Cliff Empire news & patch notes

Minor update with bug fixes and improvements. The Mac version will be delayed a bit.

• Added a warning indicator above the building, it appears if there are no raw materials or production is stopped due to overflow storage.
• A priority indicator was added above the building. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/32562111/f6e3a6fa65c46583fa933e071b3ba471621c5738.png
• A button was added to highlight all buildings in the city and display their number directly from the building window. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/32562111/fd838a6560d112a00f16a03cc7882ef5e48f9259.png
• The main interface of energy and population was slightly changed, with more expressive numbers and better placement of elements.
• Added a total electricity generation indicator (excluding batteries)
• The game no longer minimizes automatically when you click on a second monitor or switch windows with Alt+Tab.
• Fixed an issue where some buildings from the workshop were not displayed on the “ice citadel” location
• Additional optimization
• Minor corrections in the texts.

p.s. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

In addition to fixing issues that have accumulated over the past half a year, I'm pleased to introduce New Cliffs, new defense options, and some balance changes! It could be DLC, but why not make it a regular update? Turrets can now be modified for an additional fee: {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/32562111/30b2b3b2d8551fceecec21657efa7936321b7ef9.png New cliffs can be a challenge for logistics: {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/32562111/032819dcd0a867e20d165a92607f294c84828d76.png I am also pleased to present our next game in the Cliff Empire universe: AI Olympius. Over the past year in early access, we've managed to polish it up quite a bit, the story has also progressed to 80% done, and the game also has a building feature, not as large as here, but it's quite interesting. So for at least the next six months, it will be in an intensive development phase, so join us! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/32562111/5395e538d89b5a43ce4468be949e4ce4a120d2a8.png I hope I didn't break anything in the current update, so if something doesn't work as expected, write to me and I'll fix it as soon as possible!

• Three new Cliffs have been added.
• Defensive turrets now have upgrade options: interceptor, range, shield.
• The smallest enemy ships now have less HP.
• The capacity of goods for a trade bridge has been increased from 10 to 15, now the trade turnover of 2 bridges can replace 3 bridges.
• The 3D printing factory, after being upgraded, now uses 1 material (was 2) to produce 6 units of goods.
• New localization: Thai.
• Changes have been made to the Czech and Turkish localizations.
• The game is built on a newer version of Unity.
• Fixed a bug where upgrading Zeppelins from the University did not work properly.
• Adjusted the capsule charging acceleration rate at the lower level to reflect the improvement in charging speed.
• The learning period defense mechanism no longer adds matter to the Cold Storage or Mall.
• Orbital debris no longer destroys lower-level buildings when dropped, it was fun but caused unnecessary problems.
• Fixed display of people sitting in the air when starting to build roads.
• Fixed a bug where after the cutscene the camera returned to orbit with a light background with clouds.
• Fixed a bug in which the effect of weather conditions did not end if the player was on an orbital station.
• Fixed a problem with shadows on the colonnade.
• Fixed problems with the rain sound.
• Small optimization, minor UI fixes.

All changes are made in both the remastered version and the version with the old graphics. The Mac version will be delayed, it's quite a time-consuming process, and it will start when I'm sure everything works properly after the latest changes. Hotfix 1: Fixed a bug where in some cases the interface disappeared after loading.

Just increased the max speed from 6x to 7x. MacOS version is also available.

• Fixed a bug where "rebuild all" button created overlapping buildings.
• Minor optimization.

For Mac platform, the update will be released with a delay.

Thank you for your support, feedback, and explanations of problems, I hope the latest changes and fixes have made the game even more enjoyable for you!

• Added the ability to control which goods are accepted in warehouses. This will allow you to better adjust logistics, especially in large cities.
• Fixed a bug where orbital orders were not always terminated after opening an orbital station.
• The game speed switch has been returned to the 1x 3x 6x gradation. At 8x the game behaves a bit unstable.
• For the remastered version, the option to disable the Bloom effect has been added to the settings.
• Buildings from Workshop are no longer labeled as "under construction" after completion.
• The sound of a building being destroyed is now slightly quieter.
• Fixed an interface bug where clicking with a small cursor offset did not work on some buttons.

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/32562111/66e0377bacbc5a080c44883b660527ba7c2b6dbc.png The game is built on a much newer version of Unity, which should have a positive effect on the speed of the game, but also something can go wrong... we'll see. I also added another item to the Workshop, which could be a great expansion of the area.

• I refused to compress the game data, now it takes a little more on the disk, but it should be loading a little faster, and further updates should be smaller.
• In defense mode, you can now call an enemy attack in advance.
• Fixed a bug where the announcement voice did not complete the phrase completely when speeding up time.
• TAA anti-aliasing has been fixed.
• In the improvements of the engineering bureau, added marks indicating at what stage the improvement will have an effect.
• More expressive arrows for the direction of enemy attacks.
• Heart of Hope can no longer be knocked down by marauders.
• Heart of Hope - price increased from 5000 to 7000, environmental damage reduced from -20 to -18, number of workers reduced from 60 to 40, generation reduced from 400 to 370.
• Resource-free construction now applies to the Orbital Station.
• The time acceleration button has been scaled up.
• Updated documentation on creating mods for Workshop, now it is a google document and edits will be displayed dynamically.

Restoring the latest balance changes, and small fixes to the camera. Also, what do you think about making the Remaster version as the main version of the game, and letting the standard version be selected through the launcher settings?

• The efficiency of the Eco House and Mega Drill have returned to their previous values.
• Environmental damage from nuclear power plants has been slightly reduced. -17 → -15
• Improved positioning of corner buildings, sometimes they were not built even though the angle and size were correct.
• Added a new element to Workshop - Epic Arm, which can hold the entire city. It is designed for the "Simulation" mode, which means "white plains". It may be interesting to fight in defense mode with marauders on top of the hand %)

Update 1.35f1

• The Remastered version is now the standard at launch, the old version of the game can be played through the Steam library.
• Changing the game speed works much faster.
• When building all defensive structures, the area of their effect is now shown.
• The camera can now zoom out more.
• Fixed a bug where DLSS was blocking anti-aliasing.
• Fixed a bug where the marauder attack on white plains sometimes did not occur.
• Marauder attack now occurs at the correct height on white plains.

Something has changed in the integration of Steam in the Reamster version, hopefully nothing will break. Some inner work to better support Workshop. The update included a lot of balance changes, especially early access to the Engineering Bureau should be affected game a lot. The difficulty of the main storyline has also been slightly decreased, and there are also many changes in the simulation mode. Full list of changes:

• Engineering Bureau is now available from the start, but some of its researches are unlocked with the Orbital Station, the other part with the Ice Citadel.
• Marauder attacks no longer appear above the city that was on the way to the target.
• The birth rate has been increased by 37%
• In the construction menu, you can now see exactly how many of each type of building there are in the city, and you can also highlight them to make it easier to search for them in the city.
• The conditions of the first task to settle people from orbit have been changed: settle 2800 → 2300 people
• Prestige task conditions changed, target prestige requirement reduced from 120 to 100
• IceCitadel settlement task conditions reduced from 1500 to 1200
• Task conditions for settlement of 6000 people, target prestige requirement reduced from 120 to 100
• Increased drone limits on Ice Citadel and White Plains.
• The number of workers on solar panels in orbit has been reduced from 20 to 5
• The number of workers on the wind generator field has been reduced from 4 to 2.
• The number of battery station workers (regular and wall-mounted) has been reduced from 7 to 4.
• Now no workers are needed to maintain the small vertical solar panel.
• Time acceleration speed changed, step was 3x → 6x now 4x → 8x.
• Effectiveness of Eco Pillars increased +5 → +7 global ecology.
• The amount of theft is reduced, in orbit the tendency to steal is also reduced even more.
• In "Defense" mode, the reward for destroying stingrays has been increased from 90 to 120.
• In "Defense" mode, the first wave of enemies comes later, and the interval between waves is slightly increased.
• It is now impossible to sell all cargo drones to other cliffs to avoid a dead end.
• Fixed a bug where lower-level construction would be blocked around a dual cliff, even though the space should be available.
• Fixed small errors in Ukrainian and Italian localizations.
• The size of the interface can be increased even more. (for 4k monitors)
• The Esc key now exits tourist mode, also added a hint when entering tourist mode - how to exit it.
• Fixed a bug where the camera, when switching between cliffs, moved to a certain structure, and not to the center of the cliff.
• Minor UI improvements.

White Plains:

• Lower-level structures can now be built here.
• Raised platform has been added to the Workshop, which will work well at this location, I tested how the new Steam integration works on it.
• Fixed a bug where the flashlight did not shine on the surface, but only on buildings.

Only in the remastered version:

• Drones disappear more smoothly at long range.

Another Hotfix (1.33f1):

• Eco Tower efficiency tuned.
• Efficiency of small vertical solar panels reduced from +8 to +6.
• Enemies no longer attack wall wind generators (avoiding the problem of rebuilding them and what was on them.)

The long-awaited Portuguese localization has finally been added to the game, being busy with a new project did not even give me a free day to do it. In the coming month, I plan to return to Cliff Empire a bit and make some improvements based on the player's feedback. Also, if you have any feedback about anything that annoys you in the game, please write it in the comments below. I will do my best to fix everything that is within my power. Also, note that access to the Workshop has been opened. It has been available for a long time, but I didn't know that there was such a button as "make visible to everybody" so that it became fully visible. The launch parameters of the remastered version have changed a bit, so if you had a shortcut to CliffEmpire_HQ.exe it will no longer work, you need to create a new one.

• Portuguese localization added.
• Corrections have been made to the texts of the French, Czech, Spanish, and Turkish localizations.
• A small optimizatio.
• Fixed two errors related to the location "White Plains"
• DLSS support has been added in the settings, it flickers a little, but maybe in some cases, it can increase the rendering speed.

If anyone is interested… Our new project has finally reached Steam Early Access, and it has been polished for several weeks with a small amount of feedback. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/32562111/f41a296b1a87bd1e65e629da3d4996c748af9a60.png The game is a continuation of the Cliff Empire universe, and it takes place decades after the repopulation of Earth. Maybe not everyone likes other genres, but as I said before, work needs diversity ;) The game has been in development for 3.5 years, and the idea of the game and several attempts to implement it have been in progress for 12 or 13 years... In some way, this is my personal climb to Olympus. The game currently has about 22% of the plot, and it can offer approximately 6-11 hours of gameplay, depending on the player's skills in the genre. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1478970/AI_Olympius/

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/32562111/d9fc5ad64728e64252580136d69910e43d7463f7.png We are excited to announce that Remastered Cliff Empire, is now available on the Mac OS platform! Experience the thrill of constructing and developing new cities, discovering new technologies, and ensuring the well-being of your citizens. Visit AppStore link below: https://apps.apple.com/app/cliff-empire/id6446506153

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• Fixed bug with profit numbers visiblity on the Ice Citadel.
• Fixed bug with trading via portal to an Orbital Station that does not have money led to the complete disappearance of goods from the platform without receiving income.
• Changed the design of gardens on large wind fields now it can create a hexagonal canvas.
• Remaster: Added new years decorations. it will be activated on game date and relative to real December. (will help navigate the game's flow of time)
• Remaster: Fixed the colors of the main UI icons.

I hope the update doesn't break anything :)

• Added option to disable dome display.
• Added location generator settings, you can disable unwanted cliffs at the beginning of the game.
• Building disable icon has been replaced.

We released the game soundtrack this week. Also, additional changes in the balance of the middle phase of the game. In both versions:

• Corrected description of the vertical vineyard.
• Winemaking is now 10% faster.
• The capacity of the eco-house has been increased from 18 to 22.
• The cost of many buildings has been adjusted.

New music and little changes to balance of early stages of game. In both versions:

• Added 4 new musical compositions. Fighting music was replaced by two new tracks, which more reflect the game style.
• Trading Portal is using less energy.
• Storage expansion is now much cheaper.
• Changed the foundation variability for modular buildings.
• Banks and offices now require less people and energy, also building prices are reduced.
• "Mist" event blocks the sun and wind less.
• Improvement for water extractors is now cheaper.
• Improvement for matter mine is now cheaper.
• Regular prices for the sale to the orbital station have been increased.
• Recycling plant is now speed up by 40% more.
• Fruit fields are now cheaper.
• Changed the camera shaking when marauders attack.
• Fixed bug with wrong numbers on fine payment button. Real fine payment was different from text.
• Added small timer output near any production.
• The maximum capacity of the market has been reduced twice.

Remaster version:

• Minor graphics fixes.
• Small fixes in the interface.
• Increased max UI size in settings.

The new approach to loans should limit the size of the debt pit, and allows you to automatically, albeit slowly, repay the loan... In both versions:

• Fire stations now also receive water from refrigerators and agricultural drones.
• Credit rate reduced from 0.7% to 0.3% per day.
• The loan mechanics have changed, 0.3% of the loan is paid daily, 0.3% of the loan amount is repaid, so the daily payment is 0.6% of the amount.
• Updated Czech localization.
• Added text on loan terms.
• Added indication of unused points of 3D printing factories.
• The delete key no longer deletes buildings while renaming cliffs.

Remaster version:

• Corrected graphics of the Heart of Hope ... somewhere a laurel wreath has temporarily disappeared.
• Improved fireworks effects.
• Minor graphics fixes.

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/32562111/9a103522d190b5a05ea03e787e55ada350d056ff.jpg Steam Workshop support (remaster version only) is already here. The game's save system is very sensitive to the subscription order from Workshop, the list is filled in the order of subscriptions and has a limit of 27 additional slots. Changing the order in the list may damage your saves. List of changes in both versions:

• The minimum price for water, food and matter has been increased from 3 to 5.
• Printed goods from specialized salon-shops stores can now also be delivered to the warehouse. But the building can also accumulate goods and it will be taken into account in the general consumption statistics.
• Fixed a bug where the underground warehouse was still stolen by marauders.
• Fixed a bug that stopped the construction of some large structures (especially dams)
• Fixed a bug where slots were not restored after demolishing buildings in the orbital station in free build mode.
• Interaction with Steam has been rewritten to support the Workshop.
• Additional optimization performed.
• Minor fixes in the interface.

Remaster version:

• Introduced functionality to support Steam Workshop.
• I have published three public buildings in Workshop.

Cards and badges are now available! A small update is also released… In both versions:

• Added indication of approaching a new event.
• Added support for rendering multithreading. (more efficient use of CPU / GPU is especially noticeable for the remaster version)
• Fixed a bug where lower level drones were still bringing uranium and debris to the portal / bridge / shuttle.

Remaster version:

• The light from the fires is now working properly.
• Manual lighting adjustment now has a sky brightness setting.
• Fixed a bug where the backlight of the construction and lighting of buildings was not displayed under water.

Made small balance changes for the middle and late stages of the game. The parameters of the residential skyscraper have been raised so that it can better compete with modular housing with 8 levels. Also good news is that cards and badges will be available soon. In both versions:

• Added replacement function for modular buildings.
• Growing fruit in one cycle increased from 15 to 17.
• The capacity of residential skyscrapers increased from 250 to 270, aesthetics increased from 4 to 5.
• The capacity of modular housing units has been reduced from 26 to 25, energy consumption has been increased from 4 to 5.
• Fixed a bug when positioning buildings on wall-mounted wind turbines built on cliff extensions.
• Fixed weather effects in screensavers.
• Potentially fixed bug that caused asteroids to accumulate in orbit, which significantly slowed down the game.
• The attack of looters in the normal mode is much weaker at the initial levels of development of the city, and depends better on the level of city growth.

Remaster version:

• The maximum size of the interface in the settings is slightly reduced. (to avoid the interface going beyond the screen)
• Depth of Field effect returned to settings. (disabled by default)
• Tone of night windows fixed (was too blue)
• Shadow quality improved. (as it turned out the best shadows quality was low resolution)
• SSGI exposure to lighting is reduced by 25%, not so bright shadow side during the day.
• The overall post processing has been slightly modified to make the image a bit cooler.
• SSR now also reflects reflections on water and glass.
• Minor graphics fixes.

In both versions:

• Fixed weather effects.
• Fires no longer occur when natural disasters are turned off.

Remaster version:

• Fixed trading portal effects.
• Fixed bug where Motion blur did not turn off.
• Fixed bug when UI size settings were reset every time you run a game.
• Added SSGI quality settings.
• Fixed UI transparency.
• Fog returned in simulation mode.

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/32562111/e6744213001fef9663b39468336012911a41a334.png However, I decided not to make new graphics as a separate release or DLC, but make it as the main version, because it will be hard to support both versions in parallel... At first it seemed that the framerate would be low, but still, the most hard effects can be disabled in settings and then everything seems to work quite quickly.

• Completely updated graphics core, reconfigured lighting, effects.
• Added a new TAA antialiasing method. Works poorly in dynamics, but for static scenes - the best.
• Made a number of small optimizations...
• 3D tv output support is gone.
• You can choose remastered or classic game version when start.
• Mods from older version will not work here. It must be resaved in HDRP.

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/32562111/a218e93a8c1d499ca1fe8f564396759790a0d691.png Ok, this is probably the end… I am also preparing a new release with improved graphic rendering but it can take a long time…

• New building for the lower level Eco-pillar
• New building for defense - Protective field.
• Fixed bug with Heart of Hope when starting a new game if you enable "Complete all researches".

Update 1.19f1

Fixed a bug where an underground warehouse was stolen by marauders.
• Fixed a bug where you could build a cliff extension on a cliff extension...
• Cliff extensions can now be removed.
• Fixed some bugs with sandbox mode.

Update 1.19f2

• Fixed a bug with an underground storage that was counted as places of interest.
• The night spotlight now stops when switching to tourist mode.
• Camera speed in tourist mode increased by 15% (Shift still slows down)
• Added zoom in tourist mode. (left / right mouse button)

Update 1.19f3

• Fixed graphics of fish and seagulls. I didn't notice that they disappear at some point.
• Graphic of trading portal has changed slightly.
• Lighting has been added to the lower level buildings. (they are a little better visible now)

This is all the changes that were planned to be introduced in the project at this stage of development.

• New research and project on cliffs - Heart of Hope.
• New research and project on cliffs - Cliff expansion.
• Marauder attacks in "defense" mode start with a longer time range.
• Defrost capsules now contain not 50 but 70 people. (+800 people in total if you start a new game.)

Update 1.18f1

• fixed bug with incorrect positioning of the Heart of Hope on some cliffs.
• fixed bug with duplication of dam and dome. (Duplicates will be removed when load any savegame)
• fixed drones mechanics, the biggest problem was the engineering hangars production was stuck.

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• New building - Engineering Bureau. Opens 13 of 15(2 more will be added later) additional enhancements for the later stages of the game.
• New building - underground warehouse (opens through the engineering office)
• New building - underground delivery node (opens through the engineering office)
• Among the projects of the engineering bureau: dome, dam, additional space for construction in orbit, earthquake protection and more...
• Base birth rate increased by 25%.
• Fixed bug in displaying energy consumption during night shift.
• Destruction of buildings in sandbox mode does not leave debris.
• Fixed visual effects of wind

Update 1.17f1

• Fixed orchard graphics.
• Fixed a bug where the "complete all research" mode did not start the construction of the dome and dam.
• Fixed a bug where the underground delivery node and drones from the drone station did not participate in the sale of goods.
• A potentially fixed bug with inability to finish building construction.

• Fixed a critical bug on starting a new game.
• The "display people and small drones" setting is now working correctly.
• Wall waterfall and garden cost more and bring more aesthetics, also +1 to the environment.
• The impact of the bus stop on social transport has been reduced.
• The foundation of the modules has been moved from the Social Buildings category to the Business category.
• Lightning rod has been moved from the "Energy" section to the "Safety" section.
• New building - Half-cell vertical solar station.
• Engineering hangar now makes spare parts for undercliff buildings twice as fast (20 instead of 40 seconds), given that most of the time is spent delivering materials.
• Reduced the amount of goods that the factory needs to produce to become a specialized salon-shop. (approximately 150 items less)
• Events are now warned not in 3 but in 2 days.
• Time for some orbital station orders increased by 2 minutes.
• Orbital orders also reward Points of Honor.
• Rest time between disasters reduced from 9 to 7 days.
• Rest time between orbital orders reduced from 3 to 2 days.
• Added 2 new orbital orders for - sale of matter and sale of lettuce and fruit.
• The starting justice level has been doubled so that the theft problem does not interfere with the start of the game.

Update 1.16f2

• Fixed a critical bug that blocked information updates during the construction of new buildings.
• Penalty for failing orbital orders has been reduced by 50%.
• Wall-mounted wind turbines are no longer vulnerable to earthquakes.
• Slightly adjusted parameters of orbital orders.