TBG Underground Economy Major Patch

The Underground Economy Major Patch is now live!

This update introduces new business management systems, dealer mechanics, character progression activities, driving improvements, major optimization work, and several gameplay changes requested by the community.

Market Simulator – Beta

The first version of the Market Simulator system has been added as a beta feature.

You can now open your own supermarket, purchase products, stock the shelves, set prices, work at the checkout, and hire employees to automate different parts of the business.

For now, you can operate your supermarket like a respectable, law-abiding pedestrian.

However, bootleg liquor production and the more criminal, TBG-style side of this business will be arriving very soon. Your legitimate supermarket will eventually become the perfect front for your underground operations.

As this feature is currently in beta, we will continue improving and expanding it based on player feedback.

New Dealer Management System

Selling Points can now be managed by assigned dealers.

After capturing a Selling Point, you can:

• Assign a dealer to sell your products

• Upgrade your dealer’s abilities

• Equip and strengthen your Selling Point staff

• Manage your dealer network through the Criminal Activities menu

• Automatically supply dealers after opening a Warehouse

Each district now has different product demands. Certain products will generate more profit in specific areas, so choosing what to sell and where to distribute it is now much more important.

Gym

The Gym is now open.

You can participate in new training activities to improve your character’s:

• Power

• Fighting abilities

• Physical progression

Train regularly and prepare your character for more difficult street fights and territory conflicts.

Shooting Range

The Shooting Range has been added.

Complete shooting challenges to improve your Vision stat and become more effective with firearms.

Improve your aim, sharpen your Vision, and make every bullet deadlier.

New Driving Camera

A new closer driving camera has been added.

Press TAB while driving to switch between the available camera views.

The camera distance and visibility settings have also been improved to provide better performance across different PC configurations.

Quickly Pick Up Family Members

You can now quickly bring nearby family members into your vehicle.

Drive close to them and honk the horn to have them enter the car.

This makes transporting your crew and preparing for missions, attacks, or territory conflicts much faster.

Property and Wanted Improvements

All family members can now enter your owned properties.

When you are Wanted, you can enter an owned property to hide from the police, provided there are no officers close enough to see you enter.

Police officers responding during an active Wanted state will now arrive with shoot-to-kill orders instead of attempting to arrest you.

DLSS – Beta

NVIDIA DLSS support has been added as a beta feature.

We will continue testing and improving the implementation based on performance data and player feedback.

Performance and Optimization

This patch includes a major optimization pass across the game.

Changes include:

• Fixed an issue that caused significant FPS drops when police spawned during Wanted situations

• Reduced the maximum number of police officers appearing during certain Wanted encounters

• Improved police spawning and Wanted performance

• Improved TPS and driving camera performance

• Improved rendering and visibility calculations

• Optimized several city systems and active NPC calculations

• Reduced unnecessary processing across multiple gameplay systems

• Improved general performance and frame-rate stability

Optimization work will continue throughout the upcoming updates.

Additional Improvements

• Improved Selling Point management

• Improved Warehouse integration

• Improved automatic product distribution

• Improved district-based economy calculations

• Improved family member vehicle interactions

• Improved property access for family members

• Improved police behavior during Wanted situations

• Added multiple interface and quality-of-life improvements

• Fixed several reported gameplay and progression issues

• Fixed various localization and text issues

• Fixed multiple minor bugs reported by the community

New Steam Bundles

Our new Steam bundles with Cartel Tycoon and Flashing Lights are now live!

You can now purchase The Boss Gangster: Criminal Empire together with these games through their respective Steam bundles.

Your feedback has helped guide the direction of the game throughout this entire development process. Thank you so much for supporting us and constantly inspiring us with your ideas.

Following this update, we will focus on expanding and deepening the game’s existing mechanics.

Our goal is to make the game much more interconnected and meaningful by improving the Family system, automatic assignments, job depth, new missions, district interactions, and many other existing systems.

We want the mechanics, businesses, jobs, families, territories, and progression systems to work together more naturally and offer much greater depth.

See you in the next update!

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See you around, Bosses!