And yeah... to be honest, we did it a few weeks ago already, but finally we had some time to fulfill our promise and put some underwear on our heads!

Everybody can see our pics and read the full post here 👉 {LINK REMOVED}https://bit.ly/3uIfxtW

Thank you so much for your support! And expect a little "Easter Surprise" tomorrow... 🐰🐰🐰

• Updated to the latest Focus Engine, which now runs on .NET 6. This should improve performance. It also includes the runtime, which should improve future compatibility
  
• Minor fixes to the resolution pulldown UI & restarting the application when something different is selected
  
• Other minor improvements related to the latest Focus Engine update (some smoother intro animations etc.)

Reduced range of the competitive dive assist.

Players will appear to teleport less often now on higher pings.

Fixed the ball sometimes not being hittable at serve line.

Corrected the color order for customizing items with controller.


Fix for ranked matchmaking entering an empty match when queuing for both ranked and casual

Fix for max number of players on server hosted custom limited to 6

Keep an eye out for the next build with a newly designed Daily Store with new cosmetics. And keep sending those bug reports in!

• New task: cleaning cars from snow.
  
  
  
• New task: cleaning up after dogs (but only after them?).
  
  
  
• Added option to hide phrases of the character and helper text.
  
• Reduced speed and range of throwing snow.
  
• Disabled payment for cleaning the basement from snow.
  
• Reduced heating bill.
  
• Path to save HQ screenshots is now specified In cinematic mode.
  
• Added new resolution options.

• Bug with broken intercom "Panelki" in English version [UPD: not finished, will be a hotfix].
  
• Fixed a bug when graffiti only appeared on one type of house.
  
• Fix cursor in main menu.
  
• And other minor bugs.

P.S. A few days ago Panelki reached over 1000 unique players! This means that the skyscraper mode will appear in the game soon - it is already in development.

Hello from the developer,

My personal purchased Steam Deck arrived today. The "Digital Jigsaw Puzzle" game appears to run without any issues. If you run into issues please send me any feedback.

The default mouse sensitivity appears to be a bit high for the game. However you can manually adjust it in the Steam Deck settings.

Note: An official compatibility from Steam has not been given for the game at the time of this posting. It is up to Steam to determine if the game is deemed fully compatible.

Some images if you are interested:

Exit the gates of Battleon and find Hooper in the Crossroads to begin learning what he’s uncovered about the Grenwog. Hooper has been investigating this for years and needs your help uncovering clues to find the Grenwog's nest. And maybe grab some delicious snacks... I mean bait... in the hunt for the Grenwog.

Hop down deep into what may be the Grenwog’s Lair, and fight monsters of all flavors: Rock Candy, Taffy, Hard Candy, and... Angry Carrots? While you’re in the cavern, gather Pixie Dust to harvest and place carrots to lure the Grenwog to you, just like a professional Grenwog Hunter would do!

Old Battleon sprouted... Mysterious Time Carrots?! We have no idea what's up with that, but maybe you can investigate! Whatever the case may be, keep an eye out for the dreaded Bunny Berserker…



Once you've picked up some Chocolate Grenwog Eggs from Time Carrots, the Bunny Berserker, and even the Grenwog itself, take them to Hooper and trade them for some delicious new armors and weapons!
*Note: Grenwog has the only guaranteed Chocolate Egg drops every time.

• Bunn Dynasty Samurai Armor set
  
• Bunn Dynasty Head Morph
  
• Bunn Dynasty Carrot Bow
  
• Bunny Berserker Armor set
  
• Bunny Berserker Head Morph
  
• Bunny Berserker Double Bladed Spear
  
• Carrot Claw

You can still get Gunter Armor, Grenwog weapons, and Ears and Tails in every color, all from Hooper's Grenwog Shop! They no longer cost Zard Eggs. Now they cost Chocolate Grenwog Eggs!



There's plenty of drops to go around! Fight the Grenwog and Past Battleon monsters for a chance at the following items:

• Carrot Sword
  
• Carrot on a Stick
  
• Grenwog pet
  
• Golden Carrot Sword
  
• Golden Carrot on a Stick

We hope you enjoyed earning Double Daily Rewards for the time it was up! If you missed out, we’ll definitely be doing that again, so make sure you’re signed up to our mailing list at http://news/ to find out when we do rewards next!



The invasion of Chickencow creatures from outer space has been fought back by the Heroes of Battleon, alongside the brave members of the Guardians. Heroes and Guardians should continue to mop up the last of the invading forces residing in Battleon Social District. We spoke to renowned Paladin, Pun-adin and slayer of undead things, Artix, for an update on the situation:

Artix - "We've successfully bawk-sed the fowl invaders into the Social District of Battleon, after a high steaks gambit by our Heroes and Guardians. We've yet to discover if this egg-vasion was led by some kind of cow-mmander or Dairy Queen, but we fully eggs-pect the udder madness of it all to end some time next week. Don’t worry, the time will fly right by"!
Thank you so much for that commentary, Artix! We can’t wait to moo-ve on from this terrifying eggs-perience.

In other news, local romantic Maurice, who went missing last week, has now been found! He is reportedly okay, and just had an ailment to recover from. Maurice has informed this crew that he’ll be back in town for one week, before taking his regular year long vacation next week. You can find Maurice sipping on Moglinberry Juice in Yulgar’s Inn.

Now back to your regularly scheduled Design Notes.

Is your birthday on Earth Day? Even if it’s not, we have some great news! April 22nd is Earth Day, and we’re celebrating with an environmentally friendly collection. Get ready to represent nature in all its glory with a brand new trove. After that, who’s to say? It could be the return of a malevolent villain… We’ll just have to wait and see!

See you in-game.

Battle on!
Artix, Glisel, Rellik, and the AQ3D Team


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I lied, v1.2 gets one more patch!

v1.2.3 is almost entirely bugfixes (about another 10 of them), but there is one tiny tweak to sacrifice rooms: you now get a little progress from sacrificing fly swarms after they split, instead of only getting progress from the initial swarm.

You can check the in-game changes screen for a full list of changes.

Anyone who previously could not download the CRIMESIGHT OST can now do so by performing the following steps:
1.　Select "CRIMESIGHT OST (+144 Game Stamps) from your "Library"
2.　Press the "Update" button
3.　The sound file will now start downloading.

The CRIMESIGHT Deluxe Edition and CRIMESIGHT OST (+144 Game Stamps) are once again available for purchase on the Steam store.

We apologize for the inconvenience this has caused.

New build! https://wiki.arcengames.com/index.php?title=AI_War_2:The_Final_Cycle#4.019_To_Hack.2C_Or_Not_To_Hack

This has a number of bugfixes and balance tweaks, a number of them centered around hacking.

The most critical thing from this build is a fix to a regression in the prior build that broke a lot of "hack for ships" type hacks. Sorry about that!

Other changes include making many of the hacks against Elderlings cheaper, and removing the ability to sabotage-hack the ultimate fortress at all (as Zeus notes on that one, "it should be slain in glorious combat, not with some cowardly sabotage hack."

Various other necromancer and templar balance tweaks are also now in place based on feedback.

More to come soon.
Enjoy!

The first thing we would like to address is THAT IT WILL BE A LONG READ. But bear with us, as we have a lot to say and discuss and we do everything in our power to be as transparent as the air. We are fully aware of many "stuck in EA forever" or other, much more dramatic, cases. Hence we plan ahead, and try to work as close as possible, with our players. Now, sit back and have a read :)


(The image is pure cringe. I know.)
Before we started working on Best Forklift Operator, we had a rather clear vision of what the game should be, how should it play and what should it have. From the Day 1, our heads were spinning with the ideas and possibilities.

But also, we were aware, that not everything we hoped for, can be implemented upon the release of Early Access. And it's not even about production, budgets or time restraints. It's about full awareness, that handful of people can provide only so many perspectives, and that when you are the creator of something - your views and opinions, might become biased.

Hence the Early Access. So we can interact with the community and join forces with you - to create something awesome for everyone, not just us. To cross-check what's important for us vs what's dear to you.

And I dare to say, knowing it is not a perfect score, it appears we... mostly delivered.

But you - wow - you guys DELIVERED a looooot more. With capital all letters.

Past 7 days we've been working around the clock. Talking to all of you. Checking reviews, discord, forums, refund notes, social media, comments, PMs, and DMs.

Everything has been recorded, categorized, archived, and sorted. Then put into a sheet, then put into another with filtering, then in another one with commentary and analysis.

From the Day 1 - we had a clear Roadmap. But also an awareness that we might have to adjust it after the release of Early Access.
The good news are: 80-90% of your expectations vs our initial Roadmap - matched.
What did not - was the priorities.

We wanted to focus on adding more content to the game, but you turned our eyes to many other aspects and so - we are in the process of shifting our focus and reordering the Roadmap.


(This one is supposed to be less cringy. No? Oh. Ok...)
From over hundreds of reports, broken down into two categories, we came up with this:
- HOTAS (Steering wheel, pedals, gearbox, joystick)
- Being able to rebind the controls on controllers and HOTAS
- Support for other Virtual Reality headgears (Valve Index, HTC Vive & others)
- Horizontal shift for forklift
- More vehicles
- Support for Ultra-Wide monitors, multi-monitor setup, and higher resolutions
- More missions/maps
- Better cargo and vehicle physics
- An option for "arcade" reverse gear
- Sandbox mode
- Adjust the placement of the gearbox to avoid accidental interactions
- Better/more realistic audio for vehicles
- More camera options
- Being able to play in VR but with controller/HOTAS instead of VR controllers
- Multiplayer
- Support for OpenVR
- Support for non-standard keyboards such as AZERTY
- Being able to adjust vehicles mirrors
- More info and polish for tutorial
- Height adjustment option in VR
- Tweaking vehicles forklift attributes (speed, acceleration, deacceleration, torque, slide)
- Backlights on the vehicles.
- Hand brake
- FOV Slider in options
- Interface indication of perfect score/time for missions
- Support for TrackIR

- Rare crashing upon launch/stuck at the title screen
- Missing virtual hands in VR mode
- The game is lagging on some devices.
- Controls randomly switch between connected devices.
- Reflection in mirrors is not dynamic in VR

Those lists are not complete and for the time being - we had to get rid of a couple of issues if the author was only one individual. E.g having AI NPCs walking around the warehouse, and being able to get killed... yeaaaaa, no, sorry ;D


(This one should be cringe - free.)
As mentioned above, our old, internal one - is outdated now. So it is kind of pointless to share it at this point in time. In the next couple of days, we will have many meetings and brainstorming sessions to come up with a brand new one - strongly influenced by yourr feedback from past 7 days.

Mind you - adjusting project Roadmap is no trivial task. You cannot just go and start from the top and move to the bottom. Some features take hours to implement, some other days, some different weeks and months, and some - are out of reach. The catch is to put everything in an order that takes many factors into the equation and keep the whole thing both doable and steady.
But don't worry! We got this. 😎


(This might be a bit cringe but hey - it is honest!)
Words cannot express how grateful we are and for how many things.
The faith and trust you put in us. The joy you report when playing. Being able to get to know so many of you. Seeing you making all those huge jenga-like towers in-game, having fun. Posts upon posts of valuable feedback, suggestions, and requests... this is a LOT to digest.

But this is also a huge responsibility, and we are aware. You guys really put a juicy and fat smile on our ugly faces and we simply don't want to wake up one day to discover it's all gone. Quite the contrary.
We want more of it.

So stay tuned, and thank you.
It's a pleasure to be working with you guys.

~Gamedust
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