🚚 📦Totally Reliable Delivery Service just dropped off another major update!

This new package to be picked up might be a bit heavy as the update contains an exhaustive list of changes including but not limited to in-game settings, a new event and more!! To show you around the new stuff, our devs will hop on a quick ride and start a live stream session at 12 pm PDT, July 28!

Watch it live here:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1011670/Totally_Reliable_Delivery_Service/

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Without further ado, let’s dive into the hottest updates:




Your first day as a delivery driver can get smoother now with the new Tutorial Session. Before you hop on a larger truck and find your journey a little too bumpy, run through the training tasks located in the Warehouse first and hone your skills. Never underestimate the power of a good onboarding experience.




Fly the Rocket Car from GASA in the fastest way possible and be the first in your group to reach the Hustle Beach! Following the cart racing event, a new Rocket Car Rally Event is now live in the game. Boost to the beach safe and fast, captain.




Get a BANG out of your Totally Reliable ride and celebrate the summer with some splendid fireworks. Interactable objects that can turn into fireworks have been implemented around the map exclusively for this summertime!




How about having both hands available to focus on a nice sky stunt when flying the biplane or the helicopter? The newly added hooks on the vehicles can save your trouble of having to multitask between being a good captain and worrying about losing the packages. Simply hang your stuff on the attached hooks in flight and leave the concerns behind!

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Besides the mentioned updates above, there are a number of other major changes that can improve your delivery experience！

• Updated Main Menu Flow - Now you can choose from Play Local / Play Online / Tutorial
  
• Joystick HUD Visualizer - On-screen interface to help visually teach our Totally Reliable joystick interactions (always on in Tutorial and toggle in Settings for switching on in main game)
  
• Character Strength Improvement - Strength now builds over time, resulting in the character being twice as strong as before
  
• Ping Deliveries - Find the location of deliveries/events in game through pinging it in the Leaderboards pause menu tab
  
• And more!

Check the full list that includes more content/game mechanism updates and bug fixes here!

Before wrapping it up, we want to thank you drivers again for playing the game and staying with us while we strive to deliver better content and fix bugs. We hope this big update can add some more good memories to your Totally Reliable journey! As usual, join us at our online communities to mingle with fellow drivers and let us know your thoughts!

• Twitter
  
• Facebook
  
• Instagram
  
• Discord Server

P.S. Drivers, keep your eyes out for a little something called the Freeplay/Sandbox mode as that might be the entrée we serve for the next major update!

Best,
tinyBuild and We’re Five Games

Greetings drivers!

Clock in and fire up the truck, the ragdoll physics simulation about terrible package delivery couriers, Totally Reliable Delivery Service, has been Totally Delivered to Steam!


https://store.steampowered.com/app/1011670/Totally_Reliable_Delivery_Service/

With the game being “Totally Delivered” to Steam, this release brings you to an open world full of new missions and tons of character customizations!





Put yourself in the shoes of a delivery courier and send some goofy laughs along with the fragile boxes while you are on duty. Give your drivers' noodly limbs a workout and fire up the engines on a variety of vehicles. Play solo or join your friends to secure the best customer reviews - but keep in mind that the competition can get fierce!

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Get the job started in this dynamic world! From magnificent fountains and snow mountains to futuristic buildings standing in Downtown, the sightseeing tour around the map is more than Totally Reliable.



In the meantime, you can form the strongest bond between you and your little drivers by reading their facial expressions! Take a moment to understand their mood for the day before rushing them into another mission, they will appreciate it!

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Fierce competitions are common in the delivery industry and you can be a part of them. Start your hovercrafts on a floating platform and confront fellow drivers to knock them off. Beware - the platform will break little by little as time progresses. Try to be the last delivery person standing!

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We've made a host of improvements to our networking solutions that will help minimize lag and smooth out overall performance, including:

• Photon Unity Networking
  
• Interpolation Improvements
  
• Compressing Network Data

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That should be a wrap for today! If you ever need to team up with some awesome colleagues for the ride, get latest news on the game from our development team or just mingle with fellow delivery men to show off your stunts, follow us on socials and let us know your ideas and suggestions:

• Twitter
  
• Facebook
  
• Instagram
  
• Discord Server

We hope you are prepared for some chaotic yet Totally Delivered fun!

Best,
tinyBuild and We’re Five Games

Buckle up your back brace, the Steam delivery is upon us!

During this very special delivery we have decided to gather around online and just have some fun with all you fine gamers! The schedule is below and the stream will be live on the Steam page itself.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1011670/Totally_Reliable_Delivery_Service/

Oh and let’s not forget, giveaways during every session!



As this will be live with a chat it will also be the perfect place for you to ask all your questions, and maybe even join us in-game!

Thursday 1st of April 2021:

• 2pm CET (4am PT) - Andrei, Tom, Tiberiu and Ryan will play away and represent that older generation of players, dad’s out there, we’re here to represent you!
  
• 12pm PT (9pm CET) - The Were Five Games crew is on deck! Come and ask all your questions to the makers...and probably the worst drivers ever!
  
• 2pm PT (11pm CET) - Josh, Sunny and Jeremy will embark you through some hoops and loops while they attempt some deliveries, come and have fun with us!

The release is on Thursday so if you want to get that ping once it’s out (and I hear there’s probably going to be a Day-1 discount!) then wishlist the game to be ready!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1011670/Totally_Reliable_Delivery_Service/

Hello everyone! Alex from tinyBuild here.

I just wanted to say a huge THANK YOU to everyone who participated in this Beta, and that Totally Reliable Delivery Service is finally shipping on Steam this Thursday, April 1st!

We've been working hard on improving the game, both visually and in terms of netcode optimizations leading up to this launch. Here's a glimpse at what to expect:



I'm also happy to report that we will have a loyalty program for folks who participated in the Beta. Expect a discount when TRDS launches in just a couple of days:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1011670/Totally_Reliable_Delivery_Service/

Hey everyone!

Hovercrafts have entered the Totally Reliable universe in a new competitive mode that is out of this world!


The Cyberfunk denizens have passed on their technological secrets to the delivery crew! This is the single greatest discovery to shape the universe for deliveries since the clipboard was invented. But in accordance with Totally Regulatory Safety Committee (Aka ToReSaCo), we need YOU, the players at home, to test these devices before we can allow them to be used. So here comes in our new competitive mode the Hovecraft Derby.



Battle it out in a last person standing free for all! Up to 4 players will put not only their skills but friendships to the test in this hectic hovercraft hullabaloo. Think you got what it takes to be the winner? Find out!

Want to know more about what is coming for the game's release on steam on the 1st of April 2021? Then feel free to wishlist the game and follow us to stay tuned.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1011670/Totally_Reliable_Delivery_Service/

To all delivery aspirants,

As you might have scene on the main game page (see link below), this is it, Totally Reliable is being Totally Delivered to Steam on April Fools' Day.

We know you Steam folks have been waiting for this an entire year, so to make up for the wait we are releasing the game with some additional free stuff!

Wishlist and follow Totally Reliable Delivery Service

The devs from We’re Five Games will also be streaming the latest build live on our main page so stay tuned for more packages coming soon!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1011670/Totally_Reliable_Delivery_Service/

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Without further ado, let's check out what's new in the upcoming full launch:

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Since the full launch is just around the corner, an extra “fruity” Totally Reliable Merch has been made available and you can check it out here!

If you are a reliable driver who knows exactly where the banana icon on this T-shirt is presented in the game, RT and comment on this Tweet! We will randomly select 5 drivers that got it right to send a Steam key to the full game and the T-shirt at launch!

In the meantime, follow us on socials and let us know your ideas and suggestions:

• Twitter
  
• Facebook
  
• Instagram
  
• Official Forum
  
• Discord Server

We hope you are as excited as we are for the upcoming Steam launch and be prepared for some chaotic yet Totally Delivered fun!

Best,
tinyBuild and We’re Five Games

Howdy y'all! Welcome back for a second Developer Update. This week, we’re looking into the world of networking, improvements made in Totally Reliable Delivery service, and the tools our team used to get us there.

Summary
Making online games is hard. Making a ragdoll game in an open world work online across 5 different platforms is even harder. Since our initial release on April 1st, 2020, we’ve made a lot of improvements to our networking system to improve the player’s experience.

While working on these optimizations and updates, our highest priorities are:

• High accuracy for positions and rotations of every physics based object in the game portrayed (including all of the character’s joints and limbs!). This is so the player isn’t rendering 100 ft away from the rocket they’re supposed to be flying!
  
• Fastest possible reaction time for clients.
  
• Lowest amount of network traffic between players in any given server to maintain stability.
  
• Making sure all network objects have a very smooth movement.

Here is a bit of a deeper dive into some of the things we did to make Totally Reliable Delivery Service’s online functionality even better.

Photon Unity Networking

• Photon is a Unity based tool to help our code sync between all our users.
  
• Photon defaults to sending a full byte when you need to sync a boolean. With NetStack, every bit in one byte can be sent with a different boolean.
  
• NetStack’s method allows for 800% more information with the same amount of data! That’s a lotta bytes!

Interpolation Improvements

• While playing online, clients data is in a constant struggle between the server and player perception.
  
• Interpolation also smooths out lag and lost data errors on the network by projecting where a player will be in accordance to their current movement/position, and seeks to bridge the gap between what the player experiences vs. what the network reads.
  
• In the example below, our original game was using TRDS Lerp Clamped. After the update, we’ve gone with a Lerp + Lerp, which opts for a network solution that balances smoothing out the experience for the players the best. Totally Reliable Network Solutions!

Compressing Network Data

• The amount of data we were able to compress utilizing these network optimizations resulted in an average of 50% less data needed to be sent. Woot!
  
• In order to keep all the players, vehicles, and objects in order all of this data has to be continuously sent to retain a totally reliable network synchronization. The less data we have to send, the easier the network can transmit back to players their positioning/actions.

This is a very brief summary of our second installment of updates coming your way. Stay tuned next week for even MORE coming your way, and remember to toss Totally Reliable Delivery Services on your Steam wishlist!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1011670/Totally_Reliable_Delivery_Service/

Over the past few months we’ve been working towards preparing Totally Reliable Delivery Service for our piping hot release on Steam! Huzzah!

We have a lot of exciting developments that we want to share with our community over the course of the next few weeks. So make sure to follow up each week to find out more!

Enough jibber jabber! Let’s take a look at our first Dev Update this week: Accessibility.

One of the areas that we first wanted to serve our playerbase was ease of access. Totally Reliable Delivery Service has always been intended to be a light hearted experience best shared with others. Here’s some of the changes we’ve made to keep the good times rolling!

Simple Controls
We came up with a new control scheme called “Simple Controls” that will allow you to feel a bit more focused on what’s happening on the screen rather than what’s happening in your hands.

• Perform lifting, driving, and delivering packages with half the effort.
  
• Both arms are now controlled by one button to lift, and one button to raise.
  
• Autorun feature to help reduce jammed fingers while increasing productivity!

Grabbing Assist
We’ve updated how small objects interact with grappling to assist players with timely deliveries.

• Attempting to grab near objects now pulls moveable objects into your hands.
  
• A white circle will now give players visual feedback for successfully grabbing objects.
  
• Sledding has never been easier! Much wow!

Vehicle Enter Assist
We added a few new features to make it a lot easier for players to get into vehicles effortlessly!

• Visible circle when enter assistance is available that indicates the position to jump from.
  
• Tighter physics that more accurately place the player in the correct position in the vehicle for driving.
  
• New force rotation so the player always faces the joysticks making the amount of buttons to press to start driving far fewer.

That's it! Let us know what you think of character control changes - and don't forget to hit that wishlist button on Steam if you want to stay-tuned on all the upcoming news before the game gets released on steam! ‘Till next time!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1011670/Totally_Reliable_Delivery_Service/

Hello gamers!

I've not been posting much to our publisher page because cross-posting is currently very wonky, so it's been mostly to individual pages of games.

This weekend we're hosting a full on orange Carnival at PAXSouth, featuring lots and lots of games!


Secret Neighbor is getting a full on booth, so come over to say hi and show the game to your friends.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/859570/Secret_Neighbor/


I believe Black Skylands has best in class pixelart, and gameplay to match. The newest demo takes you on a journey through gorgeous floating islands filled with things that want you dead.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1143810/Black_Skylands/


Delivery attempted. That's the guarantee of this totally accurate representation of package delivery drivers. We've all had this happen to us, so now it's time to make fun of it in a physics filled sandbox!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1011670/Totally_Reliable_Delivery_Service/


The latest build of Hellpoint showcases the "Dark Souls in Space" game's progress, and we're eager to see what fans think

https://store.steampowered.com/app/628670/Hellpoint/


Aside from actual games we have a whole setup for fun family friendly activities, featuring merch you can win.

Thanks everyone for playing the Totally Reliable Delivery Service Beta! The online servers have been taken down as we prepare for the Totally Reliable future of the game.

We're currently digging through all of your feedback, bugs, and suggestions. Thanks again!