Hey everyone,
It's time to level up your cleaning. You were once a washing heavy but now, the world will kneel before your spraying power as you become a professional! In today's log, we take a close look at the highly anticipated Professional Duty power washer the Prime Vista PRO which arrives next patch.
Last week we showed off one of the accessibility additions coming with the FOV slider, you can learn more about that here: https://steamcommunity.com/games/1290000/announcements/detail/4351035102300600897
We don't have a date for 0.7 just yet, but keep an eye on our socials for intensifying teasers and the launch announcement soon. Now, to unleash the power of the clean side.
Prime Vista PRO
The ‘Prime Vista PRO’ has been revealed! This eagerly anticipated professional-grade power washer eclipses the heavy-duty washer’s cleaning abilities, cutting through rust with ease. It can also deal with oily stains while using the yellow or even green nozzle.
It’s a great upgrade to help tackle the upcoming jobs in career mode. And once you’ve purchased Prime Vista PRO, why not try using it on some of earlier jobs in Free Play mode to see what a difference it makes!
Behold, stats! Oh, and how much money you'll be dishing out for this washer!
This week we have some insights straight from the devs both on creating this new washer from its art and gameplay design aspects.
For more on the design side, here's Dan:
Since the very start of the project, we were careful to leave ourselves enough headroom to create four different duties of pressure washer, each with increasing power. In the game’s shop the Professional Duty power washer slot has been waiting to be populated since our early access launch and has always been something we looked forward to finalising and balancing. The stats and variables for each washer duty class have been following a steady upward trend and the professional washer continues that trajectory faithfully, making it feel like a natural step up from the Heavy-Duty washer before it. A new tier of dirt type has always accompanied each duty upgrade also. For the Medium Duty washer, it was ‘Stubborn’ dirt (mainly represented by Graffiti). For the Heavy Duty it was ‘Ingrained’ dirt (most commonly Rust). This time the final dirt tier ‘Oily’ will start to make an appearance in the jobs. The ‘Professional’ power washer certainly helps with removing those Oil spills!
Torger, who worked on the art side of making the Prime Vista Pro, had this to say:
The new professional washer was a much-awaited addition to the game as our first new washer, so we wanted to make it a bit special. We had a few challenges with this washer design. So far we've generally increased the size of higher tiers to indicate their more powerful nature, but we found this difficult with this washer. Both due to it losing its believable look and also due to some constraints with reusing our common washer animations and grab poses. Instead, we changed the Prime Vista brand colour scheme and design language somewhat to be sleeker and more modern as an indication of its high quality and power. References included sleek modern white coloured appliances such as popular cellular devices and smaller elements from a couple of sci-fi designs. In addition to the new white colour, we also moved slightly away from the mostly plastic look common to previous washer models and most real washers in general. Instead, we added prominent chrome metal elements in several places to indicate a high-quality finish. We also created new chunky circular nozzles and, although our game is a peaceful one they are slightly reminiscent of gun muzzle brakes. If you look closely, in addition to the standard nozzle colour coding they also re-use shapes from the older washer nozzles to assist with readability. Mixed together with a few design cues commonly used on the rest of the prime vista washer range gave us most of our design, a more refined tool for the real professional.
Overall we hope you have a blast when the new update drops and you can take on the role of a true professional power washer.
Until Next Time!
Thanks for reading this pro dev log. we still have big surprises coming in 0.7, be sure to keep an eye on our socials and tune into our next dev log for more teasers!
Next week we'll introduce one of the new levels coming, can you guess what it is from this screenshot?
We'll see you there.
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