The first update since launch, and it is a big one
This one collects everything done since the build you are playing. Keyboard and mouse are unchanged.

FIXED

• 🐄 Team management: hand the driving to a companion, the buggy stays with the group, a prisoner never rides.
  
• The enemy hunts each character as in 1989. Stark gets shot at from minute one.
  
• Captured means captured: control passes to the next free teammate, or EVERYONE IS IN PRISON.
  
• Jailed teammates dimmed on the TEAM screen; rescue messages no longer read like a capture.
  
• Companions are saved with your game.
  
• Alertness as in 1989: sleep is the only thing that restores it.
  
• Ski falls follow the decoded 1989 rule, read the slope ahead of you, and scale with difficulty.
  
• Ski and buggy steering no longer speeds up with your frame rate.
  
• The hang glider crashes on a nose-dive and never lands inside a building.
  
• Demolished buildings show their ruin, keep it after a load, and leave no invisible wall.
  
• Missile reload with MISSILE RELOADING and TORPEDO IN FLIGHT; one warning per incoming missile.
  
• Dynamite: no free top-ups; SUPPLIES adds 28 sticks, a magazine fills you to 56.
  
• Cable-car pylons: pass under the arm, crash on a leg.
  
• Windows open with the title bar on screen; GAME OPTIONS tiles no longer shrink their text.
  
• Every screen is retro art now.
  
• First-time tips return on a NEW GAME and do not replay on a load.
  
• The title and Academy backdrop is a fixed landscape, no frozen gauges or scope left behind.
  
• BACK TO TITLE SCREEN and CLOSE MIDWINTER each ask about saving with their own card.
  
• FIRST AID lesson: you wake inside the bunker before the nurse arrives.
  
• UPHILL + STAMINA lesson: rest points count from farther away and the card shows the STAMINA figure.
  

ADDED

• Controller support on every screen: D-PAD moves, A presses, B closes, the selected item is ringed with its tip shown as text.
  
• Steam Deck support, in beta.
  
• Strategic map: hold A and move the RIGHT STICK to pan. The RIGHT STICK scrolls the FROSTOPEDIA and long cards.
  
• PLANT EXPLOSIVES and RESISTANCE work from a controller.
  
• Cards and prompts name the buttons in your hands, pad or keyboard.
  
• DISPLAY OPTIONS and SIZE tiles; the window comes back where you left it.
  
• OPTIONS before a game starts, with RETURN TO START SCREEN to come back out.
  
• COMPANIONS: take control of anyone in the same building; he drives the same buggy.
  
• Your team sleeps together in a building, one card for all.
  
• After a lost campaign, B takes you out to REBELLIOUS DOGS.
  

🐄 = reported or suggested by Kuhminator K-2000 - thank you.

CONFIRMED WORKING

• 🐄 Escorting Professor Kristiansen to a free radio station brings four more people to the cause - it was already in, and Kuhminator K-2000 confirmed it in play.
  

KNOWN

• The Arctic Survival School's DOWNHILL CONTROL lesson is closed while it is being rebuilt. Its tile reads DOWNHILL CONTROL - WORK IN PROGRESS, is dimmed, and cannot be entered. Every other lesson is unaffected.
  
• The HEADQUARTERS building picture is still modern while the rest of the game is retro.
  
• Returning to the title screen while an Academy page is already showing can leave you on that page instead.
  
• One FROSTOPEDIA cheat page still names SPACE where a controller player needs a button.
  
• RPG grenades never miss (100 percent hit) - the hit rate is being tuned for the next build.