First of all: Wow! What a ride this has been. From launching our Steam page last August, to having a gaggle of streamers play the demo, to participating in February's Next Fest. And now we've hit a major milestone. We're really happy to announce that 20,000 players have added Final Outpost: Definitive Edition to their Steam wishlists. That's double the goal we had in mind when launching the Steam page only 7 months ago.

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Changes

• Improved caravan art in the loading screen

We've just released a major update to the demo! Experience the new splash screen and animated main menu with an original theme composed by Ben Randall. Ben has composed an OST for Final Outpost: Definitive Edition, including new cutscene music and four ambient tracks that play intermittently in-game, creating a whole new atmosphere for you to experience. Watch the devs play the new demo here: [previewyoutube=9dWktr2FqaA;full][/previewyoutube] We added controller and keyboard glyphs and added a shortcut for enabling infinite assign mode in the job menu and fixed a bunch of bugs. We've also thrown in a sneak peek at the modifier system where you'll be able to collect stamps for every new Outpost you play! So what are you waiting for? Go check out the new demo! - Sam & the Final Outpost team https://store.steampowered.com/app/3066310/ ^ wishlist here!

New

• New and improved main menu!
• New original sound track throughout the game (content creators can safely stream!)
• Added four in-game original tracks that play intermittently
• New app icon
• Added button glyphs to show controls for keyboard and gamepad
• New shortcut for infinite assign mode in the job menu
• New and improved loading screen with a much shorter loading time
• New splash screen intro

Changes

• Improved Outpost Creation menu prompt
• Disabled larger UI scales for ultra-wide aspect ratios
• Various improvements to gamepad navigation
• Improved leaderboard interface that allows you to page up and down to see more players
• Improved consistency of UI scrolling across devices
• Changed the look of the cutscene skip option
• Improved the pause menu
• Added an improved return button to the leaderboards menu, stats menu, job info menu, and skill info menu
• New blood moon countdown icon
• New translations are temporary and will be professionally translated before full release

Fixes

• Cutscene now scales correctly on ultra-wide aspect ratios
• Music in the cutscene no longer ignores the music volume setting
• Fixed large selection panels from clipping off-screen in the settings menu
• Fixed unintentional button presses while attempting to scroll in UI by dragging the mouse over a button

Dear players, In exactly 5 months Final Outpost: Definitive Edition surpassed the milestone of 10,000 wishlists on Steam. That's mind-blowing for our first game on Steam - thank you so much. The dev team is super excited. If you somehow missed the party, don't worry, just click this button. It's the best way to support us. https://store.steampowered.com/app/3066310/

A New Main Menu?

A Prototype Sneak Peek...

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Fixes

• Fixed a crash caused by Discord integration

Changes

• Added simple launch step to ensure that the game is opened through Steam
• When reporting a bug the attached log file now contains logs from previous sessions as well as the current one

Changes

• Added missing Turkish translations
• Added missing Vietnamese translations and improved some existing ones
• Localised display and resolution options (so far only with Turkish and Ukrainian)
• Added pulsing red animation to top bar for resources that are at capacity
• Improved the way the gold-resource unlocks in resource menu

Fixes

• Fixed soft-lock in the job menu tutorial tip when clicking on a specific part of the screen
• Fixed upgrade menu red text updating when resource amount change

Dear players, The demo for Final Outpost: Definitive Edition is out now! This is the first time that a bunch of new features will be playable so we hope you get stuck in and enjoy it. So let's go through what's new.

What's new in the demo?

Traders

Difficulty Modes

Environment + UI Changes

Controller Support

A New Building...

New Scoring System

Fixes

• Fixed dismissing of tutorial tips on mouse and keyboard which prevented starting the game for new players

Changes

• Added a score summary to the game over screen
• Rebalanced trade offers
• Trader now turns up every 3 days (from 2)
• Added a warning indicator for when walls have zombies damaging them and no knife fighters are assigned to them
• Added an indicator for when survivors arrive at the gates
• Added a badge to the job menu tab that shows when there are unassigned citizens
• Added a badge to skill menu tab that shows when there are unspent skill points
• Added a cross icon to birth progress text when population capacity is reached or there is no food
• Shortened the skill point gain animation to 2s (from 3s) and made it independent of current game speed
• Material values in building upgrade menus now displays in red when there is not enough of the corresponding resource available
• Moved the pickaxe down by two rows in the crafting menu
• Knife fighters now prioritise the left wall

Fixes

• Fixed keyboard input in big picture mode on Linux
• Fixed tips being rendered underneath the gamepad navigation outline on buttons
• Fixed gamepad navigation going underneath locked turret and sniper selectors
• Fixed a softlock on a tutorial tip when using gamepad
• Added missing translations

Today we are excited to introduce in-game leaderboards to Final Outpost: Definitive Edition alongside a new scoring system. This is a great time to talk about the demo for FO:DE. The demo will include all the improvements we've been working on for the last few months and tease new features like difficulty modes and the all-new trading system. You'll be able to play all the way up to the first Winter, which is over 2 hours of gameplay!
The best part? The demo has a new scoring system that shows how well you performed throughout your game. So the demo will have its own competition to see who is the best Outpost manager in the first 36 days. This competition won't be in the full release so make sure to play the demo on Steam when it releases on 13th December!
The new scores are calculated based on days survived, total population, and deaths. This means the players topping this leaderboard will be those who can grow their population the fastest without having any of their citizens starve.
Normal and Classic modes are available in the demo. In terms of difficulty these two modes are identical, but in Normal mode you can save your progress whenever you like. If your walls are breached you can rewind to a previous night and try a new strategy.
In the full game, you will be able to compete against others for overall score, number of days survived, biggest population reached, and prestige level. We will explain prestiging in a future blog post. In the meantime, thank you so much for reading. Make sure to wishlist the game before the demo releases on 13th December! - Sam https://store.steampowered.com/app/3066310

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Dear players, Today we are talking about a new building coming to Final Outpost: Definitive Edition.

The Radio Tower

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Dear players, We have some exciting news on the development of Final Outpost: Definitive Edition. The first major addition to the game is here. Introducing the Trader!
The Trader will regularly come to your Outpost offering up a variety of trades. In order to buy resources, you will need to sell something to obtain a new resource: electronic scrap!
With electronic scrap, you can buy and sell everything from wood to machine gun bullets. Because Traders change the types of trades they offer as you build up your Outpost, you'll need to save up different resources to make sure you always have something to sell.
The trader could save you next time your citizens are starving! In other news, we have been working on a new checkpoint saving system:
With checkpoints, you will be able to return to any point in the game to try out a new strategy. And finally, we've implemented a new settings menu with video settings for PC - see the preview below. Thanks for reading! Add FO:DE to your wishlist now to get notified when the demo comes out later this year. https://store.steampowered.com/app/3066310 - Sam

Dear players, That was a... weird? month. First off, thank you so much for all your support around the launch of Final Outpost: Definitive Edition. In our first month on Steam, nearly 1000 of you added the game to your wishlists! That is an incredible result for our first game on Steam and this makes us even more excited to bring you the full game. We also released a major UI overhaul as part of the 1.6 update and you all seem to really like the new look. We've had so many messages, comments and discussion on Discord so it really feels like we have a strong foundation on which to build FO:DE. Work on patches for 1.6, holidays for the devs, and the Steam page launch basically took us to the middle of August, with gamescom fast approaching. Although we didn't have a booth of our own this year, gamescom was such a great experience. We had the chance to meet some of our favourite developers and gaming journalists and try out upcoming games! We of course made sure to tell as many people as possible about the upcoming release of FO:DE.
All this meant that we didn't have a whole lot of time to work on Definitive Edition features but, fear not, we have been working on something very important to the game's PC playability: controller support! We are happy to announce that Final Outpost: Definitive Edition will have full controller support. As the game is now fully playable with keyboard and mouse, we decided to start developing a system for players to experience our RTS world from a controller while having full and responsive control of the UI. Here is a sneak-peek:
Building on these foundations, we are planning to have the game verified on Steam Deck. We have also implemented a range of important PC features, such as Steam achievements, cloud save and, of course, the early stages of resolution settings:
We are working on support for ultra-wide monitors. So far we can confirm the game will run as normal without any stretching on these monitors. However full ultra-wide support, including removal of black bars, is not yet confirmed - full details will be updated in our FAQ. Please add FO:DE to your wishlist. If you'd like to try the base game, you can download the free version now. I will be back again next month with a new devlog. - Sam https://store.steampowered.com/app/3066310/Final_Outpost_Definitive_Edition/

Thats right, its a Definitive Edition. That means well be taking the original popular mobile strategy game to a new level with more features, content, and replayability as we wrap up our creative journey into a complete premium game without microtransactions. The game will be available in 16 languages across 5 platforms (PC, Mac, Linux, Android and iOS). New features we know will be in the Definitive Edition:

• Trading system
• More gameplay and replayability
• Difficulty modes
• New leaderboards and achievements
• All premium features included
• More features TBC...

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