A small bucket of patches.

— Advanced 'double click purchase' technology now works for everything, not just datasets.
— Made the 'cannot buy' messages for software in the marketplace a little bit clearer (ie, tells you in advance if you don't have enough storage or memory, before you try and click buy).
— Fixes for the 'close call' and 'big spender' achievements.
— Improvements to impact prediction reliability.
— Potential fixes for some Linux edge cases.
— Fix bug/soft infinite loop that would happen if there was more than one fatal error happening at a time. Surprised this one didn't cause more problems! Maybe you're all too good.

And, before I forget, I should mention the game now has a Speedrun page! Just in case anybody has the urge to get something on there. That #1 spot is very much up for grabs.

Thank you for playing ːsteamthisː

Greetings,

To celebrate the addition of Achievements and the release of game version 1.1.0, FACEMINER is now available for 15% off. One week only. We look forward to onboarding you.

Regards,

FACEMINER Administration

FACEMINER is now 1.1.0! What’s new?


By popular demand, FACEMINER now has 56 achievements to unlock. Many challenges, secrets, and absurdities await those who seek them out.


FACEMINER is now officially playable on Steam Deck! More work to do here (mostly on the font size front) to get the Steam Deck experience at parity with the desktop one, but this is a robust first step towards getting that green fully verified tick.


1.1.0 makes significant strides in terms of session stability, particularly for durational (endless) games. The bug some users were facing where some sessions would use artificially low in-game resources, only to show the full usage again on reload, is now squashed for good. Behind the scenes, we’ve made changes to some in-game calculations which will generally make things easier to expand, rebalance and update in future.

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Thank you everyone: it continues to be a pleasure to work on this.

Welcome to 1.035. Not gonna lie: this one isn't very exciting. But 1.035 walks so that 1.036 can run.

BUGFIXES:
— Fix bug where the Save Game upgrade was sometimes locked in endless mode games
— Fix bug where the menu page would not honor audio/volume settings
— Fix bug where rolling income would get stuck if income becomes zero
— Fix bug where previous fullscreen state was not remembered
— Small calculation stability improvements

IMPROVEMENTS

— Improvements to performance of visualizer & cluster computing 3D views
— Decrease level required to get the secret top rank
— Balancing tweak for endless mode that makes emissions charges less extreme (and prone to billion dollar spikes) in late-late-game. More to come here.
— Add scaffolding for achievements

Hello everyone!

The secret is starting to get out: the FACEMINER soundtrack goes harder than it has any right to. And though the in-game artist names might throw you off the scent a little, the credit for this lies solely with the musician, record producer and composer known as Madwreck.

I'm pleased to report that the OST is now available to buy and stream almost anywhere. That means you don’t have to load the game up just to listen to the soundtrack anymore (I know you are out there). Instead, grab it here on Steam, or on any of your favorite streaming or download platforms.

And, unlike the in-game versions which have been compressed for period-accuracy, the songs you will find on these platforms are presented in their full, maximum fidelity glory.

Happy listening /!\

Hello!
1.034 is now live. Pretty tight focus for this one:

Steam Cloud Saves.
These are now live! To be extra safe, a backup of all of your saves is made locally in a non-synced folder each time the game is ran, so if you plan on using this feature I recommend (after updating) playing the game on the machine with the saves you care about on first to secure that local fallback.

Improving late game stability on Endless Mode.
I have had a few reports from players who are seeing random spikes in their electricity use while playing (in-game, thankfully not IRL), especially on either lower spec computers or on very fast AutoMode upgrade levels. I have introduced a new setting in the advanced section of the settings menu called ‘stability mode’. The tldr is that this will make calculations more stable/predictable by fixing them to the AutoMode level rather than calculating the speed dynamically, which was always a bit of a rogue approach. It is disabled by default in normal runs and existing (legacy) endless mode games, but can be toggled on at any time. Otherwise, it is now the default for all new ‘endless mode’ games.

Thank you for playing!

Hello everyone! Thank you again for being here; I remain humbled and a little astonished by your presence. We’re now just over a week from the launch, and it’s feeling like the perfect time for Round 2 of the post-launch patches.

— LOG —

- Hopefully fixed the bug where ghost windows would haunt the machines of some users after closing the game. Not good, this one.
- Made it impossible to delete unused cluster computing connection code messages.
- Added a popup message to alert the user when Infinite Money Glitch mode is unlocked after completing the game on the Slow mode. I think a few were missing this — it’s pretty fun!
- Fix temperature unit bug where some temperatures would still show in F when C was selected.
- Added more safety checks to calculations, and began migrating to big.js for the less frequent .operations. General aim being to prevent numbers from slipping and corrupting save data.
- Few typo fixes.
- Added a toggle to disable the automatic pause (that happens when the game window is inactive) to the settings menu.
- Fixed bug where save and firewall upgrades would be locked in endless mode.
- Fix bug where downgrading the first camera level to 0 would re-lock the surveillance hub.
- Added scrollbar to dataset list.
- Paved the way to cloud saves; just a few more checks to do here and these can go live.

That’s it for now! Few more bugs to squash, and it’ll soon be time to move onto something a little more exciting.

Hello everyone,

First of all: thank you for checking out FACEMINER! It seems like people are generally enjoying their experience with it, which is really nice to see.

This is a mini patch which addresses the most common bugs which have been reported so far. Full list below:

- Fix for a few different bugs that were happening with the audio, including the voice message ducking causing strange side effects and settings not being applied between sessions.
- Fixed bug where reactors were appearing twice in some endless mode sessions, causing lots of downstream impacts if the shadow-glitch-reactor was purchased (eg an unintentional infinite money glitch*)
- Fix for the 'final rank' not triggering in endless mode. Embarrassing!
- Fix where opening the logstream at the end of the game would cause some sessions to crash
- Add error catching to the manager graph hovering, as a safety precaution
- kWh -> kW, MWh -> MW, etc.

*An Intentional infinite money glitch can be unlocked by beating the game on the slower difficulty, btw.

My apologies to anyone who was inconvenienced by these, and thank you for being an early FACEMINER adopter. Onwards!

Hello everyone,

I am very happy to announce that FACEMINER has been delivered right on time, weighing in at $7.99 with a 20% launch discount. Windows, Mac and Linux are all supported.

A sincere thank you to each and every one of you for following along the development ride! This is the end of one journey, and perhaps the beginning of a new one (bugfixing).

PS: For early playtesters, if you encounter a blank screen after launching, you may need to wipe your old data for the full game to work. I've written how to do that here: https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/app/2276980/discussions/0/594016220529872296/