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Update 0.1.79

Hello everyone!

Inspection

Simulation mode is now available for inspection!
In Simulation the classic inspection tool will not work anymore.

A quick guide to how to inspect component without it:

  • Processor: Beep code (see POST section below)
  • Mother Board: Beep code (see POST section below)
  • Power Supply: Beep code (see POST section below)
  • Memory: boot on a USB with RamTest87+
  • Graphics Card: Software "3DBench" > "Stability Test"
  • Hard disk drive: Software "Polygon backup" > "Scan"
  • CPU cooler: unbreakable if the cooler has no fan
  • Case: unbreakable
  • Optical drive: unbreakable

Other tips:
You can look at the fans rotation. If all fans rotate irregularly that means the PSU is broken.
If one fan rotate irregular, the fan might be broken or the component where the fan is mounted on.
Look at temperature, if a graphics cards or a HDD stay cold that means it's probably broken.
If a CPU get hot there are potentially something wrong with its cooler.

POST and beep code

Every current motherboards have power-on self-test (POST), So I add them to Hardware Engineers.
Now when booting up a computer a quick test will be made.
If the boot cannot success you will have a beep code sequence.
Some new beep codes as been added and more will come!
Example :

  • Processor: 4 long beeps
  • Mother Board: 1 short beep
  • Power Supply: 3 short beeps
  • Memory: 1 long 2 short beeps

Engine

Keyboard entry as been reworked!
You should now be able to use every characters of your keyboard evens if you have a non supported keyboard layout.
Note: For language with huge amount of glyph (Chinese, Japanese) only the glyph included in the translation mod will be available.
Note2: If you found a specific character of your keyboards not included in the game you can report it on the Steam HUB.

Mission

The penalties in case of unfulfilled optional objective when returning a mission and their tooltips as been reworked.

If you have both of this unchecked the penalties will be auditioned like this:

  • -50% Money
  • -150% Reputation
  • -90% Experience
    Yes that means you will lose a lots of reputation points if you don't do both of this objective at the same time.

    Interface

    Skill points to spend:

    Workshop tooltips:

    Mods Manager:
    The color of the little dot before the name of the mod show you if the mod respect the gameplay.

    Speeding time will now be two time faster

    And of course many bugs was fixed. If you found a bug, do not forget to report it on the Bug Report section of the Steam HUB this is very important!

    As usual feel free to let me know what you think about this change in the comment section below.

    Thanks for reading! If you want to support Hardware Engineers share it with your friends!

    I hope you will enjoy this patch and see you for the next one!

    Summary:

    • Simulation mode : Inspection !
    • Adding power-on self-test (POST)
    • Adding more Beep codes
    • Rework of keyboard inputs
    • Rework of optional objective malus and tooltips
    • Improved Interface
    • Improved Mods Manager
    • Increasing Time speeding up
    • Fixed canceling mission
    • Fixed bug with RamTest87+
    • Fixed potential crash RamTest87+ USB Tool
    • Fixed VRD Status
    • Fixed Notification benchmark