Mohawk Games and Stardock are pleased to announce a new update for Offworld Trading Company. This new patch contains the following changes:

• Fixed lobby chat to show "[AI Player]" team change instead of "Unknown"
• Direct connection attempt if NAT fails, kick player from lobby (with informational popup) if both fail so game doesn't hang on start
• Fix for doubled observer text
• Toggle AI icon appropriately when players join/leave AI slots
• Fixed an issue where restore code prevented players from building multiple times on a tile
• Fixed Show ELO option
• Temporarily removed PIRATE_HIT_TARGET audio (too harsh and unclear)
• No longer send game starting message until all clients are connected to server
• Improved leave lobby if game fails to start so failed lobby can get cleaned up
• Highlight tiles adjacent to HQ if the only tiles with adjacency bonuses are remote
• Re-sort leaderboards after adding the player's new score
• Fix for player messages showing up as observer messages after the game ends
• Extra checks and logging at game start added
• Only increment global hack counters when hacks finish
• Restore robotic adjacency in tutorial 1
• Fix for matches not starting properly on first attempts
• Fix for infinite map challenge progress incorrectly overwriting existing progress
• Fix for remote buildings not sharing resources properly
• Fix for event state help formatting
• Looser conditions for transferring resources to buildings in group
• Fix for ranked matches not always starting properly
• Fix for campaign unlocks not working consistently on Epic
• Correcting Russian singular/plural expressions with feedback from the OW discord
• Fix for null reference in server logs