🚀 Major Demo Update: Employees, Dealer, More Customers & 50+ Improvements!

🎉 The First Major Update Is Here!

Hey everyone! 👋

Thank you for all the amazing feedback on the demo. ❤️

Over the past few days, we've been working hard on bug fixes, improvements, and new features. This update includes numerous fixes, performance optimizations, and several new systems.

📢 Looking Ahead:
We're already working on the next update, which will include additional improvements, bug fixes, shop advertising signs, the new emote system, and further enhancements to performance and quality of life.

🛍️ CUSTOMER SYSTEM COMPLETELY OVERHAULED

We've significantly improved customer behavior to make the mall feel more alive and realistic.

✅ Significantly more customers now visit the mall.

✅ Customers now walk around the mall before entering stores.

✅ Customers can now visit multiple stores during a single trip.

✅ Customers no longer wait forever at checkout counters.

✅ Customers become increasingly impatient if they have to wait too long.

✅ If a customer's patience runs out or the day ends, they will return products to their original locations.

👨‍💼 EMPLOYEE SYSTEM COMPLETELY OVERHAULED

🪑 New Employee Room & Employee License

✅ Employees can no longer be hired immediately.

✅ A new Employee License is now required before hiring employees.

✅ This license grants access to the Employee Room.

✅ Each available seat increases the maximum number of employees you can hire.

✅ Chairs provide space for one employee.

✅ Sofas provide multiple employee slots.

✅ Employees now sit properly instead of standing inside each other.

📊 Improved Employee Ratings

✅ Employee skills are now displayed on a 0 to 5 scale.

✅ The previous -2 to +2 rating system has been removed.

✅ Employee stats are now much easier to understand and compare.

✅ When replacing an employee, the game now clearly shows which stats the new employee is better or worse at.

📦 Logistics Employees Improved

✅ Logistics employees can now bring products directly to displays without first moving them to storage.

✅ Dropped or misplaced products are now automatically picked up.

✅ Shelves are restocked immediately when products are needed.

✅ Logistics employees no longer wait until shelves are half empty before restocking.

🧹 Cleaning Improvements

✅ Cleaning employees now clean all trash and messes before returning them to the trash bin.

💳 Cashier Improvements

✅ When a checkout counter is moved, the cashier automatically moves to the correct position.

✅ Cashiers no longer disappear after moving a checkout counter.

🚶 Improved Daily Behavior

✅ Employees sitting in the central seating area no longer disappear at the end of the day.

✅ Employees now leave the mall naturally when their workday ends.

🎨 DEALER ADDED

The Dealer is now available!

✅ Purchase graffiti and other special items.

✅ New ways to prank and annoy your friends and rivals.

⚙️ SETTINGS & GRAPHICS IMPROVEMENTS

✅ The game now launches correctly in fullscreen mode.

✅ Resolution settings are now applied correctly.

✅ Fixed UI scaling issues.

✅ Settings now save and load properly.

✅ Improved default graphics settings.

💳 CHECKOUT SYSTEM IMPROVEMENTS

✅ The checkout interface has been visually improved.

✅ Better readability.

✅ Cleaner layout.

✅ Important information is easier to see.

✅ Checkout counters can no longer be placed too close to walls.

✅ Customers and employees now position themselves correctly at checkout counters.

🚀 PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS

✅ General performance optimizations.

✅ Improved game stability.

✅ Smoother gameplay in various areas of the game.

✨ QUALITY OF LIFE IMPROVEMENTS

✅ Added numerous small quality-of-life improvements.

✅ Fixed various bugs.

✅ Improved several gameplay systems.

✅ Fixed an issue where ESC sometimes had to be pressed multiple times.

✅ Doors now automatically open while carrying items.

🗳️ VOTING & EVENT SYSTEM IMPROVEMENTS

✅ Players can now stand up using WASD, Spacebar, or ESC.

✅ Votes now start automatically once all players are seated.

✅ Improved vote descriptions for better clarity.

✅ The current game phase is now displayed correctly.

✅ It is now much clearer when players need to sit down to vote.

✅ Fixed visual issues during tied votes.

🔔 NOTIFICATION IMPROVEMENTS

✅ Multiple active events and notifications are now displayed correctly underneath each other.

✅ Fixed an issue where only one active notification would sometimes appear.

✅ Improved visibility of important game information.

📦 LOGISTICS & STORAGE IMPROVEMENTS

✅ Box spawning has been improved.

✅ Boxes can no longer spawn above the mall.

✅ Boxes can no longer spawn in invalid locations.

📉 New Negative Factor

✅ Leaving boxes lying around now negatively affects your business.

✅ Customers pay more attention to cleanliness and organization.

✅ Storage shelves should be used to keep boxes organized and avoid penalties.

💾 SAVE SLOT FIXES

✅ Save slots are now displayed correctly.

✅ Fixed save files being mixed up.

✅ Saving and loading is now more reliable.

🌐 MULTIPLAYER & LOBBY IMPROVEMENTS

✅ Lobbies are no longer closed when a regular player leaves the game.

✅ Lobbies now only close when the host leaves.

✅ Multiplayer sessions are now more stable and reliable.

👮 POLICE & PRISON IMPROVEMENTS

✅ Players can no longer walk through walls while in prison.

✅ The prison system now works correctly in multiplayer.

🌞 VISUAL BUG FIXES

✅ Fixed an issue where sunlight could shine through roofs and ceilings.

🛍️ VISUAL IMPROVEMENTS

✅ Shopping bags are now displayed correctly in players' hands.

✅ Fixed mouse cursor flickering issues.

✅ Mouse behavior is now stable and smooth.

🏗️ BUILD MODE IMPROVEMENTS

✅ Decorative and placeable objects can now be sold for 50% of their purchase price.

✅ Fixed incorrect resale values.

🎙️ NEW VOICE ACTING

✅ Added new German voice lines.

✅ Added new English voice lines.

🌍 LOCALIZATION

✅ Expanded and improved the German translation.

✅ Corrected and improved numerous text entries.

❤️ THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT!

Every bug report, suggestion, and piece of feedback helps us improve Retail Rivals.

Thank you for being part of the community! 🚀