Terroir v2.4 + GOG

Hello, German-speaking winemakers!

At long last, we have finally finished German localization of Terroir. You can now choose German as an option in your language settings. We are continuing to improve on the localization, with a few minor additions and possibly tweaks in the next coming weeks, but by and large, it's now playable in German.

Fixed a bug preventing players from scrolling back through their grape varieties in the winemaking process menus.
Fixed a bug wherein having a controller plugged in (other than your mouse or keyboard) made players unable to interact with the game.
Changed the way A.I. decides how to accept bids from Players trying to buy their tiles. An A.I. winemaker will now accept a bid if it has less than 3x the amount of money placed in the bid.

To our amazing Terroir players,

We hope that the holiday season finds you well (and if you don't subscribe to the relevant belief system, we hope you're doing just as well). We've got a huge update for you, and one that we kept under wraps this whole time. See, we've announced in the past that the next update after the last was going to have one simple addition: the Blending feature. But Jenny and I really thought this one through - sure, adding the Blending feature would add another activity in the winemaking process, but would it really enrich the game beyond just having new choices and decisions to make? Actually, yeah, maybe. But what we felt would truly add a whole new dimension to Terroir, and bring much more replayability and value to the game was to introduce some form of competition - it would be more fun to run your own wine Estate while competing with others.

So, after 2 weeks of nearly non-stop work (except for the occasional lunch break), we present to you Terroir 2.3.

Let's begin with the biggest new feature: A.I. competitors. Yes, that's right, you can now choose to play with up to 3 A.I.-controlled winemakers (or none at all). You can choose how many to play against in the difficulty settings menu that pops up before you start a new game.



A.I. competitors will spawn near your own vineyard, and will compete with you for new land. You can buy their tiles at a cost (or buy them off completely by purchasing their estate tile), and they can send you offers to purchase your own tiles. They grow at a steady rate, depending on the weather (too much rain and their Yields will suffer), and once they've accumulated enough money, they will purchase a new tile every year to add to their vineyard. Playing against A.I. competitors will give you a bonus to your final score.

Another new feature in 2.3 is Market Saturation. Simply put, it's a measure of how much supply of a particular wine there is in the market. This affects that wine's base price - too much of a certain wine, and its base price drops. Too little, and it increases. A player directly affects Market Saturation by the amount of wine he sells, and random small changes occur every year to the market saturation levels of each wine type. Noble Rot Semillon and Grenache Rose are exempted from the effects of Market Saturation.



You can open the Market Saturation window by clicking on the newest icon in the icon tray, shown below:



In addition to this, we've made a few more tweaks and fixes:

Fixed bugs in the financial reporting system.
Fixed bugs in the Full Time Vineyard Workers system.
Improved load times by introducing custom splash screens.
Updates to the text tutorial.

We really hope you enjoy these new features. We also hope that your year's end is filled with happiness, gaming and multiple glasses of wine of various varieties.

Happy winemaking!

Okay, some cool stuff. First thing's first -- a new patch. Biggest thing about this patch is the game now has difficulty options. You are given the chance to choose your difficulty when you start a new game. You get three modes: Easy, Normal and Challenging. Each mode will give you a different starting budget, and the chances that pests, rot and overexposure occur also differ from mode to mode. The modes will, however, affect your final score. Playing on Easy will apply a penalty to your final score, while playing on Challenging gives a boost to your final score (playing on Normal means your final score will be calculated in the regular way).

Here's the patch notes:

Difficulty settings added. Accessible when starting a new game.
Trees are now synchronized with the wind turbines.
Right-clicking while a Worker Action is active (you know it's active when an icon follows your cursor) deactivates the action.
You lose 1 relationship rating with a distributor if you sell that distributor less than 30% of your available stock of one variety. Previously, you only lose 1 point if you sell a distributor less than 10% of your available stock of one variety.
When you reach a relationship rating of 5 with a distributor, you are immune to deductions in the rating unless you sell them a wine with a rating of less than 4 stars.