Hola, Capos!

All of your amazing support and feedback has led us to having a month so productive that we have actually started worrying about Cartel Tycoon turning out being too addictive.

...Haha, joking, nothing will stop us! In fact, we have just released a major update - and it has literally added all the features most requested by our community! Specifically:



As you may have noticed, we are making steps towards making Cartel Tycoon approachable for players that are looking for a more relaxed experience while also keeping its hardcore permadeath roots intact. Next update, on the one hand, will expand on this even further, making Sandbox even more customizable...and on the other hand, we cannot wait to present you the Survival mode! with its own unique goals and narrative.

For those who have closely followed our Roadmap, we have to point out that May Update turned out to be less in scope than initially planned. Our plans for the overall scope of the game aren’t affected though, and the upcoming June update will be a much bigger one (I wanted to foreshadow the rest of Miguel’s story for you, but the team asked me not to spoil it - let’s respect their decision).

Soon we will do another post about Cartel Tycoon Roadmap and how it has recently evolved: best news here is that we are setting ourselves a goal to make the Multiplayer a part of our 1.0 release.

Please go ahead and update your game. And more than ever, we’ll need your opinions and reports about how a weekend with updated balance and features of Cartel Tycoon went for you. And now, full patch notes!

ːcartel_loveː Cartel Tycoon v 0.9.1.1527 (May Update) ːcartel_loveː

WARNING: Your old saves are not going to be compatible with the new version. We are leaving the previous version in the separate Steam branch. To access it: right click on Cartel Tycoon in your Steam library -> Properties -> Betas -> Input “CartelTycoonApril2021” password. Done! Finish the game there

Major changes

• Saves. You can now have multiple saves in one slot! And the number of save slots has been increased to 6.
  
  
• Customizable difficulties. You can now choose the difficulty in Sandbox (Easy, Normal or Hard). Selected difficulty affects the plants growth: hard has zero-efficiency zones and has no saves. More details in-game.
  
  
• Flexible Goods Delivery. You can now customize how much goods your Lieutenants will transport, and you can also set them to continuous delivery as it was before
  
  
• Defeat the enforcers to freeze their star for 30 days
  

Other updates & changes

• Added a special TBC screen after the last quest in story mode to avoid the confusion (the finale of the story is coming in June update!)
  
• Smuggling points now have their own upkeeps - they aren’t depleted any more.
  
• Added “Controlling City” state for lieutenants.
  
• Building upkeep is now taken once per day, not twice
  

Balance

• Mayours lend less money, but for a longer period of time (30k for 2 months now)
  
• Increased prices for some goods
  
• Increased the capacity of Villages and Area Depos
  
• Now the majority of lieuts start from Novato level (except lieuts with Deal ability)
  

Bug Fix

• Fixed: terror marker would not disappear sometimes
  
• Truckman ability fix (now it works in Area Depot)
  
• Disabled turning off Hotel And Research center from buildings list
  
• Fixed Chinese font for legal money indicator
  
• Localization fixes
  
• Chemical plant shows correct efficiency now
  
• Double check Mayor quest state to prevent any death lock situations
  
• Fix Harvest Interval ability not working in some cases
  
• Fixed buildings on fire notifications
  
• Fixed wrong information in money loss event
  
• Cartel customization window layout fix (no more “jumping” buttons)
  
• Removed values from loyalty events in loyalty buildings
  
• Lieutenant quest now disappears after his death
  
• Fixed residence influence radius issues
  
• Fixed some texts overlapping issues
  

Visuals

• Update visuals for the Hotel
  
• Farms and Plantations animations fix
  
• Fixed Aircraft: Lights not being displayed when the aircraft is in sight
  
• Fixed building Construction Animation
  
• Borders will not cover buildings any more
  

Known issues

• On some of the Windows versions (specifically if something has been done with the default Media Player) our animated intro causes the game to crash. The temporary workaround is to turn on “Skip movies” in the settings menu.
  
• Some Nvidia cards cause D3D to crash at start-up (https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/forums/game-ready-drivers/13/256280/unreal-engine-is-exiting-due-to-d3d-device-being-l/)The main menu UI is bugged at some laptops - switching from Fullscreen to Windowed or Borderless usually fixes this.
  

Let us know what you think in the comments! And please keep an eye on our social channels for all the latest news and updates, and be sure to join the official Cartel Tycoon Discord to join the community, share your feedback, and chat with the development team.

P.S. Pleased to announce that the June update will include Turkish localization, hooray!