Cook, Serve, Delicious! 3?! News

Welcome y'all to another update of your favorite post-apocalyptic food truck simulator!

Metro Central is a large city with nothing really extraordinary at all. The plain hum-drum life is a nice break from the chaos of the world, despite the dark clouds looming overhead.

That's not to say it's an easy challenge, oh no. Not only are there difficult levels ahead, but this area introduces a new food truck that can unleash a super attack! Max Wieners is on the scene with a sniper rifle that targets your temperature regulator. What does that do exactly? Well, it prevents your holding stations from getting too hot- and once its destroyed, your holding station food's freshness levels will decrease 90% faster than they normally would for the entire day!

It is an insane attack that will destroy most players, since holding station foods will only last seconds. Good luck!

In addition to the 35+ levels there will be achievements and two extra trinkets, and the next update will feature a much larger trinket update! With the extra time I've had between this update and Newer Orleans I've also fixed a number of bugs that have needed to be addressed for a while, such as the Halo-Halo impossible recipe, the Creme Brulee torch bug that would "freeze" the brulee, decreased Well Done cooking times for meats by 50%, and more!

Thanks y'all and look for the update early next week!

Here it is, the biggest update ever for Cook, Serve, Delicious! 3?! Not only are you getting an all new territory and features such as more dialogue from Whisk and Cleaver, but also included is a new Truck Customization feature with 40 trinkets to decorate your truck with, and more to come in future updates.



Also I have a fun announcement! Tomorrow we'll be doing a Charity Stream Relay on Twitch! This is all to benefit #NoKidHungry, a charity dedicated to getting food to kids in need due to COVID-19. You can check out the schedule above, and we'll be giving away game keys for CSD 3 and Sundae Plushies all throughout the event! Be sure to tune in and watch on Twitch! You can donate to the campaign directly here.

I hope y'all enjoy the update and I'll never get tired of thanking y'all for the reviews, they help immensely. Take care and stay safe!


= UPDATE v0.75 NOTES =

= NEW ADDITIONS =

• Newer Orleans Territory Added! Over 35 levels of crazy goodness.
  
• New Customize Truck feature allows you to decorate your truck with 40 fun doodads, with more to come in future updates!
  
• New Esteban's Food Truck will hack you with a brutal attack that blinds you from incoming orders, watch out!
  
• New VO added for Day Complete screens! You'll hear these every few days that you complete, includes different ones for Perfect/Average/Bad days.
  
• Two new Perfect Stop VOs added.
  
• New Achievements.
  
• Trading Cards are now available! You should get them in your inventory soon if you haven't already. Enjoy!
  
• You can now swap control methods for gamepads. You can use the CSD 3 standard or switch to the CSD 2 standard (where the right stick skips PS/HS and L1/R1 triggers auto-serve.) The gamepad options menu has also been redesigned.
  
• New food descriptions for the following foods:
  -Borscht
  -Chicken Tikka
  -Navarin
  -Empanada
  -Soto Ayam
  -Buta Kimchi
  -Kachumbari
  -Boba Tea
  -Banh Mi
  -Pancit
  -Curry
  

= IMPROVEMENTS & BUG FIXES =

• An additional level has been added to Food Truck Reinforcements. Level 4 requires eight engine parts and prevents new Super Attacks from occurring (which will be in the next update.)
  
• Puff Puff difficulty raised from 1 to 2.
  
• Improved memory footprint.
  
• Improved text clarity for ending splash screen for longer route names.
  
• Fixed a potential bug that could assign the wrong food truck attack for certain instances.
  
• Fixed a bug where player 2's gamepad controls would not function correctly if player 1 had the triggers/shoulder buttons swapped.
  
• Fixed a bug that was not properly assigning the right trigger/shoulder button swap options for player 2.
  
• Fixed a crash when trying to access certain filters in the Food Catalog.
  
• Fixed volume issue that would reset VO volume to default when starting the game.
  
• Added a fun secret.
  

This is by far not only the biggest update we've done for CSD 3 up to this point, but maybe the biggest update I've ever done in my whole career makin' games! How crazy is that? Let's dig into all the new goodies that you'll be getting next week!


Welcome to Newer Orleans

The newest territory, Newer Orleans, is a wasteland in dire need of hope. Perhaps you can shine a light with your delicious food, Chef. Just watch out for the new Esteban's food truck- their new nasty hack attack can blind you to important UI elements, and makes prepping food even harder than usual.

While the general guidelines for this area recommend a full Level 20 or above hazmat suit for outside use, you'll find most citizens just want to continue living and dressing as they did before. Is it a desperate yearning for life before the bombs, or ignorance, or carelessness that they don't all suit up? All I know is that guy wants a King Cake, and he's gonna get one, by golly.

Enjoy over 30 levels with some of the hardest stops yet! Good luck Chef!




Steam Trading Cards & Achievements

Along with new challenging achievements we will also be releasing Steam trading cards! Collect all eight and earn delicious Gelato badges, emoticons and backgrounds.


Additional Dialogue from Whisk and Cleaver

All new end-day dialogue lines from @negaoryx and @havanarama have been added to the game! You can get a taste of it here. These were all improv'd by Havana and negaoryx and it was a lot of fun to record at the end of a very long VO session, and I'm so happy we're getting them into the game. They will pop up sporadically during the course of the game and will not be included as a "repeat" line, so they'll be a bit more rare.


Customize your Food Truck

Finally, the biggest update yet- the ability to customize your food truck! We have 40 trinkets available for this update, with dozens more to come in future updates. You'll be able to place statues and posters all over your truck, some earned, some you can buy, and a few that are challenges you must complete.



In CSD 2 the editor was, to put it mildly, not the best in terms of user interaction. We wanted to make sure we got it right this time, and I think you'll find it to be a much better overall experience. That said we're definitely looking for feedback on any improvements that you might like in the editor, so be sure to check it out!


...And More!

There's still plenty more to the update, including new food descriptions, some balancing changes, and, well, more! I can't wait for y'all to dig in next week.

Thanks once again for all the positive support y'all gave when we announced the delay of this update from March, and I hope you feel that the wait was worth it! And thank you for all the positive reviews- we're so close to 500 reviews, a huge milestone, all thanks to y'all!

Thanks again, stay safe out there, and cya soon with the update!

Hey y'all! As you've seen so far we've been doing well in sticking to our original Early Access roadmap. While the schedule I initially revealed was a bit of a tight one, I was confident that I'd be able to hit all the targets, barring any kind of catastrophe.

Well, I uh don't think I need to tell you that something just like that happened.

Unfortunately this means I have to push back our next update to early April instead of the end of this month. It's been crazy trying to reorganize our schedules and refocus on making games, but I'm finally in a good place to where I can start makin' levels and improvements again.

While this will also push back our original May estimate of finishing the game back to June, this will also give me a chance to work on other components of the game. The original tight schedule didn't allow for me to really dig into the meat of the game to make engine improvements, and with this delay I'm going to do just that! This includes:

• More great voice work by negaoryx and Havana Mahoney! There are a number of great improv lines that I can't wait to add to the game.
  
• Ability to remap the right stick for auto-serve so that the gamepad functions more like CSD 2.
  
• The ability to customize your truck to be much larger in scope than planned. Originally I just wanted around a dozen or two dozen trinkets and only have the ability to turn them on or off. Now there will be trinket updates once a month with a much more comprehensive editor that allows you to fine tune how you want your trinkets to be displayed!
  
• Better subtitle support for cutscenes.
  
• And lots more!
  

You can expect v0.75 to include a brand new territory and the Trinkets editor as well as a few of the above improvements in early April!

Thanks everyone and I deeply apologize for the delay. I hope all of you are safe and doing well in these crazy times, and I'll be back next week with a preview of all the fun goodies we have in store. Take care,

-David

Another big update, the biggest one yet in fact! Grandview County has a ton of new challenges and features, and is available now! Here are all the details, and watch for another update later this month that includes a much awaited feature. ːcsd2smileː As always, thank you for all the positive reviews, they really help a ton!


= UPDATE v0.70 NOTES =

= NEW ADDITIONS =

* GRANDVIEW COUNTY TERRITORY: 40 new levels in one of the most luxurious counties in the nation, good luck Chef!
* VIP GUESTS: These snobby influencers will ask for Special Orders during a stop!
* FIREKICKERS FOOD TRUCK SIGHTED: This food truck unleashes a devestating ram attack that destroys all foods in all of your Holding Stations, and likes to wait until the last minute before you arrive at a stop. Goodbye Gold medal!
* RANDOM FOODS: You can now use random foods starting at YUM Level 20! This will choose a random food item from the list of available foods and based on what you own. Some levels require all random foods for an extra bit of chaos!
* TURN ON/OFF UPGRADES: You can now toggle all upgrades on and off via the Upgrade Truck menu!
* Six new achievements!


= IMPROVEMENTS & BUG FIXES =

* Spelling mistakes fixed.
* New recipe added to Ballpark Burgers.
* Fixed issue where certain alert messages wouldn't play if more than one was queued up.
* Adjusted UI when at 100YUM and above