Tropico 6 Closed Beta Patch Notes And Road Map Revealed

January 28, 2019 at 11:39 PM in Digital Download News with no comments

Kalypso Media was able to share with us their Tropico 6 closed beta patch notes as well as their future plans for the game with a Road Map.

For the game’s developmental road map for the month of February, we should expect a multiplayer mode, a new mission as well as a lot of improvements. For the March update, there will still be a lot of improvements plus a Random Map Generator.

A complete changelog is also available for the Tropico 6 closed beta update and it can be found on their Steam page but the highlights for it can be seen below:

Features and Improvements

Added a new campaign mission to the beta: “Better Red than Dead”

Various map adjustments/polishing and mission balancing. For example:

“Speakeasy”: Lowered the number of arrested criminals required to complete mission tasks.

“Nido De Iguanas”: Added additional beach sites; smoothed out uneven terrain.

“Fuego Aislado”: Fixed some regions where it was impossible to place a dock; fixed hard to reach mineral deposits.

Rivers now show a direction of flow.

Added a special island for customization, which can be opened from the main menu.

Citizens’ interactions (e.g. “Arrest”) will be carried out much more quickly.

Bug Fixes

Fixed over 30 crashes to increase stability.

Fixed over 70 pathfinding issues, such as agents getting stuck, walking on water, boats clipping, not using metros efficiently, etc.

Fixed over 200 bugs.

Balancing

Removed the height level restriction of metro stations.

Increased the overall transportation speed of the metro.

Removed fixed duration and cooldown from the “Child Allowances” edict.

Trade routes with smugglers will now have a negative impact on the standing with superpowers in all eras.

UI Improvements

Added new Trade menu.

All available trade offers are now collected on one page.

The game offers ways to filter through the list of available offers to easily and quickly find the trade route that players are looking for.

Players can now choose the volume of a trade route before signing it.

Added a “Goods & Prices” overview to the Trade menu. Players can now see the standard export/import costs of every good and see available and running trade routes for individual goods.

Added an option on “Goods & Prices” to enable or disable automatic export of individual goods.

Improvements to the Warfare

Fixed Tropicans stopping going to work during an ongoing attack, even if their workplace was not attacked.

Removed the work modes from military buildings. Offensive or defensive behavior of military squads will now be set with the action buttons on the

building info window.

Soldiers will now prefer to defend buildings that are actually under attack.

Fixed cases of squads facing the wrong direction during combat.

Fixed military units stacking on top of each other during combat.

Fixed soldiers shooting in wrong directions.

Increased the damage of units and made overall combat faster.

Balanced the upgrade prices of military buildings.

Balanced the aircraft carrier.

Added muzzle flash visual effect.