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Alpha 43 was an update released on January 25th, 2018. It featured the first level of Uptown, the last main Stage of the game.
Patch Notes[]
Levels[]
- Game is now playable through 5-1
Music[]
- New Track “Floor 5-1 I'm Too Arousing For My Turtleneck” added to soundtrack owners’ libraries
Achievements[]
- Unlock Elevator Access - Uptown
Art[]
- New wall and floor art for Uptown levels
Non-Playable Characters[]
Environments[]
- Gated Community
- Mansion
- Uptown House
- Bathhouse
- “Zoo” (features Zombies, Cannibals, and those filthy, uncouth Slum Dwellers)
- Private Club
- Deportation Center
- Confiscation Center
- Police Outpost
- New Bank varieties
- New Music Hall varieties
- New Mall varieties
- New City Park varieties
Objects[]
- Lockdown Wall (barricades that go up when Uptown goes into Lockdown)
Environments[]
- Fixed a hole in one of the Hideout buildings not being the correct size
Graphics[]
- Internal fixes to characters’ facial features, hats etc. are determined, could potentially fix a few small things
- Fix for swimming NPCs on multiplayer client not appearing to be underwater at the start of a game
Playfield Objects[]
- Certain doors have been given “Panic Room” behavior for particular buildings like Mansions
- Fix for Ghosts and Holograms being poisoned by Slime Puddles
- Fix for player sometimes being teleported behind vending machines and trash cans
Items[]
- Items that were missing from Item Teleporter were now available
- Fix for Thief NPCs being able to steal quest items from player
Status Effects / Traits / Special Abilities[]
- Investment Banker NPCs do not start with Addict
Level Generation[]
- Fix for cases where buildings may not have been generated at proper difficulty levels on higher floors
Artificial Intelligence[]
- Supercops are no longer Aligned with player cops, they are Friendly instead
- Supercops will enter private property to investigate noises
- Clerk in Deportation Center can be paid off
- Fix for Goons sometimes not patrolling correctly
- Fix for people sometimes observing Shelves against walls from the wrong side of the wall
- Non-owners no longer take interest in objects outside of the building that they occupy, such as Air Conditioners
- Fix for NPCs sometimes having difficulty navigating Crushers
- Fixed pathfinding issues directly after an NPC jumps out of water
- Fix for player not being able to ask Slaves to leave town after they are freed
- Player can ask Slaves to leave town when they are in captivity, but they will always refuse due to the fact that their helmet would blow up
- When player pays a bouncer, not all NPC owners in the building will become Friendly -- only the ones that would have become angry with the player immediately upon seeing them
Multiplayer[]
- Potential fix for multiplayer issue where host can enter the game as the incorrect player and start at the bottom-left corner of the map
- Removed /teleport function from multiplayer games, this was meant to help with issues in earlier builds
Subpatches[]
Alpha 43b[]
- Fix for quests sometimes not appearing properly when due to reward item not being chosen
- Fix for music not looping properly in 5-1
- Cop Bots can be killed by EMP Grenades
- Fix for gamepad players not being able to properly target a position to make their followers stand guard
- Fix for Investment Banker dropping items that were never programmed into the game
- Fix for cases where NPCs would still attempt to attack the player while in different “lockdown zones”
- Fair Game and Charismatic traits cancel each other out properly
- Improvements to when Lockdown is triggered
- Fix for cases where player could teleport behind fences in new buildings
- Clerks say dialogue all the time when the player interacts
- Fix for audience members laughing at NPC Comedian’s jokes when they have Hearing Blocked
- Added door to Gorilla cage in one of the Zoos that should have been there
- Fix for player being able to lose a mission at the start of the game to free a Cannibal from the Zoo
- Fix for followers from previous levels not transforming into Zombie properly
- Fix for particle effects attached to people sometimes appearing at the incorrect angle
- If one of the players is a Cop, you will not receive missions that take place in Police Stations
- (For real this time) Fix for player sometimes being teleported behind Vending Machines and trash cans
- Fix for player not being able to command followers to stand guard on top of hidden objects
- Cop Bots no longer flee when their health gets low
- Fix for player’s head not appearing properly as Ghost when player chooses the new Cop Bot head for their custom character
- When players add custom characters to bottom row of character select screen, shadows no longer appear behind the characters
- Fix for Trash Cans sometimes spawning next to level border near City Parks
- Players who Can’t Speak English can still comply with Cop Bots
Alpha 43c[]
- Fix for Can't Speak English not working properly as a result of a change in 43b
Alpha 43d[]
- Fix for lighting appearing weird at non-16:9 resolutions as a result of some internal screwing-around I did for console versions in 43c