In continuation of the previous patch, the engine has been improved especially the management of character's animations.
The 3D model of the characters has been reworked to take advantage of the new functionality of the engine.
Animations now uses significantly less CPU resources while it is played and updated.
The use of RAM memory has also been reduced.
Content
New motherboard models as been added.
And ofcourse many bugs was fixed. If you found a bug, do not forget to report it on the Bug Report section of the Steam HUB this is very important!
As usual feel free to let me know what you think about this change in the comment section below.
Thanks for reading! If you want to support Hardware Engineers share it with your friends!
I hope you will enjoy this patch and see you for the next one!
Earlier this week:
# v0.1.94b #
Fixed SSD mission prerequisite
Fixed color bug in Scan and Temperature view
Fixed DVD/USB not visible in Boot view
Fixed Watercooling black slots
Fixed Inventory Black USB
Fixed Flickering texture
# v0.1.94c #
Adding PolygonBackup will now copy downloads folder
Adding Drive letter in "Properties" of files
Improved Performance: Assembly
Fixed Black model in Assembly
Fixed Mods preview
Fixed bug with effect for tube
Fixed bug with Assembly update
Summary:
Performance improvement
Improved Character model
Reducing CPU usage
Reducing Memory usage
Adding new motherboard model
Adding Copies duration take drives performance into account
Fixed Time go faster for no reason
Fixed Bruce's mouth not moving
Fixed framedrop in Assembly
Fixed abnormal memory allocation
Fixed Animation's CPU usage
Fixed bug with Animation played too often
Fixed Assembly's MouseOver animation
Fixed Potential bugged radiator in savefile
Update 0.1.94
Hello everyone!
Optimization
This week a very important part of the engine has been reworked.
This part concerns the management and display of 3D models.
These changes are intended to improve performance and add more flexibility to the development of the game.
After modifying the engine, all windows displaying objects in 3D have to be reworked. This task has been long and tedious but it's finally done!
Performance
According to my tests, the performances have practically doubled each time!
Due to the large number of changes in the interface, perhaps some bugs persist, if you noticed something that are not displayed correctly,
you can report it here in the comment section or directly on the community HUB accessible via Steam, it will be fix as soon as possible
Interface
The 3D thumbnails and the assembly view have been updated to a perspective instead orthographic view.
The store now has a rotating preview.
Content
Motherboards now have a maximum RAM frequency supported
PCs have been rebalanced to meet the new requirements of motherboards.
And ofcourse many bugs was fixed. If you found a bug, do not forget to report it on the Bug Report section of the Steam HUB this is very important!
As usual feel free to let me know what you think about this change in the comment section below.
Thanks for reading! If you want to support Hardware Engineers share it with your friends!
I hope you will enjoy this patch and see you for the next one!
Summary:
Adding Memory max frequency for Motherboard
Improved 3D Engine
Improved Interface
Improved Performance
Updated Assembly's view
Updated item previews
Rebalancing Computers
Fixed Obits brand color
Fixed bugs in the Demo version
Fixed visible "\n" character in Tooltips
Fixed missing space in text
Fixed PSU name errors
Fixed Fan stickers
Fixed bug with watercooling rad
Fixed issue with "First Time Setup" (?)
# v0.1.94b
Fixed SSD mission prerequisite
Fixed color bug in Scan and Temperature view
Fixed DVD/USB not visible in Boot view
Fixed Watercooling black slots
Fixed Inventory Black USB
Fixed Flickering texture
# v0.1.94c
Improved Performance: Assembly
Fixed Black model in Assembly
Fixed Mods preview
Update 0.1.93
Hello everyone!
Map
Many details has been added to the map.
Animation
NPC will now use greeting animations before talking to you.
Delivery
Delivery window has been updating to match the new window style with animated NPC.
Content
2 CPU AirCooler and 7 CPU WaterCooler has been added to the components list.
8 new 3D models has been added (6 radiators, 1 WaterCooling Block, 1 AirCooling).
Watercooling kit with dual fan.
Engine
From now modded WaterCooling kit will have to fulfill some requirements to be accepted by the game.
A new window will appear on the title screen if you have subscribed to non-compatible mods.
The mode manager will now show the incompatible mod in red and label them with "[ERROR]" in front of their name.
And of course many bugs was fixed. If you found a bug, do not forget to report it on the Bug Report section of the Steam HUB this is very important!
As usual feel free to let me know what you think about this change in the comment section below.
How much do you like WaterCooling?
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I hope you will enjoy this patch and see you for the next one!
Summary:
Improved Map
Adding Greeting animations
Adding Radiators models
Adding 2 CPU AirCoolings
Adding 7 CPU WaterCoolings
Adding requirements for Watercooling mods
Adding listing of incompatible mods
Updating Delivery window
Mod Management
Fixed PSU sticker
Fixed 3 minor bugs with WaterCoolings
Fixed Crash when generating tubes
Fixed Radiator location
Fixed Inventory's item preview
Fixed WC's tubes too short
Update 0.1.92
Hello everyone! A lot of change this week!
Watercooling
7 watercooling kits "All-In-One" and one air cooler has been added to Hardware Engineers.
Characters
Now, the characters have hands!
To add variety 10 new animations has been added!
The models and textures have been reworked to add more details and improve the deformation during the animations.
Assembly
The assembly window has been enlarged and the different view reworked.
Miscellaneous
The number of potential paths for cables has been increased
All Coolers has been rebalanced
Just like hard drives, SSDs now have cables.
NAS's model has been improved
And of course many bugs was fixed. If you found a bug, do not forget to report it on the Bug Report section of the Steam HUB this is very important!
As usual feel free to let me know what you think about this change in the comment section below.
I think the delivery guy really likes his new hands!
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I hope you will enjoy this patch and see you for the next one!
Summary:
Adding WaterCooling kits!
Adding 10 new Animations
Improved Character's models & Textures
Adding Cables for SSD
Adding new CPU Cooler
Adding new CPU Cooler models
Rebalancing CPU Cooler performance
Increasing max number of cables
Improved all VRD models
Improved Nas models
Improved Assembly UI
Improved Assembly's Temperature view
Improved Assembly's Mask view
Fixed case model
Fixed cables pass through the case
Fixed NPC spawn two time
Fixed potential crash with toolbox
Fixed GPU's temperature
Fixed Girls do Boy's animations
Update 0.1.91
Hello everyone!
Cables
The new algorithm for cables is finally ready!
Before this patch, cables's models was integrated to the components. They were immovable and impossible to change in the game.
Now they will be generated dynamically during the game.
For the moment the new algorithm will not change much for the player except for the computer's esthetics, but it will allow me to add new features much easier in the future.
Hard drives and optical drives will now also have power cables.
Content
Several CPU cooler with new 3D models and optical drives has been added.
Other small improvement has been made to Coolers (see summary list bellow)
Notification
The notification system has been improve to prevent the player to be spamed with too many identical message, in case of repeated click.
Performance
Performance during translation and text writing has been improved.
Explorer
winDOOR. can run its own programs but some time bug happens... in this case you will get a winDOOR's blue screen instead of a game crash.
And of course many bugs was fixed. If you found a bug, do not forget to report it on the Bug Report section of the Steam HUB this is very important!
As usual feel free to let me know what you think about this change in the comment section below.
Here is a real footage of the new algorithm that trains to make nice curves:
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I hope you will enjoy this patch and see you for the next one!
Summary:
Adding new cables system
Adding new Cpu Cooler
Adding new Cpu Cooler models
Adding new Optical drives
Adding Cables for hard drives
Adding Cables for optical drives
Improved Notification
Improved Performance
Improved Explorer
Fixed Cooler sold with wrong fan brands
Fixed Cooler sold without fans
Fixed Mailbox close itself when deleting message
Fixed Cache flushing to often
Fixed assembly's mask
Fixed slowdown in assembly
Fixed potential useless resetting of graphics settings
Fixed 1 memory leak introduce in 0.1.90
Update 0.1.90
Hello everyone!
Animations
As in the previous patch, more high quality animations have been added!
Interface
A new interface for tutorials and mission proposals has been implemented with animated models and better readability of objectives!
The build mission requirements are now sorted and displayed by group.
A search bar has been added in the network interface and the downloads folder for easier navigation in the explorer
I noticed that many players did not know how the talent tree worked and began to click everywhere before realizing that the 1st talent was on the left. So I added a more visible animation to differentiate the locked skill from others.
Path
Cars and walkers will now move more smoothly
Balancing
The mission reward in reputation and experience has been slightly modified to best reflect the difficulty of the mission.
The performance of Optical Drives have been rebalanced.
And of course many bugs was fixed. If you found a bug, do not forget to report it on the Bug Report section of the Steam HUB this is very important!
As usual feel free to let me know what you think about this change in the comment section below.
Thanks for reading! If you want to support Hardware Engineers share it with your friends!
I hope you will enjoy this patch and see you for the next one!
Summary:
Adding new talking animations
Adding search bar for Network and downloads
Improved Mission window
Improved Mission description
Improved Tutorial window
Improved cars and walkers movements
Improved glowing effect of skill tree
Rebalancing Optical Drives
Rebalancing Experience and Reputation
Fixed blinking cars and walkers
Fixed deformed face during certain animations
Fixed bug with loans
Fixed NAS button
Fixed Build mission miscalculated money reward
Fixed click through the color palette
Fixed English translation errors
Update 0.1.89
Hello everyone!
First, the demo is finally available! Share it with your friends!
Camera Mode
A new camera mode has been added. The perspective view is now the default view of the game.
If you want to keep the previous view it remains available in the game's graphical option.
Animations
The 3D models of characters has been improved and all their animations reworked.
14 new high quality animation is now available!
Tutorial
The tutorial has been improved. From now the tips will appear on the right of the screen. Click on the bulbs to open the tips.
3 new pages were added to describe the inspection in simulation mode, download center, drivers, NAS and networks.
Interface
The brand of components will now appears in the tooltips's cells.
Colors of some brands has been changed to improve readability.
Translation
The entire settings screen is now translatable.
Thanks to Knugen, caspthepro and smartstore31 the Swedish translation is now available!
And of course many bugs was fixed. If you found a bug, do not forget to report it on the Bug Report section of the Steam HUB this is very important!
As usual feel free to let me know what you think about this change in the comment section below.
When your favorite game got a new update
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I hope you will enjoy this patch and see you for the next one!
This week a I worked on the game's artworks. Some of you have already noticed the graphics charter change on the shop page and on steam in general.
Everything has been updated to match the new version of the game.
I also have the pleasure to announce you that a demo version of Hardware Engineers is being validated by Steam. It should be available in the next days!
It took me a lot of time, and I could not worked much on the game itself. but I still have many things for you!
Demo
I think a demo version can be a good way to increase the popularity of a game and make it discovered by more people without revealing too much!
The demo limitation will be:
limited number of components, decorations and furniture(~30% of the content available).
Only five mods subscription at a time
Level max at four instead of ten
Rules customization limited to easy mode
Overclocking, benchmark score, steam achievements and editors disabled
Improvement
Blank DVD will now appears in shop's equipment section
When mouse over a computer under the desk you can now hold CTRL to get the full tooltips.
Balancing
Build mission will have less performance requirement in general.
The Upgrade mission(purple) and Build mission(pink) amount has been slightly reduce. In return Buy mission(white) and Order mission(blue) has been increased.
Showcases effectiveness has been increased
And of course many bugs was fixed. If you found a bug, do not forget to report it on the Bug Report section of the Steam HUB this is very important!
As usual feel free to let me know what you think about this change in the comment section below.
Thanks for reading! If you want to support Hardware Engineers share it with your friends!
I hope you will enjoy this patch and see you for the next one!
Summary:
Improved Build mission
Improved under desk slot's tooltips
Rebalancing frequance of different mission type
Increasing showcases effectivness
Blank DVD cathegorized
Updated Graphic charter
Adding New guide for translators
Fixed crash in RamTest87+ USB Tool
Fixed bug sometime when generate new mission
Fixed Antivirus requirement not working properly
Fixed bug with custom price
Fixed crash with certain mission
Update 0.1.87
Hello everyone!
Mission
New type of mission!
Customers will now be able to ask for a complete computer with certain budget and exigencies.
Customers will choose a combination of prerequisites among the 22 new to create unique mission scenario.
Offline Mode
Offline mode is now supported ! From now you should be able to play Hardware Engineers in offline mode at any time!
If Hardware Engineers is already installed on your computer, makes sure to start it at least one time in online mode to enable the offline mode.
For a fresh installation the offline mode will be enabled automatically.
Modding
New requirements about consumption has been added to modded components.
To improve the gaming experience with mod created by the community certain rules have been added to the editor and the loading process.
It will no longer be possible to upload a mod that does not respect these standards.
Mods already available that do not meet these standards will be ignored when loading.
The new rules
PSU must be at least 100W.
NAS must be at least 20W.
Every components with no power consumption will be ignored (except for case, disk, vrd, blueprint)
If you are not sure that your mod meets all the standards, I recommend you to update them by following this guide:[HowTo] Update your mods
Interface
Some windows related to the new mission type has been slightly improved
Trailer
New trailer for the shop!
https://youtu.be/O6QCCfQqjHE
And of course many bugs was fixed. If you found a bug, do not forget to report it on the Bug Report section of the Steam HUB this is very important!
As usual feel free to let me know what you think about this change in the comment section below.
Thanks for reading! If you want to support Hardware Engineers share it with your friends!
I hope you will enjoy this patch and see you for the next one!
Summary:
Adding mission build !
Adding offline mode !
Adding 22 missions requirement type
Adding more mod requirements (consumption)
Improved mission window
Improved Security
Updated Steamworks (2/2)
Fixed bug with modded item's drivers
Fixed Translation
Fixed OS not detected when apply serial
Fixed bug while loading old saves
Fixed bug while drawing item
Update 0.1.86
Hello everyone!
Content
New models and materials for SSD has been added, the old model has been updated.
Mission
The window that's used for complete a mission has been reworked.
From now only the bad checks will be showed.
When canceling a repair mission, the customers will give you back the components that it does not belong to them.
Modding
Steamworks libraries and codes has been updated to match the new Steam'SDK.
Modded components have now requirements.
The rules:
Processor need at least one cooling slot
Motherboard need at least one processor, graphics card and Memory slot
Case need at least one motherboard, power supply and Hard drive slot
NAS need at least one Hard Drive slot
It will no longer possible to upload components that does not respect these rules.
Every mod already online that break these rules will be ignored during loading.
I recommended to every modder to update their mods frequently! A quick guide : [HowTo] Update your mods
And of course many bugs was fixed. If you found a bug, do not forget to report it on the Bug Report section of the Steam HUB this is very important!
As usual feel free to let me know what you think about this change in the comment section below.
Thanks for reading! If you want to support Hardware Engineers share it with your friends!
I hope you will enjoy this patch and see you for the next one!
Summary:
Adding SSD models
Adding Materials
Adding mod requirements
Updated Steamworks
Improved mission window
Improved mission canceling
Improved old SSD models
Improved Caching mouse function
Improved credit screen
Fixed translation miniature
Fixed crash with modded components without required slot
