Release date: December 14th, 6 PM CET / 12 PM ET

Download Size: 2,5 GB

Adding support for Cosmetic DLC 6, the “Vibrant Cities Pack” 

Adding support for the “Plant a Tree” Cosmetic DLC 

Adding the “Eden Burning” scenario free for all players 

Adding a “skin painting tool” to more easily switch between building skins 

• Raised Skyline Tower attractiveness to 275
• Adjusted exchange ratios for new Orchards goods from the “The High Life” DLC in the Docklands
• Rebalanced effect of lack of Artisan workforce on Department Store for the “The High Life” DLC

• The Christmas Market skin is now available via the user interface in the markets object menu
• Added an option to disable the production infolayer in the settings
• When selecting a residence while holding shift, all selected residences can now be also downgraded at once with the button in the object menu.
• The player now receives a refund when downgrading residences
• Cypress Trees are now added to the Tree Painting feature in Cape Trelawney
• The seed is now displayed on the save games screen
• More notifications and messages from NPCs were added to the “opinion” filter
• When building a Lumberjack, the number of trees planted in its area is now shown to visualize the planting process

General

• A potential crash with new Intel 12th Generation CPUs was fixed
• Fixed a crash that could occur when confirming the ship deletion pop-up after already having returned to the main menu
• Fixed an issue with the Orchard being locked for some players not owning the “Tourist Season” DLC
• Upgrading a road during an active fire in range of the firestation now correctly triggers firefighters
• Fixed an issue with the Pyrphorian Battle Cruiser being destroyed after reloading the game if it has more than 15600 hit points
• Fixed an exploit for the newspaper effect freezing if there were not enough influence points for auto-publishing
• Fixed an issue for the subtitle settings not being saved for the next game start
• Fixed a broken camera jump-to after finishing a research project
• Fixed an issue with ships getting occasionally stuck after transferring from one region to another
• Fixed an exploit that allowed building of multiple unique buildings through fast clicking
• Fixed an exploit that could auto complete escort quests when loading a save game
• Fixed an exploit that allowed to build multiple local departments when multi-copied from multiple islands
• Fixed an issue with the Trading Post being still functional without a road connection if an Oil Harbour was present on the island
• The supply cart route to Warehouses is now displayed for the Heater in the Arctic region
• The harbour area is now displayed when copying multiple harbour buildings
• Fixed a crash that appeared when Latin characters were used as a save file name while the company name was using Cyrillic letters
• Fixed an issue that caused trade prices from Eli Bleakworth to change after some minutes in-game.
• Fixed scrolling in the Additional Content window in the Multiplayer Lobby
• Fixed a wrongly displayed unlock condition for the Pyrphorian and Obrera portrait during game creation
• Fixed an issue that could lead to airships sent between Cape Trelawney and New World moving sideways on arrival
• Fixed an issue for stationary ships occasionally not picking up flotsam located right next to them
• Islands in the Old World and Cape Trelawney can no longer have duplicate names
• The Cannon Tower will no longer shoot before initiating training cooldown after being renovated from ruins

Multiplayer

• Fixed some issues with the profanity filter for the newspaper title in multiplayer
• Player can no longer move through the “Deep Blue” questline by interacting with Captain Tobias’ quest ship of another team
• Fixed player character spinning in first person mode after another player interacts with the model in a multiplayer session
• Fixed an issue that prevented players from joining Public Multiplayer Lobbies as it was set to private after reloading
• Fixed an issue in Multiplayer for players hearing the sound effect of failed copy when another team attempts to paste multi-copied objects on the player’s island
• “Fog Horn” quest item can no longer be picked up by another team in a multi-player game
• Player’s portraits from previous multiplayer game are no longer displayed in the buildings/ships object menus of other participants

Art/Visuals

• Fixed an issue that caused feedback units/trains to jump over pedestrian bridges introduced with CDLC5
• The “Annoversary” ship skins have now visual damage on the hull
• The Empress’ Spies now have walking animation for the quest “Unwanted Espionage”
• Fixed some feedback units ignoring trees around the Iron Tower
• The logo on the “Flag Archway” from the “Pedestrian Zone Pack” now matches the player’s logo
• Fixed boats spawning in the canal ornament
• The Iron Tower texture will no longer disappear if players zoom into it as much as possible
• Fixed demolish animation for the “Pedestrian Zone Entrance”
• Fixed tiger’s textures on close zoom distance
• Fixed the number of Mounted Guns operators in the New World
• Improved ground textures for docklands ornaments for some rare cases when built next to a street
• Hot-Air Balloon can no longer clip into airships
• Front funnel of Oil Tanker is no longer placed off-center
• Feedback units on the “Pedestrian Bridge” are now adjusted to the floor level of the bridge
• The decorated Iron Tower skin’s logo now adjusts to the player’s company logo
• Fixed the gap between the smoke VFX and the chimney of the Weapon Factory
• Fixed a floating object at Old Nate’s Island in Cape Trelawney

Localization & Text

• Fixed a hardcoded text in the infotip in the Tower menu for all languages when the progress was blocked by a quest
• Removed the additional zeros from the base number displayed in the infotips in the Arctic session
• Added missing fluff text for “The High Life” goods in the expedition screen
• Fixed the German translation for the skyscraper maintenance game settings
• Fixed hardcoded text for “Missing Research Points” in the Research Institute
• The sheep now has the correct name in the quest “My Lord is My Shepherd – Amun”
• During the quest “Skyline Tower: Post Mortem”, “Kutschen” is now correctly translated into “Dampfwagen” in the German localization
• “Total attractiveness” line no longer overlaps with the castle icon in the High Score meta menu for the Russian localization
• The name of the Pedestrian Zone CDLC has been adjusted in the additional content screen for the German localization
• Manta Ray name is no longer missing its last letter in Simplified Chinese
• Fixed some spelling errors in the panorama infotip for the English Localization
• “Pedestrian Zone Pack” is now shown in different languages in The New World
• The item “François Strindberg” has now a correct description in Polish
• Clarified Panorama Effect infotip: Engineer and Investor skyscrapers do positively effect each other when having the same height.