Hey guys, Today's topic will be about The Warehouse
As many of you know, Steam Workshop support has been down since the new builder released.
Why?
Because we noticed that Steam Workshop was doing more harm than good.
To give a scenario: new player starts Homebrew for the first time, goes straight to most popular and starts downloading old vehicles that don't work anymore.
We feel that vehicles are more like images where you want to share them quickly but you don't necessarily want to maintain them.
That being said, we decided to build a better place to house your vehicles with the following features in mind.
- Multiple content types: vehicles, parts, world props and more.
- Better presentation and organization of content.
- A powerful search engine.
- Browsing and installation of content without the need to be in-game.
- Quick-sharing via urls.
- Ability to add more features as the need arises.
So here is a sneak peek on how The Warehouse works:
To Upload Content
In Homebrew click on Warehouse in the main menu, then choose your content and upload it.
Once the upload completes, you get a link that you can share right away.
To make your content visible in The Warehouse press the set public button.
Furthermore, you can edit the item on The Warehouse itself. You can add images, provide a description, and add tags so your content is easier to find.
To Download Content
Simply press download in The Warehouse.
Open the url using the Downloaded app, this will install it automatically.
Searching The Warehouse
Searching The Warehouse By Name
Summary
The Warehouse allows you to share vehicles quicker and more easily compared to Steam Workshop.
In addition, The Warehouse is "most recent" based by default so it solves the main issue we were having mentioned above.
Because the system is ours we are now able to develop features that Steam Workshop does not allow and design The Warehouse in a way that better suits its content.
Building the system was a challenge for our team, especially since our expertise is making games, not web apps...
Yet we learned what we needed to learn and got The Warehouse to an acceptable/working state.
More features will be added to The Warehouse in the future, having the entire system in-house makes it a lot faster to add more intense features.
We hope it will bring back vehicle sharing like never before!
As always, we'll keep our eyes open on Steam, DISCORD and our other channels.
DREAM — BUILD — ENJOY
Copybugpaste Team