Build 25130326

Living Streets and Traffic

The street outside Retail Revenge is now much more active.

• Added traffic travelling in both directions outside the store.

• Added multiple cars, vans and taxis with varied colours, rotating wheels and visible steering.

• Added headlights, tail lights and illuminated vehicle details at night.

• Vehicles now react to customers using the pedestrian crossings.

• Approaching vehicles stop and queue while vehicles already crossing are allowed to continue.

• Added spatial engine sounds, horns, braking, acceleration and impact audio.

• Traffic audio now fades when entering the shop.

• Moving vehicles can kill customers on impact.

• Vehicle-hit bodies remain briefly before being removed.

• Stationary vehicles no longer cause an instant death. Customers can fall, recover and continue.

• Improved customer recovery positioning to prevent them reappearing underneath the sidewalk.

Permanent street pedestrians also remain active throughout the day, independently of the store’s customer flow.

Improved VR Visual Clarity

• Restored a crisp four-sample MSAA rendering setup for PC VR.

• Reduced the graininess, softness, shimmer and movement smearing affecting the store, shelves and products.

• Replaced the coloured shelf-price widget backgrounds with physical ticket faces.

• Removed the severe yellow, green, red and hover-highlight flickering from shelf tickets.

• Improved filtering and mipmaps for shelf-ticket text to reduce movement shimmer.

Customer and Checkout Improvements

• Reduced excessive launch force when throwing customers.

• Interrupted customers now correctly drop their carried products.

• Customers now lose their basket, shopping bag or complaint bag when grabbed, struck or thrown.

• Fixed fleeing customers sometimes remaining at the edge of the map.

• Improved customer and bag cleanup at map exit points.

• Fixed an edge case where the checkout could become impossible to clear if a customer was killed immediately after paying.

• The next customer now waits while the previous transaction is cleared instead of incorrectly continuing it.

• Improved the pacing of customer payment and bag-pickup animations.

Store Pricing, Profits and XP

• Rebalanced wholesale stock costs to make successful store management and progression more rewarding.

• Improved the green, yellow and red shelf-price classifications.

• Corrected customer purchasing behaviour for sale, regular, expensive and excessively priced products.

• Fixed shelf-price tags sometimes displaying the wrong colour while editing prices.

• Fixed refund and reshelving behaviour that could incorrectly affect the product’s shelf price.

• Complaint refunds now use the price captured before the returned product is revealed, preventing price manipulation.

• Fixed the pause-menu XP bar so it correctly tracks the increasing XP requirements at later levels.

• Corrected XP rollover when gaining enough XP to reach the next store level.

Night-Time Shop Improvements

• Night now begins correctly at 7:00 PM.

• The night sky, streetlights, building windows and shop lights now activate together.

• Rebalanced the shop’s ceiling lights so the interior remains visible without appearing excessively bright.

• Improved local shop exposure without brightening the entire outside environment.

Product and Character Audio

• Added category-based handling sounds for cans, boxes, jars, chip packets, fruit and vegetables.

• Products now play the appropriate sound when stocked, placed on checkout counters or dropped onto floors and shelves.

• Added subtle pitch and volume variation so repeated product interactions sound less repetitive.

• Chip packets now use dedicated grab and drop sounds.

• Reduced the volume of fruit and vegetable handling sounds.

• Stopped bouncing products from repeatedly triggering excessive impact audio.

• Added spatial walking and running footsteps for customers.

• Added sound feedback to the Sandbox control-board buttons.

Additional Fixes and Improvements

• Added automatic removal of older bodies when the body limit is reached to improve performance during chaotic sessions.

• Improved the Sandbox front-door startup sound behaviour.

• Corrected collision on the coconut, tomato soup and sweet corn cans.

• Improved Career customer pacing so struggling stores receive more recovery time while successful stores become busier.

• Increased the maximum Career customer capacity to support busier high-reputation stores.

Thank you to everyone playing Retail Revenge in Early Access and reporting issues. Your feedback continues to help improve the game with every update.