Hotfix 28 — Heart of the Machine Steam update #604750

Good grief, I really messed things up in the prior update. It was all one calculation (are all the civilians dead?) that was based on some data that it...

Steam App
Heart of the Machine (2001070)
Event type
patch note
Published
20 December 2025 - 16:14:48 UTC
Source
steam_community_announcements
Good grief, I really messed things up in the prior update. It was all one calculation (are all the civilians dead?) that was based on some data that it turns out had a time delay before it was correct, and that had never been relevant until the last update. I didn't notice in my own testing. Major apologies for that, it's not the sort of thing I usually let slip past. Thank you to everyone for the patience with this, and also for reporting it. This is part of why I have an older_but_stable beta branch (just in case I make a mistake like this) for the game, but I try not to make it the sort of thing where anyone ever needs to use that. Hotfix 28 Changelog Bugfixes Realizing Everyone Isn't Dead: Fixed an issue where the game was incorrectly detecting the entire human population as being dead, and then disabling a ton of things like StreetSense and ambient flying vehicles. This was also wro...

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