Dear Retailers,
Whether you’re meeting people at a work mixer or flushing your DNS for the twentieth time that night: Networking is hard work.
But the best business never evolved in a vacuum. It takes collaboration, teamwork, and stick-to-itiveness. That’s why I’m proud to announce that November’s update, focusing on expanding King of Retail’s online functionality, is now live for all players!
The B2B Networking Update brings many online integrations into King of Retail 2 to make it faster, easier, and more intuitive to incorporate community creations into your stores, connect with the community, and share your designs online.
Let’s get right into it.
Hustle Across the World - Steam Cloud and Workshop Integration
In what will be a small but very welcome addition to the update, we’re introducing Steam Cloud Save support, which syncs your saves automatically across devices. No more transferring folder (no more renaming folders, either).
In-game save imports are also added to the build, making it easier to share saves between other players. This is a potentially huge opportunity for future opportunities in creating pre-fabricated saves, but that will be something we explore down the road.
Meanwhile, we’re also proud to announce that Steam Workshop Support has entered it’s first phase. What that means is that now:
You can build, design, and share Displays from directly within King of Retail 2, directly to the Steam Workshop.
You can browse, integrate and place new designs from the Workshop in mere seconds.
Upload designs as you make them, directly to the workshop.
With our external editor tool, you can create custom textures and objects and share them with the community.
We’re rolling out additional functionality for the Workshop as we progress through Early Access. I’m very excited to see what players share from their own design library!
King of Retail 2 Editing Tool is now Available!
For the discerning modder amongst you, we’re now also able to offer the King of Retail 2 Asset Editor, available from the King of Retail website. Using this, you’ll be able to create your own Custom textures and custom graphics for integration into the game!
This early release focuses on texture-based customization (such as wall and floor designs) and includes the groundwork for more sophisticated asset creation down the road. I’m also looking into how to better integrate the editor into the Steam landscape, so I hope to have some news on that shortly as well.
I’m continually blown away by some of the incredible creations that the community has done with the tools we’ve had on hand. I can’t wait to see what a better tool will allow players to do with their designs.
Compete for the Crown with Online Global Leaderboards
Retail can be a competitive business: time to see how you stack up.
The new Online Global Leaderboard visualizes the performance of players across the world in a living 3D cityscape. Your cumulative sales generate your “building” in the skyline, rising or falling as you push your company forward.
Currently, our Leaderboard allows you to.
Compare global rankings.
Filter for friends
Track your total sales across all saves
Data is fun to play with, and I’ll be introducing additional data sets in the future to let you see what other sales goals we can push forward.
Products Built by Excellence
We also have a backlog of new product updates to introduce with today’s update, take a look at what’s available below. Our focus this cycle is very broad, and going to get broader, as this is only the first part of several releases before the end of the year.
What have we got for you?
Beauty Products, including Lipstick, Mascara and Nail Polish
Skin Care Lines, facial creams, facial masks.
Soaps and Expanded Toiletries
Over-the-counter pharmaceuticals, vitamins, supplements, whey protein, nutritional oils, and herbal remedies.
Hair care, including brushes, shampoo, conditioner, cleanser.
Warm male fashion, including sweaters, sweatshirts, and hoodies.
This is only the first stage of new product updates. Stay posted for more to come soon!
Full Patch Notes
Major
Steam Cloud save file management
Steam workshop management
Updated to Unreal version 5.6 (better lighting, faster performance)
Upload custom displays to workshop in-game.
Browse and download workshop displays directly inside the store
Steam leaderboards. Compare yourself to other players.
Workshop room, for managing and browsing workshop content.
Upload custom wall and floor surfaces to workshop.
Upload decorations to workshop.
Added workshop tab for painting walls and floors
Updated Display selection menu
Minor
Added first time cheat confirmation
Added title to cheat menu
Display pictures are redrawn on opening the game, to avoid missing pictures.
Changed dislpay thumbnail look
Doorbells doesn't go off when store is closed.
Doorbell activation area is limited to when door is crossed
Adjusted colission sizing in escalators, so they can be placed up against each other
Notifications when employees are arriving to work
Notifications when employees are going homs
Notifications when employees are taking a break
Staff workzone shows when you hover their icon
AI
Customers dont enter the store 35 mins before closing
Products
Hair Masks
Hair Conditioner
Hair Shampoo
Supplements and Vitamins
Lipsticks
Nail Polish
Brushes and Combs
Fragrances
Soap Bars
Hair Styling
Mens Knitwear
Mens Hoodies
Bugs
Display designer capture images looks proper again
Removed build funds (will be added when building cost money)
Removed bug where file selection would open over and over again
Inside doors no longer doorbell sounds
Fixed bug where AI would not cross doors at certain areas
Crashing bug where two employees with no relations to each other would cause the game to crash.
Bug where escalators pointing in certain directions would cut holes in floor wrongly is solved.
Windows should respect weather as well as being inside
Bug where an employee having 0 hour schedule would ruin team score
Plots at corners of T, X and L road segments can now be built on.
Removed blue box surrounding windows
Fixed bug where multifloor escalators did not load properly
Stairs should not stuck the person when going to it
We’ll be showcasing player creations in future updates, so if you’d like to get your mods and designs a shoutout, make sure to share them on our Community Discord, screenshots or Steam links are perfectly fine. And, while I may be busy with testing and fixes, be sure to join our Development Stream every other Friday on Twitch.
Until next time, happy sales.
– Daniel