Steam BuildID: 2838771
AssemblyVersion: 1.0.6731.25871
Codename: Default - Quattro Formaggi Update

Dear Players,

the time has come for our big, “Quattro Formaggi” update. After several updates and testings on our “Preview” beta branch, we now roll out all additions and changes to all players as well as adding some new features and content. This update is based on four pillars: First, achieving better playing experience by including comfort features and reworking parts of the UI. Next, we overhauled our employee system, so employees have motivation and health you need to take care of, while also giving you the ability to let your workforce work overtime. Furthermore we worked on better long term motivation, giving you game events and catastrophes that might trigger in the free game. Last but not least we added a bunch of new content including several new dynamic missions, which are optional missions you can solve in the free mode of the game, as well as a plethora of new furniture assets including seasonal summer content, an aquarium, a flipper and plenty of other stuff.

While playtesting we encountered some bugs and balancing issues as seen in the “Known Issues” section but we want to give you the update as soon as possible and decided for patching said issues as soon as possible.

This is only a short summary of all the changes, for more detail checkout the changelog below:


General

• Cooks now have a visual effect when baking a pizza.
  
• A new citizen thought was added: Citizen wants to enter the restaurant but it is closed.
  
• Graph handling in charts has been improved for the player.
  
• The warning that an employee has already worked today has been removed from the schedule in the restaurant inspector as it is no longer necessary.
  
• The comment stream in the bakery has been improved and now uses visual indicators to quickly tell if the comment is positive, negative or average.
  
• The chef user interface in the bakery now has the same citizen type selected as the smartphone when opened.
  
• The statistics section in the manager now has a pizza statistic per restaurant that tells how often a pizza has been ordered, how often a pizza has been served and outputs revenue, profit and production costs for a pizza.
  
• Improved the preview of characters in the user interface.
  
• Fixed carpets in Paris.
  
• Furniture can now be placed on carpets.
  
• The employee inspector now outputs the working times.
  
• The schedule in the employee manager now has an indicator for the current time.
  
• Warehouses can now be restocked actively by pressing a button in the warehouse inspector.
  
• Restocking of warehouses can now be set to automatic in the warehouse inspector.
  
• AI can now handle low motivation and low health of employees.
  
• AI can now train employees.
  
• Added a simple achievement overview in the main menu to keep track of achievement progress and giving a shortcut to Steam’s achievement overview.
  
• Improved the visual effect for low health on employees.
  
• The campaign info screen in the bakery has been moved to the bottom of the screen.
  
• The size of citizen thought icons now stays the same on all zoom factors. This enables a better overview when being zoomed in.
  
• The eating of pizzas is now visualized. Pizzas also lie on plates now.

Feature: Game Events & Taste Change

• Players can now enable game events in free mode. Based on a chance set by the player the game will trigger several events that will challenge the player e.g. by ingredients that can’t be delivered. Game events are disabled for the campaign.
  https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1403533198
  
• Added events that make ingredients of specific ingredient groups unavailable for a certain time.
  
• Added an event that causes a lot of employees to become sick at once.
  
• Added an event that causes stored ingredients of a specific restaurant to become rotten.
  
• Added an event that causes furniture of a specific restaurant to be destroyed.
  
• Added events that make a specific citizen type leave the city for a certain time.
  
• Players can now enable taste change for citizens in the free mode. This will cause citizens to change their favorite ingredients over time. Citizens will also change their preferences for ingredient types once in a while.
  https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1403528406
  
• Taste change is enabled for chapter 12 of the campaign and deactivated for all other chapters.

Feature: Employees

• Employees can now be trained in the inspector or in the manager to increase quality and speed attributes. Only one attribute can be improved at once. Employees work at half quality and half speed while being trained.
  
• Employees now have a motivation attribute that decreases for all employees of a currently working shift if a guest leaves before receiving a pizza and vice versa. Motivation increases while an employee is at home. Low motivation reduces quality and speed of an employee.
  https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1377598523
  
• Employees now have a health attribute that decreases when the employee is at work and slightly increases when the employee is at home.
  https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1377599217
  
• Employees immediately quit work and go home if their health value reaches zero.
  
• The player is able to cure employees by granting them one day off. The employee will return with full health after he skipped one working day.
  
• Employees now have flexible working times. Working times can be scaled between 6 and 12 hours.
  https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1377598922
  
• Added new notifications that support the changes on the employee feature.
  
• Employees should now work reliably.
  
• An analytics view has been added to the employee manager to give a quick overview about employee attributes.
  https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1377596511
  
• The employee schedule in the manager can now be sorted by motivation or health.
  
• Employees now have expression effects that show if an employee has low motivation or low health.
  
• Service employees now have an expression effect that show up if they are very friendly when they take an order. This is also connected to visualize the positive effect on waiting times.
  https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1377598151
  
• The player can now actively manipulate the serve order for guests by either using the inspector (by clicking on a guest) or using the new user interface in the sub menu of the menu card manager.
  https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1377597380

Content: New furniture assets

• 61 new furniture assets have been added, including 3 new sets of chairs and tables as well as several new carpets and premium decorations assets like a pool table or an aquarium.
  https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1403528326
  
• 29 seasonal assets have been added, including surfboards
  https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1403528376

Balancing

• Motivation and health decrease have been tweaked to be less hard.
  
• Increased the restaurant storage capacity to 200 kg per shelf.
  
• Changing the ‘Pizzas per guest’-value in freemode now also affects the capacity of the restaurant storage, the warehouse storage and the suppliers.

General

• Graphs in charts should no longer reactivate if a chart is updated and graphs were hidden by the player.
  
• Repositioned a hydrant standing on the street in Rome.
  
• The pizza cart restock button no longer increases in costs with each time the inspector is opened.
  
• Fixed a bug where employees wouldn’t return to work if they went on sick-leave after 30 days of play time.
  
• Fixed a bug where employees were working from inside of their apartment, which kept the restaurant open for 24 hours.
  
• The notification that informs the player about empty storage of the pizza cart should no longer be triggered multiple times.
  
• Fired mascots are now removed properly from the minimap.
  
• Players can again switch between restaurants in the restaurant balance.
  
• A bug that prevented triggering achievements when finishing a game in Berlin or Madrid has been fixed.
  
• The first brand achievement is now triggered correctly after creating a new brand and doesn’t check if the game is in first start mode anymore.
  
• The restaurant storage effect for bad ingredient quality has been fixed and should look as intended again.
  
• The employee inspector now updates correctly when a selected employee is fired.

• The campaign currently lacks explanation for the new employee features.
  
• Carpets can currently be placed through walls.
  
• Cornered room dividers can currently be placed into tables.
  
• Sometimes the player doesn’t get a initial restaurant branch in free mode even if the checkbox is set.
  
• Mascot stops working at 12 am.
  
• Some of the new dynamic missions are not balanced evenly and might be too hard.

Hello and welcome to our second roadmap entry for Pizza Connection 3,

after the release of the changes we planned with our last roadmap into the preview branch it’s time to share with you the next steps we’d like to take. While the last patch mainly brought improvements for the employee system, focussing on more micro-management and enhancing the game’s depth, we now want to work on continuously challenging the player within a game session.

In the current state of the game, the player is only challenged at the beginning of a game round. Once he discovered the preferences of a city he only has to combine them the right way to make his restaurant chain successful in the long run. After that, only sabotage can become a threat. This will change with the next major update.

Favourite ingredients are currently only assigned at the beginning of a game round and remain unchanged from then on. All the player has to do is find them out and gradually distribute them on his pizzas. With the next major expansion, citizens are constantly looking for new favorite ingredients. No pizza lasts forever!

Likewise, the tastes of the individual target groups should change continuously, without becoming unfair or creating too extreme taste constellations. In certain time intervals the taste of a random citizen type should therefore be changed in a controlled manner in order to persuade the player to rethink and react.

In order to make the player face new economic challenges, the game should repeatedly trigger serious events. These influence, for example, the availability of certain product groups, cause employees to become ill or goods to deteriorate. These events are supposed to occur irregularly. In free play, the player should be able to decide for himself whether he wants to play with or without catastrophes.

Free play mode currently offers few additional challenges. In essence, you only try to achieve the goals you have set yourself. During the game there is only a small selection of side missions that you can accept as an additional source of income. We want to change that. Here we already have some missions planned which we want to implement in the coming weeks. These are humorous, sometimes bizarre assignments that can be completed optionally to the global game goals.

This brings us to the end of our second roadmap. You are welcome to write your opinion about our schedule in the comments. We are looking forward to share the changes with you in the future and to make the game what it should have been!

Steam BuildID: 2746545
AssemblyVersion: 1.0.6698.31679
Codename: Preview - Employee Roadmap

EN
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Dear Players,

With this update we release the changes described in our last roadmap into the ‘preview branch’. Most changes have been made to improve the employee system which now adds more micro-management and a new challenge to the game. As always we rely on your feedback, so enjoy the update and let us know what you’re thinking!


General

• Cooks now have a visual effect when baking a pizza.
  
• A new citizen thought was added: Citizen wants to enter the restaurant but it is closed.
  
• Graph handling in charts has been improved for the player.
  
• The warning that an employee has already worked today has been removed from the schedule in the restaurant inspector as it is no longer necessary.
  
• The comment stream in the bakery has been improved and now uses visual indicators to quickly tell if the comment is positive, negative or average.
  
• The chef user interface in the bakery now has the same citizen type selected as the smartphone when opened.
  
• The statistics section in the manager now has a pizza statistic per restaurant that tells how often a pizza has been ordered, how often a pizza has been served and outputs revenue, profit and production costs for a pizza.
  
• Improved the preview of characters in the user interface.
  
• Fixed carpets in Paris.
  
• Furniture can now be placed on carpets.
  
• The employee inspector now outputs the working times.
  
• The schedule in the employee manager now has an indicator for the current time.

Feature: Employees

• Employees can now be trained in the inspector or in the manager to increase quality and speed attributes. Only one attribute can be improved at once. Employees work at half quality and half speed while being trained.
  
• Employees now have a motivation attribute that decreases for all employees of a currently working shift if a guest leaves before receiving a pizza and vice versa. Motivation increases while an employee is at home. Low motivation reduces quality and speed of an employee.
  https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1377598523
  
• Employees now have a health attribute that decreases when the employee is at work and slightly increases when the employee is at home.
  https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1377599217
  
• Employees immediately quit work and go home if their health value reaches zero.
  
• The player is able to cure employees by granting them one day off. The employee will return with full health after he skipped one working day.
  https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1377599768
  
• Employees now have flexible working times. Working times can be scaled between 6 and 12 hours.
  https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1377598922
  
• Added new notifications that support the changes on the employee feature.
  
• Employees should now work reliably.
  
• An analytics view has been added to the employee manager to give a quick overview about employee attributes.
  https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1377596511
  
• The employee schedule in the manager can now be sorted by motivation or health.
  
• Employees now have expression effects that show if an employee has low motivation or low health.
  
• Service employees now have an expression effect that show up if they are very friendly when they take an order. This is also connected to visualize the positive effect on waiting times.
  https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1377598151
  
• The player can now actively manipulate the serve order for guests by either using the inspector (by clicking on a guest) or using the new user interface in the sub menu of the menu card manager.
  https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1377597848
  https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1377597380

Balancing

• Increased the restaurant storage capacity to 200kg per shelf.
  
• Changing the ‘Pizzas per guest’-value in freemode now also affects the capacity of the restaurant storage, the warehouse storage and the suppliers.

General

• Graphs in charts should no longer reactivate if a chart is updated and graphs were hidden by the player.
  
• Repositioned a hydrant standing on the street in Rome.
  
• The pizza cart restock button no longer increases in costs with each time the inspector is opened.

• Carpets can currently be placed through walls.
  
• Cornered room dividers can currently be placed into tables.
  
• The campaign currently lacks explanation for the new employee features.
  
• AI is currently not reacting properly to employee motivation and health.

Steam BuildID: 2693510
AssemblyVersion: 1.0.6680.33897
Codename: Calzone

Dear Players,

after several beta (“Preview”) updates, we now update the main, default version of the game. The Calzone update includes all fixes and feature updates from our “Preview” - Beta releases from 29th of March - 16th of April. It includes lots of bug fixes, changes to supply management as well as usability enhancements.



General

• The symbols above the heads of citizens now also display the duration of specific thoughts.
  
• The player can now turn on and off the lines between warehouses and marketing spots to the restaurant via a button on the minimap.
  https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1353963890

Feature: Supply

• The interface for the menu card has been redesigned and includes new valuable information to use the storage more efficiently.
  https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1353963922
  
• A pizza on the menu card now shows how many pizzas can be baked with the current stock.
  
• A pizza on the menu card now shows how many pizzas can be baked with a full stock, according to the current delivery preference. This makes the effect of the delivery prioritization directly visible.
  
• The user interface for the storage manager has been improved.
  https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1353963947
  
• The menu card manager interface now contains information about the total number of pizzas that can be baked based on current inventory.
  
• The menu card manager interface now contains information about the total number of pizzas that can be baked with a full inventory.
  
• The storage manager now includes the ability to empty a certain percentage of the storage, for example, to make room for the ingredients of pizzas that have recently been added to the menu.
  
• The graphical representation of the inventory in the game world has been revised and now indicates the utilization of the storage in percent. This allows visually appealing objects to be used instead of the previous colorful "pillow boxes".
  
• The UI above the restaurant storage now has a checklist that identifies the three biggest issues: you can only bake a few pizzas when the storage is full, the average quality of the ingredients is poor, and the storage contains ingredients that are no longer needed and thereby block storage space.
  https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1353963989
  
• The user interface above the restaurant storage can now be switched on and off.
  https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1353964042
  
• Balancing: The price preferences of each target group have been adjusted to achieve a more realistic result. This also slightly increased the difficulty of the game as a whole.
  
• Balancing: The capacity of a storage rack has been increased from 100kg to 150kg to allow for more different ingredients on a pizza.
  
• Balancing: The speed and delivery quantity has been adjusted by the warehouse staff
  
• Guests who would like to order a pizza that cannot be baked at the moment, because ingredients are missing, choose the next best pizza from the menu as long as it meets a minimum rating.
  
• The warning triangle for too many different ingredients on the menu card is now disabled as it was misleading.
  
• The output for the available stock on the menu card is now marked red and shows a tooltip if the ingredients for a pizza cannot be delivered because the stock is already full. This is particularly important when a new pizza is placed on the menu while the restaurant is running.
  https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1360094221 https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1360097473
  
• The capacity of warehouses has been increased.

Steam Cloud

• Saved games are now stored cross-platform in the cloud. This means that game progress is transferred to the cloud no matter which platform you are on. Prior to this change, savegames were only stored per operating system in the cloud.
  
• Saves are now also stored in SteamOS / Linux in the cloud

Corrupt game data

• The game informs the player about corrupt game data and returns it to the main menu when trying to load it instead of getting stuck in the loading screen.

File system

• When saving various game data, the previous versions are backed up.
  
• If game data should not be readable by the file system, either the backup files are accessed or the data is to be reconstructed

Pizza Cart

• The pizza cart restocks its ingredients only shortly before opening automatically.
  
• The player can restock the pizza cart actively by paying a small fee.
  
• The supply tab in the pizza cart user interface now contains a note on how restocking works.
  
• Balancing: The capacity of the pizza cart has been increased from 100kg to 200kg
  
• The pizza cart will display when the storage is refilled.
  
• The pizza cart now has an user interface in the world that should inform the player about mistakes or issues. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1360095233

General

• The price preference in the glossary now contains visual markers to indicate from which values prices are rated worse. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1360095776
  
• The free game menu now has a slider to control the amount of pizzas sold per guest. This slider can be used to change the difficulty of a game. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1360096387
  
• The AI behaviour has been improved.
  
• AI: Opponents explore advertising measures earlier now

Furniture

• 54 new furniture assets have been added to the game. This includes new sets of tables, chairs and lamps as well as some new, unique pieces of furniture. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1360057279

General

• Cooks should work reliably again now.
  
• The “Ich bin ein Berliner!” achievement was changed. Since there are no missions in the campaign with Berlin, the achievement could never be unlocked. This was fixed. The achievement is now tied to winning a free game in Berlin.
  
• Warehouses are no longer restocked when the vendor is changed.
  
• Warehouses only restock on start of each day or when they are rented.
  
• Fixed a NavMesh issue in Sydney that caused everyone in Chapter 6 of the campaign to be stuck in a building.
  
• The Washington Opera now has correctly placed entrances.
  
• The target groups comments in the bakery now also react when the profit margin is changed.
  
• Camera shakers have been fixed. In particular, turning off the option 'invert camera rotation' should not cause any problems.
  
• The camera rotation speed, set in the options menu, will no longer be reset at game start
  
• Problems with the placement preview in the architect have been fixed.
  
• Other issues that cause guests not to be served correctly at high speed have been resolved.
  
• The "thumbs up" icon is now correctly colored in the player color when guests go to a restaurant
  
• Problems with placing chairs in some restaurant layouts have been resolved.
  
• Warehouse staff now provide the correct number of ingredients.
  
• Ingredients now spoil at the correct speed.
  https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1353963856
  
• Guests no longer walk between chairs and tables when they are directly next to each other.
  
• The interior designer now uses the specified style factor.

MacOs specific

• Visual errors when displaying symbols above the heads of citizens have been fixed. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1360098341
  
• Furniture material bugs have been fixed and the performance was improved.

• Carpets can currently be placed through walls.

Hello and welcome to our first roadmap entry for Pizza Connection 3,

it’s not a secret that many players - and maybe you too - were disappointed by Pizza Connection 3 shortly after the release. Bugs, a lack of explanation and missing depth were the most serious matters we emerged from your feedback. These points are exactly the things we want to improve as far as possible in the months April and May in freely available updates. To this end, we want to share with you an up-to-date view of the module we are currently working on

We want to start our roadmap with a central aspect of the game, the employees!

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The employees offer great potential for improvement. This is not just about making the existing system more understandable and functional, but about real expansion. The aim is to create more game depth and long-term motivation. Altogether, employee management should no longer just be about "setting bars", as one player in our community has aptly described it.

We have received some reports that employees do not come to work or come to work too late. We must resolve these problems before we can make any other changes.


The current 6-hour system should be replaced with longer shifts or even freely adjustable shifts.


In order to give more meaning to the individual values of the employees, we want to implement in a first step that the friendliness of service staff influences the patience of the guests. If a service employee is unfriendly, the waiting time that a guest would accept is shortened.


In order for the player to be able to actively take part in the restaurant activities he should be able to send service employees to certain guests. As an example, this mechanic could be used to improve the rating for waiting times.


Employees should be trainable to improve their basic attributes.


Every employee should have a health value. The longer an employee works, the worse he feels. In case of poor health employees have to take a day off to recover.


Every employee should have a motivational value. This value is calculated on the two basic attributes (quality and speed). If fully motivated, the basic attributes correspond to their actual values, if not motivated, they are only half as high.

This brings us to the end of our first roadmap. You are welcome to write your opinion about our schedule in the comments. We are looking forward to share the changes with you in the future and to make the game what it should have been!

Hey Community,

Easter is around the corner and new updates are available:

Patch 1.0.6657.21509 - Patch Notes 29th of March

- Overwritten savegames can now be deleted and no longer lead to a stoppage in the loading screen when attempting to load them.
- Burnt pizzas, due to bad cooks, are now visually more recognizable.
- Employees should be able to be fired reliably in the manager.
- Delivery boys should not run on the spot when they are released
- Limiting the salary of the hired employee in Chapter 2 of the campaign now makes more sense
- Pizzas no longer float above the sink of the ovens
- Researches that have been unlocked are now reliably colored.
- Players can no longer start a $ 0 marketing campaign.
- The minimum number of citizens for "free play" has been increased to 500.
- The interior designer should no longer prevent the placement of stoves
- Beta players should now be able to play beyond Chapter 5 in the campaign.
- In Chapter 8 of the campaign, the player is now properly informed how much money is deducted to help his aunt.
- Chapter 3 should explain the profit margin more understandably and interrogate
- Opponents in "free play" now start with the same entry fee as the player.

And also a new Preview Branch update:

Preview Version 1.0.6662.30617 29th of March

- Pizzas, which are saved in the recipe book, are now additionally stored in the game round in order to be able to be used immediately on the menu card.
- London: A building that has blocked a department store has been moved.
- OpenGL has been added as an alternative graphics interface for Windows. This solves problems for users where DirectX is not installed properly.
- In Chapter 8 of the Campaign, the enemy no longer repairs their restaurants so the sabotage mission can be created for players.
- In Chapter 6, London: The player must now specify the English name of the pizzas, instead of the translated version. In Chinese or Russian, the name is still translated.
- Ovens should be rotatable in Architect mode again.
- Opponents can now repair furniture
- The position of furniture is now correct in the future when loading an old game, even if the scene was subsequently changed.
- Some players had a black screen when trying to open the bakery. This has now been fixed.
- Furnishings no longer need to be explored.
- Screens with an aspect ratio of 4: 3 and 5: 4 are now supported
- Moving units can no longer walk through fences in Sydney.
- Collisions at entrances to restaurants have been improved to keep guests from walking through walls.
- Internal status messages for employees of the pizza delivery service (scooter driver) have been corrected
- Internal status messages for suppliers have been corrected
- Pizza suppliers (scooter riders) now distribute the correct number of pizzas in the city
- The speed and delivery volume of pizza suppliers has been increased
- A pizza supplier now distributes all the pizzas he carries, even if his shift ends during delivery.
- Ingredients suppliers should no longer get stuck on buildings.
- Ingredient suppliers now also get ingredients when their shift ends on the way to the warehouse / warehouse or on the way back to the restaurant.
- Ingredients suppliers take no more ingredients home, but deliver them in advance in the restaurant
- Improper coloring of furnishings on the Mac has been fixed.
- The glass material in the main menu now works on Mac and Linux. Before, it was just black.
- The maximum game speed has been reduced to 16 times (previously 32) to improve the game performance.
- The traffic system has been adjusted to improve the game performance
- Fixed a possible cause for a crash related to the wayfinding update.
- The creation of pathfinding has been accelerated.
- Successful research units should now be displayed correctly as researched, even if the menu is changed.
- Cooks do not teleport out of a restaurant if they are too close to a wall.
- The game no longer crashes when a memory is loaded directly after the conversion of a restaurant.
- After loading a score, customers stay in the restaurant instead of floating out.
- User data, such as savegames or campaign progress could be damaged. Corrupted files caused players to get stuck in a black screen when loading the next time, they load the program. User data is now backed up with a backup system. If damaged files still exist, an attempt is made to return the data to an original state or to reconstruct the state from other data.
- In free game, the first research level is automatically unlocked. This allows players immediate basic functions such as the rental of department stores. However, the player can still set the research level to 0 in the free game setting to play the game as in the tutorial.
- Problems with higher game speed have been resolved. The speed of play should have no effect on the efficiency of the employees or the "check-in rate" of the residents.
- Suppliers and delivery service should no longer get stuck near buildings.
- Several locations of restaurants in Rome have been adjusted so that guests can find a way to the restaurant.
- The warehouse of a restaurant now has an interface overlay in the game world, which indicates the warehouse utilization and opens the warehouse manager by clicking
- The question of whether a person wants to cross a street has been improved to prevent people who do not want to cross the street being detained.
- Customers now have a visual wait display
- Fired cooks and waiters are no longer teleported out of the restaurant but leave the restaurant through the door

workarounds

Black screen

- Some users could not start the game after some time or just saw a black screen. The Problem was faulty user data. In some threads we recommended deleting user data manually. That should not be necessary anymore.

- For users where the game has never worked and who always had a black screen when loading, there is now a possible workaround by changing the graphics interface.

1. Go to your Steam library
2. Right click on Pizza Connection 3, select "Properties"
3. Change to the "General" tab
4. Click on "set launch options…"
5. Enter -force-glcore in the input field and click on OK
6. Start the game

Hey Community,

Easter is around the corner and new updates are available:

Patch 1.0.6657.21509 - Patch Notes 29th of March

- Overwritten savegames can now be deleted and no longer lead to a stoppage in the loading screen when attempting to load them.
- Burnt pizzas, due to bad cooks, are now visually more recognizable.
- Employees should be able to be fired reliably in the manager.
- Delivery boys should not run on the spot when they are released
- Limiting the salary of the hired employee in Chapter 2 of the campaign now makes more sense
- Pizzas no longer float above the sink of the ovens
- Researches that have been unlocked are now reliably colored.
- Players can no longer start a $ 0 marketing campaign.
- The minimum number of citizens for "free play" has been increased to 500.
- The interior designer should no longer prevent the placement of stoves
- Beta players should now be able to play beyond Chapter 5 in the campaign.
- In Chapter 8 of the campaign, the player is now properly informed how much money is deducted to help his aunt.
- Chapter 3 should explain the profit margin more understandably and interrogate
- Opponents in "free play" now start with the same entry fee as the player.

And also a new Preview Branch update:

Preview Version 1.0.6662.30617 29th of March

- Pizzas, which are saved in the recipe book, are now additionally stored in the game round in order to be able to be used immediately on the menu card.
- London: A building that has blocked a department store has been moved.
- OpenGL has been added as an alternative graphics interface for Windows. This solves problems for users where DirectX is not installed properly.
- In Chapter 8 of the Campaign, the enemy no longer repairs their restaurants so the sabotage mission can be created for players.
- In Chapter 6, London: The player must now specify the English name of the pizzas, instead of the translated version. In Chinese or Russian, the name is still translated.
- Ovens should be rotatable in Architect mode again.
- Opponents can now repair furniture
- The position of furniture is now correct in the future when loading an old game, even if the scene was subsequently changed.
- Some players had a black screen when trying to open the bakery. This has now been fixed.
- Furnishings no longer need to be explored.
- Screens with an aspect ratio of 4: 3 and 5: 4 are now supported
- Moving units can no longer walk through fences in Sydney.
- Collisions at entrances to restaurants have been improved to keep guests from walking through walls.
- Internal status messages for employees of the pizza delivery service (scooter driver) have been corrected
- Internal status messages for suppliers have been corrected
- Pizza suppliers (scooter riders) now distribute the correct number of pizzas in the city
- The speed and delivery volume of pizza suppliers has been increased
- A pizza supplier now distributes all the pizzas he carries, even if his shift ends during delivery.
- Ingredients suppliers should no longer get stuck on buildings.
- Ingredient suppliers now also get ingredients when their shift ends on the way to the warehouse / warehouse or on the way back to the restaurant.
- Ingredients suppliers take no more ingredients home, but deliver them in advance in the restaurant
- Improper coloring of furnishings on the Mac has been fixed.
- The glass material in the main menu now works on Mac and Linux. Before, it was just black.
- The maximum game speed has been reduced to 16 times (previously 32) to improve the game performance.
- The traffic system has been adjusted to improve the game performance
- Fixed a possible cause for a crash related to the wayfinding update.
- The creation of pathfinding has been accelerated.
- Successful research units should now be displayed correctly as researched, even if the menu is changed.
- Cooks do not teleport out of a restaurant if they are too close to a wall.
- The game no longer crashes when a memory is loaded directly after the conversion of a restaurant.
- After loading a score, customers stay in the restaurant instead of floating out.
- User data, such as savegames or campaign progress could be damaged. Corrupted files caused players to get stuck in a black screen when loading the next time, they load the program. User data is now backed up with a backup system. If damaged files still exist, an attempt is made to return the data to an original state or to reconstruct the state from other data.
- In free game, the first research level is automatically unlocked. This allows players immediate basic functions such as the rental of department stores. However, the player can still set the research level to 0 in the free game setting to play the game as in the tutorial.
- Problems with higher game speed have been resolved. The speed of play should have no effect on the efficiency of the employees or the "check-in rate" of the residents.
- Suppliers and delivery service should no longer get stuck near buildings.
- Several locations of restaurants in Rome have been adjusted so that guests can find a way to the restaurant.
- The warehouse of a restaurant now has an interface overlay in the game world, which indicates the warehouse utilization and opens the warehouse manager by clicking
- The question of whether a person wants to cross a street has been improved to prevent people who do not want to cross the street being detained.
- Customers now have a visual wait display
- Fired cooks and waiters are no longer teleported out of the restaurant but leave the restaurant through the door

workarounds

Black screen

- Some users could not start the game after some time or just saw a black screen. The Problem was faulty user data. In some threads we recommended deleting user data manually. That should not be necessary anymore.

- For users where the game has never worked and who always had a black screen when loading, there is now a possible workaround by changing the graphics interface.

1. Go to your Steam library
2. Right click on Pizza Connection 3, select "Properties"
3. Change to the "General" tab
4. Click on "set launch options…"
5. Enter -force-glcore in the input field and click on OK
6. Start the game

Previous savegames in this branch might not be working anymore.

- Overwritten savegames can now be deleted and no longer lead to a stoppage in the loading screen when attempting to load them.
- Burnt pizzas, due to bad cooks, are now visually more recognizable.
- Employees should be able to be fired reliably in the manager.
- Delivery boys should not run on the spot when they are released
- Limiting the salary of the hired employee in Chapter 2 of the campaign now makes more sense
- Pizzas no longer float above the sink of the ovens
- Researches that have been unlocked are now reliably colored.
- Players can no longer start a $ 0 marketing campaign.
- The minimum number of citizens for "free play" has been increased to 500.
- The interior designer should no longer prevent the placement of stoves
- Beta players should now be able to play beyond Chapter 5 in the campaign.
- In Chapter 8 of the campaign, the player is now properly informed how much money is deducted to help his aunt.
- Chapter 3 should explain the profit margin more understandably and interrogate
- Opponents in "free play" now start with the same entry fee as the player.

Previous savegames in this branch might not be working anymore.

- Overwritten savegames can now be deleted and no longer lead to a stoppage in the loading screen when attempting to load them.
- Burnt pizzas, due to bad cooks, are now visually more recognizable.
- Employees should be able to be fired reliably in the manager.
- Delivery boys should not run on the spot when they are released
- Limiting the salary of the hired employee in Chapter 2 of the campaign now makes more sense
- Pizzas no longer float above the sink of the ovens
- Researches that have been unlocked are now reliably colored.
- Players can no longer start a $ 0 marketing campaign.
- The minimum number of citizens for "free play" has been increased to 500.
- The interior designer should no longer prevent the placement of stoves
- Beta players should now be able to play beyond Chapter 5 in the campaign.
- In Chapter 8 of the campaign, the player is now properly informed how much money is deducted to help his aunt.
- Chapter 3 should explain the profit margin more understandably and interrogate
- Opponents in "free play" now start with the same entry fee as the player.