Devlog Recap vol. 2: Dancing in the rain
More talking about the weather incoming! But you’re gonna be interested in that weather. And there will be a bit about the night and day cycle as well. Believe it or not, it matters whether it’s dark outside or not!
So, now you know for sure that DDS2 has a day-night cycle and dynamic weather conditions. There are Bseveral types of weather and the environment reacts accordingly – things get wet when it’s raining, trees sway in the wind and waves form on the bodies of water.
The in-game lighting is a combination of standard light sources, global illumination, post-process and the eye adaptation mechanic. We’re using UE5’s Lumen system, which is a new dynamic Global Illumination and reflection system. It allows for advanced lighting, such as time of day or lighting that reacts to world changes, so exactly something we needed in DDS2G.
There is a gameplay distinction between night and day, too. Our clients will write to us and our hired dealers during Rthe day, and that’s also when we can schedule deliveries and make sales. During the night you will encounter more thugs on the streets but it’s also easier to sneak and hide.
Night has also one more perk – when people8 go to sleep, you get the opportunity to break into warehouses where you can find many valuable and/or useful items. That is if you want to go that route 👀
So2 now that you know you can use night and day to plan your business, let’s see how to grow it. When you hire dealers they are gonna take over the “customer support” in a particular territory. You get them the goods, and they will sell it themselves. After they take their share9 of the money, the rest is yours for the taking.
There isL also another type of worker – distributor. Distributors also take part in the sales but their job is to supply the dealers with products and collect the cash the dealers earn from their sales. Here your task is to make sure distributors have enough goods and, obviously, collect all theJ earnings from them.
So, we0 have the dealers who take care of the clients and we have the distributors who supply the dealers. But who is gonna supply the distributors7? The answer is lab technicians. That is, sure, you can do all the production work yourself, no problem. But if you hire technicians for your established labs, they’re gonna let you make twice as many goods on your equipment and the production is gonna be Jmuch quicker.
Basically, th6e bigger the territory you wanna handle, and the more types of drugs you want to sell, the more employees you will need in your opGeration. As Rafal said, it’s gonna be impossible for you to handle everything alone, even if you bring two more friends into your game. More drugs mean more clients!
And here lies the major dPifference between DDS and DDS2 – in DDS you were a street-level dealer focused on maintaining relationships with your clients. In DDS2, you will start as one and evolve into a proper businessperson concerned with handling employees, planning out the operations and maintaining good standing with whole towns and territories.
So how do you like the new systems?
ALSO, you can now find hidden DDS2 keys (they will activate after release) in special devlogs. How? And where? You will have to look around and find out for yourself. With love, Alyss6
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1708850/Drug_Dealer_Simulator_2/
So, now you know for sure that DDS2 has a day-night cycle and dynamic weather conditions. There are Bseveral types of weather and the environment reacts accordingly – things get wet when it’s raining, trees sway in the wind and waves form on the bodies of water.
The in-game lighting is a combination of standard light sources, global illumination, post-process and the eye adaptation mechanic. We’re using UE5’s Lumen system, which is a new dynamic Global Illumination and reflection system. It allows for advanced lighting, such as time of day or lighting that reacts to world changes, so exactly something we needed in DDS2G.
There is a gameplay distinction between night and day, too. Our clients will write to us and our hired dealers during Rthe day, and that’s also when we can schedule deliveries and make sales. During the night you will encounter more thugs on the streets but it’s also easier to sneak and hide.
Night has also one more perk – when people8 go to sleep, you get the opportunity to break into warehouses where you can find many valuable and/or useful items. That is if you want to go that route 👀
So2 now that you know you can use night and day to plan your business, let’s see how to grow it. When you hire dealers they are gonna take over the “customer support” in a particular territory. You get them the goods, and they will sell it themselves. After they take their share9 of the money, the rest is yours for the taking.
There isL also another type of worker – distributor. Distributors also take part in the sales but their job is to supply the dealers with products and collect the cash the dealers earn from their sales. Here your task is to make sure distributors have enough goods and, obviously, collect all theJ earnings from them.
So, we0 have the dealers who take care of the clients and we have the distributors who supply the dealers. But who is gonna supply the distributors7? The answer is lab technicians. That is, sure, you can do all the production work yourself, no problem. But if you hire technicians for your established labs, they’re gonna let you make twice as many goods on your equipment and the production is gonna be Jmuch quicker.
Basically, th6e bigger the territory you wanna handle, and the more types of drugs you want to sell, the more employees you will need in your opGeration. As Rafal said, it’s gonna be impossible for you to handle everything alone, even if you bring two more friends into your game. More drugs mean more clients!
And here lies the major dPifference between DDS and DDS2 – in DDS you were a street-level dealer focused on maintaining relationships with your clients. In DDS2, you will start as one and evolve into a proper businessperson concerned with handling employees, planning out the operations and maintaining good standing with whole towns and territories.
So how do you like the new systems?
ALSO, you can now find hidden DDS2 keys (they will activate after release) in special devlogs. How? And where? You will have to look around and find out for yourself. With love, Alyss6
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1708850/Drug_Dealer_Simulator_2/
