Evil Genius 2 — patch notes and updates
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Dated developer announcements recorded from Steam. Open the source for the complete update.
| Update | Date | Excerpt / source |
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| Patch V1.13.0 | 2022-04-12 | Happy Easter Geniuses! Rather than eggs, we've been hunting bugs in the lead up to the bank holiday, and we're happy to report that we've cracked a few that have been lurking. With a focus on navigation, we've continued to make improvements to minion pathing, so we should see fewer members of our dedicated workforce getting stuck at the helipad and having to pay the ultimate price for their slacking. With a little community assistance we also identified and fixed an extremely rare issue that caused minions to become completely invincible lair destroying monsters, so that's good! In addition, we've made a number of smaller fixes and general st |
| Patch V1.12.0 - World Domination Event (Debrief + Rewards) | 2022-03-10 | 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 Wrecki |
| Oceans Campaign Pack DLC + Patch V1.11.0 + Community Event News | 2022-02-08 | Brrrr, this new Lair is giving us the shivers! But it sounds like our the new Evil Genius likes to keep things cool. Yes, you guessed it - The Oceans Campaign Pack has landed (in the Arctic of all places)! Get ready to give those pesky Forces of Justice the cold shoulder as the new Oceans Campaign Pack brings the big freeze to Evil Genius 2. Introducing Polar, our ecological mastermind and new genius in Evil Genius 2: World Domination. Venture out to her Arctic Lair and start constructing the Z.E.R.O. Doomsday Device to freeze the Earth to its very core. Complete with a new Campaign storyline, and five Ocean Regions to control, this cool new |
| Live Evil Genius 2 Q&A | 2022-01-25 | Greetings Geniuses, As we head towards our final instalment of Season Pass content for Evil Genius 2, we were thinking it's time to get together for a live Q&A with our community managers (Flop and Gabe). Join us Monday, February 7th over on Twitch for all things Evil Genius 2. Submit your questions either in the comments, over on our Twitter thread or in our Discord server. We'll be working our way through your questions, discussing the latest Evil Genius 2 news and plans, plus maybe even giving a few additional teasers for the Oceans Campaign Pack DLC - coming soon! |
| Evil Genius 2: Dev Update | 2021-12-09 | Greetings Geniuses, Before we end what has been quite a year, we'd like to give you one more Developer Update for Evil Genius 2: World Domination. Firstly, and most importantly, thank you all for your support! From release in March, through five DLC releases, two free pieces of tie-in DLC (thanks Valve!), and a whole bunch of patches, you've given us plenty of positive feedback as well as features to work on whilst we endeavoured to make Evil Genius 2 the best game it could be. As you'll have seen, we've recently been spending some of our time on console versions, so new players have many more opportunities to express that world-conquering am |
| NEW Abomination Minion + Patch V1.10.0 | 2021-10-27 | IT'S ALIVE! IT'S ALIVE! No, seriously... Our science minions have been cooking up something seriously sinister (and just a little bit slimy) as an added deterrent for the Forces of Justice, and it's just in time for spooky season. Now you can resurrect your own army of brain-munching brutes to keep agents at bay. Imagine the sheer terror those troublesome agents will experience, running into one of these towering, barbaric beasts! No mercy, just muscle. What goes into making a monster? First, you'll need to construct your very own top-of-the-range Abomination Creation Station (see below for manufacturing details). ABOMINATION CREATION STATION |
| Community Event Reward and Hotfix 1.8.1 | 2021-10-07 | One step closer to global domination... and it's all thanks to our community of criminal masterminds! You've shown those no-good do-gooders from the Forces of Justice that we're not to be trifled with. Together, we've interrogated 549,350 prisoners, looted over 30,142 world treasures, completed 1,072,253 schemes and upgraded no less than 115,685 criminal networks. All that evil in only one short week... Wúnderbar! Having successfully completed all four objectives within the time limit, you've unlocked some loot-worthy rewards for the whole Evil Genius 2 community - including the long awaited Toilet Block DLC! While you continue to bustle abo |
| World Domination Event ┃ Ends Tues, Oct 5 | 2021-09-28 | We’re calling on criminal masterminds from across the globe to help us achieve true World Domination – consider yourself recruited! It’s time to show those no-good do-gooders from the Forces of Justice that we’re not to be trifled with. By demonstrating our unparalleled power, unmatched malevolence and unrivalled reach across the globe, we’re confident they’ll bend to our rule once and for all. You have four objectives to complete, seven days to do it… and one resolute message to send to anyone that wants to get in our way. Don’t! ALERT! ALERT! Evil Genius 2 is on sale now (discount offer ends Friday, Oct 1): 40% off Evil Genius 2: World Domi |
| Patch V1.8.0 │ NEW Portal & Mechanical Minions DLC | 2021-09-14 | With this update, our two latest DLC packs are available: the Mechanical Minions Pack is available to Season Pass holders or separately for purchase, and the Portal Pack is available as a FREE download for everyone! A huge thank you to our friends at Valve for letting us bring Aperture Science Test Chambers to the Evil Genius universe! In parallel with these additional content packs, this update brings further improvements to the core Evil Genius 2 experience. Sandbox Mode has had some attention from our design team, bringing the following much-requested features to the more laid-back approach to World Domination: All Loot Items can be constr |
| The Art of Evil Genius 2: World Domination | 2021-08-24 | A pinch of pizzazz, a touch of finesse and heaps of cunning. That's what it takes to create the most charming, clever, inspiring and devilishly handsome evil genius. Okay, Maximilian - that's the last time we let you guest write for us! All self flattery aside (almost), Evil Genius 2: World Domination is a LOOK! But what goes into creating a world of evil deeds, despicable schemes and criminally charming characters? Well, all is revealed in our new digital art book. Flick through pages and pages of devious designs, from hunky Henchmen mock-ups to intricate Inner Sanctum scheming. This free 64-page PDF showcases a collection of concept art cre |
| Patch V1.7.0 │ Evil Genius 2 Campaign and Sandbox Survey | 2021-08-10 | Hi all, This update focuses on quality-of-life improvements and bug fixes, and comes with a new Campaign and Sandbox Survey for our community to provide feedback on key focus areas of Evil Genius 2. With this update, Traps no longer take passive Durability damage. Instead, Traps take a hit to their Durability only when they are triggered, and this is a flat Durability hit regardless of how many characters are caught in that activation. For example, a Pinball Bumper may be struck by multiple characters (or the same character repeatedly) on a single activation, but this results in only a single drop in Durability. A few oddities in pathfinding |
| Evil Genius 2: Dev Update | 2021-08-05 | It’s Red Ivan Appreciation Week. It must, surely, be time for another Developer Update for Evil Genius 2: World Domination! The Evil Genius 2 development team are continuing the hard work here at Rebellion. We’ve got eyes on a lot of your feedback, and we are also work closely with the Community team to know where to focus our efforts. As such, Rich Edwards and our design team are taking another look at Sandbox Mode to give you some of the features that you’ve been missing and further flexibility when testing your fiendish lair design. Expanding the available options to include Henchmen and Loot is one pillar of these changes, allowing those |
| Evil Genius 2: Community Spotlight | 2021-07-28 | Attention Minions! Once again, we've sent our agents of T.A.L.E.N.T out into the world to discover the finest fan art, most devilish doodles and malevolent masterpieces. Well, let's just say you've generated some heat... Because these community creations are ON FIRE! Evil Island (Credit: Jean-Ronflex) This would make for some fine loot to add to our collection or to decorate the inner sanctum! We don't know what we love more, the soft magma glow creeping up the rocks, or that tiny waving crab. It's the crab, it's got to be the crab. Perfect Disguise (Credit: Koshei_Smertnov) There's nothing to see here, just you're common-or-garden minion har |
| Hotfix - V1.6.1 | 2021-07-16 | Minions, we've just rolled out a small update to address a couple of high priority bugs. Once again, thank you for flagging this to our Community team with urgency. The fixes are as follows: General Moving Gold Statues during Maximilian's campaign no longer causes crashes. Characters tagged for Capture will no longer be killed by the Pyro's flamethrower, by Jubei's Flow ability, or by other spreadable effects. |
| Patch V1.6.0 │ NEW DLC: TF2 Pyro Pack (FREE) and Rise of the Valkyrie Pack | 2021-07-13 | This update sees the release of two DLC packs: the Rise of the Valkyrie Pack available to Season Pass holders or separately for purchase, and the Team Fortress 2: Pyro pack, which is a free download for ALL players - the team have really enjoyed dabbling in the Team Fortress universe, and we hope you enjoy this characterful addition to Evil Genius 2's line-up! Recruit the Pyro as a Henchman and increase your firepower… literally! Pyro can indiscriminately engulf their surroundings in an inferno, fan the flames on those tiresome Agents in the aftermath, and even extinguish less friendly fires with a puff of compressed air. What self-respecting |
| Up to 25% off Evil Genius 2 | 2021-06-24 | Wúnderbar! Grab Evil Genius 2 for an absolute steal this Steam Summer Sale - with up to 25% off!* *Evil Genius 2: 25% off! *Evil Genius 2 Deluxe Edition: 20% off! 🏠 Construct your base 💪 Train your minions ⛔ Defend your operations from the Forces of Justice 🏆 Collect shiny loot ✅ Achieve global domination Unleash your inner evil and become the criminal mastermind you were born to be. And find like-minded geniuses, swap clever trap ideas and submit your artwork, promote your content and discover other creators over in our Rebellion Discord server: discord.gg/Rebellion |
| Hotfix - V1.5.2 | 2021-06-22 | V1.5.2 AMD FidelityFX Added support for AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution 1.0 to Graphics Options. AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution 1.0 is a cutting edge super-optimized spatial upscaling technology that creates a high-resolution frame from lower-resolution input. It maintains impressive image quality while allowing faster framerates than one would get by rendering at a native resolution. It has four quality settings: Ultra Quality mode produces a super resolution image with quality very close to native rendering. It should be selected when the highest quality is desired. Quality mode produces a super resolution image with quality representative |
| EG2 Community Spotlight: How evil is your lair? | 2021-06-10 | Explore some of the most inventively evil lairs from the Evil Genius 2 community. Gabe and Flop will be critiquing criminal bases sent in by EG2 players, rating evil levels and enjoying your magnificently malevolent decor decisions. 📅 Thurs, June 10th 🕔 5pm BST 🏆 PRIZES to be won! 💜 Available to watch on Steam, Twitch, YouTube and Facebook Live. Join us on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/rebellion_official Join us on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/evilgeniusgame Join us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/EvilGeniusGame |
| Hotfix - V1.5.1 | 2021-06-10 | Hotfix V1.5.1 is now live: General Resolved an issue where some players were unable to start Evil Genius 2 without removing their previous game saves. |
| Patch - V1.5.0 | 2021-06-08 | This update focuses on quality-of-life improvements and bug fixes. With this update, additional content can be added to a campaign in progress through the "Enable DLC" option on any Load Game panel, and we intend to continue to support this option for all future DLC, with the exception of the Campaign pack, as noted in the last Development Update. Deserting minions can now be captured and allowed to reconsider whether betraying you is really a mistake they can afford to make, with the result that their Morale will gradually restore during captivity, and with the new "Release Prisoner" button on all flavours of Holding Cell, said minions can b |