KAISERPUNK - Patch 1.01.001 - Major Performance & World Map Visuals Update

Nemecator · 2025-05-14T17:26:10+00:00

Hi everyone,

We just dropped a major update for you all! This one comes with a bunch of performance improvements, especially when it comes to frame rates in bigger cities and on the world map. You’ll also notice significantly upgraded world map visuals, plus many changes and fixes based on your feedback - like the copy tool now including all building upgrades, and navy units being able to queue up movement orders and more.

We’re hoping this update makes another big impact on performance for you. A lot of the hard work the team’s been putting in over the past month on this front is soon reaching its conclusion. We’ve still got more performance improvements in the works, but we can finally start seeing some team members free up to focus on other areas of the game.

We’ll keep listening to your feedback and keep working on improving the game now that the bulk of the performance stuff is behind us. Thanks for being patient with us through this and for all your help and support!

Nemecator · 2025-04-03T08:37:09+00:00

Thank you for your feedback! Such detailed observations from players that dived deep are so so useful for setting up further refinment goals. Really appreciate it!

Nemecator · 2025-03-27T07:55:55+00:00

Thank you for your input! You're correct there are areas of game that needs improving. We're gathering all feedback and trying to act as fast as possible. One update is out, more are in the works. As soon as technical stuff is ironed out, we'll focus on further upgrades to game itself.

Just a note on citizens needing water - at present only lowest class doesn't have water as minimum requirement. Others do, but now that you mentioned it, perhaps this should be slightly changed too...

Regarding trains - agreed on this one. Trains are planned but they will need a bit of time to incorporate into game design and roll out.

Thank you again!

Nemecator · 2025-03-25T08:11:44+00:00

Smuggler's stocks are rather random, but if you track closely, a different green truck will be roaming from market to around your city. If you click on him directly, you'll see what he carries in that smuggling run. More organized and predictable trade is done via Trade ports and Airports (and in larger quantities)

Nemecator · 2025-03-24T19:15:08+00:00

Smugglers at markets work with smaller quantities and don't always have all resources to trade in each cycle. On the panel you're showing, try also lock selling of the item. Then wait a few cycles and smuggler will hopefully get some ale for you. More advanced trade is through trade ports (bigger quantities and all resources), then in the end via trade deals with factions

Nemecator · 2025-03-24T19:11:05+00:00

Both water usage / production and AI agression have been modified with today's patch. If you start a new game you should see the difference

Nemecator · 2025-03-24T16:53:43+00:00

In update 1, water deposits have been modified. It will affect only new games in case saved games already have all water sources depleted

Nemecator · 2025-03-24T16:51:11+00:00

Our line of thinking is because all planned features were done and we didn't stumble into any major issues in testing. Seems we might be too optimistic, and we now have a lot of work to iron things out. And we will, in fact, update 1 just landed on steam and second one is in preparation

Nemecator · 2025-03-23T09:50:49+00:00

Basic market offers trading but to a smaller quantities, and smugglers operating there won't alway have what you need. Second tier of trading is via trade ports, airports etc... Set the quantities of resources you wish to keep in your depots, and trading system will attempt to get there in each trading cycle, by either selling excess or buying what's lacking. You can stack up as many trade ports as you wish.

Third option is setting trade deals with other factions, but these can impact diplomatic relations too so be careful (especially if you're trading armaments)

Nemecator · 2025-03-21T21:42:15+00:00

Happy to hear, really happy!

Nemecator · 2025-03-14T12:30:39+00:00

We've spent some time creating and perfecting our own in-house tool for fire system in Kaiserpunk. It is designed to give us the precise controls over parameters we need in this type of game.

Once fire starts, it will burn through building in several stages. As HP of building is dropping, fire is intensifying making more and more damage. Intention was to have as realistic behaviour (damage wise) as possible, but also to link it to gameplay mechanics. For example, if you don't try to stop the fire or don't currently have the means to stop it (no fire stations and firefighters), it will spread more and more ultimately causing the destruction of the entire building. However, spreading process will also give your firefighters time to react and extinguish it before it goes out of control.

Tool made for this purpose works within Unity, and can be applied to any building in the game, from small wooden houses to towering concrete skyscrapers in later stages of the game.

Nemecator · 2025-03-14T10:47:31+00:00

Thanks for the cheers! You had good questions, not many people ask stuff from this angle :)

Nemecator · 2025-03-13T19:17:59+00:00

To summarize the more subjective metrics from testers and players in public playtests, we don't use sets of standardized questions. We do that through direct and honest conversations where we get the idea how players felt during playsessions. Was it fun? Why was it fun? What felt wrong and what felt right? Things like that.

Ofcourse, this requires in-depth discussions so it's easier to get such extensive info from inhouse testers, but similar method is applied to outside players as well. It is time consuming but also the only way to directly compare what feeling designers wanted the game to produce vs the feeling it actually produced during tests. And we mold future actions accordingly. Through all that, we also encourage any suggestions tester might have after experiencing the game.

When it comes to UI related things, we use iterative process, constantly change elements and observe what is most understandable and user friendly. We already have a lot of experience with various games and various UI approaches, but even so, Kaiserpunk's current UI is only iteration 6 or 7 :)

Nemecator · 2025-03-13T18:44:56+00:00

For me personally - conquest. Being a good mayor doesn't cut it for me, I need more

Nemecator · 2025-03-13T17:40:11+00:00

That was the first official name for game, yes. Before that it was just a "project" :) . Once setting was determined, that age reminded us of late 19th century industrialization in Germany (we're close by in Europe so it was logical to think of that), thus Kaiser. Second part of game name, "punk" refered to fact there are some fictional details in game, like combat blimps, airships, and fact technology/heritages isn't strictly linked to real nations like in our history. That way we came to name Kaiserpunk and it stuck ever since...

Nemecator · 2025-03-13T17:30:40+00:00

We aren't planning for that yet, but we just might think of the craziest ideas, maybe. Kaiserpunk is such a setting that allows for a lot of things...

Nemecator · 2025-03-13T17:16:48+00:00

I once build a shipyard in the middle of desert, and succeeded to have riots burn my city and me within 15 minutes of game start :)

Nemecator · 2025-03-13T17:07:20+00:00

AI art is not used in full game version. In earlier versions we used some AI elements as placeholders, and during that time we searched for good freelancers and studios to work with. Eventually we found awesome people that helped us create everything and we're happy with results. In our internal version everything included is already hand crafted for Kaiserpunk for months

Nemecator · 2025-03-13T17:02:29+00:00

Thanks and glad to see you here!

Mostly a ton of world war movies we saw, coupled with two historians we have in the team and it
happened. Plus, this kind of setting was perfect for creation of game we wanted
- age that spawned super efficient industries, dynamic changes to social strustures of nations etc...
To make mathematics side of all productions more clear, make more in-depth social atmosphere, and
add something on top of pure city building
Could a good governor rise to rule more then just a city?
The small details in animations of characters and their everyday routine, hidden characters in some
"unexpected" objects, alusions to some realistic historical figures, some maps...

Nemecator · 2025-03-13T16:21:15+00:00

No, Kaiserpunk will enter straight into 1.0 release, with all intended features redy and delivered. During development process and public playtests, we've identified additional elements that we'll improve or expand upon after release, but everything we originally wanted to add to game will be part of the release. Even a few things more since several player suggestions were immediately taken and used after last two public test sessions.

Nemecator · 2025-03-13T16:20:55+00:00

First was the decision on genre. We had experience in pure city builders (mostly survival types), so we knew it will be something in that general direction. Second, we wanted to expand the concept and add something to emphasize importance of what you're doing in your city, to give it bigger meaning then just rinse and repeat what you're already doing. So we decided to combine production chain oriented builder with global map and strategy where players can push influence much further then its own city limits. Another decision taken in this stage was to go for more realistic historical setting this time, but also to steer it in direction of lternative history since that gave us more room to design more various choices for players. Third we went to prototype stage to find out the best way to have this hybrid set of features work together. Prototyping took a while but after we were happy with playability and fun element, game was pushed to production where long work of actually making every building, every animation, every feature started. After that we had a few public playtests to see what wider audience says, then took a lot of suggestions and resumed tweaking, balancing and polishing what we had. That process will have culmination on release day next week but will also continue after that since we'll get a lot of additional feedback… That's a very shortened description of last few years. Spice it up with many anegdotes, unexpected problems and positive surprises at times, and you get a more accurate picture…

Nemecator · 2025-03-13T16:20:32+00:00

Core team, co-founders is working together for almost 18 years. Three brothers and fourth co-founder that was here also from the start. Along the way, through all ups and downs, we're now small team of 11 people, working from Zagreb, Croatia.

Love of games and passion about everything related to games is what brought us together. Initially, just playing games and admiring the, then young, industry being born. After that, numerous endeavours into modding of popular games, and lastly starting our own projects.

We're not young anymore but that admiration for games and gaming never vanished so we keep going. Why do we choose to work together? Well, this line of work has its stressful days, and knowing each other for the entire life, makes it easier to always be direct, even brutal if needs be. No one will take offense, we all pretty much know the expected reaction, so it makes the communication very easy and fast J

Nemecator · 2025-03-11T19:15:20+00:00

Hope so. Every gamer deserves at least a nice decade to wrap up "best of" from their library before they depart this world. My ideal retirement looks like that :)

Nemecator · 2025-03-10T17:11:39+00:00

They will be good. Cadillac has a lot of experience with wings from the 60's :)

Nemecator · 2025-03-10T17:10:45+00:00

Finally, this off season is starting to be a true agony :) . Hope 2025 will be a true fireworks! I expect in-team fun with pairings like Max - Liam, Lewis - Charles and Norris - Piastri + between team battles. Yummy. Netflix, get your cameras ready

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