Thank you all for waiting patiently, after a long open beta phase we are now ready to push this update out to all of our players. What is in this you wonder?
Main Features
- Engineering Projects & Engineers
- Factory Production & Managers
- V12 Turbos
- Spaceframe Chassis
- 8 new car bodies, 27 new body variants in total
Engineering, Engineers and Factories
You can now set up engineering projects for your cars to see if your engineering team would be able to finish that +15 quality trim you built in the next 100 years or so. Select your team of engineers with special skills to shave down those engineering months.
After setting up your factory production for the new cars and engines you get an updated price estimate that with higher precision tells you how well you are actually doing in those market demographics you aimed for.
V12 Turbos and Spaceframe Chassis
Running a car manufacturer out of your garage with a few welders? Probably not going to have the huge monocoque chassis stamping presses... now your new option for small scale production in the early years is spaceframes, which really help making cars that are not for utility purposes only (*cough* ladder frames).
With the new V12 Turbos you get even more power you can't put down onto the road, for more fun and wheelspin at 300 km/h!
What is up next?
As you can see, the additions to the engineering and factory side of things gets us a lot closer to a potential tycoon part of the game. With the big update being released, one of the first questions always is: "what is next?". To answer that straight away: really cool stuff! Take a look at this Little Big Dev Update video which tells you all about it:
https://youtu.be/zL8X6H2IdkA
We are stoked about what is to come to Automation the next few months! :)
Hope you are too, but first of all, enjoy the new update.
20. April Edit: We just released a little patch to address the issues some people had with the latest public build, as well as two balance changes:
- Added Prestige stat dependencies for cargo, doors, seats
- Rebalanced engine factory production output
- Fixed engine designer hold / revert functionality
- Fixed issue with engine size color indicator in drop-down
- Fixed trim year sometimes falsely defaulting to 2016
- Fixed 70sWedgeLarge body rear lift value
Cheers!