This update doesn't bring any serious changes to game play, it's mostly a performance and background systems update. I want the game to be in a better state for future content updates, especially since PieClicker's Steam anniversary is next month. Anyway, here's what changed:
- Removed last traces of mod support
- Reworked how the game launches to be more smooth, ex. no white screen flashing randomly
- Updated all of the code libraries to latest versions
- Changed underlying rendering engine, this should help with Steam overlay issues, when testing I got notifications to show up in the game, this also lowered the overall size of the game slightly
- Verified that the max master chef upgrade achievement is 100% working again, hotfix will remain in place until next month for anyone who missed it
- Massively improved performance on upgrade purchase animations
Edit because I forgot another major change:
- I seriously reduced the number of files that Steam saves in the cloud, this will not affect your saved games at all but it will make future cloud syncs a lot faster, the first one will probably take a minute to process all the changes but everything after that should be much faster
- I probably reduced the number of files saved (on average) from 300 -> 8
Since there are some pretty groundbreaking changes here I'm anticipating some bugs here and there, small stuff that I missed in testing ykyk. I'll be keeping an eye on things and issuing patches as needed.