News Liste Winkeltje: The Little Shop

Price Increase

Launch Content Update

Key Rebinding

New

• Audio - Updated the main menu music with a new theme track.

Changes

• Art - Bushy shaders should now get snow covered when outside and stop waving in the wind when placed inside.
• Art - Made the fire shader a smidge more yellow to closer resemble the feeling of fire.
• Art - Tweaked the table and chair colliders so chairs can fit underneath tables.
• Art - Tweaked the snow transition and snow materials to look better during the transitional period.
• Art - Adjusted the thickness of the centered structure beams on some of the wall pieces so they will not clip through paintings anymore.
• Art - Updated the shadowcasters on variant walls.
• Art - Reduced Solstice tree radius from 0.52 to 0.49 to make it easier to snap fit next to other assets.
• Art - Reduced the collider radius from the washing bucket to fit more tightly around the model.
• Art - Reduced the collider radius from the coat rack to fit more tightly around the model.
• Art - Made the darker leaves of bushes brighter to match better with other bushes.
• Audio - The restocking plop and thud sound effects are now in world space.
• Controls - Changing the wall masking preference using the keyboard hotkey should now be possible while the catalog menu is open.
• Effects - Updated the snow effect by covering the top of outside objects and masking out indoor objects.
• Farming - Community - Highlighting planters will now pulsate the seeds and crops in the inventory overview if possible.
• Language - Removed numbers from hybrid storage translations as a previous change to unlocking multiple furniture pieces has removed the confusion when unlocking several hybrid storages.
• UI - The crafting menu now has hotkeys to increase and decrease the amount of items to craft by using the Q and E keys.
• UI - Furniture labels will now also display the storage capacity of a furniture piece.
• UI - Buying or selling furniture will now list the furniture name in the transaction notification.
• UI - The scenario select should now scroll to, and focus on, the normal difficulty by default.
• UI - Scrolling through the credits using the controller has been made a bit faster and now supports d-pad navigation.
• UI - Fading between screens will now mention that the game is loading. This message is more for consoles that load slower than PC.
• UI - Improved the switching and navigating in the scenario select menu.
• UI - Moved the saving notification to be above the money counter.
• UI - Commerce UI will now close if you click outside of it.
• UI - Changed the direct selling message to include customer name.
• UI - Replaced the uninteractable sell button with a message when an item is not in stock in the direct selling prompt.

Fixes

• Achievements - Hard & Very Hard achievements would not trigger correctly. Reloading the save file should trigger these as intended.
• Animation - The crafting and planting animations played back in real-time causing issues when recording gameplay. The animations will now play back depending on the time between frames while respecting the time scale where appropriate.
• Animation - Restocking multiple shelves while walking should now animate from the player position.
• Art - The character customization scene was covered in snow during winter.
• Art - A customer should no longer display an outline of a disabled mesh.
• Art - Reduced the size of the roof colliders and lowered the height.
• Audio - The pre-game letter should have its writing sound playing again.
• Input - Community - Changing between 'qwerty' and 'azerty' keyboard preferences did not apply the preference unless the shop was reloaded.
• Lighting - Balanced the brightness of the wall mounted lanterns and lantern stand.
• Lighting - Updated the shadowcasters on walls to prevent light from leaking through.
• Other - SDK would initialize twice on PC.
• Other - When placing objects, they would move into view within 1 frame causing it to briefly appear and then move to its correct position.
• Other - Disabled menu hotkeys when in the character creator.
• Other - Potential fix for persistent.data sometimes not being writeable.
• Other - Added an additional check to ensure that whoever is fast enough placing & deleting a counter in 1 frame doesn't throw an error our way.
• Options - Options weren't correctly applied when going from the main menu -> game scene.
• Physics - Some NPCs were colliding with the doors which could result in very funky physics.
• Save - Old shops with customer data but without employee data could cause errors.
• Scenarios - Changed the Large scenario grid size to 16x14 for symmetry.
• Shop Builder - Fixed an issue where placing a double wall with a stone border in the middle would place a pillar.
• Storage - Slightly reduced the height of the collision box on the long and large pallets so that they may fit under a wall mounted lantern.
• UI - Initial crafting station interaction should now slot a crafting material if this is available.
• UI - The inventory overview item will no longer pulse when 'Show displayed items' is disabled and a customer takes an item.
• UI - Fixed a typo in the controls section causing a button prompt to appear as the Esc key instead of the E key.
• UI - You could still try to load invalid save files, even when you shouldn't.
• UI - Using left bumper in the scenario select menu would throw an error.
• UI - The initial fade from black in the main menu should now wait until the background scene is loaded in.
• UI - Updated Discord Rich Presence icon to the new one.
• UI - Community - Objectives marked as hidden should no longer count towards the total pinned amount.
• UI - Community - Removing the last of an item would not update the inventory overview.
• UI - Community - The inventory overview category and item sort were not applied when starting up the game.
• UI - Added an init check and moved a UI call to address a potential null reference error.
• UI - Loading a shop should now correctly apply the auto hide catalog preference setting.
• UI - The UI could occasionally be called before it was instantiated resulting in a critical error.
• UI - The top bar will now go up higher when hiding the UI to avoid the reminder icons showing when playing with a huge UI scale.
• UI - When opening a display it would not correctly select the first empty slot.
• UI - When using a controller, pressing X while having a display window open didn't do anything.
• UI - The bottom bar buttons should now enable in the right order when going through the tutorial.
• UI - The pre-game text should no longer flicker when loading into the next scene.
• UI - Appropriate button bar prompts should now be shown when initiating the tutorial.

Performance

• Performance - The Alchemy Station should no longer animate when not in view.
• Performance - The shop sign should no longer animate when not in view.
• Performance - NPCs using a rig builder component should now toggle the component before and after use to prevent overhead costs.

Hotfixes

• Placement - Repeatedly placing a bush could cause a null reference error.
• UI - Removed the 'Own' filter from the inventory menu as it was confusing and not very useful.