Salutations, Mayors!

This week's patch focuses on fixes and optimizations as we prepare for another main branch launch. Our team is focusing on stability and quality of life improvements at the moment and we hope you'll notice the difference!

These are the patch notes:

Version 0.0.58.6 ALPHA

Development News

• We're going to start including a "Known issues section in the changelog, to better communicate issues that we're aware of and actively working on fixes for.
• NewCity will be transitioning to a new versioning system in the near future, likely as soon as the next patch. - Major.Minor.Build.Patch (e.g. 0.1.1.0)
  

  Features

• Added additional animated decorations for the amusement park and beach (kites, flags).
• Added eagle, shark, and whale wanderers.
• Added structure, farm, park, industrial, and vehicle group decorations.
  

  Changes

• Changed Planner mode to discard all plans on exiting the mode.
• Changed how activity probability is represented when querying a person.
• Changed factory and office demand to be enabled for low population cities.
  

  Bugfixes

• Fixed an issue with the router that could cause softlocks in low population cities.
• Fixed an issue where amenity mandatory expenses were treated as amenity income.
• Fixed certain situations where roads in constructed blueprints would not connect properly.
• Fixed improper icon for activities when querying a person.
• Fixed situations where the NoteChart and NoteObject features could be set disabled when they should be enabled.
• Fixed a segfault when switching modpacks.
• Fixed two improperly named textures, which prevented them from being properly applied to designs.
• Possible fix for "procedure entry point SetThreadDescription could not be located" error on Windows.
• Fixed a large number of missing decorations which would cause console spam.
• Removed debug logging for rendering buoys.
  

  Known issues

• In certain situations, UI text can render as splotchy or broken.
• Deleting a rail for a train transit system does not delete the train lines.
• Adding new stops to existing mass transit lines deletes all later stops.
• Large numbers of passengers may be left waiting at transit stations.
  

Check out this update via the Betas tab. Right-click NewCity in your Steam Library and select Properties. Click the dropdown under the Betas tab and choose the "test - Testing branch". You can opt-out by choosing "NONE - Opt-out of all beta programs" instead. Going from one to the other will trigger an update as Steam fetches you the desired branch.

We really appreciate all the feedback and bug reports here on Steam and Discord! Please keep posting your thoughts and touching base with us.

You're Gonna Need a Bigger Boat,
Lone Pine Games

[ 2021-03-12 15:20:34 CET ] [Original Post]