Career mode and much more - Game update Jan 22, 2021
Hello Lumberjacks!
Can you believe, we are a bit more than 1 year in Early Access! We are super-proud of the progress we have made so far, yet it feels like we have just started. Could we have done more? Yes. Still, we believe that constantly adding value over time and listening to our audience will result in the best logging simulator out there.
This update brings the brand new Career mode to the game that brings the new level of challenge and will gradually grow in offering different goals to be completed. The Open world levels are still available in the game for players that will just want to enjoy the logging activities or play with mods.
So what is the Career mode? Idea is that You participate in the local Job market. Companies are present on the map and are seeking different kinds of services. Naturally most of them will be saw mills buying logs or pulp mills buying wood chips, but there are more ideas beyond that, such as wood product transportation between sites, production of different items, etc. You can bid on available jobs and try to deliver the required goods on time. Requirements include wood type, log length, etc. Some companies have their own delivery and will send their truck to Your logging yard. Yes, you have a logging yard now with a little cabin that can be entered, and access the job market through convenience of a laptop!
Because the log length is now a requirement, You can measure your chainsaw cuts with a tape measurement tool, while machines that cut to length - such as harvesters - will include the length measurement in their UI.
Over time, You complete jobs on time and to the specification, You will 'level-up' towards bigger and better paying jobs, delivering more logs and longer loads, requiring more sophisticated machines to complete the work. In the near future, You will be able to expand your logging area, and eventually move to a bigger logging yard with more storage space and more facilities.
Now, a little bit about our plans in 2021. The 2020 was mainly focused on the graphics and controls, and we managed to reach our goals in terms of the look and feel of the game.
The 2021 will be about the game mechanics itself, we will make the Career mode more complex and develop more activities to do on the map, including new vehicles, etc. The rough aim is to double the number of available vehicles in the game in 2021. Next to this, we will spend more time to bring up the modding capabilities and allow You to import custom vehicles and maps made by our modding community - hopefully bringing mods to Steam Workshop some time during 2021.
Hope that you all enjoy the update and happy logging!
Tracked harvester and visuals - Game Update Nov 9th 2020
This update brings brand new tracked harvester! Learn to smoothly operate this beast by either keyboard+mouse or the gamepad controller! Joystick is able to be mapped as well! Soon to come are loader and buncher based on the same tracked vehicle platform.
Check out one of our fans playing with the new vehicle: [previewyoutube="24pyNYUdSNg;full"]
Another major update for the game are general graphics and visual improvements! We have re-worked the visual processing engine to bring bright and crisp visuals! We really like the new color scheme in the game, let us know what you think about it! Here are some raw screenshots:
Lumberjack Simulator: Work-In-Progress update Oct 2020
Hello Lumberjacks,
hope you all had a great summer! We sure had an awesome one, enjoying the outdoors of BC and admiring the majestic trees here. But now is time to get to work again, next update is coming soon and will include new tracked vehicle mechanics. We're excited to share some in-progress images of the vehicle!
Tracked vehicle tier will include 3 new vehicles: harvester, buncher and loader!
Looking forward to release this to all players (very) soon!
Simulator Radio partnership - Game Update July 19th 2020
Hello Lumberjacks! Hope you are enjoying the summer, we for sure are!
Still we managed to make an update despite the awesome weather: - Simulator Radio partnership - live radio streaming in-game option! - Additional settings in game for Audio and Graphics - no need to leave the game to change it anymore - Additional "under the hood" features for the upcoming vehicle modding.
If you are interested to mod the game vehicles please contact us and join the closed Steam Workshop Developers group.
and other smaller improvements. Enjoy!
Chipper game mechanic - Game Update June 19th 2020
This update brings: - all new chipper mechanic, introducing a small chipper trailer for pickup - load chips in the small trailer or the pickup - travel to any map location while on foot
- new design for the home base and new onboarding level - indication of distance when attaching trailers - delimb small and big branches with both axe and chainsaw - price adjusted when selling logs - model interior improvements
Controls, Models and Tree improvements - Game Update May 12th 2020
This update brings: - controls improvements for harvester and forwarder - support for crawling during loading mode in forwarder and harvester - interior vehicle camera movement in all directions with added zoom
- tree physics adjustment and more detailed models - no more square trees! - visual changes on the forwarder exterior and brand new interior model for forwarder - log yard with preview of 3 upcoming vehicle models, including the tracked harvester
and other smaller improvements. Enjoy!
Winch system and visual improvements - Game Update Apr 19th 2020
This update brings the all new winch system!
Attach to the trees, cut logs or other vehicles. Salvage trucks and trailers, climb uphill or skid logs by the cable. Available on the pickup truck, skidder and log hauler. To use the winch approach it from the first person, pickup the hook and attach manually. Vehicle controls allow you to tighten or loosen the cable, or to park the hook back to the vehicle.
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Also included: - visual upgrades to trees textures and terrain lighting - motion blur post-processing (switchable via graphics settings) - control response adjustments for snappier control of boom, cranes and articulated vehicles
and other smaller improvements. Enjoy!
Vehicle texturing and performance improvements - Game Update Mar 29th 2020
This update brings: - Vehicle re-texturing! Most vehicles have been upgraded with visual details, such as scratches and stains for more realistic look
Also included: - Improved performance while adding more distance to terrain details drawing - Terrain and mud physics fixes - Work-in-progress water on the Hard level - Steam Leaderboards for most cash earned and distance travelled
As well as set of small updates: - Harvester head rotation control - Controls cleanup of unused controls
Terrain texturing and trailer for pickup - Game Update Feb 22nd 2020
This update brings complete new set of detailed textures for the terrains. More details and variety of textures is now available, as well as more details for grass, and we'll use it in the future updates to create more variety of level designs.
The pickup truck got a new trailer attachment, and skidder got a face-lift on the exterior, including a spinning engine fan.
Other updates include image settings, allowing adjustment to brightness, contrast and color saturation, as well as tuning fog and image bloom. Enjoy!
Interior cameras and muddy tracks - Game Update Jan 31st 2020
This update brings visual graphics update for muddy wheel tracks. This is work in progress but already looking great:
Sometimes the logs would drop from your trailer? Well, lost logs no more! We have logs stabilization on the vehicles while driving.
Look around while you drive with move-able interior view cameras. Need better overview of crane controls? Now we have crane helpers: targeting shadow and live view of crane inputs, as well as hydraulic pressure gauge for forwarder and harvester to see when the crane is overloaded.
Want more grass? We got graphics settings for grass density and distance. That is if your PC can handle it.
Feller got a separate tutorial that allows you to try out the vehicle and learn the controls, and other smaller changes.
