Early Access Roadmap, Challenge Mode & More - Dev Log #15
Hey everyone!
Today we're revealing our Early Access development roadmap. This is a rough guide for content that's already planned to be added in regular updates leading up to our full launch. Our Early Access launch was just the beginning!
Note this roadmap is not exhaustive and we are very closely listening to community requests on features to add or things to tweak. Some of the things on the list might not happen or could change completely based on your feedback too. We'll also constantly be squashing bugs and adding in smaller quality of life features with each content update.
In short though, there's lots of exciting stuff coming!
We've been teasing the existence of a challenge mode coming in our next content update with 3 more levels and a bunch of community Quality of Life (QOL) requests. Though today we have much more to share!
We also showed off the challenge mode in our most recent weekly livestream. This is still very much work in progress but we have fleshed out the system. You can watch the vod here if you want to see it in action.
There's currently two types of the challenge mode, first time and second water usage measured in litres.
Both of these modes have a set loadout includiung power washer, extensions, nozzles and soap. They also give gold, silver and bronze awards for how well you do.
For the first release it will be the PWS Van level but we'll be adding more challenge levels throughout our Early Access up to launch.
We are absolutely blown away by the positivity and useful feedback in the Steam reviews so far. With over 1000 positive reviews and sitting at 93% currrently, we just want to say thank you to everyone that has taken the time to write a review so far!
If you also want to leave a review, you can leave one on our Steam Store page! :)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1290000/PowerWash_Simulator/
We have several slots for levels that are suggested by you the community. We'll be looking at the most popular suggestions for jobs in this thread https://steamcommunity.com/app/1290000/discussions/1/3112530528183413533/. From these we'll pick ones that we think could work well in-game and are popular. Then we'll run polls on our community Discord to decide by popular opinion which ones we will make!
We are really sorry that some players struggled to play the game at launch and we worked as fast as we could to get the hotfixes out to everyone. Whilst these were released in the past two weeks we thought we'd include these in this update for anyone who hadn't seen them. This includes the No Clean Patch, Save Issue Fix and Stutter Fix which are now live.
Read more on that here: https://steamcommunity.com/games/1290000/announcements/detail/3067494531917481715
And here:
https://steamcommunity.com/games/1290000/announcements/detail/3067494531934955500
We've also just passed 1000 members on our Discord, well we're actually at 1200 members at the moment but that was a big milestone! There's already a great community there but as mentioned earlier we will be polling everyone on community map suggestions that will be developed in the game, so keep an eye out for when we run these! :)
[h2] Join The Community On Discord[/h2]
As always if you have any feedback on anything you would like to see please let us know in the comments below, on our Discord or in the feedback section here on Steam.
Keep up with everything PowerWash Simulator by following our channels:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/PowerWashSim
Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/futurlab
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@powerwashsim?
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/powerwashsim/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/powerwashsim
Today we're revealing our Early Access development roadmap. This is a rough guide for content that's already planned to be added in regular updates leading up to our full launch. Our Early Access launch was just the beginning!
Note this roadmap is not exhaustive and we are very closely listening to community requests on features to add or things to tweak. Some of the things on the list might not happen or could change completely based on your feedback too. We'll also constantly be squashing bugs and adding in smaller quality of life features with each content update.
In short though, there's lots of exciting stuff coming!
Challenge Mode
We've been teasing the existence of a challenge mode coming in our next content update with 3 more levels and a bunch of community Quality of Life (QOL) requests. Though today we have much more to share!
We also showed off the challenge mode in our most recent weekly livestream. This is still very much work in progress but we have fleshed out the system. You can watch the vod here if you want to see it in action.
There's currently two types of the challenge mode, first time and second water usage measured in litres.
Both of these modes have a set loadout includiung power washer, extensions, nozzles and soap. They also give gold, silver and bronze awards for how well you do.
For the first release it will be the PWS Van level but we'll be adding more challenge levels throughout our Early Access up to launch.
1000+ Steam Reviews
We are absolutely blown away by the positivity and useful feedback in the Steam reviews so far. With over 1000 positive reviews and sitting at 93% currrently, we just want to say thank you to everyone that has taken the time to write a review so far!
If you also want to leave a review, you can leave one on our Steam Store page! :)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1290000/PowerWash_Simulator/
Community Job Requests
We have several slots for levels that are suggested by you the community. We'll be looking at the most popular suggestions for jobs in this thread https://steamcommunity.com/app/1290000/discussions/1/3112530528183413533/. From these we'll pick ones that we think could work well in-game and are popular. Then we'll run polls on our community Discord to decide by popular opinion which ones we will make!
Hotfixes
We are really sorry that some players struggled to play the game at launch and we worked as fast as we could to get the hotfixes out to everyone. Whilst these were released in the past two weeks we thought we'd include these in this update for anyone who hadn't seen them. This includes the No Clean Patch, Save Issue Fix and Stutter Fix which are now live.
Read more on that here: https://steamcommunity.com/games/1290000/announcements/detail/3067494531917481715
And here:
https://steamcommunity.com/games/1290000/announcements/detail/3067494531934955500
Discord 1000 Members
We've also just passed 1000 members on our Discord, well we're actually at 1200 members at the moment but that was a big milestone! There's already a great community there but as mentioned earlier we will be polling everyone on community map suggestions that will be developed in the game, so keep an eye out for when we run these! :)
[h2] Join The Community On Discord[/h2]
As always if you have any feedback on anything you would like to see please let us know in the comments below, on our Discord or in the feedback section here on Steam.
Keep up with everything PowerWash Simulator by following our channels:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/PowerWashSim
Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/futurlab
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@powerwashsim?
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/powerwashsim/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/powerwashsim