THE PHONE UPDATE

THE PHONE UPDATE, Keep Gambling's first major update, has finally arrived...

This update brings phones, six new methods of online gambling, player costumes, achievements, texting with friends, notifications for debt reminders and big wins, a revamped luck system, reworked alcohol mechanics, bug fixes, and more. We put a lot into this one, and we really hope you enjoy it!

To all our players: thank you so much for the support. Learning to make a multiplayer game has had its hurdles, but all the support and feedback has fueled us to keep going forward and adding new content to the game. We will be releasing smaller more frequent content updates and teasers in the near future, so please be ready for them :)

Dean & Paige

WIRED FEELINGS

PATCH NOTES:

• Added Phones

• Added Fortune Telling app

• Added Roll The Dice! app

• Added GemMines app

• Added HiLow app

• Added Greedy Wheel app

• Added MyDebt app

• Added FishIt HD app

• Added RushRoulette app

• Phones send notifications on big wins

• Phones get reminded about debt payments

• Added MyChat app

• Players can text their friends with an on-phone keyboard

• Phones are given to players by default

• Notifications on phone show in player item hotbars

• Chibi character portraits now show held items for local and networked players

• Chibi character portraits now play an animation on item use

• Chibi character portraits now show sold case skins as a pop up

• Luck system significantly overhauled,

• All sources of gambling have interactions with luck alignment

• Added 27 achievements

• Added costume system

• Added costumes for each character

• Costumes are unlocked through achievements

• Alcoholic drinks now apply a drunkness effect to players

• Shoving multiplayer logic fixed to prevent movement on players when stunned

• Shoving first person animations improved

• Cornchip's Datamining Texture Challenge has concluded. Congrats to the winner, RedbrickCobra!!

• Updated to UE5.7.4

• Skin rendering improved on characters, performance increase

• Mouse click, start/stop using sounds added to computers

• Low money warning added to heart rate UI

• New pointing interactions on some items

• Model updated on syringe

• Updated sounds on syringes and pill bottles

• Car spawning and animation logic optimizations

• Chip bags now influence a player's luck alignment when exploding

• Controls now display on screen for first time players

• Added UI context controls for computers and phones

• ATM deposit amount scales with rounds

• Rounds have been extended

• Item hot bar now is persistent...

• Added total debt view to UI

• UI phone shaking animation improved

• Models and textures within the convenience store have been polished

• Added crumpled up dollar bills players can find on the ground and collect

• Motion blur calculates based on current FPS instead of being at a fixed value

• Fixed a bug where you could interact with other computer screens aside from the one you were occupying

• Optimized animations on NPCs

• Optimized networking on physics objects

• Fixed forced LOD 0 on a couple characters

• Fixed delay on retrieving control icons for the pause menu controls display

• Fixed being able to throw items while using computers

• Held item names now hide when using a computer

• Player aim direction is being networked more accurately

• Non host players can now see other players looking at tickets/phones when using them (this was previously only working on the host's side)

• Fixed match stats replication bugs

• Fixed heartrate gain from no money mechanic applying to Homeless players

• Fixed purchased items on ground still costing money

• Fixed results replication issues