Hello! As you know, I will keep adding content to Rise of the White Sun (until you all get bored by the game^^) And you have your word to say: the poll about the next big content patch is still open here

This first October patch is a Chines players feedback update.

I made a selection of things to improve from the many feedbacks Chinese have provided these last weeks, and put the result in this update. Main topics:

• The Chinese Communist Party in the 1920 scenarios
• The military actions for the Chinese Communist Party in the 1920 scenarios
• Dealing with bandits and disasters
• The Chinese Translation

The Chinese Communist Party in the 1920 scenarios

From your feedbacks, I learned that many of you were confused by the fact the Communist players also controls the Mongolian People's Party. This was because in the developer's intent it was a Comintern faction, not a Chinese Communist Party faction. That was not clear, and the desire to play the Communist Party alone totally understandable. ==>You can now play the Communist Party in the 1920 scenarios without bothering about Mongolia and White Russians You can still play as the Comintern if you prefer (because some players prefered it that way).

Military actions for the Chinese Communist Party in the 1920 scenarios

Many of you asked for military features for the Communists that are more "1927 and beyond" related. But, well, ...why not! I want to keep the game the most historical possible, so, turning your 1920 students into seasonned guerilla warriors will be done by using cheatcodes to unlock contents that are available later in the game. Here are some new cheat codes: "downwithlandlords": will unlock useful actions, to raise peasant armies, proclaim soviets and punish landlords "redarmy": will add 3 historical officer characters to your characters reserve pool (if you are playing in 1920) "1927mao": will unlock an event to turn young 1920 Mao into a peasant guerilla leader And an old useful cheatcode: "redsu": will launch a communist uprising in Shanghai (you will need to control pickets, if you don't want to lose it immediately)

Dealing with bandits and disasters

Some of you had trouble dealing with bandit and disasters. Others had many questions about province management. I added a province management "practice scenario" set in Shanxi. This is not exactly a tutorial, but a scenario with far more turns that needed, and no warlord opponent. So you can take your time to experiment. Many help panels will be displayed during this scenario answering the FAQ related to province management, bandits and disasters. Tell me if that new kind of scenario is useful or enjoyable for you. You can also answer this Steam news to request such scenarios to explore other topics.

The Chinese translation

Here I need to apologize to the translation team. I thought that using a robot translation to let players test the game until the translation was complete would be a pleasant surprise. I believed the disclaimers and explanations both on the Steam page and in game would have been explicit, but some players blamed the translators for the poor Robot translation. I, the dev, did it because I needed to kill the many bugs created by the Chinese localisation, and decided that it could be cool to make it available, instead of keeping it to myself. Here is how it works from a dev point of view: 1)The game will fetch the translation made by the human team. 2) If that part of the text is not translated yet, it will then display the robot translation 3) If no text is found, the English translation is then used 4) If there is no English translation, a text will be displayed to report the missing variable to the dev I was really proud of that cascade system. I hope you will understand and be patient. If you want to participate to the translation effort, you can just answer to this news. Please don't use the answer to promote your paid translations services, because there is so much text that even with low costs and poor quality results if would cost more than the game will ever earn.

[ 2023-10-05 07:32:30 CET ] [ Original post ]