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Update 0.8.34EAJun 6, 2025 - Community AnnouncementsFixed an issue that prevented the third Trash King milestone from being complete,Fixed an issue that caused starter movies to get the wrong Kinomark in the "No introduction" mode,Fixed a bug where the game might not display some characters at different sorting settingsUpdate 0.8.32EAMay 30, 2025 - Community AnnouncementsFixed issues that prevented the game from launching properly for some players. Update 0.8.31EAMay 23, 2025 - Community AnnouncementsActors don't turn their noses up at Wendy Carpenter after she reaches level 4. Also, she no longer leaves silently after her contract ends if you re-hire her after the quest. The Pentagon-backed movie no longer prints money indefinitely. Minor stuff. Update 0.8.28EAMay 14, 2025 - Community AnnouncementsFixed the issues that made long lists of soundstages or technologies break. KKK's dream of an all-white studio can now be fulfilled. Fixed a few bugs related to reviews. You can no longer accidentally hire Arthur Gerstein. He's got his own business, so back off. “The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of” Upcoming Major Update (plus 0.8.26EA)May 7, 2025 - Community AnnouncementsHello! Update 0.8.26EA - Fixed a problem with an “empty” pre production screen for some save files. - Fixed an issue where a movie that didn't get any reviews could lock up the game. But of course we're not here today just for such a minor update. It's May, so we decided to tell you a little bit more about what we are working on and how the game will change in the near future. Many of you have seen our roadmap, but it was rather superficial and only outlined our general plans as we saw them before the start of Early Access. We've been following your feedback closely, reading thousands of posts and emails and watching hundreds of hours of streams and videos. And we have come to the conclusion that the small additions we have planned for the coming months for Act 1, while we are working on Act 2, just won’t be enough. Act 1 needs not only new content, but serious systemic improvements, and we're already hard at work on them. We'll continue to release regular patches with bugfixes and minor improvements, but the bigger changes will come in one big update. For a while we called it “The Super Update”, but when it came time to decide on a name, “The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of” seemed quite appropriate. Here’s a very brief overview of what we're cooking. Complete rebalancing The difficulty curve will become smoother, and there will be virtually no prices, bonuses, or any other values in the game that won't be revised. It will be easier to survive the first few years and get used to the basic mechanics, but after that the game will require you to watch your spending more carefully and use all the tools more efficiently. The struggle to make each movie profitable will become more tangible. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44741273/b43cea26dfdb70b9ac40bf397f1e1a5258c2e2bf.png Scripts will now work a little differently The game will encourage you to find and effectively use new story elements and constantly put together fresh and increasingly complex story combinations. First, the final result will depend a bit more heavily on how well you put the elements together. Second, the maximum score of the script will be limited by the number of elements you use -- which, in turn, will limit the maximum score of the future movie. It will take effort to make a truly outstanding script. Third, story elements will now “wear out” from frequent use and will be less likely to attract an audience for a while. These and a few other changes will increase your engagement in putting stories together, but more importantly, good results will feel more deserved and rewarding. An 8 point movie would be an impressive outcome. A 9 point movie would be an incredible accomplishment. A 10 point movie would be a sensation. And all of these updated rules will apply to your competitors just the same. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44741273/92fec158b47c0cf727422ee5c8a5f754db2b0ec6.png Redesigned security department In the current version of the game, the usefulness of agents is often not very clear, and the pro...Update 0.8.25EAMay 6, 2025 - Community AnnouncementsAfter yesterday's update, we had to roll back to version 0.8.22EA, to investigate an issue with naming buldings. Today, we have that fixed, plus we bring back improvements from 0.8.23EA, plus now you can fire everyone you should be able to and can't fire anyone you shouldn't be able to. So, nothing TOO exciting, but still!Update 0.8.23EAMay 5, 2025 - Community AnnouncementsHi! Fixed an issue with the Wendy Carpenter achievement. If you have a saved game in which the condition has already been met, you should get the achievement immediately when you load the save. People who went to war no longer ask for a raise. Uncle Sam takes care of them. Fixed a few issues that could cause characters to appear with negative levels. Fixed a bug that caused your starting movie to lose story elements and actors in the ‘No intro’ mode. More optimization. Hotfix 0.8.22EAApr 30, 2025 - Community AnnouncementsFixed an issue that could cause the game to lock up after popups requiring text input. Update 0.8.21EAApr 30, 2025 - Community AnnouncementsHello! Fixed an issue that prevented many characters from different languages from being used when entering texts in the game. Fixed a bug that in some cases mistakenly left your movie unreviewed. Optimized loading saves. Update 0.8.20EAApr 29, 2025 - Community AnnouncementsHello! You can now skip the intro and choose a starting amount of money from three options when you begin a new game. Boutique's second milestone now requires winning 5 main Polluxes the same year, not with the same film. Fixed a number of memory leak issues during long game sessions. Fixed some glitches to the "Require attention" menu. Some localization fixes. By the way, yesterday we reached 2,000 reviews on Steam! Your feedback and involvement help us improve the game every day! If you've been holding back on your positive review, it may be the time! If not, that's okay -- maybe after the upcoming major update, which we'll tell you a bit more about soon! Thank you!Upcoming Intro SkipApr 25, 2025 - Community AnnouncementsHello! We know many of you were hoping for the update with the intro skip this week, and although we were planning to release it today, we decided to further test it over the weekend. So the feature is coming early next week. We appreciate your patience. See you soon!Hotfix 0.8.18EAApr 24, 2025 - Community AnnouncementsHello! Fixed a glitch that caused technologies in preproduction to display strangely if you have a large number of available options. Fixed a few issues that could cause 5 and 10 year contracts to be unavailable after the upgrade or, conversely, to be available without the upgrade. Fixed a bug that could cause softlock on the Surveillance or Protection results popups. Fixed an issue that caused freshly generated characters to reuse the same portraits. Fixed weird percentage indication on the negotiation screen. Hotfix 0.8.17EAApr 23, 2025 - Community AnnouncementsHello! - Fixed UI bugs on the list of technologies. - Fixed a bug that was causing a technology's economy upgrade to not make it cheaper. - Fixed a few bugs that were causing characters to unreasonably refuse to work with your studio. - Repair of Services no longer takes away services already issued to employees. - Some balance tweaks to negotiations. - Some improvements to Japanese fonts. - 10 Trading Cards & Emoticons, 5 Backgrounds and Badges are available now. Hotfix 0.8.16EAApr 22, 2025 - Community AnnouncementsHello! - The speed of the animations for production stages windows and the negotiation window is now dynamic: if you use them several times in a short period of time, they speed up significantly. - Fixed the prisoner achievement. - Fixed a situation where the game was spamming you with messages after you refused to cooperate with the KKK. - Fixed an issue where the maintenance department head did not get a new level after completing a technology upgrade. - A few tweaks to the genre balance. See you tomorrow with the next one! Hotfix 0.8.14EAApr 21, 2025 - Community AnnouncementsHello! - Resolved some issues with the save system, which in some situations prevented the game from properly digesting save files when you launch the game after an update. - You can no longer fire characters whose contract you've already paid for up front (firing them gives the false impression that you're saving something on it, and leads to confusion). In future updates, we're going to add an upgrade that will allow you to fire such characters early and get back some of the cost for the remaining days/films. This way the system will be more clear. - Fixed a bug where story character portraits were used when generating characters. - Fixed a bug that could cause some upgrade bonuses to be lost after loading a save. - Fixed bugs that caused the contract terms of characters who went to war to be counted incorrectly, and also caused those characters to be available for film production. - Fixed a bug that caused the game to crash if the contract value for a character exceeded a million dollars. See you tomorrow with the next one! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44741273/253814b91332f71b438806c010256567c8f0a922.png Hotfix 0.8.13EAApr 18, 2025 - Community AnnouncementsHello! - Fixed the rest of the problems with Pollux. - Fixed another problem that could cause some locations on Pre Production to become unavailable. - Fixed a few bugs that caused the game to show placeholders instead of illustrations. - When you upgrade your own sound studio, concert hall or printing office, nonupgraded options disappear as there’s no point in them anymore. - Fixed Lydia Globe being 0.0 even after all the additional time she takes. See you Monday for the next one — and something tells us it will satisfy your need for speed. Also here’s another thing we’re cooking up for next week. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44741273/d84ee3bbeac00d846def5cb2c05543befa26a2bd.jpg {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44741273/42ae7f42dc11c9db781d4fe904d173d44f8ec786.jpg P.S. If you have trouble launching the game after an update, please do the following: 1) Disable the synchronisation of saves with Steam Cloud in the game settings on Steam. 2) Go to C:\Users\USER\AppData\LocalLow\Weappy\Holly\Saves\Profiles\0 and delete save files you don’t need anymore, just leave the most recent ones. 3) Launch the game and wait for about a minute after the disclaimer for the game to incorporate save files properly. We apologise for any inconvenience if this is something you've encountered, we'll resolve this in one in the next update. Hotfix 0.8.12EAApr 17, 2025 - Community AnnouncementsHello! Fixed a bug that in some cases caused the game to not deduct money from the studio's account. Fixed a bug that made it impossible to repair Post Production and Distribution offices. The first credit available to you is now $1m, also it takes less time to unlock. When your bank account balance goes negative, you now have 100 days to recover instead of 50. Fixed a bug that caused the game to show wrong reviews for “Blind Love”. The upgrade button doesn’t take that much time to become clickable anymore. “An Apple Seed” is done. What have we done? Fixed some problems that could prevent the player from filming and releasing "Sicilian Tiger” and “Son of the Fatherland”, Updated the monthly expenses view on the panorama screen to a more detailed and clear one. We will see you tomorrow with the next one! P.S. If you have trouble launching the game after an update, please do the following: 1) Disable the synchronisation of saves with Steam Cloud in the game settings on Steam. 2) Go to C:\Users\USER\AppData\LocalLow\Weappy\Holly\Saves\Profiles\0 and delete save files you don’t need anymore, just leave the most recent ones. 3) Launch the game and wait for about a minute after the disclaimer for the game to incorporate save files properly. We apologise for any inconvenience if this is something you've encountered, we'll resolve this in one of the upcoming updates. Hotfix 0.8.11EAApr 16, 2025 - Community AnnouncementsHello! Fixed a few more situations that caused the department head level up screen to lock the game. The price of extending a contract for the duration of a movie's production is now reasonable. Department upgrades now get paused if you lose a department head for any reason. Some balance tweaks to film distribution in Germany. Now the game generates a bit more independent cinemas. Also It’s now more expensive to buy cinemas. Fixed a bug that caused the game to generate talents with story characters portraits. See you tomorrow with the next one! Hotfix 0.8.10EAApr 15, 2025 - Community AnnouncementsHello! A bunch of fixes and improvements. - Fixed a problem that caused the game to freeze right after the disclaimer in the main menu. - Fixed a bug that locks the game when a department head maxes out. - Fixed a bug that caused 9.9 movies to earn minus 2 billion. - Fixed a bug that caused department heads to leave for no reason. Also, now you can extend contracts with them without going to the negotiations screen. - Fixed a bug that caused shitty movies to be nominated for Pollux. - Fixed a bug that caused the police surveillance screen to lock the game. - Fixed the postcard for Hitler (yeah). - Fixed a bug that caused the game to recycle the same movie names over and over again. - Fixed post production contractors for the Behemoth policy - Buildings now wear out 50% slower. - Police raids can no longer occur one after another. If you started your game on the version 0.8.8EA, you’re good to go with your current saves. See you with the next update tomorrow! Upcoming update 0.8.9EAApr 14, 2025 - Community AnnouncementsHello! We pushed the 0.8.9EA version for a moment, but had to roll it back right away because we discovered a problem that could prevent a new game from starting properly. We will release the update in about 18 hours from now (2 PM CET / 5 AM PT), which is a shame because we really wanted to push it today. Nevertheless, we thought we'd tell you what changes it will contain. - Fixed a problem that caused the game to freeze right after the disclaimer in the main menu. - Fixed a bug that locks the game when a department head maxes out. - Fixed a bug that caused 9.9 movies to earn minus 2 billion. - Fixed a bug that caused department heads to leave for no reason. Also, now you can extend contracts with them without going to the negotiations screen. - Fixed a bug that caused shitty movies to be nominated for Pollux. - Fixed a bug that caused the police surveillance screen to lock the game. - Fixed the postcard for Hitler (yeah). - Fixed a bug that caused the game to recycle the same movie names over and over again. - Fixed post production contractors for the Behemoth policy - Buildings now wear out 50% slower. - Police raids can no longer occur one after another. Thank you for your patience, we will let you know when the update is live!

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