Short Weekly Update #121

This week focuses on polish and readability: French is now active on the internal build, Research pacing is smoother, and the End-of-Day (EoD) flow is faster and clearer. Want to help test? Opt into the internal branch (password visionariesBH) under Steam > Properties > Betas.

Highlights

• Enabled French on the internal branch so French-speaking players can try the game now.

• Sped up the EoD report and removed the brief “negative net profit” flash to reduce confusion.

• Added F11 as a shortcut to open the in-game bug report, so it’s easier to send logs and saves.

• Rebalanced Specialist Research Points to ease early unlocks (details below).

New features & improvements

• Included the active language in user reports, improving issue tracing.

• Validated Buy Stand actions for cash on click to prevent accidental purchases without funds.

• Chained consecutive goal completions so popups appear one after another (no overlaps).

• Auto-complete Perfect Recipe goals when the recipe is already discovered; re-evaluate the current goal after reload.

• Displayed RP cost breakdown in Research tooltips; hide extra cost when it’s 0.

• Scaled popups correctly on 4K; fix Research preview inspector sizes across resolutions.

• Refreshed EoD popup states even when skipped; fixed colour themes.

• Swapped certain music cues per event to reduce repetition.

• Updated wording: “sachets” to packets, and softened harsh terms with ****.

Balance

• Softened Specialist RP requirements:

  • Customer: 60 to 30 burgers per point.

  • Marketing: 42 to 15 feedback per point.

  • Team & Service: 15 to 10 customers served per point.

• Reduced the goal to sell drinks to Parents (Street Corner) target to 65.

• Reduced Money Tracker upgrade cost from 70 → 50.

• Updated salary market-rate requirement for 0% salary markup checks.

Fixes

• Spawned AI correctly when it is bought out on the same day it appears.

• Fixed SFX volume for capacity/focused-customer filter voiceovers.

• Reviewed buy-out goal logic to handle criteria met before/after activation and on reload.

• Prevented duplicate employees when upgrading vehicles; added a safe fallback.

• Cleaned up core managers on exit to avoid rare crashes.

• Ensured EoD popup always shows (even if skipped); handle initial/final states outside sequences.

• Override saved research costs on load for consistency.

• Updated the balance sheet when repaying short-term debt.

• Fixed the AI bankruptcy effect, which was incorrectly triggering for the player.

• Clarified goal requirements with in-game tips; reset certain goal progress at day start to avoid stale “No Long Wait” checks.

• Track and display Toy Giveaway goal correctly; clean the Goals tab to avoid missing references.

• Corrected business banking tooltip; fixed Training Level 4 goal text.

In development

• German language implementation

Community spotlight

Huge thanks to @Icewater Creek®, @AJ the Rabbi, and @Jeffrey Jets for reports and testing. Your reports and notes helped pinpoint several edge cases. ⭐

Thanks for reading and for all the feedback. Keep screenshots, saves, and logs coming; we’re reading everything on Discord also and prioritising fixes accordingly. 🤗

https://discord.gg/HpDZM7v

https://businessheroes.m-pages.com/GwNkYz/business-heroes-website

Thanks

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