Release Notes for MachiaVillain

Patch 2.01 Electrocution Update (01 February 2019)

Electric Features

• The impressive Finger of Evil! A machine that gives you the power to generate lightning! You can zap victims, heroes or even your own minion to make them go faster.

• Batteries, wood generators, treadmill generators, wires.

• Tesla coils to electrocute your enemies.

• Alarm and Presence sensors (to activate/deactivate alarm).

• Lightning rod (to get electricity from thunder and protect your mansion)

• Mobile phone jammer. Don't let your victim call for help!

• Electric door (closed when powered by electricity).

• Some furniture now need electricity. Candles need to be lit by your minion.

• Reduce the cost of things that need electricity.

New Minion

• Succubus: Sucks the life out of your enemies.

Customisations:

• Custom map: configure a map to your will.
• Difficulty level: normal, hard very hard, so you can play casual, or scream all the way.

Environment

• You can dig graves to get ancient artefacts or wake up more-or-less friendly monsters!
• Dead monsters leave a grave behind.

Improvements

• Better sounds: more than 100 new sound FX.
• Click on an item in the inventory to select it and focus on it (finding weapon).
• Improved sound spatialization.
• Be able to reorder the crafting queue.
• Be able to configure your minion IA (Aggressive, Defend, Neutral)
• Be able to change sleep and feed priorities (in the Task manager)
• Double click on the monster list, make the camera follow him.
• Display zone covered by lights.
• Reduce game size (-80 mo download size).

Bug fixes

• Bug: Achievement: killing a hero not counted correctly. ACHIEVEMENT_KILL_HEROES_LEVEL1
• Bug: Event "give brain" doesn’t come back.
• Bug: music volume not 0 when restart game.
• Bug: hypnotized people should still be able to be attacked by minions
• Bug: skeleton turrets shoot at victims even when a wall is blocking line of sight.
• Bug: dogs seem to be ignoring the fire hydrant.
• Bug: if you have 2 rows of minion portraits, their portraits will cover the popup notifications on the screen.
• Bug: if you have enough minions to scroll down in the job board, the lowest minion is difficult to see coz they're covered by the menu graphics.
• Bug: heroes seem to have stopped spawning when I reached high suspicion. it says "villagers are aware of my murderous activities!" but no angry village mob is showing up, no heroes are showing up either.
• Bug: Activate. dr. frankenstein just humps the targeted minion but nothing happens.
• Bug: Remove the Evilium in gold storage containers.
• Bug: hypnotized minions (ie: hypnotized by the vampire in vacation event) are taken out of the roster, but you can "hire" them again to stop the hypnosis, although they give everyone else the "saw a minion die" loyalty debuff.
• Bug: I'm still not getting the "kill virgin last" bonus, I only get a reward for "kill them when alone" bonus.
• Bug: When a monster is blocked (surrounded by walls), other monsters stop working.
• Bug: Lamps light the room even when not yet plug to electricity done
• Bug: AutoSave doesn’t seem to work (need to test it in standalone build).
• Bug: Detector switch needs to be white when not built (configure gamespritecolor) - When the alarm is not built, the flag should not be displayed.
• Bug: Fog of war setting loaded at the wrong time.
• Bug: Fix treadmill display bug.
• Bug: Fix maintain craft stop after a load.
• Bug: Build several object Energy on each other.
• Bug: Fix when resource to craft are not accessible.
• Bug: Victim saw the minions through the wall or closed door
• Bug: Victims are scared because there is no light
• Bug: Phone jammer active even when not powered,
• Bug: Moving rotating wall, erasing wall build preview.
• Bug: Remove afraid no light on door map cell.
• Bug: Fix light for candle or after some loading.
• Bug: Electric door bug, when in front of a victim door.
• Bug: Victims could see twice a trap from other room and get stuck.
• Bug: Dog barking sound doesn't stop.
• Bug: Bug TV bad cooldown

Patch 1.05 (27 July 2018)

• Dear fellow Villains,
• the electricity is not yet ready, but we made a lot of bug fixes and some improvement based on your feedback :)
• So we thought it would be nice to release it before the next content update.

Improvement:

• Buttons to demolish/cancel action (with shortcut).
• Autosave limit the quantity and frequency.
• Add [select all] button.
• Increase gold storage capacity from 500 to 700 Increase Wood normal/evil capacity from 600 to 800.
• Every monster can get a weapon and to compensate psychopath cooldown for weapon is divided in half.
• Esc key bring the setting menu.
• Button to start/stop tasks (Fight/working mod) on individual monster.
• New event manager (virus events shouldn't be close).
• Post office closing during the night (your minion won't bring letter and cross a victim path).
• Clown reworks (don't scare victims).

Bug fixes:

• Victims enter map with bleeding status.
• Victims appears at the bottom left corner after a load.
• Victims not arriving after load.
• Day counter blocked after a load.
• Some mobs respawn after a load.
• Monsters don't bring letters to storage.
• A Push trap placed next to a rotatable wall trap will not push the human when he passed the rotatable wall.
• Mad scientist Achievement unlocks retro compatibility old save.
• Spam email counter is displayed in reverse.
• Rat of the event mystical chest fight each other.
• Dogs can use phones.
• Victims get costume cook after a load.
• Time /day stops increasing.
• Dog increase suspicion when they leave the map.
• Esc key bug on fight skill points distribution screen.
• Hypnotize victim don't phone and are not scared.
• Minion's face doesn't change after recruiting it.
• Music change when food merchants.
• Body part going through walls (and may scare victims).
• Weapons added back to the enemy after a load.
• Hero doesn't drop weapons.
• Victim sometimes sees minions through the walls.
• Can't attack when the target is on a bed.
• Poison of the gaz master doesn't work on victims.
• Merchant sound on arrival can't be heard from far.
• Feedback messages when victims are scared overlay when there is more than one.

Patch 1.04 (13 June 2018)

• Hello fellow Villains,

• Thank you for your support!

• It's amazing to see the mansions you come up with!

• Here is a new patch including:

• Save/Load bugs: 90% fixed

• Monster not using the table

• All monsters idle when 1 room is fully enclosed

• 1 head appearing in 3 fridge items slot, blocking monster for working

• Victims escaping without entering a room that has no other door

• Victim not entering when fancy door is replaced by regular door

• After loading victims group don't follow the leader and are stuck

• Victims stuck in the doorframe between room (when low frame rate)

• Victims becoming transparent when scared + starving after load

• Victims using hidden door when first room only has hidden door and entry door

• Removing lamp after a load = victims act as if light still here (not scared)

• We also started balancing the advanced furnitures that require metal (metal, plates, cogs) following your feedbacks.

• We are working on the next bug fixes update for the 22nd.

• There might be another one after if needed.

• But after that we will be able to focus on adding content and features (while still fixing eventual minor bugs).

• As usual, if you find a bug, we would appreciate it if you could click on "Send Feedback" (bottom right) and add a short description. It will send us useful game data and it will help us fix them, thank you!

• Thank you for your patience and support,

• Alex & Zimra

Patch 1.03 (27 May 2018)

• Save/load (60% fixed)
• Vampire burning indoor
• 0HP forest creatures
• 0HP victims
• 0HP heroes
• Virus event limited
• Sitting on inactivated table bug
• Chemistry bench display bug
• Victims not scared of spikes
• Workbench subpriority save
• Vampire hypnosis not working
• Invisible superior bed
• Crypt problem with advanced clown (clown still has no power, to be fixed)

Patch 1.02 (22 May 2018)

• Here are the bugs/issues we have started fixing with the current first emergency patch:

• Save bugs (30% fixed)

• Load bugs (30%fixed)

• Trees growing on floor (fixed)

• Minions stopping working when some rooms are completely closed

• Adding/improving hotkeys

• Proofreading the english version (done)

• Virgin detector (done)

• Rotating walls (done)