Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation v1.1.4155 - полная версия

Survivors,

A month ago, we opened the gates of Hell – and a wave of players poured through!
We have been overwhelmed by the positive response to Judgment’s release. But  we
have not been resting – we have been listening carefully to feedback, both  from
our veteran players and the new. Update 16.1 is the result.

We are releasing 16.1 today to the main branch after a week in the beta  branch,
where you had  a chance to  test it out  and report any  issues or feedback.  It
includes a range of quality of life improvements and community suggestions meant
to make playing Judgment more intuitive and fun.

The full patch notes can be found below.

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Base Defense, Combat Planning and Awareness

16.1  includes a  whole range  of improvements  meant to  improve base  defense
gameplay. First and foremost, we overhauled the awareness system.

Without doubt, when we set  our eyes to do a  quality of life patch, we  knew we
had to address awareness. In its  previous form, it was highly un-intuitive.  It
was not clear what awareness actually did, which was to increase or decrease the
strength of base attacks – and not directly decide the time of base attacks.

The awareness meter now serves to  indicate when demon attacks will happen,  all
formulas have been simplified, and awareness no longer affects the difficulty of
the  attack. The  simpler awareness  formulas have  absolute values  instead of
exponential and percent-based values as before. Every survivor adds 2  awareness
per day,  a research  can reduce  this value  by 5  per day, lookout posts being
patrolled also reduce this by a set amount.

Since  awareness now  directly determines  how often  you are  attacked, if  you
choose to ignore this, you may find  yourself under attack every day or two.  So
make sure  to include  awareness management  decisions as  you grow  - research,
lookout posts, skills such as stealth, and rituals are some examples on how  you
can manage awareness.

Combat  planning  has  also  been  improved,  including  the  ability  to assign
survivors to defensive towers, and survivors will now continue to their assigned
posts even if combat starts before they reach it.



Streamlined Scavenging:

We have added a few quality  of life tweaks that should make  scavenging several
locations less of a UX hassle, per player feedback. An option has been added  to
remove the combat summary to speed things up as well.

Crafting Quality of Life:

A range of improvements to the UI and AI should allow you easier control of your
burgeoning  industry.  Mostly  improved manually  assigning  survivors  to craft
specific items without  changing crafting priority  for everyone, and  automatic
crafting so that it doesn’t use up more resources than you want it to.

Pistols;

We felt pistols  were a bit  underrepresented in higher  tiers (4 and  5), so we
added a bunch of new ones. Some  can be crafted, some can be scavenged,  and one
even has explosive bullets! We also added another tier 4 bow.

Previous Saves;

Previous saves  are supported  and it  will even  fix some  corrupted saves from
older  versions, reducing  the amount  of bugs  and crashes  occurring in  these
games.

Mod Support;

The majority of  mods should be  able to work  just fine, unless  they deal with
base defense and awareness,  which have changed a  lot. Check out our  Backwards
Compatibility[judgment.wikia.com] page to be sure.

What is coming next for Suncrash and Judgment?

With the launch of 16.1 we have  addressed many of the immediate kinks and  bugs
that remained post-launch. We will  continue to monitor and identify  any urgent
issues that require immediate attention.

Aside from that, our plan is to work on a longer-term content update. These last
months before and after the release were very intense and we need to unwind.  We
expect the next big content update to be at least a few months away, as we  work
in a more relaxed manner, and in parallel we will begin to think about and  plan
our next  game. Yes,  there is  a next  game in  Suncrash's future, we hope that
makes you happy  and that you  will join us  in our next  adventure as well.  We
still don't know  what it will  be, we are  brainstorming, prototyping, testing,
and researching. Our current goal is to decide on what the next project will be.

As always, if you haven’t already, we invite you to join our ever-lively Discord
server[discord.judgmentgame.com]. It’s a great experience to be able to talk  to
you guys directly. See you there!

Full Patch Notes:

Mechanics: Replaced the awareness system with a simpler one. Awareness now grows
at a daily rate of 10 + 2 per survivor, and bonuses that reduce this rate do  so
at an absolute value, instead of  the exponential, percent based system we  used
to have.  The minimum  rate is  8/day (attack  every 12  days or so) and maximum
60/day (attack every 1.8 days).

Mechanics: Demon  attacks now  happen when  awareness reaches  100, so  they are
easier to predict and less confusing. Demons will no longer attack at less  than
100% (except for special events). Attack difficulty now only depends on the day,
and awareness now only affects the rate of attacks and not the difficulty.
Mechanics: Removed awareness gain from the custom difficulty settings. The  rate
of increase will now be affected by the attack frequency setting.

Usability: Added the ability to reserve resources that will not be used by  auto
crafting. Very useful to reserve water for drinking instead of using them all to
craft bread, for example.

Usability: Added an option to skip the Combat Summary screen after fights.

Usability: Added a button (Left Control by default) to buy/sell/craft 100  items
at once.

Usability: Added the option to search for "Special Locations" in the world  map,
making it easier to find campaign or random event quest locations.

Usability: Items that grant skills will  now describe the effects of that  skill
in the item's description, so you can decide whether it's worth buying or not.

Usability: A new "tip" message appears when relevant. When building it  explains
how to rotate or build  multiple objects, and when crafting/trading  it explains
how to buy/sell/craft x10 or x100.

Usability: Added some more explanations of  where some items can be gathered  in
their descriptions.

Usability:  Added a  disband button  on taskforces,  that is  enabled when  the
taskforce is in your base. You can still disband by removing all survivors  from
the taskforce as well, like before.

Usability:  Added a  button that  will let  you equip  survivors in  the Colony
Management window. This  will open a  window similar to  the one you  get before
being attacked, where you can see all survivors with their equipment and quickly
change it.

Usability: The game will  now resume the same  speed it was before  combat, when
the combat is finished.

Usability: After  a combat  in the  world map,  if the  world map  was displayed
before  the fight,  the taskforce  will be  automatically selected  so you  can
quickly scavenge many locations one after another without having to reselect.

Usability:  Survivors  will  continue moving  towards  their  destinations after
combat starts,  if they  were ordered  to move  somewhere before.  This includes
activating the defense plan.

Usability: You  can now  assign survivors  to defensive  towers as  part of  the
defense plan. When the plan is activated, they will wait outside the tower,  and
will automatically enter it once the combat begins.

Usability: Selecting another survivor when the "select equipment" window is open
will update the  window for the  newly selected survivor,  and choosing an  item
will equip that new survivor.

Usability: Manual  assigning a  survivor to  craft something  will now keep them
assigned to it  for as long  as more items  of that type  are queued, instead of
just crafting one like before.

Usability: Can now assign more than one survivor manually to craft the same type
of item without replacing the previous survivors, as long as there are enough of
this items queued for crafting.

Content: Added a new tier 4  bow and several new high-tier pistols,  since those
were a bit under represented.

Content: Added several new achievements.

Balancing: Improved "Punching Bag" special skill a little bit.

Balancing:  Made the  "Scouting" +1  range skill  a separate  one from  that of
Marksmanship, so a survivor can have both.

Balancing: Repel evil now reduces the  awareness increase rate by a set  percent
for a limited time, instead of reducing the awareness value. This is to  prevent
players from  abusing this  ritual and  avoiding attacks  forever, given the new
system in which demons will only attack when awareness reaches 100.

Balancing: Attempting a rescue no longer has a one-time increase of awareness by
an absolute amount like before.

Fixed Bug: Game states could become corrupted, keeping a combat region in memory
with the  survivors that  participated in  that combat.  When that  region would
later  be  deleted,  the  survivors were  deleted  with  it,  breaking the  game
completely. Survivors will no longer be deleted with regions.

Fixed Bug:  When a  random event  activated at  the exact  same time as scavenge
combat, the scavenge screen  would close but the  game would keep thinking  that
the  combat is  on, making  any additional  combat impossible  until reloading.
Saving the game at this state created the corrupted save described above.

Fixed Bug: Mods with map sizes larger than 100 high would not display correctly.

Fixed  Bug: Some  typos and  fixed Russian  text that  would say  "+100%" range
instead of "+1".

Fixed Bug: Area healing effects will no longer affect dead survivors.

Fixed Bug: Gather limits on herbs  will no longer affect companion farms,  since
those provide  other resources  as well.  For now  companion farms  will not  be
affected by  gathering limits  at all,  because the  system does  not support  a
building that generates multiple items.

Fixed Bug: When survivors go to positions in preparation for an attack, it  will
no longer cancel their manual assignments.

Fixed Bug: Resources should  no longer spawn in  the map edges, where  you can't
build a mine on top of them.

Fixed Bug: Where it showed an  empty window when clicking the mission  button in
the intro battle right after killing the enemies (during the short pause  before
more enemies arrive).

Fixed Bug: Attempt to fix  some rare codec/graphics driver related  crashes when
playing videos (this would  cause the game to  crash on start on  these systems,
when attempting to play the logo videos).

World Exploration

World exploration has been completely remade. The world map has new visuals, and consists of several biomes. You now create teams of survivors called "Taskforces", and directly control them as they explore the map, searching for rare scavenge and biomes containing those much needed materials.

We've also added random encounters, so exploring the map is no longer safe, be sure to arm your teams well, and do not enter areas (biomes) that are crowded with tougher demons before you are ready to take them on.



Balancing

The balance changes encompass pretty much the entire game, but I'll try to list a few of the principal changes.

Enemies and equipment are now divided to tiers. The difference between enemies or equipment of different tiers is much larger than it used to be (around 2x stronger).

Armor has become a very important part, and now determines not only damage mitigation, but also your evasion and hitpoints.

Research has been divided into categories, and is now more vertical and less spread around. In each category there is a clear progress path, with a few side branches to spend your spare resource points for an additional edge.



Difficulty and pacing of missions, defense, events, etc have all been redone based on the new guidelines.

These are a few of the changes, but there are many more. We wrote all the numbers in the game from scratch, so pretty much nothing has been left unchanged.

Feedback

As always, we're looking forward to hearing your feedback on these latest changes.

Now more than ever, we'd love to hear your feedback about the new balance. Is it more predictable? Not too punishing but not too easy? Let us know what you think!

We also improved pathfinding and enemy AI performance, which fixes the performance issue with late game attacks in maze-like bases. Please try it out and let us know.

Once we are sure this alpha is stable and well balanced, we will make it available in the main branch.

Previous Saves

Due to the major changes in both the generated map and the balancing, playing old saved games would be completely different than the experience we had in mind. So saves from alpha 11 and earlier can not be loaded in alpha 12.

Как же хочется перед новым годом или праздниками музона нового или красивого с описанием итд

Mechanics: Changed skill system, skills no longer have levels, a survivor either has a skill or not. Skills now provide a much higher variety of bonuses/penalties.
Mechanics: New profession system where each survivor has a profession and can earn profession levels. You can then choose new profession skills when they earn levels, customizing your survivors to fit your play style.
Mechanics: Some crafting, building or actions now require the survivors to have certain skills to be performed.
Mechanics: New bonuses that only take effect when specific items are equipped, such as bonus accuracy for bows.
Mechanics: Starting survivors are now shown before starting a new game, and you can re-roll or customize their appearance before starting.
Mechanics: Some scavenge loot is now hidden. Mostly scavengeable equipment.
Mechanics: Can only scout empty tiles now. Scouting scavenge locations is now done automatically when the location is scavenged.
Mechanics: In custom difficulty, can now turn off base attacks completely, and/or turn off awareness gain.
Mechanics: A single research may now provide more than one passive bonus.
AI: Survivors will now switch between tasks less often to prevent ping pong between tasks.
AI: Enemies will now give higher priority to attacking survivors within their range, rather than chasing others who are outside their range.
Usability: New survivor skills window where you can see a survivor's skills, and a summary of all their bonuses.
Usability: Priorities window - can now sort according to specific task, instead of skill level.
Usability: New level up notifications
Usability: Tired survivors now have a visible negative status effect in combat.
Usability: Clicking ESC in the world map now returns to base.
Usability: Selected survivor info now takes less screen space. Most of the extra information is available when opening the skills window.
Usability: Clicking some warnings will now take you to the correct place (rescue warning will take you to the world map, level up warning to the survivor skills window, etc).
Usability: When manually assigning a task to a survivor, they will now continue to perform the task until it is complete, even after a food or rest break.
Usability: Tasks where a survivor performs less than average now receive a lower starting priority.
Content: Four new professions, and tens of new skills for the new skill & profession system.
Content: New enemy creature: Lich. Tough, ranged, and high damage dealer. Stay away.
Content: Some important research subjects now require special scavenge-only resources to perform. These are instead of other scavenge only raw materials (such as metals that were required before you could build metal mines)
Content: Mutate ritual now switches a survivor's profession (randomly) and resets all skill choices (experience level is kept)
Content: New world map generation algorithm. The map is now made of rural and urban areas, each with it's own density and location types.
Content: World map is now 4 times bigger (64x64 instead of 32x32).
Content: New "Farm" world map location, with high chances of finding food and raw materials.
Content: New "School" world map location, with high chances of finding research materials.
Content: New "Church" world map location, with high chances of finding religious and occult materials and artifacts.
Content: New combat map biome - Industrial Area - with brand new assets such as factories, asphalt and storage tanks.
Content: New research - "Demon Anatomy" that provides bonus to damage for all survivors.
Modding: Steam workshop integration (Steam Workshop webpage is still in beta)
Modding: Activate and deactivate mods from the game UI, instead of having to edit external text files.
Modding: Can now mod enemies, skills, professions, food types, the world map generator, and other general game rules (such as starting items or amount of starting survivors).
Visaul: New survivor animation when performing rituals.
Visual: Improved some survivor animations (building, crafting, unarmed attack)
Balancing: Some tasks now give more experience to some survivors, depending on their profession
Balancing: Reduced how often survivors have to eat. Also reduced food creation rate to make up for it.
Balancing: When a survivor dies you now get their equipment back.
Balancing: Scavenge missions no longer add awareness, while rescue missions add more awareness than before.
Balancing: Now making sure that some essential resources (research materials) are available in decent distances from the base, with decent difficulty levels.
Balancing: Mining minerals now requires a survivor to have a matching skill.
Balancing: Guard tower now requires a special survivor skill to build.
Balancing: Crafting some advanced firearms now requires the survivor to have a matching skill.
Balancing: Crafting some holy or dark occult items now requires the survivor to have matching skills.
Balancing: Crafting medicine now requires the survivor to have a matching skill.
Balancing: Clay can now be scavenged.
Balancing: Tweaked how hit chance and evasion are calculated. Evasion is now subtracted from accuracy, instead of being multiplied. This means that evasion has more effect against low accuracy attackers.
Balancing: Weapon and enemy accuracy were tweaked to account for the new hit chance calculations.
Balancing: There is now a minimum hit chance of 20%.
Balancing: Magic circles and altars can no longer be moved.
Balancing: Starting visible range in world map has been increased.
Balancing: When scouting a world map location (by scavenging), the revealed are is now larger.
Balancing: World map scavenge difficulty is now more varied, and not 100% distance related (while farther away locations are still more likely to be higher difficulty with better loot).
Balancing: World map scavenge difficulty is now affected by location type (military bases tend to have more difficult enemies and better loot than farms, assuming same distance from base).
Balancing: You can now scavenge a larger variety of items, and the amounts better fit their value.
Balancing: Salads are now crafted only at the food table.
Balancing: Survivors now start with 1 skill that matches their profession, up to 2 generic skills, and up to 1 negative skills.
Performance: Fixed issue where crafting many of the same item would create many crafting tasks. New crafting tasks will now be created only one per item, and new ones will be added when the previous ones are assigned to.
Performance: Fixed major performance issues that happened with high populations and lots of tasks.
Performance: Improved performance of switching between base view and world map.
Performance: Improved performance of sending survivors on missions, which would also cause the game to hang sometimes.
Performance: Improved performance of changing equipment from mission launch window.
Fixed: Disabled survivor customization during combat which would cause animation issues if used.
Fixed: After deleting a saved game from the title screen, it wouldn't refresh (so you had to delete it again or open/close the window before the deleted game was gone).
Fixed: Pressing ESC with crafting priorities window open would not close the window and would mess up the game.
Fixed: Crafting priorities window now has a scroll bar when needed (relevant when mods add many new items).
Fixed: Destroying an object that had a task on it (such as a farm) would cause survivors not to perform any tasks.
Fixed: Assigning a task manually would cause it to be performed in the bottom left tile, even if the survivor was closer to another tile.
Fixed: When assigning a ritual task manually, the ritual effect would appear a bit off the center.
Fixed: Error messages were blocking clicks in the area around them.
Fixed: An icon for the "Dark Curse" event was missing which didn't allow you to use the cure unless you had the resources available at the beginning of the event.
Fixed: Several status effects in combat would multiply on each other, instead of the base value (making them more powerful than planned when several were applied together)

• Fixed an issue with some recording software such as DXtory that caused the title screen to appear completely black.
• Balancing: Trees provide more wood, but take longer to chop. This essentially means you get more wood from the starting trees and per tile of planted trees, but the rate at which a survivor can gather wood remains more or less the same.
• Balancing: Research progression is a bit slower, and some advanced topics cost more research.
• Balancing: Demonite armor is a bit stronger.
• Balancing: Holy items cost more to reflect how strong they are.
• Balancing: Farms now require tending (watering) less often, but each time takes longer. This reduces the amount of time spent moving from farm to farm, and there's some more spare time before the farm dries and stops growing while the farmer is busy with something else.
• Balancing: Enemy attacks are a bit farther apart, but also a tiny bit stronger. This will be improved more in a major update by adding additional random events, not only attacks and rescue missions.
• Balancing: Possessed now drop weapon parts.
• Traits: Some traits can no longer appear together on the same survivor, such as vegan and meat lover. This update is only for traits that are illogical together. There may still be traits that cancel each other's effects (such as vegan and brute).
• Map Generation: Wells will now always spawn a bit closer to the center.
• Game Difficulty: Custom difficulty now available, to control different aspects of the game difficulty. A new easier difficulty level "Casual" is available from the custom difficulty panel.
• Usability: Skill progress towards the next level is now shown when hovering the skill with the cursor.
• Usability: When a group of survivors is selected, clicking on the portrait of one of them (or pressing the matching number) now deselects all other survivors instead of centering the camera.
• Content: Added a couple of combat maps. We aim to make these randomly generated in the future.
• Audio: Tuned down the title screen music to better match the volume inside the game.
• Fixed bug where some tooltips would go off screen in larger than 1920x1080 resolutions.
• Fixed bug where building a mine on top of two different resource types would not yield anything.
• Fixed bug where feedback icons (that shows resources collected) would block clicks on the object behind it.
• Fixed bug where cooking food (and a few other crafting recipes) would mistakenly show hammer animation.