OpenTTD 13.0

2023-02-05
Posted by michi_cc

Breaking news: OpenTTD 13.0 is now available! Depending on your perspective, we’re either two months early for our usual April 1st release, or a bit tardy for the Christmas 2022 release we intended.

We think the wait has been worth it. This is one of the largest releases we’ve done in several years, with numerous features and improvements covering the user interface, gameplay features, and modding extensions for NewGRF and Game Script creators.

Some of the highlights are:

Variable interface scaling at whatever size you want (not just 2x and 4x), with optional chunky bevels for that retro feel. This includes better automatic scaling when using HiDPI or mixed DPI setups.
Direct access to NewGRF/AI/GS settings from the new game window.
Various small tweaks and improvements to several windows.
NewGRFs can now provide engine variants that are shown hierarchically in the purchase list.
Multi-track level crossings to keep road vehicles from stopping in the middle of the crossing.
Custom league tables for GameScripts.
More natural rivers which get wider as they flow downstream.
And much more, which can be seen in the changelog or the previous release announcements!

In addition to these features and improvements, we’ve fixed lots of bugs. (If you played with the RC2 testing release, most were fixed before then. See the changelog for full details.)

0.602.5 - Space Construction

OCP-209 available on the second-hand market
Obonto Microengineering has announced that it is decommissioning the 209 model of their Orbital Construction Platform, and they are now available on the second-hand market. Designed for habitat construction, the OCP-209 features a massive side-loading cargo bay, twin heavy mountings, and a comfortable habitat with the ability to provide rotational G, making her suitable for extended construction or resupply missions.

Obonto Microengineering is offering these decommissioned ships at an attractive price, so don't miss out on this chance to get your hands on some of the best construction craft in the solar system.

Physical displays make a comeback
While virtual displays may dominate space exploration, one company is bringing back physical screens with the release of its OCP-209 HUD. Obonto Microengineering offers a physical display that is both reliable and robust. The physical hardware offers more protection than a virtual display can offer, while the transparent panes offer more visibility.

SAN-BUS recall
Many computer systems sold for commercial mining craft have been recalled due to an error that caused erratic release of system locks for some equipment. The upgraded SAN-BUS components will improve consistency and predictability with equipment such as point defenses, drones, and manipulators. Captains can upgrade or replace their systems by contacting your local dealership.

Maintenance Logs
- New ship: Obonto Construction Platform 209.
- New HUD: OCP-209.
- Cargo Containers and similar equipment will not boot up and use their thrusters when your ship travels back to Enceladus Prime station.
- HUDs using physical displays are now more resilient to electromagnetic damage.
- Returning to the Enceladus Prime station will no longer cause your ship to burn a massive hole in the rings at the location you left.
- Relative skill stats on the Crew Hire menu will immediately update when you hire someone.
- Improved performance when swapping equipment on your ship on the Enceladus Prime station.
- Fixed a bug that could cause the game to crash when tuning nanodrone systems to specific values.
- The remote microseismic scanner display will now be only shown on the equipment simulations related to it.
- Certain systems, like the Point Defence Turrets or Nanodrone systems, would keep their lock on an object indefinitely if you turned them off when they acquired a target, causing other systems (including the AR1500 Salvage Manipulator) to ignore that target.
- When playing on the peaceful difficulty, it was still possible to encounter a pirate trap by following a quest.
- Increased the speed threshold on which the Daredevil mood triggers with its accompanying soundtrack.
- On some ship configurations, the geologist panel controls would not show up.
- Fixed typos in ship names. The fix will affect only newly encountered ships.
- Mineral Market will not close itself automatically on the Steam Deck anymore.
- Fixed a race condition that could crash the game when a ship equipped with a physical display de-spawned, such as when changing from the Enceladus station to the Rings and back, or purchasing new equipment.
- Updated translations.

• Just added e3m5 (Incinerator) and e3ms (Rathaus)

we made a small update to fix a problem in the inventory in the end of the tutorial
https://steamcommunity.com/app/951430/discussions/0/2792745782997555079/?ctp=7#c3757726797847019878

Balance by Community – 0.42x0874a

To all crews ... The main command module has received a large number of orders. Allow for protocol edits!

Hi everyone who follows the updates. This time our community has expanded a lot! It means a lot to me, the last two weeks we have been chatting to you and listening to all your feedback on our Discord server. And this update will introduce the fixes and suggestions that we have highlighted! Before I start talking about the update, I want to say thank you for your interest!

And now let's get to the update:

The most popular thing you asked for is a balance of asteroid mining:
• I've sped up asteroid mining by 3 times.

Also a lot of people said that "Gravity hook" should be improved, I decided to improve it a bit:
• Gravity hook speed 2 → 6.
• Range Hook 16 → 30.
• Hook Radius 0.27 → 0.35

I was not very surprised when I saw that when mining the debris they turned into something unknown. The reason for this is the deformation of objects still in prototype stage, but I still tried to limit the appearance of this kind of bug. Now the debris won't shrink very much.

Preparing for the new builds:
Most likely the first thing that will come up in the next updates will be new builds. For this reason I have redesigned the UI at Blueprint. And also according to your wishes I have split the buildings into Inside and Outside buildings. Now if you want to build a wall inside or outside the ship, you need to select it.

This will probably not be visible to you, but the ship's flight system was redesigned. Sometimes players get a bug that their ship goes into radiation zone, but now this should not be the case.

I tried to rework the lighting and now the game looks brighter than it was. Soon I will add brightness settings, etc.

The option to re-assign any control buttons has been added!

Now let's go over the list of fixes:
• Fixed critical bug with missing Access Card and Black Boxes
• Fixed "Empty Death Backpack" bug, impossible to interact with the backpack that falls out after death
• Fixed a bug that prevented items and death backpack from saving
• Some bugs with displaying gamepad icons have been fixed
• Enlarged text on interaction buttons
• Fixed a bug that caused the control to break when moving an item in your backpack
• Fixed some gamepad controls
• Lights on your ship will be turned off due to engine bugs
• Little fix for entering the ship at speed
• Added automatic engine shutdown on total power outage
• When dying with blueprint, you can't press Respawn
• Fixed glare on close range
• Fixed many minor bugs

Bugs / Issues

• Fixed an issue of an incorrect stat in E4M1: the max secrets amount should be 8.
• Fixed an issue where a blood gem was not displayed correctly in E3M5, you can now find it before the boss fight.
• Fixed an issue that the super secret could be activated directly in E5M2.
• Fixed an issue that 2 health packs were blocked by an invisible wall in E4M4.

Music/SFX

• Replaced the incorrect music in E4M2.
• Fixed an issue of the character's jumping sound effect.

Performance

• Improved display issues in E5M2, E5M3.

Runes

• Golden rune "Roar" obtained in E4M6's super secret and its description is now displayed correctly.
• Adjusted ammo consumption when using the golden rune "Roar".
• The silver rune "Inferno Gauntlets Expansion III" can now be found in a secret place in E5M1.
• The silver rune "Trap Launcher Expansion III" can now be found in a secret place in E4M5.

Addition Functions

• F11: Fast switching between default / HUD off / All UI off.

Jungle Pack and The Jailhouse Update Releasing Tomorrow, February 7th, on PC, Xbox One & Playstation 4!​

Jungle Pack (2.99 USD/ 2.09 GBP/ 2.99EUR)​

- Becoming One With The Jungle - New features and items based around nature and wooden materials, to help support your prison in a greener way.
* New Trees - Two new trees have been added, one for just aesthetic purposes and the other as a new export variant for logs and wooden planks.
* Wooden Items - New Variants of existing items made from wooden materials, such as: guard towers, benches, tables, serving tables, drains, and beds.
* Blending In - A new CCTV camera has been added that has been camouflaged to match its jungle-themed destination. It may be less hidden if placed inside...

- Fever That Holds You Tight - A terrible affliction has been added with this pack that can cause severe damage to your prisoners, luckily your staff need to have all their vaccinations to be able to work at your prison. So that's nice.
* Fever Starts - This event can be enabled from the creation menu but within the game it is first brought into your prison by either deliveries or visitors.
* Fever Spreads - If a prisoner comes into close proximity to an infected item or individual they will have a good chance to gain the affliction.
* Fever Burns - The fever will have 3 stages with symptoms getting worse as time goes by, if left alone victims will die.
* Visitor Reception - Using this new room, any civilians who come to your prison can be checked over for both contraband and for their health, anyone showing signs of infection will be sent away.
* Fire Pits - these lovely big structures not only light up large areas of your prison but they will also keep the "bugs" away from any prisoner within their radius keeping them safer.
* Netted Beds - to prevent your inmates from becoming afflicted during their sleep, these new beds will give any prisoner who uses them a short immunity due to the high quality of netting used.
* Treatment Program - To keep your inmates safer for longer, this new medical program will boost your inmates health for a number of days and make it so that they can frolic safely and freely locked behind jail doors and walls...

- Visuals - Your prison can't only run smoothly and efficiently, it also has to look good too, right?
* Uniforms - It's that time again, the third uniform pack has arrived! Change up the style of your prisoners and staff once more with this green theme.
* Flooring - 5 new flooring types have been added, 2 types of stone tiles to decorate the inside of your prison along with 3 more natural looking flooring types to decorate the outside of your prison.
* Water - Although yes water is also a flooring type, we felt it needed its own section. The new murky water type is available to give your prisoners a more natural but also less clean appeal which we're sure that you will enjoy.
* Walls & Doors - A new type of jail doors and walls have been added, the rusted kind. This set of fortifications come with multiple flooring types below each of the walls and of course both a standard and a large variant for the doors.
* Clock Face - If you ever wanted a slightly more retro looking clock face well now you have it.
* Karr Hide - This well dressed chap is an expert within a jungle environment and will be able to teach your Snipers how to properly use a scope.

Jailhouse (Free Update)​

Update Features

- Capacitor Max Plus - Power Management has always been a challenge, but this new and more powerful (and more expensive!) capacitor may just make it a little easier.
- New Sniffer Dog - It would be unfair of us not to share this sunshine boy with you, so please enjoy the wonder that is Toby and all that he stands and rolls over for.
- Idle Guards - We've made it so that now instead of having large numbers of Guards idling within the delivery area they will now prioritize more important areas of the prison.
- Deployment Scheduler - The scheduler menu has been given a small makeover to improve the user experience, making it clearer and easier to use.
- Quick Build Materials - Now when using a quick build, the last material selected will be saved when using that quick build again.
- Identity Thief - We've re-balanced the Identity Thief reputation so that it can't take over your prison quite so easily.
- Suppression Effects - Inmates will no longer be turned insane as easily when being handled by guards.

Future Tech Pack Fixes:

- The Tracking menu should no longer stack now
- The handgun and stunbaton now correctly render in prisoner hands
- The new future tech cosmetic uniforms no longer have the wrong alignment for the portable medikit backpacks
- Electrified fence now treated as both connectable wall and fence to allow correct door placement
- The advanced search light now shows an error when it is not connected to a CCTV monitor for it to work
- Tracking menu should now scale properly in higher resolution screens.
- Fixed so that doctors and guards have the visitor reception as an idle room
- Fixed so that the robot dog now has a sound when it gets damaged
- Fixed so the robot dogs now have there alternative sniffing sound
- Adv Search light cone should now be shown when the searchlight base outside screen limits
- The router now no longer has a shadow
- "Big head mode" will now cause tracking belts to overlap prisoner's heads
- Guards no longer drop keycards with the Future Tech Pack locked
- The requirements for Future Pack items are now displayed via the Utilities menu
- Dogs will no longer "grow hands" to open doors with keys or keycards
- The Tracking menu will now show prisoners with Pack specific ailments

Undead Pack Fixes:

- Updated Bounty Hunter logic to prevent potential sticking
- The lock/unlock cctv option is no longer locked behind UndeadPack

Multiplayer Fixes:

- Clients are now able to equip prisoners with the tracking belt in multiplayer
- Clients are now able to see the Electrocution effect for climbing electric fences
- The range of routers are now visible for clients
- The revoke belt access UI now syncs correctly for all players
- The Available guard value is now synced between host and client

Misc Fixes:

- Fixed Desk rotation orientations for Quick Build rooms.
- Planning tool no longer allows Fence Walls to be build indoors
- Fog of War is no longer toggled on automatically for warden mode
- Dogs will no longer be left unconscious due to their handlers being injured
- Fixed issue with policy window not showing some policies when Cleared For Transfer is disabled.
- Guards no longer layer over each other when too many of them are aboard the ferry at the same time
- The 'Use Cell Quality Ratings' option should now automatically assign prisoners to cells more efficiently
- Second Chance DLC signs are now aligned with other signs.
- Fixed an issue with snipers not applying damage to inmates
- Fixed so that snipers can now also idle in the staff room
- Birthday presents are no longer obscured when placed on Bunk beds
- Gardener jobs will no longer be displayed within construction menus
- Orderlies will no longer have any issue sedating an insane prisoner
- The planning tool now preserves objects / paths when foundations are placed
- The Scanner machine & scanner monitor are now highlighted for the delivery room
- The single sofa will now satisfy the requirement for staffroom
- Supplies can no longer be stopped from being unloaded from the first boat for Island plot Disconnected maps.
- Staff and prisoners no longer have recovery blocked by illnesses when bedridden.

Console Specific Changes

- Assign Doctors / Cooks - Both Doctors and Cooks can now be assigned to specific Infirmaries and Kitchens respectively.
- Bookshelf Literacy - The bookshelf item will now cater to an inmate's literacy need as it does so for PC platforms.
- End Punishments - Via the prisoner's punishment menu it is now possible to end any punishment that is currently being applied to that inmate.

Misc Console Fixes

- The polaroid now shows up for the kitchen snapshot
- Pest control workers do not infinitely loop.
- Hides the CCTV view cone when the searchlight is on.
- Influence system has now been fixed so that it will broadcast to all valid cells
- Guard towers can't be built on walls
- Made sure to only set stations as jobs for prisoners when using prison labour
- Doors are no longer being overwritten by walls, which causes the area to be inaccessible after walls finish built
- Walls now blocked by all trees correctly. Code matched to Console version

Coming February 7th for PC, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4.

For more information on Jungle Pack and Prison Architect, visit paradoxinteractive.com
Price will be 2.99 USD/ 2.09 GBP/ 2.99EUR.

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A new minor update is available for A Hat in Time!

General

- Improved wallclimb to get less stuck on walls
- Fixed several instances of AudioComponents not being destroyed on completion
- Fixed jigglebone crash

Spaceship

- Fixed being able to select "empty" creator DLC when no Creator DLC is installed

Mafia Town

- Mafia Boss now has a reduced height hitbox while doing his horizontal spin attack. This allows players to jump over him without double-jumping.
- Reduced hitbox of charging Mafia summoned by Mafia Boss
- Fixed small rubble blocking the camera on the wooden platforms in Mafia Town

Battle of the Birds

- Fixed typo in Conductor dialogue in Dead Bird Studio Act 1
- Fixed typo in dialogue for the Express Band
- Fixed duplicate 'Bow Down' sticker in Dead Bird Basement
- Conductor / DJ Grooves Tokens now heal +1 HP on pickup

The Finale

- Mustache Girl will now teleport back to center of arena if she falls out of the arena

UI

- Fixed being able to click menu items via mouse click release, when changing menu

Death Wish

- Increased the hitbox of moving golden vault codes
- Made it less frustrating to wallclimb out of ice statue (Mafia's Jumps Death Wish)

A fun new Return to Monkey Island update is live on all platforms that adds 70 new trivia cards to find and answer!

Here’s one of the new ones, drop your answer in the replies!