We all know that reviews are very important for any business venture that wants to become successful - after all without them there's no way your Food Truck will ever become famous! As that is the case we've worked extra hard on making sure that our reviewing system is extra clear and intuitive and today we'll talk a little bit about how that system works and the eternal struggle of balancing and fun that stems from it!

Let's jump into it!





As you might know we've been extensively playtesting our game throughout the last few months. If you ever asked yourself why the short answer to that question is because we believe that through your feedback we can grasp the very best idea for how our game should tackle all kinds of ideas that pop inside our heads. Throughout the playtests we've been also checking with you on the state of the reviewing system available in the game - the way the customers behave after eating your burgers and the scores you receive informing you about the quality of the burgers you've created and how your customers liked them.

It is through playtesting that we've discovered and understood that we need to find the right balance between relaxing gameplay, fun and cozy feeling of the game and the level of challenge presented within the game. How hard should it be to create the right burger? Short answer is "just enough to keep you entertained but not enough to make you annoyed".



And as such we've embarked upon a journey of finding the right reviewing system that concluded with finding just the right system that encompasses ease of access, understanding and fun we've strived to achieve.

Do you know that we used to have hearts to symbolize culinary preferences of our customers? It was, however, a bit too complicated - you aimed at having ingredients with the most numbers of heart but then the number was multiplied by some other factors and yadda yadda yadda - it was way too much for a simple and fun system!

After several discussions and feedback sessions with our community we decided on something different - a simple and elegant way of having stars be the main hero of our reviews.



Now when you'll play through the game you will notice that each of the client demographics available in the game have their culinary preferences neatly presented with a short but sweet information on how your star score will change if you decide to use them. Simple, right?

Let's take a look at tourists, for example, one of the demographics that are available in our game - just by looking at their demographic tab you will immediately see that they'd prefer to eat fruits or sea food and they really dislike vegetables. You don't have to spend too much time analyzing complicated graphs - one glance is enough to more or less understand the tastes of that particular demographic. Now you can enter your truck and craft the recipe that's gonna work exactly for them.



Our new system is also better at supporting strategists who'd prefer to minmax their trucks to offer meals that could potentially be of interest to several groups of customers. When no math is involved aside from counting the stars (and yes, you can say we'll be counting stars 🎵in this game!) it gets easier and simpler to check out whether the dish you're currently working on might also work on several other categories. Not to mention that you can always simply check the dish and see how it compares across all clients in the city at any time!



There are all kinds of things that can impact the number of stars you will get. Each ingredient has several tags that your customers might be looking for but that's not all. The processes your food will undergo can also influence the score. The overall flavor of the dish will often be more important for some people than some actual ingredients. And of course - the speed of meal preparation can also be taken into account - you've got your work cut out for you! Or... you'll cut it out yourself in the truck!



All ingredients can only hold up to 4 tags at the same time - sometimes you will however notice that there are ingredients who have only 2 or 3 tags present! That's a great opportunity to add some tags via all kinds of cooking processes! They have their own tags and products that undergo the particular process will receive the tags coming from the process. Even the ingredients who already got 4 tags are not exempt from this mechanic - they will however lose some of the tags they used to have before the process happened.

Serving speed and overall flavor of the dish, as we've said, also impacts the dish and how your customers will feel about them. As we continue the development we're also thinking about adding further interesting tags that will definitely influence the way you enjoy yourself in the Food Truck Empire. Who knows - some of the further levels might actually force you to keep pondering on the processes and ingredients you used and if it wouldn't be better if you didn't use them or changed the configuration of your automated assembly line existing within your food truck.







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Last week we teased the Slam Dunk Ranno skin but didn't reveal much about it. Today we're happy to share that this isn't just a normal skin, but instead our first Esports skin made with the goal in mind of supporting community tournaments!



Our vision for supporting events with it means everything from giving this skin to scenes of all sizes to help boost attendees, to letting them use it to pump up the pot bonus or even do giveaways. This means (at least at first) getting this skin will be connected to the events themselves. However, don't worry if you see one you really like, because later down the line we'll make sure they're available for everyone.

If you're a local TO who is interested in learning more about this, coming soon we'll have a form for local events to submit their information, and receive Slam Dunk Ranno skins based on certain criteria like attendees.

We also took the opportunity to do some special palettes of the skin for some events that are already happening. Make sure to keep your eyes on these to learn more:

This patch addresses the comments that the game looks pretty bad in open spaces where there's basically just a green field.

I've added a bunch of random decorations to all areas, grass patches, sticks, small stones et cetera.

It also fixed a couple of minor graphical glitches such as the player not being properly layered behind certain buildings or when moving through doors.

A couple of chests and other items has been slightly moved to allow for better movement.

Nos complace anunciar el lanzamiento de un nuevo parche que incluye múltiples correcciones y mejoras esenciales para garantizar una experiencia de juego óptima y más fluida. Asegúrate de actualizar tu juego para continuar disfrutando sin interrupciones.



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A continuación, las notas detalladas del parche de la fecha 4 de Noviembre 2024:

Correcciónes:

1) Organización de Juegos del Hambre: Solucionado el error que desconectaba a los jugadores al usar un ítem consumible para organizar este evento.

2) Caminata Automática: Se ha corregido el bug que permitía caminar más rápido de lo normal.

3) Borrado de Cartel con /cmsg: Ahora se podrá borrar mensajes mediante el chat de clan (Enter + espacio + enter)

4) Meditación: Arreglado el error que causaba fallos en la meditación cuando el personaje era atacado.

5) Deslogeo Premium: Ahora, los jugadores premium no podrán desloguearse a sí mismos utilizando el mismo personaje que se pretende desconectar.

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Nuevas Funciones y Mejoras:

1) Sistema de Party: Se ha agregado una función que permite aceptar miembros al grupo con un simple doble clic sobre ellos, simplificando la gestión de party.

2) Ahora, al adquirir tiempo premium desde la web, ya no es necesario volver al panel para convertir el saldo en tiempo premium. Todo el proceso es automático: una vez confirmado el pago en la web, el tiempo premium se activará en el juego en un plazo máximo de 30 minutos.

3) Nuevo Sistema de Cofres mediante NPC:

Estos cofres están disponibles a través de un NPC ubicado en las ciudades de Ullathorpe y Nix. Al abrirlos, los jugadores podrán obtener una variedad de recompensas exclusivas, que incluyen:

* Organización de eventos especiales: Consigue ítems que te permitirán organizar todo tipo de eventos como Daga rusa, 1vs1, Juegos del Hambre, Deathmatch, Angeles VS Demonios y más!!!

* Beneficios premium: Accede a ventajas únicas como la opción de cambiar de género de tu personaje o modificar el nombre de tu personaje, pack de items consumibles para el /RESET desde cualquier mapa y mucho más!!!

* Skins exclusivas: Adquiere apariencias personalizables para una amplia gama de objetos, incluyendo armas, cascos, escudos, e incluso mascotas. Estas skins se vincularán permanentemente a tu personaje, haciéndolo destacar en el mundo del juego. Para adquirir cuarzos puedes hacerlo mediante el comando /CUARZOS



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• Fixed play test version's access to achievements and Steam Achievements

Sorry for not posting earlier, but ~17 days ago 0.34.0 was released, but I was too lazy to post the patch notes.
The reason is that I immediately got a lot of feedback, and jumped into developing because I guess it's much more fun! ^^
But here are the changes, better late than never:

• Reaching higher than the required population increases the starting resources of your next island!
  • Now that highscore is no longer the goal of the game, it felt wrong that overachieving didn't give you anything.
  • So now there are 3 tiers, which upon reaching, each gives more and more extra percentage of resources on your next island!
  • This way if you are good at the game, you get rewards, but the rewards won't scale endlessly, so you won't feel like you have to optimize the hell out of the game. ^^
• You no longer automatically carry over 10% of your resources to your next island.
• Instead there is a new Trading Port building. Each time you build one, you'll increase the starting resources on your next island by a fixed, additive amount.
• Updated the image of Fishing Hut.
• Small balance changes and fixes.
• Lots of DevOps improvements.
• Updated the game's description accross the stores to indicate that the game is no longer highscore but a campaign oriented. 

That's it, I know it ain't much, but a good step towards the right direction. And due to this delay of publishing the patch notes, I'm happy to announce that v0.35.0 is soon out with tons of new cards and card mechanics! They are going to increase the depth of the game tremendously! ^^

Can't wait to show you all the new stuff, and as always, join my Discord server, just hit me up and I'll grant you instant access to the playtest! I'd love to hear you feedback!

Thanks for reading and have a nice week!
Tudvari a.k.a. Portgate Studios

We have just shipped an updated Steam Deck Client to the Preview/Beta channel.

Game Recording

• Fixed issue that could cause game-provided timeline icons to not appear the first time Steam tries to show them
  
• Fixed case where exporting a clip could fail if the clip was across two play sessions
  
• Fixed rare crash when deleting background video

We've just updated the game to the latest version of the HexWar Engine. This includes various bug fixes and performance improvements!

Version 1.0 will be coming to your rooftop on NOVEMBER 13th!

Watch our devlog to see what's coming in our biggest update yet 👇

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