Release Notes for Reus 2

v1.12.2

This update addresses some game balance issues, reported bugs as well as some longstanding issues.
 

BALANCE

• - Bushi's power down to 15/15/15 for each Threat bioticum in borders.
   
• - Triceratops down to +70 food, and bio cost up to 19 for second copy. Receives a bonus for Grand in the Bonus.
   
• - Halved Chalk output.
   
• - Shrouded power decreased a bit.
  
   
• + Miner power up to +10 Curio, +5 valuables, and +1 threat.
   
• + Poudretteite now only needs 3 gems.
   
• + Whale gains new Filter Feeder rule, becoming stronger with more Micros.
   

CHANGES

• Stegosaurus gives +250 food instead of +200, second only costs 12 Bio, but loses the Biodiversity bonus. This due to an unsolvable bug that might occur.
   
• If you have the Ice Age DLC, the Meso Rock Giant's secondary Biome is the Ice Age Tundra.
   
• Invention, trade and emblem slots now scale further, with strongly increasing city stat requirements.
   
• Secondary grassfires only override previous Flame Survivor values if they're higher.
   

FIXES

• Added safety for achievement-triggering in builds from GOG offline installers with Galaxy disabled.

• Fixed text with Ammonite: should count for ADJACENT biomes, not within borders.
   
• Red debug rectangles no longer pop up when settling a moon base
   
• Fixed game-locking issue where humans would send Shepherd Trees and Eucalyptus to the moon, thinking they were animals. More safety for space race cinematics.
   
• Fixed issue where some composite era goals would show 100% progress before being done.
   
• Now allowing text input from all languages for city renaming, f.e. Chinese and Cyrillic characters.
   
• Fixed a crash where rerolling draft biotica would not work under certain circumstances: on second draft, when no level 1 biotica were available anymore.
   
• Fixed disappering biome icons in collection biotica overview screen.
   
• Parasaurolophus no longer gets its synergy for free.
   
• Fixed mesozoic stats sometimes being visible for other biomes.
   
• Fixed issue where invisible 0-patch biomes would prop up for-each-biome count numbers
   
• Fixed turning point collection page handle layouting.
   

Note that this update includes some text changes, which means a few translations will be unavailable for the near future. You may encounter english text for the above changes.

v1.12.1

BALANCE
[*] Chalk was never supposed to be Micro Haven! Removed extra slots.
[*] Sassafras does gain Micro Haven. Fixed Biodiversity cost.
[*] Fixed Biodiversity boost for Hominin.

FIXES
[*] Added name for Zosterophyll rule.
[*] Fixed Mesozoic Rock Giant version unlocking too soon in profile level progression. Unlocks in level 8 properly now.
[*] Cambrian Remains now properly applies its rule.
[*] Cultural Exchange icon bug for new leaders
[*] Wrong Cathedral gaining bonuses from Architect and Poet.
[*] Rock and Savanna giants count towards 10x played achievements
[*] Added Velvet Ant micro art
[*] Fixed Stegosaurus bonus icon
[*] Some text inclarities and typos fixed

v1.11.4

BALANCE:
Added some new construction tags to some Biotica
Wildfire will also increase Eon cost after the second legacy bioticum
Costs of upgrades points scales further.
Blue Tegu output down a bit.
Boosted up Panda's base values by 50%.
Tuned Azurite down a little

FIXES:
Fixed issue where inventions stopped triggering
Fixed some sprite & tag issues with st. john's wort, Cardinal, and Victoria Waterlilly.
Fixed the disappearing option to Disable Micro Visuals
Fixed Emu female skins being fancy ostriches
Fixed invasive species allowing land biotica to survive underwater
Tavern no longer turns into blueberries after save/load

v1.11.3

FIXED

Fixed some missing images for new luxuries.

Made luxuries a bit more easy to obtain: doubles on the planet are now accepted if the slot would otherwise stay empty. Doubles in the city can't happen.

Competitive objectives like that of the Goddess now pick the lowest neighbor.

Added fallback logic for metagame character unlock corruption.

Fixed Archerfish buff feedback text.

Fixed Ladies Night achievement description.

Fixed miscellaneous texts.

v1.11.2

CHANGED:

Made Entomologist requests a little bit easier to complete

Ladies Night achievement now triggers on any combination of 3 ladies. (Text will be updated with translations later)

ADDED

Some new luxuries for grasslands

Grasshopper Micro for the Grasslands

FIXED

Electrum is Metal

Fixed Key Deer and Petrified Wood to both be amphibious

Lavender gains Flower and Medicinal

Prickly Pear gains Flower, 2x Fruit

Sinhalite capped at 750 gold

Fixed a lot of luxuries that were all pointing to... beer :D

Fixed some projects not triggering the Architect's power

Fixed buff for Architect Cultural Exchange

Fixed double luxuries

Fixed some texts being untranslated

Fixed power plant text

Fixed Onager text

Fixed Onager upgrade icon on other biotica

Fixed some icons

Fixed visual bug that showed old micro slots on the planet, after replacing a bioticum with one with fewer slots.

Removed unused Prey tag

Fixed Swamp Giant's Boglands ability no longer hurting armies

Fixed Lighting Strike turning into blueberry on load

v1.6.2c (2025-03-19)

Minor Update v1.6.2 Today we launched a small iteration on the Micro Kingdom update.

NEW

• You can buy extra Micro options with Technology in the Planet Shop. Steep cost in Horizon and Max Horizon Draft, so watch out!
• All Micros are unlocked in Free Play. They are spread over the giants to keep the UI manageable.
• Challenge Achievements and golden borders for biotica are now linked to playing in the Challenge or Titan playstyle profile, to create consistency.

BALANCE

• Blast Furnace scales on the highest instead of all Metals for the first rule.
• Pomegranate loses 1 micro slot.
• Tag micros have increasing cost.
• Brown Bear's power up to 25 from 15 food and gold.
• Changed Goddess, General and Diplomat emblem to avoid loopholes.
• Buffed Bone in Ice Age since legacy biodiversity is gone.

QUALITY OF LIFE

• Disabled biotica now show 'Zzz'-particles on their planet visuals.
• Draft UI now reopens after burning a draft and having draft points left.
• You can now see when a micro has increasing costs.
• Difficulty badge now shows in Esc menu.
• More Milestones now show their current progress

FIXED

• Updated and fixed translations.
• Deep/Shallow biotica will now yield no output if they're not on the right spot after terraforming.
• Fixed horizon draft not working properly.
• Fixed the gameplay mode not showing in new game UI
• Fixed Micro charges not being refunded on the giant specific micros
• Fixed a save/load crash
• Fixed tooltip zones on rewarded apex biotica during planet score screen
• Fixed player profile picker popping up wrongly.
• Fixed text size on ability instruction in some languages.
• Fixed yield doubling from legacy biotica.
• Fixed memory leak when going to the main menu and another planet.
• Biotica that don't have a base biodiversity consumption can no longer become disabled due to negative biodiversity (f.e. 2 adjacent Iron). Apex biotica are prioritized when consumption is too high.

v1.6.1 (2025-03-12)

Patch Notes v1.6.1

FIXED

• Fixes to confusing Micro mechanic feedback when the feature is not yet unlocked.
• Some missing translations from version 1.6.0 changes were added.
• Fixed Era 2 biome biodiversity bonus triggering at 6 biodiversity instead of 7, as described in previous notes.
• Store page links were fixed.
• Added some metadata for crash-reports.

v1.6.0 (2025-03-11)

PATCH NOTES v1.6.0

This version marks the first release on GOG! We're happy to finally be available on GOG, where many people discovered the first version of Reus. Enjoy the game!

ADDED

• Added better guiding to the best gameplay settings for you as a player when starting a new planet.
• Horizon Drafts are shown in the escape menu in a session

CHANGED

• On True Titan difficulty, the Era rewards are on 3 stars instead of 2 stars.
• Micro's completely reworked!
• Emblems completely reworked!
• Readded invention notifications and discovery animations.
• Added in-game progress feedback for most Milestones (achievements) that deal with gathering X of something. Find them in the hover tooltip in the collection UI after you've played at least one session with the new update.
• If you destroy a defending army, and after that the attacking army, the two cities will sign peace.
• You can now revisit doomed planets for which you skipped all planet-dooming cinematics (using the 'Skip Seen Cutscenes' options).

BALANCE

• You only get the extra Draft Charge in Horizon mode if you have 5 or more unique biomes that match the bar.
• Requirement for Biome usage bonus down slightly to 6 for era 2 and 10 for era 3.
• Terraform points in the shop get more expensive more quickly.
• Draft Points are extra expensive in Titan Difficulty and up.
• Anomaly no longer turns Reefs into Deep and vice versa (actually a nerf to Reef Shark)
• Country Club now gives food on Undergrowth, and is on different leaders
• Sound effects volume tweaks

ERAS

• Hunter Age 3 star and 2 star slightly easier.
• Made all 3 star requirements for Era 2 options harder, especially Prosperity.
• Made Castle Age slightly harder.
• Made the Skyscraper less strong.
• Small World 3-star requirement to 600.
• Tropical Paradise requirement to 275 population.
• Space Race, Age o Horror, Solar Punk, and Calm Era 3 Prosperity Era 3 requirements up from 500 to 600.
• Sacrifice Altar gold output down from 500% to 200%.

BIOTICA

Rainforest

• Gumbo Limbo power up to 10 from 6. Second copy costs 3 <= 4.
• Coffea Robusta now gain science for each bioticum with a base science yield.
• Guarana: slightly cheaper
• Jaguar: significantly cheaper to place twice
• Cacao: fruit scaler up to 25% from 10% per unique fruit.

Ocean

• Titan Fall: Boosted, gained new symbiosis.
• Reef Shark; Biodiversity cost op by 1, second copy up by 2.
• Oil (Offshore): Power down to 0.75 from 1.

Ice age

• Geyser: second geyser a bit more expensive.
• Cave Bear: gets +10% valuables for legacy geos instead of a flat 50 valuables. slightly more expensive, and slightly lower flat valuables.

Savanna

• Sapphire: gains extra valuables % with more biomes
• Lion: flat power up from 35 to 70.
• Sorghum: cheaper to place copies.

Forest

• Orange: Buffed flat food to 40 from 25.
• Phosphorus: flat +25 food instead of +25% food.

Desert

• Falcon: Rework gains gold for each critter on the planet, and gains the <domesticable> tag.
• Cheeta: flat power up to 65 from 40.
• Ruby: fixed Turquoise cohort, and lowered biodiversity a bit

Taiga

• Siberian Tiger: slightly cheaper first placement. Power for predators on the planet down slightly.

FIXED

• Added extra defensive logic to prevent profile corruption.
• Added automatic profile recovery logic in case of said corruption.
• Fixed some buttons glowing white on opening
• Fixed Steppe Bison: no longer eats critters
• Fixed missing and faulty translations
• Fixed bug with legacy not working on many pieces with Sloth.
• Fixed Primal Flint bonus being named Giant Sloth
• Fixed a crash when you only played with 1 city
• Fixed achievement issues
• Fixed performance issues in puzzle calculations. Especially lategame.
• Fixed a text inconsistency with Glacier
• Fixed text size, alignment and overflow in some places.
• Fixed softlock issue when trying to settle two nomads too close to eachother.

1.6.3 (2025-03-20)

Hotfix v1.6.3 Balance changes & Sleepy biotica hotfix

CHANGED Anomaly's ability to swap Shallow and Deep in the ocean is back!

BALANCE Getting more of the 3 star emblems is now significantly harder Prosperity cost cap up from 100 to 120 to reflect the new chances of getting more resources. Improved some Extinct biotica increased the cost scaling for Expansions and Upgrades in the micro shop

FIXED Woke up sleepy biotica Fixed Micros not working properly in Sandbox Fixed Poet spirit activating on Neolithic farm Fixed Blizzard's iceberg remnants turning into blueberries on load