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Update #1

Game Update #1


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!

Gamedec has been released

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/

Gas Station Simulator is Steam's latest surprise hit

Anything can happen on Steam, it seems, including breakout success for a game about running a gas station. Yes, Gas Station Simulator is the latest unlikely contender to rise up the Steam charts, wowing players with its, um, gasoline pumping action and strategic station upgrade system. (Look, I love American Truck Simulator enough not to judge.)


Jokes aside, it looks like Gas Station Simulator is scratching the same itch for players that games like House Flipper or Lawn Mowing Simulator have satisfied. From a first-person perspective, you'll renovate a desert gas station back to working order, then serve whatever customers come through. Over time, you can upgrade the station and hire workers to automate parts of the job, so you can continue to focus on bigger things.


Gas Station Simulator has reached a peak of 5,619 players on launch day, as SteamDB shows, putting it just shy of Steam's top 100, right between games like Fallout: New Vegas and Surviving Mars. It's currently the number three top-selling game on the platform, too, just behind the excellent Deathloop and the newly-launched city-building game, Timberborn.


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Our Little Launch Agenda



Surrounding the launch of the game, we planned a few things for you to enjoy and we hope you join us, unless of cause you are busy playing the game.

We will start with Raptor playing the game at 16:00 CEST and end around 22:00 CEST with a QA session with lots of interesting stuff in between. Naturally all the footage shown today will be from the full game.

Just have a look at the game's store page to watch the broadcasts.

Let's work on a larger discount!



[h3]Congratulations everyone![/h3]
The first goal has been reached, now let's work on increasing the discount even further.
 
 


Now for the second goal, it isn't far away and you should be able to make it for launch.
All you have to do it add the game to your wishlist and follow it.




The reason we do this, is being a relatively small indie studio, adding our games to your wishlist and following them on Steam helps us a lot!
We know that many of you already have the game on your wishlist, but in case you don't, we would really appreciate if you would consider adding it. Sharing this with your friends helps us equally.
 
In return, when we reach these goals, we will apply an increasing discount to the price of the game at launch.

If you are not sure about adding your game to your wishlist and following it, we humbly invite you to play Early Days, the free prologue to Gas Station Simulator to see how good the game is:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1528080/Gas_Station_Simulator_Prologue__Early_Days/

And remember, Gas Station Simulator releases on 15th of September - we are almost there!
Thank you everyone for your continuous support!