Dear Retailers,
It’s time to Rise to the Top, as our first major milestone update nears completion!
At the start of this month, I gave some news of a major update coming around the corner. In truth, this is part of an update that kicked August off. But now that we’re putting the final touches on it, I can proudly announce that our first major milestone: the “Rise to the Top” update, will now be available on Thursday, August 28th!
Rise to the Top is an update focused on taking stores to the next level, quite literally but also figuratively – with huge changes to the way stores are built and designed. Now, second floors and beyond are available to entrepreneurs, alongside smarter customers to make use of them.
ENTRANCES, EXITS & ACCESS CONTROL
The logic behind each customer’s behaviour is quite complicated, and the ideal state we want with customer behaviour is to, well, behave like customers. Walking around stores and through entranceways should feel natural and normal.
That being said, a lot of players have asked for features like a back entrance for deliveries, or to add an entrance/exit set of doors to create a highly visible and directed flow of traffic. As part of the Rise to the Top Update, you can now add designations to doorways, allowing to serve as Entrance Only, Exit Only, Both, or Courier Only.
Access Control Toggle | In-Development
ELEVATION
noun
the action or fact of elevating or being elevated
“My customers are experiencing elevation right now.”
height above a given level, especially sea level
“I can add a new elevation to my store!?”
Elevators can stand freely or sit into walls. With them, the second level and beyond is now available for design and customer use. The possibilities are just beginning, in fact, as we introduce this new feature into the game.
Oh, and it's not just elevators. We're also introducing stairs and escalators as a vertical traversal option, as well, so you can pick your favourite, or better yet, use all three.
Elevation Options | In-Development
We’re really excited to see what concepts develop out of this addition. Customers can now navigate up and down floors with ease, allowing for multi-level department stores, mezzanines, or overlooks.
RAISE THE ROOF
We’ve been hard at work completely retuning the Build Mode in-game, a process which has taken many months and is one we've been delivering in chunks as new features are added and the building process is simplified. In the meantime, Interior Decoration is coming full-circle as we add Ceiling Painting and Roof Designing. These feature have been added as part of a full rebuilding of Floors/Ceiling to accommodate Elevators, holes, and gaps.
You can paint your ceiling however you wish, and you can also tweak the design of your roof to best suit your store, whether it be slanted, ridged, or completely made of glass; it's up to you!
Roof Designer & Ceiling Painter | In-Development
CHINESE LOCALIZATION
We’ve gotten a fair bit of feedback from Chinese players as to the quality of the localization. Rest assured that I’m hard at work at this as well, and will be able to also introduce this in the next update. We're also looking at ways to localise these very blog posts, as well, so please bare with us as we sort that out, too.
I’m looking forward to seeing what’s possible with elevation coming to King of Retail 2. You can expect a deep dive into all of the new content arriving on Thursday, alongside the detailed patch notes.
And don’t forget to join the Community in our KoR2 Discord. As always, I’m around to answer questions, listen to ideas, hear suggestions, and deal with your bug reports.
Until next time,
Daniel