Web Host Simulator News

Added:

• Mission system with the first mission with 13 tasks (prepare the company to receive new customers)
  
• Notification Queue System
  
• SFP Transceiver
  
• Fiber Cable LC/LC
  
• Change the company logo in ControlHost with custom logos in Documents/Chibum/Web Host Simulator/CompanyLogos/
  
• DCControl.whs with network topology viewer with private and public ip and FlockCMD (no new commands for now)
  
• Slot type in object menu install option
  
• Carrier1.whs with three uplink plans (Using a new system built from scratch similar to css grid to make responsive websites)
  
• Website button on ControlHost.whs for publish website
  
• Localization System (not fully implemented yet)
  

Updated:

• Zell Switch 24 ports: new front design and 4 SFP ports
  
• Ethernet cable bending
  
• New logo on main menu
  

Fixed:

• Computer's auxiliary buttons kept showing even when the pause menu is open
  

Removed:

• Remove installed objects button (temporarily)
  

Alpha access via Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/WebHostSimulator
Discord: https://discord.com/invite/JuyyPbZ

Added:

• Money system
  
• Inventory system
  
• New way with menu to install rack, equipment and cables easily
  
• Ethernet cable that automatically changes length according to the distance from the connectors (experimental)
  

Updated:

• NOC Room size
  
• Improvement of lighting and reflections in the NOC room
  
• Improved focused object effect
  
• ShopIT.whs revised to work with available items and new money system
  
• Gameplay UI
  

Fixed:

• Perfomance issue with large amounts of cables in use
  
• Perfomance issue with LED animations of equipment
  
• Discord integration setting that could require you to be logged into the app in order to play the game
  

Removed:

• Spawner buttons on Server Room
  
• Computer crash cart temporarily removed
  
• High rotation sound of the fans when starting the equipment
  

Alpha access via Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/WebHostSimulator
Discord: https://discord.com/invite/JuyyPbZ

Alpha 220724 - Exclusive to supporters

Added:
- Reset player position button on pause menu
- Website "register.whs" for register and manage domains and ip address lease
- Website "controlhost.whs" for company management
- ContextBrain for fill fields with available informations
- Contract generator for generate automatic orders every 15~60 seconds as long you have an active package in ControlHost
- Slot for Networking Switch configuration on the last table in the NOC room (SwitchCP for configure switch available on next update)
- Command "rac setup usbX" for install OS image and other modules


Updated:
- Texture for Networking Switch 1U
- Texture for tables on NOC room
- Floor texture on server room
- Flashlight intensity reduced
- Two HDD installed by default on Server 1U


Removed:
- Spawn buttons for mobile ladder, computer crash cart and HDD


Fixed:
- Hard drives installed on equipment could break the complete loading of a save
- Possibility of connecting a cable directly to the connector even when the casual mechanics mode was active

Version: ALPHA 220510

Added:
- Rack 42U (new model)

- Easier attachment of equipment on rack

- Floor for hallway and NOC

- Ethernet LED model and animation on equipment

- Outline hover effect on objects interactable

- Dark lighting in the server room

- Computer, keyboard and mouse models


Updated:
- Save version (old saves not compatible)

- Post-processing effects

- Improved easier attachment of cables on equipment

Removed:
- Equipment Rail

- Rack Rail


Fixed:
- Wall collider on NOC Room

- Player's camera would rotate out of control when using a computer while crouching

- Connector would detach from the cable when removed from a port less than two seconds after being plugged into a port

- Not possible to resume the game after pausing while using the crash cart

- Websites would not load after the previous one was an error page

- Display of hover effect on non-interactive elements

- Player position when starting an existing save

- Other minor fixes


Alpha access via Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/WebHostSimulator
Discord: https://discord.com/invite/JuyyPbZ

Fixed:
- FlockOS menu animation appeared to come from off-screen when the aspect ratio was greater than 16:9
- 42U Rack collision glitch
- Hover effect was still active even when the object was not in focus
- Cables would break alignment with the connector when disconnected from some equipment
- Missing shadow when an object is focused
- A save is created even with empty text fields
- Ghost sound when starting a new game after loading a save with powered up equipment
- Settings were not applied correctly when loading a save
- Transparent wall on some edges
- Save would not load completely when an object was attached to a newer spawned object
- State of hard disk bay doors when loading a save
- You had to unfocus and refocus on a screen in order to use the computer

Added:
- Monitor 42 inch
- FlyBird Browser with DNS Resolver in FlockOS
- Minimize and maximize window in FlockOS
- Time playing in Discord rich presence
- Delete button in save list
- Button to choose between 2D (no reflections and no influence from the environment you are in) and 3D when using a computer with FlockOS
- Easier way to connect cables (HDs will have this new way in a future update)

Removed:
- Gravitational drag from computer crash cart for better mobility

Updated:
- Shadow and lighting improvements in the NOC room
- Improved player position when using computer
- Increased USB cable stiffness