Hello Citizens,
After receiving your feedback, we are coming back to you with improvements and bugfixes related to the latest patch.
Below you will find the full patch notes:

General Gameplay
- Survivalists’ Headquarters territory exploration threat decrease effect now stacks
- 'Optimise Inputs' ability no longer lowers the Automaton Factory building output
- It is no longer possible to research Criminal Reparation, Guard Immunity, Crime Elimination, Treatment and Housing Distribution policies without a built Council
- Air Transport Hub now affects buildings inside the districts
- Optimized performance during temperature change events in late game

Interface
- Major memory and object count optimizations to widgets
- Pause game keybinding can now be changed
- Improved Affinity emblems visibility on the construction radial
- Area Effects for Hubs are now displayed in Research Topic panel
- Improved Utopia tree visuals on lower screen resolutions to prevent overlapping
- Production district will no longer reset output mode upon district expansion
- Fixed Story Mode submenu chapter selection navigation issues on lower screen resolutions
- Fixed camera position during negotiations when playing with a controller
- Fixed camera rotation being possible on the faction formation screen when playing with a controller
- Fixed a softblock when attempting to fulfill the Algorithm promise when playing with a controller
- Fixed overlapping prompts in the Council when inspecting delegates
- Fixed issues with city chat bubbles disappearing too quickly after The Council voting
- Fixed Old Waystation deposit displaying Logistic units count on the tooltip

Art
- Optimizations to the shadow count aimed to improve gpu and memory performance
- Various improvements and fixes to hubs VFX
- Increased the size of the Insulated Districts outlines in the Heatmap overlay
- Tweaks and improvements to road generation logic around hubs
- Minor optimizations to texture compression

Other
- Fixed a few crashes related to threading and general under-the-hood memory handling operations
- Fixed crashing Prologue save states created before 1.5.x patch
- Memory optimizations
- Localization fixes

Thank you for your ongoing feedback!
Take care,
~ 11 bit studios team