Quality of Life Update + Highland Cows Pack OUT NOW

Quality of Life Update - Now Live!

This game update (which is of course available at no extra cost) focuses on making the game that bit nicer and smoother to play. For example, animals now no longer scatter when purchased, animals can now be sterilized with a sterilization gun to prevent breeding, animal sex markers have been added and vehicles can be now be recovered via a terminal in the car store.

We've also made a handful of fixes and optimisations.

Changes

• Animals no longer scatter when purchased

• Animals now have sex markers to clearly show sex

• Animals can now be sterilized, preventing breeding (Sex marker turns grey when sterilized)

• Dead animals now have a timer after which they are automatically skinned (in order to alleviate performance issues with large amounts of dead animals)

• Vehicles can now be recovered via a terminal in the car store

• Traffic has been modified; cars driving on the map will now try to avoid people and cars that are in their way; also reduced the server resource consumption for traffic (reducing lag)

• Vehicle gearbox parameters have been changed, meaning vehicle handling should now be more responsive when first starting to move

Fixes

• Fixed flickering hair and shadows

• Fixed gate positions that weren't saving/synchronizing

Optimisations

• The number of ticks per second has been significantly reduced, improving game stability.

• Unnecessarily high texture sizes have been trimmed

• Reduced the number of duplicate materials

• Removed a huge number of hard references on objects that were loading RAM

• The number of occluders on the map has been significantly reduced

Ranch Simulator: Highland Cows Pack - Out Now!

Expand your farm with this world-famous Scottish cattle breed! Care for these adorable cows, milk them for produce and breed baby calves. These lovable cows are available in three different colours - black, white and ginger.

[dynamiclink href="https://store.steampowered.com/app/4539740"]We've put together a new bundle, Ranch Simulator: Gold Edition, which includes the base game, the Southwest Ranch & Farm Pack and the new Highland Cows Pack, all at a 25% discount.

This is a 'complete the set' bundle, so if you already own the base game and/or the Southwest Ranch & Farm Pack, you can purchase this bundle to complete your collection and pick up the new DLC with the 25% discount.

Ranch Sim Support Website

We hope you have a great time with the new update and DLC, but if you run into any issues or bugs you need help with, please visit the Ranch Sim support website.