Frostpunk 2 Day One patch is now available to download on PC and Xbox. According to the Frostpunk 2 day 1 patch, the latest update introduces balance adjustments, multiple interface fixes, art improvements, crash fixes, and optimizations for smoother gameplay.
Recently, the game has received positive reviews from critics and players. Unfortunetly, since the release, players have been experiencing various crashing and low fps issues. Today’s FP2 update will fix a few of these issues.
Frostpunk 2 Day 1 Patch Notes – September 20, 2024
Gameplay & Balance
- Weather Timeline: Adjusted for Steward and Captain difficulty levels.
- Trust Levels: Initial Trust slightly reduced across all difficulty levels.
- Harvesting Sites: Long harvesting sites now last 20% less time in Story mode.
- Guards Cost: ‘Protect People’ ability Guards cost increased from 16 to 24.
- Faction War Spread: First spread now occurs after 10 weeks (previously 15 weeks).
- Enforce Peace Ability: Now requires a Prison and no longer removes Faction Fervor.
- Legionnaires: Community action now correctly provides Prefabs.
- New Home Quest: Will no longer autocomplete under certain conditions.
- Chapter 5 Softlock: Fixed a possible softlock in one of the paths when radical solutions were taken before Chapter 5.
Interface
- Prologue: Removed Heatstamps references.
- Tooltip Fixes: Zeitgeist text no longer leaks outside tooltips.
- Dark Mode: Major improvements and polish.
- Save Menu: Fixed game reacting to right-mouse button input.
- Tooltip Leaks: Fixed leaks between districts and buildings during construction.
- Trust Bar: Now properly changes to ‘Captain’s Authority’ if force-passed by ‘Stage Coup’ ability.
- Notification Fix: Central notification now displays the correct law for Grant Agenda community action.
- Territory Names: Fixed disappearance after loading save files.
Art
- Toxic Gas VFX: Correctly removed during Chapter 4 flow.
- Roads Generation: Improved logic for generating roads.
- Utopia Builder: Adjusted positioning of Logistics deposit and fixed issues with pipes spawning.
- Art Tweaks: Various improvements and polish.
Other Fixes
- Local Saves: Properly recognized when game is launched in offline mode (if platform supports it).
- Keybindings: Fixed resetting to default after relaunch.
- Rare Crashes: Addressed crashes related to saving before city messages, using Automaton Swarm ability, and trading after reestablishing a colony.
- Ability Optimization: ‘Roundup’ ability no longer causes performance issues.
- ESC Button: Now closes all panels correctly.
- Audio: General fixes and polish.
- Localization: Various localization corrections.
Download the free Frostpunk 2 patch on PC and Xbox.
