What is new?

• Map "Time Trial 1" - Begginer
  
• Achievement "Finish map Time Trial 1"

【Crazy Wheel】【Seasonal activities-Spring Blossoms 】 【 Tsukita live broadcast room 】【Pet Ranking Activity 】【 Happiness Party 】【 Daily recharge 】
【 Pet evolving Program 】【 Rubik's Cube World 】【 Daily recharge 】
Interested commanders please drop down for details ~

Activity scope: Commander level ≥ 38, server startup time>7 days
Activity time: 2024.5.1 04:00~2024.5.8 04:00（UTC+8）
Activity content:
▶ Carousel Wheel
1. Commanders can activate the wheel by consuming a certain amount of tickets, which is divided into 1 draw and 5 draws
2. The carousel wheel includes a wheel redemption coupon and a grand prize wheel trigger, where the redemption coupon can be used to redeem rare items in the store, and the trigger can trigger the left grand prize wheel to rotate once
3. The carousel wheel can draw 8 rounds corresponding to 8 big prizes on the left side. If a trigger is drawn in the round, the current round is considered complete, and the reward is refreshed to enter the next round. Up to 5 draws per round will centainly obtain the trigger. If you click to draw 5 times to obtain the trigger in advance, the actual number of consumption points will be calculated
▶ Grand Prize Wheel
1. The grand prize wheel contains 8 rounds of Grand Prize rewards, which will not refresh after each round of drawing until all rewards are obtained
2. The grand prize wheel cannot be reset in this period, and a certain number of wheel reset times will be set based on the activity reward situation in the future
▶ Event Store
1. The wheel redemption coupons obtained through the carousel wheel can be used to exchange rare items in the store, including rare exclusive core manufacturing coupons, etc
2. The wheel redemption coupon will not be broken down after the end of the event and can still be used in the next round of the event


The seasonal activities are coming, during the activity to collect tinder, natural flint, can be used to exchange a variety of rare props ~
Time: 2024.5.1 04:00~2024.5.8 04:00（UTC+8）
Activation condition: Commander level > 30
Activity Content:
1) Synthetic tinder and natural flint will not be recycled after the end and can be used at the next activity
2) The active task is refreshed daily
▶ Collect Tinder: Complete daily check-ins and missions to earn lots of tinder, which can be used to redeem rare items in the tinder shop
▶ Natural Flint collection: Natural flint can be obtained at the Tinder shop redemption, special offer store gift packages
▶ Fun mini game: Open the flip card mini game during the activity, complete the game task can get the task reward
▶ Limited time redemption: Tinder, natural flint and diamonds can be redeemed for various items at the limited time redemption shop
▶ Time-limited mission: Complete the corresponding mission during the event to receive a large amount of tinder
▶ Special Offer store: Limited-time packages such as [Rare Girl Exchange coupon] are sold in the store
▶ Skin Store: The Skin store has a limited-time discount selling many themed skins



Joint donation of materials for the front line~
Time：
Participation time: 2024.5.1 04:00~2024.5.8 03:59（UTC+8）
Display time: 2024.5.8 04:00~2024.5.9 03:59（UTC+8）
Players can still redeem rewards and purchase goods before the end of the display.
Activation condition：Server startup time > 9 days, Commander level > 21
Activity Content:
▶ Participation Method
Commanders need to join the base and sign up at the activity interface to participate in the activity based on the base
▶ Registration Rules
The maximum number of applicants of a base is related to the base level;
※ Special note: After registration cannot be cancelled, but can change the base; Base rewards cannot be claimed at the new base after changing bases, but individual rewards can be claimed normally. Commanders must carefully consider the bases before signing up!
▶ Container
Each base will have its own collection container,
By donating all kinds of materials to the container, the registered commanders can upgrade the level of the container and unlock and receive rich level rewards;
When the container reaches level 5 and level 10, Yuege will have special gifts given to everyone separately
▶Material acquisition
There are three main categories of supplies: healing towels, flashing ammo, and cloud-piercing rockets, which can be obtained through activity missions, diamond exchange, and coupon exchange
▶ Material donation
The commander donates the corresponding materials through the donation button on the interface of the broadcast room, which not only provides the container with the experience of upgrading the level, but also adds personal merit to himself.
▶ Activity competition
It is divided into local-server competition, cross-server competition and local + cross-service competition.
In the form of the service + cross-server, the top 3 bases of the server base container rank in the first stage of the activity can represent the service to participate in the second stage cross-server competition;
The format of the activity will be adjusted according to the current activity content, and this is a cross-server competition.
The cross-server group distribution is as follows:

▶ Personal merit
Can unlock and redeem treasure items in the Merit store;
Container experience will only be added when the registered base donates, if the base changes after registration, only personal merit will be added;
There is a cap on the number of "healing towels" and "flicker ammunition" donated per base per day, after reaching the cap, continuing to donate will no longer increase the base container experience, but will not affect the acquisition of personal merit;
There is no maximum donation limit for cloud-piercing rockets.
▶ Ranking List
The ranking is divided into base container level ranking and personal merit ranking;
Top bases and individuals receive a wave of ranking rewards and exclusive activity avatar frame.
▶ Other Rules
Unused personal merit, healing towels, flicker ammo and Cloud Piercing rockets can be kept for the next activity;
Some item resources will only appear in the store for open server > 45 days;
The limit on the amount of merit earned in the Merit Store section is that the player is required to earn the corresponding amount of merit during this activity, not the amount of accumulated merit.
Specific activities are subject to actual performance in the game.

Activity entrance: Home →活动中心
Activation conditions: Commander level ≥60, server start time > 7 days
Time: 024.5.1 04:00~2024.5.11 04:00（UTC+8）
Activity content: Rank and reward according to the total star rating of pet evolution
Please pay attention to the list closing time


Limited-time package discount skin is coming, the details of the activity are as follows:
Activity entrance: Home → Power charging → Happiness party
Activity time: 2024.5.1 04:00~2024.5.8 03:59（UTC+8）；
5 kinds of wedding skin to take away,the skin you has already had will return skin coupons according to the current price.


Activity time: 2024.5.7 04:00~2024.5.14 03:59（UTC+8）；
Activation conditions: Commander level ≥60, server start time >23 days
▶ evolve in petri dishes
Free incubation times 3 times a day during the event
The commander can choose his own pet to evolve, which makes it easier to obtain pieces of the pet
Laser guns are available through active missions and limited-time stores
The evolving Program activity is started at regular intervals, and unused laser guns and evolutionary whistles can be used again the next time the activity is started
The number of times extracted from each activity will not be carried over to the next phase. Please pay attention to the resource consumption arrangement
▶ Activity Store
evolving Shop: Evolutionary whistles acquired during evolving can be redeemed for much of pet-related rewards in this shop
Limited time store: The laser gun is on sale for a limited time, don't miss it
▶ Activity Tasks
You can get a lot of laser gun items by completing daily missions
▶ This issue UP pets
Experimental Warrior, Fural, Tidal Princess, Devouring Monster, electric Genie, Lightning meteor


Activity entrance: Home → Activity Center → 魔方世界
Activation conditions:
Commander role level ≥65; Server startup time > 35 days;
Activity time: 2024.5.7 04:00~2024.5.14 03:59（UTC+8）；
Activity Description:
There are 20 floors of the activity, each with 3 different difficulty bosses;
The first four days open 1-12 floors, the next three days open 13-20 floors;
Meet the specified conditions to receive clearance rewards.


Daily recharge activity is coming, during the activity, you can get the corresponding props rewards if recharge the specified amount every day, and can unlock the final prize after 5 consecutive days
Activity entry: Home → 活动→ 天天充值
Activity time:2024.5.7 04:00~2024.5.14 03:59（UTC+8）；
Activation condition: The server start time is > 37 days

The above is the main content of the activity that will be launched soon later. The specific content is subject to the in-game launch. Have a nice game！
If you have any questions/suggestions, please contact our customer service, thank you for your support！

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Hello again!

We will be entering G.Round on May 2nd! We entered G.Round back in January with a janky demo, and have now improved it massively. We are very excited to see what players think now.

G.Round will be important to make sure the demo is as polished and bug-free as it can be for Endless Replayability Fest (13th of May) and Steam Next Fest (10th of June) coming up.

The latest significant addition to the game is the Tutorial. Rather than throw a wall of text at the player as soon as they enter the game, we now have a notification system which gives little hints and explanations when the player actually needs it. For example, Flanking, which is a huge mechanic in the combat, is explained after someone has been flanked, pausing the game and showing an explanatory gif and some text.

This should make the game a lot easier to understand for new players.

As developers, it can be hard for us to see the game with fresh eyes since we work on it every day. So we anticipate that the tutorial will need to be modified a great deal to properly be helpful to new players. Which is why G.Round will be very good for us. :)


Tutorial notification explaining flanking

May is going to be intense. Endless Replayability Fest starts in a little more than two weeks! The festival starts on the 13th of May and lasts until May 20 and showcases roguelike and procedural games. We are attending. :)

You will be able to play the latest demo in that festival!

Cheers ːsteamthisː

Hey residents!

The winners of the Spring challenge are now available in the Community Store! 🤗

Next theme: Rock and Roll!
Deadline: 31st May



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2024年5月1日 08:00~2024年5月8日 08:00 CST
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您可在活动期间内进行游戏登录领取相应奖励，7日连续登录总计可获得石油*2000、奇遇礼盒*11。



活动期间可免费领取奇遇礼盒2个，领取挂机奖励也可以获得奇遇礼盒（每4小时产出1个奇遇礼盒），使用单个奇遇礼盒可获得随机的字符（末、日、来、袭4个不同字体之一）
奇遇礼盒开启掉落概率公示（如下图）：



打开奇遇礼盒后获得的字体可用于兑换超多超稀有道具，字体可通过挂机掉落、限时Boss、超值礼包等途径获得。
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Hello everyone!

There will not be an update pushed out this month. After PAX East, I had to focus on some IRL things outside of work for a few weeks. Since then, I've been hard at work on adding and improving features to the game. I hope to release the next update by the end of May, but there's no set date yet. This update will be much bigger than previous updates, though half of the work is "invisible".

The big invisible changes involve improving the core game engine. I've added LOD (load on demand) which was a lot of work, but was necessary to build larger cities. Previously, every asset in the game was being sent to the GPU, which was causing the FPS to tank once a lot of assets were outputted to the world, even if they were off screen. I also spent some time significantly improving the save/load time and file size--After the changes I made, there's been a 75%-90% improvement. There's also a handful of smaller adjustments that were causing the game to tank CPU performance. Lastly, a good amount of work went into creating color variants via the GPU (instead of creating every single sprite by hand)


Some of the visible changes that are now implemented are:

• Basic terrain output (no terrain height though)
  
• Unit animations, sitting positions, and color variants
  
• More unit activities (liking going out to eat)
  
• Auto grow residential zones (just like the classic city builder experience

Upcoming major additions include:

• RICO demand (this will be fleshed out over months)
  
• Water (terrain and pools)
  
• Possibly terrain height (but cant build on it yet)
  
• More unit activities like shopping, relaxing, chores
  
• Construction animations
  
• Possibly unit families, education, friends, etc.
  
• Hopefully street parking
  
• Possibly color variants for every item in game

There's also a big list of minor improvements/bug fixes, but I'll share those as part of update-release announcement.

- Chase

1. Adjusted Rock Spike
   
2. Fixes to florasaur's running animations not playing
   
3. Fixed some areas where player's get stuck
   
4. Fix issues with boss camera clipping
   
5. Changing orbiting speed of saw, ghost and triple fire

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2099680/Rent_A_Car_Simulator_24/


While we continue to develop the Full version of Rent A Car Simulator 24, we are releasing this hotfix that fixes minor bugs for the Prologue version.

* In some game sessions, it was reported that the 2nd day of the month ended after the 28th day. Now after the 28th day comes the 29th day and so on. This minor calendar bug has been fixed.

* Due to this calendar error, your rented cars were not returning. When you do the update, you will see that they are all back.

* Many more minor bugs have been fixed.


* License system development is about to be completed. We added multiple Car Markets to the game (one for each town).
First Car Market License is free. In order to buy and sell in other Car Markets, you need to open their licenses.

* We added new cars, vans and trucks to the game. You can follow these from YouTubers' videos.



* Thanks to our Youtuber friends.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4wPQu-YVmA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TnfW3kcKoM



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Greetings, Knights!


It’s been a minute since our last Nexus News but rest assured, we’ve been as busy as ever!

2024 is going to be a massive year for Doom Turtle but before we dive into the huge new updates, let’s talk about our recent trip to Boston for PAX East!

This was the first time that we attended a PAX event and without exaggeration, it was amazing. To be able to meet and chat with so many passionate Ember Knights players was an incredible experience! We talked about new content and features, ran a bunch of exciting competitions, gave away a ton of keys, and even posed for a picture or two!

Jeff recruiting some potential Razor Wind players...

The crowd waiting for the next Ember Knights competition

The special competition mode we made for PAX East


Jeff and Greg giving away free copies of Ember Knights to all the winners




But, we didn't dedicate our booth to just Ember Knights. We also unveiled our newest game, Legends of Starkadia!

Around the time we launched Ember Knights 1.0, we split our small studio into 2 even smaller teams. While half of us have been continuing to support Ember Knights, half of us have been working on Legends of Starkadia.

When one bored Earthling teen is accidentally teleported to the far flung Starkadian Empire, he lands face first in the middle of an interdimensional battle between good and evil, with the fate of the universe at stake! Now it’s up to him and a ragtag bunch of misfits to defeat the shadowy, extradimensional armies of the Empire and become the heroes the system needs.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2618160/Legends_of_Starkadia/




And now, let's look into the Shadows of what we've been working on for Ember Knights!





Stay alert as you fight your way through Wightsbury as there's a strange new crystal floating around and it'll be this very crystal that Evee needs to finally upgrade her Skill Convergence!


Once you've unlocked Skill Upgrading, you'll be able to use your Ash to unlock various upgrades for each skill.


Once an upgrade has been unlocked, it can now appear in Skill Rooms and Skill Selectors!


Here, we have good old White Knight showing off their fancy new Ember Fire upgrade!



But that's not all!

Combine upgrades to create powerful new synergies! Disclaimer: not responsible for adverse effects to your player color.






This is the update before THE update and the perfect opportunity to tie off any loose ends.

Have you been wanting a particular feature that hasn't made its way into the game?
Do you keep seeing a cool new idea that seems like an obvious addition?
Are you wondering if we even read all the player suggestions?
Well, we do and this could be the update for you!



The For The Players Update is the update where we're putting in some of the most requested features and that includes the number one player requested feature, the much coveted Save & Quit!
That's right, endless looping will now be a lot less daunting as you battle to restore peace to the universe, take a well-deserved break, and then return to repeat the work fit for a hero!






We'd like to take a moment to express our gratitude for the incredible reception that Ember Knights has received. Because of all the support, we've been able to continue to put out packed update after packed update with it all culminating in our massive 2.0 DLC Update coming later this year!

From the bottom of our hearts, thank you so much for everything! ❤️



Oh, one more thing before we dive back into the Shadows...



See You soon!

- Doom Turtle

We know that our players have been waiting for awhile now for the next patch and we’re happy we could finally bring Patch #3 for Taxi Life to you. This is only part 1 of patch 3, as we’re going to be releasing the second half later in the month of May. Without further adieu, let's get into it.

• Reduced Tire Screeching: A lot of players were letting us know that their ears were bleeding from the tire screeching of vehicles starting and stopping. Your ears can rest now.

• Improved AI Behavior: The vehicle and pedestrian AI have been improved (again) and there should be less cause for headache. If you still notice issues within the game with AI or peds, please let us know.

• Field of View (FOV) Settings: You can now adjust the FOV to your liking, improving visibility and immersion as you navigate through the city. We showcased this setting during our last livestream. If you missed it, check it out here.
  
• Inverted Axis Option: We’ve had a few requests to add inverted Y and X axes for controller players. Ask and you shall receive.
  Force Feedback Slider: There is a slider added into the settings of Taxi Life that will allow players to adjust the strength of the FBB while using a gamepad or steering wheel.

• Player Avatars: Added some new avatars for you to choose from when creating a new save.
  
• Additional Radio Stations: Tune into three new radio stations, bringing more variety and entertainment to your drives around the city.

Since Simteract is a Polish game developer, we’re putting Taxi Life on sale for Polish constitution day starting on May 3rd through May 10th. Catch Taxi Life up to 20% off!

Tell your friends about this link: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1351240/Taxi_Life_A_City_Driving_Simulator/
Our work is not done yet! We have more patches to go, like part 2 of this one along with more steering wheel support improvements for all platforms. Thank you for your continued support and we’re looking forward to your feedback regarding the new patch.

Ens veiem a Barcelona,

Mike
Simteract Community Manager

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