Hey everyone!
Welcome to our latest weekly developer log! We've just launched our 0.4 content update with new jobs, qaulity of life changes and more, you can read about that here: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1290000/view/3006697839977518400
Today, we'll be covering the community map vote that's opening next week and the hotfix we're working on for the rust problems.
Hotfix 0.4.1 Coming Soon
At higher frame rates the Urban-X and Prime Vista 1500 are not removing rust as intended. We're currently working on a hotfix for this to go out ASAP. Though the Prime Vista 3000 still cuts through rust as normal with both the yellow and red nozzle at all FPS options. We recommend where possible to use this power washer.
Another issue which makes the first worst, is that the power washer selected in the challenge mode (Prime Vista 1500) unintentionally stays selected when you return to career mode. E brings up your loadout and you can check and switch back to the Prime Vista 3000 if this has happened to you.
The Prime Vista 1500 and Urban-X currently can only cut through dirt at 30 FPS. As a temporary workaround, you can select 30FPS this in the graphics tab of the options menu, clean the rust and then toggle it back up to a higher FPS once done. Soap can also work if you have some in stock or you can wait for the hotfix.
There's also a video example of this workaround in this tweet: https://twitter.com/PowerWashSim/status/1413446911349051392
We're sorry to those effected and you can rest assured it's our highest priority to fix right now!
There's also a few other tweaks and fixes that might make it into this patch but we'll let everyone know the full list when it's live! :)
Community Map Votes
Next week, we'll open a knockout style community vote for the first of three community maps we'll design and put into the game. Each job idea will go head to head with another to ultimately result in one winner and will be made dirty by the devs!
These ideas were originally taken from the request thread here on steam: https://steamcommunity.com/app/1290000/discussions/1/3112530528183413533/
The dev team have been pouring over the ideas and have shortlisted down to 50 and we're currently finalising the first 8 to be thrown into the ring from this pool. The choices will be made on popularity, if we can actually make them and ultimately if we think they would be fun in practice.
Some of the choices that don't get picked could make it back into the future votes so don't fret if your pick loses!
This wet and wild battle to find a future job will take place on our Discord server, the first round starts this upcoming Tuesday.
To join our Discord, click here: https://discord.com/invite/powerwashsimulator
There's a channel called #community-map-votes and in there we'll add instructions how to vote closer to the time!
We can't wait for you all to cast your ballot on which job needs to be covered in muck!
That's it for this dev log, next week we'll be back to covering upcoming features for our next regular Early Access content update!
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