A new Against the Storm update released on PC, PS4, PS5, and Xbox one. According to the official Against the Storm patch notes, the latest update addresses some bugs and crashes.
Since the last patch, players are experiencing problems with the game. Today’s Against the Storm patch will fix a few of these issues.
Check out more details below.
Against the Storm Patch Notes – May 25, 2023
New content and features
- ⚡ Added a new forbidden glade event.
- Fishman Soothsayer – An old wandering soothsayer, seething with magic. He does not speak, though you can hear his voice. His eyes are blank, yet you can feel his gaze. He is not afraid of death, he stands by its side.
Balance
- ⚡ Changed the ore balance and how it’s spawned in glades.
- Ore no longer appears under trees.
- It’s now always contained in a 3×3 square.
- Adjusted spawn rates in biomes with more than one type of ore (Marshlands). It should be a bit harder now to find both Coal and Copper in the same spot.
- ⚡ Changed how fertile soil is spawned in glades. It should no longer appear hidden under trees.
- ⚡ The Black Treasure Stag no longer gives Cornerstones with significant drawbacks.
- ⚡ Added Porridge to traders who sell/buy food items.
- ⚡ Rebalanced the Pack of Goods economy (Pack of Building Materials, Pack of Crops, Pack of Provisions, Pack of Trade Goods, and Pack of Luxury Goods).
- All packs are now worth a lot more.
- Increased the trade value return rate for all pack recipes. This means that even when making packs with a tier 0 recipe, the value of the created item will be higher than the sum of its ingredients.
- Increased the number of packs bought by other settlements in trade routes. Every biome town now has 3 types of packs it’s willing to buy.
- The Smoldering City now buys almost all types of packs (except Packs of Provisions, which are used to fuel trade routes).
- Our goal with this change was to make packs a bit more interesting and profitable to play with, as right now they are mostly just crafted when an Order requires it. We wanted to move them a bit more into a space where they can be a viable option in trading-focused builds.
- Decreased the amount of food sold by all traders. They will still have the same types, but in smaller quantities (for example: 50 instead of 70).
- Slightly increased the value of raw food items (both when selling and buying).
- Slightly increased the difference between the sell and buy value of food in general (by around 10%).
- Our goal with this (and the other food economy adjustments listed above) was to make it a bit harder to flat out buy food for an entire year or two when you’re not specialized in trading or exploring (as well as encourage a bit more exploration in search of nodes). At the same time, due to the changes to packs, this theoretical nerf should be offset by dipping even slightly into a more trading-focused type of gameplay.
- Slightly rebalanced the prices of multiple resources. The goal here was to normalize the trade value return rates (how much it costs to make an item vs. how much it can be sold for). In general, most items are crafted at a small loss on tier 0, and with no value gain on tier 1 (everything above is increasing the value).
- Rebalanced the burning rates of resources in the Hearth (as well as the Hearth’s fuel limit and the Firekeeper’s carrying capacity).
- Wood now burns for 10 seconds instead of 15 seconds.
- Oil now burns for 20 seconds instead of 30 seconds.
- Coal and Sea Marrow now burn for 40 seconds instead of 60 seconds.
- Firekeepers can now carry 10 items at once (instead of 5).
- This change was done to slightly increase the upkeep cost of Hearths, as currently, it’s a bit too easy to have multiple in one settlement. Additionally, Firekeepers transporting more goods should decrease the likelihood of negative fuel rate effects triggering “no fuel” warnings (even if a Firekeeper decides to take a break in the meantime).
- Increased the production time for all rainwater types in rain collectors (from 15 to 20 seconds) and geyser pumps (from 10 to 15 seconds).
- Slightly decreased the maximum possible number of newcomers for each year.
- For example, previously in year 3, you would get between 3 and 6 villagers. Now it’s 3 and 5.
- Removed Citadel Resources earnable during settlement runs (from perks or events).
- While finding Citadel Resources in chests in the middle of the forest can be pretty exciting, we decided to remove this type of reward because it was having a negative effect on the game’s flow as a whole (by encouraging artificially prolonged runs and causing confusion about resource acquisition after a victory).
- Reduced the number of workers in the Beanery from 4 to 3.
- Lowered the Hostility reduction in the Converted Altar of Decay effect from 25 to 20 per dead villager.
UX/UI improvements
- ⚡ Goods in the Embark Panel are now divided into base goods (same for every caravan) and caravan-specific resources.
- ⚡ Added specialization icons to the worker overlay (ALT).
- ⚡ Resource tooltips now take rebuilt ruins into account when highlighting owned buildings.
- ⚡ Orders that require completing a high-value trade route now show the exact value on the HUD.
- ⚡ Added a highlight to need icons in the Species HUD when all members of a given species have the need fulfilled.
- ⚡ Added the option to move between buildings with the arrow keys when hovering over them (without the need to open the building UI).
- ⚡ Added a shortcut for opening the Consumption Control Panel (“I” by default).
- ⚡ Cleaned up the terminology in effect labels to clearly show what an effect is and where it came from (Cornerstones, regular perks, biome effects, working effects, event consequences, decoration effects, service building effects, etc.).
- ⚡ Changed the wording on Forest Mysteries that scale based on Hostility (to make it clearer what the exact value of the penalty will be).
- ⚡ Added tank capacity to the descriptions of rain collectors and geyser pumps.
- ⚡ Clearance sunbeams can now be disabled in the options menu (using the “lightning flashes” checkbox).
- ⚡ Added a new Encyclopedia entry about services. This entry will also be displayed as an alert during the tutorial (when building a Tavern for the first time).
- ⚡ The Drizzle auto pause will no longer stop Cornerstone choices from appearing (previously you had to unpause to get them).
- ⚡ Changed the wording of the Forsaken Gods Temple modifier to more clearly describe its effect.
- ⚡ Changed the description of the “discover Dangerous Glades in time” Order objective to also mention Forbidden Glades.
- ⚡ Changed the “Other Negative” icon’s color in the species panel (from blue to red).
- Added a “request a feature” button to the ESC menu. Clicking it will take you directly to our Feature Request Tool, where you can post and vote on other people’s suggestions.
- Changed the wording in multiple descriptions tied to fuel consumption effects (to make them more easily understandable).
Bug fixes
- ⚡ Fixed a bug with Foxes not being drawn for Daily Expeditions.
- ⚡ Fixed a bug with the Like a Machine Deed not resetting progress between games.
- ⚡ Fixed a bug with the Woodpecker Technique Cornerstone incorrectly giving Insects for cutdown trees in Drizzle and Clearance.
- ⚡ Fixed a bug with the Destroyed Cage of the War Beast glade event showing an incorrect Impatience prompt.
- ⚡ Fixed a bug with an empty worker overlay being visible above traders found in glades when holding Alt.
- ⚡ Fixed a bug with some glade events having incorrect animations tied to the “burn down” decision.
- ⚡ Fixed an issue with Grain and Herbs being considered “food” by some effects (like food removal penalties, etc.).
- ⚡ Fixed an issue with the game sometimes freezing when quitting it.
- ⚡ Fixed a bug with the Basic Housing need status not updating right away when removing houses.
- ⚡ Fixed a bug with the recipe overlay (CTRL) sometimes not working correctly.
- ⚡ Fixed an out-of-place floating shoulder piece in multiple Fox animations.
- ⚡ Fixed a bug that caused incorrect value changes when using Shift and left-click on the arrow buttons.
- ⚡ Fixed an issue with the total game time statistic counting time too fast.
- ⚡ Fixed a bug with Dangerous and Forbidden Glade warnings covering up species’ passive effect markers.
- ⚡ Fixed a bug with pathfinding breaking sometimes when trying to build a road on terrain where an event exploded previously.
- ⚡ Fixed a bug with some villagers being so busy with their tasks to realize they want to leave the settlement due to low Resolve (they left many seconds after the red bar filled up around their species’ portrait).
- ⚡ Fixed a bug with the resource radial menu staying on the screen after a game has been won.
- ⚡ Fixed an issue with one of the Petrified Tree’s working effects lacking some information in the description.
- ⚡ Fixed a bug that made it impossible to locate the Archaeologist’s Office when using arrow keys while hovering over the building card.
- ⚡ Fixed an issue with the Robbed Dead working effect having an incorrect frame color.
- ⚡ Fixed multiple typos and inconsistencies in the Simplified Chinese localization of the game (encyclopedia, trader dialogue, Forest Mysteries, order names, objectives, perks, ghost dialogue, and event decisions).
- ⚡ Fixed multiple typos in the Russian localization of the game (Filling Dish, Beanery and Brewery, Corruption).
- ⚡ Fixed some incorrect tags in decoration descriptions in the Korean localization of the game.
- ⚡ Fixed some missing tags in decoration descriptions in the Czech localization of the game.
- ⚡ Fixed a typo with the Guild Catalogue perk in the Polish localization of the game.
- Fixed a bug with the Impatience penalty prompt from the Harmony Spirit Altar displaying an incorrect value.
- Fixed some inconsistencies with alert icon height above decorations of the same size.
- Fixed an issue with World Map markers being too bright.
Other
- Updated the Mine’s visual representation. Added a few new props and a drilling animation.
- Changed the animation played by scouts when working on a Blood Flower glade event.
- Changed the icon of the Converted Harmony Spirit Altar effect to avoid duplicates.
- Changed the icon of the Heavy Fog working effect to avoid duplicates.
