Our first patch in early access! We've had a great start to our launch and to keep the momentum going we're making some early game balance changes to help smooth out the onboarding process and to put good stuff in your hands sooner.
Pals
Pals now can be unlocked after the writer questing is unlocked. No longer does this require the Office Tower room.
Daycare room in the Office Tower now unlocks the Pal Expedition mechanic.
Improved the UI to condense information and make it more clear which Pals are in your party.
Eggs can now drop from publishing articles... more reasons to click.
Pals now follow writers when they go on quests.
Quests
Improved the end of quest popup to show all the rewards earned by completing a quest.
Balance
Research tab now opens after 5 published articles (down from 10).
Field Reporting now costs $500 (down from $1000).
Tutorial Trending Topic now appears at article 3 (down from 7).
Office room upgrade levels have been made more expensive and now also require knowledge points. More decisions to make!
Click Bot Network empire upgrade now costs 1 Domain Point but clicks once every 10 seconds at the first rank.
Click Bot Network empire upgrade has had ranks 2 through 4 see Domain Point cost reductions.
Each additional website unlocked via empire prestige provides more Domain Points. Existing saves will now have additional points to compensate.
Name in the Game
Early Access purchases can now use the Clickbait Tycoon website to submit a name of their choice into the game.
This feature works with Pals. There is a random chance when hatching new Pals that you can encounter a community-submitted name.
All submissions go through a human to verify they are safe before we add them to the game.
Note that it requires a game update for us to push new names to the game, even after we accept the name submission.
Bug Fixes
You can now correctly hit escape when any modal is open to close it. This mimics the controller functionality where "B" closes modals.
When first equipping a mug the icon now correctly appears in the writer equipment frame.
Fixed an issue with how Typing Speed was being calculated.
Mugs with Caffeine now correctly apply stats.
Mugs with Clout now correctly apply stats.
The Click Bot Network empire upgrade now correctly progresses the publish bar.
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