Hello, there's a new patch in the publicbeta branch. It has a few small fixes for mods and translations, but the main change is that the Russian translation has been greatly improved by Pavel Borisov, who also did the Cyrillic fonts - many thanks for that! Here's the change list:

• Fix for Carter Moreno shooting you if you wait for 1 minute before replying in the Vanished quest

• Fix for error loading DLL for RV mod

• Fix for mods with multiple DLLs failing to load the remaining ones if one of them fails (SIS Extended: Standalone)

• Fix for crash when using the editor with SIS Pick Berries

• Fix for possessive form of names sometimes inserting a character in the wrong place in Russian and Ukrainian

• Fix for formulas not working in translations for some hint messages

• Russian translation overhauled and massively improved

• Updated Brazilian Portuguese, French, Japanese, Latin American Spanish and European Spanish translations

I won't push the previous patch onto the main branch (or XBox) just yet as it hasn't been in beta testing for very long, so this is just a publicbeta update today.

v275 will be in the "publicbeta" branch on Steam for a while, before pushing it to the main game and to XBox. If you want to try the latest features as they come out (and help test them!) it's a good idea to start using this branch. But keep in mind:

• Because it's the bleeding edge it could be less stable

• If you want to be able to play online co-op with someone you'll need to be on the same version as them

• If you go back from the "publicbeta" branch to the main branch you may not be able to load savegames created on "publicbeta".

To use publicbeta, just right-click on Survivalist: Invisible Strain in your Steam library and go to Properties, then Betas and in the drop-down select "publicbeta".

Hello, I've released a new patch in the publicbeta branch. This one has quite a few bug fixes, plus the Story Mode translations for both Indonesian and Ukrainian have now been completed!

Here's the full change list:

• Fix for one NPC in a group of 4 followers constantly exiting the building you are in, when surrounded by zombies

• Fix for steroids in the fetch quest not appearing on an NPC's trade screen if they are hungry

• Fix for preferences being saved whenever you enter the graphics settings menu even if you didn't change anything, which might have caused some weirdness (not sure)

• Fix for names sometimes being empty in speeches on Log page

• Fix for error message when you join a game via invite on a different version saying you have a story hash mismatch when it should say you are on the wrong game version

• Don't allow drag-selecting in building mode as it conflicts with the Clear function and confuses things

• Fix for not being able to clear an unbuilt fence that is on top of an existing fence, in building mode

• Fix for crop patches owned by a community not being deleted when the community is deleted in the editor

• Fix for followers not fighting enemies when you are in a vehicle and they are outside and the vehicle is full

• Fix for crash when highlighting a tomato plant in A New Dawn mod

• Fix for not being able to exit metal watchtowers in A New Dawn mod

• Fix for NPCs assigned to be chefs being given a minimum Farming skill of 2 instead of Cooking

• Fix for NPCs not actually giving you 400 gold in the Intimidation quest, after you intimidate them

• Fix for captives attacking you if you fight their captors

• Fix for not being able to open a gate that you have a key for if you're at war with the owner

• Fix for Liam Franks being able to join you before he warns FEMA if you trap him in a fenced area

• Possible fix for rare crash when selecting mods

• Include quest and memory lines in Print Full Speech Translation tool for translators

• Attempted to improve the grammatical case functions (accusative, dative etc) for Czech, Hungarian, Russian and Ukrainian translators

• Story Mode translation completed for Indonesian and Ukrainian!

• Updated Brazilian Portuguese and Japanese translations

The previous patch, v272, has been moved to the main branch and released on XBox.

v274 will be in the "publicbeta" branch on Steam for a while, before pushing it to the main game and to XBox. If you want to try the latest features as they come out (and help test them!) it's a good idea to start using this branch. But keep in mind:

• Because it's the bleeding edge it could be less stable

• If you want to be able to play online co-op with someone you'll need to be on the same version as them

• If you go back from the "publicbeta" branch to the main branch you may not be able to load savegames created on "publicbeta".

To use publicbeta, just right-click on Survivalist: Invisible Strain in your Steam library and go to Properties, then Betas and in the drop-down select "publicbeta".