Update: tutorial, emotes and compatibility

Getting started

• Fully reworked tutorial for a clearer and easier introduction to the game.

• AddedBarbecue guidea guide available from the shop seller explains the shop items and what they do.
• AddedUnstuck buttona new setting lets you respawn in the garden if you get stuck in the environment.

• Items being placed can now be rotated with the mouse wheel.

• Improved placement zones make it easier to put items down.

What's new

• AddedEmote wheela wheel available in game triggers emote animations.

• Delivery interface: delivery tracking is now visible directly in game.

Performance and compatibility

• DX11 support added so the game runs on older machines.

• AdjustedEngine updateimproved performance and stability, several crashes fixed.

• Fixed startup crashes reported on some configurations.

• Vsync is now enabled by default.

• The framerate limit now defaults to the monitor refresh rate.

• New option to limit the framerate when the game is not in focus.

• Fixed a CPU workload accumulation issue.

Visuals and feedback

• Added a destruction effect when burned food disappears.

• Added a particle effect to the blower.

• Improved the crate destruction effect.

• Citizens now carry a shopping bag instead of the item they bought.

Fixes

Saving

• Fixed a saving issue that could reset run progression.

Tutorial

• Fixed the end of run interface displaying incorrectly during the tutorial.

• Fixed buttons becoming unusable after losing during the tutorial.

• Wording and page naming corrections.

Players

• Fixed movement and pause menu being locked after a revive.

• Fixed being stuck in third person view after a revive during a ragdoll.

• Fixed getting stuck in the ground when standing up from a chair surrounded by objects.

• Fixed being stuck when the chair a player is sitting on gets destroyed.

• Pausing now correctly locks movement and camera.

• Fixed items held by other players not displaying correctly.

Items and placement

• Grills are now restricted to the barbecue matching their tier.

• Fixed grills not being placeable again on tier 3, 4 and 5 barbecues.

• Fixed items and food being placed with an incorrect rotation.

• Reduced the serving tray collision box that prevented picking up items placed on it.

• Fixed a ghost preview appearing after dropping a delivery crate.

• Fixed the hammer preview disappearing after leaving the garden.

• Fixed the hammer rotation when held.

• Fixed the mailbox spawning papers outside the map, on the road, for joining players.

• Fixed pathfinding around the fridge.

• Improved map border collisions.

Non player characters

• Citizens no longer get stuck in front of the shop and now pick a new item to reach.

• Citizen items no longer despawn too quickly.

• A guest order now displays correctly when they order a second time.

• Thief animals no longer reappear after being disabled.

• Fixed vehicles blocking each other and no longer moving.

Demo

• Customers no longer request food only available in the full game.

Thank you

Thanks for all the feedback sent since launch. It feeds directly into this update. Discord is still the best place to report a bug or share an idea.