Hello, it's patch day! The completed Brazilian Portuguese translation is now live on the main branch! Thanks once again to Arthur Nunes for that translation! ːJoeWheelerApprovesː

That was v252, which was in publicbeta for the last week. I've released a new patch with some more fixes in publicbeta (v253):

• When driving a vehicle show the name of the fuel (gasoline or vegetable oil) on the fuel bar (instead of always showing 'gas')

• Fix for Liam Franks getting stuck at critical moment

• Fix for not being able to infect Carbon Arrows

• Fix for rare crash when getting a body out of a building

• Fix for lighting on props from asset bundles in mods being inconsistent with props from the base game using the same material settings (a little darker)

• Fix for steel lockbox not having build animation

• Fix for not being able to change sort order and type with gamepad on Storage Policy dialog

• Fix for Kelly saying a speech introducing you to Highway Patrol after you've already gone past them (e.g. if she was knocked out and carried past them)

• Fix for camera sometimes moving in Command Mode when a notification is up when you're using a gamepad but have a mouse connected

• Fix for mouse-look sensitivity varying based on framerate or monitor refresh rate

• Fix for Persian characters being shown in isolated instead of contextual form

• Possible crash fixes

• Updated Brazilian Portuguese, Indonesian, Japanese and Russian translations

Also for anyone who uses mods please note: it looks like Steam has changed some policy or code recently which means you can't see any of the mods for this game unless you have allowed "Some Nudity or Sexual Content" for Community items in your Store Preferences. To change this, click on your profile name in the top right corner of Steam, go to Store Preferences and tick the box in the Community column for the Some Nudity or Sexual Content.

I'm not sure if this was a deliberate change by Valve - I've sent them a support request but haven't heard back so far. It has a certain logic because I marked the game itself as having "Some Nudity or Sexual Content" due to occasional innuendo or references to sex in the dialog. The problem is none of these mods actually add anything sexual (at least as far as I'm aware - and there's a system for mod authors to specify content descriptors for their mod if they do). So it's kind of weird and confusing not to see them when you can see the game. I looked to see if this was happening to other games and noticed the same thing seems to be happening to FrostPunk 2. Anyway, I'm looking into it - and you can use the above workaround for now.

What's this publicbeta thing?

v253 will be in the "publicbeta" branch on Steam for a while, before pushing it to the main game and to XBox. If you want to try the latest features as they come out (and help test them!) it's a good idea to start using this branch. But keep in mind:

• Because it's the bleeding edge it could be less stable

• If you want to be able to play online co-op with someone you'll need to be on the same version as them

• If you go back from the "publicbeta" branch to the main branch you may not be able to load savegames created on "publicbeta".

To use publicbeta, just right-click on Survivalist: Invisible Strain in your Steam library and go to Properties, then Betas and in the drop-down select "publicbeta".