Frostpunk 2 gets full controller support and should work better on Steam Deck / SteamOS

11 bit studios have published a major upgrade for Frostpunk 2, adding in full proper controller support with an adjusted UI to match. This should hopefully make it a lot better on Steam Deck and other SteamOS devices, and anyone doing some couch gaming.

Back in March, 11 bit studios did confirm they wanted to work towards getting it Steam Deck Verified and this seems to be a solid step on that front. It not only gives you a controller styled UI, but they've also added in a new circular menu system that they reimagined from Frostpunk: Console Edition.

Example shots from the developer:

All the changes are below:

Interface

• Implemented full controller support, featuring supporting UI .
• Hospitals now display positive district notification when they heal people instead of the side notification.
• The number of homeless people is now displayed in the Main District and in the Heatmap overlay.

Gameplay

• Homeless people now also get sick in addition to dying.
• Reduced and delayed the number of deaths among the homeless.
• Warm districts cure people directly instead of impacting disease statistics.
• Progress generator upgrades now unlock additional levels of heating in districts.
• Added a new research for increasing the capacity of Stockpile hubs.
• Fixed game freezes on automatic heat allocation.

Prologue

• Rebalanced the number and rate of people getting sick from cold districts .
• Reduced the amount of heat needed to heat districts.
• Reduced the maximum number of heat allocation levels from 5 to 3.
• Increased the Food in food deposits by 20%.
• Slightly reduced the Scraps generation rate.
• Increased Frostbreaking tile cost from 37 to 40.

Art

• District panel illustrations now have parallax animations.
• Other minor updates to 2D artwork.

Other

• Various community reported bug fixes.