v0.4.0 - Events & Layer Ports Update - Patch Notes — Into The Grid Steam update #506416

Hello, Runners!We're very excited to share with you one of our biggest updates yet. This is mostly because of how many different new elements we're introducing into the game all at once. Let's jump into it!The Event System is a long-awaited feature that will make every run feel fresher and more immersive. Events in the Grid are narrative scenarios that the player must decide how to resolve. This means that Events not only are a way for us to give you a better narrative picture of what's going on when you're infiltrating the Grid, but they're also a strategic puzzle that you must solve to make the most of their mechanic outcome.Events can have an inherent quality of being positive, neutral, or negative, but are also highly contextual: our Event system allows us to tweak chances and randomness to adjust every option to the actual state of the run at any given moment. We've also set up a sy...