Mayors,

We've got some piping hot patch notes for you regarding the latest version of NewCity, now live on the Testing branch. Details below:

[h2]Version 0.0.54.7 ALPHA[/h2]

• When building roads, grid snapping can now be disabled by pressing TAB. Road building is now smarter, allowing expressways to be built closer together. A road or railway can be built above another by elevating it (Z) and holding SHIFT while building it.
  
• Changed Viaduct/Tunnel hotkey to H. (Formerly TAB)
  
• It is now possible to remove a joint (aka node) between two road segments with the bulldozer tool, in certain circumstances.
  
• Updated instructions to reflect changes in hotkeys.
  
• The game now takes an image of the map from above. It uses this image to render buildings and roads from far away, which amounts to a significant performance improvement in the orthographic view. We are still actively investigating improvements to the Perspective camera, and hope to have a fix soon.
  
• Fixed a bug where very few people took transit, because transit was estimated to take too long. The Route Inspector (Query Tool(1) > Route Inspector (R)) now shows more information about how citizens decide between car and transit.
  
• Added drama modpack for cinematic camera movement. The same mod we used in creating our trailers!
  
• Updated vapor modpack.
  
• Fixed performance modpack; it helps when running on low-end machines.
  
• Fixed missing illumination textures for certain building textures.
  
• Added redistributable libraries to package. (OpenAL32.dll and libOpenGL.so.0)
  
• Improved logging in several ways: Removed scan on launch which was causing long load times. Set up clearing of old game_log data to prevent the accumulation of large game_log files. Changed behavior around creating numbered game_log copies to only do so if the sentinel file is present, indicating a crash.
  
• Improved OpenGL error handling and notifications.
  
• Updated our IndieGoGo contributor info and in-game citizen names in the About panel with all Visible contributors as of the end of the campaign. (PM supersoup on Discord if you have any questions)
  
• Updated About panel links.
  
• Vehicles are no longer slowed down by short segments of road. Vehicle speed is now shown when selected by the query tool.
  
• Integrated NewCity application icon on Windows.
  
• Increased agricultural demand.
  
• Added pollution visual effect, which is colored and intensified based on the time-of-day.
  
• Reorganized palette texture. The heatmap colors and sky colors are now fetched from the palette.
  
• The game now slows itself down to prevent the vehicle simulation from falling behind, to prevent unexpected behavior.
  
• Removed unexpected Zone tool behavior when right-clicking to scroll around the map.
  
• Disable autosaves with CAutosaveDisabled = true in Lua
  
• Various fixes for crashes and cleanup of leftover debug code.