Publisher Paradox Interactive and developer Iceflake Studios today unveiled Surviving the Aftermath: Shattered hope as the colony sim’s second major expansion. Set to release this November, it brings new means to increase your colony’s production alongside new Hope and Anguish mechanics.
With the Moon destroyed during the apocalypse that brought the world in the state players find it when starting Surviving the Aftermath, the new Shattered Moon calamity sees fragments of the celestial body falling down to Earth. Refining them gives you the tools to increase your building’s production for a limited time.
Surviving the Aftermath: Shattered Hope also introduces a new production chain revolving around the trauma center building, which heals anguish. To do so, you need to create antistress medicine using mushroom farms and the new med hut building.
Here are the expansion’s key features, as described by the publisher:
- Face the Moonfall and use it to your advantage with the new Building Boost mechanic.The Moon is shattered in the sky and its fragments are crushing down on Earth leaving behind them devastation - but also moon rock deposits. You can refine lunar fragments and obtain lunar dust which will be used to increase the production of your buildings for a limited time. This new building boost mechanic is called overtime.
- Keep your hopes up, and feast! Hope is a new global value that decreases over time and when catastrophes happen in the game. If kept too low for too long, it will trigger a new condition called anguish that, if left untreated, may turn your colonists hostile. So, keep your hope as high as possible by holding feasts at the new colony square building.
- New production chain: take care of your colonists. When colonists experience anguish, you can help them by building a trauma centre where they will heal. They will recover faster thanks to a brand-new medicine called antistress. To make it, you’ll have to grow raw resources on the mushroom farm, then refine them into the actual medicine in the med hut building.
Surviving the Aftermath: Shattered Hope has locked down its release date to November 3, when it is set to arrive on PC, Xbox One, and PS4. You can pick it up for the price of 9.99 USD/7.99 GBP/9.99 EUR. or your regional equivalent.
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