Is it climate change

[mcpockets]

Hi, first I love this game so far, the tavern is a great addition (something I'd been thinking on but thought maybe as well you would need some sort of police force or citizen militia to keep the peace, after all alcohol and colonist = potential trouble) but what have you done with the plastic!! I have 42 colonists and am on day 62 currently (it's been about 15 days without plastic) and have completely run out of plastic! I've used scout towers and revealed whole area inside colony (having had to demolish buildings to gain enough plastic for the scout towers) my specialists have revealed approximately 2/3 of the world map and still no plastic!!! ok I haven't got bartering researched yet because I'm desperately trying to get mining done to enable me to continue the game but please help a gamer out, maybe I'm missing something? Is anybody else finding plastic really difficult to manage? this is my third attempt since the latest (platinum) update. thanks

 

[El Chihuahua]

Yeah, plastic became kind of an issue, with the last update.
You need to focus on the extractor tech, or your colony is gonna be a DOA.

 

[mcpockets]

Yeah, plastic became kind of an issue, with the last update.
You need to focus on the extractor tech, or your colony is gonna be a DOA.

Hi yeah thanks, I managed to get there, got extractor tech and bartering done, had to sacrifice some buildings to get some plastic back, ended up losing 12 or 18 colonists (as well as those that died etc.) but am now slowly rebuilding the colony back up (now back to 43 colonists) it was touch and go for a while. thanks for the reply.

 

[Joanna_ifs]

Heya! First of all, welcome to the forums and the Aftermath!

Indeed we have been fixing the issues with the plastic balance. For some reason the colony generation did not want to work with us, but we are right now preparing a patch where this issue will be addressed! In the meanwhile, if you do start a new game, select the second option that determines how many resources you get - we have gotten reports about the plastic being an issue on Easy and Hard but for some reason the Medium setting with this has been working without issues!

The patch will not fix the situation in a colony that has already been started but it will fix the issue with all new colonies that are started after it has been released btw.

But yeah, just wanted to jump in and say that we are very much aware of the issue with plastic - and are working on getting a fix out for you players!

Thanks for your post and of course, thanks for playing!

 

[mcpockets]

Heya! First of all, welcome to the forums and the Aftermath!

Indeed we have been fixing the issues with the plastic balance. For some reason the colony generation did not want to work with us, but we are right now preparing a patch where this issue will be addressed! In the meanwhile, if you do start a new game, select the second option that determines how many resources you get - we have gotten reports about the plastic being an issue on Easy and Hard but for some reason the Medium setting with this has been working without issues!

The patch will not fix the situation in a colony that has already been started but it will fix the issue with all new colonies that are started after it has been released btw.

But yeah, just wanted to jump in and say that we are very much aware of the issue with plastic - and are working on getting a fix out for you players!

Thanks for your post and of course, thanks for playing!

Hi, first of all, thanks for your reply. I was pretty sure you'd be working on it as there has been regular major updates and fixes, I had been playing on Xbox one previously and as a result the game would frequently crash around late mid game ( once population got close to 100 and had lots on screen ) I just managed to get my hands on a Xbox series X and the game was running beautifully then the update came and 3 attempts ended disastrously, I was a little frustrated ( really enjoying the aftermath, I play for hours) and the bug notifier had disappeared too so wanted to let you know about the plastic issue as I couldn't see any mention of it in the forum. So thanks again for the reply and the game, love the new additions and the happiness factor, hoping there's more to come.
Frazer.

 

[Joanna_ifs]

Hi, first of all, thanks for your reply. I was pretty sure you'd be working on it as there has been regular major updates and fixes, I had been playing on Xbox one previously and as a result the game would frequently crash around late mid game ( once population got close to 100 and had lots on screen ) I just managed to get my hands on a Xbox series X and the game was running beautifully then the update came and 3 attempts ended disastrously, I was a little frustrated ( really enjoying the aftermath, I play for hours) and the bug notifier had disappeared too so wanted to let you know about the plastic issue as I couldn't see any mention of it in the forum. So thanks again for the reply and the game, love the new additions and the happiness factor, hoping there's more to come.
Frazer.

More is definitely on the way

And thank you for the love - our next patch (coming soon!) will fix the issues with plastic and will also include some fixes to the game's performance - this should really help how the game runs on the Xbox as well! (Not that the Series X really needs it though - definitely a massive improvement to the gameplay, I've noticed this myself as well while testing!)