Empire of Sin: Hunt for Aurora is out now!
Step into the shadows with a new Boss from overseas, a specialist Gangster class, heist-driven missions, and a fierce four-legged ally.
The hunt is on across PC, Switch, Xbox One & PS4!
Are you ready to claim the diamond?
We are currently experiencing an issues with the launcher config on Microsoft Store on PC.We are working on getting this fixed as soon as possible, but if you are encountering this issue, you can do this as a workaround for now:
Delete the 'launcher-v2.sqlite' and 'launcher-v2_backup.sqlite' files in C:\Users\[NAME]\AppData\LocalLow\RomeroGames\EmpireOfSin
Once you have done this, you should be able to boot the game.
Together with The Hunt for Aurora, the base game of Empire of Sin has also gotten a few bug fixes.
Read the full list here:
Features:
Other affected weapons:
UI/UX:
Balance:
Enemies now deal more damage on mid to high difficulties
[1] = 1,
[2] = 1
[3] = 1 -> 1.25
[4] = 1.25 -> 1.5
[5] = 1.5 -> 2
Rebalanced loot drop, item prices and markets restock:
Configured some weapons with ammo per sweep value for using not all ammo.
Bug fixes:
Happy Sinning!
Step into the shadows with a new Boss from overseas, a specialist Gangster class, heist-driven missions, and a fierce four-legged ally.
The hunt is on across PC, Switch, Xbox One & PS4!
Are you ready to claim the diamond?
We are currently experiencing an issues with the launcher config on Microsoft Store on PC.We are working on getting this fixed as soon as possible, but if you are encountering this issue, you can do this as a workaround for now:
Delete the 'launcher-v2.sqlite' and 'launcher-v2_backup.sqlite' files in C:\Users\[NAME]\AppData\LocalLow\RomeroGames\EmpireOfSin
Once you have done this, you should be able to boot the game.
Together with The Hunt for Aurora, the base game of Empire of Sin has also gotten a few bug fixes.
Read the full list here:
Features:
- 3 new armors: Police Issue Body Armor Model 2, Government Issue Body Armor Model 2, Military Issue Armor Model 2
- Added ambidexterity feature to the game.
- Boss Sai Wing Mock now has ambidexterity: handguns
- Rachel Steinman now has ambidexterity: knives
- Vincenzo Carro now has ambidexterity: handguns
- Improved Sweep ability: Automatic weapons now have “Ammo Per Sweep“ attribute which allows to use Sweep effectively and some weapons with large magazines no longer use all ammo per Sweep. For instance, Tommy Gun with its large 50-rounds magazine now can perform 2 Sweeps, firing 25 bullets per Sweep.
Other affected weapons:
- Submachine guns:
- Machineguns:
- Improved enemy AI
UI/UX:
- Reorganized tabs of the character sheet in order to have more convenient access on consoles
- Increased fade speed of dialogues
- Added auto-healing logic after battle (characters now are healed automatically after battle when there is a doctor in the squad)
- Taxi button is now available at wider range of zoom
- Added “Auto-resolve battle” button to the Racket’s quick menu, now it’s possible to perform auto-resolve from the map view.
Balance:
- Rebalanced Upfront Cost of mid- and high-tier gangsters
- Rebalanced Notoriety requirements of mid- and high-tier gangsters
Enemies now deal more damage on mid to high difficulties
[1] = 1,
[2] = 1
[3] = 1 -> 1.25
[4] = 1.25 -> 1.5
[5] = 1.5 -> 2
- Rebalanced armor used by guards. Now guards use better armor.
- Decreased brewery storages upgrade cost
- Increased Ransack time from 25 to 30 days
Rebalanced loot drop, item prices and markets restock:
- Black market resupply frequency changed: 60 -> 55
- Black market is providing better quality items over time
- Black market and Police maximum count of restock items changed: 12 -> 13
- Allowed to use Kunai knife as a melee weapon and added it to loot drop and stores
- Decreased Remedy effect duration: 2 -> 3 rounds
- Increased Smelling salts effect duration: 2 -> 3 rounds
- Increased Nerve Tonic effect duration: 2 -> 3 rounds
- Increased Liniment Tonic effect duration: 2 -> 3 rounds
- Increased Wizard Oil effect duration: 3 -> 4 rounds
- Increased Bau Chai-Ung Marksmanship: 70 -> 72
- Minor changes to damage of some weapons
- Changed initial reinforcement turn: 2 -> 1
- LP08 Pistol clip size changed: 4 -> 9
- Rebalanced armor attributes
Configured some weapons with ammo per sweep value for using not all ammo.
- Rebalanced drop, weapon and armor prices, improved store and made the black market to show better items over time.
- Added ambidexterity to some characters.
- Updated mission rewards.
- Added stronger armor to NPC by their tiers.
- Other balance changes in abilities, characters, weapons, building upgrades, difficulty and other parts.
Bug fixes:
- Fixed workers AI logic in loan sharks
- Fixed NPC behaviors in rackets
- Fixed Persuader’s Sweep action hang-alive
- Fixed a bug in the "Sweep" scenario when the timings for launching animations and sounds could be calculated incorrectly, which caused the entire scenario to be out of sync.
- Fixed various calculations for auto-resolving combat
- Fixed a bug with icons visibility for hidden safehouses of other bosses
- Fixed bugs in displaying battle events on the loot screen (who took damage, who was injured, who died, and other events):
- Bug where we could see an empty list of events (but they have happened and should be there).
- Bug where we could not see damage information for characters that are bleeding out.
- Fixed “agree” animation in cinematics (in some cases it was playing with a long delay).
- Fixed a bug when enemies could prioritize “overwatch” too often
- Fixed a bug when it was possible to assign “windows” key to an action
- Fixed a bug when the player could fail to skip the tutorial using a controller.
- Fixed a bug when in The Dime A Dozen mission focus shifted to another mission after combat with BOI officers.
- Fixed a bug when the player was unable to complete the side mission 'The Gift And The Grain' as the player was unable to interact with the NPC Henry.
- Fixed a bug when debug text could be observed in the dialogue text of the character 'Boris Petrov' when talking to him after completing the 'Follow The Money' mission.
- Fixed a bug when Mama's Here mission did not progress after talking with Lorenzo.
- Fixed a bug in the tutorial when after sitdown with Ronnie the player could start the battle alone.
- Fixed a crash with Ada Santos Souza using Medic's kit
- Fixed a crash with George Moran using sweep ability
- Fixed a softlock when Ragen's Batter Up and Overwatch triggered at the same time
- Fixed a bug when the main mission 'Making A Killing' failed to progress as the character 'Thompson' couldn't have dialogues with the player character 'Salazar Reyna'.
- Fixed a bug when Daniel McKee Jackson couldn’t trigger a conversation with Eva after drugging Bill in mission Pineapple Primary.
- Fixed a bug when the progression was blocked in the mission ‘Pineapple Primary’.
- Fixed a bug when the mission 'Follow The Money' failed to progress for the boss 'Angelo Genna' after the objective 'Talk to Hoffman to start the game'.
- Fixed a bug with a game blocking when we are killing someone by KILL dialog option but do not have any gun in the inventory.
- Fixed a game block after using suppress fire ability.
- Added and fixed some character animations with weapons (SMGs, Luger and some other)
- Fixed a bug where a boss can be not present at his safehouse.
- Fixed bugs related with invalidation of buildings (for example: taking over buildings by other factions, destroying and other events)
- Fixed bugs related to building blockers (when we do not have ability to exit/enter building, but we can do it when we are in a map mode)
- Fixed bugs and improved attack system (game logic and animations) for better working with dual wielding, burst, sweep and other.
- Fixed corrupting in late-game manual and auto-saves.
- Fixed crashes when clicking disabled action bar icons.
- Several fixes in localization
- Several minor bug fixes
Happy Sinning!
