🔧 Hotfix 1.1.4

Thank you for all your reports and feedback! ❤️ This hotfix focuses on multiplayer stability, performance improvements, balancing, and a variety of bug fixes.

📋 Changelog

🌐 Multiplayer Improvements

• Improved Steam multiplayer stability.

• Added an emergency reconnect system with a timeout and rate limiting.

• Better handling of connection losses and temporary Steam service issues.

⚡ Performance & Network Optimizations

• Reduced network traffic by synchronizing customer and employee positions more efficiently.

• Optimized synchronization of voting timers.

💰 Gameplay Improvements

• Improved pricing balance.

• Customers now make smarter checkout decisions by preferring staffed registers and considering reachable queue positions.

• Graffiti popularity penalties are now calculated and displayed correctly in the statistics.

• Added a new"Loose Change"extra setting:

  • Enable cent amounts for prices.

  • Or round all prices to whole dollars.

🚗 Vehicle Improvements

• Fixed the purchase marker when buying vehicles.

🛒 Customer Improvements

• Customers now behave more naturally in various situations.

• Improved overall customer AI.

• Fixed an issue where the cash payment amount could overlap once it exceeded $1,000.

👷 Employee Improvements

• General employee AI improvements.

🏬 Shop & Save Fixes

• Fixed the Play button being blocked when existing save files were present.

• Shop unlocks are now synchronized only after save files have been fully restored.

🦹 Thief Improvements

• Fixed an issue where thieves could get stuck after transforming.

• Added additional diagnostics to improve reliability.

🏗️ Building Improvements

• Expanded placement validation to prevent objects from clipping into walls, floors, and ceilings.

• Adjusted several shop building zones.

• Added an additional storage zone.

🎨 UI Improvements

• Updated the UI scaling mode of several player and main menu canvases to Expand.

• Improved various UI elements.

🌸 Miscellaneous

• Reworked four flower shelves.

• Replaced Mesh Colliders with optimized Box Colliders.

• Cleaned up display and shelf values.

❤️ Thank you for your continued support and all of your bug reports! Every update helps make Retail Rivals even better.