Hey everyone, there's no getting around it, we done fucked up. Some of you might have noticed that jacksepticeye did a video on Academia : School Simulator. That boosted our player base, and we wanted to make sure that the large influx of new players had a better experience by pushing out a balance update. Unfortunately what seemed like a simple update introduced a whole new set of unforeseen issues like the game refusing to launch and crashing for various reasons. We've been spending the past couple of days trying to sort out those issues, but in the end we realized it's gonna take a lot longer than we expected. So we're going to make some changes to the builds.
In retrospect, we already had a system where we pushed our changes to a candidate branch first for testing before releasing the default build to everyone else. That's what we should have done, and that's what we're doing now. So we're rolling back the default build to build 0064, and moving the latest build 0070 to the candidate branch. What does this mean for you?
If you are playing build 0064:
Build 0070 game saves will no longer work, but older saves should be fine.
You will also lose these balance updates:
- Lowered delinquency probability for students
- Lowered probability of students making dirt
- Students get more food from eating
- Increased movement for students, teacher, and janitor
- Janitor will now come to school earlier, and leave school much more later in the day
- Increased temporary discipline bonus delinquents get from being scolded by the principal to lessen repeat instances of rowdiness and bullying.
To access the Candidate Branch on Steam (which should now have build 70):
1) Go to your game library and right click on Academia School Simulator
2) In the pop up window, find and click on Properties.
3) In the properties window, click on the Betas Tab
4) Under Enter beta access code to unlock private betas type :
academiacandidate
5) Click on "check code"
6) Under "Select the beta you would like to opt into" click on the dropdown
menu and click on "candidate"
7) You should now have access to the latest candidate build
There will always be issues like this in Early Access games, but clearly this is something that we had control over. We humbly apologize to anyone whos game experience was ruined by our mistake. It breaks our hearts when we hear that someone's first experience with our game is of it simply refusing to launch and just crashing. In the future, we will be more careful when updating the builds to make sure that you no longer have to experience these issues. Hope you guys understand, and look forward to a new build at the end of the month!