Window issue. The game's event queue was being dequeued twice when closing the vote window, potentially leading to race conditions

Having weird vote issues? Give this a try.

To switch to the unstable branch, right click on Political Arena in your Steam library, select "Betas" and choose "unstable" from the dropdown. No password required.

  • Updated tracking of UI votes and UI vote queue. Previously a shared "CurrentVote" reference may have been improperly transitioned across votes, leading to tracking issues and passed votes being listed as failed, etc.

  • Fixed Event Window issue. The game's event queue was being dequeued twice when closing the vote window, potentially leading to race conditions

  • Capped the number of AI-generated votes per week. Committees and chambers now For most votes, the AI now only schedules them for AFTER their body's last vote on the calendar.

    • Quality of life: too many votes can get repetitive.

    • With too many votes, the value of getting your bill a vote loses its cache / no reason to spend PC to get a vote.

Source

Steam News / 4 September 2025

Open original post

Changelog.gg summarizes and formats this update. How we read updates.