Hey everyone!
Welcome to our latest weekly developer log! Last time we shared our upcoming rework to the soap system, which helps reduce accidental overspending and makes the cleaning liquids more meaningful. You can see the full log #16 here: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1290000/view/3030341104940961580
Today, we'll be showing off many of the smaller quality of life changes coming to the next patch that have been requested by you, the community. We'll also give insights into why we're making these changes!
Update 0.4
We're very close to finishing off our next content update! We want to get this out within the Steam Summer Sale period and are aiming for next week. Of course, this could slip with several extra features still being tested right now, but we'll keep everyone updated here and on socials!
Update 0.4 brings new levels, challenge mode, quality of life changes and bug fixes.
On that note, get an extra clean 15% off PowerWash Simulator here on Steam for the duration of the sale (ends July 8th at 10AM PST)!
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QOL - Quality of Life
We've made several additions to improve gameplay based on community feedback on top of the soap rework discussed last week. The list in this dev log is not final as we are still testing some other small features that we'd like to add to the game this patch.
Let's dive in!
Changes
- We've added a to-do list to the HUD when there is only 3 objects/groups of objects left to do in a job.
This is intended to make life easier, prompt those that aren't already looking in the details section and save time instead of needing to go into the menu.
- Disabled the ability to purchase equipment for unowned power washers. A lot of people were accidentally buying the wrong attachments and felt a little cheated by the shop. We made the change as we don't want this to be a player's first buying experience!
- Added a crouch option on top of the existing prone.
We want to give more options to the player in how they wash. This should add another dimension to getting to certain details with your washer. There will also be the option to either hold to switch crouch or tap to switch between the stances in the settings menu.
- Added in support for up to 240FPS.
This is still a little experimental but you can select several increments up to this 240 FPS cap. We know people with high refresh rate monitors have been requesting this but we also hope it could help those suffering some motion sickness.
- Added option to leave the crosshair on Again we are attempting to potentially reduce motion sickness for some players by giving a fixed reference point on the UI. Prior to this, the crosshair would fade whilst the washer was spraying.
- 15-degree nozzle is set as default. We saw a lot of players and streamers not realise they could switch between nozzles for a while and though most people realise at some point, it might help with the first job being more frustrating than it should be.
- Improved thresholds for very low opacity dirt. This will autocomplete when the dirt is almost invisible which quite a few players have been stuck on. Thresholds in general will continue to be looked at with making sure they don't pop too early or are too punishing. In this case, it should help stop people from having to spray a whole object even though there's nothing visible even on the dirt vision.
On top of this, we have a few improvements to the ambience SFX and UI. There's a few extra quality of life features we are testing, we aren't sure if they will make it into this patch but keep your eyes out for the full update notes when it goes live!
Quality of life is something that we will keep revisiting in future patches. If you've got any requests or feedback leave them here on the Steam forums or on our Discord linked below.
Community Map Suggestions
It's your last chance to suggest a job for us to put into the game in our first community map vote. Next week we'll be polling several of the most popular and doable jobs we see. This will be the first of several community map polls so don't worry if your idea doesn't make the cut this time, there's still hope!
Click the image below to share your ideas.
You can jump onto our Discord and directly chat with us and the rest of the community!
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As always if you have any feedback on anything you would like to see please put it in the comments below, on our Discord or in the feedback section here on Steam.
We can't wait for everyone to play around with the next update! :)
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