New Update! - Alpha Build #9 (0.9.82)

Hi everyone! With a huge delay, but it's finally here - a fresh update for DevLife including the new map, Interactive Events about music and random life situations, and a new decision system! Alongside it comes the biggest discount to date -65% as part of Steam's Capitalism and Economy Fest 2024!

I already went over the details in another post and of course, you can test them for yourselves. Just one important note: due to changes in the locations' balance, saves from the previous game versions are incompatible with the new version.

As always the full changelog for this update is available below. If you find any new bugs or have suggestions about the game, you can leave them at our Discord server.

Until the next time! Roman

Changelog:

New Features:

• Added new map: Bay Office

• Added decision system

• Added Interactive Events connected with the new map

• Added Interactive Events connected with music (learning instruments and going to concerts)

• Added Interactive Events about random life situations

• Added new water system

• Added highlight for hovered furniture in the Build Mode

• Added tooltips for furniture placed in locations

• Added employee’s salary renegotiation tooltip

• Added unlocked skills tooltips in the employee stats tooltip

• Added hover states for all interactable UI elements that lacked them previously

• Added lights for windows during night in the location currently owned by the player

Game Balance:

• Rebalanced location progression, prices, bills, and maximum number of available employees

• Increased chances for a random Interactive Event start the more time has passed since the last successful activation

• Increased chances of getting no furniture additional decorations

Corrections / Improvements:

• Changed all tooltips to have fixed positions

• Changed the way the community language tooltip works (now it will appear on the dropdown options)

• Changed window light color in the Family House location to match other locations

• Improved accuracy of selecting already placed furniture in the Build Mode

• Blocked showing Environment Settings window during Interactive Tutorial without canceling it

• Disabled collisions for snow particles

Bugs Fixes:

• Fixed problems with loading active simulated Interactive Events

• Fixed not working commissions search filters toggling

• Fixed not working collisions after loading the game and not unpausing it

• Fixed camera going back to previously owned location after selling it and going back to Family House

• Fixed loading water quality settings not working properly (they were loaded from textures quality selector)

• Fixed trees wind animation

• Fixed missing blur in the Environment Settings window

• Fixed showing snow overlay during loading when starting a new game

• Fixed corner kitchen worktops that sometimes were unplaceable

• Fixed not unlocking some furniture present in the default location furniture after buying it

• Fixed loading wrong player's character salary value in the Company Manager window after clicking on it and not editing its value in the input field for the first time

• Fixed not hiding location trackers in cinematic camera mode

• Fixed location trackers sometimes not rendering correctly

• Fixed disabling some of the window night lights after fading buildings when they should not be disabled

• Fixed missing materials on some of the Halloween decorations

• Fixed the possibility of entering skills and components names in search panels during the Interactive Tutorial

• Fixed exceptions when exiting to the Main Menu when there was no workstation placed in the location

• Fixed not showing notification about the possibility of creating a company after having met the money requirement but not the one about learning at least three skills and learning the final required skill