Players are split into terrorists planting a bomb and counter-terrorists trying to stop them. Victory comes from either detonating/defusing the bomb or eliminating the opposing team.

While invisible, footsteps from other players are now audible based on community feedback. Ghosts now spawn less often by default, though this setting remains fully adjustable.

• Thunderwand has improved VFX

• Performance improvements

• Bugfixes and polish

Hey everyone,

I'm very excited to announce that the cartel update (v0.4.0) is now available to test on the beta branch! Very sorry that this took longer than expected! It's been a hectic month, and I massively underestimated the amount of work required to get this update done. I've also been simultaneously working on getting the game ready for official Steam Deck support + console port later this year.

• Added the Benzies family - a powerful rival cartel in Hyland Point. You will first encounter them once you have unlocked a few customers in Westville. Interactions with them include:

  • Cartel-player deals (while truced)

  • Ambushes

  • Dealer robbings

  • Dead drop theft

  • Cartel-customer deals

• Added new purchasable property - Hyland Manor. Keep in mind that the Benzies family storyline must be completed before this can be purchased.

• Added new vehicle 'Hotbox'.

• Added pump shotgun.

• Added shotgun shell.

• Added 'close buzzcut' hairstyle.

• Added 'Tony' hairstyle

• Added 'long slicked back' hairstyle.

• Added 'setgravitymultiplier' command.

• Added 'setregionunlocked' command.

• Added 'forcesleep' command.

• Added some more loading screen hints.

• Changed how you unlock new regions. Each region now has a 'cartel influence' level associated with it. You must reduce this influence to a certain level before you can progress to the next region.

• In multiplayer, you can view the dialogue of other players talking to NPCs.

• Deals are now cancelled when the assigned dealer is dead/unconscious.

• Unconscious NPCs who drop into the ocean are now killed.

• Dead/unconscious NPCs can now be pickpocketed.

• You can now pickpocket police.

• If you attack a customer, they will not order from you for 72 hours.

• Tweaks the braking properties of all vehicles.

• Non-police NPCs can now use ranged weapons.

• Police and NPCs in combat will now sometimes predict future target position instead of pathing directly to the target.

• Tweaked flashlight brightness.

• Refactored a number of minor scripts.

• Fixed various mislabellings in employee tutorial quests.

• Fixed two light beams being visible when the flashlight is equipped.

• Fixed scuffed NPC ragdoll LODs/culling.

• Fixed some missing walls at Hyland Medical.

• Fixed third-person recoil animation for the M1911 and Revolver.

• Fixed the networth calculator algorithm not factoring in some item quantities.

• Fixed vehicle impacts doing too much damage to NPCs.

• Fixed some missing fonts.

Thanks for your patience, everyone. For future updates, I'm only going to announce a release date once I'm certain I'll actually be able to deliver on time. I've been in a self-inflicted crunch for the past couple of weeks, which has probably compromised my productivity and motivation quite a bit. Going forward, I'm going to try to keep in mind that early access is a marathon, not a sprint. The final quality of the game is what really matters, and I intend to deliver on that to the absolute best of my ability.

Cheers,

Tyler

Have you ever wondered how we came up with some of Bytebond's designs, what inspires our team, or what’s coming next for Bytebond? Now’s your chance to ask! Drop your questions in the comments below or join our Discord community and post them there. We’ll pick the most interesting and creative questions to answer!

Let’s make this a fun and insightful event together. We can’t wait to see what you’re curious about!

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A few obvious things I haven't thought of until now. Im a bit of a dum dum so your computer might have been rendering thousands of frames per second this entire time.... oopsies. You can now change the FPS limit, this also controls whether vsync is enabled or not.

• Added FPS cap option

• Settings now save when closing the game

• Added quit button

• Made settings menu look a bit nicer

• Removed wishlist button from alternate universe

Hi Critter Leaders,

Nice meeting y'all!

We are Rat2 Studio, a 2-person development team🐭. After more than a year of work, our game Galaxy Critter Co. has finally taken shape 🎉.

At this point, we plan to launch a small-scale technical test and hope to collect some feedback from players around the world!

⌚Playtest details:

• Application Start Date: You can now apply for the playtest on the store page.

• First Approval Date: Expected on August 15th (we hope everyone can play by Friday night!).

• Subsequent Applications: Applications submitted after August 15th will be approved within 1-3 days.

• Test End Date: Around August 31st.

If you encounter any bugs or have any suggestions, please share them with us via the in-game survey or through our official community channels. Your feedback would be incredibly important to a small team like us!

🎮About the Playtest Version:
This is still an early version, and the game’s balancing, art, and other aspects are still a work in progress.
In future demo, we plan to add:

• A complete game storyline

• some more new mechanics

• More buildings, weapons, items, and maps

-- Please just give us a bit more time!

Thank you for your support and participation!

Happy Bug Extermination!🛠️🐞

Rat2 Studio

- Adjust AI
- Add some interactable
- Adjust UI

Hello everyone, this is a quick hotfix update that fixes a bug introduced in v1.1.3 regarding selection tools making selections in the wrong position after drawing for a while. We've also implemented the ability to set shortcuts for toggling layer visibility and lock from the preferences. There are no default shortcuts for these at the moment.

Happy painting, and keep pixelating your dreams! 🎨✨

Added Indigenous uniforms for:-
Brisbane Broncos
Canberra Raiders
Dolphins
Gold Coast Titans
Melbourne Storm
Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks
Newcastle Knights
South Sydney Rabbitohs
St George Illawarra Dragons
Improved Stability

Miscellaneous

• Fixed an issue where the inventory hotbar would disappear in some dungeons.

• Fixed an issue where flowerpots would become impossible to destroy

• Fixed an issue where Plot Map was showing incorrect map in other provinces

• Fixed an issue about missing ingredients in Journal

• Fixed an issue where cancelling a sales order would not return the item to the redeeming queue of the player, if the market stall was owned by another player.

• All Plots owned by characters in specific Region are now shown to the player.

• Fixed snap-point selection for small objects.

• Fixed an issue where placing a sale order for a recently split stack fails silently.

• Fixed an issue where debug names were displayed in Construction Hammer menu.

• Added profanity filtering for Plot names.

• Added a background to the Construction Hammer keybinds for added readability.

• Added free external camera (fly using ←, →, ↑, ↓ keys; sensitivity (flight speed) is adjusted with the mouse wheel)
  
• Updated camera tips: in external camera mode, ↓ key sets the camera to the locomotive
  
• Added view distance setting (in the launcher you can set the desired draw distance with additional parameters)
  
• Added flickering of VL80T cab lights during traction position changes
  
• Oncoming train blinks its bright headlight if ours dazzles it with bright light
  
• Updated coordinates of oncoming train headlights (match real positioning)
  
• Added different screeching sounds for curves and switches
  
• Updated fan sound for ChS7 (will be further improved)
  
• Enabled smoothing for locomotive signal light (allows creating more universal locomotive signal models by reducing polygons)
  
• Increased draw distance for signal lights
  
• Fixed malfunction #80 (will be further improved)
  
• Fixed nose-dip when entering a curve
  
• Fixed traffic issue from Steam Workshop where models and textures did not match
  
• Improved display of level crossing signs and brake test points on 2D profile
  
• Optimized graphics performance
  
• Added input.ini file for test mode to override key codes

• Updated rear section of VL80T, added rear cab with control desk
  
• Updated EPT block for VL80T (improved model and texture)
  
• Updated sounds for ChS8
  
• Updated radio lighting for ChS4KVR
  
• Changed ChS7 number from 065 to 180 (matches Ukrainian registration with speedometer)
  
• Fixed signal errors and display in Lviv–Stryi route
  
• Added new DLC — Shepetivka–Lviv route. Built from Shepetivka to Dubno. Construction ongoing.

• Added ZD Receiver — example of accessing game variables for integrations (in Content Editor folder)
  
• Reduced sensitivity to script file formatting errors in Scenario Editor
  
• Created a page for suggestions and voting: https://suggest.zdsimulator.com