Mad Games Tycoon 2 Patch Notes — April 20, 2023
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Development Update
Hello everyone! We hope you've been continuing to enjoy playing Mad Games Tycoon 2!
Since our last Steam notification update, there have been tons of changes, tweaks, and improvements to the game. In this post we will highlight some of the most notable changes over the last several months of updates. As always, you'll find the latest and most up to date list of changes on the Steam discussion forum in the patch notes thread and at the end of this post will be a full list of changes.
Also, stay tuned for an announcement soon on Mad Games Tycoon 2 leaving Early Access!
Highlighting Some of the Changes
So over the last couple months some of the most notable changes include -
Create upgraded versions of your existing consoles! You can develop and release enhanced versions (pro, slim etc) of your current consoles. This allows you to extend the life span of your aging consoles and give them a boost in sales and performance. Many new console cases were also added to enhance this feature.
Copying and pasting of rooms! You can now copy and paste existing rooms to create multiple rooms of the same type and layout, or rearrange your studio in a snap.
Buying and selling of IPs If you need some extra cash, or if there is an IP you would really like to own you have the option to buy and sell IPs. This is in addition to the already existing feature allowing you to transfer IPs from subsidiaries you own.
Release your game as Freeware Releasing your game as freeware can give you a lot of goodwill with fans, increasing their following of your studio and helping future releases sell more.
Game performance improvements Significant work has been done improving the game performance, with the game going through multiple performance improvement passes to make for a smoother experience when playing. Additionally, many new options have been added so you can adjust the game performance further.
Multiplayer improvements The multiplayer lobby has been revised, you can now buy companies in multiplayer, it's possible to sabotage other players, players can go bankrupt and experience negative effects due to bankruptcy. Many bug fixes and other QoL improvements to multiplayer also.
New music and game variety 10 new soundtracks have been added to the game, 144 new in-game screenshots have been added, 500 new game names and a new system to add more variety to spin-off titles has been implemented as well.
A new map! The Lagoon City map has been added to the game. This unique map surrounded by water brings the total choice of maps to 6.
Balance improvements The game has received balance improvements on all difficulty levels, and many of the game's features have been tweaked and balanced to create a better experience for players.
Bug fixes, Quality of Life improvements and more! There have been dozens and dozens of bug fixes, quality of life improvements, new options, adjustments to existing menus and features to make the game more user friendly and enjoyable to play. You'll find the full list below with details of every change in the patch notes.
Bug Reports & Quality of Life Improvement Request
As noted above, we're getting closer to the end of Early Access. Support for the game will NOT be ending at the end of EA, but right now is an excellent time to report any bugs or unusual behaviors with the game, and any quality of life improvements you may wish to see before release!
So we kindly request if you have any reports or feedback on this, there is an ongoing thread in our Steam discussion forum, you can make your own post or you can reply to this announcement. We will be monitoring feedback to make any necessary changes. We wish to ensure that at full release the game is as optimized and fun to play as possible, thank you!
Full Recent Patch Notes
BUILD 2023.04.11A --------------------------------
- Performance improved.
- Game development: An icon is now displayed for anti-cheat and copy protection when better software is available.
- Added 10 new soundtracks.
- Options: The sound of the cleaning robot can now be deactivated.
- Options: All staff displays can now be disabled. (This is recommended if you have several hundred employees. The performance increases by about 50%)
- Menu "Statistics -> Platforms": The platforms can now be filtered by type.
- Menu "Statistics -> Platforms": You can now see announced platforms.
- Multiplayer: You can now set whether NPC studios can be bought.
- BUG: The new genre filters did not work correctly.
- BUG: Fixed bug when creating budget games and GOTY edition.
- BUG: Extremely high InApp purchases had their values changed to negative.
- BUG: (Multiplayer) If you had to go bankrupt, fans and IP values were increased instead of decreased.
BUILD 2023.04.06A --------------------------------
- Performance improved.
- Save games are now loaded much faster. (only works when you save and load again).
- Added genre filters for different menus.
- BUG: Sometimes the review menu was not closed for performance-enhanced consoles.
- BUG: Crash could occur when developing a performance-enhanced console.
- BUG: You could develop a performance enhanced console that had no enhancements.
- BUG: You could develop an upgraded console of a console that has already been removed from the market.
- BUG: Menu "Own Games -> Commissioned & Distributed Games": If you used the sort function, sometimes not all games were displayed.
- BUG: When you wanted to publish an upgraded console, sometimes you could not close the menu.
Info:
Due to the many changes (performance), new bugs may occur. Let me know as soon as you notice something.
BUILD 2023.04.01A --------------------------------
- You can now develop a performance-enhanced console of an already released console.
- Games can now be converted as freeware.
- Console development: You can now select the previous model.
- Create game concept: Incorrect gameplay settings tested via game report are now marked in red.
- Added 16 new cases for own consoles.
- If own consoles are cheaper than the production costs, they now get a bonus on the sales figures.
- In the menu "Development report for own consoles" the hardware components are now displayed.
- Reviews of mobile games now take the low tech level into account.
- Added genre filters for the menus "Game Reviews", "Fan Letters", "Game Concepts".
- Menu "Statistics -> Publisher & Developer": Added best list to see which developer has received the most awards.
- Menu "Best Games of All Time": You can now filter by game size (B,AA,AAA etc.).
- Best selling games" menu: You can now filter by game size and genre.
- Menu "Subsidiary -> Turnover": You can now see the total profit (lifetime).
- Menu "Subsidiary -> Studio Settings": You can now add your own consoles that are still in development to the priority list.
- Trash is no longer stacked on a position.
- BALANCE: General sales figures for own consoles increased.
- BUG: If you sold & re-purchased an NPC studio, the statistics for sales were not reset.
- BUG: (Contract games) ports were not initialised correctly. As a result, you could change some settings that were supposed to be locked.
- BUG: (Multiplayer: Subsidiary Settings) It was not possible to set a console as a priority that had been developed by a player.
- BUG: (Subsidiary Settings) You could only choose your console as priority if you allowed third party studios.
- BUG: (Subsidiary Settings) The progress bar for the game in development was incorrect.
- BUG: If you cancelled the development of a console, various bugs could occur.
BUILD 2023.03.15A --------------------------------
- Multiplayer: Sabotage is now available.
- Multiplayer: Players now go bankrupt if they are unable to pay. This has several negative effects.
- Added a new object: "Treadmill"
- Research: You can now set the staff to wait for new research.
- Pathfinding: Improved the distribution of staff queues in front of objects that are close together.
- (Game start - Options) You can now set the development duration to "Short development duration".
- Menu: "Labour market":
* You can now hide employees with negative perks.
* You can now sort by the number of positive perks.
- BUG: If you pressed "ESC", the tutorial was ended.
- BUG: (Multiplayer) In the staff menus, the "All" settings were reset every few seconds.
- BUG: (Staff in room menu) If no staff were assigned to the room, the average skill displayed was "NaN".
- BUG: (Own consoles) When you reached the limit of 1 billion consoles sold, the user numbers suddenly dropped rapidly.
BUILD 2023.03.08B --------------------------------
- Added a new map.
- The value of IPs now scales with the current year.
- When developing a remaster, you can now change the platform type.
- Publisher & Developer Menu: You can now hide companies that are not for sale.
- Added new menu for map selection.
- Multiplayer lobby revised.
- All lists with IPs now also show the value of the IP.
- Subsidiary settings: You can now also copy the prioritised genre, topic, publisher priority and engine for all subsidiaries.
- Subsidiary settings: You can choose which settings should be copied for all subsidiaries.
- The option "Advanced Pathfinding" is now always active and can no longer be deactivated.
- BALANCE: The value of IPs can now be up to $200,000,000.
- BUG: (Own Consoles -> Available Games) A review result of 0% was displayed for games that have not yet been released.
- BUG: The job "Implement copy protection" should no longer appear as long as there is no copy protection.
- BUG: (Automatic production) Sometimes no Deluxe and Collectors editions were produced.
- BUG: (Multiplayer) There were graphics errors on the map "abandoned bunker" when you looked at a fellow player's studio.
BUILD 2023.02.09C --------------------------------
- IPs can now be bought and sold.
- (Free Update & F2P Updates) You can now set how often the automatic should be repeated.
- Subsidiaries -> Development Report: You can now change the name of the game (which is in development).
- Options: The frame rate can now be set to 144.
- 141 new game screenshots added.
- 500 new names for NPC games added.
- Change platform during development: Added button to delete platforms.
- (Multiplayer) The option "Platform popularity increases platform lifetime" is now also available in multiplayer.
- (Multiplayer) Modified license names should now be sent to clients.
- Arcade machines: The default setting for components is now 5 stars.
- New language / translation available: Thai
- Readability for Chinese script further improved.
- BALANCE: Subsidiaries should now make better games on higher difficulty levels.
- BALANCE: Games by NPC companies now get a higher review on easy difficulty levels.
- BUG: Moving and copying rooms sometimes did not work.
- BUG: MMO addons ignored current internet users.
- BUG: Non-existent objects were sometimes assigned to rooms, which could cause a crash.
- BUG: Text in unlock menu was cut off for some languages.
- BUG: Company value of NPC studios could increase infinitely.
- BUG: It could happen that the own player (CEO) demanded more salary.
- BUG: No developer was set for addon bundles.
- BUG: If IPs were swapped with a subsidiary and a game was still on the market, serious bugs could occur.
- BUG: Adding additional platforms during development did not work correctly.
- BUG: (Tooltip Contract Games) The number of AAAA games was not displayed.
- BUG: (Multiplayer) In the lobby, the wrong number of NPCs was displayed for clients.
- BUG: (Multiplayer) TAGs were displayed in the licence names for clients (e.g. "
- BUG: (Multiplayer) If you loaded a save game, all room items were sent unnecessarily.
BUILD 2023.01.23B --------------------------------
- Performance improved: Due to the many changes, there may be new bugs. Let me know if you notice anything.
- Sandbox: Employee salary can now be set to 0.
- (Addons) If you bought the publisher of the main game, you can now distribute the addon yourself.
- The sales figures of self-distributed games and games distributed with a publisher are now identical.
- In multiplayer, the number of NPC companies can now be selected.
- BALANCE: Exclusive games now sell better and have a greater impact on console sales.
- BALANCE: Profit sharing of publishers adjusted.
- BALANCE: Effect for the setting "Platform popularity increases platform lifetime" increased.
- BALANCE: Game ratings on Legendary difficulty are now slightly better.
- BALANCE: Hand dryers now give a little motivation.
- BALANCE: (MMOs) Subscription numbers for NPCs increased.
- MODDING: The manufacturer of platforms can now be linked independently of the manufacturer name. ""
- BUG: The doors in the map "Bunker" did not open.
- BUG: If you sold a subsidiary, a crash could occur.
- BUG: It could happen that subsidiaries continue to launch consoles on the market.
- BUG: If you activated "Historical Events", there were no more random events after the year 2026.
- BUG: If you enabled "Do not show random events", the game would sometimes pause and you could not continue.
- BUG: The number for motivation regeneration/loss was incorrect.
- BUG: (MMO & F2P Charts) The position was incorrect if you changed the sort order.
- BUG: (Develop Addons and Updates) Games were still shown when the IP was archived.
- BUG: (Staff Search) Sometimes the set perk was ignored.
- BUG: (Multiplayer) The sales figures for own consoles (clients) were incorrect.
- BUG: (Multiplayer) Fixed bug when loading NPC game names and IPs.
- Added search functions for the following menus:
* Price & Package Contents
* Budget Games
* Game Bundles
* Addon Bundles
* GOTY editions
* Prices for Arcade machines
* Prices for Mobile Games
* Prices for MMO subscriptions
* Manage InApp Purchases
* Selling price for consoles
* Taking consoles off the market
* Statistics -> Engines
* Statistics -> Platforms
- Archived IPs can now be hidden in the following menus:
* Budget Games
* Game Bundles
* Addon Bundles
* GOTY editions
BUILD 2023.01.16A --------------------------------
- Move rooms:
* Wall objects (e.g. pictures) that are placed in the hallway are now also moved.
* Employees that are located in the room are now also moved.
- IPs can now be archived. This means that the games will no longer be displayed if you want to develop a successor or SpinOff, for example.
- A message is now occasionally displayed on the screen when staff members complain about something.
- Sandbox settings are now saved.
- Sandbox: Support requests can now be set as a percentage.
- Employees who do not perform any task do not lose motivation (except for complaints like "It's too cold").
- Multiplayer: You can now view which subsidiaries your teammates have bought.
- BALANCE: RPGs and strategy games are now a good combination.
- BALANCE: Subscription numbers for Game-Pass slightly revised.
- BALANCE: Company values raised on low difficulty levels.
- BUG: (Multiplayer) Random events (like banking crisis or video game crash) were not syncronous.
- BUG: (Multiplayer) Fixed bug when connecting to lobby.
- BUG: (Multiplayer) Fixed some errors when transferring game databases.
- BUG: A small cabinet had no collsion box.
- BUG: The "Room crowded" icon for employees was not always displayed.
- BUG: (Sandbox menu) The settings for support requests were not saved.
BUILD 2022.12.24A / BUILD 2023.01.07A --------------------------------
- Labor market:
* The total salary of all selected employees is displayed.
* Added button to reject all applications.
- Sandbox:
* You can now set the number of bugs.
* You can now set the salary of employees.
* You can now set subsidiaries to keep their consoles.
* You can now make some settings more difficult (e.g. -50% games sold).
- Create free updates:
* You can now sort by number of updates created and number of bugs.
* The number of bugs is now displayed.
* Games without bugs can now be hidden.
- Porting a game:
* It is now displayed which ports have already been created.
* You can now choose to show only certain ports.
- Subsidiary settings: You can now choose a prioritized publisher (which is also a subsidiary fimra).
- Game development: You can now pin fan letters.
- Your consoles will now also generate fans.
- Create Addons: You can now sort by number of addons created.
- Now the salary for contract games increases slightly every year.
- In the options you can now disable the money popups.
- Minimized GameTab: Arcade machine games now show orders instead of stock.
- Selecting objects is now much more precise. (Collision boxes optimized)
- MODDING: The engines features 0,20,34,46 are no longer statically fixed as minimum feature. Now the date "JAN 1976" counts.
- BUG: Monthly auto-save did not work correctly.
- BUG: Sometimes the sale price of NPC games was not set.
- BUG: Fixed some graphics bugs with characters.
- BUG: (Game development) Most employee salaries were not added to development costs.
- BUG: Sometimes employees were not color-marked when you touched them with the mouse.
BUILD 2022.12.23B --------------------------------
- You can now buy all publishers and developers.
- You can now buy publishers and developers in multiplayer.
>>> Info: These two functions are very complex and therefore can create new critical bugs. Let me know if you notice anything.
- Licenses are now included in the game rating.
- The goodwill of NPC studios is now linked to the difficulty level.
- BALANCE: Games from subsidiary companies should now not be rated so badly.
- BUG: GameTab filters for MMOs & F2Ps did not work correctly.
- BUG: (Licenses) Subgenre did not affect sales numbers.
- BUG: Automatic production produced deluxe and collectors editions for budget games (etc.).
- BUG: If you stopped the development of a game, it could crash.
- BUG: (Multiplayer) The NPC company values were not syncronized.
- BUG: (Multiplayer) Contract games and publishing deals were not syncronized.
- BUG: (Multiplayer) Fixed an error when loading save games.
BUILD 2022.12.14A / BUILD 2022.12.18A --------------------------------
- Added game size "AAAA".
- Buy DevKits / Select Platforms for Game Development: You can now filter platforms by their type.
- Automatic item placement: You can now select the maximum item level.
- Standard production and arcade production can now be automated.
- Engine development: You can now activate all features of a specific tech level via dropdown.
- Options -> Autosave: You can now autosave every month.
- Automatic production: The calculations for automatic production have been revised.
- Sandbox: Support requests can be disabled, production speed can be adjusted.
- Some gameplay features now require platforms to be internet enabled.
- 9 new gameplay features added.
- 2 new hardware features added.
- BALANCE: Fan stores now generate more revenue. The holiday season and summer slump now affect sales.
- MODDING: Added spinoff names for all genres. ""
- MODDING: Gameplay feature can now require other gameplay features (e.g. "Online Multiplayer" requires "Multiplayer Matchmaker") ""
- BUG: Using the hotkey "5" you could unpause the game unintentionally.
- BUG: (Staff search): Some tooltips were incorrect.
- BUG: (Employee Search) The selected perk was reset when you closed the menu.
- BUG: (NPC games) Fixed some bugs in gameplay feature selection.
BUILD 2022.12.12A --------------------------------
- NPC games: Names for SpinOffs are now read from a file. This means that the names of the games are no longer so "random".
- Staff search: A desired perk can be specified.
- Copy rooms: The process is no longer aborted after you have copied a room. This allows you to create multiple copies more quickly.
- Messages: Added a button to show only a maximum of 3 messages.
- Windows now create room quality.
- Automatic placement of items in already built rooms: The rooms are now completely rebuilt.
- Game Pass -> Charts: You can now remove games from the game pass in this menu.
- Sandbox: All buildings can now be unlocked.
- Sandbox: The capacity of storage space and server can be adjusted.
- BALANCE: Some special platforms for NPC engines adjusted.
- BUG: If you cancel a lifted object with "Escape", the data for quality, heating etc. was not updated.
- BUG: Publishing offers were fixed.
- BUG: (Game development) You could copy the concept settings for ports.
- BUG: Sometimes you could create multiple sequels of the same game.
- BUG: When you built a room, sometimes the windows were not cleared.
BUILD 2022.12.03B (Hotfix) --------------------------------
- BUG: When you moved or copied a room, a crash could occur.
- BUG: Fixed some bugs in multiplayer mode.
BUILD 2022.12.02A --------------------------------
- Rooms can now be copied and moved.
Info: Due to the new functions, the windows are no longer visible in old save games.
- NPC-Companys: Calculation of the company value revised.
- BUG: You could select NPC platforms for manufacturer exclusive games.
- BUG: If you transferred an IP from your subsidiary, the goodwill was calculated incorrectly.
- BUG: (Menu "Labor market" and "Personnel") It was not displayed how many employees are in workshops.
- BUG: Suitable topics for genres were displayed even if you did not start a sandbox game.
BUILD 2022.11.20A / BUILD 2022.11.29A --------------------------------
- Subsidiaries: You can now already see which game is in development in the selection menu.
- Sandbox settings: Added checkbox to enable all / nothing.
- Engine development: Added sorting function for special genres, added button to show popularity of genres
- The menus "Development report -> Own consoles" and "Own console completed" have been slightly revised.
- Game development: Topics can now be sorted by "Uses".
- Sandbox: Suitable topics for genres can now be displayed.
- Building doors only open when people want to go through the door.
- Performance improved.
- BUG: (My Consoles -> Console Details) Sometimes a console was shown as backwards compatible.
- BUG: (Custom Consoles -> Add Console Features During Development) The feature "Backward Compatible" was displayed.
- BUG: (Subsidiary) If you stopped development of the current game, no new game was developed.
- BUG: (Subsidiary) Sometimes it was displayed that the current game will be finished soon, but no game is in development.
- BUG: When you loaded a save game, a few frames passed before the pause mode was activated.
- BUG: (Game Pass) The calculation of games that were no longer on the market was incorrect.
- BUG: In rare cases, the Room menu displayed an incorrect number of jobs.
- BUG: If you added gameplay features during game development, the amount of work was calculated incorrectly.
- BUG: It could happen that you received a trash award or hit award when you had not yet released the game.
- BUG: If many employees could not find a free object in the lounge, there was an extreme frame drop.
- BUG: Fixed some buttons that turned other buttons blue when clicked.
- BUG: (NPC games) The review of bundles was calculated incorrectly.
- BUG: Sometimes NPCs did not receive awards.