Realpolitiks 3: Earth and Beyond Leaves Early Access!

The day has finally come, allow us to officially announce that Realpolitiks 3: Earth and Beyond leaves Early Access today and launches as a full game, being 20% off at launch.

First of all, we'd like to start with a huge "thank you" to every single one of you for taking part in the Early Access journey, whether it was by purchasing the game, participating in the Open Beta, writing a review here on Steam or simply sharing your comments on the forums. It is you, our community, that helped us get through and shape the game.

Now to the full launch itself. The game features a whole host of new content and updates for its 1.0 launch today. These include:

• A new "Climate War" scenario, in which the world faces a wave of climate disasters, eventually leading to a new type of wars to emerge, with countries fighting for basic resources and survival.

• Finalized Leadership mechanic, letting players develop their Head of State and other members of the cabinet as they gain experience.

• Various quality of life features, improvements and bugfixes based on community feedback, including the Timeline review, in which players can see how successful their reign has been, new combat balancing and changes to trade functionality, among others.

• Localization to German, Spanish, French, Polish, Simplified Chinese and Russian languages.

• Option to utilise the cash reserves to purchase the main resources at market prices.

Besides that, we’ve implemented tons of fixes and changes, including updates of the difficulty levels. The full Change Log can be found below the article.

One thing that deserves your special attention is the video tutorial for the game – you can launch it either by following this link or in-game by clicking the first icon at the bottom of the screen, which then opens the video on YouTube in your browser.

DISCLAIMER: During the playtests, we've noticed a rare crash that can happen to some players when they start a new game, then go to the main menu and then change the language of the game. In case this crash happens to you, simply launch the game again and everything will work just fine.

The journey is still not over, though, we will be closely monitoring your feedback, whether it's on the Realpolitiks Discord server or here on Steam and we'd like to keep supporting the game for as long as needed, patching any bugs that may have slipped through our fingers and rebalancing the game, if necessary.

Don't forget that the game is also included in the REALPOLITIKS FRANCHISE bundle along with its older siblings where you can get an additional bundle discount.

https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/46403/Realpolitiks_Franchise_Bundle/

And to celebrate the full launch even more, the game is now included in two more bundles.

https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/53194/

https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/53196/

Thank you again for being a part of this journey with us!

Happy Strategizing!

Change Log:

New things:

• Added a new "Climate War" scenario

• Added tutorial icon to the main menu

• Easy level now influence on starting resources on provinces

• Confirm pop-up for War window decision

• Added a possibility to buy resources

• The possibility to check the expected election result

• German, Spanish, French, Polish, Simplified Chinese and Russian language added

• Added confirm popups

• Added Display of claims to provinces

Bugfixes, Changes, Balancing:

• Fixed bug with @#% characters in the government window

• AI doesn't return troops to its territory

• Map reloading bug

• Yellow square next to a notification

• Empty box displayed over an icon in province armies

• Event message for Chad was missing a string text in the search tab in the country selection doesn't disappear

• Hovering animation flickers

• The year sometimes disappears

• When the slider in ministries goes to 0, the buttons have a different size

• Unclear event target

• Unclear effect description

• Non-integer population numbers

• Espionage window doesn't close

• Crash on load

• Fixed Incorrect monthly money growth indicator Incorrect pollution reduction calculation

• Armies can engage in combat against armies of the same country

• Debt Factors are empty

• Empty Conditions section is displayed in the Produce Objects menu

• Empty tooltip is displayed when hovering over the Invest button in the country Investments tab

• The Player is able to go above the officers limit

• Unused UI containers when inspecting a Governor of a province

• One of the conditions for the Promote Values task is marked as complete before fulfilling it

• Text overlap

• Typo in Security overview in Head of State Empty box displayed over an icon in province armies

• Font size used for names of the Party members in the Government window is very small

• Incorrect color coding of Leaders talent conditions

• Color coding of AI military forces can be wrong in defensive wars

• The notification about Elections is counting backwards

• Map reloading bug

• Antarctica which is set as rival of some nations is using placeholder strings and icons

• Project implementation doesn't complete

• Projects completed in half the time

• Character limit for Leader's name in the Politician Creator is too long

• Popup contains debug string when hovering over officer of The Bahamas on the map

• Issue with Puerto Rico's name

• Lack of scrolling

• Save files take too much storage space and there is no in-game reminder about this

• Some provinces don't have a strategic point in them

• Demoting an officer with more units than the rank after demotion allows deletes the extra units

• AP growth dependencies and limitations

• Looping hovers might result in soft lock of the game

• Exponential numbers in tasks

• Broken save

• The Compendium for Projects and Technologies window is displayed within the Projects and Research one

• Province can become blank after peace deal

• Character limit for spy's name in the "Espionage Agency" is too long

• Underline in nuclear weapons tab

• Different target countries in "Political Cooperation" and "Trade Pact Offer" events

• Paper clips are visible out of the hiring section in the spies list

• Mouse wheel horizontal scroll is inverted in the buy building menu

• Empty tooltip when hovering over the party icon in the Active Officer's tile in the Military manager

• Tech tree is not visible within the window and sliders become unresponsive when zooming out in the National Heritage menu

• One of the Diplomatic Actions is not properly aligned with its frame

• Camera moves across half the map with slight cursor movement

• Some of the tabs does not scale with screen resolution

• "Republic of Central America" name in the "UNIFICATION" tab is clipping with its flag

• Tooltip didn't disappear from the screen

• Missing flags for anarchists

• Effects icons for Global Diplomacy talent in the National Heritage tech tree are not properly aligned and visible

• Costs section does not resize on the first update after the number of elements change

• Some of the descriptions of the Projects have no space between words

• Font size used for names of the Party members in the Government window is very small

• It is impossible to browse Ministries when the screen resolution is set to certain values

• The Influence Modifiers for the negative modifiers are displayed too far from the Influence window

• It is possible to lock the screen with information pop-ups permanently

• Conquered province keeps the original owner's government's Entertainment unrest factors

• Peace deal can be unable to be sent, spamming 'send' deletes armies, war score can be wrong, red color coding for enemy strategic

• Endless hatching

• There is a possibility Player will not be able to recruit or promote officers

• AI sometimes doesn't make peace with other AI

• Map reloading bug

• Identical effects for mutually exclusive skills

• The "Resources Depleted" event has no effect

• Tooltip for "Political Stability" modifiers will appear empty when hovered over after the constitution has been changed

• It is impossible to promote an officer to rank 4

• The "Effects" for the "World Sheriff" action looks unfinished

• Typo in the word "Available" when assigning a leader on a department with no available spies

• The Player is able to go above the officers limit

• Random event "RAGING INFLATION" can happen even when inflation is very low

• Typo in the word "without" in the Game Over screen

• The game breaks after loading the save file.

• It is possible that a country will negotiate non-aggression pact with itself

• Peace negotiations window shows the wrong countries.

• HDI drops to 0 once "Research Institution" is chosen

• Weather Analysis technology effect not applying

• A missing string is present in the Spy's perk information window

• Portugal is not included in the NATO military block from the start.

• Captured territories cannot be captured back

• Achievement - Ultimate Conquest

• Achievement- Liberty or Death

• Late response- nonsensical text

• Specific days in dates make them overflow on a new line

• In the tech tree, Tank Destroyer Gen.II is displayed below MBT Gen.III instead of the basic Tank Destroyer

• ESC button stopped working

• Missing string in the event for New Resources

• Missing string depleted resources

• Country info window doesn't open

• Factors frame in the "Money" pop-up is empty

• You can still see Antarctica as a country in a few places:

• Events - the target for hidden effects is shown

• Ideology effects are not displayed in policy effects

• A bug with the visualization of movement lines when moving an officer around the map

• Banning parties is still possible in the party details window

• Incorrect conditions in events

• The effect reducing the cost of implementing technologies does not work

• Very large countries jam the map

• When annexing some provinces, stack overflow related to WMSK occurs

• Liberated countries do not recruit units

• Null on officer promotion

• After signing a peace treaty, enemy armies sometimes cannot leave the country

• Ideology effects display a different name of the head of state

• Unfulfilled building conditions show a red rectangle

• Blocking the demote/promote officer buttons

• Fixed bug allowing values to exceed set minimums and maximums

• Fixed effects related to party ideology

• Included value settings in their initialization - this caused strange errors when calculating at game start

• Fixed element containing condition and effect. Now it is called correctly after checking the condition

• Fixed changelog window in menu - it will no longer show in loading scene

• Increased HDI from basic projects

• Reduced impact of Stability on annual HDI change

• Improved icons and effects in actions

• Fixed bug because of which the action add to block was sometimes unavailable

• Improved tooltips in economy manager that displayed keys

• Improved balance of task regarding GDP Growth

• Added several new information tooltips to windows

• Improved when choosing rulers during elections.

• Notification for stability decrease

• Fixed bug with problem icon during infiltration

• Random event tabs can be shown above the pause menu

• Technocracy government form does not have a Ministry that would allow them to control the Unrest

• Crashes on enemy AI

• At the start of the game, countries no longer have planes in provinces without airports

• Reduced timer for stability investments

• Integration interruption

• Non-expiring relationship modifiers

• An unknown information is displayed in the Diplomacy tab when inspecting any country

• Debt Management actions do not have effects listed in confirm action window

• Empty tooltip when hovering over the unit within a Training Limits tile in the Military manager

• Antarctica which is set as rival of some nations is using placeholder strings and icons

• Multiple instances of province unrest factor from the Head of Government are shown

• Block Wars calculates warscore incorrectly

• Incorrect display of pacts icons

• AI doesn't return troops to its territory