Waterpark Simulator News

[p]Apologies, for some reason, this patch did not get published on the day it should.

We are still working on some of the performance issues some of you have seen, the small mouse movements, and working together with Twitch to improve the bot integration.


[/p][h3]BUG FIXES[/h3]

• [p]Outfis' colours are now saved correctly[/p]
• [p]A JSON file was removed, which could cause problems in some scenarios with new games[/p]
• [p]Resolved an issue with graffiti in the toilets[/p]
• [p]Fixed a problem where one of the 5-star slides was not rideable by the player[/p]

[p][/p][p][/p][h3]IMPROVEMENTS[/h3]

• [p]Staff now helps with achievement progress [/p]
• [p]Cheater icon changed to red to be more noticeable [/p]
• [p]The physics engine used in some sliding actions has been improved[/p]
• [p]Reduced the drowning chance for the early game [/p]
• [p]Slightly reduced the chances of puddles and drowning events for all star levels of parks.[/p]
• [p]Added some more possible graffiti from vandals[/p]
• [p]Improvements in several translations for visitors' thoughts and reactions[/p]
• [p]Improved some of the visitors' NPCs rigging[/p]
• [p]New separate thoughts for watergun, jukebox, and perverts' reactions[/p]
• [p]Improvements on how graffiti works on attractions[/p]
• [p]Improvements to the waiting animation[/p]
• [p]Performance improved on the watergun [/p]
• [p]Improved some of the staff animations[/p][p][/p]

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NEW FEATURES[/h3]

• [p]A new, unique NPC model has been added ( prepare for some upcoming models related to unique NPCs and regular NPCs very soon )[/p]
• [p]Visitors now have a new scared animation[/p][p][/p]

[hr][/hr][p]We are already working on not only fixing some issues mentioned by you all, but also adding new features. So stay tuned.[/p][p][/p][p]Thanks for all the support, and remember, if you have an idea, feedback, or bug you want to share, feel free to use our Steam community hub or Discord. We are always there to listen and chat with you. https://steamcommunity.com/app/3293260/discussions/

NOTICE - We sometimes might release very small updates to solve 1 or 2 more urgent issues that appeared and not release a patch note for those immediately, but add them to bigger update patch notes on the following updates[/p]

[p]We are still working on the lag some of you reported. This update should reduce the number of injuries you are seeing and improves the performance of some of the staff.

Let's dig into it

[/p][h3]BUG FIXES[/h3]

• [p]Building snapping now aligns with the grid and floor[/p]
• [p]Fix on the smaller slides that caused injuries and failed sliding (should reduce the number of daily injuries)[/p]
• [p]Ticket machines have been improved and should work as planned now[/p]
• [p]Fixed on closing attractions when they are moved under certain conditions[/p]
• [p]Trash bag capacity has been fixed, where, under a certain condition it was infinite.[/p]

[p][/p][h3]IMPROVEMENTS[/h3]

• [p] Added info to the attractions to show how much each guest will pay per use.[/p]
• [p]Building UI has better info on stat changes.[/p]
• [p]Improved cleaners & handymen so they take less time to clean/ repair when the attraction is not fully dirty/broken.[/p]
• [p]Increased the maximum visitor slots per pool depending on their stars/size.[/p]
• [p]Improvement in ticket vendors' performance.[/p]
• [p]Slides have been improved so that it removes the possibility of walking through them.[/p]
• [p]Improved language localization for the end-of-the-day report[/p]
• [p]Added a safeguard to guarantee that achievement counters are not overwritten with lower values in case of several save games[/p]
• [p]Changed the starting stats of visitors so they don't go so often straight to food vendors when they enter the park[/p]
• [p]Twitch naming has been improved so it renames only visitors and not any pedestrians[/p]
• [p]Twitch - Requesting a female staff member request is for now ignored until we add the new models we are working on.[/p]
• [p]Reduced the cost of a lifeguard chair[/p]

[p][/p][h3][/h3][hr][/hr][p]We are already working on not only fixing some issues mentioned by you all, but also adding new features. So stay tuned.[/p][p][/p][p]Thanks for all the support, and remember, if you have an idea, feedback, or bug you want to share, feel free to use our Steam community hub or Discord. We are always there to listen and chat with you. https://steamcommunity.com/app/3293260/discussions/

NOTICE - We sometimes might release very small updates to solve 1 or 2 more urgent issues that appeared and not release a patch note for those immediately but add them to bigger update patch notes on following updates[/p]

[p]New language support for Ukrainian and an issue with staff animations are some of the biggest changes this time.

We also made some improvements for the achievement hunters with more people queuing for the ticket machines and cleaning poop in pools, counting in more ways.


We are currently working on the following issues and trying to get them sorted as soon as possible
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• [p]Lag issues in some players' games[/p]

• [p]Reducing the number of injuries caused by slides[/p][p]
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[h3]BUG FIXES[/h3]

• [p]Lifeguard hiring levels have been fixed[/p]
• [p]Fixed a bug with decorations' red outline.[/p]
• [p]Fixed an issue where, in lower graphic settings, parts of the park looked a different color even with the same paint.[/p]
• [p]Fixed a bug where staff would not perform their job due to the animations[/p]

[p][/p][h3]IMPROVEMENTS[/h3]

• [p]Lifeguard chair now allows you to get medikit and liferings out of it. [/p]
• [p]Ticket machines and ticket sellers now allow longer queues (still working on a bug that affects the second ticket machine in some cases)[/p]
• [p]Made some adjustments to make it easier to place diving boards and slides.[/p]
• [p]Twitch integration now removes any non-breaking spaces in the channel name. Better feedback in case of a failed connection.[/p]
• [p]Watergun now also cleans graffiti[/p]
• [p]More sentences were added as graffiti to add more variety.[/p]
• [p]Graffiti can appear in some attractions now too[/p]
• [p]QOL - You no longer ragdoll visitors when you have always run enabled[/p]
• [p]Some simple formatting cleaning in some of the UI tabs, spacing[/p]
• [p]Building snapping is now aligned with the floor (we only realized we forgot one adjustment here after pushing the update. Grid alignment and floor will be in sync on the next update, and all will be patched up then.)[/p]
• [p]Added some context-based hints for camera controls in building UI[/p]
• [p]Poop in the pool now counts for the achievement when cleaned by staff or the vacuum. [/p][p][/p]

[h3]
NEW FEATURES[/h3]

• [p]Ukrainian language supported (more languages to come in the future, we just need time )
  
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[hr][/hr][p]We are already working on not only fixing some issues mentioned by you all, but also adding new features. So stay tuned.[/p][p][/p][p]Thanks for all the support, and remember, if you have an idea, feedback, or bug you want to share, feel free to use our Steam community hub or Discord. We are always there to listen and chat with you. https://steamcommunity.com/app/3293260/discussions/

NOTICE - We sometimes might release very small updates to solve 1 or 2 more urgent issues that appeared and not release a patch note for those immediately but add them to bigger update patch notes on following updates[/p]

[p]Yep, the mirror has been replaced by a dresser. Why, you ask? Well we are using the mirror for something else, that will be added very soon.

Just a quick heads up, we have seen the issues some of you are having with lag, so we are fixing it as well. The dev team is 5 people, so while one of us works on something like an improvement, another is working on fixing reported bugs. We appreciate your patience, and we promise we will have it sorted as soon as we can.

Ok, let's see what we changed since the weekend.[/p][p][/p][p][/p][h3]BUG FIXES[/h3]

• [p]NPCs are no longer stuck in swimming if you move the pool where they were.[/p]
• [p]NPCs don't get stuck if you destroy the pool they were using.[/p]
• [p]Fixed cases where staff could get stuck on the destruction of items if they were interacting with them.[/p]
• [p]Diving boards from 0-2 stars can no longer be placed inside bushes[/p]
• [p]Fixes on the builder/maintenance staff to avoid them getting stuck in some scenarios.[/p]

[p][/p][p][/p][h3]IMPROVEMENTS[/h3]

• [p] Twitcher integration now allows you to choose the gender of visitors or hires by adding m or f after the !visit or !hireme command[/p]
• [p]A status indicator in-game to show if the bot is connected to the game via Twitch channel[/p]
• [p]Added some extra info to help connections[/p]
• [p]Added new animations to staff restocking vending machines[/p]

[p][/p][h3]
NEW FEATURES[/h3]

• [p]You can now change clothes via the dresser (the mirror will return, but with a different function)[/p]

[p][/p][p][/p][hr][/hr][p]We are already working on not only fixing some issues mentioned by you all, but also adding new features. So stay tuned.[/p][p][/p][p]Thanks for all the support, and remember, if you have an idea, feedback, or bug you want to share, feel free to use our Steam community hub or Discord. We are always there to listen and chat with you. https://steamcommunity.com/app/3293260/discussions/

NOTICE - We sometimes might release very small updates to solve 1 or 2 more urgent issues that appeared and not release a patch note for those immediately but add them to bigger update patch notes on following updates[/p]

[p]First of all in behalf of our tiny team we want to say thanks. Never in our wildest dreams 2 weeks ago did we expect that our game still in Early Access would be so well received in such a short time.
It's been a wild ride and all of you motivate us to work even more on the game and bring you the best experience possible.

Some quick highlights that happened in the past 2 weeks (Most we still can't believe are true)[/p]

• [p]Reached almost 7000 players, playing the game at the same time[/p]
• [p]Over 20 builds of the game made [/p]
• [p]Over 2.5 million hours of streams watched of our game[/p]
• [p]So many streamers playing the game that we couldn't visit them all like we had planned (but we did try to say hello and chat to all we meet in the streams)[/p]
• [p]Caseoh meet Queso in the game and has been playing us in his streams (and we love every second of it)[/p]
• [p]Valkyrae joined in our madness and is now the sound of our seagulls[/p][p][/p][p][/p]

[p]There are truly no words to thank you all for this and we really want to do our best to give you the game you deserve.[/p][p] Related to this we are happy to announce that we are opening our beta testing branch soon. This branch will allow you to try new features before the public release (and yes this includes multiplayer when it's ready to test) and helps us reinforce the stress testing that our QA team already does. If interested you can apply here - https://forms.gle/gtLcPeAHLfYG7XKF7[/p][p][/p][p][/p][p][/p][p]And for all of those that love being of part of the streams they are watching we have now released the first version of our Twitch integration. More fun features will come but for now if a streamer has Twitch integration active you can join their game via commands
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• [p]!visit to claim an upcoming visitor to use their displayname, [/p]
• [p]!hireme to claim an upcoming staff member to use their displayname[/p]

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And finally our patch notes for 0.2.29 [/p][h3]BUG FIXES[/h3]

• [p]Visitors should no longer get injured on the smaller slides[/p]
• [p]Restocker doesn't unlock too soon in the research tree[/p]
• [p]Visitors no longer get bored while using slides and diving boards[/p]
• [p]Fixed an error where Discord rich presence would break if Discord was restarted in the middle of a game[/p]
• [p]Fixed an issue that could cause the "The Bigger They Are…" achievement not to register[/p]

[p][/p][h3]IMPROVEMENTS[/h3]

• [p] Graffiti can't be cleared by player while the vandal is painting it[/p]
• [p]Staff can't clear it as well in the same conditions[/p]
• [p]Improvements to trash placement on the map[/p]
• [p]"The Bigger They Are…" achievement image was updated to reflect the 15 m needed[/p]
• [p]Improved the sound levels on the seagulls (Raegulls as we call them)[/p]
• [p]Improved visitors and staff paths around the park to avoid getting stuck[/p]
• [p]The city has been improved in terms of movement for NPCs[/p]

[h3]
NEW FEATURES[/h3]

• [p]New highlight feature in the main menu to display the latest big new feature added[/p]
• [p]New Twitch integration
  
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[hr][/hr][p]We are already working on not only fixing some issues mentioned by you all, but also adding new features. So stay tuned.[/p][p][/p][p]Thanks for all the support, and remember, if you have an idea, feedback, or bug you want to share, feel free to use our Steam community hub or Discord. We are always there to listen and chat with you. https://steamcommunity.com/app/3293260/discussions/

NOTICE - We sometimes might release very small updates to solve 1 or 2 more urgent issues that appeared and not release a patch note for those immediately but add them to bigger update patch notes on following updates[/p]