The Free House Party - Halloween Holiday Pack Is Out Now!

Halloween is back, partiers!

Add the free House Party - Halloween Holiday Pack to your library and enjoy the terror-filled season all year long, whenever you want, with the new toggle on/off feature!

Enjoy chilling at a decked-out house party filled with spine-chilling ambience, sinister costumes, and much more in this petrifying autumn party pack!

House Party - Halloween Holiday Pack "Out Now!" (SFW 2022 Item Showcase Expansion Pack Trailer)

Here by popular demand, the House Party - Halloween Holiday Pack is a permanent version of the limited-time 2022 seasonal Halloween update.

This DLC brings pumpkins, spooky ghosts, a skeleton, tons of spider webs, and one giant furry spider back to decorate Madison's house in creepy fall vibes!

It also dresses all of the NPCs at the party in a chilling succubus costume - including startling horns, creepy bat wings, and a sexy, spiky tail!

Thanks for your patience as we worked to get this ready, doods!

We know it’s taken a while, but we hadn’t originally planned for the 2022 limited-time event to become permanent. It was a spur-of-the-moment idea fueled by season-induced passion, and it really wasn’t built to be in the game year-round.

However, after seeing so many of you ask for it to stay around, our team worked alongside our already-planned development schedule to completely rebuild the Halloween and Winter events so they’d be suitable to be in House Party permanently.

This full restructuring includes:

• Making it so the DLCs are optional and won’t bloat the base game if you never plan to play or install them
• Allowing you to toggle the DLC on and off if you don’t feel like enjoying the Halloween aesthetic during a specific play session
• Ensuring merging the content with House Party wouldn’t cause any major bugs or issues with the short or long-term health of the base game
• And, best of all, future-proofing the DLC so we can add more exciting content in additional updates!

While the Halloween Holiday Pack will visually look the same as the event did in 2022 (so, no, don’t expect to see any “new” playable content or cosmetics yet), it’s undergone complete restructuring and there are major framework changes under the surface. And these changes will allow us to properly add extra content (cosmetics, decorations, side-quests, achievements, etc.) to the Halloween Holiday Pack in the future as time permits!

Also implemented into this framework beneath the holiday pack are the roots of a very exciting new feature that we plan to bring for free to all players in the future. We won’t spoil exactly what this is yet, but we’ll just say it’s something MANY of you requested in the latest survey we released!

So, get excited, doods and lady-doods, because what’s coming is gonna be amazing - and we can’t wait to share more details as we get further along in development.

And, if you’re still waiting for the snowy season to return, don’t worry! The House Party - Winter Holiday Pack will be ready to play very soon, too!

But, in the meantime, what are you waiting for? Come enjoy the haunted house party!

Thea 2 The Shattering, Rat Tales & More

An upcoming free DLC update, featuring:

• New events: Including a rat-centred tale, a Thea dating game and an invasion of foreign wizards and their flock.
• New Rat classes: Just when you thought there’s enough rattiness in Thea, we give you the Tsarat, the Warrant, the Healrat, the Mystrat, and a cute, little baby rat!
• New Human class: The Berserker, a wild warrior whose power is gained from Destiny.
• New Dwarven class: Ever wondered what dwarven women do in the depths of their underground kingdoms? The Matrioshka answer that question and show just how powerful they are.
• New characters that can join your group: Gnolls, Polar Bears, old magicians...
• New pets to discover; eight new additions to our Thea menagerie
• New god Trait cards
• The Memorial Grounds: Finally, the many deaths and/or abandonments of Thea’s heroes are now recorded for posterity.

Also included in the update is an important fix to the multiplayer mode, so now you can enjoy Thea 2 with friends again!

The DLC is an AUTOMATIC UPDATE, so you don't need to do anything more than update the game to get your free content!

Greenery | Patch #7 | V 1.2.8529.18208

Dear Survivors,

first off, this update comes alongside some greater news, so stay tuned for the announcement coming up shortly after!

We made Endzone compatible with Asus Aura hardware. This allows your Asus Aura peripherals to react in accordance to the game state, highlighting hotkeys, ongoing droughts, radiation and more.

Additionally, we have fixed some issues concerning the game when played on Steam Deck. This includes mostly UI fixes, especially with the expedition UI.

Last but not least, we added three new decorations for your settlement! While the game already includes a number of decorative elements, we wanted to add more greens and organic looping assets, servicing those who wish for more natural forms and to "green up" their settlement.

We are excited to see them in future screenshots of your settlements!

Important Notes

To activate Asus Aura, enter the "options" window and look under "game". Search for the checkbox titled Asus Aura and click on it. We recommend restarting the game.

ADDED:

• Buildings: Added 3 new decorative buildings
• System: Added support for Asus Aura

FIXED

• Expeditions: Fixed output required of action points during expeditions on Steam Deck. Required action points were at some point always displayed as 0.
• Expeditions: Fixed an issue with Endzone on Steam deck concerning the action- and cancel-button in the inspector UI of the Expedition Post, which would lead to an error.
• Expeditions: Several fixes in Steam Deck Expedition Window
• UI: Some stability improvements in Steam Deck UI

Your Teams from Gentlymad & Assemble | 1.2.8529.18208

3.8.2 "Gemini" Hotfix Patch Released

Following some quick work from the team we have now produced a patch aiming resolve the high priority issues coming out of the Galactic Paragons + 3.8 release. 3.8.2 should be available for download via Steam and GOG now.

Unfortunately there is a delay in the deployment of the patch to Microsoft Store, and players on this platform should expect the update to arrive early next week instead.

We will continue our efforts fixing and balancing where needed, so keep your reports coming!

Please find the patch notes below.

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BUG FIXES
• Fixed an issue where the mouse input would be offset when playing with fullscreen on.
• Fixed an achievement not always being awarded correctly.
• Fixed the Kidnapper trait applying to the whole empire population instead of the given planet.
• Fixed a bug where permanent rulers would not get their ascension perks when finishing the special projects to convert them.
• Anglers now once again count as farmers.
• Fixed map tracking sometimes not working for first contacts and archaeology sites.
• Holo-Theatres are now correctly destroyed when a gestalt empire conquers the planet they are built on.
• If an empire stops having Imperial Authority, the Imperial Heir trait is removed from their former heir.
• Leaders can no longer start the game with traits that produce resources. This should stop machine leaders from keeping a bonsai tree garden as a hobby.
• Restored the brainslug species trait.
• You can no longer psi-inoculate hive-minded pops or those being purged.
• Fixed an issue where some situation modifiers were not applied correctly.
• Fixed The Beholder, Keides, Azaryn, and others leaders from Paragon mutating due to traveling through shroud tunnels.
• Now Crusader Spirit will correctly impose the Crusader spirit civic on empires who lose the ideology war.
• Now the Imperial heir will have 0 Unity upkeep (upkeep from negative traits can still apply).

STABILITY
• Fixed a COOP crash when two players were selecting ascension perks at the same time.
• Fixed a crash related to pops with invalid species.
• Fixed a crash that could occur during removal of invalid trade deals.
• Fixed an out of sync related to events.

BALANCE
• The Minister of Exploration now grants +3% jump drive range per level.
• The additional unity duelists gain from the Arbiter of Duels is now added to their base output instead of multiplying the base output.

AI
• Fixed an issue where the AI would repeatedly attempt and fail to invade the pre-FTL empires from the Fear of the Dark origin.

UI
• Event notifications can now be configured in message settings.
• Added ship engagement range modifier to ship tooltip.
• Crime/Deviancy modifiers should now show the correct name in more places.
• Fixed Galactic Paragons not being shown in DLC lists.
• Fixed UI issues affecting the council view for gestalt empires after they unlocked their third civic.
• Fixed overlap between achievements and forum link button in the main menu on non-Steam platforms.
• Fixed text overlap between coop filter and cross platform filter in the matchmaking view.
• Improved the layout of the Multiplayer lobby DLC icons.
• Message settings are now sorted in alphabetical order.
• Message settings that have been changed and later changed back to their default values (without using "Reset Default") will now be saved as changed values.
• The coop filter checkbox in the multiplayer game browser is now checked by default.
• The player name used for Multiplayer is now saved more consistently.
• When hot-joining a coop empire, events that are open for other players in your empire before the hot-join will no longer be shown to the joining player.
• Icons for tiered traits should now correctly display a Roman numeral 'I' for tier 1, for players without Galactic Paragons.

MODDING
• Fixed a case where modded games could crash when using custom leader classes.
• Fixed crash on session start when using modded leader classes.
• Fixed some incorrect documentation for message types.


Please note that save file compatibility between versions is not guaranteed.

If you have an important game going, please back up the save file before trying to load the save in the new version.

If you experience crashing or other issues, first disable all mods and start a new save. If the issue persists, please report it on the Bug Report forums.

Patch notes May 11

Hi Painters,

Thank you for your continued support of Arto and your ongoing feedback. This patch is significantly larger than the last one and we hope your gameplay experience improves significantly!

What’s new?

• New map icons to make quest navigation easier
• A new keybinding to access the map from the game, without having to go into the menu

What’s fixed?

• Overall performance improvements and optimization- Arto runs more smoothly across the board!
• Anax’s final solution quest no longer displays the incorrect number of spray paint cans collected
• The Bachis fight will now spawn an ouvre and the player won’t get trapped in the arena after defeating him
• Bachis will no longer leave a laser attack indicator after being interrupted during the attack
• Various audio fixes
• Back to main menu will no longer cause sound to stop
• Hime will no longer clip through the floor during a fight

What’s changed?

• BBK minigame redesign- you’ll find you’ll have better control of the pad, fixed a bug that could softlock the game by having the ball move perfectly vertically or horizontally, added vfx
• Increased dialogue font size
• Several environmental changes to make navigation easier and prevent Liv from getting caught up on the environment when running
• Increased tutorial message and bark time
• Getting on the first boat and activating it has been made more intuitive and easier
• Changed the hitboxes of Kynis and the flies he spawns. Now all of them can be damaged with any weapon

As always, we hope these fixes and changes make your Arto experience more enjoyable and we hope to hear more from you!