Alpha 43

**Alpha 43** was an update released on January 25th, 2018. It featured the first level of Uptown, the last main Stage of the game.

## Patch Notes

### Music

* New Track “Floor 5-1 I'm Too Arousing For My Turtleneck” added to soundtrack owners’ libraries

### Art

* New wall and floor art for Uptown levels

### Environments

* Gated Community
* Mansion
* Uptown House
* Bathhouse
* “Zoo” (features Zombies, Cannibals, and those filthy, uncouth Slum Dwellers)
* Private Club
* Deportation Center
* Confiscation Center
* Police Outpost
* New Bank varieties
* New Music Hall varieties
* New Mall varieties
* New City Park varieties

### Objects

* Lockdown Wall (barricades that go up when Uptown goes into Lockdown)

### Environments

* Fixed a hole in one of the Hideout buildings not being the correct size

### Graphics

* Internal fixes to characters’ facial features, hats etc. are determined, could potentially fix a few small things
* Fix for swimming NPCs on multiplayer client not appearing to be underwater at the start of a game

### Playfield Objects

* Certain doors have been given “Panic Room” behavior for particular buildings like Mansions
* Fix for Ghosts and Holograms being poisoned by Slime Puddles
* Fix for player sometimes being teleported behind vending machines and trash cans

### Items

* Items that were missing from Item Teleporter were now available
* Fix for Thief NPCs being able to steal quest items from player

### Status Effects / Traits / Special Abilities

* Investment Banker NPCs do not start with Addict

### Level Generation

* Fix for cases where buildings may not have been generated at proper difficulty levels on higher floors

### Artificial Intelligence

* Supercops are no longer Aligned with player cops, they are Friendly instead
* Supercops will enter private property to investigate noises
* Clerk in Deportation Center can be paid off
* Fix for Goons sometimes not patrolling correctly
* Fix for people sometimes observing Shelves against walls from the wrong side of the wall
* Non-owners no longer take interest in objects outside of the building that they occupy, such as Air Conditioners
* Fix for NPCs sometimes having difficulty navigating Crushers
* Fixed pathfinding issues directly after an NPC jumps out of water
* Fix for player not being able to ask Slaves to leave town after they are freed
* Player can ask Slaves to leave town when they are in captivity, but they will always refuse due to the fact that their helmet would blow up
* When player pays a bouncer, not all NPC owners in the building will become Friendly -- only the ones that would have become angry with the player immediately upon seeing them

### Multiplayer

* Potential fix for multiplayer issue where host can enter the game as the incorrect player and start at the bottom-left corner of the map

* Removed /teleport function from multiplayer games, this was meant to help with issues in earlier builds

## Subpatches

### Alpha 43b

* Fix for quests sometimes not appearing properly when due to reward item not being chosen
* Fix for music not looping properly in 5-1
* Cop Bots can be killed by EMP Grenades
* Fix for gamepad players not being able to properly target a position to make their followers stand guard
* Fix for Investment Banker dropping items that were never programmed into the game
* Fix for cases where NPCs would still attempt to attack the player while in different “lockdown zones”
* Fair Game and Charismatic traits cancel each other out properly
* Improvements to when Lockdown is triggered
* Fix for cases where player could teleport behind fences in new buildings
* Clerks say dialogue all the time when the player interacts
* Fix for audience members laughing at NPC Comedian’s jokes when they have Hearing Blocked
* Added door to Gorilla cage in one of the Zoos that should have been there
* Fix for player being able to lose a mission at the start of the game to free a Cannibal from the Zoo
* Fix for followers from previous levels not transforming into Zombie properly
* Fix for particle effects attached to people sometimes appearing at the incorrect angle
* If one of the players is a Cop, you will not receive missions that take place in Police Stations
* (For real this time) Fix for player sometimes being teleported behind Vending Machines and trash cans
* Fix for player not being able to command followers to stand guard on top of hidden objects
* Cop Bots no longer flee when their health gets low
* Fix for player’s head not appearing properly as Ghost when player chooses the new Cop Bot head for their custom character
* When players add custom characters to bottom row of character select screen, shadows no longer appear behind the characters
* Fix for Trash Cans sometimes spawning next to level border near City Parks
* Players who Can’t Speak English can still comply with Cop Bots

### Alpha 43c

* Fix for Can't Speak English not working properly as a result of a change in 43b

### Alpha 43d

* Fix for lighting appearing weird at non-16:9 resolutions as a result of some internal screwing-around I did for console versions in 43c