Constructor news & patch notes

https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28226051/fcb0725dfb68637e7b6118d0d94b282760268204.jpg Dear Constructor fans, We are pleased to announce that Constructor Plus, the sequel to the 2017 version of Constructor, will be releasing at midday on the 27th of May on Steam (PDT timezone). Please visit the store page via this link, or click the widget below to add the game to your wish list if you have not already done so. https://store.steampowered.com/app/898800/ We would like to thank all the loyal fans for their support over the last two years, and as part of this we will have a special bundle that provides a 50% discount on Constructor Plus. We want to make clear that this bundle is intended for existing owners of Constructor (2017). If you do not own Constructor (2017), please instead purchase Constructor Plus on its own as you will otherwise end up paying slightly more for Constructor Plus. Constructor Plus does not require a copy of Constructor (2017) to run on your system To show off the full extent of Constructor Plus’ content, we have a fact sheet that goes into detail on all the new offerings that you can get your mitts on! We hope that fans are as excited for the release as we are, and we cannot wait for everyone to enjoy the game. Thank you, System 3

https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28226051/025595ac1e6c354d9d2119025b001c6a7ede329f.png Hello everyone! How are we all? Before we dive into the rest of the update, we would like to welcome any new fans who have recently joined us due to the Autumn sale - Welcome!!! :) If you are interested in Constructor and still have not bought the game, why not hop, skip, and jump (or just click the links below) over to the Store Page? Do not forget to pick up the second building pack absolutely free, because both the Statute of Liberty and Washington Monument now provide a trickle of income based on visitors! :) https://store.steampowered.com/app/579020/Constructor/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/616150/Constructor_Building_Pack_1__World_Tenant_Buildings/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/616901/Constructor_Building_Pack_2_Made_in_America/

Down With That Sort Of Thing!

But wait, that is not all! After careful consideration we have decided to remove Denuvo from Constructor at this stage, in order that fans who previously objected to Denuvo no longer have a reason to resist getting their foot in the door. If you have previously held off buying the game then why not hop over to the store page and give it a whirl? Coupled with the Autumn sale deals and a lovely weekend ahead. Well, a game or two of Constructor sounds pretty good to us! With that out of the way, there are a few key changes that we would like to discuss in a little more detail below. However, we know your time is precious and with the Autumn sale in full swing who has time to read?! Therefore, as always you may skip straight to the end and peruse the change log at your leisure. :) https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28226051/7de96d0673cd7f645e5d06eaa3acd1eca449175b.jpg Well... that can only mean one thing... the Proper Planning! Update is now live! We previously switched on Cloud Saving earlier due to needing to delay the update. If you do not wish to use it you may opt-out by doing the following: 1. Right-click Constructor in your Steam Library and click "Properties" 2. Click the "Updates" tab 3. Look for the Steam Cloud section at the bottom of the window and click to disable the check-box if it is already checked by default. 4. You may now close the window and Constructor will not back up your saves to the cloud.

Giving More Control, More Of The Time

In this update our main focus was to provide more quality of life improvements so that fans may play the game at their own pace. Critical to this goal was finding a way to give back some of the control of the game to player, especially in cases where people may find that the game gets ahead of them very quickly. Therefore, our biggest change was to completely overhaul how the pause system worked. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28226051/909f9c24fbd81fff08825cc5471748282c978019.gif If you recall the previous pause system, we allowed for some but not all actions. Unfortunately, this had the potential issue of overloading the buffer and so we had considered removing the ability to give orders in pause completely. However, doing this would only further overwhelm people who might have previously relied on the ability to pause, and that would not make for proper planning! We are very happy with how it works now, and we hope that anyone who might have found the game overwhelming at points will feel a little more in control of their game. Do not forget that if you wish to do so, you may rebind the pause button in the options menu to something more comfortable like the space bar. It is almost like tap 'n' go!

Smart Decisions

Obviously, quality of life would not be complete without a few changes to how work teams function. Whilst we do not want to automate every function in the game, we can understand that some of the clicking becomes tedious. In this case, our decision was to automate how the work teams move between the inside and outside of a building depending on the work required. Previously, you would be required to call them inside a building to upgrade the rooms and either wait around whilst they're working or potentially lose precious time whilst they're waiting around inside for you to return. Not anymore. Once a house has been built you can schedule room upgrades, fence work, and have peace of mind knowing that when you return to them they will have completed both jobs without intervention. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28226051/1bd6297c751aa83893705d2ecd23ee86cdc58ece.gif Additionally, if you have built a Gadget Factory you can queue up production and if there is a team available on the site they will move into the factory on their own, allowing you to get back to what matters most - sipping tea or your beverage of choice whilst your master plan comes together... something like that.

AI Wanted More Help

Due to a change we made earlier this year, the Hippy's Street Party became quite effective against the AI such that all you needed was to have one Hippy and a moderately equipped Gangster and you'd be able to take out their HQ with minimal resistance. We liked how this felt on lower difficulties because it helps to ease players into the game a little more, but on higher difficulties it did not make very much sense. Therefore, the AI will be much more likely to respond to their HQ's SOS calls. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28226051/827b27908a13e779429997728d184331c9b67520.gif Hand-in-hand with this change was also the decision to add a modifier for the HQ which reduces the damage that Gangsters deal against it by a moderate amount. This is an area that may be revisited periodically, but we do not want to make too drastic a change in just one update. We have also made a few more changes to its repair logic in order that it can better handle the rapid expansion that higher AI build speeds will bring. Do not worry, you can still change the AI's build speed in Gameplay Options, but we have also now raised the cap to 600%! Finally, blocking the AI's construction sites, especially of buildings it considers high-priority, will not be as effective as before. The AI will now attack and then attempt to chase intruders off the site, and for a small duration after that. This also includes attacking undesirables who, previously, could have just stood around the site and blocked it permanently. This is, of course, going to scale depending on the difficulty.

But We Also Give The Player A Hand

Whilst the AI received a little help to enable it to adjust to some of the changes we had made to it, we are also extending that help to the players. We have added many new hints throughout the game that will provide advice on how to deal with certain situations such as Mr Fixit's flood, a property taken over by Ghosts, but also the functions of certain buildings themselves. There are quite a lot of them, but we have made sure that if you are a veteran of the game that you can disable them by toggling off hints in the Message Options menu. On the other hand, if you wish to see the hints after they have triggered for the third and final time, you may reset the hints in the same screen. Additionally, we have heard your feedback about easier difficulties not being quite so easy and our first pass to address this is to make a lot of hard-coded functions difficulty specific, and give you, the junior builder, a fighting chance. Combined with the new help messages and pause changes you should be well on your way to becoming a successful firm! You can find a full-list of what has been newly made difficulty specific below in the changelog.

Overhauling Stress/Happiness Caused By Buildings

One effect in the game that we had not really used was the passive stress or happiness granting effect that buildings have on each other. In this update, whenever you place buildings that would affect the stress of tenants on that estate, you will see a floating happy face or sad face over each affected home. This also means factories now passively stress out tenants but, to off-set this in the early game, the HQ will provide happiness to houses on the estate. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28226051/4399e09bbc3b80cc8983b6c6721f782e092f3499.gif Additionally, lower levels of house will stress out higher levels of house by a small amount. This means that you can still place houses wherever you like, but the tenants next door may not appreciate living next to a shed. These effects will apply to rival tenants as well.

That's A Wrap...

Well that about wraps things up for the most important changes in this update, but as always you may find the full list of changes below. Please note that the list includes a few additions from the notes we posted on Friday! Enjoy your week! :)

WHAT'S IN THIS UPDATE?

QUALITY OF LIFE CHANGES/NEW FEATURES

• Implemented option to restart the current game. • Implemented ability to change HUD animation speed. • Allow for continuous placement of the same property whilst shift is held allowing you to place multiple buildings of the same type without needing to go through the estate manager multiple times. • Workteams are now smarter and will automatically go between the inside and outside of a home to finish any room upgrades/fence that is in progress. • Workteams will now automatically enter a Gadget Factory if standing in the grounds, and there are currently gadgets waiting to be manufactured. • Added alert sound for "last conflict" notification. • Allow stepping through building lists using < and > keys. Useful to progress through tenant properties by one level at a time. • Players may now change the fences on Undesirable abodes depending on the type of undesirable. This will only be available if you have at least two choices of fence. The default fence will always be available regardless of whether you have unlocked it via the resources. • Players may now change the fence for their Headquarters. • Sheds placed in the grounds of a Gadget Factory provide additional storage for Gadgets (caps at four Sheds). • Sheds placed in the grounds of a Resource Yard provide additional storage for that particular resource (caps at four Sheds). • Added strength factor to fence display in UI - each star represents the number of hits one panel may take before being pulled down. • Save games can be confirmed using the mouse/controller on PC as opposed to just the keyboard. • Added toggle to invert mouse-wheel scrolling of the map. • New hint messages have been added to various areas of the game, and will trigger up to three times (not in the same game) after certain events. You may disable these by toggling "Hide Hints" in the Message Options. • Added View Previous Messages button to mission briefing display on subsequent visits. • Right-click on the time will now revert the game speed to normal speed if it was running at a faster speed. • Monuments such as the Liberty Statue, Washington Monument, and the System 3 Statue will provide a trickle of income based on how many tenants visit them. • Allow full control of game functions in pause mode. • Enable cloud synchronisation of saved games so that settings and saves are accessible across all user's machines.

FIXES

• Implemented relinking of opponent lists when loading a game if any were corrupted, to resolve certain crashes. • Fixed instance where messages for overcrowded prisons would be displayed if prisoners were dropped off at the Housing Authority building. • Fixed memory leak caused by continuous loading of SFX that were not loaded at boot, as a result of changes to the SFX routine for the Switch. • Fixed logic for repeating messages within 30 days so that it works as expected. • Fixed wrong image capture being used if save was cancelled the next time you try to save, or visit a screen which uses the last image taken as a background. • Corrected RMB functionality where it no longer allowed right-clicking the resource icons on the left-hand side to zoom to the relevant building. • Corrected RMB functionality which stopped right-click cancelling out of placing external gadgets. • Fixed characters remaining in frozen state if hypnotised by Clown whilst Clown's Arcade was destroyed. • Fixed instance where Mr Fixit being arrested as his ladder deployed conflicted with his arrested status. • Fixed Council Workers sometimes paving the wrong tile if they were interrupted during the tiling animation. • Fixed recoil animation for laser weapon not correctly resetting to character's default animation in certain situations. • Corrected character videos playing more than once for newly created characters when video mode "Once" was selected.

AI CHANGES

• AI will now reassign repairmen shortly after they are removed from an estate as a result of being knocked out - a companion change to go with the previous changes in this area. • Decreased delay of AI assignment routine for repairmen to 4 months down from 8. • AI no longer immediately build/rebuild their Police Station. It is instead put on a timer that scales inversely with the difficulty. • AI must have a resource of the correct type built in order to build more buildings. • AI will protect high priority building sites such as the now required resource yards more effectively. • AI defenders on building sites/completed sites will chase intruders a short distance. • AI must now have a functioning resource yard before they can continue building structures that require that resource. • Take-over hits for AI fences reduced by 1-2 depending on the fence type. • Made adjustments to SOS logic so that the Street Party + Gangster combination is not quite so effective, but is still a valid strategy against the AI. • AI repair logic now runs in two stages, and AI frequency for creating repairmen is dictated by difficulty. Easy - 120 days/repairman Normal - 120 days/repairman Hard - 60 days/repairman Original - 90 days/repairman

MISCELLANEOUS CHANGES

• Auto-Save now runs in a separate thread and will no longer cause the game to hitch. • Spooky The Ghost is no longer able to block work sites. • Unlinked Police Station so that it no longer only unlocks when one of the original three level two houses is built to resolve an issue where only building DLC level two homes did not unlock it, and later caused it to disappear from the list until one of the original level two homes were built. • Removed Denuvo Anti-tamper. • New option menu "Config" for certain configuration options. • Cockroaches now have names. • Increased favours per gangster converted at HQ to 3 on Hard Difficulty. • Increased Prison capacity to 5 prisoners. • HQ button changed to display the colour of the team you are playing. • Adjusted font for character names to compensate for longer names. • Additional door-knock voices added for the following tenants (triggered by clicking on rival homes): * Slob * Greaser * Major • Clown molotov explosion now much more spectacular. • Improved flooded building destruction sequence. • Repair Kit no longer expires. • Added new particles for Psycho Chainsaw attack, and Foreman takeover. • Gangsters no longer target tenants that enter the grounds of Parks. • Ordering multiple internal gadgets no longer allows creation of multiple tenants to collect the gadgets. Instead, any internal gadgets beyond the first two ordered will be picked up in subsequent trips. • All buildings affect tenant stress. A green, happy face, will show above houses when the effect is positive (Parks, Schools etc). A red, unhappy face, will show above houses when the effect is negative (Prisons, Undesirables etc). • Lower level houses negatively impact the happiness of tenants in higher level houses. This is only a minor effect of -5 happiness per level of difference. • Added faint black outline to all characters to reduce blending in large groups. • Rebalanced Lounge effect so that positive stress modifiers are a little more pronounced. • Removed requirement of Deluxe Rooms in Beach House for final stage of Basic Job. • Story missions will unlock sequentially (if you have not previously completed them) but you need only attempt a mission to unlock the next one. • Story missions will now display the number of times the mission was attempted. • Emergency fence repair of undesirable abodes will only restore the original fence if it has not been completely replaced with either the destroyed fence panels or the takeover barriers. • Gangster weapons deal slightly reduced damage against HQs. • Added currently selected estate highlight when purchasing/viewing estates. • Added floating icon above buildings that are being picketed by a Hippy. • Various balancing functions added to make certain aspects of the AI/game relate to difficulty better. This includes: • Frequency of response to intruders on AI building sites • Earliest time the AI can build its Police Station • Earliest time it can rebuild its Police Station after it is destroyed • How likely it is to build on another team's estate if "Build On Enemy Estates" is on • How often it will send its undesirables to harass another team • How often it builds undesirable abodes • How effectively it responds to a player's Street Party when attempting to defend its HQ • How strong a player's own characters are against other teams (only applies to easy(100% bonus dmg) and normal(50% bonus damage) which is intended to make things a tad easier for new fans. • How many buildings a player can take over without the AI retaliating (only applies to easy(2)/normal(1)) • How often the AI attempts to take over another team's properties • How often the AI creates its own repairmen • Improved Wood Yard's Tin Roof. • Dog Kennel no longer requires Brick Factory. Special thanks to Areinha for providing a translation of the notes for our PT-BR fans! :)

PT-BR

Novas funcionalidades/Mudanças de qualidades

• Implementada a opção de recomeçar o jogo atual. • Implementada a habilidade de mudar a velocidade de animação da HUD. • Agora é possível colocar a mesma propriedade novamente enquanto a tecla SHIFT estiver pressionada, evitando ter que abrir a tela de construções múltiplas vezes para selecionar a mesma propriedade para colocar e construir. • Times de trabalho são mais inteligentes e irão para dentro das propriedades ou mudar para o lado de fora, caso exista algum trabalho interno na casa para ser feito ou alguma construção de cerca a ser realizada. • Times de trabalho irão entrar numa fábrica de dispositivos automaticamente caso: estejam do lado de fora dela e existam dispositivos esperando para serem construídos. • Adicionado um alerta sonoro para a notificação de "último conflito". • Agora é possível circular pela lista de construções usando as teclas “<” e “>”. Útil para progredir através das casas em um nível por vez. • Os jogadores podem mudar a cerca das casas dos indesejáveis, dependendo do tipo de indesejável. Esta opção apenas será disponibilizada caso mais de um tipo de cerca esteja disponível. A cerca padrão estará sempre disponível independentemente do que o jogador liberou via recursos. • Os jogadores podem mudar a cerca de seu Quartel General. • Galpões pequenos colocados nos jardins de uma fábrica de dispositivos irão providenciar espaço extra para armazenamento de dispositivos (máximo de 4 galpões). • Galpões pequenos colocados nos jardins de um depósito de recursos irão providenciar espaço extra para armazenagem do recurso específico (máximo de 4 galpões). • Adicionado o fator de força para as cercas mostradas no UI - cada estrela representa o número de acertos que um painel precisa levar antes de cair. • Jogos salvos podem ser confirmados usando o mouse/controle no PC, ao contrário de apenas com o teclado. • Adicionada a opção para inverter o scroll da roda do mouse quando usada no mapa. • Novas mensagens com dicas foram adicionadas em diversas áreas do jogo, e irão se ativar até 3 vezes (não na mesma partida) depois de certos eventos. Você pode desabilitar estas mensagens na opção "Esconder Dicas" no menu de Mensagens. • Adicionado o botão de “Ver Mensagens Anteriores” nas instruções da missão em visitas subsequentes. • Clicar com o botão direito no tempo irá reverter a velocidade do jogo para o normal, caso o mesmo esteja em uma velocidade maior. • Monumentos, tais como a Estátua da Liberdade, Monumento de Washington e a Estátua da System 3 irão providenciar uma pequena renda baseada no número de visitas dos inquilinos. • Permitido o controle total das funções do jogo enquanto o mesmo estiver pausado. • Habilitada a sincronização na nuvem dos jogos salvos, desta forma todos os jogos salvos e opções do jogo serão acessíveis em todos os computadores dos usuários.

Consertos

• Implementada o religamento das listas dos oponentes quando um jogo for carregado caso alguma esteja corrompida, para resolver certos crashes. • Consertada a instância onde as mensagens de uma prisão cheia seriam mostradas caso um preso fosse solto na construção da Autoridade Habitacional. • Consertado o vazamento de memória causada pelo constante recarregamento de uma SFX que não foi carregada de forma correta durante o boot, como resultado das mudanças das rotinas do SFX para o Switch. • Consertada a lógica para repetição de mensagens de 30 em 30 dias, para que assim ela funcione de forma correta. • Consertada a falha na captura de imagens sendo usada caso um salvamento de jogo fosse cancelado, ou uma tela fosse visitada que use a última imagem salva como plano de fundo. • Corrigida a funcionalidade RMB onde não se permitia mais clicar com o botão direito do mouse nos ícones de recursos no lado esquerdo para dar zoom na estrutura referente. • Corrigida a funcionalidade RMB que fazia parar a opção de cancelar a opção de colocar um dispositivo. • Consertada a instância onde os personagens ficavam congelados caso estivessem sob a hipnose do palhaço e o Fliperama do palhaço fosse destruído. • Consertada a referência dos trabalhadores do Conselho que pavimentavam um espaço errado caso sua animação de pavimentação fosse interrompida. • Consertado o recuo nas animações da arma Lazer não sendo propriamente resetadas para o padrão do personagem em certas situações. • Reparada a instância onde o Mr Fixit, caso fosse preso com sua escada sendo colocada, geraria um conflito com o seu estado de preso. • Corrigido o problema que fazia o video dos personagens recém-criados serem ativados mais de uma vez mesmo quando a opção de vídeo estivesse em "apenas uma vez".

Mudanças na IA

• A IA irá redesignar os reparadores depois de um tempo para o lote do qual eles foram removidos por resultado de serem nocauteados - uma mudança companheira feita para seguir com as outras mudanças nesta área. • Diminuída a espera da IA na rotina de designação de reparadores para 4 meses ao invés de 8. • A IA não constrói/reconstrói imediatamente a sua Delegacia de Polícia. A prioridade é colocada sob um timer que escala inversamente com a dificuldade. • A IA deve possuir o recurso correto para poder construir mais estruturas. • A IA irá proteger suas estruturas de alta prioridade de forma mais eficiente, tais como as estruturas de recursos. • As unidades que estiverem protegendo um sítio de construção/sítios completos irão perseguir os intrusos por uma pequena distância. • A IA deve agora possuir um depósito de recursos funcional para que possa continuar construindo a estrutura que precise deste determinado recurso. • Os acertos por uma tomada hostil na IA foram reduzidas em 1-2 dependendo do tipo de cerca. • Feito alguns ajustes para a lógica SOS a fim de que a combinação de uma festa de rua + Gangsters não seja mais tão eficiente contra a IA, porém para que seja ainda uma estratégia válida. • A lógica de reparo da IA agora roda em dois estágios e a frequência com a qual a IA cria novos reparadores funciona de forma relacionada a dificuldade. Fácil - 150 dias/reparadores Médio - 120 dias/reparadores Difícil - 60 dias/reparadores Original - 90 dias/reparadores

Mudanças Variadas/Miscelânea

• Salvamentos automáticos são feitos em um bloco separado e não irão mais fazer com que haja pequenas pausas no jogo. • Spooky O Fantasma não consegue mais bloquear os sítios de construção. • Desvinculada a Delegacia de Polícia para que agora ela não seja desbloqueada quando uma das casas do nível 2 seja construída a fim de eliminar um problema onde as casas das DLC's não estavam liberando a construção da Delegacia de Polícia, e posteriormente fazendo com que sumisse da lista até que uma das casas originais do nível 2 fossem construídas. • Novo menu de opção "Config" para certas configurações de opções. • Baratas possuem nomes agora. • Aumentado o número de favores adquiridos em uma conversão para gangster no QG para 3 na dificuldade Difícil. • Aumentado o limite das prisões para 5 prisioneiros cada. • O botão do QG foi alterado para que agora mostre a cor do time que você esteja jogando. • Ajustada a fonte para o nome dos personagens para compensar nomes muito grandes. • Vozes adicionais para quando uma casa inimiga for clicada, para os seguintes inquilinos: * Desleixados * Latinos * Militares • O Molotov dos Palhaços causa uma explosão ainda mais espetacular agora. • Melhorada a sequência de destruição de uma estrutura inundada. • Os Kits de Reparo não expiram mais. • Adicionada novas partículas aos ataques de serra elétrica do Psicopata e das tomadas hostis do Mestre de Obras. • Gangsters não atacam mais os inquilinos que entram dentro da área de um parque. • Encomendar múltiplos dispositivos internos não causa mais a criação de múltiplos inquilinos para coleta-los. Ao invés disso, qualquer dispositivo requisitado depois dos dois primeiros serão coletados na ordem do pedido, em viagens subsequentes. • Todas as estruturas afetam o estresse dos inquilinos. Uma carinha feliz da cor verde será mostrada sob as casas quando o efeito for positivo (Escolas, Parques e etc). Uma carinha triste da cor vermelha será mostrada quando o efeito for negativo (Prisões, Indesejáveis etc). • Casas de níveis inferiores irão ter um impacto negativo nos inquilinos em casas de níveis superiores. Este efeito é pequeno, no valor de -5 de felicidade por nível de diferença. • Adicionado um pequeno contorno preto para todos os personagens a fim de reduzir o misto visual em grandes grupos. • O efeito do descanso foi refeito a fim de mostrar valores mais significantes e positivos para o estresse do inquilino. • Foi removido o requerimento de "Cômodos Luxuosos" na Casa De Praia no estágio final da missão Trabalho Básico. • Missões de história serão desbloqueadas de forma subsequente (caso você não as tenha terminado antes) mas você precisa apenas tentar a missão para desbloquear a próxima. • Missões de história irão mostrar agora quantas vezes a mesma foi tentada. • O reparo de emergência nas cercas das estruturas dos Indesejáveis irá apenas restaurar a cerca original caso a mesma não tenha sido completamente substituída pela cerca destruída ou pelos painéis de tomada hostil. • As armas dos Gangsters agora dão um pouco menos de dano aos QG's. • Foi adicionado um pequeno brilho ao Lote selecionado no modo de planejamento/compra de lotes. • Adicionado um pequeno contorno preto para todos os personagens a fim de reduzir o misto visual em grandes grupos. • O efeito do descanso foi refeito a fim de mostrar valores mais significantes e positivos para o estresse do inquilino. • Foi removido o requerimento de "Cômodos Luxuosos" na Casa De Praia no estágio final da missão Trabalho Básico. • Missões de história serão desbloqueadas de forma subsequente (caso você não as tenha terminado previamente) mas você precisa apenas tentar a missão para desbloquear a próxima. • Missões de história irão mostrar agora quantas vezes a mesma foi tentada. • O reparo de emergência nas cercas das estruturas dos Indesejáveis irá apenas restaurar a cerca original, caso a mesma não tenha sido completamente substituída pela cerca destruída ou pelos painéis de tomada hostil. • As armas dos Gangsters agora dão um pouco menos de dano aos QG's. • Foi adicionado um pequeno brilho ao Lote selecionado no modo de planejamento/compra de lotes. • Adicionado um ícone flutuante para as estruturas que estiverem sob efeito de piquete de um hippy. • Vários balanceamentos nas funções para tornar certos aspectos da IA/jogo relacionado a dificuldade mais eficientes. Isto inclui: • Frequência de resposta a intrusos nos sítios de construção da IA. • A IA pode construir uma Delegacia de Polícia mais cedo. • Menos tempo para que a IA possa reconstruir sua Delegacia de Polícia caso seja destruída. • A probabilidade que a IA pode construir em lotes de outros times caso a opção "Construir em lotes inimigos" esteja ativada. • A frequência que a IA irá mandar seus indesejáveis para incomodar os outros times. • Quão frequente a IA irá construir as estruturas dos indesejáveis. • Quão efetiva ela irá responder a uma Festa de Rua caso o jogador tente usá-la para atacar o QG das IA's. • Quão forte as unidades do jogador são contra os outros times(apenas se aplica às dificuldades Fácil(100% de bônus de dano) e Normal(50% de bônus de dano)) o que é intencional para que o jogo se torne mais fácil para novos jogadores. • Quantas estruturas o jogador pode tomar via tomada hostil sem que a IA aja em retaliação (apenas se aplica às dificuldades Fácil (2) e Normal (1)) • Quão frequente a IA irá tentar efetuar uma tomada hostil nas estruturas do jogador. • Quão frequente a IA irá criar seus próprios reparadores. • O telhado da fábrica de madeira foi melhorado, chega de telhado de latão - System 3

https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28226051/20cb37335e22bc818e43bb076b6f138ab156f6df.png Please note that the Proper Planning! Update went live on November 23. You may view the announcement here. :) Hello everyone! How was your weekend? We know that today was meant to be when we updated everyone with the new Proper Planning! Update, but over the weekend we encountered a few critical bugs which we need to resolve. We've called in Mr Fixit and his crack team of fumigators who can surely only make things better... so fingers crossed. Humour aside, we expect the delay to be for a short while, but hopefully not too long as we know that some of the new quality of life changes to be introduced in this update will be quite helpful to those who wish to play the game at their own pace. As promised, however, we will still be switching on Cloud Saving for Windows. If you do not wish to use it then you may opt-out by doing the following: 1. Right-click Constructor in your Steam Library and click "Properties" 2. Click the "Updates" tab 3. Look for the Steam Cloud section at the bottom of the window and click to disable the check-box if it is already checked by default. 4. You may now close the window and Constructor will not back up your saves to the cloud. We apologise for the delay, but we hope that you will understand why it was necessary to do so. As soon as we are satisfied that it is in good order again we will make it live for everyone! :) Kindly, System 3

https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28226051/349f6b986d09d410818e36a7adc806f67b11e579.png Hello everyone! How are we all? :) Firstly, it goes without saying that the update does not go live just yet - a little more time. However, we thought as the update is not too far off, Monday to be specific, that we let you in on the secret of what will be changing. Some of the recurring feedback that we receive is that the game simply gets ahead of the average fan, and as such becomes very difficult to manage multiple tasks without feeling overwhelmed. We considered how best to handle this and, whilst it did require a lot of changes, we have settled on what is essentially a real-time with pause system. What does this mean for you? If ever you feel swamped, or just want to feel like you're in control more so than usual, simply press the P key or the key to which you have mapped pause. Whilst paused you will be able perform every action you'd normally perform, but in your own time! Now that makes for some proper planning. In addition, we wanted to look at how we could cut down on some of the additional management. It's never fun when you're in the zone, you've got all these wonderful buildings going up, and then you're needing to manually send work teams between the inside and outside of a property multiple times. Therefore, whenever work is in progress and a work team is standing in the grounds of a building, they will complete all work on that house without requiring you to babysit them. This will allow you to queue up multiple houses, send the work teams over, and then go off and do something else without worrying that they're just standing around instead of going inside and finishing off the rest of the work! We have also added many new hint messages that will appear throughout the game to point you in the correct direction during some of the more confusing moments, or as a way of just giving you a quick tip. For example, if a house has been visited by Mr Fixit a message will appear (after a delay) explaining how to fix whatever issue it is that he has caused. We appreciate that these messages may not be very useful for veterans of the game, and as such they will trigger after a momentary delay such that if you know how to solve the problem you will not need to ever see the message. A full announcement covering everything else is to go live Monday. Enjoy your weekend! :)

QUALITY OF LIFE CHANGES/NEW FEATURES

• Allow full control of game functions in pause mode. • Implemented option to restart the current game. • Implemented ability to change HUD animation speed. • Allow for continuous placement of the same property whilst shift is held allowing you to place multiple buildings of the same type without needing to go through the estate manager multiple times. • Workteams are now smarter and will automatically go between the inside and outside of a home to finish any room upgrades/fence that is in progress. • Workteams will now automatically enter a Gadget Factory if standing in the grounds, and there are currently gadgets waiting to be manufactured. • Added alert sound for "last conflict" notification. • Allow stepping through building lists using < and > keys. Useful to progress through tenant properties by one level at a time. • Players may now change the fences on Undesirable abodes depending on the type of undesirable. This will only be available if you have at least two choices of fence. The default fence will always be available regardless of whether you have unlocked it via the resources. • Players may now change the fence for their Headquarters. • Sheds placed in the grounds of a Gadget Factory provide additional storage for Gadgets (caps at four Sheds). • Sheds placed in the grounds of a Resource Yard provide additional storage for that particular resource (caps at four Sheds). • Added strength factor to fence display in UI - each star represents the number of hits one panel may take before being pulled down. • Save games can be confirmed using the mouse/controller on PC as opposed to just the keyboard. • Added toggle to invert mouse-wheel scrolling of the map. • New hint messages have been added to various areas of the game, and will trigger up to three times (not in the same game) after certain events. You may disable these by toggling "Hide Hints" in the Message Options. • Added View Previous Messages button to mission briefing display on subsequent visits. • Right-click on the time will now revert the game speed to normal speed if it was running at a faster speed. • Monuments such as the Liberty Statue, Washington Monument, and the System 3 Statue will provide a trickle of income based on how many tenants visit them. • Enable cloud synchronisation of saved games so that settings and saves are accessible across all user's machines.

FIXES

• Implemented relinking of opponent lists when loading a game if any were corrupted, to resolve certain crashes. • Fixed instance where messages for overcrowded prisons would be displayed if prisoners were dropped off at the Housing Authority building. • Fixed memory leak caused by continuous loading of SFX that were not loaded at boot, as a result of changes to the SFX routine for the Switch. • Fixed logic for repeating messages within 30 days so that it works as expected. • Fixed wrong image capture being used if save was cancelled the next time you try to save, or visit a screen which uses the last image taken as a background. • Corrected RMB functionality where it no longer allowed right-clicking the resource icons on the left-hand side to zoom to the relevant building. • Corrected RMB functionality which stopped right-click cancelling out of placing external gadgets. • Fixed characters remaining in frozen state if hypnotised by Clown whilst Clown's Arcade was destroyed. • Fixed Council Workers sometimes paving the wrong tile if they were interrupted during the tiling animation. • Fixed recoil animation for laser weapon not correctly resetting to character's default animation in certain situations.

AI CHANGES

• AI will now reassign repairmen shortly after they are removed from an estate as a result of being knocked out - a companion change to go with the previous changes in this area. • Decreased delay of AI assignment routine for repairmen to 4 months down from 8. • AI no longer immediately build/rebuild their Police Station. It is instead put on a timer that scales inversely with the difficulty. • AI must have a resource of the correct type built in order to build more buildings. • AI will protect high priority building sites such as the now required resource yards more effectively. • AI defenders on building sites/completed sites will chase intruders a short distance. • AI must now have a functioning resource yard before they can continue building structures that require that resource. • Take-over hits for AI fences reduced by 1-2 depending on the fence type. • Made adjustments to SOS logic so that the Street Party + Gangster combination is not quite so effective, but is still a valid strategy against the AI.

MISCELLANEOUS CHANGES

• Auto-Save now runs in a separate thread and will no longer cause the game to hitch. • Spooky The Ghost is no longer able to block work sites. • Unlinked Police Station so that it no longer only unlocks when one of the original three level two houses is built to resolve an issue where only building DLC level two homes did not unlock it, and later caused it to disappear from the list until one of the original level two homes were built. • New option menu "Config" for certain configuration options. • Cockroaches now have names. • Increased favours per gangster converted at HQ to 3 on Hard Difficulty. • Increased Prison capacity to 5 prisoners. • HQ button changed to display the colour of the team you are playing. • Adjusted font for character names to compensate for longer names. • Additional door-knock voices added for the following tenants (triggered by clicking on rival homes): * Slob * Greaser * Major • Clown molotov explosion now much more spectacular. • Improved flooded building destruction sequence. • Repair Kit no longer expires. • Added new particles for Psycho Chainsaw attack, and Foreman takeover. • Gangsters no longer target tenants that enter the grounds of Parks. • Ordering multiple internal gadgets no longer allows creation of multiple tenants to collect the gadgets. Instead, any internal gadgets beyond the first two ordered will be picked up in subsequent trips. • All buildings affect tenant stress. A green, happy face, will show above houses when the effect is positive (Parks, Schools etc). A red, unhappy face, will show above houses when the effect is negative (Prisons, Undesirables etc). • Lower level houses negatively impact the happiness of tenants in higher level houses. This is only a minor effect of -5 happiness per level of difference. - System 3

https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28226051/772111802b126be882da4ec38cf76d0f38c9913f.png Hello everyone. How are we all today? We have pushed a quick update to supplement the main Handing You The Keys! Update. If you have not yet read the previous announcement you may find it via this handy link: https://steamcommunity.com/games/579020/announcements/detail/1687044125592587447 As this is a companion patch, its purpose is to supplement the changes that went live with the most recent update. This will generally range from fixing any issues that did not have time to be addressed, or pushing certain changes now rather than waiting for the next major update.

Supplementary Changes

• Added RMB functionality to all screens to allow easy exiting. Certain screens already have RMB functionality for moving characters in the world which means RMB will not exit the screen. • Added RMB to step backwards through certain lists such as Scenario/Map. • Tenants will now fetch gadgets when only one use left rather than waiting until they run out completely. • Fixed a conflict between tutorial and previous change which stopped missions overwriting current game settings. • Cooldown for undesirable abilities now has a maximum cap of 300 days. • Cooldown for undesirable abilities now increases at a rate of 50 days per use, down from 100 days per use. The first instance of the cooldown is still 100 days. We hope you enjoy the rest of your week! :) :lovekami_heart: System 3

https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28226051/82158f2b49f795a00208872c85a705b5e2073ef3.png Hello once more, wonderful fans of Constructor. BrightPaw here with another announcement. That's right, in approximately... now your game should be handily updating itself to the new Handing You The Keys! Update. Oh, and how could I forget... How is everyone on this fine day? As most of the update is self-explanatory, a lot of the information presented below will be in what I am hoping will be considered 'bite-sized' pieces. However, if any part is unclear please feel free to ask about whatever might be confusing you because as usual we're here to build walls of text. Literary! Seriously, though, there is a lot of information to cover so strap yourselves in... and do not feed the tenants. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28226051/0b4275b27dc2a36461c22fefd83c5c1bfd11daff.png As with the last few patches we are continuing to add more quality of life improvements with how certain information is presented within the boundaries of the current systems. This is currently an ongoing area of improvement. Three key changes to make it a little easier to keep track of a few things at a glance are highlighted in the three GIFs below. Additional Summary Information (Remember that right-clicking buildings will bring up this information panel.) The ability to right-click on a building and view more information about it is something that we like, and we believe that more people should use it if they aren't already! To improve this we have added the ability to see at a glance several more key bits of information:

• If the Tenant is a Super Tenant.
• The Profit (or Loss) made from selling the property in its current state.
• The %Rent that you, as the player, force on your tenant.

https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28226051/8757fee956170110536eabdbf3db08a9e06d03d4.gif Tweaks to Residential Manager The purpose of the Residential Manager has always been to view your properties at a glance and, if you so desire, immediately jump inside them wherever you might be on the map. The tweaks here add the %Rent as well as showing a handy icon if the property is automatically replacing tenants. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28226051/8fe45c3aba1089a386a49243914a58a70db34048.gif Auto-replacement of Internal Gadgets Don't like micromanaging the replacement of internal gadgets? We have heard you loud and clear. As part of this update we are also introducing the newly implemented Internal Gadget Autoreplacer 3000™ available at your nearest Constructor update. Be aware that as with Autoreplacement of tenants, this feature has its own associated cost. In this case, you will first need to install a computer into the home so that the tenants inside can keep track of their own gadget orders. Just be sure that once you have installed the computer that you mark each gadget you want to be automatically replaced! Each gadget replaced in this manner will also incur a small fee - tenants are a bit fussy about having to take care of themselves, you see... The general purpose of this feature is to allow you to continue to micro-manage things early in the game when finances are an issue, but as you begin to build up a sizeable portfolio you will be able to automate the replacement of gadgets. Combined with the automatic replacement of tenants released last update, it should cut down on a lot of the late game micromanagement if you so desire. Below is another handy little GIF that will walk you through some of the essential things to know about the feature. This also includes a look at the new stacking icons which will always be a constant reminder at a glance. Nifty! https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28226051/6f9d204c59ac078904ee8d650621a0c284579ff9.gif https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28226051/fad2ad0b568b06a56dfaf3ede28c260dfc2ac12b.png As you have no doubt established from the title, and the pre-patch announcement that was posted previously, we are now happy to say that you can set up the shortcuts to keys that suit you. Want WASD camera control? You got it. Want to pause when you press space bar? Go ahead. Want to have absolutely no keybindings at all? Well, it is certainly not advised! Of course, such a configuration is possible. To ensure that you memorise each button we have created a handy dummy UI that displays the UI as you would see it in the game. This enables a simple interface where you can click the icon and rebind it - knowing full well what you have bound is always handy! For certain functions not normally visible during gameplay we have placed those buttons in the middle of the screen so that you can rebind them. Each button has a handy tool-tip to explain the purpose of the icon your cursor might currently be over. It is important to note that when rebinding command card shortcuts, that each of those are universally used regardless of the character or building you might have selected. Still confused? Here is a handy GIF. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28226051/7a2d66cb138d5b8a5e5cb0b608734c050ee04222.gif https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28226051/efb4b8f59b91f399d1c9eae780d4cf2ecf1cee4a.png The update also includes the most recent localisations for all of the text that has been put into the game over the last few updates. This, of course, includes the mission translations for each language in the game. We want to thank everyone for their patience whilst the translations were being worked on, and we hope that the game has become just that little bit more comfortable for you to play. However, please be aware that text associated with this particular update for features such as the gadget auto-replacement have not yet been translated. Czech translations for key remapping are also not complete and will need to be added in at a later date. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28226051/1380dae37a5b3a88bf940d2e683b6cb91fc7d022.png As part of the latest update we have also improved the display scaling utilised by the game. The intended function is that regardless of your desktop's resolution, the game should now scale to it properly and look as good as it would if you viewed it at its native 1920x1080. Part of this also includes a fix to the game sometimes failing to ALT + TAB back in which we know will be a welcome fix for those who love to charge high rent, terrorise estates, and watch a show or two in the background. :fhappy: https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28226051/a2cc82113962cb9386368de3907c172a06963dbb.png To all Constructor fans, We have had enough of you blocking our construction sites, and we will begin to fight back against you if your men are detected blocking our construction sites. We have also improved our efficiency routines and will no longer process one action per production cycle when multiple AIs are present in a single game. We are faster. We are . We are AI. What did the human say to the AI? Please do not destroy me! Right, well that was a bit uncalled for... It's right, though. We have adjusted the routines for AIs so that when multiple AIs are present in a game they will process more actions per production cycle. This should lead to more consistent performance from multiple AIs. Previously, they might buy land, and then wait a very long time before placing a building on it. However, now when an AI buys land it will attempt to place a property on it shortly after. Of course, the biggest impact on the speed of the AI setting up its towns will always be linked to the Build Speed located in Gameplay Options. Experiment a little and step outside of your comfort zone.

Okay, Blah Blah BrightPaw. Cut To The Change!

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Magical Changelog of Change.

New Features and Quality of Life Changes

• Players may now remap the various shortcuts to a key of their choice. • Implementation of localised text for various tooltips and options. • The volume of various annoying sound effects has been rebalanced. • Certain sound effects of the same type will play each subsequent one at a quieter volume if they occur simultaneously. • Conversion numbers are also displayed within the HQ datascreen rather than as part of a tool-tip. If not enough men exist for a conversion, the number will flash. • You can now flag gadgets to be automatically replaced by the tenant if they run out but this will cost you more. A computer will also need to be installed in the home. • Icons above houses now stack so that you can see complaints, room upgrades in progress, gadgets on backorder as well as the production type of the house. • The gadget factory now also indicates if there is a backorder on gadgets which tenants want to auto collect. • House info display now shows a Profit/Loss summary based on how the amount of profit you would make from selling the home, or the loss you incur as a result of the sale. • House info display now includes (if relevant) information on the type of super tenant inside the property. • House info display includes the %rent uplift so that you can see at a glance how much additional rent is being paid. • Tenant summary screen now displays the %rent uplift. • Tenant summary screen now displays whether or not the home has auto-replacement of tenants enabled. • Leaderboard can now be toggled between All and Friends. • All voiceovers are now linked to the Voices master volume. • You now receive between $50 and $100 for each Zombie or Cockroach that you kill. These are rounded to the nearest whole $10. Thrifty!

AI Changes

• Multiple AI teams can carry out multiple actions in a given production cycle. Previously, they would wait until the new cycle which slowed them down a lot. • AI teams now attack, after a duration, intruders that are blocking their building sites. This is linked to difficulty, so easier difficulties will require more of their men to be present on-site before they will attack. • Corrected AI routine causing knocked out/dead repairmen to be reassigned to a new estate if the estate they were on had none left.

Fixes and Improvements

• Improved display scaling so that the game should now correctly scale to your display resolution. • AI route finding has been improved and characters should no longer get stuck, especially noticeable for the jungle levels. • Fixed an issue with auto-replacement of tenants where the birth rate was not resetting. • Fixed an issue where a rampaging Psycho that shut down a building site would disrupt knocked out/dead characters on the site, causing them to walk on the spot. • Gangsters are no longer released early and able to be controlled if you run out of Mob favours. • Gangsters that are released from Prison whilst you are out of favours with the Mob will no longer allow you to control them until you have regained favour. • Fixed a crash related to Thug Street Fight ability targeting Thugs which were either arrested, or in the process of being arrested. • Fixed an issue with Mr Fixit being arrested just as his ladder deployed causing him to become unresponsive. • Corrected Radar not reappearing if leaving an enemy building site with your last character. • Leaderboards can now be navigated with the cursor keys or page up/page down. • Loading missions no longer changes classic mode settings. • Allow resetting of DirectX if screen is reset to correct instances where the game would no longer display when alt-tabbed.

Miscellaneous Changes

• The maximum Mob Loan has been adjusted for each difficulty. - Easy = $200,000 (up from $50,000) - Normal = $160,000 (down from $200,000) - Difficult = $120,000 (down from $200,000) - Original = $80,000 (up from $50,000) • Cows, sheep, and even spooky ghosts have been added to every level similar to Greenfields. This does not affect saves. • Background music will fade out if Movie volume slider is set to 0. Handy if you prefer to just listen to the music, and do not care for the audio that plays inside buildings. • Corrected missing road tile on Riverside. • Zombies have been switched to use player colours, and have been given their own names. Bow down to Nom Nom Nom the Zombie.

Mission Changes

• Localised text for each mission has now been implemented. • Drowning In Debt Stage 4 now only checks for the absence of yellow team buildings on the assigned estates to better match the text. • Added flavour audio which sometimes plays when revisiting the briefing of a mission.

Russian Changelog - Thanks to the wonderful Setverg!

Новые фишки и изменение старых Новые фишки и изменение старых • Игроки теперь могут переназначать горячие клавиши. • Наконец-то перевели различные подсказки и опции. • Разобрались с бардаком в звуковых эффектах. • Ввели систему затухания звуковых эффектов, если они происходят одновременно и одинаковы. • Соотношения конвертации жителей, рабочих и прочих также отображаются в Основном окне Штаба, а не как часть подсказки. Если для конвертации недостаточно людей, число будет мигать. • Теперь Вы можете пометить гаджеты, которые будут автоматически заменены арендатору, если они закончатся, но это будет дороже, и в доме должен быть уже установлен компьютер. • Иконки над домами теперь складываются в стопку (как я понял - прим. стврг), что Вы можете видеть жалобы, модернизации комнат, гаджеты в ожидании, а также что производит дом - людей, рабочих и т.п. • Теперь фабрика гаджетов также указывает, есть ли оборудование в ожидании, которое арендаторы хотят автоматически установить себе в дом. • Отображение информации о доме теперь так же содержит соотношение прибыли / убытка, основанную на том, какую сумму прибыли или убытка вы получите продав этот дом. • Отображение информации о доме теперь включает (если необходимо) информацию о типе супер арендатора внутри дома • В информации дома так же показывается текущий процент арендной платы. • Сводный экран арендатора теперь отображает % арендной платы. • Сводный экран арендатора теперь показывает, включена ли в доме автоматическая замена арендаторов. • Теперь Leaderboard можно переключать между «Все» и «Друзья». • Все озвучки теперь связаны с показателем громкости Голоса. • Теперь вы получаете от 50 до 100 долларов за каждого зомби или таракана, которых вы убиваете. Они округлены до ближайшей 10ки баксов. "Передергивая винчестер" - Экономика должна быть экономной. Изменения AI • Несколько команд AI могут выполнять несколько действий в данном производственном цикле. Раньше они ждали нового цикла, который их сильно замедлял. (Походу ИИ теперь стал еще жестче - прим.стврг) • Команды ИИ теперь атакуют, по прошествии времени, злоумышленников, которые блокируют их стройки. Это зависит от выставленной сложности игры, поэтому на легкой сложности нужно будет загнать больше народу на участок перед тем как компьютер начнет атаку. • Исправлен ​​баг с нокаутированным/мертвым ремонтником, ИИ пытался назначить такого ремонтника на обслуживание дома, что приводило к отсутствию ремонтника на участке. Исправления и улучшения • Улучшено масштабирование дисплея, чтобы игра теперь корректно масштабировалась до текущего разрешения экрана. • Поиск маршрута AI улучшен, и персонажи больше не должны застревать, особенно заметно для уровней джунглей. • Исправлена ​​проблема с автоматической заменой арендаторов, где рождаемость не была сброшена. • Исправлена ​​проблема, когда Psycho, который нападал на строительную площадку, если на площадке есть нокаутированные\мертвые люди, и это заставляло Психо ходить на месте. • Гангстеры больше не освобождаются раньше и могут контролироваться, если у вас заканчивается поддержка Mob. • Гангстеры, которые освобождаются из тюрьмы, пока вы не в ладах с Mob, больше не позволят вам контролировать их, пока вы не обрели эту поддержку вновь. • Исправлен ​​краш, связанный со способностью Thug Street Fight, нацеленный на другогих Thugs, которые были либо арестованы, либо в процессе ареста. • Исправлена ​​проблема с арестом мистера Фиксита, если у него развернута лестница, стопорило персонажа. • Исправленный радар не появляется снова, если вы покинете участок противника со своим последним персонажем. • Лидерские панели теперь можно перемещать с помощью клавиш управления курсором или PgUp\PgDwn. • Загрузка задач больше не изменяет настройки классического режима. • Исправили глюк DirectX когда игра не загружалась и зависала на первом экране. Разное • Максимальный Mob кредит был скорректирован для каждой сложности. - Easy = 200 000 долларов США (по сравнению с 50 000 долларов США) - Нормальный = 160 000 долларов США (по сравнению с 200 000 долларов США) - Трудно = 120 000 долларов США (по сравнению с 200 000 долларов США) - Оригинал = 80 000 долларов США (по сравнению с 50 000 долларов США) • Коровы, овцы и даже призраки добавлены к каждому уровню, подобному Зеленополье. Это не влияет на сохранение. • Фоновая музыка будет исчезать, если ползунок уровня громкости фильма установлен на 0. Удобно, если вы предпочитаете просто слушать музыку и не заботитесь о звуке, который воспроизводится внутри зданий. • Исправлена ​​пропущенная дорожная плитка на Риверсайд. • Зомби были переключены на использование цветов игроков и получили собственные имена. Изменения миссии • Локализация для каждой миссии. (аллилуйя) • Drowning In Debt Stage 4 исправили цель миссии. Теперь нужно уничтожить только желтую команду противника • Добавлено звуковое сопровождение, которое иногда воспроизводится при переходе на брифинг миссии. We hope that you enjoy the latest update. Thank you for your continued support! Enjoy your weekend, everyone! :lovekami_heart: System 3

https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28226051/349f6b986d09d410818e36a7adc806f67b11e579.png Hello everyone! How are we doing today? :) Another wonderful month has passed, and that can only mean one thing... A new update for you, the wonderful fans of Constructor. Continuing with the last few month's theme of improving on the quality of life for everyone we will be handing you the keys - figuratively. You know, because you can... remap your keys? Hello? https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28226051/7848448dd218d466f6f1a8db85042dbc906d5e06.png We have also improved the display scaling offered by the game so that it should now properly cater to all resolutions both big and small without skipping a beat. What does this mean? If you're running at a lower resolution, or even a much higher one such as 32K (is that even a thing?) the game will not look as jagged, especially when you decide to open the Steam Overlay which looked absolutely horrendous at lower resolutions. Sorry about that! :( For those who might also be new around here, why not visit our F.A.Q Section? It is worth mentioning that whilst we had planned for the release of multiplayer auto-saving with this update, the feature itself still requires a little more work before it is ready for a full release. Therefore, we are very unlikely to be able to ship it with this update without first resolving the issues at hand. We were hoping to get this ready in time for this update but as it will likely draw out the release time of the update we prefer not to keep you waiting too long for the other things this update does offer. Especially as it has been a rather long period of time since the missions went live, and everyone has just been so wonderfully patient whilst we get those ready. Therefore, we want to first get the localised versions of them into the game so that we can go back into our cave for another month and tinker with things. This also includes getting the PS4 and Xbox One updates released for the wonderful fans on those platforms. Right, enough blathering because there's a sale about and I don't really want to keep everyone busy reading this dribble for too much longer! Therefore, please direct your attention immediately below this sentence for a full list of the upcoming changes. Note: Final changelog that goes live with the full announcement may have additional changes.

Changelog of Changing Logs. Change.

New Features and Quality of Life Changes

• Players may now remap the various shortcuts to a key of their choice. • Implementation of localised text for various tooltips and options. • The volume of various annoying sound effects has been rebalanced. • Certain sound effects of the same type will play each subsequent one at a quieter volume if they occur simultaneously. • House info display now shows a Profit/Loss summary based on how the amount of profit you would make from selling the home, or the loss you incur as a result of the sale. • House info display now includes (if relevant) information on the type of super tenant inside the property. • House info display includes the %rent uplift so that you can see at a glance how much additional rent is being paid. • Tenant summary screen now displays the %rent uplift. • Tenant summary screen now displays whether or not the home has auto-replacement of tenants enabled. • Leaderboard can now be toggled between All and Friends. • All voiceovers are now linked to the Voices master volume.

AI Changes

• Multiple AI teams can carry out multiple actions in a given production cycle. Previously, they would wait until the new cycle which slowed them down a lot. • AI teams now attack, after a duration, intruders that are blocking their building sites. This is linked to difficulty, so easier difficulties will require more of their men to be present on-site before they will attack. • Corrected AI routine causing knocked out/dead repairmen to be reassigned to a new estate if the estate they were on had no valid properties left. This is to avoid interrupting, and hence breaking, the revival/removal routine.

Fixes and Improvements

• Improved display scaling so that the game should now correctly scale to your display resolution. • AI route finding has been improved and characters should no longer get stuck, especially noticeable for the jungle levels. • Fixed an issue with auto-replacement of tenants where the birth rate was not resetting. • Fixed an issue where a rampaging Psycho that shut down a building site would disrupt knocked out/dead characters on the site, causing them to walk on the spot. • Gangsters are no longer released early and able to be controlled if you run out of Mob favours. • Gangsters that are released from Prison whilst you are out of favours with the Mob will no longer allow you to control them until you have regained favour. • Fixed an issue with Mr Fixit being arrested just as his ladder deployed causing him to become unresponsive. • Corrected Radar not reappearing if leaving an enemy building site with your last character. • Leaderboards can now be navigated with the cursor keys or page up/page down. • Loading missions no longer changes classic mode settings. • Allow resetting of DirectX if screen is reset to correct instances where the game would no longer display when alt-tabbed.

Miscellaneous Changes

• Cows, sheep, and even spooky ghosts have been added to every level similar to Greenfields. This does not affect saves. • Corrected missing road tile on Riverside. • Zombies have been switched to use player colours, and have been given their own names. Bow down to Nom Nom Nom the Zombie.

Mission Changes

• Localised text for each mission has now been implemented. • Drowning In Debt Stage 4 now only checks for the absence of yellow team buildings on the assigned estates to better match the text. We will be aiming to release this patch very soon, but we thought it best to give you a head start on some of the new things that will be coming. Stay tuned for the full announcement coming to an announcement section near you. Please enjoy your weekend, and may the sale be kind on your wallets! :fhappy: Oh and...

What else, BrightPaw? I just want to go on a shopping spree!

Certainly, but there is just a teensy-tiny little more for you to read before you ca- hey, don't click away from here! :lovekami_heart: System 3

https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28226051/67ba6ac73f05d92551e6e9698dfbe558b361ef49.png https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6vU5V1zPvA Hello wonderful fans of Constructor. It is I, BrightPaw, with another announcement for the latest update that should be reaching your screens right… about… now! Let me welcome you to the Spare Parts And Servicing! Update. *Welcomes* What an almost month it has been since the last update that saw Nigel Plasterboard working with some of the best Constructors this side of Steam. Oh, and let’s not forget the heated leaderboard struggle between the wonderful Ashfall, and Dmitry – well done to the two of you for breaking the leaderboard! Yes, we've also slipped in a quick adjustment for the bank balance since yesterday so that you can continue to keep track of your money on the main screen even when it's worth at least... carry the four, subtract the square of a... a lot of money! https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28226051/ff1bc5f769ead8d70cc37d4fcacbe0e0084c15c0.png Well, enough stalling for time… Firstly, thank you to everyone who provided feedback on the missions – it is wonderful to see everyone enjoying them and we’re happy to say that you’ve exceeded the expectations of the ever-unhelpful foreman, Nigel Plasterboard. This patch will add a few changes to the text based on the feedback received, as well as hopefully sealing any of the remaining methods for creating impossible to pass stages… we hope. As always, if you have questions about the missions and require assistance please don’t hesitate to open a thread in this subforum. We would also like to thank the Non-English fans for their patience and understanding whilst we are waiting for the final versions of the translations. It is no doubt very frustrating to not always understand something immediately, but we believe in your ability. 😊 We are hoping that the translations will reach us within the next few weeks so stay tuned for a follow-up patch.

So What's New?

In addition to the usual fixes, we have made corrections to the missions as well as a few other changes such as allowing you to set your rent using the mouse-wheel. Snappy! However, there is one change I would really like to talk about which is the automatic replacement of tenants. Constructor is, and always has been, a game of micromanagement. Keeping track of tenants, replacing them, reassigning their production/rental payments, making sure that the Major has the right type of tree, replacing that tree because it was the wrong type of tree, are all part of the process. Therefore, we have been averse to completely automating the process in the past. However, it is a new year (well, if five months can be considered new…) which means looking back at some of the other things which can be toned down a little. We are happy to say that it is now possible to automatically replace tenants provided you have spare ones available! But what is the catch? Surely it must degrade them in some way – there is no way you’d add this without making it worthless or annoying to use. Well, if upgrading to Deluxe Kitchens is annoying then you’ve got us! Based on feedback, we understand that later in the game things become very tedious when it comes to replacing the moaning Majors or Smelly Slobs every other year. If you missed the announcement yesterday, here is a quick demonstration of how it works! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzOGvLTRamw We therefore feel that targeting this feature towards the mid to late game stages with the pre-requisite of a Deluxe Kitchen tones down the amount of micro-management late game, whilst also allowing some of the early game concerns such as squatting hippies to remain relevant during the time’s you might often see them. Understandably, this may not be to everyone’s taste, but the principle is very simple: it rewards you for doing well and charging tenants through the nose to live in your up-market properties! Of course, it is important to remember that this functionality only extends so far as replacing tenants who die of old age. Therefore, if they are killed by other means they will not be replaced automatically so that some amount of decision making is still involved once things heat up. Of course, this adds yet another use for the loveable hoodlums… the erm… Thugs! Want to disable this against a rival? Simply send your Thugs to throw a party the likes of which would make even the Hippy blush. Once the Deluxe Kitchen is ripped out it will need to be replaced before replacement will take effect once again. Another difficulty with the auto-replacement of tenants is making sure enough information is conveyed to players so that whilst they are focused on other things, they can always know that the game has got their back. Therefore, we have created a set of new notifications which convey the following information:

• When you are running low on tenants of a specific level.
• When your tenant could not be replaced due to a lack of available tenants.
• When a tenant becomes a Super Tenant as part of the auto-replacement.

Each notification has a handy Go-To button that takes you to the affected property, too!

Okay, What's The Plan Going Forward?

Good question! First, a tea break. That’s a given. After? Well, it’s not so simple. The short of it is that we have many more things that we will adding to the game throughout the year based on feedback from fans, as well as various additional quality of life improvements because, well, the quality of life can never be too high, right? The key changes and additions still to come are:

• Mission localisations
• Remapping keys
• Video mode improvements
• Learning Missions
• Even more quality of life changes
• Miscellaneous UI improvements
• Multiplayer saves
• Constructor Plus

Once again, thank you all for your support and patience! Oh, and for those who might have missed yesterday’s announcement… here are those blasted patch notes again.

BrightPaw’s Recovered Patch Notes

New Features And Quality Of Life Additions

• Added timer countdown for missions which have time limits.
• Multiple instances of the same message will not spam the screen if they occur within 30 seconds of each other.
• Swapped Total Rent Leaderboard to a new one that can hold much larger numbers.
• Halved volume of crying sound effect that plays when one of your tenants die.
• Rent increase/decrease button now accepts mouse-wheel input for quicker rent-setting.
• Rent can be increased/decreased by mousing over the rent value in the data screen and using the mouse-wheel.
• Tenants can now be automatically replaced at a per-home level. This functionality requires a deluxe kitchen at all times and only applies to tenants that die of old age.
• Borderless video mode added – Play Constructor and stream the latest episode of your favourite series on Netflix. Netflix and build, anyone?
• Achievement pop-ups can be disabled in the Message Options.
• Adding -Q to launch options not only skips the introduction, but also speeds up the loading sequence where previously it would wait for the audio to finish playing.
• Added a digit and removed spacers once the bank balance exceeds 9,999,999.

Missions

• Corrected wrong audio for Basic Job in stage 5 and stage 6 briefing.
• Implemented additional logic checks to ensure certain things cannot be done out of order to prevent impossible to pass stages in the following missions:
  • Basic Job
  • Salvage Operation
  • Managing Expectations
  • Full Circle
• Mission text that was previously ambiguous such as “Carbuncles”, “Solid Brick Housing” now have bracketed identifiers. Example: ”Build Carbuncles (Tenement Blocks) of your own…”

General Fixes

• Guard dogs will no longer attempt to bite policemen or tenants from other teams.
• Fixed a crash which could occur due to player-controlled policemen being bitten, and the player then trying to interact with them.
• Fixed an issue where council workers lured to the Arcade by the Killer Clown would leave the building and become permanently stuck.
• Fixed an issue with the classic building placement method and pause mode.
• Fixed an interaction between Street Parties and Police Helicopters trying to get their groove on.
• Fixed a crash that would sometimes occur when loading saved games.
• Fixed an issue where Supertenants stopped being triggered when more than 128 of a tenant type were already on the map.
• Fixed animation when changing gangster weapon repeatedly.

Right, well, that’s a wrap. Now, where are those biscuits… Have a wonderful weekend, everyone! :lovekami_heart: System 3

https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28226051/349f6b986d09d410818e36a7adc806f67b11e579.png Hello wonderful fans of Constructor. How are we all doing today? As always, it is I, BrightPaw, with another announcement for you. Let me first begin by saying this is not a patch release for today! This is simply to give you a chance to review what the next patch will have in store for you so that you can plan accordingly. :fhappy:

What Will The Patch Do For Me?

Glad you asked! The patch aims to address a few key concerns regarding the missions that were released last month as well as fixing a couple of other annoying issues such as the changes to the guard dog routine which made it continuously bite certain characters. As the Major says... https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28226051/06f346584b634b98b63900c8d04347baf4a4444a.png We will also be adding in a few more quality of life changes as well as enabling the -Q option to skip most loading sequences in the game. To utilise this simply add -Q to your launch options. :fhappy: Of course, the big change in this patch is the debut of the auto-replacement functionality. However, unlike some of the other 'gameplay' options this one is not a simple toggle. To unlock auto-replacement of tenants your home must have a Deluxe Kitchen. Here is a very quick demonstration of how it all works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzOGvLTRamw&feature=youtu.be Beware of partying Thugs - if they rip out the Deluxe Kitchen then that particular home will lose the auto-replacement ability until the Deluxe Kitchen is once again installed. A little gameplay interaction never hurt... :fhappy: Now, if you'll excuse me I need to go find where in blazes those blasted patch notes are... I could've sworn I kept them in my safe. Stay tuned for the full announcement very soon. Have a wonderful day/night everyone and we hope that you like these new changes! https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28226051/204f2935ff48e9c2d3c0c0269cd7f91ef4bee910.png

Shifty Old Guy's Pilfered Patch Notes

New Features And Quality Of Life Additions

• Added timer countdown for missions which have time limits.
• Multiple instances of the same message will not spam the screen if they occur within 30 seconds of each other.
• Swapped Total Rent Leaderboard to a new one that can hold much larger numbers.
• Halved volume of crying sound effect that plays when one of your tenants die.
• Rent increase/decrease button now accepts mouse-wheel input for quicker rent-setting.
• Rent can be increased/decreased by mousing over the rent value in the data screen and using the mouse-wheel.
• Tenants can now be automatically replaced at a per-home level. This functionality requires a deluxe kitchen at all times and only applies to tenants that die of old age.
• Borderless video mode added – Play Constructor and stream the latest episode of your favourite series on Netflix. Netflix and build, anyone?
• Achievement pop-ups can be disabled in the Message Options.
• Adding -Q to launch options not only skips the introduction, but also speeds up the loading sequence where previously it would wait for the audio to finish playing.

Missions

• Corrected wrong audio for Basic Job in stage 5 and stage 6 briefing.
• Implemented additional logic checks to ensure certain things cannot be done out of order to prevent impossible to pass stages in the following missions:
  • Basic Job
  • Salvage Operation
  • Managing Expectations
  • Full Circle
• Mission text that was previously ambiguous such as “Carbuncles”, “Solid Brick Housing” now have bracketed identifiers. Example: ”Build Carbuncles (Tenement Blocks) of your own…”

General Fixes

• Guard dogs will no longer attempt to bite policemen or tenants from other teams.
• Fixed a crash which could occur due to player-controlled policemen being bitten, and the player then trying to interact with them.
• Fixed an issue where council workers lured to the Arcade by the Killer Clown would leave the building and become permanently stuck.
• Fixed an issue with the classic building placement method and pause mode.
• Fixed an interaction between Street Parties and Police Helicopters trying to get their groove on.
• Fixed a crash that would sometimes occur when loading saved games.
• Fixed an issue where Supertenants stopped being triggered when more than 128 of a tenant type were already on the map.
• Fixed animation when changing gangster weapon repeatedly.

https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28226051/8b6537f423f5f9e9e78ca0bc76da3240eb485d88.png Trouble reading the text? Click here!

QUICK UPDATE

- 25/04/18 We have pushed a new update which includes the following changes as we'd like to address a few more things for our fans. Please note, the localisations are still underway so they will be part of a different update. Thank you for your patience and support, everyone. :) Have a wonderful day!

GET TO WORK - HF#1

• Implemented tooltips for all options items (translated versions will follow).
• Replace Drowning In Debt mission to remove tenants.
• Add CENTRE video option for large desktops - This will display the game at its native resolution, and surround it with black borders. Be sure to restart the game. IMPORTANT: Do not use if your resolution is below 1920x1080. There is an issue with lower resolutions which will be fixed next patch.
• Delay mission stage complete messages if spawned simultaneously .

Wall o' Patch Notes

Hello again, wonderful fans of Constructor, it is I your brightful BrightPaw with the Get To Work! Update! To sum up this update here are a few choice words:

• Fixes
• Features
• Quality of life improvements
• Missions
• Auto-saves - Top Tip: Press J to initiate an auto-save at any time!

Did you say... missions?!

No, but I did TYPE it! :fhappy: That's right, we will be releasing the missions with this patch because we said we'd get them in the next patch no matter what... Nigel Plasterboard has been bugging us about it, and since we've run out of suitable ear plugs, it's time to give him a chance at recruiting the next manager for Cobble & Stones' Construction.

This sounds too good to be true. What's the catch... 22?

Hey, nice rhyme! There is no catch per-se, but we must inform the non-English speaking fans of the game that we do not yet have the localisations in a ready state for implementation. Therefore, the missions will only be in English at this point in time. In the coming weeks we will be implementing anything that we had missed this time around. The unfortunate result of having to get the patch ready so as to not keep fans waiting too long for their DLC! :) We are releasing this update because of a recent issue which popped up where owners of the building pack DLCs were no longer seeing them in-game. Unfortunately, to correct this issue we had tried multiple solutions. In the end we had to change how the game receives ownership of the DLC due to a change Steam had made two weeks ago. We also apologise for the inconvenience caused by it, and hope that this resolves the issue for everyone experiencing it. If you wish to read beyond and see the changes in detail please carry on, otherwise get back to the building site and start construction of that blasted Wood Yard. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28226051/b8f7b786fbdd89ec0041732fbef054089d978bba.png

What does this patch do for me?

Great question. I'm glad I asked! In this patch, we have implemented a lot of wonderful changes that we have been wanting to make for quite some time, but just have not had the time to do so due to sorting out issues in the previous patches. We have also added a number of quality-of-life changes to the game to improve the experience of everyone. We will be working on more changes in the coming months so do not take this as an exhaustive list of the only things we will be changing. Please note that not every change can be looked at, but we will do our best to accommodate our fans. :) https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28226051/f9bee0fd71689255f4ce1e1bb9d92a5f56a115a4.png See what we have to deal with? Nigel just doesn't know when to stop! Moving along... Some of the biggest changes are the implementation of a much more robust save system. Previously, we had Designer saves and Regular saves - not great considering you might want to also have separate saves for missions too. Therefore, we have expanded the save system to allow for the following saves:

• Regular Game (free-play)
• Missions
• Designer
• Auto-Save
• Quick Game (don't worry about this one for now. It'll be important later on.)

Functionality for auto-saves can be enabled from the Gameplay Options menu where you will be able to pick from a selection of save frequencies. That's not all, though, the system will store up to ten auto-saves in sequence allowing you to jump back to an earlier period as long as the save is still present. Some other changes we have made include better support for mouse-wheel scrolling of lists, toggling of auto-zooming as well as making the movement between properties feel much more consistent. Overall, everything should 'feel' much better. In a future update, we will be looking at other things such as allowing you to remap the UI shortcuts to ones you are more comfortable using! In short, it will be a very exciting year for Constructor. By the way, if you're just joining us now and are curious on how things have changed you can take a look at the previous patches in order of release here(2017) and here(2018). You will find the supplement thread for this patch here. Anyway, we have a lot of wonderful plans for this year and we're very excited to share them all with you as we move through 2018. It's a big year both numerically, and for Constructor. :fhappy: Without further delay, please meet the latest fixes, features, and... um... Hello?... Oh, good, they've all left. *Starts eating really noisy food*

WHAT'S NEW IN THIS UPDATE?

New Content

Implemented missions! Please note: Localised versions are not yet ready and will be added as soon as the translations are ready. Sorry! ☹ The following missions are now available:

• Mission 1: Basic Job
• Mission 2: The Takeover
• Mission 3: Salvage Operation
• Mission 4: Managing Expecations
• Mission 5: Drowning in Debt
• Mission 6: Full Circle

Quality Of Life Changes

• Deliverymen now start deliveries slightly faster (2 seconds faster to be exact!)
• Allow recovered work teams to be summoned for work from hospital.
• Added ability to stop certain properties from complaining to Designer Mode.
• Added mob bribes indicator to gangster when selected.
• Addition of support for auto-saving progress. The frequency can be adjusted in Options -> Gameplay. Tip: Press J to initiate an auto-save at any time!
• After level 1, all tenant homes unlock at the same time instead of you being required to build the first three of each level.
• Added toggle to disable/enable auto-zooming.
• Keyboard shortcuts can be forced to display by pressing the K key even when a controller is plugged in.
• Addition of multiple save types. Toggle between them by clicking the arrows in the Load screen.
• Hippy distraction now prevents AI from breaking out. No, not that kind of break out!
• Fence list now moves to the correct position in the list based on the current fence in-use and will even do so when moving between houses.
• Building list now orders each building by cost so cheaper properties will be at the top.
• Fixed sorting of houses for a block so that repairmen properly circle the estate.
• Improved timing on clown's 'give a dog a bone' ability to prevent dog bites.
• Added faint team-colour tint to police overlay to allow players to see which estates are owned by each team.
• Minimap can now permanently be displayed even when a character video is playing. Remember, press R to toggle the minimap inside buildings!
• Enabled scrolling with the side-buttons on the mouse. This is a stop-gap measure for a future patch which will bring some more changes to keys.
• Added 'go-to' button to super tenant notification to allow players to more easily find rival super tenants.
• Added 'go-to' button to zombie outbreak notification to allow players to quickly jump to the affected estate.
• Adjusted position of PGDN text so that it does not cover the button.
• You can now use the mouse-wheel to scroll through many in-game lists!
  • Residential Manager
  • Building Manager
  • External Gadget manager
  • Fence Manager
  • Hospital Patients
  • Options menu
  • Designer Mode
  • Game Select Startup
• The Hospital now shows a total of all patients inside, as well as those who are currently recovering. The number will appear as follows: (x-injured recovering/Y - total inside)Hospital list now shows total patients, and those being treated.
• Floating icons of what the tenant is producing are now visible inside the fence screen in addition to the arrow of which home is selected.
• < and > Shortcut keys added to each data screen to allow you to go to the next neighbour on the block.

  Balancing Changes

• Word Domination now allows any building to count towards the goal, as well as the town hall. This will prevent unwinnable scenarios.
• If a player provokes a rival policeman by attacking, and then running away, the policeman may attempt to arrest the offending character. Don't catch them on a bad day. :P
• GP Super-Tenant effect reduced to 25%.
• Policemen no longer arrest characters under the effects of cloak of darkness unless directly targeted by them. Guard dogs and patrolling Gangsters are unaffected.
• When a dog bites any member of a workteam, only the bitten character will run away.
• Guard dogs will now continue to attack characters that are in their garden.
• Player can no longer spam target a building to quickly destroy it with their gangsters.

  General Changes

• Added additional audio to certain notifications.
• Increased depth clipping on zoomed out house icons which caused them to become invisible.
• Stopped skipping of next-neighbour links when button was clicked inside a home. It should now take you to each home in sequence.
• Fixed a crash that sometimes occurred when transitioning to the main menu after winning a game.
• Pause mode no longer interferes with the sliding HUD elements.
• Mob repossession of properties upon failing to repay debt works as expected now. Be afraid of the Mob once more!
• Certain undesirable actions can no longer be exploited by using the demolition action of your foreman.
• Pressing ESC at the beginning of Designer mode will no longer cause buttons to become unresponsive.
• Prevented an action that broke the tutorial when a player delivered a computer to the AI's Soweto Hut if they had one.
• Gadget factory icon now blinks when the factory is in-use or displays a work team being present.
• Arrest cage no longer stays with character when policeman that had arrested them is decommissioned.
• Stopped an instance where undesirables could inadvertently break from their current action if selected in a group of characters that attacked another character.
• Fixed an issue where garden decorations larger than 1x1 would continue to block the spaces they were using if it was destroyed before the deliveryman had placed it.
• Tenants spawned by the ghost will no longer display "Empty" as their name. Additionally, ghosts will no longer cause tenants to spawn if haunting the same property.
• Corrected incorrect reference to Xbox controls when building footprint selected.
• Minimap will now slide back in if a footprint that exploded was still selected.
• Attacking partying Thugs will no longer cause the party to be restarted, and display multiple messages.
• Ghost will no longer drift off into space after he had finished spawning zombies. Additionally, he will now correctly rise to the top of the ground when the ability has either been completed or cancelled early.
• Corrected ground tiles for some buildings once Mr Fixit's leak had been cleared.
• Residential properties will now display the rising gas if Mr Fixit has bodged their gas if a tenant was already inside the building.
• Upgrading a room, exiting the screen, and returning to it whilst it was still being upgraded no longer disallows you to continue upgrading the same room due to insufficient funds.
• Corrected positioning of building healthbars after visiting an undesirable abode which caused the health bars for certain buildings to not display correctly.
• Corrected a draw-culling issue which caused the Gadget Factory icon to stop showing the status of the factory once a resource yard had been built.
• Corrected a buffer issue which caused excessive amounts of ghosts to crash the game.
• Pressing the PGUP or PGDWN keys at the menu no longer provides sound feedback. This had no effect previously and is merely for peace of mind.
• Moving over something whilst the game is fading to the win-screen no longer continues to draw whatever the pointer had been over at the time.
• Corrected an interaction between resource yards and being upgraded to resource factories which permanently reduced the total available resource yards for the rest of that level.
• A ghost leaving a haunted property at the end of his ability will not cause the game to treat it as if a tenant had died.
• Corrected drawing issue where numbers for visible characters inside a building were causing the UI shadowing to not draw.
• Objects inside the gadget factory will no longer take on the shadows of in-game objects when the background is disabled.
• Thug leader no longers get stuck in position during recall from a street fight if you select, and move, a different thug in the group.
• Ghost can no longer use invisibility on himself. This had no effect, but instead cancelled the ability.
• Paying tax the second it was due now properly stops the flashing UI element.
• Policeman will no longer get stuck in place if he is shot by another character during an arrest.
• Guard Dogs will no longer bite decommissioned policemen.
• Gadget factory icons will no longer take on the colour of a team you are currently hovering over if the background for it is disabled.
• Fire icons on the minimap no longer take on the colour of a team you are currently hovering over and will display as intended.
• Resolved an issue where a guard dog could become stuck outside the property if knocked out of the garden.
• Council workers will now finish their pavement/road job properly even if possessed by a Ghost.
• Loading a saved game now properly reinitialising the road markings allowing council workers currently on-duty to continue placing them.
• Guard dogs no longer wait outside for a character who enters a building.
• Solved the situation where gangsters would try to target enemies inside your buildings, and instead run on the spot because they could not get inside.
• Dogs no longer wait outside the property if it was taken over before the dog could get back to its kennel.
• Changing a gangster’s active weapon whilst moving no longer causes him to get stuck in his firing animation.
• Stopped an exploit where a player could steal resources and then use the 'recall' button to stop police from detecting them.
• Resetting a policeman's patrol now resets the custom patrol so that it does not think you have still set a custom starting point.
• Removed a debug key that was accidentally left in the game which, if triggered, caused it to slow down desyncing multiplayer games.
• Repairmen will no longer skip repairing properties if a ghost exorcism was cancelled in the garden.

  Optimisations

• Screen draw has been increased
• Compensated for slowdown when moving Hud elements around.

  Achievements

• Achievement "Trumped" will now trigger every 100 buildings to resolve an issue where the achievement was becoming bugged.
• Corrected Built Like A Thug achievement so that it does not trigger from killing zombies, cockroaches, or council workers. Now, you might be thinking: "Woah, BrightPaw those are some really long notes compared to previous updates. What gives?" As we spent most of the last patch trying to sort out problems with multiplayer, it did not leave very much time to investigate other issues. Therefore, we felt that last patch was lacking in quite a few areas which we are hoping this one will more than make up for, especially for those who might have been experiencing these issues! :) Once again, thank you very much for your patience and support thus far - stay wonderful, everyone! However, if you'd love a short introduction to the missions, Nigel Plasterboard will fill you in with a little back story... https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28226051/9658c69ed8a030925d9073f9d7c1f98cd094b13a.jpg * Above image not from ingame.

  The story so far

  "Turns out in this world you're either a builder or a digger. Bloody ingrates, the lot of them! If I don't find someone soon I'm going to end up on the wrong side of a gangster's shotgun..." "Last time I do business with bloomin' mobsters, I'll tell you that much. Right, let's see here... Ah, your records show that you have a knack for 'completing tasks on time, but often failing the cockroach mission'. What in blazes is a cockroach mission?" "You've also unlocked several... achievements? Hold on a minute, what sort of plonker do management think I am? Achievements? Bloody heck..." “Well then, you’re certainly not the apprentice I asked for… Ah well, I suppose you passed the tutorial so you’re already ahead of the other candidates.” Nigel gives you a look that tells you he’s not quite thrilled at working with you. “Er, look, you see the problem is we’ve got a touch of trouble brewing. An old business partner of mine has kicked up a storm after my… ah… unceremonious departure with at least half of his assets. Do what you gotta do, right? Haha… “ “Anyway, enough of that rubbish. We’ve got a plane to catch in a few hours. We’ll be landing about thirty minutes away from a rundown part of town run by another construction firm called Brick & Brack Construction Solutions. Right then, pack your lunch and let’s be on our way.” A few hours later the two of you arrive at your destination. “Well, would you look at that! Our boy’s gone and run off leaving us to clean up for him... Just lovely, eh?” Nigel mutters a few choice words under his breath, and the two of you continue on to Trashcan Alley. “Gawd, they weren’t joking when they named this area were they? It certainly smells like a trashcan. Erm, hold on a second…” Nigel extends his arm to stop you in your tracks. “Oh, you’ve got to be bloody joking. What on earth has happened here? Our business in this town is, for lack of a better term, in the dumps!” Nigel motions to a set of rickety looking properties set up next to the branch headquarters. “It looks like someone who doesn’t know the right end of a hammer has been around and smashed the places up. We’ll need to fix those up or else we’ll lose our clients.” A rather slovenly man waddles up to the two of you and lets out a burp that would level even the strongest building. “Ere, mate. Why have you given us a big yard and put nuffink in…” He is quickly interrupted by Nigel. “Bugger off. We’ll get to your garden soon but let us figure out what’s gone wrong here.” Nigel appears to be a little frustrated. “What’s gone wrong? Ere, mate, those boys over the bridge have been sending us dodgy builders. That’s what’s gone wrong. Where the flippin’ heck is our usual?” Nigel looks at the man for a moment and nods. “I have a feeling I know who is responsible for that, but I'll need to make some calls first. Ah, well, thank you Mr, uh?” Nigel pauses. “Bob the Slob, mate. I was here wiv me wife summat like er…” He holds out his hand and starts to count his fingers. “One, two, ten, five… yeah, we was here five years now. Never once complained and suddenly your lot have buggered off.” He shrugs. “Buggered off?!” Nigel’s clearly not having any of it. “Who in God’s na- Ah, forget it, that’s what I get for trusting that plank Samson Steele with managing our branch here. “Right, well, we’d better get to work then. What do you think, my son? Ready for a basic job?” Nigel gives you a rough slap on the back and heads off to inspect the headquarters. Something tells you this won't be quite as basic as he makes it out to be...

  Thank you for your patience

  As always, thank you very much for being patient whilst we prepared this patch for you. We hope that you enjoy what it has to offer and are looking forward to future updates. :) https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28226051/f8ddf45db251e90613c160ad1cd3eadd7f49ff9a.png Oh my gawd! Nigel, please wait your turn. You'll be meeting the lovely folk very soon, and you can tell them all about your problems then!!! BTW: For those interested, we have not forgotten about Constructor Plus. More information on that will follow at a later date! Have a wonderful day! :fhappy: :lovekami_heart: System 3

Hello everyone! How are we all today? :) We will be launching another update for Constructor later today which will add in a lot of changes, as well as the long-awaited missions. A full set of notes has been provided at our Facebook group, and will again be provided with the supplement announcement to follow on Steam. :fhappy: Please note: We are still waiting on the translations for the other languages so the missions will only be launching in English. We will update the missions with the other translations over the next few weeks. Thank you for the support, we hope that you'll enjoy what the new patch has to offer. Stay tuned for the full announcement! :lovekami_heart: BrightPaw

https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28226051/fe6f42e1929c12fc2d5c6a2c36e838227e3cbe24.jpg Hello wonderful tenants! We have dispatched several Mr Fixits to the estate of STEAM in order to investigate (and hopefully not make worse) an issue where the Public build is suddenly no longer showing owned DLC. As we have not issued any updates from the Gadget Factory since mid-February we are currently checking that nothing has gone wrong on Steam's end with properly broadcasting ownership of the relevant DLC. We apologise for the inconvenience and will keep everyone updated as to the status of things. Please allow Mr Fixit into your home once he arrives as he can surely only make things better... Please let us know if anything changes in the meantime. Update #1 - We have got in touch with Steam and are awaiting a response. Hopefully once they are in for work we'll have a better idea of what is going on. Update #2 - No news yet as we are still waiting on a response. Thank you very much for being patient, everyone. Update #3 - We have created a new build in the hopes that it might solve this issue, but it still does not pick up ownership of the DLC. We are still waiting on Steam for a response. Update #4 - We have found that Steam recently made changes to how ownership of DLC is broadcasted, and it has had the result of breaking the ownership check for the game. We had tried modifying the depots for the DLC last Friday but it does not appear to have made a difference. We will update everyone as to our plans later this week. Update #5 - The only way we can solve this problem for good is to change how the game receives ownership of the DLCs. However, to do so we will need to prepare a patch which has come at a very awkward time in our patch cycle. As we are part-way through some critical changes, we will need to first finish what we had started working on before we can push a new update for the game. Some of the feature, we believe, will be much appreciated for those of you who are used to certain quality-of-life features that Constructor currently does not possess. Update #6 - LATEST - 19/04/2018 We plan to launch the next patch for the game early next week so that if any issues pop up, you do not need to wait over the weekend for us to address them. Full details of what the patch will include will be part of the announcement that accompanies the launch so stay tuned! :fhappy: We appreciate everyone's patience as we know how annoying this must be for all of you. Thank you very much for your understanding! :) It is our hope that we can resolve this by the end of next week at the latest, but please stay tuned for updates as the situation develops! - The Housing Authority

https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28226051/fe6f42e1929c12fc2d5c6a2c36e838227e3cbe24.jpg Hello wonderful tenants! We have dispatched several Mr Fixits to the estate of STEAM in order to investigate (and hopefully not make worse) an issue where the Public build is suddenly no longer showing owned DLC. As we have not issued any updates from the Gadget Factory since mid-February we are currently checking that nothing has gone wrong on Steam's end with properly broadcasting ownership of the relevant DLC. We apologise for the inconvenience and will keep everyone updated as to the status of things. Please allow Mr Fixit into your home once he arrives as he can surely only make things better... Please let us know if anything changes in the meantime. Update #1 - We have got in touch with Steam and are awaiting a response. Hopefully once they are in for work we'll have a better idea of what is going on. Update #2 - No news yet as we are still waiting on a response. Thank you very much for being patient, everyone. Update #3 - We have created a new build in the hopes that it might solve this issue, but it still does not pick up ownership of the DLC. We are still waiting on Steam for a response. Update #4 - We have found that Steam recently made changes to how ownership of DLC is broadcasted, and it has had the result of breaking the ownership check for the game. We had tried modifying the depots for the DLC last Friday but it does not appear to have made a difference. We will update everyone as to our plans later this week. - The Housing Authority

https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28226051/b21c3ac056625e294eb2494d3737e37ac7b23283.jpg Hello, once again you wonderful people. How are we all doing? Whether you celebrate Easter or you're just in it for the chocolates we want to wish you all a wonderful time! We apologise for lack of updates since mid-February, which was the last patch where we enabled the second building pack (that's still free!) as well as implementing a few more fixes. However, in the time that has passed we have been working through a backlog of issues including fixing many annoying bugs such as the floating clowns by reducing the amount of helium in his balloon. He was not happy, mind you... Many of you are no doubt (I would hope) experiencing the joy of chocolate so we will keep this one short but sweet... "Woah, but hold on BrightPaw where are the missions?" Once again, we apologise for how long this is taking to get implemented and we apologise to the fans that we have let down because of how long this is taking. The text for the missions is still in the process of being localised so we would hope that once that is wrapped up we can push them to live as soon as possible, and you can begin assisting Cobble & Stones' Construction's master foreman, Nigel Plasterboard. With that said, please enjoy the rest of your weekend and have a wonderful day! Oh, and for anyone who is curious what's going on in that top image... https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28226051/c4684b4779a679478f9211f6035cf08bf29a848d.jpg Disclaimer - Edits to certain elements of the above image were done after the fact - you can find the original image here at our Facebook page. :fhappy: Happy chocolate(-ing)! :lovekami_heart: System 3

https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28226051/b21c3ac056625e294eb2494d3737e37ac7b23283.jpg Hello, once again you wonderful people. How are we all doing? Whether you celebrate Easter or you're just in it for the chocolates we want to wish you all a wonderful time! We apologise for lack of updates since mid-February, which was the last patch where we enabled the second building pack (that's still free!) as well as implementing a few more fixes. However, in the time that has passed we have been working through a backlog of issues including fixing many annoying bugs such as the floating clowns by reducing the amount of helium in his balloon. He was not happy, mind you... Many of you are no doubt (I would hope) experiencing the joy of chocolate so we will keep this one short but sweet... "Woah, but hold on BrightPaw where are the missions?" Once again, we apologise for how long this is taking to get implemented and we apologise to the fans that we have let down because of how long this is taking. The text for the missions is still in the process of being localised so we would hope that once that is wrapped up we can push them to live as soon as possible, and you can begin assisting Cobble & Stones' Construction's master foreman, Nigel Plasterboard. With that said, please enjoy the rest of your weekend and have a wonderful day! Oh, and for anyone who is curious what's going on in that top image... https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28226051/c4684b4779a679478f9211f6035cf08bf29a848d.jpg Disclaimer - Edits to certain elements of the above image were done after the fact - you can find the original image here at our Facebook page. ːfhappyː Happy chocolate(-ing)! ːlovekami_heartː System 3

http://cdn.edgecast.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28226051/086f1f886e2a00828645e40ba704cfb87108bc71.jpg Oh, and if you didn't catch the Facebook announcement for whatever reason, here is the full version of Mr Challis' words to the fans of Constructor. ːlovekami_heartː https://youtu.be/GSvHIqxQqxM

Update - 14/02/18 - 6:14PM

To those experiencing any issues with the game not launching due to an error such as 0x5AA or similar please check that the game is not being blocked by your Antivirus software. The building pack should now be live for everyone to grab! :) Enjoy! http://store.steampowered.com/app/616901/Constructor_Building_Pack_2_Made_in_America/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0xtcfz76nQ&feature=youtu.be

Happy Valentine's Day!

It is indeed that time of the year again. A time when your tenants get together and create more workers than you could ever hope to use. A time when dentists are particularly busy, and a time in which we will be giving you, the lovely fans of Constructor, the opportunity to pick up our second building pack absolutely free! How's that for a Valentine's day gift? What? You want a card and chocolates too? Unfortunately, we seem to be out of cards, and it looks like one of the programmers have broken into our secret (ex-secret?) stash... In addition to this announcement, you will also notice a patch has gone live too. This is to prepare you for the buildings as you would otherwise not see them in the game. However, Valve could not schedule the pack in time for the original release, and have currently notified us that the earliest it will go live is 3PM PST which converts to roughly... carry the two... hold on a moment. *Runs off to get a doctorate in mathematics* Too long for us to want to wait, and so we are currently trying to get it moved forward. :) That being said, with a patch under your collective belts you will also be able to pick up the DLC pack as soon as it goes live - so mash the F5 button! Oh, and the patch should also be what the doctor ordered for that AI desync some of you reported! http://cdn.edgecast.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28226051/ec85dda64cda52764a68ed2ea208b0a3de078138.png The pack includes eight new homes that both you and the AI can use, as well as two utilities with which to decorate your town. Just be sure to get your repairman to snatch Mr. Fixit's ladder because they're quite tall! We hope that everyone has a fantastic day whether you will be snuggling up with your significant other, enjoying time with your closest friends, or just making your tenants miserable with high rental fees! Maybe go easy on them today? Bob the Slob's got some special plans and he's already very short on money from all the chips he buys! Happy Valentine's day to all of our wonderful fans! Enjoy yourselves, but go easy on the fancy chocolate! ːlovekami_heartː System 3

http://cdn.edgecast.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28226051/086f1f886e2a00828645e40ba704cfb87108bc71.jpg Oh, and if you didn't catch the Facebook announcement for whatever reason, here is the full version of Mr Challis' words to the fans of Constructor. :lovekami_heart: https://youtu.be/GSvHIqxQqxM

Update - 14/02/18 - 6:14PM

To those experiencing any issues with the game not launching due to an error such as 0x5AA or similar please check that the game is not being blocked by your Antivirus software. The building pack should now be live for everyone to grab! :) Enjoy! http://store.steampowered.com/app/616901/Constructor_Building_Pack_2_Made_in_America/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0xtcfz76nQ&feature=youtu.be

Happy Valentine's Day!

It is indeed that time of the year again. A time when your tenants get together and create more workers than you could ever hope to use. A time when dentists are particularly busy, and a time in which we will be giving you, the lovely fans of Constructor, the opportunity to pick up our second building pack absolutely free! How's that for a Valentine's day gift? What? You want a card and chocolates too? Unfortunately, we seem to be out of cards, and it looks like one of the programmers have broken into our secret (ex-secret?) stash... In addition to this announcement, you will also notice a patch has gone live too. This is to prepare you for the buildings as you would otherwise not see them in the game. However, Valve could not schedule the pack in time for the original release, and have currently notified us that the earliest it will go live is 3PM PST which converts to roughly... carry the two... hold on a moment. *Runs off to get a doctorate in mathematics* Too long for us to want to wait, and so we are currently trying to get it moved forward. :) That being said, with a patch under your collective belts you will also be able to pick up the DLC pack as soon as it goes live - so mash the F5 button! Oh, and the patch should also be what the doctor ordered for that AI desync some of you reported! http://cdn.edgecast.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28226051/ec85dda64cda52764a68ed2ea208b0a3de078138.png The pack includes eight new homes that both you and the AI can use, as well as two utilities with which to decorate your town. Just be sure to get your repairman to snatch Mr. Fixit's ladder because they're quite tall! We hope that everyone has a fantastic day whether you will be snuggling up with your significant other, enjoying time with your closest friends, or just making your tenants miserable with high rental fees! Maybe go easy on them today? Bob the Slob's got some special plans and he's already very short on money from all the chips he buys! Happy Valentine's day to all of our wonderful fans! Enjoy yourselves, but go easy on the fancy chocolate! :lovekami_heart: System 3

http://cdn.edgecast.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28226051/82e7a317e4a22ce634aae6b72cada3e427856a03.png https://youtu.be/1BK46uqXChk *Tick tick tick* *BZZZzzzzzttt*

IMPORTANT PLEASE READ IF USING UNOFFICIAL RUSSIAN LOCALISATION

If you are using the Siberian GRemlin release of the Russian localisation, and the game crashes upon trying to start, please uninstall it as there will be issues with the new patch due to changes to the text. You can uninstall Siberian GRemlin's release by running the uninstaller that came bundled with it. Alternatively, if you are unsure about this delete everything in the DATA folder EXCEPT the DATA.FIL file, delete any external fonts in the FONTS folder too. After doing this please verify your game to ensure that nothing is missing from it.

CONSTRUCTOR - ABOUT BLOODY TIME! UPDATE

Yes, you wonderful people, that's the sound of an update being released for Constructor, and it's about bloody time if you ask us! Now, we realise that the last time we released an update for the game man had only just discovered fire (has it really been that long?!), but we've been hard at work improving multiple areas of the game. So, whilst your update is in progress let's sit down and talk about some of these improvements. Oh, but where are my manners? I am, of course, the brightful BrightPaw who will be bringing you yet another announcement from within the bowels of hel-System 3. So without further ado, let's take a trip down patch-way pass. Oh, and don't feed the programmers!

NEW FEATURES

In this patch we will be introducing a number of new things to Constructor. The first is, of course, the new net-code but as this has its own section down below we will save the nattering until then. When you start the game up you may notice several new fences in the game which can be built for your tenants. Each of these have their own defensive values as well as stress factors. On the topic of defensive values, the value displayed for fences no longer correlates to a rough idea of how many hits they can take before a foreman removes it. Each fence now provides a bonus to the property it surrounds in terms of protecting from nearby explosions. So, if you're planning on building a hedgerow you'd better get some shutters installed quick-smart! The AI will also now make use of any DLC buildings you happen to own. As we've only currently released one pack they will only make use of the buildings in that pack. However, as your collection increases so too will the AI's collection. You know what they say about sharing and caring, don't you? In addition, for anyone who hated the voices of the tenants but preferred the soothing ramblings of the narrators, you can now mute the tenant voices. This feature is accessed from within the tenant selection screen as a new toggle button. This will only need to be toggled once.

BUILDING PACK TWO - Out Soon

We appreciate the patience of the fans who have supported us since release and, as a gift, we will be making the second building pack free for two weeks in February. Be sure to pick it up while its hot! You can see the buildings it will include below - a fine set of accommodation, and utilities, for your picky tenants. http://cdn.edgecast.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28226051/ec85dda64cda52764a68ed2ea208b0a3de078138.png

MULTIPLAYER

Multiplayer is one of those things that's been plaguing us for quite some time now, and whilst the previous patch put it in a good spot it became clear that there was still room for improvement. Over the last few months we have been extensively testing multiplayer and, we believe, our efforts have bore fruit - delicious digital fruit to be specific! I am, of course, referring to the new and improved net-code! The changes to the net-code are rather significant when put into perspective. If you recall, issuing orders was often a chore in and of itself, and you'd be sporting a full beard before you'd placed your first building. Obviously, this was not acceptable, and we have looked at different ways of alleviating this issue for our fans. With the new and improved net-codes you'll be issuing orders faster than an overworked employee at Starbucks, and you'll look good doing it too! In less round-about terms, your performance will be much better than it was previously. If you've tried to play with someone from across the globe or who has a less than ideal connection, then you will no longer have time to order a pizza, then eat it, before your game realises that you asked it to do something thirty minutes ago. Or your pizza is free. In addition to this, the game will be much more consistent later on when lots of things are happening. One of the biggest causes of delay was during the late game when lots of characters were doing whatever they do, and when workers were finally using their nailguns for something other than nailing themselves to the supports of your latest building. As a result, feel free to engage in lots of fighting without the game fighting to keep itself in sync! On the topic of sync, or more specifically desync, we have tracked and eliminated several additional causes of the aforementioned loss of sync. We are cautious to advertise it as completely desync free, but we believe we have got the main culprits. Of course, if you do experience a desync then let us know and we'll investigate it! It's worth mentioning that clients who go out of sync with the host will have a nifty "1" displayed in the bottom-left corner of their screen. If this is not being display then you have not gone out of sync! Whilst we are confident that even people who have low bandwidth can still stream Netflix, and build, we advise against doing that as there will be times where the game needs to catch up. However, it will mostly be a short delay and it will keep everything synced up juuuust right. http://cdn.edgecast.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28226051/538bfb6f53bb1379ab2ae6789c0164a31abc0122.png

MISSIONS

The missions are another part many of you will be wondering about, and unfortunately we weren't able to launch any with this update. Whilst the missions themselves are close to being implemented, we are still waiting on the narrations (starring Mr. Challis himself), as well as the translations for each one. We understand that this is somewhat disappointing for those who have been waiting, but we want to make sure that they do not have any glaring issues of stability like the good ol' tutorial. As previously mentioned, the missions will be a mixture of story-based, and goal-oriented missions like those found in Street Wars, as well as mini-challenge missions which give you very specific set of goals for the entire level. We can confirm that Constructor Plus will also contain its own missions on top of the base ones. We are very much looking forward to sharing all of them with you, the wonderful fans of Constructor. In the coming weeks we may provide sneak peeks at the missions to give you, the curious fans, a little more in the way of information. However, we will do our best to stop short of completely spoiling the missions. http://cdn.edgecast.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28226051/f64177b7ccb5cb1e9c039243dc8889f629103692.gif

OVERALL GAME STABILITY

For many of you Constructor runs just fine, but there is always the odd issue that comes up when you least expect it, and steals five hours of progress from you. We have used the time since the last update to rigorously stamp out yet more crashes, and fix a bunch of other bugs with the game so that you can get back to building a better world! We expect that for the vast majority of fans the game will have no problems, and things will run as expected. However, we still have a list of issues to work through, including the infamous 'walking on the spot' glitch that shows up to steal away an undesirable from you, or the unsuspecting AI. By the way, if you're just joining us now and are curious on how things have changed you can take a look at the previous patches in order of release here, here, here, and here. In addition you will find the supplement thread for this patch here.

WHAT'S NEW IN THIS UPDATE?

New Features

• Tenant voices can now be muted in the 'Assign tenant screen'. • HQ fences will now change depending on the map the player has selected. • Changed fence for several classic buildings. • Allow player to access options from in-game pause menu. • Allow computer to choose more variety of fences for each tenant type. • Allow computer to build DLC houses. • Fence defence no longer influences take-over hits but instead provides a bonus to property defence against nearby explosions. • Number of tenants, cadets, and mob favours available can now be changed in Designer mode.

General Fixes

• Certain complaints are no longer specific to a difficulty level and can instead be adjusted using "Complaints Included" in the options menu. • Sending a worker into an enemy utility no longer lets you interact with the building. • Game can no longer be saved during the tutorial which caused issues if the tutorial was reloaded whilst player was inside a building. • Tutorial progress no longer impeded as a result of getting a tenant too early. • Fixed crash when jumping from house gadget screen to exterior gadget placement. • Game will no longer crash when jumping from the Prison screen to the residential manager, estate manager or external gadget placement screens. • Fixed corruption to background which occurs when visiting Missions/Police/Mob screen from house gadget screen. • Fixed road sections that were missing in Riverside and Concrete City. • Fixed a bug which caused complaints which stopped rent being paid to still affect rent in War Mode. • War Mode can no longer be started without at least one opponent. • Fixed a crash which occurred if the HQ exploded while the player had the HQ open. • Player will no longer hear flames from enemy buildings that are off-screen. • Fixed issue with juddering footprint when auto placing houses which had the potential to cause the game to crash if a building was placed illegally as a result. • Game will no longer display incorrect tenant info for "Infested" or "Squatter tenants". • The game will no longer crash as a result of the thief attempting to steal a weapon from an enemy Mob HQ. • The thief no longer walks on the spot when attempting to steal a weapon from an enemy Mob HQ. • Fixed an issue where characters were attacking beyond their range. • Fixed looping situation when going overdrawn in Designer mode.

Multiplayer fixes

• Multiplayer code has been updated to resolve issues with extreme delay. • Thug Rave no longer causes multiplayer to desync. • Fixed an issue involving Mr.Fixit's electrify ability. • Prevent crash when joining network game in some languages.

Localisation

• Russian localisation now released. • Allow Cyrillic usernames in saved games. • Additional adjustments to Portuguese Brazilian.

Hot Fix - 30/01/18

• Reverted a change to the maximum number of Mob Favours and Police Cadets so that this maximum value is only applicable during Designer mode. Bear in mind that you can go over this limit if you create gangsters, but this will have no effect as gangsters have their own cap. We hope that you enjoy the latest update, and we look forward to sharing even more of Constructor with you as we move through 2018. Thank you for your continued support, and patience. We couldn't ask for a better fanbase! ːlovekami_heartː - System 3

http://cdn.edgecast.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28226051/82e7a317e4a22ce634aae6b72cada3e427856a03.png https://youtu.be/1BK46uqXChk *Tick tick tick* *BZZZzzzzzttt*

IMPORTANT PLEASE READ IF USING UNOFFICIAL RUSSIAN LOCALISATION

If you are using the Siberian GRemlin release of the Russian localisation, and the game crashes upon trying to start, please uninstall it as there will be issues with the new patch due to changes to the text. You can uninstall Siberian GRemlin's release by running the uninstaller that came bundled with it. Alternatively, if you are unsure about this delete everything in the DATA folder EXCEPT the DATA.FIL file, delete any external fonts in the FONTS folder too. After doing this please verify your game to ensure that nothing is missing from it.

CONSTRUCTOR - ABOUT BLOODY TIME! UPDATE

Yes, you wonderful people, that's the sound of an update being released for Constructor, and it's about bloody time if you ask us! Now, we realise that the last time we released an update for the game man had only just discovered fire (has it really been that long?!), but we've been hard at work improving multiple areas of the game. So, whilst your update is in progress let's sit down and talk about some of these improvements. Oh, but where are my manners? I am, of course, the brightful BrightPaw who will be bringing you yet another announcement from within the bowels of hel-System 3. So without further ado, let's take a trip down patch-way pass. Oh, and don't feed the programmers!

NEW FEATURES

In this patch we will be introducing a number of new things to Constructor. The first is, of course, the new net-code but as this has its own section down below we will save the nattering until then. When you start the game up you may notice several new fences in the game which can be built for your tenants. Each of these have their own defensive values as well as stress factors. On the topic of defensive values, the value displayed for fences no longer correlates to a rough idea of how many hits they can take before a foreman removes it. Each fence now provides a bonus to the property it surrounds in terms of protecting from nearby explosions. So, if you're planning on building a hedgerow you'd better get some shutters installed quick-smart! The AI will also now make use of any DLC buildings you happen to own. As we've only currently released one pack they will only make use of the buildings in that pack. However, as your collection increases so too will the AI's collection. You know what they say about sharing and caring, don't you? In addition, for anyone who hated the voices of the tenants but preferred the soothing ramblings of the narrators, you can now mute the tenant voices. This feature is accessed from within the tenant selection screen as a new toggle button. This will only need to be toggled once.

BUILDING PACK TWO - Out Soon

We appreciate the patience of the fans who have supported us since release and, as a gift, we will be making the second building pack free for two weeks in February. Be sure to pick it up while its hot! You can see the buildings it will include below - a fine set of accommodation, and utilities, for your picky tenants. http://cdn.edgecast.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28226051/ec85dda64cda52764a68ed2ea208b0a3de078138.png

MULTIPLAYER

Multiplayer is one of those things that's been plaguing us for quite some time now, and whilst the previous patch put it in a good spot it became clear that there was still room for improvement. Over the last few months we have been extensively testing multiplayer and, we believe, our efforts have bore fruit - delicious digital fruit to be specific! I am, of course, referring to the new and improved net-code! The changes to the net-code are rather significant when put into perspective. If you recall, issuing orders was often a chore in and of itself, and you'd be sporting a full beard before you'd placed your first building. Obviously, this was not acceptable, and we have looked at different ways of alleviating this issue for our fans. With the new and improved net-codes you'll be issuing orders faster than an overworked employee at Starbucks, and you'll look good doing it too! In less round-about terms, your performance will be much better than it was previously. If you've tried to play with someone from across the globe or who has a less than ideal connection, then you will no longer have time to order a pizza, then eat it, before your game realises that you asked it to do something thirty minutes ago. Or your pizza is free. In addition to this, the game will be much more consistent later on when lots of things are happening. One of the biggest causes of delay was during the late game when lots of characters were doing whatever they do, and when workers were finally using their nailguns for something other than nailing themselves to the supports of your latest building. As a result, feel free to engage in lots of fighting without the game fighting to keep itself in sync! On the topic of sync, or more specifically desync, we have tracked and eliminated several additional causes of the aforementioned loss of sync. We are cautious to advertise it as completely desync free, but we believe we have got the main culprits. Of course, if you do experience a desync then let us know and we'll investigate it! It's worth mentioning that clients who go out of sync with the host will have a nifty "1" displayed in the bottom-left corner of their screen. If this is not being display then you have not gone out of sync! Whilst we are confident that even people who have low bandwidth can still stream Netflix, and build, we advise against doing that as there will be times where the game needs to catch up. However, it will mostly be a short delay and it will keep everything synced up juuuust right. http://cdn.edgecast.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28226051/538bfb6f53bb1379ab2ae6789c0164a31abc0122.png

MISSIONS

The missions are another part many of you will be wondering about, and unfortunately we weren't able to launch any with this update. Whilst the missions themselves are close to being implemented, we are still waiting on the narrations (starring Mr. Challis himself), as well as the translations for each one. We understand that this is somewhat disappointing for those who have been waiting, but we want to make sure that they do not have any glaring issues of stability like the good ol' tutorial. As previously mentioned, the missions will be a mixture of story-based, and goal-oriented missions like those found in Street Wars, as well as mini-challenge missions which give you very specific set of goals for the entire level. We can confirm that Constructor Plus will also contain its own missions on top of the base ones. We are very much looking forward to sharing all of them with you, the wonderful fans of Constructor. In the coming weeks we may provide sneak peeks at the missions to give you, the curious fans, a little more in the way of information. However, we will do our best to stop short of completely spoiling the missions. http://cdn.edgecast.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28226051/f64177b7ccb5cb1e9c039243dc8889f629103692.gif

OVERALL GAME STABILITY

For many of you Constructor runs just fine, but there is always the odd issue that comes up when you least expect it, and steals five hours of progress from you. We have used the time since the last update to rigorously stamp out yet more crashes, and fix a bunch of other bugs with the game so that you can get back to building a better world! We expect that for the vast majority of fans the game will have no problems, and things will run as expected. However, we still have a list of issues to work through, including the infamous 'walking on the spot' glitch that shows up to steal away an undesirable from you, or the unsuspecting AI. By the way, if you're just joining us now and are curious on how things have changed you can take a look at the previous patches in order of release here(2017). You will find the supplement thread for this patch here.

WHAT'S NEW IN THIS UPDATE?

New Features

• Tenant voices can now be muted in the 'Assign tenant screen'. • HQ fences will now change depending on the map the player has selected. • Changed fence for several classic buildings. • Allow player to access options from in-game pause menu. • Allow computer to choose more variety of fences for each tenant type. • Allow computer to build DLC houses. • Fence defence no longer influences take-over hits but instead provides a bonus to property defence against nearby explosions. • Number of tenants, cadets, and mob favours available can now be changed in Designer mode.

General Fixes

• Certain complaints are no longer specific to a difficulty level and can instead be adjusted using "Complaints Included" in the options menu. • Sending a worker into an enemy utility no longer lets you interact with the building. • Game can no longer be saved during the tutorial which caused issues if the tutorial was reloaded whilst player was inside a building. • Tutorial progress no longer impeded as a result of getting a tenant too early. • Fixed crash when jumping from house gadget screen to exterior gadget placement. • Game will no longer crash when jumping from the Prison screen to the residential manager, estate manager or external gadget placement screens. • Fixed corruption to background which occurs when visiting Missions/Police/Mob screen from house gadget screen. • Fixed road sections that were missing in Riverside and Concrete City. • Fixed a bug which caused complaints which stopped rent being paid to still affect rent in War Mode. • War Mode can no longer be started without at least one opponent. • Fixed a crash which occurred if the HQ exploded while the player had the HQ open. • Player will no longer hear flames from enemy buildings that are off-screen. • Fixed issue with juddering footprint when auto placing houses which had the potential to cause the game to crash if a building was placed illegally as a result. • Game will no longer display incorrect tenant info for "Infested" or "Squatter tenants". • The game will no longer crash as a result of the thief attempting to steal a weapon from an enemy Mob HQ. • The thief no longer walks on the spot when attempting to steal a weapon from an enemy Mob HQ. • Fixed an issue where characters were attacking beyond their range. • Fixed looping situation when going overdrawn in Designer mode.

Multiplayer fixes

• Multiplayer code has been updated to resolve issues with extreme delay. • Thug Rave no longer causes multiplayer to desync. • Fixed an issue involving Mr.Fixit's electrify ability. • Prevent crash when joining network game in some languages.

Localisation

• Russian localisation now released. • Allow Cyrillic usernames in saved games. • Additional adjustments to Portuguese Brazilian.

Hot Fix - 30/01/18

• Reverted a change to the maximum number of Mob Favours and Police Cadets so that this maximum value is only applicable during Designer mode. Bear in mind that you can go over this limit if you create gangsters, but this will have no effect as gangsters have their own cap. We hope that you enjoy the latest update, and we look forward to sharing even more of Constructor with you as we move through 2018. Thank you for your continued support, and patience. We couldn't ask for a better fanbase! :lovekami_heart: - System 3

http://cdn.edgecast.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28226051/c0fa25608d24a6ad227aa11e4dfe193d79844e4b.jpg Merry January to you, the beautiful fans of Constructor! It is I, the Brightful BrightPaw with another announcement. However, before we touch on what's what... How is everyone? Has the new year been treating you well? Let's hope it has been well! We know a lot of your were probably expecting more information on Constructor Plus, but we wanted to address concerns regarding our baby, Constructor, before we continue to tell you all of the new things that are on the way. Stay tuned for more news on that later this month. ːlovekami_heartː So what is the kerfuffle? Well, Constructor will be receiving an update this January to address online issues, crashes, and a few adjustments to correct some of the cheekier issues. Goodbye, gangster that fires a shotgun well beyond its intended range! We'll not miss you! (Just kidding, he may be missed in single player...) BTW does "kerfuffle" sound like a type of candy, or is it just me? Anyways... In addition to the patch, we want to acknowledge all of the fans who have supported us since last year. We have very much appreciated any feedback positive or negative, and are impressed with the level of patience some of you possess (it's over 9,000!!!!) It's great to have one of the best fan bases a development team could ask for, and we look forward to continuing to share the wonderful world of Constructor with you, the ever supportive fans. On the note of sharing, we will be giving to all of our fans the option to pick up building pack two absolutely free. An announcement will go out on the same day, so be sure to pick it up as soon as possible. Please be aware that it will only be free for two weeks starting from the release of the pack, although many of you are very fast so we expect you will pick it up within... Carry the two, and multiply it by the speed of a foreman's clipboard... a very fast time! http://cdn.edgecast.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28226051/ed0344f9b250e40c2a0d009e42fe3f97694396e2.png We are very sorry for the delays in getting the latest update out, and we completely understand that for many of you it has been quite the wait. However, our primary concern was putting our heads down, digging through the code, and squashing the bugs that were keeping you, the FANtastic fans (sorry about that one), from being the best property developers this side of riverside. It was also our desire that we conduct emergency surgery on the multiplayer code, and I can safely say that we have ripped out many of the problems plaguing it. We believe it will be a much better experience where the time it takes to issue an order does not equate to you growing a full beard, or becoming a skeleton. We are definitely looking forward to unleashing the new multiplayer code on all of you! It will be especially wonderful seeing the kind of Constructor-related mayhem that you, the fans, will unleash upon each other in four player mode. Be sure to share the details of your victory (or loss) with us! ːfhappyː Once again, thank you for your support. Let's make 2018 a great year together! ːlovekami_heartː We will be taking an in-depth look at some of the new skyscrapers very soon, as well as some of the additional space levels. And now... if you'd like a little closer of a look at what's in building pack two... Then click this link, and you'll sink, into a world of pure Americanization. I've just been told I am to get off the stage effective immediately... Quick-note: To PS4 owners who may also happen to visit us on Steam, note that the second building pack will be going live in two weeks at which point you may pick it up for free. ːlovekami_heartː System 3

http://cdn.edgecast.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28226051/c0fa25608d24a6ad227aa11e4dfe193d79844e4b.jpg Merry January to you, the beautiful fans of Constructor! It is I, the Brightful BrightPaw with another announcement. However, before we touch on what's what... How is everyone? Has the new year been treating you well? Let's hope it has been well! We know a lot of your were probably expecting more information on Constructor Plus, but we wanted to address concerns regarding our baby, Constructor, before we continue to tell you all of the new things that are on the way. Stay tuned for more news on that later this month. :lovekami_heart: So what is the kerfuffle? Well, Constructor will be receiving an update this January to address online issues, crashes, and a few adjustments to correct some of the cheekier issues. Goodbye, gangster that fires a shotgun well beyond its intended range! We'll not miss you! (Just kidding, he may be missed in single player...) BTW does "kerfuffle" sound like a type of candy, or is it just me? Anyways... In addition to the patch, we want to acknowledge all of the fans who have supported us since last year. We have very much appreciated any feedback positive or negative, and are impressed with the level of patience some of you possess (it's over 9,000!!!!) It's great to have one of the best fan bases a development team could ask for, and we look forward to continuing to share the wonderful world of Constructor with you, the ever supportive fans. On the note of sharing, we will be giving to all of our fans the option to pick up building pack two absolutely free. An announcement will go out on the same day, so be sure to pick it up as soon as possible. Please be aware that it will only be free for two weeks starting from the release of the pack, although many of you are very fast so we expect you will pick it up within... Carry the two, and multiply it by the speed of a foreman's clipboard... a very fast time! http://cdn.edgecast.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28226051/ed0344f9b250e40c2a0d009e42fe3f97694396e2.png We are very sorry for the delays in getting the latest update out, and we completely understand that for many of you it has been quite the wait. However, our primary concern was putting our heads down, digging through the code, and squashing the bugs that were keeping you, the FANtastic fans (sorry about that one), from being the best property developers this side of riverside. It was also our desire that we conduct emergency surgery on the multiplayer code, and I can safely say that we have ripped out many of the problems plaguing it. We believe it will be a much better experience where the time it takes to issue an order does not equate to you growing a full beard, or becoming a skeleton. We are definitely looking forward to unleashing the new multiplayer code on all of you! It will be especially wonderful seeing the kind of Constructor-related mayhem that you, the fans, will unleash upon each other in four player mode. Be sure to share the details of your victory (or loss) with us! :fhappy: Once again, thank you for your support. Let's make 2018 a great year together! :lovekami_heart: We will be taking an in-depth look at some of the new skyscrapers very soon, as well as some of the additional space levels. And now... if you'd like a little closer of a look at what's in building pack two... Then click this link, and you'll sink, into a world of pure Americanization. I've just been told I am to get off the stage effective immediately... Quick-note: To PS4 owners who may also happen to visit us on Steam, note that the second building pack will be going live in two weeks at which point you may pick it up for free. :lovekami_heart: System 3

https://youtu.be/-NTZkDyj_ng (HNYTAOOWF for short) Note: If you don't want to read this announcement in one sitting I have placed a few key points at the start of this for your reading pleasure. However, if there are things which aren't quite clear, please check that the article has not covered them already!

Key points to take away from this announcement

• Constructor will be receiving updates this quarter. We are expecting to have everything ready to start rolling out the updates late January. Apologies for the delays thus far!
• Support for Constructor will not be dropped in favour of Constructor Plus. Constructor Plus is an upgrade for Constructor, but not owning it does not stop you from receiving updates to the base game and, where possible, additional content.
• Constructor Plus is planned to be released late Q1, and existing owners can upgrade to it for £5.99. It will include many new buildings, some new levels, and additional missions on top of what the base game will contain. However, upgrading is completely optional.
• We will be revealing more in the coming weeks regarding the plan going forward.

Our story begins...

Hello, you beautiful people. It is I, the Brightful BrightPaw along with the other fantastic folks from System 3, with (finally) an announcement from within the deep dark dungeons of... well... System 3. Kidding, it's more like a padded cell and I have only just been let out to spread the news about what's coming next, coming soon... Coming when? So, firstly we want to wish all of our wonderful fans a happy new year! We hope that you have achieved all that you desired in 2017, and are moving into 2018 with a new set of goals in mind. Our goal happens to be releasing an update, and maybe cutting back on the pumpkin spice lattes... Scratch that, it's all about the update! We appreciate that this is a rather long news post, but we felt that there was a lot of ground to cover with some of the upcoming stuff. We thought it best to get the boring stuff out of the way first before digging into the rest of the content! http://cdn.edgecast.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28226051/830112631ca707dc7de3dfeb1c79b5d0b6a42c19.jpg

Hold your horses... What about the existing version?

Good question! We will be releasing updates for the existing versions prior to the launch of Constructor Plus. You can expect this update late January to February depending on how quickly we can get the work completed (translation, narration and other such tasks) This update will add support for additional languages, fix multiple issues, and of course address some of the more pressing issues with multiplayer. We will add that multiplayer is going to be an ongoing process so please bear with us! The update is also planned include the missions that we have been hinting at (did anyone notice the missions button on the menu?) for the past few months. Without spoiling them too much, we can happily say that they will be a mixed bag of story, and simple goal-based missions. There will be something for everyone to try out! http://cdn.edgecast.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28226051/027a3046cb2c76dd89695bea5fea415092526c92.png Well, maybe not these two! Remember: Constructor Plus is completely separate to the updates that will be rolling out. You will not be paying to receive updates to the existing version of the game! But BrightPaw, what even is this update? You guys have mentioned it since July and we haven't seen anything since then. You're a horrible person, BrightPaw. Now, wait just a minute. For all you know I may in fact be a highly sentient AI created to spit out announcements when the time is right. Well, as I have stated ERROR CODE: 01000011 01101111 01101110 01110011 01110100 01110010 01110101 01100011 01110100 01101111 01110010 00100000 01010000 01101100 01110101 01110011 00100000 01101001 01110011 00100000 01100011 01101111 01101101 01101001 01101110 01100111 You should probably plug that into a binary decoder. It looks important. I'll wait... No, really. Okay, so you've decoded a rather unimportant message but while you were doing that it gave me time to put together the following statement regarding Constructor Plus. http://cdn.edgecast.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28226051/95593ff4f2197a99c427214d09e1fbd8618f885d.jpg

What is Constructor Plus?

Constructor Plus is a massive (optional) upgrade that will bundle together multiple DLCs, a few new Plus exclusive things such as additional missions and levels. You can call it a season pass, expansion, gold edition, deluxe edition, or whatever else you want, but we will simply be referring to it as Constructor Plus. Like, Constructor Plus all of these new, yet to be revealed, goodies! There will be two options to access the content for Plus:

If you are late to the party, we'd recommend picking up Constructor while it's still on sale. Once you have it, you'll automatically have the option (at a later date) to upgrade to Plus for only £5.99 - that is a significant saving compared to if we released the packs separately. This will also be the option available to existing owners of Constructor across each platform.

If you miss the sale, and don't own the game, then you will instead have the option to buy Constructor Plus at its regular price. Pro-tip: Don't miss the sale! So what does this mean for the people who don't upgrade? Well, if you find yourself in tough times, or you just don't want to upgrade because you don't care about some of the new content, we will still be supporting the base version of the game. You will even be able to play the new levels (assuming the host has them) at no cost during multiplayer games just like the current DLC levels. http://cdn.edgecast.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28226051/dc9324a38d3917cc7fc7d6d0617efc74337da9ff.jpg It's at this point that we must again emphasise: You do not need to buy the upgrade to continue to receive updates for the non-Plus version!

But what about the extra building packs you showed us in July?

At the time we weren't ready to release the new buildings, which is why they had a lovely "COMING SOON" sticker plastered over them. Unfortunately, by the time they were ready to ship we had already put the next stage of Constructor into motion - the aforementioned Constructor Plus. At this point we had two options:

• Release the packs as they were knowing that in the future Constructor Plus would be coming, and would contain all of them at a greater discount to existing owners.
• Delay them until Constructor Plus releases at which point fans will be able to access all of the new buildings (and other goodies!) for a much cheaper price of £5.99 compared to what would, separately, cost about the same as the price of the base game alone!

As has become apparent, we picked the latter option in order to pass on the savings to the wonderful fans that had supported us in 2017. http://cdn.edgecast.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28226051/0ed4a05d3494e65697e129252137037c1bb241e4.jpg

So what is the plan for the next month or so?

We will be unveiling all of the wonderful stuff that will be shipping with Plus including new buildings and levels. Stay tuned for follow-up announcements as we draw closer to the mystical release date! If you have been following our Facebook page, and if not you can find it here, you may have noticed some screenshots of our newest level "Lunar Alpha". We will have more details on that, as well as some previews of it, in future announcements. We will be releasing more space levels, but unfortunately we will not be selling these separately as the level pack alone would end up being the same cost as the upgrade to Constructor Plus. How about a quick screenshot of Lunar Alpha? You can see more of it on our Facebook page, but stay tuned for future announcements where we will be giving you a much better look at the level, as well as some of the upcoming buildings. http://cdn.edgecast.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28226051/28af681e258135a53327224f6cb405a09eba501f.jpg We wish you, the ever wonderful fans of Constructor, a happy new year! *Fireworks noises* - System 3

https://youtu.be/-NTZkDyj_ng (HNYTAOOWF for short) Note: If you don't want to read this announcement in one sitting I have placed a few key points at the start of this for your reading pleasure. However, if there are things which aren't quite clear, please check that the article has not covered them already!

Key points to take away from this announcement

• Constructor will be receiving updates this quarter. We are expecting to have everything ready to start rolling out the updates late January. Apologies for the delays thus far!
• Support for Constructor will not be dropped in favour of Constructor Plus. Constructor Plus is an upgrade for Constructor, but not owning it does not stop you from receiving updates to the base game and, where possible, additional content.
• Constructor Plus is planned to be released late Q1, and existing owners can upgrade to it. It will include many new buildings, some new levels, and additional missions on top of what the base game will contain. However, upgrading is completely optional.
• We will be revealing more in the coming weeks regarding the plan going forward.

Our story begins...

Hello, you beautiful people. It is I, the Brightful BrightPaw along with the other fantastic folks from System 3, with (finally) an announcement from within the deep dark dungeons of... well... System 3. Kidding, it's more like a padded cell and I have only just been let out to spread the news about what's coming next, coming soon... Coming when? So, firstly we want to wish all of our wonderful fans a happy new year! We hope that you have achieved all that you desired in 2017, and are moving into 2018 with a new set of goals in mind. Our goal happens to be releasing an update, and maybe cutting back on the pumpkin spice lattes... Scratch that, it's all about the update! We appreciate that this is a rather long news post, but we felt that there was a lot of ground to cover with some of the upcoming stuff. We thought it best to get the boring stuff out of the way first before digging into the rest of the content! http://cdn.edgecast.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28226051/830112631ca707dc7de3dfeb1c79b5d0b6a42c19.jpg

Hold your horses... What about the existing version?

Good question! We will be releasing updates for the existing versions prior to the launch of Constructor Plus. You can expect this update late January to February depending on how quickly we can get the work completed (translation, narration and other such tasks) This update will add support for additional languages, fix multiple issues, and of course address some of the more pressing issues with multiplayer. We will add that multiplayer is going to be an ongoing process so please bear with us! The update is also planned include the missions that we have been hinting at (did anyone notice the missions button on the menu?) for the past few months. Without spoiling them too much, we can happily say that they will be a mixed bag of story, and simple goal-based missions. There will be something for everyone to try out! http://cdn.edgecast.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28226051/027a3046cb2c76dd89695bea5fea415092526c92.png Well, maybe not these two! Remember: Constructor Plus is completely separate to the updates that will be rolling out. You will not be paying to receive updates to the existing version of the game! But BrightPaw, what even is this update? You guys have mentioned it since July and we haven't seen anything since then. You're a horrible person, BrightPaw. Now, wait just a minute. For all you know I may in fact be a highly sentient AI created to spit out announcements when the time is right. Well, as I have stated ERROR CODE: 01000011 01101111 01101110 01110011 01110100 01110010 01110101 01100011 01110100 01101111 01110010 00100000 01010000 01101100 01110101 01110011 00100000 01101001 01110011 00100000 01100011 01101111 01101101 01101001 01101110 01100111 You should probably plug that into a binary decoder. It looks important. I'll wait... No, really. Okay, so you've decoded a rather unimportant message but while you were doing that it gave me time to put together the following statement regarding Constructor Plus. http://cdn.edgecast.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28226051/95593ff4f2197a99c427214d09e1fbd8618f885d.jpg

What is Constructor Plus?

Constructor Plus is a massive (optional) upgrade that will bundle together multiple DLCs, a few new Plus exclusive things such as additional missions and levels. You can call it a season pass, expansion, gold edition, deluxe edition, or whatever else you want, but we will simply be referring to it as Constructor Plus. Like, Constructor Plus all of these new, yet to be revealed, goodies! There will be two options to access the content for Plus:

If you are late to the party, we'd recommend picking up Constructor while it's still on sale. Once you have it, you'll automatically have the option (at a later date) to upgrade to Plus for only £5.99 - that is a significant saving compared to if we released the packs separately. This will also be the option available to existing owners of Constructor across each platform.

If you miss the sale, and don't own the game, then you will instead have the option to buy Constructor Plus at its regular price. Pro-tip: Don't miss the sale! So what does this mean for the people who don't upgrade? Well, if you find yourself in tough times, or you just don't want to upgrade because you don't care about some of the new content, we will still be supporting the base version of the game. You will even be able to play the new levels (assuming the host has them) at no cost during multiplayer games just like the current DLC levels. http://cdn.edgecast.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28226051/dc9324a38d3917cc7fc7d6d0617efc74337da9ff.jpg It's at this point that we must again emphasise: You do not need to buy the upgrade to continue to receive updates for the non-Plus version!

But what about the extra building packs you showed us in July?

At the time we weren't ready to release the new buildings, which is why they had a lovely "COMING SOON" sticker plastered over them. Unfortunately, by the time they were ready to ship we had already put the next stage of Constructor into motion - the aforementioned Constructor Plus. At this point we had two options:

• Release the packs as they were knowing that in the future Constructor Plus would be coming, and would contain all of them at a greater discount to existing owners.
• Delay them until Constructor Plus releases at which point fans will be able to access all of the new buildings (and other goodies!) for a much cheaper price of £5.99 compared to what would, separately, cost about the same as the price of the base game alone!

As has become apparent, we picked the latter option in order to pass on the savings to the wonderful fans that had supported us in 2017. http://cdn.edgecast.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28226051/0ed4a05d3494e65697e129252137037c1bb241e4.jpg

So what is the plan for the next month or so?

We will be unveiling all of the wonderful stuff that will be shipping with Plus including new buildings and levels. Stay tuned for follow-up announcements as we draw closer to the mystical release date! If you have been following our Facebook page, and if not you can find it here, you may have noticed some screenshots of our newest level "Lunar Alpha". We will have more details on that, as well as some previews of it, in future announcements. We will be releasing more space levels, but unfortunately we will not be selling these separately as the level pack alone would end up being the same cost as the upgrade to Constructor Plus. How about a quick screenshot of Lunar Alpha? You can see more of it on our Facebook page, but stay tuned for future announcements where we will be giving you a much better look at the level, as well as some of the upcoming buildings. http://cdn.edgecast.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28226051/28af681e258135a53327224f6cb405a09eba501f.jpg We wish you, the ever wonderful fans of Constructor, a happy new year! *Fireworks noises* - System 3

http://cdn.edgecast.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28226051/2fcc6414ccda776adfb28b1ace85bccfe823c36b.png

UPDATE - 01/08/17

We have released a hotfix to squash a few bugs (hopefully for good!) Hop on over to the mini-thread here!

Constructor Patch 4 - Better Homes and Gardens Update

Patch 4 HYPE! Let's all be as excited as this guy! Welcome to Constructor's fourth patch, you lovely people! It is I, your brightful BrightPaw with another amazing announcement for you, the beautiful fans of Constructor! What a month it's been and what an update we have in store for you! After much deliberation we tracked and squashed the slow-motion issue that would've made Neo blush! It's our hope that these changes also carry over to multiplayer and allow our wonderful fans to participate in some juicy four player chaos! In addition we've made a fair few changes to the multiplayer code and hope that your experience is much better. As such we would appreciate your feedback on the latest multiplayer fixes. Why the long wait for all of this? Well... it Texas time to implement all of these wonderful things! Oh, come on, it wasn't that bad of a pun. Erm, speaking of Texas... http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28226051/221ca41f935f273e1900fa6c0fb9447134a2becf.png We're happy to announce that our second set of blue-prints will soon be ready for your estate manager to review! These prints were inspired by some of the more unique offerings of the good ol' US of A and were collected over what can only be described as "the world's longest road trip." It's also at this point you, the lovely reader, are trying to imagine what a car full of developers would look like and it's with great sadness I must report that it was more of a tour bus. The set of blue-prints will explore a variety of architecture from the shabby trailers of Montana, the weathered houses of Cape Cod all the way up to the grand Neo-Classical design. If you're feeling particularly patriotic then you'll be glad to know you can express it in the form of the towering Monument of Washington or the awe-inspiring Statue of Liberty - your tenants will be glad you did! http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28226051/b91f5ce8fc628423c50b4c75b2a8bc46cf4c903a.png We hope to have these blue-prints ready for your use very soon and hope that you love the look of the new buildings. Our favourites are the "Wright Modern" and the "Airstream Trailer". If you have a particular building you're looking forward to using let us know in the comments! http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28226051/b6312e58f5615e3ae757ba46076c63efac4aa965.png If you're just joining us now and you're curious on how things have changed you can take a look at the previous patches in order of release here, here and here. In addition you will find the supplement thread for this patch here. Of course, if you're simply after the latest changes in this patch you will find them below!

What's new in this patch?

New Features

• Brazilian-Portuguese is now available - special thanks to Octávio Augusto whose assistance in proof-reading the translation was greatly appreciated! ːfhappyː
• Garden objects (such as garden furniture) can now provide different happiness (or stress) to tenants.
• Tenants will now gain happiness from certain fences.
• Tenant's rent is also influenced by the house itself – not just the free-hold value.
• Breeding speed can be influenced by the sort of house a tenant is placed inside. This affects each tenant differently!
• DIY Repair Kits – two for one special. You can now manufacture two repair kits at a time rather than one, and the factory cap has been lifted to ten at a time in storage. This should help our fans keep their buildings in check late-game!

General Fixes

• Attempting to move characters to illegal positions on certain parts of Burgerville no longer causes the game to crash.
• Falling below 60FPS no longer causes the game to enter into super slow-motion.
• Police will no longer get stuck when attempting to arrest a deceased character.

Multiplayer Fixes

• Ingame message character limit increased to 80.
• Network lobbies are no longer displayed until they have been fully initialised.
• Friends can no longer join your game through the friend's list if they're already in a game with you.
• Slow machines should no longer cause issues during multiplayer games.
• Multiplayer lobbies are no longer able to be joined after the game has started.
• Host setup no longer causes players to be thrown out during custom game startup.

We would like to thank all of our faithful Constructor fans for their continued support and patience, and wish you all a wonderful week of Constructor!

http://cdn.edgecast.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28226051/2fcc6414ccda776adfb28b1ace85bccfe823c36b.png

UPDATE - 01/08/17

We have released a hotfix to squash a few bugs (hopefully for good!) Hop on over to the mini-thread here!

Constructor Patch 4 - Better Homes and Gardens Update

Patch 4 HYPE! Let's all be as excited as this guy! Welcome to Constructor's fourth patch, you lovely people! It is I, your brightful BrightPaw with another amazing announcement for you, the beautiful fans of Constructor! What a month it's been and what an update we have in store for you! After much deliberation we tracked and squashed the slow-motion issue that would've made Neo blush! It's our hope that these changes also carry over to multiplayer and allow our wonderful fans to participate in some juicy four player chaos! In addition we've made a fair few changes to the multiplayer code and hope that your experience is much better. As such we would appreciate your feedback on the latest multiplayer fixes. Why the long wait for all of this? Well... it Texas time to implement all of these wonderful things! Oh, come on, it wasn't that bad of a pun. Erm, speaking of Texas... http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28226051/221ca41f935f273e1900fa6c0fb9447134a2becf.png We're happy to announce that our second set of blue-prints will soon be ready for your estate manager to review! These prints were inspired by some of the more unique offerings of the good ol' US of A and were collected over what can only be described as "the world's longest road trip." It's also at this point you, the lovely reader, are trying to imagine what a car full of developers would look like and it's with great sadness I must report that it was more of a tour bus. The set of blue-prints will explore a variety of architecture from the shabby trailers of Montana, the weathered houses of Cape Cod all the way up to the grand Neo-Classical design. If you're feeling particularly patriotic then you'll be glad to know you can express it in the form of the towering Monument of Washington or the awe-inspiring Statue of Liberty - your tenants will be glad you did! http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28226051/b91f5ce8fc628423c50b4c75b2a8bc46cf4c903a.png We hope to have these blue-prints ready for your use very soon and hope that you love the look of the new buildings. Our favourites are the "Wright Modern" and the "Airstream Trailer". If you have a particular building you're looking forward to using let us know in the comments! http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28226051/b6312e58f5615e3ae757ba46076c63efac4aa965.png By the way, if you're just joining us now and are curious on how things have changed you can take a look at the previous patches in order of release here(2017). Of course, if you're simply after the latest changes in this patch you will find them below!

What's new in this patch?

New Features

• Brazilian-Portuguese is now available - special thanks to Octávio Augusto whose assistance in proof-reading the translation was greatly appreciated! :fhappy:
• Garden objects (such as garden furniture) can now provide different happiness (or stress) to tenants.
• Tenants will now gain happiness from certain fences.
• Tenant's rent is also influenced by the house itself – not just the free-hold value.
• Breeding speed can be influenced by the sort of house a tenant is placed inside. This affects each tenant differently!
• DIY Repair Kits – two for one special. You can now manufacture two repair kits at a time rather than one, and the factory cap has been lifted to ten at a time in storage. This should help our fans keep their buildings in check late-game!

General Fixes

• Attempting to move characters to illegal positions on certain parts of Burgerville no longer causes the game to crash.
• Falling below 60FPS no longer causes the game to enter into super slow-motion.
• Police will no longer get stuck when attempting to arrest a deceased character.

Multiplayer Fixes

• Ingame message character limit increased to 80.
• Network lobbies are no longer displayed until they have been fully initialised.
• Friends can no longer join your game through the friend's list if they're already in a game with you.
• Slow machines should no longer cause issues during multiplayer games.
• Multiplayer lobbies are no longer able to be joined after the game has started.
• Host setup no longer causes players to be thrown out during custom game startup.

We would like to thank all of our faithful Constructor fans for their continued support and patience, and wish you all a wonderful week of Constructor!

http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28226051/c44406eee514556a1980518c88b0557979b86b1d.jpg Dear loyal Constructor fans, From Friday Mob Rule will no longer be available on the store free of charge, to avoid any disappointment make sure to grab your copy now!

http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28226051/c44406eee514556a1980518c88b0557979b86b1d.jpg Dear loyal Constructor fans, From Friday Mob Rule will no longer be available on the store free of charge, to avoid any disappointment make sure to grab your copy now!

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Constructor Patch 3 - Fixes, features and more!

Hello, developers! We've just received some very important information that our gadget factory is placing the finishing touches on the next patch for Constructor. The foreman running the place has assured us that these are his best innovations yet - we'll believe it when we see it! http://cdn.edgecast.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28226051/c7fdbd453c05facb395b403529881508820a75ce.gif It looks like the last few additions are being packaged now... We don't remember this many garden gnomes being essential for a patch but the foreman has assured us that this is standard procedure at every gadget factory. We may need to bring him in for questioning after this as there is evidence to support the fact that he may not actually be qualified for the job. Enough blabbering we'll deal with him later. For your convenience we have included the condensed notes in this announcement but you can find the usual commentary in the patch notes section of the forum here. You may also wish to view the previous patches which can be found here and here. http://cdn.edgecast.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28226051/aa2efe552f06e2e2cdea35ae822d3fbc272177bd.png We will also be trialling the latest multiplayer fixes. This means that the release will be clamped to a maximum of two players to make sure that everything is running smoothly before we open up three and four player games. During this period we would greatly appreciate your feedback on your experience with multiplayer over the weekend. We thank you for your continued support and patience. http://cdn.edgecast.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28226051/37ed9764685c966ba56bf916352315f41f3a48e4.gif Blimey, even the Major is interested to see what all the commotion is about. He's a bit of a nosey bugger if you ask us!

Patch Notes 24/06/17

General Fixes

• A number of fail-safe fixes have been applied to prevent crashes which were identified from Xbox One crash dumps.
• Swapped movie player over to using Bink in order to allow 60fps videos, improve compatibility, avoid loop stalls and improve performance.
• Replaced Jungle icon to remove visible cursor.
• Auto convert of previous saved games for compatibility.
• Overcrowding/creation of Level 1 Tenants is no longer caused by the presence of a Hospital.
• Fixed designer mode saving to the wrong place.
• Added backwards compatibility to Small Town saves made prior to the first patch to prevent crashing.
• Disabled Function Keys during Tutorial to avoid invalid actions.
• Game no longer crashes when attempting to direct characters to an illegal position near the right-hand side of Burgerville.

New Features

• You can now toggle character animations to either play once or always.
• AI will now be able to attack one another as a toggle in options. You will find this in the gameplay options menu.
• AI build speed can now be adjusted in 10% increments from 50% to 400%. You will find this in the gameplay options menu.
• Implemented old-school site placement with toggle.
• Added timing info to HQ screen showing how long before next available child.
• Implemented shortcut keys for resources, conflict & tenant complaint icons.
  • 4 – Wood Yard
  • 5 – Cement Yard
  • 6 – Brick Yard
  • 7 – Steel Yard
  • T – View tenant complaints
  • F – Scroll up estate agent
  • V – Scroll down estate agent
  • S – repeated presses will cycle through each level of tenant housing
  • N – Go to last conflict
• Clicking on a complaining tenant's video will also show their complaint letter.

AI Adjustments

• Picketing an AI's resource will no longer permanently stop any buildings currently undergoing construction.
• Resolve lack of resources for computer AI after having resources picketed.
• AI are now more aware of any empty estates and will send repairmen accordingly.

Multiplayer Fixes

• Gain access to Gadgets earlier in Multiplayer mode.
• Stopped players being able to start games with DLC dependant maps if they've been in a network game with someone who owns it.
• Detection and warning about version when attempting to join multiplayer game to make sure that you have the latest version to avoid incompatibilities.
• Players will no longer be able to see their old network game when re-entering lobby whilst remaining players are still in the game.
• Correct lobby name when migrating host.
• Stop lobby becoming visible when game host is migrated during gameplay.
• Stop network error dialogs showing when not necessary.
• Network messages are no longer corrupted due to server handover.
• Changed size of messaging window in lobby to see more messages.

Please Note

As Steam is currently in the midst of the summer sale madness you may experience a slow patching process – this is unfortunate but we just know you're going to love the newest additions! We appreciate the continued patience and dedication to the game that our fans continue to show. We thank each and every one of you for your continued support and look forward to bringing you more updates in the future! We wish you all a very wonderful weekend! http://cdn.edgecast.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28226051/a9da1f95e1cc9182db53e6213a9cd3d3d2ce2552.png

http://cdn.edgecast.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28226051/d145ec33edce6491dc549840b475694e5860df63.png

Constructor Patch 3 - Fixes, features and more!

Hello, developers! We've just received some very important information that our gadget factory is placing the finishing touches on the next patch for Constructor. The foreman running the place has assured us that these are his best innovations yet - we'll believe it when we see it! http://cdn.edgecast.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28226051/c7fdbd453c05facb395b403529881508820a75ce.gif It looks like the last few additions are being packaged now... We don't remember this many garden gnomes being essential for a patch but the foreman has assured us that this is standard procedure at every gadget factory. We may need to bring him in for questioning after this as there is evidence to support the fact that he may not actually be qualified for the job. Enough blabbering we'll deal with him later. By the way, if you're just joining us now and are curious on how things have changed you can take a look at the previous patches in order of release here(2017). http://cdn.edgecast.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28226051/aa2efe552f06e2e2cdea35ae822d3fbc272177bd.png We will also be trialling the latest multiplayer fixes. This means that the release will be clamped to a maximum of two players to make sure that everything is running smoothly before we open up three and four player games. During this period we would greatly appreciate your feedback on your experience with multiplayer over the weekend. We thank you for your continued support and patience. http://cdn.edgecast.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28226051/37ed9764685c966ba56bf916352315f41f3a48e4.gif Blimey, even the Major is interested to see what all the commotion is about. He's a bit of a nosey bugger if you ask us!

Patch Notes 24/06/17

General Fixes

• A number of fail-safe fixes have been applied to prevent crashes which were identified from Xbox One crash dumps.
• Swapped movie player over to using Bink in order to allow 60fps videos, improve compatibility, avoid loop stalls and improve performance.
• Replaced Jungle icon to remove visible cursor.
• Auto convert of previous saved games for compatibility.
• Overcrowding/creation of Level 1 Tenants is no longer caused by the presence of a Hospital.
• Fixed designer mode saving to the wrong place.
• Added backwards compatibility to Small Town saves made prior to the first patch to prevent crashing.
• Disabled Function Keys during Tutorial to avoid invalid actions.
• Game no longer crashes when attempting to direct characters to an illegal position near the right-hand side of Burgerville.

New Features

• You can now toggle character animations to either play once or always.
• AI will now be able to attack one another as a toggle in options. You will find this in the gameplay options menu.
• AI build speed can now be adjusted in 10% increments from 50% to 400%. You will find this in the gameplay options menu.
• Implemented old-school site placement with toggle.
• Added timing info to HQ screen showing how long before next available child.
• Implemented shortcut keys for resources, conflict & tenant complaint icons.
  • 4 – Wood Yard
  • 5 – Cement Yard
  • 6 – Brick Yard
  • 7 – Steel Yard
  • T – View tenant complaints
  • F – Scroll up estate agent
  • V – Scroll down estate agent
  • S – repeated presses will cycle through each level of tenant housing
  • N – Go to last conflict
• Clicking on a complaining tenant's video will also show their complaint letter.

AI Adjustments

• Picketing an AI's resource will no longer permanently stop any buildings currently undergoing construction.
• Resolve lack of resources for computer AI after having resources picketed.
• AI are now more aware of any empty estates and will send repairmen accordingly.

Multiplayer Fixes

• Gain access to Gadgets earlier in Multiplayer mode.
• Stopped players being able to start games with DLC dependant maps if they've been in a network game with someone who owns it.
• Detection and warning about version when attempting to join multiplayer game to make sure that you have the latest version to avoid incompatibilities.
• Players will no longer be able to see their old network game when re-entering lobby whilst remaining players are still in the game.
• Correct lobby name when migrating host.
• Stop lobby becoming visible when game host is migrated during gameplay.
• Stop network error dialogs showing when not necessary.
• Network messages are no longer corrupted due to server handover.
• Changed size of messaging window in lobby to see more messages.

Please Note

As Steam is currently in the midst of the summer sale madness you may experience a slow patching process – this is unfortunate but we just know you're going to love the newest additions! We appreciate the continued patience and dedication to the game that our fans continue to show. We thank each and every one of you for your continued support and look forward to bringing you more updates in the future! We wish you all a very wonderful weekend! http://cdn.edgecast.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28226051/a9da1f95e1cc9182db53e6213a9cd3d3d2ce2552.png