Hotel Galactic · build 21242364 · published
Hi Travelers! When we initially launched Hotel Galactic Early Access, it quickly became clear that the release was premature. Unfortunately, at the time we couldn’t change an executive decision that had already been made for us.
Since then, a lot has changed. Internally, we’ve rebuilt our management team and reshaped the way we work, making sure that this time no one can pressure us into decisions we don’t fully believe in.
Over the past 3 months, we’ve been fully focused on the game. We reinvented core logic, rebuilt major systems, and reworked NPC’s AI from the ground up, all to ensure that Hotel Galactic can finally become the game we always envisioned. Now, we’re ready to move forward, stronger than ever, and we hope you’ll see the same potential in Hotel Galactic that we’ve always seen. We deeply love this project, and we refuse to consider any scenario other than success.
We also know that we can’t achieve this alone. Your support is essential. Any positive feedback, new review, open dialogue with our team, kind words, or constructive criticism helps us move forward and reach higher.
Today, we’re excited to finally show you what we’ve been working on. With over 4,500 commits merged into the build since our last update on September 15th, we’ve selected the most important changes to clearly showcase how much the game has evolved once we were able to work freely, without unclear or undue pressure. Celebrate this day with us by watching our Twitch Drops Streams here (LIVE on 7PM CET/ 10AM PT)):
HIGHLIGHTED NEW FEATURES & CONTENT
New Questlines: Royal Welcome, Aquatic Needs, The Visitors from Lagoonis, Something New
Story Expansions: New story beats including Sleeping Dragon, Creating a Legacy, and On Her Highness' Service, with additional dialogues and cutscenes
Compendium: Added a new in-game Compendium featuring Alien Species, Important Characters, and World Lore entries
Whack a Derret: Added the Whack a Derret minigame with its own gameplay mechanics and leaderboard
Hotel rating system added
Ships on demand functionality added
Minimap and fast camera movement added
Extended building space (3 new floors added)
New Furniture Sets: Added Wicker, Azure, Homestead, Nocturne, and Regent furniture sets
Pattern Customization: New wall and floor patterns available for room customization
New Outfits: Added new outfits for staff and guests, including Nutcracker, Papa & Razzi, and seasonal sets
Added a large set of new item icons (Sky Berries, Rugs, Lamps, Quest Items)
FEATURED GAMEPLAY SYSTEMS & BALANCE
Economy rebalance affecting crafting costs and progression
Needs & satisfaction rebalance for guests and workers
Improved farming systems
Major task system refactors (transport, DoActivity, gathering, placement)
Reward balancing and corrections
Guest interaction system added
Performance, stability and usability improvements across systems
Validation systems added for quest consistency and save compatibility
SELECTED FROM VISUALS, ANIMATIONS & AUDIO
New audio assets (VO, SFX, music banks)
New cutscene and UI sound effects
Lighting additions and fixes across environments and props
Improved lighting effects for stained glass windows, gas clouds, and lobby windows
Updated foliage and water shaders for improved visuals and performance
Shader, LOD and rendering adjustments
Polished sleep animations for all species
Improved cutscene camera work
Multiple cutscene visual improvements (lighting, post-processing, particles, materials)
MAJOR BUG FIXES & STABILITY
Extensive save/load stability fixes
Dialogue system stability fixes (initialization, cleanup, edge cases)
Fixes for AI behavior, task cancellation and edge cases
Room construction, demolition and placement fixes
Inventory, storage and item interaction bug fixes
Multiple quest bug fixes (blocking objectives, incorrect triggers, save/load issues)
Bug fixes for blocked, stuck or incorrectly starting dialogues
Improvements to dialogue triggering, teleporting and markers
Cutscene camera, timing and timeline fixes
Animation timing, looping and transition fixes
Bug fixes for stuck, missing or broken animations
Fixes for missing, duplicated or incorrectly triggered sounds
Visual bug fixes (clipping, incorrect materials, night lighting issues)
Added and fixed language keys across items, quests and systems
Updated translations and fixed missing localization keys across dialogues and menus
And many, many more
KNOWN ISSUES & THINGS UNDER DEVELOPMENT
Greta’s shovel animation is missing in Uneasy Bird cutscene – on its way!
Guest review random review text issue – Guests review text is a random placeholder. We’ll come with something funny here one day!
Freeze on ultra-wide resolutions – A freeze may occur during the cutscene at the start of the Law is Law quest when using an ultra-wide resolution. We need more ultrawide screens in the company…
TEMPORARY SOLUTION: The issue can be avoided by changing the resolution before the cutscene starts or by skipping the cutscene.
Rare elevator issue – Workers sometimes enter an elevator but refuse to use it.
TEMPORARY SOLUTION: Reload.
Very rare bridge visual bug – A bridge between islands may visually disappear. This is a purely visual issue; workers continue to use the crossing correctly. TEMPORARY SOLUTION: Reload.
Worker transport ship issue – If a ship carrying workers is called immediately after the previous one departs, it may return without new workers. Call him again!
Language change issue – Changing the language does not correctly update all strings in the main menu. Entering the game resolves the issue.
Compendium layout issue – The Compendium may lose its correct layout at low resolutions.
Steam Deck and controller support – There are several control-related issues on Steam Deck and with controllers. TEMPORARY SOLUTION: for all of them is to use a mouse or the touch panel. We are currently working on full controller and Steam Deck support.
Guest review text issue – Occasionally, a guest’s review sentence on the rating card may be cut off.
Guest overlap issue – Guests may sometimes visually overlap with one another.
Bento crafting localization issue – An incorrect, non-localized string appears during bento crafting.
Cooking drag cancellation issue – Canceling the drag of an ingredient from a pot or cutting board may cause ingredients taken from storage to remain floating in the air after being released. TEMPORARY SOLUTION: Reload.
Crashes:
Potential crashes – We are currently investigating issues related to memory leaks and overall stability on certain hardware configurations. Due to the wide variety of PC setups, we kindly ask players to help us by reporting crashes and stability issues, as your hardware diversity greatly exceeds what we can cover through internal testing alone.
Potential crash while staying in pause menu for extended period of time – On some hardware configurations, we have confirmed a crash that can occur after staying in the pause menu for an extended period, especially when the game is minimized.
Thank You,
Ancient Forge