Landlord's Super
Patch 0.04.06
- Mechanics for laying foundation frames made much simpler (details below)
- Foundation Frame cost reduced to £3.99
- Foundation Frame delivery now contains 4 Foundation Frames (Double previous)
- Due to the changes to Foundation Frames, A hammer is no longer required for Kashmiran’s job
Foundation Frame Changes:
Due to the high number of bug reports relating to the design and implementation of foundation frames, and with how it is often the first construction element players are exposed to. I've decided to change how foundation frames work slightly.
Players now need only place the 4 stakes down. The wood planks will apply themselves in spots required, once all 4 stakes have been placed. This also mean you no longer need to unlock or use the hammer to secure the foundation frames. Stakes can be picked up at any point before any concrete has been added to the frame. Hopefully this takes away a lot of the initial friction, confusion and frustration players had when starting the game.
Cheers!
Patch 0.04.05
- Lowered the rate at which paint mixes with each other in the storage buckets
- Can now mix paint into a storage bucket with Concrete or No-Fines mixture
- Can now mix two storage buckets of the same mix type together
- Can now add No-Fines or Concrete to empty Storage Buckets
- Fixed pour animations for adding paint to cement mixers
- Fixed shovel adding to cement mixer not adding color
- Fixed foundations drying too quickly
- Fixed foundations sometimes glowing when they should be dry
- Fixed a crash associated with creating foundations
- Cigarettes now have 66% less tar and nicotine
- Coughing now clears lungs 2 times faster
Patch 0.04.04
- Fixed Winston incorrectly delivering Wall Shelves when ordering a default Dishwasher
- Fixed colour mixing through Storage Buckets
- Fixed a bunch of paint can, shovel, cement mixer, trowel interaction relationships
- Fixed TV truck delivery position / rotation
- Fixed certain furniture spawning endless clones when place atop other furniture
- Plasterboard placement now ignores doors, windows and furniture
- Fixed issue where Totter wouldn’t buy scrap if player was waiting to talk about the Church Roof job with her
- Fixed UI layering issue where certain tool tips wouldn’t appear on-screen if player was blinking
Hot Fix 0.04.03
Quick late night cheeky fix for a pretty bad issue.
Cheers,
Greg
0.04.02
- Fixed notebook close audio playing too loud
- Fixed Ronson Bros Q&Q catalogue audios
- Touched up the Q&Q indoor environments
- Fixed save / load issue tied to nails
- Brick Bolster now disappears from pouch while held in hands
- Fixed Brick Bolster not being removed from hands when dropping the hammer
- Added tooltip to better explain how the Brick Bolster works
- Fixed spam clicking Bricks with the Brick Bolster equipped causing various issues
- Circle UI now appears reliably when splitting bricks with the Brick Bolster
- “Streaming Assets” UI now correctly fades away on Front End state changes
- Plasterboard order cost reduced to £4.99 down from £12.99
Patch 0.04.01
- Fixed Scaffold causing soft-lock issues
- Removed In-environment scaffolding
- Fixed open environmental seams at Sheffingham housing estate
- New water splash effect
- Fixed exploding brick deliveries
- Default quality level set to Fantastic rather than Fastest
- Fixed various pop-in, facial animations and graphical issues
- Added a save shuffle to fix things such as scaffold soft locks and save corruptions
- Fixed several issue where scaffold placement could become soft-locked if player was aiming at the bolt of the connector
- Re-baked occlusion zones to try to clean up some visual dropout
- Also added some more tree lines to help with FPS around the house area
- Magazine Rack should now load in correctly
- Closed treeline seams so they don’t vanish side-on
- Fixed soft-lock that could occur if player picked up letters too quick
Took the weekend off for a break, back at it again today.
One thing I noticed with new players, the game was defaulting to Fastest video settings. If you're noticing too much pop-in, might be worth opening the pause menu (Default key : Escape), checking the VIDEO option to see if the game is set to FASTEST. Setting the game to FANTASTIC will yield best results.
Also hope to have fixed the most annoying issues here, but be sure to remind me of anything else that's causing people headaches.
Cheers, and thank you all for playing the Furniture update!
Greg
Furniture Update Now Available
Furniture Update Now Available
We're delighted to announce that access to the Furniture update for Landlord's super is now available. If you have Landlord's Super already purchased and downloaded on Steam, your game will automatically update. If your game does not update, try restarting Steam.
The Furniture Update marks our arrival at Version 0.4, and our biggest single content drop so far. The Furniture update completely replaces all old furniture assets, introduces dozens more pieces, with 100s of variants of styles and colour. Add to that 9 new musical tracks from composer Jeremy Walmsley played on through the in-game cassette player, smoking, environmental overhauls, and new jobs to complete around the world. There has never been a better time to jump back into what we are committed to delivering as the quintessential construction experience.
Overview & full patch notes below:
Note: You may continue to use your old saves!
FURNITURE
All previous furniture has been replaced with higher fidelity models and we've added dozens more non-essential pieces. Each furniture piece now comes in a variety of colour or styles, each has wear and tear simulated. This update means there are now hundreds of options to decorate your home with, and there's still more to come.
NEW JOBS
Residents of Sheffingham need a handyman, do you have the tools to help out? Rebuild Tamsin's wall, Lay Kashmiran's foundation, repair the church roof for Totter. Each will provide a unique reward, or a cash bonus for repeat call-outs...
CASSETTE PLAYER & MUSIC TAPES
9 new tracks, mixed into 3 music tapes, each waiting to be played on your very own in-game cassette player. Complement your working day by jamming it out to either Tamsin's Synth-pop mix, Totter's Ska collection or Kashmiran's post-punk tape. Not a fan of those genres? Find the blank tape and build your very own mix-tape by adding up to 20 tracks to the game files.
Enjoy yourself, it's later than you think!
SMOKING
The residents of Sheffingham can now smell you. This will affect how they perceive and deal with you. So, if after a hard days graft you find yourself struggling to convince Tamsin to pour you a pint of Super, you may want to consider taking up smoking for a short term hygiene solution.
User caution is advised however, smoking is hazardous to your health, particularly in-game lung capacity. Smoke too much and you'll develop an annoying smokers cough, continue to ignore these warning signs and you may cause permanent damage to your health. You have been warned!
And Much More...
Split bricks with the Brick Bolster - a cheap alternative to the Circular Saw. New crouch solution that allows players to stand on their tippy toes. The Job Centre has had a refurb allowing you to skip time in their bathroom. You can open the doors and look inside Jimmy's Reliant Runner Supervan. There's so many changes, fixes and improvements!
Change List
Landlord's Super 0.4 Update (The Furniture Update)
Key Features & Changes
New Jobs available at the Job Centre
Job Centre has been rebuilt to look more period appropriate
Added bathroom (incl. Toilet) to the Job Centre, allowing skipping of time during mornings in Sheffingham town
Added Tamsin Wall Job
Added Kashmiran Foundation Job
Added Totter Church Roof Job
Under certain conditions, NPC are aware if player tries to scam them into paying for additional work
All Furniture items replaced and enhanced, with colour selection and full damage tracking
N.B The number of new furniture is currently low for focus testing purposes. Once we're confident of the stability of the available furniture, we'll begin adding new furniture in batches.
Added a Cassette Player & 3 Music Tapes - each with a unique sub-cultural theme
Added 9 new original music tracks by Jeremy Walmsley
Added Blank Tape, allowing players to play their own .WAV files in-game
Added smoking
Characters now react to player smell
N.B Smoking will provide quick and easy relief to smelly players who forget to shower. Be aware that smoking is very bad for your health, and this is reflected in various ways in-game. You have been warned!
New adjustable crouch height.
Players can now stand on their tippy toes
N.B To help ease of access to screws on certain types of furniture, players can now adjust their standing height whilst crouched. Using the movement input whilst crouched will mean players can adjust their height with more precision, albeit movement whilst crouched will no longer be possible. As a bonus, players can stand on their tippy toes if the stretch high enough.
Various environmental improvements and changes to support new jobs around the world
Added new tool “Brick Bolster”, a cheap addition to the Hammer for splitting bricks in half
Minor Changes
Furniture Catalogue reworked to accommodate new furniture
New improved water visuals
Can now open Jimmy’s Royal Runner Super van
Pub now fills with Smoke when Winston arrives
Added Cigarette machine to the pub
Tidied up the artwork for the toolbelt
Loose furniture now needs "Interact" input to be held in order to be picked up
Thrown objects now damage both the object they impact as well as themselves
Furniture won't show damage till it reaches below <75% condition
Changed fridge pivot point, making them easier to place
Sledgehammer no longer deals double damage to the impact point
Sledgehammer splash damage only applied to objects of the same type
Debris impact no longer causes damage
Furniture placed on walls now snaps to grid
Furniture placed on walls now also snaps into rotation
Half brick outside Tamsin pub swapped with full sized brick, allowing wall to be repaired without need for any orders
Bug Fixes
Fixed Totter’s eye makeup
Fixed performance hit on furniture placement
Fixed naming issues in the furniture catalogue
Fixed a bunch of areas where player footsteps wouldn't change to snow during snow conditions
Fixed minor "disabled" UI colour for the Shovel selection within the Tool Catalogue
Fixed issue where Plasterboard tutorial wouldn't appear in the notebook
Fixed issue where No-Fines could be damaged below zero
Players should no longer slide off roof when game is paused
Fixed Wheelbarrow disappearing if player went under the blocked bridge with it
Fixed typo "oppertunity" to "opportunity" in M&Sons letter
Fixed UI text becoming truncated on job slips
Fixed issue where couldn't place small tiles in corners next to each other
Table in tool shed no longer accumulate snow
Pub bathroom light now works
Fixed issue where game would think furniture is placed inside the property when it wasn't
Fixed issue where tenant wouldn't find a new favourite bed or sofa if many were placed but their original favourite was removed
Fixed Winston and Jimmy unable to show sadness
Fixed minor Junk TV visual issue
Fixed winter tree branch visuals
And finally, we'd like to extend a huge thank you to everyone who participated in the In-Dev access. Without your suggestions, bug reports and patience, this game might not be half what it is today.
Thanks, and have fun!
Greg
InDev Patch 0.03.12
- Added Wash Basket
- Added Magazine Rack
- Fixed Save / Load issue tied to TV Stands
InDev Patch 0.03.11
- Added 12 types of coffee table
- Added 12 types of Lounge Cabinets
- Added 24 Types of Bedroom Drawers
- Added 2 types of Wardrobe
- Fixed ordering Yellow 3-seater sofa incorrectly delivering a 2-seater green
- Furniture now saves and loads damage
- Fixed Loose furniture not save and loading correct style or colour
- Fixed issue where Winston would drive off if you told him you weren’t done unloading the truck but were smelly
- Fixed issue where Winston could return to truck but would retain pub dialogues
- Fixed text in the Building Supplies catalogue that incorrectly stated certain doors had a max delivery count of 1
- Fixed Furniture catalogue showing the incorrect price for Large Tables
- Tool Tip UI now shows correct cement, sand, aggregate bag amounts after loading in
- Fixed rendering issue where damage on doors could causes highlighting to appear ugly
- Fixed minor visual issues with White Single Bed Frames
- Fixed a save corruption caused by Ciggies
- May have fixed the unresponsive cigarette (Will require players to buy a new packet to clear though)
- Fixed issue where Yellow Wooden floors would save and load as Blue Wooden Floors
- Wardrobes now have metal handles
May Dev Log
Furniture Update access is now available through the Steam In-Dev branch
May
Month 12 of Landlord’s Super Early Access.
Landlord’s Super has been in Early Access for an entire year! Since entering EA a year ago, we’ve seen the addition of a number of features. Including painting, no-fines, new tools, wallpaper, flooring, carpeting, new jobs, tool shed, Totter’s scrapyard, and more. We’ve still got plenty to come, starting with the up-coming Furniture Update.
As it’s been a year, we just wanted to say thank you to everyone who has played during Early Access. Thank you for all the Steam reviews, for all the save data sent to Greg, and for all the bug reports and suggestions. You cannot imagine how helpful it all is, and we are truly grateful.
FURNITURE UPDATE NOW AVAILABLE IN STEAM INDEV BRANCH
InDev access for the Furniture Update is now available. You can opt in here.
What is InDev? InDev is short for In-Development. The InDev branch is even earlier access to content updates. Want to help out with early testing and can’t wait for new content but aren’t scared of bugs, crashes and save corruptions!? Then InDev is a perfect way for you to play new content, whilst helping to speed up the development of Landlord’s Super.
The Furniture Update has been in the InDev branch for over a week now, so is pretty stable. But do be aware, it can still contain early and untested content.
(Opt in here!)
FURNITURE UPDATE
Content and bug fixes are being added to the Furniture Update’s InDev branch on a daily basis. With this in mind, we’re looking at a mid-May release for the Furniture Update. This release will be tied to a 20% sale, so if you’ve been holding off buying, this could be a great time to dive in.
New Furniture is being added daily, 15 types of Standing Shelves made it in yesterday!
MIX TAPE CHANNEL
We added a Blank Tape to Landlord’s that allows players to add their own .WAV files to play in-game. You can add up to 20 tracks to the blank tape. A channel to for players to share their mix-tape playlists was requested. So we’ve added the #mix-tapes channel to the MinskWorks Discord. Got an in-game playlist you want to share? Head on over.
COMMUNITY HIGHLIGHT
This month’s highlight comes from u/ShorsIsExpTime over on the subreddit and nickisdoge through email.
All the best,
Greg