POST HIGHLIGHTS
- Wrecking Bola, Atomic Olga, Symmetry and Agent X are now available to recruit
- Other new changes include Temperature tweaks and buffing the benefits
*full patch notes at bottom of post
- Wallpaper rewards are available to download
- All Discord rewards are now accessible
- Wall of Infamy winners announced (on our blog)
- New Evil Genius 2 merch and 25% discount code available
DIRECT FROM THE DEVS
You did it, you showed those Super Agents who's really the boss and now you can recruit them into your own evil organisation, congratulations!
With this update we have added Side Stories for recruiting Atomic Olga, Symmetry, Agent X and Wrecking Bola as Henchmen. You'll encounter each Super Agent as usual as you progress towards World Domination in a Campaign game, but after you've defeated them once and for all, recruitment side stories will become available, allowing them to cheat death and join your side.
Alternatively, dive into Sandbox mode and start playing with them right away! This content does not require any DLC download or enabling, its now available by default as part of the base game.
The addition of the Temperature System in the Oceans DLC pack was always intended to introduce new construction challenges, and additional considerations when building your evil Lair, but it has done so a touch more aggressively than some of you would like.
We've made some changes here to make Comfortable temperatures (and aesthetically pleasing Lair layouts) easier to achieve, and we will continue to monitor this over the coming weeks.
We have of course continued to listen to feedback we receive through our wonderful community team, and so you can also expect the usual list of bug fixes and QoL improvements in addition to your rewards for successfully completing the community challenge.
Stay evil,
The EG2 Dev Team
RECAP: FROM S.A.B.R.E. TO NEIGHBOUR - WEEK 1
Wrecking Bola was our first target. Giving players the chance to really get stuck into the brand new Oceans Campaign Pack, we set our targets a little lower in week one - giving you time to get familiar with all the new content and progress far enough into your evil campaign that you could start luring Super Agents.
Not only did you comfortably complete our objectives by the end of the week, but you Schemed a WHOPPING 506,844 times! The target was only 140k. Talk about overachievers... give these minions a pay rise!
Download your Wrecking Bola wallpapers here!
RECAP: LAIRS UNDER THE H.A.M.M.E.R. - WEEK 2
Naturally, your hard work should be rewarded with... more hard work. The second week of our event was meant to test your dedication to our evil cause. Again, you did not disappoint - though it was touch and go near the end! Atomic Olga is a formidable foe, but you still managed to sneak ahead of the target number of defeats, obliterating Olga 123,000 times over.
And we'd be amiss not to mention you just crossed the finish line (in overtime) for the Scheming objective this time round - surpassing the 500k goal by a mere seven Schemes! You could say 007... But that might be copyright infringement. *wipes brow* We thought our ambition was simply too great, but you really pulled out all the stops to get Atomic Olga on our side.
Download your Atomic Olga wallpapers here!
RECAP: AN A.N.V.I.L. SCANDAL - WEEK 3
Up next, we had Symmetry... Another challenge. Another success. It was by a fine margin, but you still managed to exceed our expectations, by a few thousand extra Schemes, Interrogations and defeats. More impressive was your bloodlust for the treacherous little thief that's made off with so much of your ill-gotten gains in the past.
Honestly, there's evil and then there's hiring Symmetry for the sole purpose of guarding your Vaults of gold - to look but never to touch... We hope you revel in your long awaited revenge now you can recruit Symmetry to do your bidding!
Download your Symmetry wallpapers here!
RECAP: A CANDIDATE AT P.A.T.R.I.O.T. - WEEK 4
Finally, we rounded off our event with a long awaited foe. Agent X was always loyal to a fault... but no more! Now he is yours to command. Despite your stats draining after four gruelling weeks of endless combat, intense Interrogations and sustained Scheming, you still managed to over-deliver on those Agent X defeats (11k over target)!
You also Interrogated a total of 154,342 P.A.T.R.I.O.T. Agents (44k over target)... We're impressed. Maybe Agent X is too. He values dedication to a cause as much as we do! Who knows, perhaps your dedication was the key to swaying his loyalty to P.A.T.R.I.O.T. in the end.
Download your Agent X wallpapers here!
BONUS REWARDS: For completing every objective during our event, you can also download a brand new Polar wallpaper set here, and there are additional Polar stickers and emojis on our Discord.
NEW MERCH ALERT
We are also running a 25% discount on all Evil Genius 2 merch, with new items now in store (including one of our runner up items voted for by our community, a pom pom beanie)!
WALL OF INFAMY
To browse our Wall Of Infamy winners and their screenshot submissions, visit our full blog here - and don't forget to join our Discord for impromptu content challenges and exclusives.
PATCH NOTES:
Additions:
- Side Stories for the recruitment of Super Agents
(Wrecking Bola, Symmetry, Agent X and Atomic Olga)
Platform Specific:
- PS5 - Fixed issue with audio dropout
- PS5 - Doomsday Devices should now cause pad vibrations
- PS4 - Gamepad no longer becomes unresponsive on switching profile
- WinStore - Game will no longer crash on close if the user is signed out
Oceans Campaign Pack:
- Comfortable Temperature level thresholds have been relaxed, and negative Temperature thresholds have been increased
- Extreme Temperatures now have a reduced impact on Lair Item Durability
- Permanent Temperature changes during Polar's Campaign have been reduced
- The positive effects of the Comfortable Trait have been increased
- The Air Con Unit and Space Heater have had their emission range increased
- Temperature furniture adjustments
- Temperature traits no longer prevent minion capture
- Brought Polar's "Inner Sanctum Door" stats in line with others
- Oceans content in Rogues gallery now displays correctly
- Arctic Casino Doors no longer switch to normal Casino Doors after they open
- Engineers now correctly receive "Well Fed" buff from Sushi Bar
- Hubbard Slice now correctly affects Oceans loot items
- Industrial Air Conditioner now correctly unlocked in Sandbox Mode
- Prevented Oceans side stories persisting beyond the "point of no return"
- Gordian Naut engineering project now correctly lists "Unlocks"
- Deep Six objectives now correctly list "Unlocks"
- Improved collision for selecting Oceans regions on the World Map
- Credits now play correctly on completing the Oceans campaign
- Deep Six objective markers now rotate correctly on the World Map
- Engineers no longer become misaligned with "Workbench"/"Advanced Workbench" during use
- Improvements to Agent speedboat arrival animation
- Characters should no longer float into the air inside the Oceans island helipad lift
- Minor Arctic Island updates
General:
- Doors destroyed by Wrecking Bola will now be re-constructed automatically when set to do so
- Removed duplicate items from Sandbox build menu
- Improvements to Muscle minion rigging
- Muscle minions legs no longer float while using "Super Serum Machine"
- Clara Jones now correctly sits at Red Ivan's conference table
- Prevented stair construction configuration leading to invalid build state
- Gamepad can no longer navigate to invalid minion type in minion manager
- Improvement to the way minion training and priorities interact
- Furniture selection markers now appear on Incinerators when selected via minion side panel
- Casino fountain damage stats now more consistent
- Launcher graphics settings now consistent with in-game options
- Collision updated on V.O.I.D. Stage 3
- Updated overhead icon priorities
- Added reset camera key
- Scientist minions should leave computer consoles earlier when power is switched off
- Intro cut scene timing updates
- Adjustment to job priority of Incinerator vs. Abomination Creation Station
- Freeze Ray VFX should trigger correctly on interaction with other traps
- Reduced delay before Super Agents respawn after being defeated
- Combat furniture vision cone updates
- Updated stats for "Improved Radio Repeater"
- Lighting/Shadow improvements
- Text Updates
- Minor UI Updates
- Animation clipping updates
- Island object clipping updates
