The Great Escapists Update - Coming Friday

Prisoners!

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Save games created before The Great Escapists Update will not work with The Great Escapists Update and beyond. Read on for further information. The Great Escapists Update is coming this Friday 10th October, packing gameplay tweaks , new jobs, workouts, bug fixes and a new prison; theKiss goodbye to your HD TVs and your cosy relationships with the guards, this is a zero-tolerance hell-hole equipped with somefeatures; you are there to stay.Stalag Flucht is loosely based on an infamous German POW camp: Stalag Luft III. It is steeped in history, with amazing escape stories that inspired films such as The Great Escape and The Wooden Horse. If you’re interested, read more on Wikipedia , it’s gripping stuff.The Great Escapists Update also packs new features, including one that you've been requesting frequently, multiple save slots. In order for us to implement this feature, we've had to make fundamental changes to the way that save games work. Consequently,You will need to create a new save game to continue playing The Escapists after this update.Please don’t try to use your old saves with The Great Escapists Update, they either won’t work at all or will be horribly buggy. I know that your save games are really important to you, so we’ve given you as much notice of this as we could muster. If you want to finish your current save before updating, you’ll need to keep Steam in Offline Mode until you’re ready to apply the update.I'll bring you full details of the update, including a changelog, on Friday morning (UK time). For now - make the most of your save games and brush up on your escapism skills, infamy will attach itself to the first escapee of the new prison.: The prisoners in The Great Escape movie (and in the real life scenario that inspired it) named their escape tunnels in order to discuss them as part of normal conversation without alerting the guards. What will you name your Stalag Flucht tunnels?MT17