Patch 3 is LIVE - Halloween '24 Open Playtest

Hi everyone!

As the title informs, Patch 3 for the Halloween '24 Open Playtest is now live.

We have addressed all the save/load issues we could find, and the issues below:

Bug Fixes

• Fixed "Gone Home" employees not returning when loading a save file

Incursion:

• Fixed monsters spawning at paths that do not lead to the Restaurant

• Fixed doors automatically opening after an Incursion

• Fixed customers not spawning after an Incursion

• Fixed “Gone Home” employees returning after an incursion

• Fixed double the meat gain from Incursions

Tooltips:

• Fixed tooltip information for Dishes And Profits showing total data rather than data at that time

• Fixed Town Welfare tooltip about Restaurant’s popularity effect on Town Welfare being inaccurate

• Fixed Finance graph duration buttons displaying incorrect tooltips

Employees:

• Fixed employees walking through furniture after returning from the end of the first day

• Fixed cooks not immediately taking over another cook’s task

Customers:

• Fixed customer potentially sitting on another customer

• Fixed customers continuing their eating animation after a Combo meal

Management Screen:

• Fixed Finance Breakdown remaining open when returning to Restaurant Management

• Fixed Liberty Fund scroll getting stuck

Incursion Alert:

• Fixed Incursion Alert popping up after Prawnzilla dies

• Fixed Incursion Alert not displaying correct data when sequence is broken

• Fixed Simulator displaying wrong incursion date

Based on the feedback we received; we also have made the following Updates:

Simulation:

• Spawn zone information will remain open

• Restricting access to Incursion Details

• Disabling v-sync option

Improve Staff Dish Trait:

• Will now trigger upon Order Received

• Value is now +2 motivation

Karen:

• Updated membership dialogue

• Introducing a discount on July 1

Mr.X:

• Progress Report now ends on July 17th

• Player’s evaluation changed

Others:

• Added an SFX for Golden Tips.

• Now unable to build in the door frame connecting to the kitchen area.

• Changed Wallace dialogue about Missourite.

• Background of Policies scrollbar has been darkened

• Various tooltips

• Various item descriptions

• Added a “SCROLL DOWN” label in the Liberty Page

• Small Town Welfare newspaper sprite

• Popularity standee sprite

This is our last planned update for this playtest session. We might have more patches depending on the feedback we received but so far we feel we are getting the responses we were hoping for.

We still havent determined when this playtest is going to be closed, we will make announcement when we are ready.

Do join us on our Discord channel if you liked our playtest demo and join the conversation to make Midwest 90: Rapid City a truly special game: discord.gg/n9RZtQNyBG

Thank you so much for the support, this playtest has been a blast for us.

Hidden Chest Studios