Pax Autocratica — patch notes and updates
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Dated developer announcements recorded from Steam. Open the source for the complete update.
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| 🛠️ DIRECTIVE ST-24: STATE MAINTENANCE 🛠️ | 2026-09-24 | Citizens, a new State Maintenance Directive has been issued.The following adjustments, optimizations, and corrections have been approved for immediate deployment.\Special soldiers, such as IntelliExplorer A20 and Miralisse Novarin, will no longer randomly get negative general and combat traits.Improved the Temporary Assignment and Auto-assignment logic so that soldiers properly go back to previous tasks after completing a temporary one, and, when idle, choose a task that is a better fit for them, including Mining, Logging, and Gathering.Improved hauling logic:When resource-producing buildings reach full storage, soldiers working at the Resour |
| 🛠️ DIRECTIVE ST-11: STATE MAINTENANCE 🛠️ | 2026-09-11 | Citizens, This update focuses on improving the State’s operational stability, including fixes for loading issues that could prevent some Leaders from properly playing the game, alongside several other improvements that directly impacted the overall experience.We've been asked a lot when the next update is going to be released, so I wanted to explain that since launch, our priority has been addressing the most severe stability issues and urgent problems reported by the community. With those foundations secured, our focus will now shift toward the larger Early Access goals such as expanding the depth of the colony sim, co-op, and introducing ma |
| 🎉 AURORIA DAY #1: STATE-APPROVED FESTIVITIES BEGIN 🎉 | 2026-09-10 | Citizens, Auroria Day has arrived.To commemorate the first month since release, and inaugurate a new monthly tradition, the State has prepared rewards for Citizens who demonstrate sufficient enthusiasm, loyalty, and ability to correctly follow simple instructions.CLAIM YOUR AURORIA DAY REWARDComplete the Official State Loyalty Examination and: Receive the Nebula Assault Rifle - Aurorian Ceremonial SeriesA ceremonial weapon skin issued to Citizens whose loyalty has been deemed worthy of State recognition.Automatically enters Auroria Day's giveawayThree participants will be randomly selected to receive a Pax Autocratica Steam Key to distribute |
| 🛠️ State Maintenance Directive 🛠️ | 2026-08-28 | Citizens, to maintain operational stability, another maintenance directive has been deployed. \ Improved the description of the quest The Leader's Care. It now directly displays the name of the soldier who requires attention, making it easier for Leaders to identify the target. Added class-based sorting to the Soldier Management and inventory interfaces. Improved enemy spawn locations in several battles. \ Fixed an issue where the allied tank could not move during tank escort battles. Fixed an issue where the Reproductive Allocation Facility could become incorrectly occupied under certain circumstances. If this issue has already occurred, Lea |
| 🛠️ DIRECTIVE AG-27: STATE MAINTENANCE 🛠️ | 2026-08-27 | Citizens, to maintain operational stability, another maintenance directive has been deployed. \ Added an item selling feature to the Trading Post. Leaders can now sell unwanted or excess items to visiting merchant ships. Added an option to the ESC menu to hide all HUD elements temporarily for cleaner screenshots or recordings. Press ESC again to restore the normal interface. The Sub-Healthy trait has been adjusted. It now increases the chance of becoming ill instead of causing soldiers to suddenly die. \ \ Improved the attack effects of the Lethal Venomfly. Improved the sound effects of Weapon Core · Full Draw Shot. Improved collision in seve |
| 🛠️ DIRECTIVE AG-25: STATE MAINTENANCE 🛠️ | 2026-08-25 | Citizens, this update introduces many optimizations, progression, and quality-of-life improvements fueled by your field reports. Please review the following changes with pride:\Added a new Colony Difficulty Customization screen, allowing Leaders to adjust overall base work efficiency, time progression, stamina consumption, conflict behavior, and more.Significantly increased the maximum number of Foundations that can be built.Reduced shadow performance costs on Medium and Low graphics settings, optimized memory usage for soldier animations, improved Foundations rendering logic, and greatly improved base performance.Opening the victory chest af |
| 📡 100,000 OF YOU HAVE JOINED THE FIGHT! 📡 | 2026-08-19 | CITIZENS.It has been 8 days since Pax Autocratica entered Early Access, and 100,000 of you have already joined the fight.At the same time, more than 500,000 people still have Pax Autocratica on their Steam wishlist.This is far beyond what we expected.Thank you to everyone who has played, left feedback, reported bugs, written reviews, made videos, streamed the game, or told a friend about it.Your feedback has been heard. We've been going through everything you've shared and have built a list of issues and improvements, prioritized largely by how many players they affect. We're working through that list as quickly as we can.And we're only getti |
| 🛠️ DIRECTIVE AG-14: STATE MAINTENANCE 🛠️ | 2026-08-15 | Citizens, to maintain operational stability, another maintenance directive has been deployed.\Added three new advanced Capture Rounds, with higher capture chances against Elites and Bosses.\\After a failed attempt at capturing an enemy, that enemy cannot be killed for a short period of time. Leader's melee attacks can still bypass this limitation and kill the target.Increased the damage of Weapon Core · Vortex Shell and the damage area of Weapon Core · Thunderbolt Arrow.\Save files are now sorted by creation time in ascending order.Improved the Soldier Deployment bar layout at 16:10 resolutions and addressed text overlap issues.\Improved the |
| 📡 STATE OF THE FRONTLINE: YOUR REPORTS HAVE BEEN RECEIVED 📡 | 2026-08-13 | Citizens, Thank you.Tens of thousands of you have joined the fight, submitted battlefield reports, filled out surveys, posted reviews, joined discussions, and found an impressive number of ways to break things we were quite certain could not be broken.The Ministry has been reading.And, more importantly, the developers have been acting.YOUR REPORTS HAVE ALREADY CHANGED THE GAMESince launch, feedback from the field has already led to several changes, including:A toggle for Soldier Aging.Automatic save backups to better protect saves after crashes, freezes, or unexpected interruptions.The ability to Exile soldiers, not just captives.Manual quant |
| 🛠️ DIRECTIVE AG-12: POST-LAUNCH STATE MAINTENANCE 🛠️ | 2026-08-12 | CITIZENS,Since Early Access began, Leaders across the State have flooded the Ministry with battlefield reports, bug reports, criticism, and suggestions. We have been reading them, discussing them, and, most importantly, acting on them.This update addresses many of the issues you raised, alongside new features, balance changes, improvements, and fixes.The Supreme Council thanks you for your service. Keep the reports coming. This campaign has only just begun.\Added a Soldier Aging toggle. Leaders can now choose whether the Soldier Aging system is enabled. When enabled, soldiers will gradually age over time. When disabled, soldiers will no longe |
| 🛠️ State Maintenance Directive 🛠️ | 2026-08-11 | Citizens, to maintain operational stability, a system calibration has been deployed. \ Fixed an issue where save data could fail to save correctly under certain conditions. Fixed an issue where some building models were displayed incorrectly during the final phase of the tutorial battle. Fixed an issue where some models were displayed incorrectly during battles. Fixed an issue with the lightning visual effects used by the Sattleri Energist. Fixed an issue where the Leader could be unable to leave the Office under certain conditions. Fixed an issue where the Toxic Fog Core could not be triggered when the Leader attacked the Tree of Asherah dur |
| 🚨 PAX AUTOCRATICA IS OUT NOW AND WANTS YOU 🚨 | 2026-08-10 | CITIZENS. THE WAIT IS OVER. By order of the Ministry of Propaganda, recruitment has officially begun. Pax Autocratica is OUT NOW in Early Access, with a 17% off launch sale. THIS IS ONLY THE BEGINNING The State does not mistake deployment for completion. There is still much to build, expand, improve, and bring under proper administrative control.For your review, the Ministry has authorized the publication of our current roadmap:These plans are not immutable. The exact content we develop, as well as the order in which it is deployed, may be adjusted according to what we learn from the field.Which brings us to...YOUR FIELD REPORTS MATTERNo camp |
| 🛠️ DEMO HOTFIX 🛠️ | 2026-08-02 | Citizens, The last patch came with an issue making a lot of you unable to play, stuck in loading screens, or had much longer loading time.This hotfix fixed that, we do recommend a complete uninstall and fresh reinstall instead of just updating the game.Sorry about that.All corrections have been verified and authorized. |
| 🛠️ DEMO UPDATE 🛠️ | 2026-08-01 | Citizens, to maintain operational stability, a system calibration has been deployed.\\Players can now destroy Landmines deployed by enemies.Added a cutscene showing Auroria's Eye being deployed during the tutorial battle.\Added additional voice-over.Improved equipment categorization and sorting in the inventory.\\Improved the stacked display of dropped items produced by Logging, Mining, Gathering, and other base activities.\Improved soldier positioning and chest spawn locations during combat.Improved soldier follow logic.Improved Danger Zone warnings.\Adjusted the drop rates of ammunition, Super Potions, and Healing Grenades across different |
| 🛠️ DEMO UPDATE 🛠️ | 2026-07-29 | Citizens, to maintain operational stability, a system calibration has been deployed.\\Improved the flow of the early-game quests Space Resources and Engage the Scourgeborn. This adjustment prevents later quest progression from becoming blocked when Space Resources is completed without following the tutorial guidance.Improved the objective completion detection for the quest Tactical Development.\Adjusted the number of enemy units spawned and the intervals between enemy spawns during the final phase of the Elysia Oasis Decisive Battle.\Fixed an issue where some models were displayed incorrectly during the battle at the Drakon Mercenary Camp.All |
| 🛠️ DEMO UPDATE 🛠️ | 2026-07-27 | Citizens, this update introduces many optimizations, progression, and quality-of-life improvements fueled by your field reports. Please review the following changes with pride:\\The Gratov Quantum Longbow now has piercing capabilities. However, its damage is reduced after each enemy pierced.Added a health bar to the Shield Grenade, its maximum health depends on the player's health. Once depleted, the shield will break and disappear.\Added a guidance popup explaining how the Leader can become stronger after defeat.Added a tutorial for the Aged soldier status.\Added tutorial buttons to building detail panels, allowing players to quickly view re |
| 🛠️ DEMO UPDATE 🛠️ | 2026-07-22 | Citizens, to maintain operational stability, a system calibration has been deployed.\\Added an “Ineffective” damage indicator for attacks that are resisted.Added a danger warning for the Auto-Defense affix.Added a capture pity system. Capture attempts are now guaranteed to succeed after reaching a certain number of failed attempts.\\Improved indoor lighting at the base.Improved the display of Resource Transport Station information in the Leader's Agenda.Adjusted the building categories of the Resource Transport Station and Warehouse Center.\Improved the placement of enemy turrets in the Elysia Oasis Decisive Battle.Improved the Weak Point hit |
| PRICE, LAUNCH TIME & NEW TRAILER REVEALED | 2026-07-22 | Citizens, the State has finalized the terms of your deployment.Early Access Launch Price The launch price will be:$29.99 USD€29.99 EUR£24.99 GBP¥108 RMBTo commemorate the establishment of the new regime, Pax Autocratica will receive a 17% launch discount for the first two weeks.Early Access Launch Time The State will officially open its borders at:North America August 10 at 8:00 AM PT / 11:00 AM ETUnited KingdomAugust 10 at 4:00 PM BSTCentral EuropeAugust 10 at 5:00 PM CESTChina / SingaporeAugust 10 at 11:00 PMJapan / South KoreaAugust 11 at 12:00 AMNew Broadcast from the Ministry of Propaganda Wishlist Pax Autocratica, gather your forces, an |
| 🛠️ DEMO UPDATE 🛠️ | 2026-07-21 | Citizens, this update introduces major production, combat, progression, and quality-of-life improvements fueled by your field reports. Please review the following changes with pride:\Added a research queue, allowing building and technology research to be queued.Added new crafting modes:- Order Mode: Produces a specified quantity of an item. Production pauses when materials are insufficient.- Stock Mode: Keeps the quantity of an item above a specified threshold.- Auto Mode: Produces a resource indefinitely, pausing only when the required materials run short and automatically resuming once materials are available again.- These modes are unlocke |
| 🛠️ DEMO UPDATE 🛠️ | 2026-07-07 | Citizens, to maintain operational stability, a system calibration has been deployed.\Fixed an issue in the mission "Marching Order: Aggressive Stance" where the objective description showed an incorrect hotkey.\Improved the guidance for the Elysia Oasis Decisive Battle, reduced its combat difficulty, and changed the support units to allied forces.Increased the Core Fragment hold limit to 10.Yellow battles now have a chance to drop red-quality Core Fragments.All corrections have been verified and authorized. |