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Major Update v1.1 - Controller Support



[h2]v1.1.4 Changelog[/h2]

[h3]Patch Highlight 1 - Full Controller Support[/h3]

More hotkeys, more settings, supporting any controllers you want to use! Xbox and PS controllers have additional features.

[h3]Patch Highlight 2 - German and Korean voiceovers[/h3]

Learning Factory now has an official German and Koran voiceovers made by Bastian Scheibe https://www.fiverr.com/bastiansvoice?source=inbox and Hyuk https://www.fiverr.com/h_hyuk?source=inbox


[h3]Gameplay[/h3]
  • Mass purchases logic is changed
  • Upsale requests appear a bit later
  • New Smoothie recipe with Milk
  • Old Smoothie recipe with Juice speed increased
  • Trade Deal: Apple Box -> Smoothie is buffed
  • Rich Cats now rarely request Smoothie as part of the Pyramid request
  • Schrodinger's Chamber now can clone Legendary Cats

[h3]Art[/h3]
  • 4 more backgrounds for Researchers in the Lab

[h3]UI, QoL & Texts[/h3]
  • Sound feedback is slightly improved
  • Many minor UI\UX fixes
  • Copywriting for English and Russian
  • Tutorials improved
  • Community Localization for German is improved (Lady_whynot, Eneri, WolbaTV)
  • More hotrkeys for SteamDeck

[h3]Bug fixes & Tech[/h3]
  • Optimization
  • Fixed bug with generation of cats with Mass Purchases (sANDY, Алёна Счастье, LoadRunner)
  • Minor Bug fixes (kudos to xz215279, Алёна Счастье, LoadRunner,Mr. YA, sANDY, LoadRunner)


Also don't forget about our collection of items in Steam Points Shop made by our artist Sergey!



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Controller Beta - v1.0.3



[h2]v1.0.3 Changelog[/h2]

[h3]Patch Highlight 1 - Controller Support (Beta)[/h3]

Starting from this patch you 'technically' can play the game from start to finish using only controller! It won't be fully comfortable yet and we expect some bugs, so if you have any feedback about controller gameplay or bug reports share it with us in our Discord or right here. Thanks in advance!

[h3]Patch Highlight 2 - Portuguese-Brazilian voiceover[/h3]

Learning Factory now has an official Portuguese-Brazilian voiceover made by native speaker Ramon M https://www.fiverr.com/ramongmaia?source=inbox

[h3]Gameplay[/h3]
  • 4 new Legendary Cats
  • Water Tunnel unlock requirement reduced from 500 to 150
  • Water Tunnel research cost reduced from 500 to 250
  • 5 new Map Pin icons (Eneri)
  • New upgrade for Milk Drill to increase Milk production quantity
  • Zeppelins behavior slightly improved
  • More visual features for cats on transporters
  • Boutique inventory size increased
  • Box++ recipe with gold speed increased

[h3]Art[/h3]
  • Hedges rerendered
  • Optic Cables art improved
  • Minor terrain improvements

[h3]UI, QoL & Texts[/h3]
  • Tooltips improved
  • Warnings improved
  • Many minor UI\UX fixes
  • Copywriting for English, Russian, and Chinese is improved
  • Community Localization for German is improved (Lady_whynot, Eneri, WolbaTV)

[h3]Bug fixes & Tech[/h3]
  • Game engine updated
  • Optimization
  • Minor Bug fixes (kudos to Murzilka, Lucky, mimo_prohidil, eneri81, Pashtet, Alerto, s50114, EmberShadow, S'Kleer, Алёна Счастье, Frisby, Мята, Ferri)


Also don't forget about our collection of items in Steam Points Shop made by our artist Sergey!



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Dr Katz Reporting - About Voiceover



Hey!

We heard a lot of positive feedback about our voiceover! We are really happy about it and want you to meet our voice actors!

English


The Original. The Legend. Dr Katz originally is voiced by Ali Gohar. We made a lot of iterations to perfect the cat speech of mad scientists. The main reference for a character was Dock Brown from "Back to the Future" and various cartoon cats.

As a result, we got a great voiceover which Ali himself rated as "This is PURRRFECT!" after playing the game and we used his voice as a reference to all other languages.

Ali Gohar
  • https://www.fiverr.com/voiceoverali?source=inbox


Russian


So here we got a bit lucky twice. I have a few friends in "Maly Theatre" in Moscow and some of them recommended Artem Zatiev to us. He is not only a voice actor (agent ISO in Valorant for example) but also an actor in Theatre and Cinema.

And the second time we got lucky because we have a great character reference for all Russian speakers - "Matroskin the Cat" from "Three from Prostokvashino". This cartoon is not only famous but also beloved by all Russian people.

Artem Zatiev
  • https://www.kinopoisk.ru/name/5818723/?ysclid=m7ad3h2n4g417603441&utm_referrer=yandex.ru
  • https://www.litres.ru/author/artem-zatiev/?ysclid=m7ad3yoc4z511927066
  • @art_zatiev in Instagram


Chinese


And with Chinese localization we also got lucky. The man behind the Chinese version of Dr Katz is a member of our team - Peter Weng. Peter has been working with us since While True Learn() and among other things he is the author of Chinese localization for both games. When we tried to find an actor for this role he volunteered and the result is great!

Brazilian-Portuguese


Hold on, this voice isn't in the game yet. At least not publicly available. But it is done and will be released next week. Sadly we can't add a sample to the news, but trust me, it will be glorious.

Ramon M
  • https://www.fiverr.com/ramongmaia?source=inbox


What next?


There is more? Yes! Korean and French localizations are being recorded and will be added in a patch or two. But that is not all, we are trying to find voice actors for German, Polish and Japanese, and some more!

Back to work engineers!

Hotfix v1.0.2

[h2]Bug Fixes[/h2]
Minor bug fixes (Murzilka, Lucky)

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Legendary Patch - v1.0.2



For the last two weeks, we've been reading reviews, watching Twitch streams, and YouTube videos nonstop, slowly going crazy! So the patch turned out to be pretty big and nice. Worth it. Send more feedback and bug reports! We love the smell of feedback in the morning.

[h2]v1.0.2 Changelog[/h2]

[h3]Patch Highlight - 15 new Legendary Cats[/h3]



Cat you meet them all?

[h3]Gameplay[/h3]
  • Lumber Mill work speed upgrade research cost reduced from 500 to 200
  • X-switcher research cost reduced from 200 to 150
  • Reverse Splitter research cost reduced from 300 to 200
  • Chance of perks with "Can Use Data X" reduced
  • Perks with "Can Use Data X" now give 10% quality of 10% experience
  • Campaign map improved
  • Some Trading deals buffed
  • A lot of new visual features for customer cats
  • Advertising Cat Gates now by default summon cats ONLY with 1 item type, it can be changed in the UI. So they are easier to use
  • Many Legendary Cats have more money
  • Campaign and Freeplay maps generation is improved
  • Removing Fertilized plant now refunds a Fertilizer
  • New Upgrade for Trade Relay - Increased trading speed
  • Shopaholic invasion also doubles the chance of Upsale Requests
  • Distribution of new requests is slightly rebalanced at the start of the game
  • Worker Cats now can request Milk as an Upsale Request
  • Increased multiplier to money dedicated to upsale requests from Hype and Loyalty
  • Some Milestones are slightly harder to unlock (because unlocking them too early causes too many new requests)
  • Concrete recipe with Juice changed. It now requires 4 Juice instead of Juice+

[h3]UI, QoL & Texts[/h3]
  • Cat Secret window is reworked
  • Cat Gate window is updated
  • Relocation window is reworked
  • Tooltips improved
  • Tutorials improved
  • Many minor UI\UX fixes
  • Event spam is reduced in some edge cases
  • New Tutorial about Advertising Cat Gates
  • Search in the research window is improved
  • Copywriting for English, Russian, and Chinese is improved
  • Community Localizations for German and French improved (Lady_whynot, Eneri)

[h3]Bug fixes & Tech[/h3]
  • Game engine updated
  • Optimization, especially if you are using many tunnels (Цифра)
  • Fixed generation of cats with specialized requests (SteVieh445)
  • Fixed generation of cats with upsale requests (SteVieh445)
  • Fixed generation of cats who were upgraded via pyramid (SteVieh445)
  • Minor Bug fixes (kudos to NhKPaNdA, Eneri, Олег Морозов, faley016, SteVieh445, YORK, ariel.moonsoo, RonEmpire)


And a small reminder - we have a Support Pack with some cool printable posters if you want to

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1545771/Learning_Factory_Support_the_Developers__Poster_Pack/

[h2]Re: Factory[/h2]

In this section of patch notes, we answer the questions from the community that were submitted via the in-game feedback form and/or seemed especially interesting to us, You can always contact us directly in the comments or join our Discord server

Q: Please add a filter for Manipulators to take only certain goods out of storage
A: There is one! It is called Selective Manipulator, it is an upgrade for Selective Item Splitter

Q:zeppelin disappear after placing game234 A:Looks like you changed Zeppelins View mode. We improved this behavior, so now you will see zeppelins on the ground even when they are hidden

Q:My dudes, I have no idea how the trade relays are meant to work even after the tutorial. The cat pun guide wants iron in exchange for fertilizer. I put iron in, the counter ticks down, my iron is gone but I have no fertilizer Darkrenown A:Fertilizer counts as a building, so it is added directly to your buildings panel. We clarified it in the tutorial in this patch

Q:I see graphical artifacts in Learning Factory and While Ture Learn on Linux Darkrenown A:It looks like new Linux+Unity problem started recently. We can't reproduce it sadly. In this patch we are updating the engine, so hope it will be fixed. In the next month, we will migrate to the new LTS version, so I hope the problem will be gone.

Also don't forget about our collection of items in Steam Points Shop made by our artist Sergey!



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[h2]How to Get More Involved[/h2]

At Luden.io, we develop games while constantly listening to the feedback from our awesome players. If you feel proactive, you're very welcome to do one or more of the following: