Survivor Panama & Cook Islands Upgraded

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The Survivor Panama Update and Survivor Cook Islands Update have been released. This involves a lot of new code to handle the unique hidden immunity idol for these seasons.

During the past week, a bug was fixed with Profile attributes sometimes not working properly in the .com simulators. This bug was due to a function that was originally made for Total Drama Island not translating the 5-attribute to the 8-attribute profiles that these other simulators use correctly. This has now been fixed.

Thank you to everyone who has been testing and reporting bugs. I’m also gathering feedback in the following Google Doc. Before the next season upgrade, this feedback will be analyzed, and some quality of life updates may be made to all of the Survivor seasons: Feedback Survey

The Challenge: All-Stars Cast Photos Added

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Cast photos for The Challenge: All-Stars have been added to the BrantSteele.com simulators. The season will premiere Thursday, April 1, on Paramount+.

Thank you to Mira for editing these cast photos.

Survivor Palau & Guatemala Upgraded

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The Survivor Palau Update and Survivor Guatemala Update have been released.

One of the most requested features in Palau was the ability to use the tribes from the show. Similarly to Thailand, this can now be done through Edit Cast – along with choosing the starting tribes if you’d prefer. There are a few different options for visually and/or functionally excluding Episode 1, Part 1.

Guatemala features one of the most unique tribe swaps in Survivor history and the introduction of the Hidden Immunity Idol. It is also programmed using the newest version of the algorithm. Please leave feedback on whether you prefer the changes – such as the immunity winner listed each tribal council and more realistic quit/medevac probabilities and rock drawing chances – and would like these to be applied to the other seasons.

Thanks to bwburke94 for providing specific details that went into the planning of these simulator and Brandon for testing.

You can also use the Feedback Survey to provide your thoughts on how these early season upgrades are progressing. Thank you.