Dear Junkers! 🔧🔥

This update focuses heavily on input stability, system fixes, and overall performance improvements across the game. A lot of work has gone into refining mouse behavior, improving UI responsiveness, and optimizing core systems to make the experience smoother and more consistent.

As always — thank you for your support, feedback, and patience. Every update helps push the game further forward 🚀

🖱️ Input & Controls Improvements

• Improved mouse input handling for players using multi-monitor setups

• Adjusted DPI handling to provide more stable mouse movement on high-resolution displays

• Improved viewport mouse capture behavior to prevent the cursor from escaping the game window

• Reduced potential mouse micro-stutter in gameplay areas (especially on foot)

• Minor input system adjustments for more consistent camera movement

• Improved stability of the key binding system in control settings

⚙️ Systems & Stability Fixes

• Fixed issues with game system initialization related to Game Instance configuration

• Removed project configuration errors that could generate warnings in game logs

• Fixed issues with loading certain materials in game builds

• Improved shader configuration to prevent default materials appearing incorrectly

• Fixed issues with UI widget focus behavior

• Optimized system initialization during game startup

• Improved overall UI and input stability

• Improved game resource loading process

🗺️ Optimization & Performance

• Minimap optimization and improved behavior for vehicles

• Vehicle optimization, especially during deactivation states

• Improved smoothness while exploring the workshop area

• Reduced ghosting and “fake motion blur” during camera movement

• Reduced flickering of small details

• Lower TSR history memory cost

• Improved overall image stability (less trailing behind camera)

🚗 Gameplay Fixes & Improvements

• Fixed an issue where the Workstation purchase quest could get stuck

• Improved texture of the orange vehicle used in the Car Body Packer

• Improved visibility of resource names in the market widget (price changes)

• Added tooltip info showing which resources can be sold

• Changed scrap loading display in the stationary press — now shown in kilograms instead of percentage

• Increased scrap processing speed in the Stationary Press (large vehicles like tanks now process faster)

• Fixed issue with tutorial window staying on screen

🌍 Localization & UI

• Added Turkish (TR) translations for resource contents in items

• Added translations for input labels like “Left Shift”, “Left Ctrl” across all languages

• Added translation for resource buff UI (bottom right corner)

• Fixed English translation in the car painting preparation widget

• Fixed typo in upgrade menu (“Scarp Heap” → “Scrap Heap”)

🎮 Camera & Interaction

• Improved starting camera position in the Car Lift

• Adjusted camera distance in the lift by +30%

⚡ System-Wide Optimizations

This update includes a broad optimization pass across many gameplay systems:

• Vehicle renovation system optimization

• Vehicles used for renovation across the world optimized

• Garage assembly system optimization (behind workshop)

• Item renovation system optimization

• GPS path rendering on minimap optimized

• Question mark indicators on map optimized

• Vehicle reset system optimized

• Treasure item spawning optimized

• Vehicles for stationary press optimized

• Road sign optimization

• Interior item spawning optimization

• Scrap pile interaction optimization

• Workstations on parcels optimized

• Resource storage points on parcels optimized

💡 More updates are coming soon!
We continue working on new content, improvements, and major system upgrades.

Thank you for being part of the journey ❤️

💡 More performance-focused updates are coming.

The game is constantly being developed — I strongly recommend checking the integrity of the game files!

Massive junkyard hugs from your favorite rust whisperer —

Junkman Adrian 😎🛠️💛