Patch 0.8.14024: New features, rebalancing, and a variety of fixes

We’re happy to share a new, exciting update today!

⚠️ Please note that this update comes with a full save wipe due to major system changes.

Gameplay

• New mission added to North Subjugation campaign

• CEO skill points and skills chart added to North Subjugation campaign

• Added Trading Department to office building

• Added contracts for goods delivery

• Finance Department now allows taking loans and issuing corporate bonds

• The finance staff now have skills related to bonds and loans

• Company Credit Rating system implemented

• Added 4-4-2 Atlantic locomotive to research chart

• Added new production building – Chemical Plant

• Added Trading Academy social building

Balancing

• Commodity price and consumption speed now depends on the volume of consumption

• Seller price in some cases can now be higher than a buyer price

• Initial buy-sell price gap has been reduced

• Natural resources available for mining are now limited

• Different mineral deposits now contain different capacities

• Different capacity resource presets are enabled in generated scenarios

• Grain and cotton fields’ production is limited by soil saturation and now consumes fertilizers

• Resource capacity is included in the beginning options for generated scenarios

• Changes to commodity weights now affect all commodities on the map simultaneously

• More staff will be spawned in multiplayer sessions

• Multiplayer skill book effects rebalanced

• Research projects are now performed faster in multiplayer sessions

• License prolongation price can now be adjusted in the beginning scenario settings for generated scenarios

• In North Subjugation campaign, player will not lose when all extra funding is spent

UI

• Other player locomotives can now be selected in multiplayer sessions

• A route can now be copy-pasted between trains in the train side panel

• Added money balance tooltip indicating company monthly costs

• FPS overlay dialog hotkey switched to F7 (instead of F12)

• Staff members can now be fired directly from the department

• Added cost marker fly-up for semaphores and railroads

• Added sound when all players are "ready" in multiplayer lobby

• Railroads and railroad station colors are now visible on the minimap in the Lobbying department

• Save files from previous game versions are marked as not supported

• Other UI improvements

Fixes

• Parallel railroad tool (Alt) is now working properly for slopes and bridges

• Parallel bridge construction is not causing the raising of the soil level

• Train movement and pathfinding logic enhanced

• Now cities are developing further beyond the laid railroad lines

• Train breakdowns are now properly synchronized in multiplayer sessions

• Train badge now correctly focuses with the player camera

• Carriage masses are now shown properly in the cargo tab of a train

• Locomotive tech parameters are now properly synchronized in multiplayer sessions

• Laws now appear properly for newly established cities

• Buildings effects are now updated properly in a building UI

• No crash occurs after multiple generations in a single-player generated scenario

• Train used to freeze before entering the station in some cases

• Player color was not saved from the previous multiplayer session

• A commodity is now always available on the map if enabled during map generation

Other

• Improvements in localization.