Gas Station Simulator News

Hi everyone,

in the early stages of our Gas Station Simulator and Winter Survival Simulator we got quite a bit of support from good friends at Duality Games. What better way to return the favour then to let you know, that their game Accident is out of Early Access and available today. They even updated it with some new scenario, cool video cut-scenes and a lot of other fixes. And it comes ith a 30% launch discount to boot :)

https://store.steampowered.com/app/852220

In Accident you become a journalist discovering some past road accidents. Despite a lot of fun, the game has a strong educational value – you can learn how to act on the site of the road accident, what to do in case of emergency, how to perform a CPR and a lot more!

We spent the weekend working really hard to provide further fixes for the random crashes and also provide a proper fix for the issue of auto-saves not functioning correctly in later stages of the game.

A big thank you! to all those players who support us by sending in their save games and provide additional information and even test some development builds. This helps us a lot in speeding up the process of identifying the issues and what is causing them.

[h3]Stability[/h3]
- We discovered that Texture Streaming was responsible for a significant amount of random crashes in various circumstances. Those crashes have been fixed and it was not necessary to disable Texture Streaming like last time.
- Various minor stability fixes that do add up to a more stable game and some extra checks in a few places that were potentially crashing the game.

[h3]Save Games[/h3]
- Autosave should trigger every 4 minutes regardless of quest progression unless quest has it specifically prevented (First Dennis Quest as an example).
- The Main Menu should properly detect saves and no longer wrongly grey out the Continue button.
- Fixed an issue with Challenges where under certain circumstances you could skip the 'Upgrade Station to X' quest when loading a game.

[h3]Quests[/h3]
- You should no longer be able to skip Painting Quest by getting rid of Dennis too quickly.
- You should no longer be able to clear the hay-bales too quickly before the quest, and get stuck on the quest.

[h3]Other[/h3]
- Gas Station opening/closing lever should no longer be stuck randomly and not interactable after loading the game.
- Amount of litter and trash has been both further reduced. The effectiveness of employee cleaning ability remains unchanged from Update #1 for the time being. This is a stop gap measure until Update #2.
- Added "Headbob" option (not localized yet) to the options menu. Its purpose is to disable camera motion on movement. This option by default is enabled.
- Mini-golf should no longer give you infinite money.
- Minor UI fixes
- Some translation fixes, especially for Thai.

We will now continue working on Update #2 that we plan to release later this week.

This is the first update in a series of updates we are currently working on to improve the game, get rid of the problems the community reports and also add more languages to the game.

It is important to us that you believe in what we do the same way we do ourselves. We know there are issues with the game right now and we are committed to provide fixes and improvements before we proceed to adding more content to the game. The way we see it, the vast majority of the players like our game a lot. It's just mostly technical issues we need to tackle and these usually "only" take time and commitment - things we feel we certainly have.

[h3]Stability[/h3]
- Fixed a crash related to customers generating waypoints. We believe this was the cause of a lot of the random crashes players experienced.

[h3]Employees[/h3]
- Fixed an issue where in some cases there would be no employees avaliable to hire even though the quest required you to do so.
- Increased the efficiency of employees who are cleaning. They should now be about 50% faster at cleaning trash.

[h3]Balancing[/h3]
- Reduced the amount of footsteps and trash items the customers leave behind by roughly 33%.

[h3]Controller[/h3]
- Disable Controller option added to the Options menu. This is intended as a temporary fix for the problem where we are detecting some non-controller things (keypads, wheels, bluetooth devices, as controllers).

[h3]Graphics[/h3]
- Texture Streaming Pool increased on lower settings, which should lead to textures loading faster on lower settings and not staying blurry.

[h3]Languages[/h3]
- Thai language has been added to the game.
- Fixed an issue where people who played the prologue would sometimes get the wrong language set as their primary language when starting the game. This change will reset language to English for everyone on the first run after the patch.

[h3]Other[/h3]
- Car Workshop doors should now be paintable and lose durability less quickly.
- You should no longer be able to close Warehouse doors while a truck is entering or leaving the warehouse.
- Added confirmation to deleting Saves & Overwriting existing saves.
- Removed the piece of terrain that was sticking through the ground in the main station.
- Fixed trash being stuck and not be interact-able after loading the game. Also fixes trash on bought decorations being untouchable.
- Removed Giacomo the Snake until we can add the Ophidiophobia mode.
- Autosave should no longer give you extra money on quests where you get money from the Uncle.
- You can now bring up the tool window after throwing items immediately.
- Removed erronerous default binding on Left Arrow Key & Right Arrow Key which turned the character Left/Right

[h2]Known Issue[/h2]
As you're most likely aware, there is an issue where delivery trucks, vehicles/traffic in general and sometimes even customers can get stuck. There is a simple solution to resolve these issues: the Big Red Button. Located at the Dust Bowl sign it resets these things and restores order at the gas station. Here a short video where to find it:

https://youtu.be/Ii2xPFOZcPM

More to come in Update #2 next week!

You know, sometime a fellow development studio makes a really nice game and after the long labor of finally finishing it, they want to spread the word around. We've been there with our games and we were fortunate to have friends to spread the word for us. That's what we'd like to do today for the guys from Anshar who just released Gamedec today!

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Gamedec is an isometric cyberpunk RPG where you're a detective solving crimes in virtual worlds.

Since you like games with deep and immersive stories, you might fall in love with it. Check it out and consider trying it out, because it's available with a 10% launch discount!

The game is as awesome as it sounds, so join us in this incredible adventure!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/917720/Gamedec/