Hi everyone! With a huge delay, but it's finally here - a fresh update for DevLife including the new map, Interactive Events about music and random life situations, and a new decision system! Alongside it comes the biggest discount to date [b]-65%[/b] as part of Steam's [url=https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1351360/view/3861338313393697014]Capitalism and Economy Fest 2024[/url]!
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I already went over the details in [url=https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1351360/view/3651905071994785508?l=english]another post[/url] and of course, you can test them for yourselves. [b]Just one important note: due to changes in the locations' balance, saves from the previous game versions are incompatible with the new version.[/b]
As always the full changelog for this update is available below. If you find any new bugs or have suggestions about the game, you can leave them at our [url=https://discord.gg/Skw8Zpj]Discord[/url] server.
Until the next time!
Roman
[h2]Changelog:[/h2]
[h3]New Features:[/h3]
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[*] Added new map: Bay Office
[*] Added decision system
[*] Added Interactive Events connected with the new map
[*] Added Interactive Events connected with music (learning instruments and going to concerts)
[*] Added Interactive Events about random life situations
[*] Added new water system
[*] Added highlight for hovered furniture in the Build Mode
[*] Added tooltips for furniture placed in locations
[*] Added employee’s salary renegotiation tooltip
[*] Added unlocked skills tooltips in the employee stats tooltip
[*] Added hover states for all interactable UI elements that lacked them previously
[*] Added lights for windows during night in the location currently owned by the player
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[h3]Game Balance:[/h3]
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[*] Rebalanced location progression, prices, bills, and maximum number of available employees
[*] Increased chances for a random Interactive Event start the more time has passed since the last successful activation
[*] Increased chances of getting no furniture additional decorations
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[h3]Corrections / Improvements:[/h3]
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[*] Changed all tooltips to have fixed positions
[*] Changed the way the community language tooltip works (now it will appear on the dropdown options)
[*] Changed window light color in the Family House location to match other locations
[*] Improved accuracy of selecting already placed furniture in the Build Mode
[*] Blocked showing Environment Settings window during Interactive Tutorial without canceling it
[*] Disabled collisions for snow particles
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[h3]Bugs Fixes:[/h3]
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[*] Fixed problems with loading active simulated Interactive Events
[*] Fixed not working commissions search filters toggling
[*] Fixed not working collisions after loading the game and not unpausing it
[*] Fixed camera going back to previously owned location after selling it and going back to Family House
[*] Fixed loading water quality settings not working properly (they were loaded from textures quality selector)
[*] Fixed trees wind animation
[*] Fixed missing blur in the Environment Settings window
[*] Fixed showing snow overlay during loading when starting a new game
[*] Fixed corner kitchen worktops that sometimes were unplaceable
[*] Fixed not unlocking some furniture present in the default location furniture after buying it
[*] Fixed loading wrong player's character salary value in the Company Manager window after clicking on it and not editing its value in the input field for the first time
[*] Fixed not hiding location trackers in cinematic camera mode
[*] Fixed location trackers sometimes not rendering correctly
[*] Fixed disabling some of the window night lights after fading buildings when they should not be disabled
[*] Fixed missing materials on some of the Halloween decorations
[*] Fixed the possibility of entering skills and components names in search panels during the Interactive Tutorial
[*] Fixed exceptions when exiting to the Main Menu when there was no workstation placed in the location
[*] Fixed not showing notification about the possibility of creating a company after having met the money requirement but not the one about learning at least three skills and learning the final required skill
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