⭐ Time for our first major House Flipper 2 update!
Thanks to all the suggestions from our community, we recently managed to plan everything out and come up with a roadmap that contains all the content we want you to have!
Today we're bringing you the first big chunk of it!
Also today, the first major House Flipper 2 sale (a 20% discount!) hits the Steam Store:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1190970/House_Flipper_2/
🗒️ Take a look at the patch notes
New:
- "Healthier lifestyle for a change" - a brand new job!
- "House left behind" - a new house you can buy after completing the job!
- 240 new items (details below) 📋
- Resizing - now available in Story Mode for certain items! Look for it in the Flipper Tool's “Change style” panel. Resizable items can be recognized in the store by looking at the icon with two arrows, shown in the top left corner of the item preview in the store.
- Resizeable items from the “Sandbox only” category were moved to “Architectural elements/Other” and are also available in Story Mode. Say hello to columns and floor mouldings!
- Sell roofs and stairs in Story Mode (hold LMB)! Also works in the Sandbox “Play” and “Test property” modes.
- Certain items like fireplaces and candles can now light up! 🔥
- Textiles are now available as surface finish options in Sandbox Mode!
- A new perk - "Well deserved rest" - which will let you sleep in beds.
- 4 new special buyers (for a total of 11)
- Two new assemblies - a hanging and a standing kitchen cabinet.
- Toy trains placed on tracks are now interactive! Choo choo!
- A new sound for window cleaning.
- Flower petals - a new vacuumable dirt.
- [UI] Progress bar for jobs with a fancy animation when all 3 stars are obtained.
- [UI] You can now complete jobs with a button in the Quest tab. New items include: - Step ladder - 10 cute plant pots 🦊 - 5 new types of plants - 12 new spring-themed patterns - can be used on items or as wallpapers! - More green vines - Backpacks, bags, shoes, gloves, and hats 🧢 - Thermostats, air purifiers, and a vacuum-cleaning robot - Pillows! - Curtains and window blinds! - A smaller version of the ceiling spotlight “Knicknacks” - 2 new spotlights - Poster “Oddities” for your custom poster needs - A resizable cube called “Building molding Jungfrau” - 12 new toys for kids - Sports equipment - badminton, golf, and for the gym - Accessories for painters 🧑🎨 - Accessories for taking care of hair - Valenti dinner set - Valenti bathroom accessories - Valenti hallway set - Extravaganza office set 👁️ 👄 👁️ - Skadi living room set - The Cent shelving unit
Changes:
- The game now stops responding to inputs when you minimize it.
- The store sorting option for dates are now less confusingly called “Date: from newest” and “Date: from oldest”. Useful for seeing what’s new in the update 👀
- Clothes will now be easier to hang on hangers.
- The auction fee is now lower for cheaper houses and higher for more expensive ones.
- Fixes to the trampoline! (Say goodbye to unwanted space trips and hello to dynamic diagonal dives - I'm sure this won't come in handy 🌋)
- Textiles such as carpet tiles have been moved to the right category in the store (Surface finishes) and have been fully translated.
- Reworked some buttons in the “Change style” panel to make them easier to understand (e.g., for plants - "Soil" - "Yes/No").
- Items from the "Sandbox Only" category can no longer be used in a “To Buy” quest in jobs.
- Stains placed in Sandbox Mode will now disappear automatically if they're small enough.
- We've optimized stain highlights while using the "Dirt management" tool.
- The new perk - “Well deserved rest” lets you control the time of day in a house you own. You’ll do this by sleeping in a bed, changing the time to morning or night. Important! Changing the “Game time” option in the settings will only have a visual effect on clocks.
- Changing the time in the “Property settings” tab in Sandbox mode now also changes the time while making a level as well. No more going in and out of the “Test property” mode to see if the sun is high enough!
- The progression of the Mount Everest achievement now properly scales with the size of your paint roller
- [UI] Added an animation when hovering over the series or name of an item, and the company logo in the store. This shows you can click on them for easy searching.
- [UI] The auction fee is now shown on the button for putting a house up for auction
- When building walls in Sandbox Mode, the preview of the chosen material is now bigger.
- The "unstuck" and "reset-to-spawn-position" commands are now visible in the console (F11).
Fixes:
- Further advancements with our war on corrupted save files (we're winning, aren't we?)
- Improved recognition of presets when switching between them in the “Change style” panel
- Pool balls are now arranged in the correct order in the “Change style” panel
- Building walls on stains should now clean the stains
- The game now correctly calculates the amount of money paid for the auction immediately after putting a house up for auction
- Fixed the spray VFX
- The "Spray" tooltip shows up only when the "Cleaning spray" perk is active
- Removed the Confounded Face emoji from the bottom right corner of the screen 😖. Bye friend!
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Some of you may be disappointed with the lack of a Before/After feature. Overall, this has been one of the most popular requests since House Flipper 2 came out, so we fully understand that!
To be frank, we already had something ready, a bit more than a prototype of this feature, but we felt that instead of releasing it now, we wanna take our time and bring it to you once we're fully happy with the results! From the development perspective, this feature isn't as simple as it may seem, and considering how many players are interested in it, we aim to bring it to a higher standard!
It's a big one for us, and we'd love to hear from you regarding all the new content!
If you have any suggestions, make sure to let us know! - our Steam Discussions or the House Flipper Discord are probably your best bets!
You're also welcome to visit our feature board on Canny.io!
Last but not least, check out this brand new bundle!
Hairdresser Simulator just came out, and if it's something you might enjoy, go show them some love! 🤗
https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/38867/Hairdresser_Simulator__House_Flipper_2/
Have lots of fun with the Spring Update, and make sure to celebrate the upcoming spring season! 🌼
- Many hugs from the Frozen District team! 🐻
