v2.1.3 and v2.1.4: one report, 80 achievements, nine bugs

Early August 2026, two maintenance releases:

It started with one report

A player wrote on Steam that the achievements "Turned a profit" and "Doubled" never fired for him. The obvious response would have been to look at those two. We went through all 80 instead.

The result: the two reported achievements were structurally unreachable, not just for him. Along with them came eight further findings that nobody had reported, because nobody had noticed them.

That is why we take small reports seriously. One player who took the trouble to write down two achievement names showed us nine bugs.

Country packs across devices

The editor from 2.1.0 brought a class of problem that did not exist before: a country you built yourself travels with the save file to a device where that country does not exist. Two cases are fixed. In one, the internal league numbers of a custom country collided with those of a built-in one; now the country actually being played wins. In the other, the sponsors of a custom country pointed nowhere on the second device. There is now a save-file test series that reproduces the journey across two devices.

European competitions that repair themselves

The second trigger had been public on Steam for months, in one of the negative reviews: "The international cups constantly fail to finish because an opponent is missing. After that the season cannot be ended."

That no longer happens. A stuck knockout bracket now resolves itself instead of freezing a whole season. Along with it, a leak in the season reset that had been leaving data behind for years.

A negative review is uncomfortable to read and usually the most precise bug report you will get. This one said what was broken, when it happened and what followed from it. No ticket says more.

The Manufaktur dev