A new Heart of the Machine update released on PC. According to the official Heart of the Machine patch notes, the latest update addresses some bugs and crashes.
Since the last patch, players are experiencing problems with the game. Today’s Heart of the Machine patch will fix a few of these issues.
Check out more details below.
Heart of the Machine Patch Notes – February 3, 2025
- Early Combat Balance: The fight with the cruiser in chapter one is now substantially less brutal.
- Engineering Balance: Your ability to gain high levels of engineering in chapter 2 and beyond is now much more flexible, making it easier to get to some of the advanced project chains.
- Clarity Adjustments: A couple of clarity things that came up, just minor wording pieces.
- Scientist Management: Automated Personnel Management is now something you can quickly unlock, allowing scientists to be removed from your staff at ease.
- Dissident Management: Your own guards no longer prevent the removal of dissidents if you are establishing a Cyberocracy.
- Achievements Fixes: A few achievements were not triggering under some conditions, and now will.
- Power Outage Improvements: An improvement to power outages so that you don’t have to wait a turn for the power to come back on.
- Exploration Site Visibility: A fix to Exploration Sites being discussed in the history tab before they are actually unlocked.
- Debate Tutorial Fix: Fix to the debate tutorial being blocked if you already had another message of a different sort open when you started the debate.
- Map Seeding: There are now a proper number of donut shops in the city, preventing some projects from being blocked.
- Investigation Target Visibility: A couple of investigation targets are now easier to see on the map.
- Future Self Dialogue Tweaks: A couple of shifts to wording from your future self to make it clearer who is talking.
- Code Stability: Fixes to a couple of rare code exceptions.
- Memory Management: Fixed an issue that could occur with long continuous playtimes on some systems, where the unity log would get bloated and impact performance and eventually start having out of memory exceptions. This did not affect most machines, but was intense on a few (after about 10 hours of nonstop play).
- Steam Deck Support: Added a new option for better keyboard and mouse handling on the Steam Deck when in docked mode.
Download Heart of the Machine update on PC.