Patch 1.0.7 details

Greetings, Agents!

We are back with another batch of improvements and fixes for you today. All of the changes are listed below, and the entire Team is continuing their hard work based on your feedback and suggestions. We truly appreciate how vocal and helpful the community around Phantom Doctrine is, and promise to continue supporting the game as we have been doing so far.

Improvements:
- On Easy and Medium difficulty, enemy reinforcements will be delayed somewhat if there are still enemies remaining on the map
- Crafted Support Powers can now be sold
- In the selection window for crafted items, there's now a count of such items already owned
- The character panel now shows duration of effects granted by reactive abilities
- Increased visibility of secret containers after a tactical recon or other ways of revealing a room (Spotter etc.)
- Overwatch range is now adjusted to a weapon's maximum range (yay!)
- Improved visual line of sight for attacks against targets on higher floors
- Improved pistol animations for characters in half cover
- Improved the list order of available tech unlocks in the Workshop
- Clarified the message about the unavailability of Conversion Treatment when there's no room in Crew Quarters
- Improvements to the details of body type and face on the character creation & customization screen
- Increased level of detail for the operatives' clothes on high quality setting
- Reduced damage dealt by sniper rifles with tranquilizer darts
- Added audio feedback when attempting to use an unavailable navigation button in strategic screens

Bugfixes:
- Pause menu can no longer be opened when a Side-story Event window is open on screen (fixes a progression issue in Chapter 6)
- Secret Files generated in late stages of the campaigns should now have all their names working as intended
- The game can no longer be sabotaged by opening the Move Hideout prompt and the Investigation Board at the same time
- UI will no longer rebel when a location window and a crafting completed window are open at the same time
- Tracked down an elusive bug when World Map locations would sometimes appear in the Hideout screen
- Rare copies of the game with a predilection to crash after being closed have now been taken behind the shed and shot
- A Dispose of Body use which would result in combat no longer blocks the game
- Pins for intelligence snippets on the Investigation Board can no longer be displayed off screen
- Keyboard shortcuts can no longer resume the game while in the Save/Load screen
- Civilians at the top of the stairs will appropriately run away from armed persons
- The UI will no longer freeze when a location window and an event window pop up at the same time
- Enemy Agents while in Vigilant mode will now reactivate security and clean up intel at the appropriate time
- No more crashes while selling weapons to vendors. Capitalism.
- Facilities can no longer be selected in the background with a mouse cursor while the Pause Menu or the Save/Load screen is open
- Agents with the Loyal perk will no longer participate in Chapter 6 sidestory events
- Improved scaling for cinematics on ultrawide monitors
- A lost informer in the Informer Assassination mission will no longer appear in MKUltra as a captured enemy
- KGB Campaign: Operatives undergoing training can no longer be assigned to the story-related fight in the Hideout
- Agent training is now interrupted in the case of a Raid
- Tutorial pop-ups will no longer appear at the same time as Side-story Events
- The Tactical Plunder achievement now only counts Secret Containers
- Exiting the Moving Hideout screen can no longer be done with a hotkey
- Disposed of a superfluous message about an agent returning from MIA status after some time has passed from his rescue from an Enemy Cell
- The Cabal Sleeper Agent perk won't prevent an Operative from joining the enemy's side (duh!)
- NPCs will correctly return to their patrol after investigating a Decoy
- Overwatch won't trigger through closed door
- Eliminated inconsistencies in discoverable aliases between different language versions
- The controller prompt for locking the door no longer appears right next to an agent on overwatch
- Objective text in Chapter 3. fixed
- Eliminated cases when a slider for the secrets list at the mission summary screen would be displayed unnecessarily
- Clipping issues for shotgun-carrying agents in the Loadout Screen fixed
- Women's Hippie Glasses color-corrected (yay!)
- Ambient sounds range on large maps has been increased
- The annoying MKUltra sound was told to be more on the down low
- Audio volume settings now affect the Multiplayer Lobby as intended
- Superfluous animations after moves beginning in half cover removed
- Fixed rare cases text errors in the Spanish localization's Secret Files

Previous patch notes are available in the first post of this thread.

If you encounter any issues, wish to chat about Phantom Doctrine or just poke the Devs, our Official Discord Server is always the best place to visit.

Patch 1.0.8 & Scare Tactics DLC go live!

We are back with another set of updates and additions to mark the upcoming Halloween season! You may find the detailed description of all the improvements and changes below. As always, we want to thank you for your ongoing support, suggestions, conspiracy theories and being a community any Developer would envy.

Get into the spirit of the season and bolster your agency with Spooky Spooks and Pumpkin Spies!

- New, Halloween-themed character customization options: new hair and eye colors, face painting and unique.. headgear
- For a short time Halloween-themed models and textures will appear throughout the tactical levels so keep an eye out!

Improvements:
- A pack of new character customization options has been added: headgear, clothes and accessories
- Two brand new multiplayer maps: Unit ‘Theta’ and Safehouse
- The Loadout Screen now has buttons to strip non-participating Operatives of their gear, deselect the tactical team and clear the Support section, all for a more streamlined experience
- Added new warning pop-ups after selecting “Restart”, “Exit to main menu” or “Exit to desktop” from the pause menu
- Exiting from an active multiplayer game requires confirmation
- Selected multiplayer maps are now visualized in the lobby
- Unlocking of Body Engineering compounds has been tweaked and improved to facilitate access to early game unlocks later on
- Items obtainable early in the campaign are now more readily available in late game
- The “Actor” perk can now be switched in the main menu to work the way it used to post-launch (disregarding the enemy Agents field of view)
- The pop-up window in strategic gameplay about new secrets can now accommodate up to 4 lines of text
- The list of aliases used in Secret Files has been significantly expanded
- Technologies unlocked by campaign progress now have a ‘New’ marker visible
- Formatting of descriptions for Technologies in the Workshop has been improved
- The delay before arrival of reinforcements has been corrected at the beginning of the KGB campaign
- Buttons on world map pop-ups have been adjusted to match the text size for their corresponding choices
- Navigational buttons in the multiplayer session setup screen have been improved
- The ambient sound in hideout facilities has been adjusted
- Health bar in action camera view has been repositioned
- Placement of targets behind high cover during incoming fire has been improved
- Line of fire in full auto mode to targets behind cover on higher floors has been tweaked
- Improved wind sway animations for potted plants
- Improved movement and idle animations for female Operatives
- Idle animations improved for civilians standing by tables
- Use animation for Heartbeat Sensor
- Miscellaneous animation and model improvements for the character customization process
- Multiple minor localization tweaks and fixes

Bugfixes:

- Eliminated a potential blocker in chapter 6. of the campaign
- Solving two secret files at once no longer causes any issues
- Reassigning agents between jobs using key bindings will no longer causes rare issues with progression
- Miscelanneous fixes and stability improvement
- Vancouver’s icon will no longer be obscured by UI text
- Infirmary can now correctly be fully upgraded
- Buttons now display correct states on side story pop-ups in the world map
- Deployment zones can no longer be switched using the pause keyboard shortcut
- A character’s make-up will now be correctly visible on all screens
- The game can no longer be saved in the deployment phase
- Controller inputs will no longer be registered on game loading screens
- Improved descriptions for “Respiratory” and “Sensory” Operative stats
- Improved and clarified descriptions for tooltips on the Loading Screen
- The number of secrets to be found will now correctly decrease when an enemy Agent in vigilant mode starts to clean up
- Miscellaneous improvements to tooltips, labels and descriptions
- Clothes will now fit agents of all body types correctly
- Agent portraits repositioned in the location window to correct a minor issue in English and French versions
- Miscellaneous improvements and fixes for graphics and displays

If you encounter any issues, wish to chat about Phantom Doctrine or just poke the Devs, our Official Discord Server is always the best place to visit.

Have a spooky Halloween!

Extremely sorry for the delay - we're a bit short-handed right now. Let me assure you that we're reading the suggestions posted on these boards and appreciate all your effort. In terms of the implementation of QoL improvements, that was not the last update... ;)

GOG received the exact same patch as Steam did (in terms of the scope), so if you have the Halloween content available in-game, you have the most recent version of Phantom Doctrine.

Have a great day!

Patch 1.0.9 is now live!

This time we're back with some additional content to spice up tactical side missions and provide you with some more insight on various mechanics and features in Phantom Doctrine. Also, we fixed some of the issues kindly reported by you, for which we're very grateful. You may review all of the changes below. Thank you very much for your ongoing support and now we're getting back to work, as more is in store. ːsteamhappyː

Improvements & added content
- New variations of side missions throughout the entire campaign. They were added to the random pool of the following mission types: Ambush, Conspiracy Cell, Enemy Recon, Informer Assassination
- An in-game encyclopedia, full of information and hints regarding all aspects of gameplay in Phantom Doctrine. It’s available from the main menu as well as from the pause menu during strategic and tactical play

Bugfixes:
- Fixed: endless black screen during the first launch of the game
- The interface can no longer be locked by bringing up the pause menu at the exact moment a panel on the world map opens
- The “ASSIGN” tooltip will no longer appear in all free slots at the same time on the Loadout screen after entering a secret cheat code on the gamepad ;)
- Fixed: buttons on the Loadout screen are no longer assigned to both the support powers list and to unassigning agents / unequipping gear
- Suppressors have been slightly adjusted for a better fit on some weapons
- An enemy agent with the “Cabal Sleeper Agent” influence perk will correctly join the player’s team when combat is triggered in the first turn
- Enemy agents correctly appear on the POI screen from a tactical mission which ends in failure
- Minor text fixes

If you encounter any issues, wish to chat about Phantom Doctrine or just poke the Devs, our Official Discord Server is always the best place to visit.