Hey Devxx!

Let me give you some answers:

1. Each operative has a perk. You can see them in der Operative screen by clicking on the right most button on the top element of the HUD or on the plus in the bottom left corner. These perks get stronger with the level of the operative. E.g.: The security operative gets less damage the higher his or her level is.

2. As soon as the bar is full and starts from anew you should find a new trait in the lab (#4 in your case)

3. To slow mutation you need to treat cities. The higher the amount of infected cities is, the higher the amount of mutation points is the disease accumulates each turn.

We constantly try to expand on the information visualization so each of the elements of the game is understandable. It's very important for us to see posts like yours as it shows us that some of the elements still need explanation to be understandable. Thanks a lot for that!

2. As soon as the bar is full and starts from anew you should find a new trait in the lab (#4 in your case)

That's what I thought but, as stated, I started with 3, the bar filled and started anew, I checked and it was still 3 traits. I was thinking maybe it didn't go to 4 because it was on Easy setting but according to you, it should have been 4. Any idea why it wasn't?

Update - and more problems

First, same thing as above. Started game on Easy with 3 traits (Lab), mutation bar filled up, icon started flashing, the next turn I thought I heard some sound that "sounded" like something happened but there was no display saying a new trait was added (nice if there were) and there were still only 3 traits in the Lab view. Seems like a bug. This is Bacteria by the way.

And speaking of bugs, I had 4 operatives and researched Improved Logistics to get one more. Well, research completed, I got the new, empty + box down along the bottom of the screen and when I went to hire someone, Hire was greyed out. Yes, I had $130,000 and above my team it said 4/5 yet I could not hire number 5. I played a turn and came back, same thing. I even dismissed someone, 3/5 now with $180,000 and Hire was still greyed out so I quit the game.

I have another EA game, just released like yours and I don't have any issues with it but they've already released 5 or 6 bug fix patches. I think there's only been 2 for your game over the last month. Are people just not reporting things? Seems little ole me just found 2. This is a great game and I hope (I hope) it gets good support. Please let me know what you thnk about what I've reported above.

Thanks!

Your two issues sound like bugs to me. We will investigate and come back to you as soon as we investigated them.
Thank you for reporting these issues. We want this game to be the best experience possible and we need people like you who are reporting issues and giving us feedback to make this happen.

We found the issues and you were right, these were bugs. We fixed them, you shouldn't encounter these issues anymore. Thank you for reporting them!