Build 26394592

You told us holding Space was the whole game. You were right.

One of our first refunds came with a note: you could hold the space bar, and that was it. We checked. Our test player could clear the whole queue without reading a single ticket, and finish on the same day as someone who read every one. That's not the game we meant to make, so 1.0.5 starts there.

• Reading is faster than guessing. On a ticket that has a quick fix, Work on it now does 60%. The answer is still in the ticket, and the right fix still closes it instantly. Hands-on tickets (the ones with no quick fixes) are unchanged.
• Holding Space or the button now stops when a ticket closes. Let go, look at the next one, then hold again. Holding to work is still there for your hands; it just won't read the queue for you.
• The ticket panel says so: Click 0.7 (guessing). And if you grind down a few fixable tickets without picking a fix, Stapley has something to say about it.

The overall pace is the same: about two hours to the first ending on Sysadmin.

A first day that doesn't throw you out

• Nobody gets fired on their first day (except on Damned, which means it). HR lets it go. Once.
• Day one opens on four hand-picked tickets, under capacity, with the right fix marked on three of them, so you see a quick fix pay off before you have to guess.
• If you haven't bought anything by mid-morning, Management installs an Auto-Responder for you, so you can see what automation does.
• Space no longer closes incident boxes and the day's summary before you've read them.

NEW: YOUR COMPANY

Options > Your Company. Type in your company, your boss and your coworkers. About a third of tickets will come from them, some of them will apply for IT jobs, and your boss turns up wherever the executives do. When the company rebrands at 400 employees, it uses your company's initials. Nothing leaves your PC. Screenshots are encouraged.

NEW: OFFICE LEAGUES

New Shift > Office League. Create a league, copy the invite into your team chat, and everyone with the code shares a leaderboard for today's Daily Shift. It resets every morning. And Copy result on the report card puts your score on the clipboard, ready to paste.

NEW: THE BOSS KEY

Press F9. The game pauses, goes silent and becomes Q3_Budget_FINAL_v7(2).xls, a very dull spreadsheet. Even the window title changes. Press F9 again when it's safe.

NOW IN FIVE MORE LANGUAGES

German, French, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese and Russian, all 2,800 lines: every ticket, email, incident and Stapley's opinions. The game follows your Steam language, or pick one under Options > Language. The system font learned some new letters for it. The HellDOS Prompt stays in English (it's DOS).
These translations are brand new. If a joke landed badly in your language, post it in the discussions and we'll fix it.

FIXES

• The Daily Shift no longer saves over your career, and Retry the day works for it.
• Clicking a notification no longer clicks the button underneath it.
• Minimising a window passes the keyboard to the next one.
• Server, staff and colour-scheme lists scroll when their window is small.
• Let go stays on the person you picked, even if someone else quits first.
• The fix-streak objective counts from when it was set.
• On Damned and Ironman, logging off no longer leaves a retry behind.

Thanks to everyone who played, wrote a review, or refunded with a note attached. The notes are how we found this one.

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