PowerWash Simulator News

Hey everyone!

Get ready to dig in to this vehicular focused dev log! Before your head spins, in the last instalment we highlighted the Extra Long extension coming in 0.5! See more of that here: https://steamcommunity.com/games/1290000/announcements/detail/2992066214554670810

Today, we're revealing a new career job coming with the new patch!





Blake thrust has called you, the “Dirtfinder General” to clean their beloved drill “Holey Moley”. Are you up to the cleaning challenge?



The Drill presents lots of interesting geometric shapes to get in and around with jets of water. You can even spiral water onto a spiral with the turbo nozzle! We hope players will enjoy peeling back the dirt to reveal a shiny metal beauty below.



Designer Nick says to “pay attention to the dirt types on this level,” if you’re one of those lore theorists at least! No comment here!

The Drill is the smallest job coming in 0.5, there's 4 levels in total with the temple being teased in an earlier dev log: https://steamcommunity.com/games/1290000/announcements/detail/5693099555847603913

We’ll share more on the update release date as soon as we can though currently we’re squashing some last minute bugs. Watch this space! 😊





Our latest vote for a community requested level to be made in-game, is now live! Simply join our Discord and follow the instructions in the community-map-votes channel.

Discord here: https://discord.com/invite/powerwashsimulator

These options were taken from popular community suggestions and go head to head with each other in a knockout style poll.This time we have:

Tractor VS School Bus

&

Dump Truck VS Fountain

Who will you vote for in these two groups?


[h3]Until Next Time...[/h3]

We've dug deep with this dev log, what will we excavate and uncover next week? Be sure to keep your eyes peeled!

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Hey everyone!

Welcome to our extra long developer log, not lengthy in text form but in the addition coming to the game! In the last instalment we highlighted one of the new career jobs coming in 0.5, the Temple! See more of that here: https://steamcommunity.com/games/1290000/announcements/detail/5693099555847603913

Today, we're revealing a new extra lengthy attachment and more!





Have you ever used the long extension to only then wish it was longer? Well - good news! The Extra Long Extension is here to service all of your long distance cleaning needs!



Become the spray sniper of your dreams with this new lance-like attachment.

We initially added extensions to give players more versatility in approaching elevated areas for cleaning and how far away they wanted to be from surfaces. Since launch though, we've definitely seen several creative approaches to cleaning including parkour. Overall we do want to make sure that players are more aware of the extensions so hope this addition will help.

In 0.5, there's also a new job which will require and supply you with this attachment though, we aren't ready to tease this just yet as it's full of juicy lore. We're excited to see people tackle this level as it plays quite differently from other levels in the game. Let us know your spiciest speculations on what it is in the replies below!

Here's the attachment for all the washers:



What do you think about becoming a power wash sniper?



Help us shape the jobs in the game and future levels. We'd love to hear your thoughts on all of the career jobs you have completed so far. This short survey opens up a rating 1-10 for each level. If you have a moment to complete this it would be greatly appreciated!

Take part here!

Thanks for all of your feedback in general so far that have helped us make the game better!

We'd also like to note that we will be running the community map vote next week, we are just 100% pinning down the final jobs to vote on. Sorry that it's slightly delayed!

[h3]Until Next Time...[/h3]

That's the long of it over with, we'll have some more exciting spoilers next week! Keep an eye on our socials too as we turn up the heat!

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Hey everyone!

Welcome to our latest weekly developer log! In the last episode we covered the new challenges and the reopening of the community level suggestion thread! You can read this here: https://steamcommunity.com/games/1290000/announcements/detail/3002198116265530317

Today, we're revealing one of the new career jobs coming in 0.5, the Temple!



This is one of four career levels coming in the next update. It has a mix of intricate detailing and larger surface areas to clean. There's also some verticality to this level and from the heights you will see a rather different environment than we've visited before.







Here's some insights into the inspirations for The Temple from Torger who worked on the art for the level:

Originally posted by Torger

The first reference was Norwegian Stave Churches which were the original churches built by the Norse. We wanted to avoid religious stuff, so it was run through a blender of fantasy concept art with norse, dwarven and celtic styling.

Rough early concept art

Muckingham and PowerWash Simulator is set in a fictional land, so it makes sense that it doesn't exactly fit in to any particular real world area. ( For example the people speak UK English yet the houses look distinctly North American! Don't get us started on those gnomes...)

More from Torger:

Originally posted by Torger

The scene overall was a nice opportunity to break away from the green town environments that the player has mostly seen this far. We thought it would be a good idea to start rewarding players that have progressed this far into the story with fresh visuals.

We hope people will enjoy the mountainous vistas surrounding this level as they zen out to clean!

Here's some of the different materials you can uncover under the dirt which give that real contrasting satisfaction whilst cleaning:



We've also made improvements to player model colliders and slope control in general, sliding should be a thing of a past. On this level feel like you are gripping to the roof with spiked shoes! Hopefully this will be well received by our parkour players!

We're keen for people to try out the new levels and to jump into this unique environment!



A very early version of a wiki for the game has been opened, with some art/general information added by us but much more already filled out by community members. If you want to take a look or would like to help contribute you can do so here!





We've been running a community suggested map poll, where you decide which levels you want us to create from several of your suggestions. So far the winners are a mini golf course and steam locomotive!

Suggestions for our next community map vote are still open but we'll be beginning the vote 3 next week, so it's your last chance to add your idea: https://steamcommunity.com/app/1290000/discussions/1/3112530528183413533/

(Please note, the next community vote is for a large vehicle or similar sized level to the fire helicopter.)

The votes take place on our Discord, you can join now ahead of the next vote for more info and the past scores:
https://discord.gg/powerwashsimulator



That's all for this time, be sure to return next week for more teasers on update 0.5 coming soon.

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Hey everyone!

Welcome to our latest weekly developer log! Last time we highlighted the upcoming changes to the UI and also the key and controller rebinding system a lot of you are waiting for! You can read more on these here: https://steamcommunity.com/games/1290000/announcements/detail/3007826910713243896

Today, we're showing off the new challenge modes coming in 0.5, we're still a few weeks away but will keep slowly dropping teasers, so be sure to keep an eye on our socials too!



This time we have 2 new challenge jobs with a longer level, Back Garden, and a super quick one with the Dirt Bike. We'd like to note again that the main focus of our game is on the satisfying chilled out act of washing, these challenges are just an added extra to give some replayability and extra fun. (4 normal jobs are coming to Career and Freeplay modes in 0.5)

We're excited to hear feedback from having a larger level, especially for the timed challenge mode!

This time, the loadout is slightly tweaked with the Urban X U2 being the power washer equipped, so it may even be a new twist on the map for players that haven't already taken it on in Freeplay mode. Plus, it will make it so it doesn't take quite as long as it does in career mode and you'll be able to get quite a few runs in. Here's the loadouts and times/water for these levels. (These may be tweaked before the 0.5 launch, please let us know your thoughts below!)

Timed



Water



We hope everyone will be madly spraying around the Back Garden or very carefully squirting and taking their time to conserve water in the next patch!

With the Dirt Bike, it is something very quick and small that will be able to be restarted and done in very quick succession. We're definitely excited to see the lowest time on this one as it could be really low! Here's the loadouts and times/water currently.

Timed



Water



Overall we hope these two levels will offer some interesting challenges and we look forward to revealing new modes in future updates!





We'd like to remind everyone of the winner of the last community map request vote which is the Steam Locomotive. We'll be developing this level and it will come in a later update! Who's excited to see this in-game? (This joins the Mini Golf Course which won our first round)

We took all of the job options in the votes from this thread: https://steamcommunity.com/app/1290000/discussions/1/3112530528183413533/

Where the community then voted on their favourites. We have now re-opened that thread for more community suggestions! We'll take ideas from this to put together a 3rd and final vote for a community suggested map to be added to the game. (Please note, the next community vote is for a large vehicle or similar sized level to the fire helicopter.)

Join our Discord ahead of the next vote and to see how all of the other votes panned out:
https://discord.gg/powerwashsimulator



[h3]Finally Hotfix 0.4.2 [/h3]

• Minor asset changes
  

That's all for dev log #23, we'll see you next time for #24! Are you ready to call 'bingo' yet?

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Hey everyone!

Here's just a couple of PowerWash Simulator community updates:



Steam Locomotive has won our latest community map request vote!



We have now also opened up map requests again to potentially get your idea into the game, submit your ideas here: https://steamcommunity.com/app/1290000/discussions/1/3112530528183413533/

This is where all of the ideas we were all voting on came from! :)



To celebrate over 10,000 Discord members on the official PowerWash Simulator server we're giving away Steam codes of the game to 10 lucky winners!

To enter join the Discord here: https://discord.com/invite/powerwashsimulator

Go to the #giveaways section and the instructions to enter are there. Giveaway closes, August 6th 10AM GMT+1!



Thanks for reading, we'll see you all on Friday for our weekly Dev Log! :)