Patch 1.1.6 Released!

Dear Citizens of Sordland,

Hope the summer has been treating you well. Got some good news, patch 1.1.6 is released! We have been tracking all the bugs for a few months and have fixed all reported issues.

Additionally, we have made some minor lore fixes as we spotted some inconsistencies related to our new secret project. There might be more of these in the future.

As always massive thank you to our dedicated community members who are posting bug reports on our Discord server. Always make sure to read the bug reporting guidelines!

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Patch 1.1.61 (15/08/2021)

The patch applies on ongoing games.

Balancing
• Increased starting economy by 1
• Slightly increased Autonomous zone Bludish opinion bonus
• Added stability check for war plan success

Content
• Made an improvement pass to Kesaro in the debate scene
• In resignation scene Nia Morgna checks more conditions of the new constitution
• Added term summary checks to Lileas Discussion in turn 09 and made minor improvements
• Some changes on how crime situations are determined
• Improved how the Bludish situation was updated in turn 09

Lore updates
• Updated WHR codex entry
• Updated Lotherberg Group codex entry
• Updated a wrong date in the Wehlen Civil War codex entry
• Updated Frens Ricter codex entry
• Updated Walter Tusk codex entry
• Updated Walter Tusk related news entry
• Updated Greater Holsord Region entry to have correct adjacent regions
• Added image to Gendarmerie

Bug Fixes
• Fixed gamebreaking broken link in late briefing scene in turn 03
• Added a prevention check for a branch that could be re-triggered with reload checkpoint. It would unintentionally allow both main paths of reform to be enable which broke the game setup
• Fixed death date being the same as born date at 1958. Anton can't be reborn again
• Fixed wrong naming of Consulate as Embassy in city and country reports
• Added additional check to Lucian giving feedback about Marcel in the scandal
• Added additional conditions for Lucian's recommendation regarding the extension of emergency
• Fixed wrong debate feedback about passing Minority Rights Act by decree
• Added slight variation to Leaked Scandals in the situation of impeachment removal by reform
• Fixed wrong ACP article trigger when having SSP
• Prevented free paid education for Franc if the player had no personal wealth left
• Fixed potential wrong trigger related to Soll's Legacy achievement
• Fixed bugged Denis character tag in Debate scene
• Organized crime can be removed in other ways too now.
• Fixed wrong report regarding Koronti after bad things happen to him
• Reduced conservative vote support threshold estimate condition in turn 08
• Fixed repeat of sentence in Soll trial
• Economy feedback scene in mid game checks active economy to budget ratio in more detail
• Some fixes in Prologue regarding lore consistencies
• Fixed size codes that appeared in the summary screen
• Fixed Oligarchs leadership triggers with Marcel
• Updated Helji Island achievement description
• Nia Morgna should be slightly more consistent regarding the reforms
• Added missing alliance checks in certain parts of the Epilogue
• Fixed party ranking triggers on certain weird situations where party leadership is hampered
• Fixed wrong variable set on Bludish rights bill which caused war and wrong situation issues
• Fixed Thank you Serge and 638 ways to Kill Rayne achievement triggers on other endings
• Fixed potentially wrong condition for economic damages in turn 07
• Fixed wrong city names for Valgsland and Lespia trade scenes
• Fixed wrong debate condition regarding Denis accusing Anton of ending people's lives prematurely
• Fixed wrong checks regarding which trade talk was attended in the scandal content
• Tusk key figures update in Political Overview was synced with Codex update
• Leste status during Anrica speech was adjusted for Sollist players
• Fixed wrong trigger about Desollinisation in election speech
• Alvarez is referred to as Prime Minister everywhere
• Corrected several wrong Koronti Lead turn 09 scene checks
• Improved some wrong responses in the War Plans scene
• Fixed missing turn 05 variable check in turn 09 investigations scene
• Fixed Aid naming
• Fixed punctuation mistakes and other typos in a dozen newspaper articles
• Fixed typos in reports
• Fixed dozens of typos in the prologue and scenes

Known issues
• Lack of Assembly impeachment content

We are back in the office in Berlin and very excited about our upcoming projects! If you liked Suzerain drop a positive review and spread the word!

Much love from from Torpor Games.

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Patch 1.1.7 (03/09/2021)

The patch applies on ongoing games.

Content
• Added Steam Rich Presence which displays in-game updates

Balancing
• Adjusted tax change conditions
• Slight changes to mid-game crisis triggers
• Revised some war success conditions

Bug Fixes and Polishing
• Fixed a broken link in Turn 05 scandal scene
• Changed gender equality situation update to be more actual
• Fixed the resignation enthusiasm of Nia Morgna
• Minor lore fix in Wehlen Civil War entry
• Fixed a wrong Petr death fragment in retirement
• Fixed a wrong news trigger for women's rights laws passage
• Fixed a wrong Koronti ally comment condition in election speech
• Removed wrong title of a PM in newspaper
• Fixed several typos in codex, reports and news
• Fixed several typos in scenes

Known issues
• Lack of Assembly impeachment content

We are super excited to have shared our new platform launch for Suzerain. Take a look at our Discord or Twitter! If you liked Suzerain drop a positive review and spread the word.

Thank you for all your support.

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Patch 1.1.9 (29/06/2022)

The patch applies to new games.

Content
• Added minor content in the form of dialogue extensions, codex, report and news

Bug Fixes and Polishing
• Fixed an ending altering bug where a coup wouldn't trigger and instead player enters retirement wrongly causing content desync
• Fixed an issue with wrong construction variables being checked in game setup
• Updated description of Steam achievements regarding construction opening and frugal to reflect conditions better
• Fixed date issue in a historical codex article
• Fixed wrong appearance of Manoly
• Updated negative situation description for military unhappiness
• Added a slight content variation for a Stahler comment
• Fixed wrong address of PM of Lespia
• Improved conditions for Lileas comment on Rumburg war possibility when in alliance
• Fixed a few typos in codex, city details, reports and news
• Fixed some more typos in scenes

Known issues
• Lack of Assembly impeachment content
• Certain codex articles don't update such as parties, cities, armed forces
• Country reports user interface has small typo
• Queen Beatrice can lose dialogue text colour randomly displaying <=color=>
• Hyperlinks randomly break and highlight articles or change codex article text

As always you can send feedback and report bugs on our channels. Take a look at our Discord or Twitter! If you liked Suzerain drop a positive review and spread the word.

Suzerain Community Interest Survey

The Torpor Games team has been working hard on a new project, of which we hope to be able to share more news very soon.

Additionally, we are evaluating the potential for the future of our first game, Suzerain, and what our community would be comfortable with financially supporting our development work.

Please note that we are not working on additional content for Suzerain. The purpose of this survey is solely to help us gauge the interest of our community. Torpor Games reserves the right to act as we see fit regardless of the survey results.

Survey Link Here

Thank you for all your support.

Rewrite history: Suzerain 2.0 "Amendment" Update is HERE!

Dear citizens of Sordland,

We are thrilled to share with you the moment we've all been eagerly waiting for – the unveiling of the 2.0 "Amendment" update for Suzerain! This update marks a true rebirth for our beloved Suzerain, taking it to a new level. Experience fresh dialogues, impactful choices, and tangible consequences that shape your nation's destiny. Enhanced visuals, an interactive world map, and an immersive narrative await you.

We've made the game more accessible and enjoyable for everyone, whether you're a seasoned player or new to political games. This comprehensive overhaul refines the game narrative, improves quality, and elevates the audiovisual experience, making every moment in Suzerain even more memorable.

The Suzerain 2.0 "Amendment" update is the culmination of a year-long endeavor by the Torpor Games team to refine and expand upon the original game and is the first release in a long-term plan for expanding and supporting the game, including more free updates and a series of premium DLC campaigns, the first of which - Suzerain: Kingdom of Rizia - will launch in Q4 this year.

Last but not least, we want to introduce our latest special addition: the exclusive "Vulpitzer Award" item, now available for purchase!

It's important to note that this item is entirely optional and purely aesthetic. With the acquisition of the "Vulpitzer Award," you not only improve the decor of your president’s desk but also extend your invaluable support to Torpor Games in their endeavor to deliver more updates like this.

You can also discover our latest offering - the Supporter Edition, the Supporter Edition includes the game Suzerain and its Original Soundtrack, as well as the Vulpitzer Award cosmetic DLC.

[Please note that this latest update requires starting a new save to be played. The previous save system will no longer function due to the implementation of a new technical infrastructure. It's important to mention that the old version will not receive any further support or updates.]

The full changelog of additions in the 2.0 "Amendment" update is below:

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Patch 2.0.0
(31/07/2023)

This update only applies to new games and is deployed to the default branch.

① Features
---• New interface and user experience
---• Gamepad support with full verification for Steam Deck
---• Story selection screen and campaign system
---• Torpor mode (Ironman), can be disabled after the first completed playthrough
---• Manual save/load system
---• World map integration
---• Additional interactable objects on the desk
---• 15 new collectible story items, one supporting the dev's item
---• Story, country, and leader information panels
---• Projected economic growth graph
---• Dynamic event tokens, including operations on the map
---• Status effects for cities and countries
---• New sound effects for key story moments
---• New ambient room sounds and map music
---• UI scaling bar and new font options, including OpenDyslexic
---• Text animations for key moments and typewriter animation toggle
---• Reminder panel for constitutional changes
---• New notification system
---• New construction bar for infrastructure projects and progress updates
---• Analytics added for improving balancing and game design outcomes
---• Complete technical infrastructure overhaul allowing for faster and easier content development
---• Improved look-at mode
---• 11 new game achievements
---• Added news feature to the main menu

② Content
---• 12 new scenes
---• 9 new decisions
---• 6 new bills
---• New prologue lore content and choice
---• Modifications and additions to over 20 existing scenes
---• 40 new faction reports
---• 30 new country reports
---• Over 300 new news articles and city reports
---• Bludish amendment storyline, Bergia special zone storyline, Gasom, and Energy Protection Act storyline
---• Character content expansions: Ewald Alphonso, Tarquin Soll, Fetih Ejall, Gus Manger, Lucian Galade, Remus Holstron, and many more
---• Crisis events to highlight big issues that players missed when not reading narrative support like news, reports, situations
---• New additions to Monica Rayne-related content
---• New VAT presidential decree option
---• Revamped and expanded many news articles
---• Added reports about some successful synergies
---• Added unfriendly and hostile country relations
---• Added progressing status effects for trade and the border fortification
---• 20+ new codex entries and edits to dozens more
---• First-pass implementation of status effects feature content
---• Detailed demographics content for all cities and player countries with graphs
---• New Suzerain Universe lore outside of Sordland
---• Updates and corrections to existing Suzerain Universe lore
---• New historical lore about the 30s and 40s of Sordland from The Conformist
---• New Holsord-related lore from The Conformist
---• Added new autocrat path content with Young Sords involvement
---• Added USP obstruction path that causes late-game bills to be blocked or forced

③ Art
---• New table decorations
---• New country tokens
---• New city tokens
---• New event tokens
---• 16 new 3D collectibles
---• New world map
---• Two new character portraits
---• Epilogue silhouette images for all endings
---• Map overlays for visual changes
---• Interactable objects on the table open UI elements
---• Updated portrait holders for characters
---• Updated Sordland map with new sections
---• Higher quality codex art

④ Audio
---• Map music addition and neutral, tense variations
---• 20+ new sound effects for key moments
---• New main menu music
---• Ambient room audio
---• Sordish National Anthem verse sound added to a special moment
---• New Torpor sound logo
---• Added audio ducking

⑤ Design & Balancing
---• Government budget system overhaul with high (3), medium (2), and low (1) spending values
---• Changed starting government budget to 7
---• Economy system revamp with recovery options from crises and increased synergies
---• Re-balanced triggers of impeachment trial, war, and coup endings
---• The projected economic growth graph shows trends, not economic state
---• Updated certain ending flows about war, exile, and a few others to improve the narrative design
---• New tourism policy and situations
---• New energy policy and situations
---• New BFF policy and situations
---• New Bergia and Article 6&7 policy and situations
---• Changed Lucian's enemy condition
---• Slightly updated family relation balance
---• Updated regional economy balancing and changes
---• Increased threshold of late-game crisis disabling early, mid-game returns
---• Lowered trade war and market crash damages
---• New economy gain and loss changes, more early game opportunities to gain and lose
---• Improved crisis variable stats and allowed more gains if only a few late-game crises occurred
---• Increased difficulty of ATO and CSP factions join offer
---• Removed impeachment of President by Assembly due to lack of proper content
---• New election balancing and calculation additions based on new content
---• New ideological leaning balancing and improvements
---• USP obstruction path leads to disabling or enabling certain late-game bills
---• Added a few inter-regional economic synergy opportunities
---• The added impact of energy prices on some regional economies
---• New assembly and court vote calculation for new amendment content

⑥ Bug Fixes and Polish
---• Over 300 typos and grammatical errors fixed
---• More than 200 bugs fixed
---• Optimization pass for lower-end devices
---• Improved several game flow errors that impacted balancing negatively
---• Improved situations and policies text descriptions
---• Extended and improved dozens of short and low-quality news articles and reports
---• More feedback about certain parts of the story with little feedback

Thank you for tuning in, and we look forward to seeing you soon!

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Hotfix 2.0.2

Hello, dear community members.

The 2.0 update has launched with overwhelming success. We have been analyzing the feedback and looking at issues since the launch yesterday. Today, we are pushing our first hotfix for the update to tackle the critical issues we spotted.

Patch 2.0.2
(01/08/2023)

The update is deployed to the default branch. The database changes only apply to new games, and code fixes apply to ongoing games.

⯈ Bug Fixes and Polish
---• Added space bar function
---• Added drag function to right-click of mouse
---• Fixed a rare issue about exile that had no condition fallbacks
---• Fixed a very rare issue with the flow step system calculation that caused certain triggers to disappear
---• Fixed an incidental rare database issue
---• Fixed missing and broken false condition in turn 7 ministry Gus results meeting
---• Reduced economy integer for business taxation condition
---• Fixed a missing condition in the queen phone call scene
---• Fixed a few typos

Patch 2.0.4

Dear Suzerain Universe fans,

We are pushing our first minor update after our successful 2.0 launch.

Patch 2.0.4
(18/08/2023)

The update is deployed to the default branch. The database changes only apply to new games, and code fixes apply to on-going games.

① Content and Balancing
---• Increased the difficulty of election win calculation
---• Updated Bludish opinion and unrest balancing slightly
---• Added more nuance to the new world lore with new articles and edits
---• Added Walker Plan and Arcasian Dream codex articles
---• Removed budget constraints on presidential decrees
---• Removed condition constraints on tax reform meeting
---• Made small improvements to the new scenes and their flow
---• Adjusted Paskal resignation condition

② Audio
---• Expanded and created more varied crowd sounds
---• Added new sound effects across the game
---• Improved existing sound effects implementation further

③ UI&UX
---• Implemented cycling shortcuts for report, token information and token interaction panels
---• Added negative UI scaling for a smaller interface scale
---• Removed status effect screen notifications on tokens
---• Implemented arrow key navigation for conversations and prologue/epilogue
---• Implemented past reports (archive) functionality for Journal Panel
---• Reduced pie chart font sizes to show more details

④ Visuals & Optimization
---• Updated old report panel header assets
---• V-Sync will be turned on by default
---• Conducted an optimization pass to improve frame rates across the board
---• Reduced the visual quality of the low option drastically for lower-end users
---• Added SSAO option for lower-end devices
---• Shader optimizations for rendering collection item inspection and outlines

⑤ Bug Fixes and Polish
---• Broken condition fix for getting wrong game ending after family scene
---• Corrected some population stats
---• Adjusted Wehlen war and Bergia condition slightly
---• Fixed missing resignation condition check for Nia
---• Close button at center no longer triggers map scrolling
---• Fixed the possibility of making no change on a panel issue for some
---• Added check for a Monica dialogue to handle no youth org affiliation
---• Pushed a fix for corrupted saves that blocked new games from being started
---• Fixed too fast skips or clicks skipping the decree panel selection
---• Made an attempted fix for Steam Cloud issues
---• Fixed broken condition leading to wrong feedback from Alphonso
---• Improved certain lore word usage consistencies
---• Fixed some inconsistencies in feedback regarding the trade tariffs
---• Fixed chess reverse context issues on one branch
---• Fixed wrong condition in Alvarez talk leading to blocking of trade due to EPA
---• Fix for Hawker custody question if Hawker is killed
---• Fixed two achievement triggers
---• Fixed issues with three collectibles
---• Improved how certain new story variables are set so they can be checked better
---• Fixed a few reports with wrong content
---• Added some more narrative-build up for some scenes
---• Fixed a few news related issues
---• Dozens of typos and other misc issues resolved

Hotfix 2.0.3

Dear community members,

We are pushing our second hotfix for the update to tackle the new critical issues we spotted. Please use our Discord bug reporting system and send your files for us to get to issues better and quicker!

Hotfix Patch 2.0.3
(03/08/2023)

The update is deployed to the default branch. The database changes only apply to new games, and code fixes apply to on-going games.

⯈ Bug Fixes and Polish
---• Increased sound effects volume slightly
---• Updated Nia Morgna resignation triggers
---• Fixed an issue related to turn 9 emergency call situation not appearing
---• Fixed the reverse compass positioning issue for certain conditions
---• Fixed and added a few missing sounds
---• Fixed a rare sub-branch about EPA reversal that would not unlock achievement and design integers
---• Fixed typos regarding dastnurity
---• Fixed a few news related issues
---• Fixed wrong character appearing as white box
---• Fixed wrong lighter trigger
---• Fixed wrong background image in Prologue
---• Potential resolution and screen issue fix
---• Some other misc typos and fixes

Hotfix 2.0.5
(29/08/2023)

The update is deployed to the default branch. The database changes only apply to new games, and code fixes apply to on-going games.

⯈ Content and Balancing
---• Updated Immediate BFF Threat triggers
---• Added more Alphonso Gasom deal bonus points and clearer negative path deal rejection
---• Improved Gasom late scene links to workers benefits and added more flexibility

⯈ Bug Fixes and Polish
---• Fixed a missing branch unlock for Serge Pocket Watch collectible
---• Added some additional conditions for human rights situation update
---• Fixed wrong conditions for exile leave now ending now bypasses election speech correctly
---• Added some missing censorship conditions to debate and congress scenes
---• Attempted fix for BFF Dam achievement trigger
---• Fixed duplicate condition error for Bergia Zone newspaper
---• Fixed wrong appearances in debate scene with condition corrections
---• Improved wording of some situations
---• Fixed some wrong conditions for a few epilogue endings regarding Monica
---• Fixed several misc scene issues and typos