Patch Version 1.0.43

📢 Announcement from the Terminal! 📢

We kept gathering your feedback attentively over the weekend and have brought you the next patch right away today.

✈️ Patch Version 1.0.43 🛠️

Full flexibility for all sorters:

Time and again we got feedback that, for some sorters, the available configurations of inputs and outputs aren't enough to build with them intuitively or in a space-saving way.

That's why it's now possible to cycle through all possible combinations on every sorter with [X]. We got this feedback especially about the airport sorters, because unfortunately it was cumbersome so far to switch them through nicely in a row. Now that works! :)

New app in the tablet: Errors

Time and again we got feedback that it isn't entirely clear why baggage sometimes wasn't handed over correctly, and that many of you wish you could better understand what actually goes wrong there. That's why you'll now find an app in the tablet where all the facts about every error you newly make from this version on can be looked up and traced.

This also helps us going forward to pin down exactly whether there's still a bug somewhere, or whether someone simply assigned a suitcase incorrectly.

Here's an example in which a suitcase that's actually too heavy was mistakenly thrown into the exit for invalid stickers.

Improvement to the quest flow:

At the start of the game, after you've placed the substance sniffer, there's the quest to find a suitcase with an illegal substance and process it "correctly". That means bringing it either to the police or to Risky-Rolf. The problem is that we kept observing players trip over the fact that, at this point, it isn't yet really clear that these suitcases that go to the police also have to be scanned red. The issue then is that if the suitcase is sent away unscanned, the quest doesn't count as completed, and it can take unexpectedly long until a new suitcase with illegal substances randomly appears. To smooth this out, a new suitcase with illegal substances now keeps appearing until the quest has been completed correctly, so that we don't build up too much frustration here and lose players this early in the game.

Fixes & improvements:

• We fixed an issue where no new building parts could be placed on unexpected spots on the grid after you had cleared away junk there. We heard about this from you again and again, and thanks to all the feedback and your logs we could finally trace it back to the junk not really being gone until you restarted the game.

• There was an issue where the airport sorter initially had the value "---", but this value was evaluated by the sorter as FRA and also showed FRA after reloading. This led to some ugly errors. We've fixed it so that you can now actually set "---", and that means, as expected, that there is NO filtering.

• We've also improved the preview of the airport sorter (and some other sorters too) in build mode, so that you can now always read on the floor what's actually selected. For example, you can now read which airports you've set; previously only FRA was ever shown, no matter what was set. Here's an impression from the game:

• In Farmbrook we got feedback a few times that building parts or pieces of baggage could disappear at the raised spots in the floor. We've made the floor thicker at these spots now, so this problem should no longer occur.

• The home upgrades in the bedroom mistakenly gave both more XP and UP; that wasn't intended. They now only give an XP bonus, exactly as the description states.

• It's no longer possible to rotate the camera in the background while the pause menu is open.

• There were cases where the TV in the hallway in Terminal 1, which teases the new jobs, unexpectedly was visible through the door.

• The door to Günther Gewinn in Hall 1 couldn't be closed all that easily, because an invisible object was in the way.

• The green checkmark on the automatic scanner for valid suitcases was rotated the wrong way around.

• On the texture of the sorter for overweight suitcases, the weight symbols were rotated the wrong way around.

Twitch drops until tonight, 23:59 UTC

Until tonight (for roughly 12 more hours after this patch) you still have the chance to grab the Twitch drops for our game. Many thanks to all the streamers and viewers who took part and had fun with it!

We're optimistic that the drops will return one day! 😎

Here's the link for everyone who wants to earn a last-minute drop: https://www.twitch.tv/directory/category/airport-baggage-simulator?filter=drops

Community screenshots:

Over the last few days we've been sent lots of screenshots by you, thank you all so much. Today's selection comes from Hezkezl, Bedrok4 and rxpcgal from our Discord server!

With [F6] you can activate screenshot mode in the game!:)

If you haven't read through the first release news yet and are coming fresh from the demo, you'll find a more detailed changelog here: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/3887090/view/540010953256731632

🛫 Thanks for reading 🛬

As always, thank you for all the feedback! We're still hard at work collecting feedback across all channels to give you the best possible experience as quickly as we can. 😎

And always remember — airport operations tolerate no negligence!

Stable regards, Günther!

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