Stewards, we did it! Frostpunk 2 won The Best Strategy Game at #TheGameAwards ! 🖤

After many years of development it doesn’t feel like a stretch to say that this award means so so much to us. We tried to push the boundaries of what a sequel could be and this award is proof that taking creative risks pays off.

Huge thank you goes to You, the community, for your overwhelming support and love for the Frostpunk franchise. We couldn’t have done it without you!

Dear Citizens,

The latest Hotfix 1.2.2 for Frostpunk 2 is now live. The update contains a number of fixes and quality-of-life improvements. Don't miss the updated Zoom Stories in the Utopia Builder 🎄

Read the full changelog below 📃

Gameplay & Balance

• Disabled deep deposit building economy modifier will no longer affect active Food deposit
  
• Stimulant Manufactory overuse story arc tweaks
  
• Fixed Rail Transport Hub affecting all buildings in the city
  
• Fixed not being possible to construct an extraction building in a district in which regular deposit was depleted even when deep deposit is still available

Interface

• Pop-up tutorials improvements
  
• Currently in Force widget is now hidden when voting for Charter Policies
  
• Research Panels now display research affinity back again
  
• Tutorial videos are now always played from the start on revisiting them
  
• Quest markers are now visible on the district construction panel
  
• Fixed district wear trackers behaviour after loading a save file
  
• Fixed Emergency Council Button not showing up after loading a save file on some occasions

Art

• Festive spirit can be spotted on the Zoom stories of Utopia Builder
  
• Implemented some new artworks to city messages
  
• Fireflies visual tweaks

Audio

• Fixed infinite sfx being played if the message tracker disappears when the player was hovering over it
  
• Council audio tweaks

Other

• Pop-up messages about outdated drivers are now localized
  
• Fixed “Can’t stop progress” and “Adapted to Weather” achievements not unlocking on some occasions

Frostkit

• Fixed White Space Issue: We have resolved the issue where white space characters in the mod path caused problems during the cooking process.
  
• New Level Loading Tool: We’ve introduced a new level loading tool for Story Mode and Utopia Builder, accessible via the teapot icon. This tool allows for easy loading of all necessary levels (both environment and gameplay) and makes it much simpler to edit them.

Until December 18th you can get Frostpunk 2 at 20% off!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1601580/Frostpunk_2/

Take care,
11 bit studios

Dear Citizens,

Hotfix 1.2.1 for Frostpunk2 is now live. This update brings another batch of improvements, including a new message warning players about outdated or missing mods when attempting to load a save file that previously had mods applied.

Read the full changelog below 📃

Gameplay & Balance

• Fixed one of the fuel colony variant having only geothermal deposits

Interface

• Introduced warning about outdated or missing mods on the attempt to load a save file which had mods applied before the game update
  
• Emergency Council Session button is now hidden in the Council menus when it shouldn’t be present so it doesn’t lead to crash upon using
  
• Fixed Currently in Force widget being visible when it shouldn’t
  
• Fixed district wear trackers not being present after loading a save file
  
• Fixed negotiations not showing the proper outcome

Art

• Fixed prologue frostbreaking zoom stories not being available

Audio

• Fixed frostbreaking audio still playing upon cancelling the process

Other

• Fixed crash related to district visuals
  
• Fixed crash related to changed Utopia Maps layouts on some saves

More updates are coming soon—stay tuned!

Take care,
11 bit studios

Until December 4th, you can get Frostpunk 2 with a 20% discount:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1601580/Frostpunk_2/

Dear Citizens,

The Frost has tested us. Together, we’ve built, struggled, and thrived in the face of adversity. Now, we have the opportunity to let the entire world know what we’ve achieved as a community.

Until December 4th, nominate Frostpunk 2 for the Steam Awards as The Best Game You Suck At!

"This is the game that rewards persistence, and is not for the faint of heart. It's the toughest game we've ever loved."

🗳️ Nominate today and show the world that, despite all the hardships we face in the frostland, our City will never fall.

Get Frostpunk 2 now at 20% off until December 4:
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You can get further involved in the Steam Awards nominations to level up your Committee Badge and earn XP. Don’t forget to nominate a game in each category, play it, and review (or update your review) for a game you’ve nominated.

The Steward thanks you for your unwavering support!

Greetings, esteemed Stewards of Our Cities!

We're pleased to announce that once again our engineers managed to deliver another batch of updates and improvements that will ensure the everlasting expansion of our glorious City!

• Adjustments to Utopia Builder maps
  
• New faction events
  
• Deep deposits are now truly infinite
  
• Infinite protests bug fix
  
• Idea Tree panels tweaks
  
• Resource transfer panel improvements
  
• Improved saving and loading times
  
• New pop-up tutorial panels

Below you can find the full list of improvements, fixes and changes introduced in the Patch 1.2.0 📃

• Adjustments to Utopia Builder maps
  
  • Windswept Peaks
  • Moved resources on the map to make them more organic and district placement less "lined" with a bigger focus on the frostbreaker ranges
    
  • Exposed to Wind area is bigger and contains a deep deposit within its range
    
  • Added Exposed Cliff area trait on the cliffs south of the Generator (+10 Shelter / -20 Heat)
  • Broken Shore
  • Moved resources on the map to make them more organic and district placement less "lined" with a bigger focus on the frostbreaker ranges
    
  • Added new area trait to ice: Unstable Ground (+20 Materials upkeep), that has Oil access within
    
  • Added Exposed Cliff area trait south of the Generator (+10 Shelter / -20 Heat)
    
  • Increased Sheltered From The Wind area trait on map (9 cells to 12 cells)
  • Fractured Gorge
  • Moved resources on the map to make them more organic and district placement less "lined" with a bigger focus on the frostbreaker ranges
    
  • Exposed to Wind area is bigger and contains a deep deposit within its range
    
  • Added "Stable Crevasse" (+10 Shelter / +20 Heat) in 2 areas on the edges of the map (12 cells)
    
  • Increased areas of Geothermal area traits (9 cells to 12 cells)
  • Horizon
  • Moved resources on the map to make them more organic and district placement less "lined" with a bigger focus on the frostbreaker ranges
    
  • Added new area trait: Oil Pollution (Sickliness increase) around Oil deposit
  • Dreadnought [Legacy]
  • Moved resources on the map to make them more organic and district placement less "lined" with a bigger focus on the frostbreaker ranges
    
  • Added Deep Oil deposits instead of regular
    
  • Added Unstable Ground (+20 Materials upkeep) area to ice
    
  • Added Sheltered from the Wind area trait to ravine
  • Hanging Rock [Legacy]
  • Adjusted Geothermals area traits 9 -> 12 cells
    
  • The entire area outside is treated as "exposed to the wind"
  • Crater [Legacy]
  • Adjusted area traits to be in line with Story Mode

• Deep deposits are now truly infinite
  
• Deep Oil Deposits are now available in Utopia builder
  
  • Addition of Deep Oil Deposits
    
  • All colonies with Oil access now have infinite Deep Oil deposits instead of limited ones
    
  • Cities with starting Oil access are unchanged and the deposit is a regular one
• Improved factions' reactivity to current city status
  
  • Six new events furthering faction conflict when conditions are catastrophic
    
  • New event to react to disproportionately large numbers of Stimulants Manufactories
    
  • Two new events to react to frequent use of Fund Projects and Promote on Communities not aligned with your Zeitgeist
    
  • New event when helping pass Law proposed by Community not aligned with your Zeitgeist
    
  • New consequences for using Increase Workload on Servants
• Ambitions rework
  
  • Colonise the Frostland
    
    • Now requires 35k population in Colonies and Settlements instead of creating 3 colonies with 10k population each
  • Prosperity
    
    • Required Fuel stockpile increased from 100k to 300k
      
    • Required Food stockpiles increased from 100k to 200k
      
    • Required Goods and Materials stockpile are now 100k
• Resolving a high-fervor faction protest with Counterprotest will no longer lead to an infinite protest bug on the next protest
  
• Resolving protests by Counterprotest will no longer be suggested if there is an ongoing counterprotest active
  
• [STORY] New story arc implementation to prevent no Cores situation on the transition from Act 3 to Act 4
  
• [STORY] Winterhome area traits adjusted
  
• Removed upgrade possibility between coal mines and coal liquefactors
  
• Proximity effects now also affect buildings constructed in districts
  
• Trust Fail game over screen will now pop with a delay rather than right after voting
  
• Improved automated workforce reduction priorities logic
  
• Detainees can now be converted to Servants
  
• Factions will no longer demand consequences for demolishing promised Coal extraction buildings after the City coal deposits are depleted
  
• Fixed Tea Cache modifier lasting infinite
  
• Fixed the ‘Protest Needs To End’ message sometimes showing incorrect faction
  
• Fixed Shared Motherhood quest requiring policy which may not be researched yet
  
• Various minor fixes to existing story arcs
  
  
  Interface
  • Rearranged Idea Tree panel
    
    • Layout changes
      
    • Clear sections with shorter effects
  • Improved resource transfer panel
    
    • Meet Demand button name changed to “Try to Meet Demand”
      
    • Send Transport button position changed to mirror against the same button from the 2nd side of the transfer panel
      
    • Send Transport button now sends resources to the city it is correlated with, not to the city on the other side of the transfer panel
      
    • Send Transport button description changed to explain better where the transport is coming from, as it was confusing before the change
      
    • Send Transport icon is now more readable and more related to stockpiling
  • Improved modifiers order on tooltips
    
  • Implemented new Tutorial pop-up panels
    
  • Tweaks to order of settings in the Settings menu
    
  • New mods icon in the Main Menu to improve visibility
    
  • Emergency Council Session is now available from the Council window when it is in Recess phase
    
  • Servants community action now properly displays gameplay effect
    
  • Twitch polling button is now hidden when only one choice is available
    
  • Inactive building now properly displays a tooltip
    
  • Improved district hover visuals
  Art
  • Implemented new artwork for some of the city messages
    
  • Improved roads generation logic
    
  • Improved generator overdrive animation
    
  • Tweaks to existing Zoom Stories
    
  • Improved animations
    
    • Council
      
    • New animations for Zoom Stories
      
      • Bohemians Rally
        
      • Winterhome Cliff
        
      • Prologue Frostbreaking
  • Cartographic mode visual tweaks
    
  • Fixed Fighting Hub visuals and animations
    
  • Fixed Goods art being too big on Cartography mode
    
  • Fixed the quality of 3D models of some buildings when zooming out/in
    
  • Various minor tweaks and optimisations
  Audio
  • Various audio slider settings are now available in Settings menu
    
  • Minor improvements to on-hover sounds
    
  • Improvements to Frostbreaking sounds
  Other
  • Improved saving and loading times (reloading and resaving existing save files is required for the changes to take effect)
    
  • Fixed drivers check showing false-negative information for some of the GPU types
    
  • Fixed various minor crashes
    
  • Fix for cursor offset appearing when changing to some resolutions on fullscreen or windowed mode
    
  • Fix for screen being unresponsive after changing to some resolution on windowed mode
    
  • Many under-the-hood optimisations and improvements
    
  • Frostkit integration fixes
    
  • Localization fixes
  
  
  Frostpunk 2 Roadmap
  Mere survival is not enough—our City must continue to expand. In this roadmap, you can see our plans for conquering the frostland. You might expect plenty happening in 2025 alone, and here are some of the highlights:
  
  • Consoles Launch. We’re thrilled to bring New London to console players.
    
  • DLCs. Each one will introduce something entirely new to the harsh world of Frostpunk 2.
    
  • Free Major Content Updates. We’re committed to adding free content updates, which in many ways were inspired by your feedback.
  Rest assured, dear Citizens, these major milestones are only part of what’s to come. Alongside them, we will continue to work on hotfixes and improvements to the game’s stability and overall quality.
  
  Take care,
  Your 11 bit studios Team
  
  If you’d like to stay updated with all future developments, be sure to follow us on:
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欢迎，新伦敦的执政官们！

在我们继续开拓《冰汽时代2》的冰雪世界时，我们精心制作了一份开发路线图，为大家指引未来的发展方向。你的反馈，无论是建议、想法还是错误报告，都是我们迄今为止所获得的宝贵成果，同时也帮助我们制定了未来的计划。我们首先要表达的是，我们对大家的热情和投入深表感谢，正是你们确保了「新伦敦」的生存——你们是最好的执政官。

自九月游戏发布以来，我们已推出不少热修复和补丁、解决了大家反馈的问题、引入了新的游戏功能、改善了生活质量等等。

我们的团队一直在不懈努力，以求为大家提供最佳的《冰汽时代2》游戏体验，而我们的征程远未结束。从充实的内容更新到游戏扩展，今后还有很多事情值得期待！


正如大家在路线图上所看到的，我们的霜地考察队还有很长的路要走，单单2025年就会发生很多事情。以下是其中的一些亮点：

• 主机版发布。我们知道这是很多玩家都在期待的事情，我们非常高兴能为所有主机玩家呈上「新伦敦」。
  
• DLC。虽然我们目前对这些内容保密，但每个DLC（目前尚无代号，敬请期待更多消息！）都将为严酷的《冰汽时代2》世界增添全新的内容。
  
• 免费主要内容更新。除了DLC外，我们还致力于增加免费内容更新，这些更新在很多方面都受到了大家反馈意见的启发，它们深深震撼玩家们的整体游戏体验。

请放心，这些重要的里程碑只是我们未来工作的一部分。此外我们还将继续对游戏及其整体稳定性进行修复和改进。我们即将推出补丁1.2，该补丁将对游戏玩法和界面进行多方面改变——更多详情即将公布。

众所周知，霜地是一个危险的地方，在冰层和时间的掩盖下充满了不为人知的真相。你永远无法确定霜地将把你引向何方，而倘若你洞悉力十足，这里又会揭开什么谜团。


这还只是我们旅程的开始，我们希望继续保持对游戏改动的透明度，同时将你和你的每一个反馈都考虑在内。随着我们向前迈进，我们承诺将更新路线图，提供更多细节，同时分享幕后内容，让大家看到这些变化是如何实现的。

毕竟这是我们一起踏上的旅程，我们可找不到比目前更好的霜地考察队了！

在此，不管说了多少次我们还是要说，真心感谢每一位玩家一直以来的支持！
保持冷静并永远记住……

这座城市必须逃离衰亡

此致，
11位工作室 团队

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Greetings, esteemed Stewards of New London!

We're proud to announce that our engineers have once again delivered various improvements to keep our City running seamlessly.

Below you can find a list of our most recent work 📝⚙

Gameplay

• Fixed incorrect number of delegates on the gameplay startup on some occasions

Interface

• Current research will no longer be displayed after cancelling the research
  
• Tweaks to districts outlines
  
• Tweaks to proximity effects colours
  
• Tweaks to Idea Tree camera distance

Other

• Fixed DLC podium switch not being available for MS Store version of the game
  
• Fixes to some rare crashes

Take care and stay warm,
11 bit studios Team

Dear Citizens,

Until November 18th, get both Frostpunk 2 and DayZ Frostline at 10% off with the exclusive Frostbite Pack.

In this unique bundle, immerse yourself in the gritty survival challenge of DayZ and expand your horizons by venturing into the frozen, dystopian society of Frostpunk 2.

https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/46535/Frostbite_Pack/

Greetings, esteemed Stewards of New London!

Your continued feedback and engagement with Frostpunk 2 have been invaluable in shaping the future of our frozen metropolis. We're pleased to present another round of improvements and fixes based on your reports, ensuring your cities can operate at peak efficiency.

• 🏛️ District Stability: Fixed several construction and modification issues
  
• 🖥️ Interface Clarity: Enhanced visibility and functionality improvements
  
• ⚡ Performance Updates: Optimizations across multiple systems
  
• 🌏 Platform Support: Added Exclusive Fullscreen support for MacOS

Frostpunk 2
Hotfix v.1.1.1
31/10/2024

• Softblocking by cancelling the construction of the Main district in colonies is not possible now (If you've experienced this issue, please load a save state from before establishing the colony. All later saves will continue to crash.)
  
• Fixed infinite affinity loop exploit upon cancelling district construction after one was started
  
• Fixed modifiers not being applied properly to newly constructed districts and buildings when loading save files from previous patches
  
• Fixed cancelling deconstruction of buildings which are being destroyed by factions

• Redundant 'Cancel research' tooltip will no longer be visible in Idea Tree on the ongoing research preview in the top left corner of the screen
  
• Improved ability cooldown visibility in dark mode
  
• Moved the faction formation button to a more visible spot
  
• Fixed district outlines disappearing when some conditions were met
  
• Fixed Expansion ambition being different for Utopia Builder legacy maps
  
• Fixed Dark mode prompt from being partially visible in the settings menu

• Fixed delegates duplicating and A-posing in the Council seats upon forming a new faction
  
• Optimized very low and low graphic settings
  
• Fixed Survillance Tower searchlight visuals after loading a save file
  
• Various minor optimizations

• Implemented missing translations to Chinese voiceovers
  
• Audio optimizations

• Steam Workshop is now available for mods
  
• Exclusive Fullscreen window mode support for MacOS (in-game monitor switching TBD and will be delivered in a future patch)
  
• Fixed memory leak related to extensive Fighting Hub usage between saved game states
  
• Fixed game not applying proper upscaler on the first launch leading to lower performance than intended
  
• Fixed Lumen/Reflection artifacts on iGPUs
  
• Fixed crash related to usage of Asian fonts
  
• Fixed crash related to relations
  
• Fixed crash related to roads generation
  
• Fixed crash related to proximity effects
  
• Achievements fixes
  
• Tutorial fixes
  
• Mod integration fixes

We're thrilled to announce that the gates to community creativity are now wide open on Steam! The Steam Workshop integration marks an exciting milestone for Frostpunk 2, allowing you to shape New London in ways never before possible. Starting today, you can browse, upload, and use mods through both Steam Workshop and mod.io services.

This marks the beginning of a new era for Frostpunk 2, where your creativity can truly flourish. We can't wait to see what ingenious modifications and additions you'll bring to New London!

"Innovation springs from necessity, but true revolution comes from freedom to create." - 11 bit studios

Stay warm, and may your workshops buzz with activity!

- The 11 bit studios Team