Tank Mechanic Simulator News

[h2]Dear Mechanics,[/h2]

Welcome to our one hundred and fourteenth development status update.

We are coming to you with some news and work in progress update regarding in-game museum editor called by us Museum Creator.

[h3]Museum Creator[/h3]

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As we mentioned in previous development status - part of a stage from the roadmap is about extending a museum rooms. We would like to present you something we have been working on for quite some time now.



The Museum Creator, as we called it, is an upgrade that can be purchased from the Upgrade Panel. Each unlocking adds another room to the Tank Manager which we can modify. It is currently possible to unlock and have 100 such rooms in the game. Each of these rooms have a maximum of 12 slots. Unfortunately, we have some capacity constraints in game performance.



There are 12 slots, but nothing prevents you from creating your own museum for, say, six tanks. By moving a tank to a slot in the room, the game will take us to the Museum Creator. On the initial screen we have the choice to use a template, create a new one or load an existing save. The template will include a layout prepared by us with objects - in our case these objects are called museum props. But if you want to start from scratch, it's not a problem. There will be only basic logic components on a scene such as the computer, editor stand, player spawn or tank slots.



Props can be moved around the scene to adjust their position. Update will already contain a collection of props that you can put on the scene to build our own museum. Some of the items are already prepared by us for you to choose from, but the fun is that you can make the props by yourself.



You will be able to upload props to the Steam workshop as mods or download other mods like props to the game. Once you have built a room, you will be able to save it for your own use or share it and publish it as a mod on the Steam workshop. Alongside the roadmap update, we are preparing an update to the modding tools which includes newly edited tutorials in PDF form. As well as a tutorial written for Museum Creator, which will be available directly on Steam in the guides section for TMS.



That's as much as we wanted to show you, let us know what you think in the comments!

Thanks for all the support and have a good weekend.
DeGenerals

[h2]Dear mechanics[/h2]



[h3]Tank Mechanic Simulator is going to be part of Steam Spring Sale!

You can get a copy of Tank Mechanic Simulator with a -71% discount![/h3]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/407130

[h3]First Supply DLC with a -32% discount![/h3]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1485420/

[h3]And Shermans DLC with a -16% discount![/h3]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1065400/

Have a good one!
Degenerals

[h2]Dear Mechanics,[/h2]

Welcome to our one hundred thirteen development status update.

To start with, apologies for being out of touch for so long with development status. Without wishing to beat around the bush, 2023 was a tough year for us. We were forced to reduce the number of people employed in the company in order to start getting back on track. In the meantime, we have been working hard in parallel on our second game, which, as a reminder, some of our community may not yet know or be aware of - the game is called Tank Squad.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1498130/Tank_Squad/

This is not our excuse, no less we have imposed on ourselves a considerable chunk of bread to do, and we do not want to let you down. That is why we have some, we think, positive news. No less, time will verify and show.

[h3]Roadmap[/h3]

We've been rolling out the promised Roadmap stages for a couple of weeks now. We have now put something on the agenda that I think most people are waiting for* - a little joke, we know what a large number of players are waiting for, about it a paragraph below ;) That is, issues related to the number of museum slots as well as further performance improvements. This stage is called - Extended Museum

We are at the stage of designing and prototyping new gameplay, e.g. constructing museum rooms from presets as well as manually inserting and editing e.g. walls, floors, decorative elements, i.e. parts from tanks, posters, stands using a tool in hand. Michal "WinteR5" is designing the UI issues to start with.

Ultimately, it will be an in-game editor that allows you to create your own museum, which may have one room or more rooms, e.g. for 2 tanks or 5 vehicles. In the next dev status we will show the progress on this gameplay element.

[h3]Consoles[/h3]

It is high time to move officially on the subject of a TMS port on consoles. We have not spoken for a long time, or have answered in an evasive manner. This was intentional, as some of you may already know or have guessed what this is all about. Anyway, we will try to explain it to you.

We decided together, Robert and Michał, that it was worth trying to take matters into our own hands. To make our own port, of our game, with our own hands. For the last few weeks or even months we have been preparing the ground, i.e. the technical background, in order to get down to it.

The result is that we already have special versions of consoles in the office - so-called dev kits for PS4 and PS5. Yes, we'll do the PS4 to start with, then the PS5, then we'll move on to Xbox consoles. As you read this we hear your reactions, rest assured. We're not going to do everything at once 😏 We have to start somewhere... 🙂

To recap, keep your fingers crossed, we are asking for support and trust for the umpteenth time. 2024 promises to be an interesting year.

[h3]Patch 1.5.5[/h3]
Removed:

• Christmas event (all events still can be activated manually in game options)
  

Thanks for all the support and have a good weekend.
DeGenerals

[h2]Dear mechanics[/h2]

[h3]Update 1.5.4 is ready to play![/h3]

Update 1.5.4

Added:

• Extraction Location Selector in Workshop
  

Fixed:

• Christmas tree position
  
• Workshop christmas & halloween props
  

[h3]Also, Tank Mechanic Simulator is going to be part of Steam Winter Sale!

You can get a copy of Tank Mechanic Simulator with a -71% discount![/h3]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/407130

[h3]First Supply DLC with a -31% discount![/h3]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1485420/

[h3]And Shermans DLC with a -15% discount![/h3]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1065400/

Have a good one!
Degenerals

[h2]Dear mechanics![/h2]

Update 1.5.3 is up!


[h3]UPDATE 1.5.3[/h3]

Added:

• Option to build tanks through crafting menu
  

Fixed:

• Incorrect Tiger 213 name in tank shop
  
• [M4A3E8V2] Incorrect position for suspension arm pin elements - now are correct
  
• [M4 Mid][T34 Caliope] Shell rack dedicated for HE missiles is too big - now is scaled correctly
  
• [M4A3E2 Jumbo] No longer the Gudgeon pin B appear in the shop as gudgeon pin A
  
• T34 Calliope problematic position of bolts for air exhaust elements
  
• Panzer IVG Engine Ignition wires dependancy change, it had dependency outside engine module and caused confusion.
  
• Use Legacy Tank Marks option now correctly updates the value of the text in game settings [modified] Disabled Halloween update
  

Thanks and have a good one!
DeGenerals