Yeah when I was talking with Thorlof about this specific trigger he did think that it was tied to the AI waiting until the player first settled in the region. He talked with the game development team to confirm and they gave him the correct trigger.
What he said, yes.
The trigger is the player building or having built a hospital. Not an issue as originally thought.
They have not announced a release date. The only thing that we have been told is that the cosmetic DLCs will be coming out after High Life.
What he said ;)
But hey, we might have news soon
Any future project will of course contain achievements, as well as challenges and rewards like all Ubisoft games via Ubisoft Connect (have a look at other Ubisoft titles like Rainbow Six Siege or Assassin's Creed Valhalla). How exactly those will look like, we will see :)
A little confused by the consumption changes. Currently each residence consume a fixed amount of goods regardless of number of inhabitants. The new formula changes it to "based on the maximum total possible population". So the end result is still the same? The only real change is lesser consumption during the buildup phase?
There's zero change to the consumption.
We only changed how the consumption is calculated in the backend, which, however, has no impact on you while playing.
When you build/upgrade a residence, it will still immediately consume the maximum amount of a certain good. The change we did was necessary so we could implement and balance the new residences, but the results are indeed the same.
We expanded this section in the blog to provide more clarity on the matter. Generally speaking, this purely is a development insight: Might be interesting for some, but knowing it has no "use" for you if you want to know about gameplay changes or new features.
I think they are saying that in the code they changed the formula from counting the number of buildings to counting the population max, but those things are equal so nothing actually isdifferent. So for example before it was consumption = 5 farmer houses. But now it's consumption = 50 farmers. They just changed the unit in the formula but the result is the same.
That's basically it, yeah.
We've clarified and expanded the section in the article now, should hopefully make it clearer.
Looks like you guys implemented a lot of feedback from the Tests, very happy to see that. Looking forward to the release!
Indeed. More on that in next week's blog :)
All these teases and "if this gets x amount of like we will reveal release date" is all pre planned and scripted. I sincerely doubt the devs are being pressured by the player's like that.
Then you'd be surprised to learn that we actually came up with that yesterday morning.
The teasers are planned for a longer time already, of course, same with our overall communication strategy. But that doesn't mean that we can't have some additional fun from time to time.
On one hand I hope the release date is very close but at the other hand I fear that the marketing team might push the DLC too early because people want it now.
I still have very bad memories of that from the game Stellaris and their MegaCorp DLC. People wanted it so bad and the publisher gave in, leaving the game in an unplayable state that still leaves issues today (almost 3 years after the release of said DLC).
So yeah, I obviously want the DLC now, I love playing the game insanely much right now (have put in almost 130 hours in just roughly 2 months) but I also want them to release the DLC when THEY are REALLY ready for it.
Just to clear up some misconceptions: The release dates are set and proposed by us (but ofc communicated with the other teams within Ubisoft). We're not being pressured into keeping those or releasing on a set date by anyone but ourselves ;)
Just saying...
The impression I got from that tweet the other day is that elevator are construction materials.
Whatever the new commercial goods are, I hope that they are added on top of current needs, as I'm all for complexity. So that the needs go above the current 8 items.
Complexity sounds good, let's do that
When Update arrival notifications? :D
As soon as we implement that bell button on the Anno Union :P
Cause everyone loves (repairing) elevators, right?
@fissilecore When you received a reply on the old forums, it's being investigated. If your report was new, I'd indeed recommend posting it again on the new ones.
I honestly wouldn't call that a summer release. If I was the community manager I'd say expect it in Fall and then release earlier and everyone would be like "oh nice they made it earlier than they said they would cool". Expectations
While that can be a nice trick, we'd rather communicate the actual timeframe.
Keep in mind, we planned the releases at the very beginning of the year and wanted to give you a rough idea of when each DLC is releasing.
and when will we get more details?
Soon™
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