Hotfix 29 — Heart of the Machine Steam update #604749

The first hotfix of today needed to go out very quickly, so I couldn't put much into it. There were other things I wanted to get done for today's build...

Steam App
Heart of the Machine (2001070)
Event type
patch note
Published
20 December 2025 - 19:59:55 UTC
Source
steam_community_announcements
The first hotfix of today needed to go out very quickly, so I couldn't put much into it. There were other things I wanted to get done for today's build based on player feedback, so here's a second hotfix that includes the rest of that. Hotfix 29 Changelog General Double Vision In The End Of Time: Fixed an issue that was causing timelines to be "doubled" and then having their location reset to the correct spot only after reloading a save. This was a regression that I introduced on May 26th, when I added some code to prevent timelines from being on top of one another. It accidentally had this side effect as well.Lapsed Lethality: If you've sold at least 30 BrainPals, and your deal was called off for some reason (like you failing payment 50 turns in a row), then the game now still allows you to trigger aneurysms in the people you sold it to.Beta Feature Save Fix: Added in protections to pre...

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