What's new in Zafehouse: Diaries Patch 1.2.3
Oct 23, 2013
- Added: Item Editor. It is now possible to easily add your own items to the game via the Custom Content Manager. The editor allows you to export and import named item "packs" so you can share you creations with other players. Please note that items are complex objects and while we've done our best to catch all the bugs, it should be considered a work-in-progress. This feature is not intended to replace modding, which allows you a greater degree of control over item creation.
- Added: Holding the Control key and left-clicking on an item in the Supply tab item list, or an item list on the Movement screen, will move that item to a new category called "Odds and ends". You can use this to filter out items you're no longer interested in and they won't appear under their regular category. You can reverse this change using Control-LMB again on the item.
- Tweak: The item lists on the Supply tab and the Movement screen have been modified to separate protection gear and ammunition into their own categories. Also, categories for which no items exist won't appear.
- Tweak: Items with stats in excess of five stars will have a plus sign appended to those stats.
- Fixed: An issue where melee protection bonuses were not being applied correctly to zombie grab checks.
- Fixed: Pain suppression effects, such as those given by painkillers, were sometimes not applied correctly.
- Fixed: An issue where the mouse cursor would appear locked in the top-left corner of the screen when using bookmarks.
- Fixed: A few diary reporting issues and typos with the new sniping report and lynch mob dilemma.
- Fixed: The "Survivors hurt each other" difficulty setting now affects a game in progress.
New in Zafehouse: Diaries Patch 1.2.2 (Oct 17, 2013)
- Added: Steam achievements. Steam users can now try their hands at completing 12 unique achievements, from successful amputations to defeating the lynch mob.
- Added: New dilemma -- Outpost. Players of No Survivors have a new threat to watch out for. A group of ex-military troops may set themselves up inside a location in town, along with a nice cache of weapons and equipment. They're not easy to take on and if you do defeat them, they'll try and track you down... with explosive consequences.
- Added: New museum item sets -- Cold War, Middle Kingdom and Viking.
- Added: Outdoor traps -- Survivors can now build formidable traps around locations, in addition to regular and experimental indoor traps. Select it as an option from the "Make traps" order.
- Added: New task -- Build fortifications. Once you've fortified a location, you'll be able to improve it even further by adding a fence, sniper's nest or watch tower. The fence prevents zombies from attacking the location, leaving your barricades untouched and allows survivors to move out even if surrounded; a sniper's nest boost the accuracy of your snipers and the watch tower allows your spotters to see much, much further.
- Added: New occupation -- Mayor. While the mayor's survival skills might not be the greatest, he sure does know how to uncover hard-to-find items inside the locations of his town.
- Added: Experimental display scaling has been reactivated. It's also been tweaked to preserve desktop icon positions when the game is exited.
- Added: The game now provides a one-time warning when the system resolution is too low.
- Added: New photo frame and overlay graphic for bombed locations.
- Tweak: Snipers shooting into other locations will now keep count of, and report, the number of zombies that have ever been sniped at and killed at each location.
- Balance: Protection gear is now moderately more effective.
- Balance: Weapons that use rifle (.223R) ammunition are now more effective against the living. This includes player-controlled survivors.
- Balance: The semi-automatic and automatic rifles are now more effective at assaulting and close combat, and slighty worse for sniping.
- Balance: The sub-machinegun is now slightly less accurate and hits less targets.
- Balance: The difficulty of building traps has been reduced.
- Balance: Survivor vs NPC combat is now much more consistent in terms of difficulty. The accuracy of predicted results is also higher.
- Fixed: Survivors who automatically take painkillers for their injuries will now have their contusions marked as treated.
- Fixed: NPC damage no longer triggers a blood splat effect in the diary.
- Fixed: A crash in the barricade maintenance idle task.
- Fixed: A rare crash when modifying items.
- Fixed: A crash when placing wandering survivors in No Survivors.
- Fixed: Additional checks for a crash related to museum item discovery.
- Fixed: An issue with the modify task and showers.
- Modding: Mod files can now be placed in "My Documents\Zafehouse Diaries\Mods\" directory, in addition to the game's install path.
New in Zafehouse: Diaries Patch 1.2.1 (Sep 26, 2013)
- Added: New location -- Museum. What exotic and potent relics of old await the survivors in this fascinating destination?
- Added: New dilemma -- Surveillance. Are your survivors skilled enough to breach the police station and tackle this challenge? The reward could give you all the intel you need to stay alive.
- Added: New items -- You'll have to visit the Museum to find out what they are!
- Added: New event -- Epiphany. Spend some time in the church and one of your survivors might leave their past grudges behind them.
- Added: Completely new options menu with difficulty controls. It is now possible to alter various gameplay settings via the options menu, including the rate at which zombies enter the town, the starting number of zombies in locations, resource distribution and survivor in-fighting.
- Added: Locations can now be marked with a cross by right-clicking on them and selecting the appropriate option from the drop-down menu.
- Added: DXT5 texture compression for dynamic assets (photos and notes) can now be enabled via the Diagnostics Tool. This is recommended only for system with extremely limited video memory, as it will make the game take longer to load.
- Added: If the game fails to start correctly, the next time it is run the player will be given the option to delete all configuration and user content, which may help the game load properly.
- Balance: The player will now receive a handgun and 9mm ammunition at the start of No Survivors.
- Balance: The Overwhelmed dilemma is now more likely to occur.
- Balance: By default, survivors no longer hurt each other due to bad relationships in No Survivors.
- Balance: Survivors will now take their equipment with them if the "Retreat" option is selected during the Overwhelmed dilemma.
- Balance: When retreating, survivors are more likely to pick a safe location, even if it's further away.
- Balance: Zombies are more likely to wander out of locations during assaults.
- Fixed: The audio engine should now start correctly on systems running Sound Blaster Audigy hardware.
- Fixed: If sounds have been disabled, the heartbeat effect will now fade correctly after a dilemma is resolved.
- Fixed: The orders table in the Custom Content Manager has been adjusted to remove the horizontal scroll bar.
- Fixed: Duplicate survivors should no longer attempt to join the group in No Survivors.
- Fixed: Showers will no longer be broken down for barricades.
- Fixed: The experimental display scaling option has been removed as it was causing the game to crash on some systems.
- Fixed: Discovering the vehicle for the first time in Road Kill should no longer cause a crash.
- Fixed: A crash that could occur when attempting to amputate a limb during the Infected dilemma.
- Fixed: The version text on the main menu now appears correctly on system with high DPI settings.
- Fixed: The address text on location photos in the diary is now preserved when saving and loading.
- Fixed: Added additional checks to prevent crashes related to survivor movement, survivor reanimation and zombie attacks.
- Fixed: Significantly improved video memory consumption over the course of a game. This should alleviate out-of-memory issues with long games on systems with less capable GPUs.
- Fixed: An issue where after loading a saved game, new diary entries would appear in the wrong order.
New in Zafehouse: Diaries Patch 1.2.0 (Jul 17, 2013)
- Added: New game mode: No Survivors. With no time limits or objectives, how long can you survive in a town slowly being overrun by zombies? Start with a single survivor and search locations for others, or attract them to you if you've found a secure base of operations. Find greenhouses, medical labs and ammo factories to produce a steady stream of resources and keep an eye out for the elusive caravan. Welcome new survivors into your group, but watch out for prejudices and injuries! If you want, you can reject them instead, though they might cause you trouble in the future. Finally, zombies can destroy locations if you let their numbers get out of control.
- Added: New orders: Resource manufacturing. Available in No Survivors, certain locations can create ammunition, medicine and ingredients, giving you a constant supply of critical items. That is as long as you can defend them.
- Added: New dilemma: The Caravan. Help them out and they'll return the favour, just make sure you have the supplies they need.
- Added: New item type: Protection gear. Use motorcycle jackets, hard hats, riots shields and more to protect your survivors from melee and ranged attacks. Be warned though, these items will degrade with use, so make sure you keep an eye on their condition!
- Added: New item: Backpack. A rare item that will allow your survivors to carry a few extra items during their travels.
- Added: New item: Submachine gun. A low-damage, reasonably accurate ranged weapon that can hit many targets at once. Uses 9mm ammunition... a lot of 9mm ammunition!
- Added: New item: Beacon. Available in No Survivors, used to signal survivors to your location... and other friendly inhabitants of the town.
- Added: Hovering over a game mode now shows important details about that mode, such as time limits and survivor counts.
- Added: Ambient sound effects that differ depending on the time of day.
- Added: Extra statistics to the end game screen: Survivors infected, cured and made immune; and hours lasted.
- Added: Once per day, while occupying the hospital, a survivor's injury may be treated automatically, without consuming medical supplies.
- Added: Three new tutorials for supplies and breaking down items, bookmarks and relationships and rumours.
- Added: Three new backgrounds for the main menu screen, which are cycled through at random each time the game is started.
- Tweak: The "Classic" game mode has been renamed "Deadline" and its position on the game mode selection screen has changed.
- Tweak: The difficulty level of each game mode is now clearly stated.
- Tweak: Pressing Escape while tokens are mass-selected will cancel the selection, rather than transitioning back to the diary.
- Tweak: "To be junked" changed to "Break down into barricade parts and scrap".
- Tweak: The default game mode is now Road Kill.
- Tweak: The game now defaults to Windowed mode.
- Tweak: A number, rather than a star rating, is now shown for items that provide a carrying capacity bonus.
- Tweak: The title of the left-hand page of the Movement view now reads "Leave behind", rather than "Leave at the ".
- Tweak: The main menu now features graphics rather than buttons.
- Balance: Turning away the girl now stops her family from checking up on you.
- Balance: Increased the delay before the super zombie shows up.
- Balance: Slightly reduced the rate at which survivors become hungry.
- Balance: The Vaccine dilemma can now occur at either the university or the hospital.
- Balance: The Overwhelmed dilemma is now much less effective.
- Balance: Survivors will now find it extremely difficult to fight large numbers of zombies without decent weapons and relationships.
- Balance: Increased the amount of ammunition in the world in Road Kill.
- Balance: The hungriest survivor will now always be the first to eat, if food is available.
- Balance: Food will not spoil until at least a few corpses are at a location.
- Balance: The "slowly and quietly" barricade strategy is now much more effective.
- Balance: Antibiotics and painkillers can no longer be found on corpses and painkillers in general are harder to find.
- Balance: Infected survivors now self-medicate themselves more promptly.
- Balance: Survivors now move 33% faster during the day.
- Balance: Searching locations has been made slightly easier.
- Balance: Antibiotics now dramatically slow the speed of the infection.
- Balance: Reduced the number of zombies that can walk into unsecured locations.
- Balance: Zombies now enter locations at a reduced rate while survivors are breaching.
- Fixed: Large meals found in the game -- that is, ones a survivor has not prepared -- now provide the correct level of nourishment.
- Fixed: Sustenance provided by the "Hold a feast" order can no longer exceed a survivor's maximum hunger level.
- Fixed: It is no longer possible to assign the same survivor multiple times to an order.
- Fixed: Reduced system and video memory consumption by ~30MB.
- Fixed: A potential crash when a survivor reanimates.
- Fixed: Some discrepancies in fortification level calculations that could cause a location to look fortified or secured when it wasn't.
- Fixed: It was possible to click on bookmarks while viewing screens other than the diary.
- Fixed: An issue with multi-target weapons not hitting all their targets when breaching.
- Fixed: Single items in categories are now highlighted correctly when sorted.
- Fixed: Orders will no longer appear in game modes where they are not relevant.
- Fixed: A number of cases where the candle glow and bookmark graphics would not appear correctly when transitioning between screens.
- Fixed: The game now maintains the same window size, regardless of Windows' DPI settings.
- Fixed: Items are now placed back inside a location when cancelling a move order using mass-selection.
- Fixed: Additional checks and balances to address a texture error when discovering the vehicle in Road Kill.
- Fixed: Code to prevent cross-thread exceptions with the audio engine.
- Fixed: The game window now forces itself to appear on the primary display. This check occurs twice -- once when the program is first run and after a new game is started.
- Fixed: Checks to prevent null exceptions involving the Snipe order.
New in Zafehouse: Diaries Patch 1.1.9 (May 17, 2013)
- Added: Map marking. It is now possible to mark locations on the map with solid and dashed circles, as well as add tooltip notes. To use this feature, simply right-click on a location.
- Added: Hinted locations at the beginning of both game modes are now marked on the map.
- Added: The Movement screen now features new graphics for the Investigate, Breach and Assault orders. These orders can now also be selected by using the "A" and "D" keys.
- Added: The custom occupation editor now shows the total point spend for order efficiencies, as well as recommended counts for balanced occupations.
- Added: It is now possible to mass-select survivor tokens on the map. Hold down the left-mouse button, select the tokens you want by dragging the selection rectangle to include them, and then release the button.
- Added: Items can now be sorted by category, from best to worst, on the Movement screen. Click on the paper tab on the far left of the item book to access this feature.
- Added: Diary bookmarks. Hover the cursor over the four paper tabs above the left-hand page of the diary to set bookmarks. To delete a set bookmark, just right-click on it.
- Added: Photos are now added to the diary when the weather changes.
- Tweak: Game loading and saving performance has been dramatically increased. These operations should be 25-50% faster in most cases and consume less memory. However, as a result, save games from version before v1.1.9 are not compatible with this version.
- Tweak: The game loss text is now clearer regarding the fate of survivors when the last one dies.
- Tweak: The rendering engine is now more strict about cleaning up unused texture resources.
- Tweak: Significant optimisations to zombie AI logic. These improvements should be most noticeable during the late-game.
- Tweak: Various performance optimisations with dynamic texture generation.
- Tweak: Renamed "Weapons and ammo" to "Combat gear".
- Tweak: The "ghost" tokens on photos are now less transparent.
- Tweak: The performance of text rendering has been greatly improved. This is most noticeable on the Supply tab and Movement screen when a location contains many items.
- Balance: Reduced sponge weight from light to very light.
- Fixed: A crash that could occur while survivors were inside a factory.
- Fixed: A rare issue where the interface would stop responding. This addresses problems with the injury tutorial message and certain visual effects freezing the game.
- Fixed: Some lingering formatting issues with tooltips.
- Fixed: Survivor travel lines are now rendered below tokens, rather than above them.
- Fixed: Some issues with rescue note dragging not correctly detecting the screen bounds.
- Fixed: An extremely rare crash when moving zombies.
- Fixed: The carving knife is no longer considered a ranged weapon.
- Fixed: All survivors must now be assigned to the leave town task in Road Kill.
- Fixed: A number of issues with resting survivor detection and task assignment.
New in Zafehouse: Diaries Patch 1.1.82 (Mar 5, 2013)
- Fixed: A rare crash with the audio subsystem when attempting to play rain effects.
New in Zafehouse: Diaries Patch 1.1.81 (Mar 5, 2013)
- Tweak: It is now possible to save a game's progress and continue playing, rather than being forced to save and exit.
- Added: If "Enable anonymous metrics" is active via the Options menu, a report is now submitted to Screwfly if the game crashes during the simulation.
- Fixed: A crash related to modifying items.
- Fixed: A crash with the in-game tooltip and transitioning between certain screens.
- Fixed: An issue that could prevent the tinker idle task from working.
- Fixed: It is no longer possible to use the keyboard to transition between screens while a survivor token is held.
- Fixed: An issue that prevented certain characters from being entered into textboxes in the custom content manager.
- Fixed: Some synchronisation issues related to retrieving the survivor's current location.
- Fixed: Additional code to address a null exception crash with the barricade task.
- Fixed: Restarting the game via the system menu should now be more reliable.
- Fixed: The introductory diary entry would not correctly inform the player of items found in the starting house.
- Balance: Increased the odds of finding the radio/map on the girl scout.
New in Zafehouse: Diaries Patch 1.1.8 (Mar 1, 2013)
- Tweak: The introductory diary entries for Classic and Road Kill now give the player an address to a clue or car part, whichever is appropriate.
- Tweak: The negative result for the play music idle task no longer results in a well-liked survivor being injured.
- Tweak: The stat modifier note on the Relationship screen now shows more consistent information about survivor bonuses.
- Tweak: Certain out-of-place events will no longer occur while survivors are breaching a location.
- Added: Weather effects. There's a chance each day that it'll start raining -- either a light shower or a thunderstorm. Noise levels are dampened significantly while its raining and even more so when it's storming, however, your movement speed around town is also reduced.
- Added: New dilemma - Overwhelmed. Has a chance of occurring when you breach a location and face overwhelming odds. You'll be given a couple of... heroic options, as well as one that allows retreat.
- Added: New idle task - Showering. Survivors now accumulate grime and will periodically wash if left idle. If the right hygiene items are available, survivors will wash themselves and gain small stat boosts.
- Added: Experimental display scaling. This can be enabled via the Options menu and will temporarily change your desktop resolution so that the game takes up a majority of the screen. This can be helpful on extremely high-resolution displays where in-game text can appear quite small.
- Added: All dilemmas involving combat now include an assessment of the group's chances.
- Added: The ability to right-click to move a stack of 10 items is now mentioned in the tooltip while hovering over an item on the Movement screen.
- Added: The game will now provide more helpful error information if it crashes while generating a new game or loading a saved game.
- Added: A tutorial the first time a survivor is injured.
- Added: The specific bonuses modifying stats are now clearly marked as being positive or negative.
- Balance: Investigating now provides a significantly more accurate report about zombie numbers. The report generated by assaulting remains unchanged.
- Balance: In Classic mode, the minimum delay before the helicopter arrives has been increased by one day, and the maximum by two days.
- Balance: It is now much less likely that the player will lose all their survivors during a dilemma featuring combat.
- Balance: The delay before the lynch mob has a chance of appearing has been increased.
- Balance: Prepared small meals are now much more nourishing; three should be almost enough to fully feed a survivor.
- Balance: Increased the cooldown between exercise idle events.
- Balance: The order bonuses provided by the "Hidden knowledge" dilemma are now applied more consistently.
- Balance: Adjusted the weights of the machete, butter knife, playing cards, switchblade, welder and spanner.
- Fixed: A potential crash with breaching where survivors were not properly assigned the "Fist" weapon.
- Fixed: An issue where order effectiveness would sometimes be calculated incorrectly.
- Fixed: It was sometimes possible to treat an injury multiple times, each time reducing its duration.
- Fixed: A crash related to the create distraction order.
- Fixed: An issue with survivor death from the infection during transit.
- Fixed: A diary chronology issue with death messages occurring due to the lynch mob dilemma.
- Fixed: A workaround is now in place when survivors become displaced.
- Fixed: A crash related to saving the game while texture overrides were in effect.
- Fixed: A freeze if a key was pressed while a tutorial message was fading in.
- Fixed: Increasing the "Perceptive" stat in the occupation editor would internally increase "Smart" instead, and vice versa.
- Fixed: An issue where a location's search level could drop from 100%.
- Fixed: Sometimes the treat task would vanish from the order list.
- Fixed: A reporting issue related to the "Corpses" count on the location clipboard.
- Fixed: The location report on the clipboard would sometimes state that survivors were resting, even though the selected location was empty.
- Fixed: An issue in Road Kill where survivors would report the discovery of a note, yet nothing would appear on the Victory Item screen.
- Fixed: Significant optimisations to mouse-handling code. This fixes a handle leak and addresses an issue where the game would become partially unresponsive on some systems after playing for a period of time.
- Fixed: A rare visual bug where the town map would appear halfway off the top of the screen on older systems.
- Fixed: A visual bug that would cause the town map to appear corrupted after reloading a game.
- Fixed: A rare bug that would prevent players from adding custom locations.
New in Zafehouse: Diaries Patch 1.1.71 (Jan 12, 2013)
- Tweak: Adjusted the algorithm that calculates the best and worst items for junking and equipping to be more consistent.
- Tweak: If all the player's survivors breach a location during a turn, that location will be selected automatically when the player views the town map.
- Added: All survivors portraits have been updated with new high-quality images and the base number of portraits has been increased.
- Added: A number of dilemmas have new, high-quality photos.
- Added: When certain items are discovered for the first time, a photo of that item will appear in the diary.
- Added: New occupation -- the Priest.
- Added: New dilemma -- The Believers. Try visiting the church while playing Road Kill to find out what these guys are about...
- Added: New weapon and ammunition -- crossbow and quarrels. A powerful, quiet but slow to reload ranged weapon.
- Added: It is possible for survivors to retrieve fired quarrels when cleaning corpses, in addition to any quarrels they might normally find.
- Added: In the right circumstances, the Infected dilemma will provide the player with a grisly, high-risk option to save the survivor.
- Added: Pressing F9 while viewing the diary will send an extensive list of survivor statistics to the clipboard.
- Added: When a car part is discovered in Road Kill mode, a sound will play and an oil stain will appear on the diary pages currently visible.
- Added: Special debug reporting code to diagnose an extremely rare crash related to barricading.
- Added: Sound effects will now play when the map and radio are found, as well as any clue.
- Added: Survivors inside a secured or fortified location may sometimes attack an adjacent zombie.
- Balance: Zombie logic when attacking barricades has been reworked significantly. Barricades will now degraded more slowly and gradually.
- Balance: Secured and fortified locations now dampen noise produced at that location by 25% and 50% respectively.
- Balance: Survivors now gain resilience bonuses while inside a secured or fortified location.
- Balance: Survivors are more likely to spot zombies while inside secured or fortified locations.
- Balance: Survivors inside secured and fortified locations are less likely to have negative relationship events.
- Balance: Increased the negative relationship impact of some dilemmas.
- Balance: The high-powered rifle is now significantly better.
- Balance: Survivor statistics can no longer drop below 1.
- Fixed: The survivor photo during the Infected dilemma will no longer disappear when the "Kill" option is chosen.
- Fixed: Survivors will now always select a weapon over other items (if possible) when modify close combat, assault or sniping attributes.
- Fixed: A rare issue related to dilemmas where destroyed items could reappear at their original location.
- Fixed: An issue where survivor stat mods would sometimes not be saved.
- Fixed: It is now possible to play the game without a sound card, or a card incompatible with XAudio2.
- Fixed: A sound effect for slashing weapons would not play.
- Fixed: A crash caused by zombies entering a location and being killed by a trap.
- Fixed: A rare crash in the create distraction task.
- Fixed: A rare crash in the maintain barricades idle task.
- Fixed: An issue where dead survivors would linger in town (but not locations). This could cause the game to crash when loading a game with such a survivor.
- Fixed: Rather than crash, if the image for a custom location or survivor cannot be found, the image will be replaced with a stand-in.
- Fixed: A crash caused by a zombie being killed by a trap without a damage component.
- Fixed: A potential crash when resolving survivor moment noise between locations.
- Fixed: Location investigation reports would sometimes not appear first if a dilemma occurred during the same turn.
- Fixed: An issue when loading a game or importing a diary that would cause blood splats to be shown incorrectly on diary pages.
New in Zafehouse: Diaries Patch 1.1.6 (Dec 12, 2012)
- Tweak: The red glow effect of combat-related diary entries now fades faster.
- Tweak: The introductory diary entry now better reflects the group's composition.
- Tweak: The starting date is now based on the current date of the user's PC. The starting time is still 6am.
- Added: New game mode, "Road Kill", and a new start game screen to select between this mode and "Classic". Road Kill features a new victory condition that puts the survivors' rescue in the player's hands. The new mode comes with several new and unique items and events, as well as changes to existing dilemmas and content.
- Added: Three tutorial dialogs: when moving a survivor token; clicking on a survivor's photo; and when a victory item is received. These will only appear the first time the player experiences these events.
- Added: Diary entry clipboard copy. This feature must be enabled by the user via the options menu. When active, a small clipboard icon will appear over diary entries as the player mouses over them. Clicking the icon will copy the text of that entry to the clipboard.
- Added: A shorter, more sensible report is entered into the diary when survivors breach a secured location containing no zombies.
- Added: It is now possible to view the final diary entries once the game has ended.
- Added: New dilemma - the scavengers.
- Added: The dilemma screen has been updated with new graphics and now shows a photo related to the current dilemma.
- Added: Three new note textures.
- Added: Some locations now have loading docks and garages.
- Added: "Slashing" weapons now have two new sound effects.
- Added: Pressing Space while viewing the town map now returns the player to the diary and immediately ends the current turn.
- Balance: Survivors will now die of starvation if they do not eat anything for five days. Resilient survivors may last a little longer than less resilient survivors.
- Balance: Survivors suffering from the "Starving" stat modifier no longer benefit from positive strength modifiers.
- Balance: The "Poisoned" dilemma is now more likely to occur.
- Balance: Zombies wandering into locations can never exceed 10% of the location's maximum capacity.
- Balance: Changed the wield rating of the sledgehammer from moderate to hard.
- Balance: Bare hands are now much less effective weapons, but still get a small bonus for strong characters.
- Balance: Survivors now take a larger penalty when trying to evade zombies with bare hands only.
- Balance: Resilience now plays a slightly more important role when evading zombies, while the importance of strength has been slightly reduced.
- Fixed: The mouse hit regions for survivor portraits in the custom content manager would sometimes become enlarged and overlap, making it difficult to select certain survivors.
- Fixed: Sometimes the game tooltip would get stuck showing an item's statistics while viewing the town map screen.
- Fixed: Font scaling on systems with modified DPI settings could cause text clipping in the custom content manager.
- Fixed: When the play music idle task fails, it will now write its diary entry at the correct location.
- Fixed: Hovering over the next/previous page links now shows the hand cursor.
- Fixed: A crash that would occur when using the welder in combat.
- Fixed: Removed a misspelled, duplicate icon file for the church.
- Fixed: Survivor status text is now drawn while viewing the equip screen, if the survivor photos are flipped.
- Fixed: A crash that could occur when trying to read an options file editing by hand.
- Fixed: Additional checks to make sure the simulation does not continue to output new diary entries once the survivors have been rescued.
- Fixed: The dumbbell and skipping rope now have their weapon properties properly configured.
- Fixed: The Escape key now works when reading a previous diary.
- Fixed: Pressing a Escape, A, D, or other key that changes the game view, while a new game was starting would cause the game to crash.
- Fixed: The system menu text better reflects the fact the player is reading a diary (when in diary reading mode) and not playing a game.
- Fixed: Cleaning tools are now actually present in the game.
- Fixed: Victory items now remember their position on the victory item screen when the game is saved.
- Fixed: A rare issue with placing survivors in combat that could result in an inconsistent battle state.
- Fixed: Improvements to handling render-to-texture operations to prevent odd flickering issues when notes are updated.
- Fixed: Silenced handguns now once again play the correct sound effect.
- Fixed: Survivors could become stuck if the "Run." option was chosen in the girl scout family dilemma.
- Modding: Starting items can now be modified. In the start game hook, items can be added or removed from the "ItemManager.GameModeStartingItems" dictionary. The key for this dictionary is the game mode you wish to change the starting items for.
- Modding: Implemented the ground work for modifying the town configuration. This code is still in heavy development and does not currently work.
New in Zafehouse: Diaries Patch 1.1.51 (Nov 28, 2012)
- Fixed: The "Hungry" and "Starving" negative stat modifiers would remain active despite survivors being fed.
- Tweak: Increased the fade-in speed of diary entries.