Survivalist: Invisible Strain news & patch notes

Hello everyone, got kind of a bigger patch for you today as I've added pickpocketing and TAA (Temporal Anti-aliasing). The TAA is on a checkbox in the Settings/Graphics menu, it makes the black outlines look a lot smoother and more stable. Unfortunately it can make some other things a bit blurry when in motion so it's off by default. I prefer it despite the blur but your mileage may vary.

The motivation for adding pickpocketing was that one quest in Story Mode where you have to plant a necklace on someone - using choke hold felt overly difficult for an early game quest. I think it will also come in useful for the fetch quests where you have to get "the Doc's old labcoat" or something off someone. Maybe it'll make surviving the early stages a little easier as well.. hopefully not too easy but the consensus from new players still seems to be that the game is pretty difficult.

You can use it by creeping up behind someone and selecting Pickpocket underneath Choke Hold. You'll see a bar in the middle of the inventory screen which shows their awareness of being pickpocketed - if it reaches the top you'll be discovered when transferring something (and they'll attack you). How much it goes up depends on how heavy and how expensive the item is, and also on your stealth skill. It'll wibble up and down a bit so you might be able to get something more difficult if you click at the right time.

You can pause and unpause the game while pickpocketing, and in Single Player it pauses by default - but not in multiplayer, so be aware of that. Also be aware you can click the middle mouse button (or Y on an XBox-style gamepad) to show/hide the action menu, but it's hidden by default because it tends to obscure the detection bar. You might want to try unhiding it if pickpocketing a pipe bomb.

As I've mentioned before I consider this game finished now it's out of Early Access, and I'm working on a new project. So I'm not intending to add a lot of new features to this game anymore. But maybe I will add one or two every now and then, especially if it relates to Quality of Life or balance. The rest of this patch is mostly bug fixes and translation features:

• Fix for NPCs declaring war on you if you try to assassinate one of them and they turn due to invisible strain

• Fix for not being able to repair vehicles near, but not inside, NPC settlements

• Fix for a savegame sometimes being created after the player has died if you press Escape in save tokens mode

• Fix for gate in an AI settlement staying open most of the time because one of the NPCs liked to hang out near it

• Fix for liquid amount in bottles sometimes being displayed with an unnecessary 0 in front, e.g. 01L, when metric weights are used

• Fix for raiders spawning with empty water bottles, also made refugees more likely to have water bottles

• Fix for NPCs sometimes not eating infected meat

• Fix for text overflow issue on action menu where recipes have long names in some languages

• Fix for achievements enabled flag not being carried over when you hit the road

• Fix for SIS Extended: Effects Framework mod crash

• Fix for RV mod crash

• Fix for crash when hitting the road with equipment from a mod which has had its type changed by the mod author after it was spawned in your game

• Fix for rare crash when NPC communities want to attack someone but don't have enough people available

• Fix for some quests not failing in Story Mode when the relevant people are dead/buried etc

• Fix for characters set to auto-collect arrows sometimes not picking up arrows that are quite near to them

• Fix for selection targeting being a bit imprecise on some objects, especially thrown objects like radios or food

• Added pickpocketing

• Added left/right arrows on equipment spawner amount setting in debug menu as a fix for XBox users not being able to change the text field

• Display a save token (crucifix pendant) icon on token saves in the savegame menu

• Possible fix for characters occasionally getting through diagonal walls in 4x fast forward mode

• Possible fix for crash in occasional crash multiplayer when crafting

• Stopped lower importance speeches from allies (such as feuds) being shown in PiP unless you are nearby them

• Tweaked some prop names to be more consistent

• Some fixes and a bit more explanation in the You Don't Need a Weatherman quest

• Added a little black line to the end of the fuel bar when you highlight a repaired vehicle, so it's clearer (with yellow/green fuel against white)

• Added TAA (Temporal Anti-Aliasing) as an option in Graphics Settings, off by default for now

• Made accusative/dative/possessive functions support German and stopped inserted pronouns from being lowercased

• Added support for translator defined name endings for possessive and dative functions in languages that use them

• Updated Brazilian Portuguese, German, Japanese, Latin American Spanish, Russian, Spanish and Traditional Chinese translations

The previous patch, v278, is now in the main branch (and on XBox). This also means v277 is finally in there too.

EDIT - released a hotfix in publicbeta for a couple of issues with v279, so it's v280 now.

EDIT - released another hotfix for a crash and a translation issue, so it's v281 now.

EDIT - another hotfix, v282, for a bug introduced in v279 where NPCs far from the player would get stuck outside gates.

What's this publicbeta thing?

v282 will be in the "publicbeta" branch on Steam for a while, before pushing it to the main game and to XBox. If you want to try the latest features as they come out (and help test them!) it's a good idea to start using this branch. But keep in mind:

• Because it's the bleeding edge it could be less stable

• If you want to be able to play online co-op with someone you'll need to be on the same version as them

• If you go back from the "publicbeta" branch to the main branch you may not be able to load savegames created on "publicbeta".

To use publicbeta, just right-click on Survivalist: Invisible Strain in your Steam library and go to Properties, then "Game Versions & Betas" and select "publicbeta".

Hello I've released a new small patch in publicbeta, mainly because I discovered the last one broke a couple of important things. Fortunately they didn't make it into the main branch, so this is just a publicbeta update.

• Added settings for loot generation to spawn biohazard cocktails with infection (for modders)

• Minor fixes for options on action menu for loading different ammo types in guns/bows

• Fix for Morgan Harding not triggering the It Begins quest if the player community leader is dead (and possible related crash fix)

• Fix for game staying paused if you open info screen while in combat, potentially leading to soft lock at start of Story Mode

• Fix for crash in community relationship editor in debug menu

• Fix for rare crash introduced in v277 when loading some savegames

• Updated Brazilian Portuguese, Japanese, Latin American Spanish, European Spanish and Ukrainian translations

What's this publicbeta thing?

v278 will be in the "publicbeta" branch on Steam for a while, before pushing it to the main game and to XBox. If you want to try the latest features as they come out (and help test them!) it's a good idea to start using this branch. But keep in mind:

• Because it's the bleeding edge it could be less stable

• If you want to be able to play online co-op with someone you'll need to be on the same version as them

• If you go back from the "publicbeta" branch to the main branch you may not be able to load savegames created on "publicbeta".

To use publicbeta, just right-click on Survivalist: Invisible Strain in your Steam library and go to Properties, then Betas and in the drop-down select "publicbeta".

Hello, Survivalist: Invisible Strain has been out of early access for one year! Well actually that was two days ago. Anyway, seems like a good time for a sale, so Survivalist: Invisible Strain is participating in the Post Apocalyptic Festival on Steam from April 27th to May 4th, with a 50% discount! This festival was instigated by Red Rover Interactive the developers of the upcoming EngineFall, and includes some awesome games like Pacific Drive.

There's also a new patch in publicbeta today, v277. I'm working on a new unannounced project these days but I'm still doing bug fixes, translation work where needed, and some gameplay tweaks on Invisible Strain (more info in the FAQ). This has some bug fixes but also some more hint messages telling people about how to deal with enemies with body armor (i.e. use armor piercing ranged ammo, or blunt melee weapons) as I've noticed a few people finding that difficult.

I've also added a few more resources to the map in Story Mode, like lead, steel and iron in dumpsters, and given traders some gunpowder to sell you, in the hopes that that will enable people to start making ammo - and armor piercing ammo - sooner. Most significantly, Wishkey Falls Militia now have a lead mine instead of a flint mine so you don't have to go so far afield for it (if you can persuade them to team up with you, or if something were to happen to them, that is). Here's the full change list:

• Fix for occasional crash in New Game menu when clicking on multiple different mods

• Fix for required fuel amount not being shown correctly in litres when hitting the road

• Fix for approval/respect/morale being badly aligned on brain scan page

• Always show Community tab on inventory screen in Sandbox Mode, and once Kelly joins you OR you are out of the starting area in Story Mode

• Added some more tutorial/hint messages about how to deal with armor and ranged weapons

• Added a little more explanation about save tokens and don't overwrite both saves in the specific case where Lost Item quest spawns some zombies

• Pause game if gamepad gets disconnected (only in single player)

• Changed Wishkey Falls Militia to have a Lead mine instead of Flint, gave the Guardians a Flint mine

• Added some more crafting resources around Story Mode so it's easier to start making ammo

• Enabled some parts of the debug menu on XBox (it's still jank though, and needs a mouse + keyboard)

• Updated Brazilian Portuguese and Japanese translations

Finally the previous patch, v276, is now on the main branch and XBox. This means that v275 and v274 are also now live, which gives us the complete Ukrainian and Indonesian translations, as well as some big updates to the Russian, and a lot more bug fixes.

What's this publicbeta thing?

v277 will be in the "publicbeta" branch on Steam for a while, before pushing it to the main game and to XBox. If you want to try the latest features as they come out (and help test them!) it's a good idea to start using this branch. But keep in mind:

• Because it's the bleeding edge it could be less stable

• If you want to be able to play online co-op with someone you'll need to be on the same version as them

• If you go back from the "publicbeta" branch to the main branch you may not be able to load savegames created on "publicbeta".

To use publicbeta, just right-click on Survivalist: Invisible Strain in your Steam library and go to Properties, then Betas and in the drop-down select "publicbeta".

Hello, I've released another small update in the publicbeta branch. This contains some fixes and support for mods, and translator support. Also a slight tweak to combat; previously if you kept swinging your melee weapon at a zombie without being close enough to engage, they would back off, and you could in theory keep doing that forever - now after a few seconds of that they'll just attack no matter what.

• Fix for crash in SIS Extended: Adaptive Combat

• Fix for Out Of Sync errors in multiplayer if one player has previously run SIS Ageing without restarting the game since, and the other hasn't

• Fixes for some errors in speech parameters, and added support for a female version of the word 'someone'.

• Fix for exploit where you could keep swinging your melee weapon at a zombie forever without them attacking, as they waited for you to stop swinging

• Possible fix for NPCs being slow to react to stuff on Huge maps using SIS Map Settings mod due to pathfinder queue getting backed up

• Changed IsAnyoneInConversationWith condition to check all members of the community if you specify one (for modders)

• Updated Japanese translation

Like the last patch I haven't updated the main branch or XBox as I want to give it a bit more time to settle.

What's this publicbeta thing?

v276 will be in the "publicbeta" branch on Steam for a while, before pushing it to the main game and to XBox. If you want to try the latest features as they come out (and help test them!) it's a good idea to start using this branch. But keep in mind:

• Because it's the bleeding edge it could be less stable

• If you want to be able to play online co-op with someone you'll need to be on the same version as them

• If you go back from the "publicbeta" branch to the main branch you may not be able to load savegames created on "publicbeta".

To use publicbeta, just right-click on Survivalist: Invisible Strain in your Steam library and go to Properties, then Betas and in the drop-down select "publicbeta".

Hello, there's a new patch in the publicbeta branch. It has a few small fixes for mods and translations, but the main change is that the Russian translation has been greatly improved by Pavel Borisov, who also did the Cyrillic fonts - many thanks for that! Here's the change list:

• Fix for Carter Moreno shooting you if you wait for 1 minute before replying in the Vanished quest

• Fix for error loading DLL for RV mod

• Fix for mods with multiple DLLs failing to load the remaining ones if one of them fails (SIS Extended: Standalone)

• Fix for crash when using the editor with SIS Pick Berries

• Fix for possessive form of names sometimes inserting a character in the wrong place in Russian and Ukrainian

• Fix for formulas not working in translations for some hint messages

• Russian translation overhauled and massively improved

• Updated Brazilian Portuguese, French, Japanese, Latin American Spanish and European Spanish translations

I won't push the previous patch onto the main branch (or XBox) just yet as it hasn't been in beta testing for very long, so this is just a publicbeta update today.

What's this publicbeta thing?

v275 will be in the "publicbeta" branch on Steam for a while, before pushing it to the main game and to XBox. If you want to try the latest features as they come out (and help test them!) it's a good idea to start using this branch. But keep in mind:

• Because it's the bleeding edge it could be less stable

• If you want to be able to play online co-op with someone you'll need to be on the same version as them

• If you go back from the "publicbeta" branch to the main branch you may not be able to load savegames created on "publicbeta".

To use publicbeta, just right-click on Survivalist: Invisible Strain in your Steam library and go to Properties, then Betas and in the drop-down select "publicbeta".

Hello, I've released a new patch in the publicbeta branch. This one has quite a few bug fixes, plus the Story Mode translations for both Indonesian and Ukrainian have now been completed!

Here's the full change list:

• Fix for one NPC in a group of 4 followers constantly exiting the building you are in, when surrounded by zombies

• Fix for steroids in the fetch quest not appearing on an NPC's trade screen if they are hungry

• Fix for preferences being saved whenever you enter the graphics settings menu even if you didn't change anything, which might have caused some weirdness (not sure)

• Fix for names sometimes being empty in speeches on Log page

• Fix for error message when you join a game via invite on a different version saying you have a story hash mismatch when it should say you are on the wrong game version

• Don't allow drag-selecting in building mode as it conflicts with the Clear function and confuses things

• Fix for not being able to clear an unbuilt fence that is on top of an existing fence, in building mode

• Fix for crop patches owned by a community not being deleted when the community is deleted in the editor

• Fix for followers not fighting enemies when you are in a vehicle and they are outside and the vehicle is full

• Fix for crash when highlighting a tomato plant in A New Dawn mod

• Fix for not being able to exit metal watchtowers in A New Dawn mod

• Fix for NPCs assigned to be chefs being given a minimum Farming skill of 2 instead of Cooking

• Fix for NPCs not actually giving you 400 gold in the Intimidation quest, after you intimidate them

• Fix for captives attacking you if you fight their captors

• Fix for not being able to open a gate that you have a key for if you're at war with the owner

• Fix for Liam Franks being able to join you before he warns FEMA if you trap him in a fenced area

• Possible fix for rare crash when selecting mods

• Include quest and memory lines in Print Full Speech Translation tool for translators

• Attempted to improve the grammatical case functions (accusative, dative etc) for Czech, Hungarian, Russian and Ukrainian translators

• Story Mode translation completed for Indonesian and Ukrainian!

• Updated Brazilian Portuguese and Japanese translations

The previous patch, v272, has been moved to the main branch and released on XBox.

What's this publicbeta thing?

v274 will be in the "publicbeta" branch on Steam for a while, before pushing it to the main game and to XBox. If you want to try the latest features as they come out (and help test them!) it's a good idea to start using this branch. But keep in mind:

• Because it's the bleeding edge it could be less stable

• If you want to be able to play online co-op with someone you'll need to be on the same version as them

• If you go back from the "publicbeta" branch to the main branch you may not be able to load savegames created on "publicbeta".

To use publicbeta, just right-click on Survivalist: Invisible Strain in your Steam library and go to Properties, then Betas and in the drop-down select "publicbeta".

Hello everyone, I've released a small patch in the publicbeta branch, mainly because someone found an occasional crash involving infected stew in cooking pots. Here's the change list:

• Fixes for some situations where cooks and crafters would get stuck in a repeating loop of taking and depositing items

• Fix for 'Help the Wishkey Falls Militia survive the incoming bands of infected raiders' quest not finishing until the raiders bodies disappear

• Fix for occasional crash when highlighting a cooking pot over a campfire with infected stew in it

• When you give stuff to people for free the penalty to respect will be less if they are your allies, but more if they are looters

• Updated Brazilian Portuguese, Japanese, Latin American Spanish, Spanish and Traditional Chinese translations

The previous patch, v271, is now in the main branch and on XBox.

What's this publicbeta thing?

v272 will be in the "publicbeta" branch on Steam for a while, before pushing it to the main game and to XBox. If you want to try the latest features as they come out (and help test them!) it's a good idea to start using this branch. But keep in mind:

• Because it's the bleeding edge it could be less stable

• If you want to be able to play online co-op with someone you'll need to be on the same version as them

• If you go back from the "publicbeta" branch to the main branch you may not be able to load savegames created on "publicbeta".

To use publicbeta, just right-click on Survivalist: Invisible Strain in your Steam library and go to Properties, then Betas and in the drop-down select "publicbeta".

Hey everyone, the patch with the Vietnamese translation is now available on the main branch (v270)! Thanks again to Trần Quốc Anh for the translation.

There's also a new small patch (v271) in the publicbeta branch with some bug fixes:

• Fix for Auto Gear Up mod sometimes causing a crash on starting a new game if you start with a gun

• Fix for some cases where items are picked up as part of roles sometimes not being marked as such and therefore not given priority to dump when freeing up space

• Fix for being able to place workbenches, forges etc facing a building or rock so there's nowhere to stand while crafting

• Fix for crafter assigned to workbench/forge etc just playing their work animation wherever they happen to be if the place they are supposed to stand while crafting is blocked

• Support for formulas in text of some lines in the UI, for translators

• Updated Brazilian Portuguese, Czech and Traditional Chinese translations

What's this publicbeta thing?

v271 will be in the "publicbeta" branch on Steam for a while, before pushing it to the main game and to XBox. If you want to try the latest features as they come out (and help test them!) it's a good idea to start using this branch. But keep in mind:

• Because it's the bleeding edge it could be less stable

• If you want to be able to play online co-op with someone you'll need to be on the same version as them

• If you go back from the "publicbeta" branch to the main branch you may not be able to load savegames created on "publicbeta".

To use publicbeta, just right-click on Survivalist: Invisible Strain in your Steam library and go to Properties, then Betas and in the drop-down select "publicbeta".

Hello, I've released a patch into the publicbeta branch with a brand new complete Vietnamese translation! Many thanks to Trần Quốc Anh for doing that!

Here is the change list:

• Added Vietnamese translation!

• Updated Brazilian Portuguese, Czech, Italian, Japanese, Latin American Spanish, Spanish and Traditional Chinese translations

• Fix for achievements not being unlocked on XBox if you have a child account or something without access to multiplayer

The previous patch, v268, is now in the main branch and on XBox.

EDIT - I've released a hotfix for a copy paste error in the Vietnamese translation for the Story Mode and Sandbox Mode descriptions when you start a new game (v270).

What's this publicbeta thing?

v269 will be in the "publicbeta" branch on Steam for a while, before pushing it to the main game and to XBox. If you want to try the latest features as they come out (and help test them!) it's a good idea to start using this branch. But keep in mind:

• Because it's the bleeding edge it could be less stable

• If you want to be able to play online co-op with someone you'll need to be on the same version as them

• If you go back from the "publicbeta" branch to the main branch you may not be able to load savegames created on "publicbeta".

To use publicbeta, just right-click on Survivalist: Invisible Strain in your Steam library and go to Properties, then Betas and in the drop-down select "publicbeta".

Hello everyone, it's time for a patch! The main thing in this one is I've added an option to the Online Co-op Settings menu called "Network Protocol". This is a bit of an experiment. The game uses the Steamworks API for networking, but Valve has made some changes since I originally implemented it and the version I've been using is apparently old and maybe due to be deprecated some day. So this option allows you to switch to their newer system. It's just a test for now to see if there are any bugs, but perhaps in future it will become the default.

I'm not sure if it will actually make a difference to the user experience but Valve have built something called the Steam Datagram Relay which I'm theorizing that the new system might make better use of. Or maybe they both use it in the same way. The documentation doesn't seem entirely clear on that point so I'm not sure.

But if you're having problems connecting to someone, or a lot of lag, it might be worth switching this to "Newer System" to see if it makes a difference. Let me know if it does, or doesn't! Thanks! (Note - in order to join a network game, all players must have this set to the same setting - you won't be able to join them otherwise).

Here is the rest of the change list for this patch:

• Experimental option to change network protocol in Online Co-op Settings menu

• Fix for Community screen closing after you set the limit on an item type

• Fix for a few props and bits of land in Story Mode being owned by the wrong community

• Stop compassionate members of neutral communities from rescuing people while the player is fighting, as they can get in the way

• A few small speech and text fixes

• Fix for crash when clicking Repair Armor on a workbench in Command Mode when you have a follower

• Fix for car sounds not being affected by gameplay volume slider

• Fix for crash when you hit the road with companions that was introduced in v266

• Updated Brazilian Portuguese, Czech, Japanese, Latin American Spanish, Lithuanian, Spanish and Traditional Chinese translations

Because of the above-mentioned crash when you hit the road with companions being introduced in v266, I won't move v266 to the main branch or XBox. So this is just a publicbeta update today.

EDIT - I released another small update (v268) because I realized the game wasn't providing suitable error messages when you try to join someone with different settings from you, via a Steam invite. Here's that change list:

• Error message if you try to join someone via Steam invite, who is using a different Network Protocol from you

• Fix for no error message showing if you join someone with mismatched story hashes via Invite

• Updated Brazilian Portuguese, Japanese, Latin American Spanish and Spanish translations

What's this publicbeta thing?

v268 will be in the "publicbeta" branch on Steam for a while, before pushing it to the main game and to XBox. If you want to try the latest features as they come out (and help test them!) it's a good idea to start using this branch. But keep in mind:

• Because it's the bleeding edge it could be less stable

• If you want to be able to play online co-op with someone you'll need to be on the same version as them

• If you go back from the "publicbeta" branch to the main branch you may not be able to load savegames created on "publicbeta".

To use publicbeta, just right-click on Survivalist: Invisible Strain in your Steam library and go to Properties, then Betas and in the drop-down select "publicbeta".

Hey everyone, it's Steam Awards time so please consider voting for Survivalist: Invisible Strain! I figured I'd go for "Best Game You Suck At" in honor of all the feedback I got this year saying I made Story Mode too difficult (oops, sorry about that). You've got till 1st December to vote, so don't sleep on it! ːSleepingZzzː

Plus, the game now has Steam trading cards! (And badges, emoticons ːInfectedSignː and backgrounds).

These were created by artist and fan Ramiro Ra, who also did some of the Spanish translation, so many thanks for that! ːZombieThumbUpː It'll drop a trading card every 2 hours of play time which you can use to craft badges and unlock backgrounds and emoticons. Get cozy ːCozyː and start playing :)

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Hello, got a patch for you today! The Czech translation, completed in v265, is now out of beta testing and into the main branch! Many thanks to Jiří Linhart for that.

Plus there's a new patch in publicbeta, v266, with some bug fixes:

• Possible out of sync fix

• Fix for crash when a character activates Invisible Strain when you are using mods with their own AI behaviours such as SIS Livestock Control

• Fix for world maps and geological maps not correctly displaying what area of the world they uncover when playing on a Huge (2km squared) game map

• Fix for NPCs sometimes getting stuck aiming their bows at enemies but not firing because they are too tired, but aiming is what makes them tired

• Fix for characters sometimes leaving the base to carry out roles such as lumberjack while enemies are outside and the gates are set to don't leave while under siege

• Fix for incompatibility with the SIS Extended Effects Framework mod

• Updated Brazilian Portuguese, Czech, Indonesian and Japanese translations

What's this publicbeta thing?

v266 will be in the "publicbeta" branch on Steam for a while, before pushing it to the main game and to XBox. If you want to try the latest features as they come out (and help test them!) it's a good idea to start using this branch. But keep in mind:

• Because it's the bleeding edge it could be less stable

• If you want to be able to play online co-op with someone you'll need to be on the same version as them

• If you go back from the "publicbeta" branch to the main branch you may not be able to load savegames created on "publicbeta".

To use publicbeta, just right-click on Survivalist: Invisible Strain in your Steam library and go to Properties, then Betas and in the drop-down select "publicbeta".

Hey everyone, I've updated the main branch to v264, which has the completed German translation in it, and there's now a new patch in the publicbeta branch with the completed Czech translation!

Here's the full change list for v265:

• Completed Czech translation!

• Updated Brazilian Portuguese, Japanese and Latin American Spanish translations

• Stop people from tearing up their clothes to bandage friends in the middle of combat as it takes too long and makes them vulnerable

• Fix for trappers who are set to auto-deposit wood sometimes getting stuck in a loop taking it and depositing it

• Fix error saying You need to remove cooked food when trying to cook something with a pot or pan when there's a pan or pot already there

• Possible fix for guards who have other higher priority tasks sometimes not returning to them when they become needed

v264 is also on XBox now.

What's this publicbeta thing?

v265 will be in the "publicbeta" branch on Steam for a while, before pushing it to the main game and to XBox. If you want to try the latest features as they come out (and help test them!) it's a good idea to start using this branch. But keep in mind:

• Because it's the bleeding edge it could be less stable

• If you want to be able to play online co-op with someone you'll need to be on the same version as them

• If you go back from the "publicbeta" branch to the main branch you may not be able to load savegames created on "publicbeta".

To use publicbeta, just right-click on Survivalist: Invisible Strain in your Steam library and go to Properties, then Betas and in the drop-down select "publicbeta".

Hello everyone, there's a new patch in publicbeta which finally finishes the German translation! There has been a partial German translation of Sandbox Mode and the UI for a few years, but this fills in the gaps and adds Story Mode.

Here's the full change list:

• Completed German translation!

• Updated Brazilian Portuguese, Czech and Japanese translations

• Reduced volume of car crash sound slightly and fixed bug where engine noise keeps playing while pause menu is up

• Some fixes for bugs when ticking, subscribing and unsubscribing to mods in quick succession in the Select Mods screen

• Fix for enclosed areas not being recalculated after you build a gate

• Fix for props such as tents sometimes being spawned away from the area they were placed if there were old crop patches there

The previous patch (v263) has been promoted to the main branch and XBox.

What's this publicbeta thing?

v264 will be in the "publicbeta" branch on Steam for a while, before pushing it to the main game and to XBox. If you want to try the latest features as they come out (and help test them!) it's a good idea to start using this branch. But keep in mind:

• Because it's the bleeding edge it could be less stable

• If you want to be able to play online co-op with someone you'll need to be on the same version as them

• If you go back from the "publicbeta" branch to the main branch you may not be able to load savegames created on "publicbeta".

To use publicbeta, just right-click on Survivalist: Invisible Strain in your Steam library and go to Properties, then Betas and in the drop-down select "publicbeta".

Hello everyone, there's a new patch in the publicbeta branch! One small new feature in this one, for people using gamepads, who previously never had a convenient way to quicksave: now you can do it by opening the pause menu and pressing the alt action button (e.g. X on the XBox controller). So it's a fairly quick two button presses instead of having to go into the Save Game menu. If you're playing with save tokens enabled, it'll show how many of them you have left too, so it's convenient in that way.

Here's the full change list:

• Added quicksave prompt mapped to alt action (e.g. X button on XBox controller) to pause menu for people playing on gamepads

• Fix for multiple chickens brooding the same egg if there are fewer eggs in a coop than broody chickens

• Fix for game not loading properly on XBox if you get an XBox error message about not having enough space for savegames

• Fix for error message when starting the game on XBox if you are offline and don't have GamePass

• Fix for situation where people could sometimes disapprove of themselves giving negative eulogies for people they mildly disliked

• Fix for being able to skip past Kelly at the start of Story Mode by getting into a taxi

• Fix for characters with invisible strain occasionally making up lies about the chickens in your community in order to foment unrest

• Fix for SIS Torches mod

• Updated Brazilian Portuguese, Czech and Japanese translations

I've also applied the recent Unity Security Update to this patch.

Meanwhile the previous patch, v262, has been promoted to the main branch and to XBox.

Another cool announcement - Jean-Charles Rocher, who did most of the French translation for Survivalist: Invisible Strain, has been working on a sort of Alien-inspired board game for a while and he's just launched a Kickstarter for it. I helped with English translation and it looked like it would be a fun concept to play! Check it out:

What's this publicbeta thing?

v263 will be in the "publicbeta" branch on Steam for a while, before pushing it to the main game and to XBox. If you want to try the latest features as they come out (and help test them!) it's a good idea to start using this branch. But keep in mind:

• Because it's the bleeding edge it could be less stable

• If you want to be able to play online co-op with someone you'll need to be on the same version as them

• If you go back from the "publicbeta" branch to the main branch you may not be able to load savegames created on "publicbeta".

To use publicbeta, just right-click on Survivalist: Invisible Strain in your Steam library and go to Properties, then Betas and in the drop-down select "publicbeta".

Hey everyone, I've released a new small patch today, mainly because someone had a bug in Story Mode that stopped them progressing with some of the plot. There's also a slight improvement to vaulting - if you're vaulting a long line of fences (such as the ones around the gas station in Story Mode), you can turn right or left to get off instead of having to watch your character do this goofy vaulting animation all the way to the end of it with no way to stop it.

Here's the change list:

• If you are vaulting a long line of fences you can turn sideways to cancel it, as long as there's nothing blocking you

• Fix for surrender to FEMA quest triggering late in the story when it's no longer relevant

• Fix for Kelly/Liam's plan not triggering if you get to that point after the doom raiders start coming

• Fix for customizable reload speed not working when character is AI-controlled

The previous patch, v261, is now in the main branch and should be on XBox soon (maybe tomorrow).

What's this publicbeta thing?

v262 will be in the "publicbeta" branch on Steam for a while, before pushing it to the main game and to XBox. If you want to try the latest features as they come out (and help test them!) it's a good idea to start using this branch. But keep in mind:

• Because it's the bleeding edge it could be less stable

• If you want to be able to play online co-op with someone you'll need to be on the same version as them

• If you go back from the "publicbeta" branch to the main branch you may not be able to load savegames created on "publicbeta".

To use publicbeta, just right-click on Survivalist: Invisible Strain in your Steam library and go to Properties, then Betas and in the drop-down select "publicbeta".

Hello, I've got a patch with a few more bug fixes for you today:

• Added ability for modders to vary reload speed of weapons according skill

• Fix for being able to unbind critical menu navigation buttons

• Fix for crash in SIS Clean Trash mod

• Fix for error on XBox when saving very large savegames

• Fix for pressing Back button on gamepad backing out of menus when you have a drop-down open instead of closing the drop-down

• Fix for Charlie Gant not correctly triggering something as part of his quest if he isn't in your community at the time

• Fix for rare bug where Liam Franks attacks you at a weird time if he happened to notice some property damage you caused earlier

• Fix for approval and respect for giving people supplies or ripping them off in the winter food quest being way out of proportion

• Fix for windows cursor becoming visible and never going away if you open the NVidia recording overlay, then alt+tab out of game and back

• Fix for zombies getting into a loop of repeatedly starting the biting animation and failing when trying to bite you when you are assassinating someone

• Fix for characters referring to themselves in the third person in a few speeches

• Updated Brazilian Portuguese, Czech, Lithuanian, Japanese and Simplified Chinese translations

The top one - ability for modders to vary reload speed for guns and bows - doesn't affect the base game but has been quite often requested by modders and should enable a bit more variety for guns in mods.

The previous patch, v260, is now in the main branch and live on XBox :)

Lastly I wanted to give a shout out to youtuber Brian Menard, who discovered the game recently and has been recording a great looking series on it, check it out!

What's this publicbeta thing?

v261 will be in the "publicbeta" branch on Steam for a while, before pushing it to the main game and to XBox. If you want to try the latest features as they come out (and help test them!) it's a good idea to start using this branch. But keep in mind:

• Because it's the bleeding edge it could be less stable

• If you want to be able to play online co-op with someone you'll need to be on the same version as them

• If you go back from the "publicbeta" branch to the main branch you may not be able to load savegames created on "publicbeta".

To use publicbeta, just right-click on Survivalist: Invisible Strain in your Steam library and go to Properties, then Betas and in the drop-down select "publicbeta".

Hello, I've released a new patch today, it's a fairly small one with some bug fixes and a little quality of life improvement (I hope) - the overhead player name of the character you're controlling in multiplayer fades out a few seconds after you switch to that character, so it doesn't get in the way so much. This was something a few people requested.

Also I added a sort of faded old paper texture to the menus, it doesn't change anything I just think it looks a bit better. Just a small thing I wanted to do earlier but I was too busy making the game :)

Here's the full change list:

• Fade out overhead player name of controlled character in multiplayer, if you don't switch for a while, so it gets in the way a bit less

• Reduced price of cooked suspicious meat piece (from 5 to 3) so it's less exploitable

• Dirty paper texture on menus

• Fix for actions like Attack being disabled in fly mode if the controlled character is unconscious, but you have other characters selected who are conscious

• Fix for reprisal raiders not being triggered by the Loyalty quest if let them take your friend but then kill the tracker squad to rescue them

• Fix for player doing a parry if using the gamepad to place a tent or campfire on top of themselves

• Fix for gate policy dialog being hard to use with gamepad due to incorrect navigation order of selectable elements

• Out of Sync Fix

• Editor crash fixes

• Updated Brazilian Portuguese, Czech, Italian, Japanese, Spanish and Latin American Spanish translations

The previous patch (v257-259) has made it to the main branch, and XBox.

What's this publicbeta thing?

v260 will be in the "publicbeta" branch on Steam for a while, before pushing it to the main game and to XBox. If you want to try the latest features as they come out (and help test them!) it's a good idea to start using this branch. But keep in mind:

• Because it's the bleeding edge it could be less stable

• If you want to be able to play online co-op with someone you'll need to be on the same version as them

• If you go back from the "publicbeta" branch to the main branch you may not be able to load savegames created on "publicbeta".

To use publicbeta, just right-click on Survivalist: Invisible Strain in your Steam library and go to Properties, then Betas and in the drop-down select "publicbeta".

Hello, just a quick publicbeta patch today because the last one caused a mod to crash. This also has a fix for a longstanding bug in multiplayer where characters would occasionally stop animating for a few seconds. Always struggled to track that one down due to its intermittent nature but I'm pretty sure it's fixed now. Here's the changelist:

• Fix for crash in SIS Extended: Effects Framework mod

• Possible crash fix

• Possible fix for character animations occasionally freezing for a few seconds in multiplayer

• Updated Brazilian Portuguese, Czech and Japanese translations

What's this publicbeta thing?

v259 will be in the "publicbeta" branch on Steam for a while, before pushing it to the main game and to XBox. If you want to try the latest features as they come out (and help test them!) it's a good idea to start using this branch. But keep in mind:

• Because it's the bleeding edge it could be less stable

• If you want to be able to play online co-op with someone you'll need to be on the same version as them

• If you go back from the "publicbeta" branch to the main branch you may not be able to load savegames created on "publicbeta".

To use publicbeta, just right-click on Survivalist: Invisible Strain in your Steam library and go to Properties, then Betas and in the drop-down select "publicbeta".

Hey everyone it's patch day! This patch is mainly about trying to address the biggest problem I've heard about since the game launched - that it doesn't teach you enough about how to play, especially in Story Mode. Since launch I've watched a number of playthrough videos and read comments and I made a little list of things that went wrong or caused confusion, and this patch I've been going through the list and fixing all the things, and adding a bit more explanation of stuff people didn't know how to do. I was doing some of that in the previous patches too but this patch I've taken it a bit further and broken my rule about not adding new text to the game, and have added a number of new lines. (Normally I try to avoid that now because of the need for them to be translated, but I decided to make an exception).

The other thing I've done in this patch is taken the opportunity to try to better handle some situations I've seen where people make more rare, unexpected choices in Story Mode, like attacking or killing Carter Moreno, or not telling him about the infected meat in the cabin. I haven't added a huge amount here, but whereas previously the story just used to kind of trail off in those situations it will now react in some small ways, sometimes after a long period of time.

I think I'm about done with Story Mode and tutorials after this patch though, so don't expect any more changes of this kind (I reached the end of my list). It's always possible I'll see something in another Let's Play video and think "Oh that really needs fixing" but hopefully not. As I've mentioned elsewhere, I'm not intending to keep adding more features to this game now it's out of early access, I want to move to another project which may be a sequel or may be something else. More info is in the FAQ here.

Here's the full change list:

• When first teaching the player to equip a weapon, aim and fire, show big button prompts for these so it's more visible

• After selecting a quest on the Quests page you can click again to view it on the map (if it has a map marker)

• Added hint messages to open the map screen, stay downwind when hunting, and that setting roles to Urgent worsens morale

• Added some more tutorial quests to Story Mode explaining how to assign roles and build your base a bit more

• Added an optional mini tutorial quest to Story Mode to surrender to FEMA if you chose to fight Carter at the beginning

• Some more small tweaks to the start of Story Mode

• A little extra dialog for some off-the-main-path choices Story Mode, such as if you kill Carter

• Hired mercs stop fighting you if you surrender to the community that hired them

• Made it possible to specify that you don't want particular types of liquid containers to be shared with other communities, e.g. don't give away large catering buckets

• Added the ability for modders to specify multiple extra equipment outputs for recipes, since the mod that did that, SIS Extended: Crafting Framework is incompatible with latest code and can't be fixed without breaking other mods

• When editing mods that don't have BaseStory as a dependency, just show the treeline in the menu backgrounds instead of semi-naked characters in weird poses

• If people press the dodge button while speaking to someone, don't dodge (fix for people pressing A on gamepad to try to skip conversation and cancelling it instead)

• Fix for not getting a dodge button prompt when armed with a ranged weapon or fists and facing an attacker

• Fix for message saying you need to remove cooked food when you try to grill meat on a fire with an empty pot on it

• Fix for script editor screen moving when you press up or down or + or - when editing speech text

• Fix for corpses sometimes flying a long way when exiting buildings

• Fix for a number sometimes shown on a new recipe notification in place of the recipe name

• Fix for action menu sometimes showing on wrong side of screen when using gamepad and inventory is open

• Fix for people interrupting each other during feuds, to start their own feuds

• Fix for situation where it becomes impossible to talk to Kelly just after passing the Highway Patrol camp that has been overrun

• Fix for terrain generation sometimes creating sharp bends where roads or rivers join, which tends to cause glitches

• Fix for reload sounds continuing to play when you get grabbed by a zombie in the middle of reloading

• Fix for character full body icon sometimes showing incorrect clothes if you change them fast while other icons are generating too

• Fix for building name sometimes not displaying correctly on Storage Policy dialog

• Fix for Lost Item quest not failing if you eat the item

• Fix for crops sometimes being rendered lying on their sides

• Fix for SIS Fuel Overhaul often crashing when starting a new game

• Fixed some drinking game jank

• Fix for situation where Kelly had a positive opinion of Carter for threatening you, even though Carter was really threatening her too, due to her having a low opinion of the player

• Stop Kelly from leaving your community generally even if she has a low opinion of you, as it's often confusing for new players and doesn't fit with the story (she can still be kicked out though)

• Removed decimal points from Fahrenheit display on thermometer

• Possible fix for double outlines appearing around rabbits and deer

• Updated Brazilian Portuguese, Indonesian and Japanese translations

EDIT - Uploaded a hotfix to fix a crash when using the Policy dialog for liquids that aren't edible or drinkable, v258.

The previous patch, v256, has gone to the main branch and XBox.

What's this publicbeta thing?

v258 will be in the "publicbeta" branch on Steam for a while, before pushing it to the main game and to XBox. If you want to try the latest features as they come out (and help test them!) it's a good idea to start using this branch. But keep in mind:

• Because it's the bleeding edge it could be less stable

• If you want to be able to play online co-op with someone you'll need to be on the same version as them

• If you go back from the "publicbeta" branch to the main branch you may not be able to load savegames created on "publicbeta".

To use publicbeta, just right-click on Survivalist: Invisible Strain in your Steam library and go to Properties, then Betas and in the drop-down select "publicbeta".

Yo, it's patch day! Mostly bug and exploit fixes again but one small new feature - you can use the Set Policy dialog for ranged weapons as well as their ammo. So if you want people to automatically collect bows or pistols from corpses, you can do that now :) I always kind of didn't want to do that because I was worried about having too many menu options, making the UI look cluttered and confusing for new players. But I found it was something people asked for a lot, and it's not a huge change, so I figured maybe I was just overthinking that a bit too much.

Also I've slowed down the rate at which crops die from frost. I think I actually should have done that a long time ago but I only recently realized quite how fast they do die. It was ramping up very quickly with each extra degree below zero. I don't think I originally intended that one night of mild frost would be enough to kill them but that was very often what happened. Hopefully AI communities will be more likely to survive winter with this tweak, and it's a bit more forgiving for players. I also made a frost "healthbar" visible when you highlight crops so you can see what's going on.

Here's the full change list:

• Enabled Set Policy dialog for ranged weapons as well as their ammo

• Under-construction buildings only become impassable when at least one resource item has been spent on building them, so it's less exploitable (e.g. to build walls of under-construction barns)

• Made crops die of frost more slowly and people get warmer faster when near to fires. Show frost bar when highlighting crops, if they have been affected.

• If a building has enemies inside it you can't scavenge items from it

• Some small tweaks to when a few people's and communities' names are discovered in Story Mode

• Campfires created by NPCs disappear after not being used for a week, so the map doesn't fill up with them

• Added a checkbox in the debug menu F8/Graphics Debug/Show HUD to disable the minimap and healthbar HUD (e.g. for taking screenshots). Does nothing if sidebar layout is enabled.

• Added adjustable deadzone for triggers on gamepads

• Fix for AI building graves on top of farm zones with no current crops

• Fix for AI treating areas as enclosed if they have under-construction fences around them

• Fix for bunny and deer animation freezing if you target them in the PiP when they run away from you

• Fix for Charlie Gant staying rooted to his spot in the prison if you kill all the Survivalists and he surrenders to you and joins you

• Fix for infected icon not being shown on foods in action menu when feeding someone unconscious

• Fix for NPCs attacking you if you carry a friend to them and they say 'Hey, drop him/her right now!' and you drop them while they are saying that

• Fix for NPCs attacking you if they bump into your vehicle when it's moving too slowly to actually cause them damage

• Fix for roads and rivers sometimes looping over themselves in terrain generation

• Fix for people sometimes being able to pick up bodies through walls

• Fix for exploit where you can hide from enemies in roads leading out of play area in Story Mode, by driving vehicles over the rocks into them

• Fix for being able to break some Story Mode quests by molotoving the stranger at the start

• Fix for exploit where you can encumber NPCs by giving them items for free

• Fix for error message telling you you can't sell a backpack to an NPC because you'll be encumbered even if in the same trade you were selling them the heavy items that encumbered you

• Fix for AI settlements sometimes having crops on roads

• Possible mod crash fix

• Updated Brazilian Portuguese, German, Japanese and Lithuanian translations

I've also promoted v254 to the main branch and XBox.

What's this publicbeta thing?

v256 will be in the "publicbeta" branch on Steam for a while, before pushing it to the main game and to XBox. If you want to try the latest features as they come out (and help test them!) it's a good idea to start using this branch. But keep in mind:

• Because it's the bleeding edge it could be less stable

• If you want to be able to play online co-op with someone you'll need to be on the same version as them

• If you go back from the "publicbeta" branch to the main branch you may not be able to load savegames created on "publicbeta".

To use publicbeta, just right-click on Survivalist: Invisible Strain in your Steam library and go to Properties, then Betas and in the drop-down select "publicbeta".

Hello, it's patch day! I've added a message to game if you don't see any mods, explaining that you need to allow "Nudity" in your Store Preferences, due to Valve's recent policy change:

For the rest, it's mostly just bug fixes. Here's the full list:

• Added a message explaining what people need to do to see mods if their Steam Store Preferences don't allow it

• Small tweaks to exactly when Quest, Map and Log screen become available in Story Mode

• Fix for allies declaring war on you if you execute someone in their community after accusing them of having invisible strain via melee fight to the death

• Fix for melee fight to execute someone with invisible strain not ending if you knock them unconscious and walk away

• Fixes for some incorrect memories being triggered if you execute someone with invisible strain

• Fix for not being able to parry if you use a gun to execute someone with invisible strain and they turn and immediately bite you

• Fix for people saying I'm getting something (without specifying what) when getting urine from an outhouse

• Fix for Turf War quest being completable by burning down any living quarters, not just those from the specified community

• Fix for situation where a member of an extortion squad got separated and frozen due to going back home to cook stuff

• Fix for situation where someone got stuck trying to have a conversation and a snowball fight at the same time

• Fix for situation where Let's hang out here for a bit? dialog line appears twice in options

• Fix for your character saying I need some supplies to build this, when trying to build a snowman, but not saying what supplies are needed

• Fix for crash in Flamethrower mod

• Fix for crafters set to use multiple nitraries or kilns sometimes getting into a loop pausing and resuming their role

• Possible fix for Christopher Scott not having a toolbox when the quest tells you he will, perhaps because another of his community members borrowed it

• Updated Brazilian Portuguese, Indonesian, Lithuanian and Russian translations

The previous patch, v253, is now on the main branch and XBox :)

What's this publicbeta thing?

v254 will be in the "publicbeta" branch on Steam for a while, before pushing it to the main game and to XBox. If you want to try the latest features as they come out (and help test them!) it's a good idea to start using this branch. But keep in mind:

• Because it's the bleeding edge it could be less stable

• If you want to be able to play online co-op with someone you'll need to be on the same version as them

• If you go back from the "publicbeta" branch to the main branch you may not be able to load savegames created on "publicbeta".

To use publicbeta, just right-click on Survivalist: Invisible Strain in your Steam library and go to Properties, then Betas and in the drop-down select "publicbeta".

Hello, it's patch day! The completed Brazilian Portuguese translation is now live on the main branch! Thanks once again to Arthur Nunes for that translation! ːJoeWheelerApprovesː

That was v252, which was in publicbeta for the last week. I've released a new patch with some more fixes in publicbeta (v253):

• When driving a vehicle show the name of the fuel (gasoline or vegetable oil) on the fuel bar (instead of always showing 'gas')

• Fix for Liam Franks getting stuck at critical moment

• Fix for not being able to infect Carbon Arrows

• Fix for rare crash when getting a body out of a building

• Fix for lighting on props from asset bundles in mods being inconsistent with props from the base game using the same material settings (a little darker)

• Fix for steel lockbox not having build animation

• Fix for not being able to change sort order and type with gamepad on Storage Policy dialog

• Fix for Kelly saying a speech introducing you to Highway Patrol after you've already gone past them (e.g. if she was knocked out and carried past them)

• Fix for camera sometimes moving in Command Mode when a notification is up when you're using a gamepad but have a mouse connected

• Fix for mouse-look sensitivity varying based on framerate or monitor refresh rate

• Fix for Persian characters being shown in isolated instead of contextual form

• Possible crash fixes

• Updated Brazilian Portuguese, Indonesian, Japanese and Russian translations

Also for anyone who uses mods please note: it looks like Steam has changed some policy or code recently which means you can't see any of the mods for this game unless you have allowed "Some Nudity or Sexual Content" for Community items in your Store Preferences. To change this, click on your profile name in the top right corner of Steam, go to Store Preferences and tick the box in the Community column for the Some Nudity or Sexual Content.

I'm not sure if this was a deliberate change by Valve - I've sent them a support request but haven't heard back so far. It has a certain logic because I marked the game itself as having "Some Nudity or Sexual Content" due to occasional innuendo or references to sex in the dialog. The problem is none of these mods actually add anything sexual (at least as far as I'm aware - and there's a system for mod authors to specify content descriptors for their mod if they do). So it's kind of weird and confusing not to see them when you can see the game. I looked to see if this was happening to other games and noticed the same thing seems to be happening to FrostPunk 2. Anyway, I'm looking into it - and you can use the above workaround for now.

What's this publicbeta thing?

v253 will be in the "publicbeta" branch on Steam for a while, before pushing it to the main game and to XBox. If you want to try the latest features as they come out (and help test them!) it's a good idea to start using this branch. But keep in mind:

• Because it's the bleeding edge it could be less stable

• If you want to be able to play online co-op with someone you'll need to be on the same version as them

• If you go back from the "publicbeta" branch to the main branch you may not be able to load savegames created on "publicbeta".

To use publicbeta, just right-click on Survivalist: Invisible Strain in your Steam library and go to Properties, then Betas and in the drop-down select "publicbeta".

Hello, it's patch time! Mostly bug fixes again but the big news is the Brazilian Portuguese translation has now been marked as Complete! Many thanks to Arthur 'Loki' Nunes (who also did the one for Survivalist) for finishing that and working very hard fine tuning all the formulas for gender agreements in inserted text, and suchlike.

Here's the full change list:

• Marked Brazilian Portuguese translation as Complete!

• Allow player to use the dialog options to assassinate or kick someone they accuse of having invisible strain if they are a member of an allied community as well as their own

• Slightly reduced how much alcohol Ava has to drink to reveal information

• Fix for allies having a memory that one of them who had invisible strain secretly killed someone in your community

• Fix for being able to recruit FEMA helicopter team in Sandbox Mode (but you can still do it if you defeat them and destroy the chopper)

• Fix for neutral characters having a memory of you annoying them if you threw something at them from stealth

• Fix for characters having a higher priority for watching NPC snowball fights than satisfying needs such as getting water when their thirst is critical

• Fix for stew crafters who were set to have a Carry Amount for water getting into a loop collecting water and depositing it

• Fix for equipment sometimes getting deleted from a character's inventory if they leave then rejoin the player's community

• Fix for love triangle gossip-spreading dialog options being available when the people referred to have died

• Fix for cooks with other crafting roles sometimes de-prioritizing them incorrectly

• Fix for unconscious people with Invisible Strain remaining knocked out if you kill them and they turn

• Fix for situation where builder got stuck in a loop vaulting a fence which was adjacent to the building they were working on

• Fix for character with policies for carrying stew and auto-depositing sealed containers getting into a loop taking and removing sealed containers from a chest

• Fix for NPC community with all members recruited or otherwise left (not killed) being renamed something arbitrary like Bob's Command

• Fix for medics reverting to lower priority roles after bandaging someone even if there are more wounds that need bandaging

• Fix for rare crash in menus

• Updated Brazilian Portuguese, Czech and Indonesian translations

• Support for Brazilian Portuguese translation

The previous patch, v251, has already been on the main branch for a while and I've now applied it on XBox as well.

What's this publicbeta thing?

v252 will be in the "publicbeta" branch on Steam for a while, before pushing it to the main game and to XBox. If you want to try the latest features as they come out (and help test them!) it's a good idea to start using this branch. But keep in mind:

• Because it's the bleeding edge it could be less stable

• If you want to be able to play online co-op with someone you'll need to be on the same version as them

• If you go back from the "publicbeta" branch to the main branch you may not be able to load savegames created on "publicbeta".

To use publicbeta, just right-click on Survivalist: Invisible Strain in your Steam library and go to Properties, then Betas and in the drop-down select "publicbeta".

Hello, I've got a small patch here with some fixes, a couple of which were for things I broke in the last one. Here's the change list:

• Fix for the word Damp on action menu not using the gender of the clothing item in Brazilian Portuguese

• Fix for Script Editor screen moving around when you press WASD keys while typing in an input field

• Fix for soft hang on mod selection screen by pressing Escape while a dialog box is open

• Fix for farmers stopping planting if you set a seed limit and exceed it, but not a limit on the produce. i.e. They will only stop planting if you exceed both limits.

• Fix for not being able to gift NPCs things like arrows via the trading screen where the value of the trade is below 1 gold

• Fixes for some errors on brain scan page

• Fix for error about receiving more bytes than expected sometimes on joining a co-op game

• Updated Brazilian Portuguese, Czech, Indonesian, and Japanese translations

I won't move v250 to the main branch because of the aforementioned bugs, but hope to promote this one to main pretty soon. There seems to be a bug in v249, on main, where sometimes co-op players get stuck on a loading bar when trying to join each other. That was fixed in v250, so if you're having that problem just switch to the publicbeta branch for now. But as I say, I'll try to get this patch on to main asap.

EDIT - I've promoted v251 to the main branch now (14th of June).

What's this publicbeta thing?

v251 will be in the "publicbeta" branch on Steam for a while, before pushing it to the main game and to XBox. If you want to try the latest features as they come out (and help test them!) it's a good idea to start using this branch. But keep in mind:

• Because it's the bleeding edge it could be less stable

• If you want to be able to play online co-op with someone you'll need to be on the same version as them

• If you go back from the "publicbeta" branch to the main branch you may not be able to load savegames created on "publicbeta".

To use publicbeta, just right-click on Survivalist: Invisible Strain in your Steam library and go to Properties, then Betas and in the drop-down select "publicbeta".

Hello everyone, it's patch day :) This patch was mainly about adding support for the upcoming Brazilian Portuguese translation, such as allowing for different suffixes for words depending on gender in more places (which could of course benefit other romance languages as well). There's also a number of other small fixes in areas like roles and NPC settlement rebuilding. Here's the full list:

• Fix for gate orientation sometimes being wrong when rebuilt by NPCs in AI settlements

• Fix for NPCs not rebuilding/replacing tents that get destroyed in their base

• Fix for NPCs in small settlements sometimes not being able to rebuild their base if they don't have a new person to assign to be a builder

• Fix for character limits for first name, surname and community name fields on character creation screen being unlimited

• Fix for incompatibility with SIS Extended: Zedmulate Edition and SIS Extended: Effects mods

• Fix for Resume Last Savegame button still being visible sometimes when it shouldn't

• Fix for farmers sometimes not harvesting when it's raining

• Fix for farmers moving to the same tile to plant crops

• Fix for people with multiple crafting roles having a 10 second delay after one fails before being able to switch to another

• Fix for corpses at the beginning of Story Mode being blurred in the Pip if you have PiP Background Enabled

• Fix for characters with Medic or Repair roles sometimes being blocked from doing other roles

• Possible fix for rare error in multiplayer games

• Make Kelly surrender at a lower blood loss threshold at the start

• Added ability to set Hit the Road destination traits for roads in map editor

• Updated Brazilian Portuguese, Czech, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Latin American Spanish, European Spanish and Thai translations

• Support for Brazilian Portuguese and Russian translations

• Grammar and spelling fixes

• Crash fixes

I've moved the previous patch (v249) to the main branch and XBox.

What's this publicbeta thing?

v250 will be in the "publicbeta" branch on Steam for a while, before pushing it to the main game and to XBox. If you want to try the latest features as they come out (and help test them!) it's a good idea to start using this branch. But keep in mind:

• Because it's the bleeding edge it could be less stable

• If you want to be able to play online co-op with someone you'll need to be on the same version as them

• If you go back from the "publicbeta" branch to the main branch you may not be able to load savegames created on "publicbeta".

To use publicbeta, just right-click on Survivalist: Invisible Strain in your Steam library and go to Properties, then Betas and in the drop-down select "publicbeta".

• Don't require a specific amount of fuel at the end of Story Mode
• Fix for Liam warning a chicken that Carter has gone crazy
• Added 'ignore_gamepads' command line (launch option) as someone had a bug where it kept showing gamepad button prompts
• Possible fix for occasional hang when saving after you find the item in a Lost Item quest
• Fix for situation where lumberjacks wouldn't chop trees that fell entirely on impassable terrain
• Fix for some situations where raiders and hordes pathfinding would get stuck if you put your base in certain locations in Story Mode
• Fix sometimes pressing OK on crafting dialog with keyboard sometimes just playing a block/parry animation and not crafting
• Fix for people not zombifying if you kill them in one hit with an infected weapon
• Fix for people with invisible strain only turning into regular zombies if they die by infection
• Fix for people continually filling up and depositing water bottles when they have Carry Amount set for water and a crafting role for something involving water like Cement
• Fix for It Begins quest not being activated if you walk away from Morgan Harding at particular points when she's asking for help
• Fix for being able to cancel some important speeches by pointing a gun or bow at the person talking
• Fix for co-op players being able to break surrender by moving in some situations in Story Mode when you're supposed to be locked in place
• When joining a co-op game try sending all game state packets at once instead of one by one, maybe this will be faster on XBox
• Updated Brazilian Portuguese, Czech, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Latin American Spanish, Persian and European Spanish
• Copied UI and BaseStory sections from Latin American Spanish to European Spanish, except for lines containing 'ustedes'.
• Fix for Asian languages not appearing in drop-down boxes and input fields on XBox

What's this publicbeta thing?

• Because it's the bleeding edge it could be less stable
• If you want to be able to play online co-op with someone you'll need to be on the same version as them
• If you go back from the "publicbeta" branch to the main branch you may not be able to load savegames created on "publicbeta".

• Don't reduce Constitution over time
• Reduced frequency of roaming hordes, raiders, and especially mercenaries, in Story Mode. Slightly reduced zombie spawn points and looter skill in early areas, slightly increased loot. Also tweaked endgame.
• Added Dead Zone setting for gamepads
• Made quest arrows on minimap slightly bigger
• On XBox if you don't have GamePass show the GamePass sign-up screen when you click Join Game, not on startup
• Fix for Field of View not being saved on XBox
• Fix for We Have Cookies achievement being awarded too soon
• Fix for Place Map Marker button not being changeable in Controls Settings
• Fix for not finding name of community extorting you because you molotoved them during the speech that tells you their name
• Fix for FEMA sometimes not allowing you to surrender, and reduced minimum time between surrender attempts
• Fixes for Lost Item quest in map with no towns
• Fixes for traders sometimes not restocking
• Crash fixes
• Support for Brazilian Portuguese and Persian
• Updated Brazilian Portuguese, Czech, Indonesian, Japanese, Latin American Spanish, Persian, Spanish and Turkish translations

• Small tweaks to early game hints
• Crash fix

What's this publicbeta thing?

• Because it's the bleeding edge it could be less stable
• If you want to be able to play online co-op with someone you'll need to be on the same version as them
• If you go back from the "publicbeta" branch to the main branch you may not be able to load savegames created on "publicbeta".

• If the host presses the cancel button on the Uploading screen when a player joins, return them to the game (by themselves) not the title menu
• If the host leaves a network game while loading screen is up, other players get a message box and returned to title menu (instead of stuck on the screen until they press Cancel)
• Fix for the name Bob being censored on XBox in multiplayer
• Fix for rare crash when changing role priority in multiplayer
• Fix for sometimes being able to assign more than 10 roles to one person
• Fix for crash in SIS Extended Regrow mod (and others that use its DLL) when completing a building with more than one builder
• Possible fix for names of buried NPCs being incorrectly censored on XBox
• Updated Brazilian Portuguese, Czech, Japanese, Lithuanian and Turkish translations. (Names translated in Japanese now!)
• Fix for names of some members of The Survivalists in Story Mode not being translated in some languages
• Support for languages with gendered adjectives when 'Empty' or 'Not Investigated' is displayed

What's this publicbeta thing?

• Because it's the bleeding edge it could be less stable
• If you want to be able to play online co-op with someone you'll need to be on the same version as them
• If you go back from the "publicbeta" branch to the main branch you may not be able to load savegames created on "publicbeta".