Frostrain 2 : 0.8.0 Update!

0.8.0 Update!

Im Seokdae

Former Knight of the Redfrost Commander, Im Seokdae, arrives!

• 1 new map
• Around 20 new events
• Around 20 new landmarks
• Around 60 new decisions
• Around 100 new artifacts

The scenery has been made even more beautiful!

You can now browse your run history. Record your past journeys and create even more stories!

Some of the new artifacts can be unlocked through the shop menu accessible from the title screen. Artifacts purchased from the shop will begin appearing in future journeys.

Balance

Synergies

Overall, there were a few synergies that stood out as exceptionally powerful. To address this, we are slightly nerfing the strongest synergies while buffing the weaker ones to bring them into better balance.

Guild of Explorers

The amount of Exploration Records required to obtain rewards is increased by about 2.5 times. The amount of Exploration Records gained from Outpost Exploration and Artifact Acquisition is increased by 3 times.

• Exploration Records 10 → 24: For every 10 Exploration Records I have, Explorer’s League Happiness production increases by 2% → For every 10 Exploration Records I have, Explorer’s League Happiness production increases by 1%.
• Exploration Records 244 → 600: The amount of Exploration Records gained from Outpost Exploration +1 → The amount of Exploration Records gained from Outpost Exploration increases by 100%.
• Exploration Records 700 → 1680: For every 10 Exploration Records I have, Explorer’s League Happiness production increases by 4% → For every 10 Exploration Records I have, Explorer’s League Happiness production increases by 2%.
• Exploration Records 1440 → 3460: For every 10 Exploration Records I have, Explorer’s League Happiness production increases by 7% → For every 10 Exploration Records I have, Explorer’s League Happiness production increases by 4%.

Developer Comment: Guild of Explorers had to rely heavily on the Media synergy in order to build up high Exploration Log values. We adjusted the numbers to reduce that dependency on Media. That said, you can still expect positive interaction from the Media synergy! In addition, you can now look forward to stronger power growth within Guild of Explorers itself through Exploration Log. (Although the numbers themselves were reduced, actual performance is about 1.5 to 2 times better.)

Train Power

• Train Power (3): 20% → 21%
• Train Power (4): 40% → 42%
• Train Power (5): 60% → 63%

Media

• Media (3): 15% Overperformance Chance for Media trains, 8% for all other trains → 20% Overperformance Chance for Media trains, 10% for all other trains
• Media (4): 30% Overperformance Chance for Media trains, 15% for all other trains → 40% Overperformance Chance for Media trains, 20% for all other trains
• Media (5): 45% Overperformance Chance for Media trains, 23% for all other trains → 60% Overperformance Chance for Media trains, 30% for all other trains
• Media (6): 60% Overperformance Chance for Media trains, 30% for all other trains → 80% Overperformance Chance for Media trains, 40% for all other trains

Food

• Food (3): Gain 4 passengers → Gain 5 passengers
• Food (4): Gain 8 passengers → Gain 10 passengers
• Food (5): Gain 16 passengers → Gain 20 passengers

Education

• Education (2): The amount of bonus Happiness is doubled → The amount of bonus Happiness is tripled.
• Education (4): The amount of bonus Happiness is multiplied by 5 → The amount of bonus Happiness is multiplied by 6.
• The amount of bonus Happiness gained by Education carriages increases by 50%.

Children of the Engine

When you accept a gift, the amount of Faith required to receive the next gift increases by 20, and when you refuse one, it decreases by 30 → When you accept a gift, the amount of Faith required to receive the next gift increases by 40, and when you refuse one, it decreases by 10.

Artifacts

Platinum

Emergency Duty System: Artifact rarity changes to Gold. Cycle time -2 seconds → Cycle time -1 second.

Money Worship: All trains’ Happiness production increases by 0%. This value increases by 2% for each Gold-grade artifact I have. → All trains’ Happiness production increases by 0%. This value increases by 3% for each Gold-grade artifact I have.

Silver

Memorial Bell: +1 EXP whenever you lose 2 passengers → +2 EXP whenever you lose 1 passenger

Woodcutter’s Axe: Artifact rarity changes to Gold.

Special

Backlash: Happiness -8/cycle. This value doubles each time you obtain this artifact. → Happiness -1/second. This value doubles each time you obtain this artifact.

Frost

• Low Approval Rating: All decision completion times increase by 30% → All decision completion times increase by 30%, and Discontent increases by 16%.

Developer Comment: Because of the Discontent nerf patch described below, the base difficulty has become a bit easier overall, so we slightly increased the difficulty of Severe Cold 1 to compensate. This does create a somewhat larger gap between the base difficulty and Severe Cold 1, but Severe Cold 3 is planned to remain at a similar difficulty level.

Decisions

• The performance of the Shanty Carriage on the Shanty Carriage upgrade route is reduced. However, while it was previously only possible to upgrade it up to Tier 7, it can now be upgraded beyond that.
• Shanty Carriage Tier 3: Happiness +18 → Happiness +15
• Shanty Carriage Tier 4: Happiness +36 → Happiness +28
• Shanty Carriage Tier 5: Happiness +81 → Happiness +52
• Shanty Carriage Tier 6: Happiness +144 → Happiness +96
• Shanty Carriage Tier 7: Happiness +306 → Happiness +179
• Shanty Carriage Tier 8: Happiness +332
• Shanty Carriage Tier 9: Happiness +618
• …

Landmarks

• The Chimney: Gain 6 Supplies → Gain 9 Supplies.

Events

• Daily Report: Gain 2 Supplies → Gain 3 Supplies.

Game

• Special cards (such as Gifts and Special Drone Supplies) can now also be recycled. Recycling a special card grants a small amount of Recycling Points. (Please be careful not to sell them by accident!)
• Initial Unhappiness is reduced by about 14%, and Unhappiness gain is increased by 9%. As a result, the game becomes easier up to Day 150 on base difficulty and up to Day 52 on Frost level 3.
• When you have received 6 or more Drone Supply cards, dragging cards will now allow scrolling properly.

There may be some additional changes not listed here due to the sheer amount of new content. We hope you enjoy the new patch, and please share your thoughts with us! Then we will return with an even more fun update. Thank you!