Hi citizens of Nivalis Nights,
We're starting the week with a juicy new update! In this patch, we've again focused on adjustments to improve performance and fix the bugs you reported last week, and we've started to bring in some of your suggestions.
We keep monitoring your feedback and reports closely, and some of your suggestions have given us real food for thought. Keep sending them our way!
Here are the patch notes:
Performance
Improved the performance of the crowd simulation and animation
Fixed performance issues in The Stacks scene, caused by light probes from unloaded scenes being kept in memory
Optimised footprints camera rendering (no longer rendering when it's not snowing, and rendering at lower frequency when it's snowing)
Important bug fixes
Fixed vending machine and composter item duplication glitch
Fixed various issues with customers not leaving when you are taking their orders yourself and don't have the required processors to make the meals
Fixed cleaning up rotten food from venue storage when larger amounts existed in both normal and refrigerated storage
Fixed character behaviour for Sal Magundi
Fixed a conflict between 2 treasure fishing spots that prevented one of their related quests from progressing
Coffee Run, Protection Racket, The Network: added conditioning and branching to account for certain individuals no longer being "available"
Removed characters blocking the way to Deeala in Mountain Town
Fixed venue levelling for Sunset Hour at Mountain Town
Fixed the "End of Day" panel to properly display larger review numbers
Fixed lighting issues introduced with the Lighting Details settings
Minor composter and vending machine optimisations
Managers and staff
Further improvements to managers restocking ingredients. The restock amount is now in sync with the automated Restock Ingredients quest objective (red), which appears when an ingredient's stock falls below 10. It now also accounts for any queued delivery tasks managers still have for those ingredients
Some NPC-run venues have been struggling in the late game because of several factors. Calypso Island was missing trash bins for rotten food, and we also improved the scheduling for ingredient deliveries and allowed all roles to perform this task
Hired managers now gain skill experience for trying to resolve customer complaints (with an extra bonus for a positive outcome), making ingredient orders and delivering ordered items to venue storage
The time between making an order and the delivery being available now depends on the manager's level, ranging from 10 seconds down to 4 seconds at max level
The venue storage restock notification now appears after delivery, not when the order is made
Updated staff spots in all venues that players can own
Visuals, audio and quality of life
Improved lighting and fixed buggy characters in certain transition scenes
Visual fixes to the greenhouses at the Docks
Edited snow in Eastern Residential. It no longer clips through the ground floor at Fusion Point
Fixed player footprints in the snow. They now alternate correctly between left and right foot
Improved visibility of the pause menu on very bright backgrounds (like snow)
Updated the placement sound to reduce the high-pitched elements that some people found distracting
Fixed the pan interaction animation for staff characters
Added Aseptic poster interaction animation
World and content
3 new greenhouses have been set up in the Industrial District
Decorated your neighbour's apartment in Lowtown. Somebody lives there now. Maybe.
Zaffer's neon sign is now a decorative object you can place in your venue or apartment
Rebalanced the achievement point unlock levels for all districts, as they were a tad too easy. Check your achievements window in game to find out what you can do to earn more points
Removed unreachable hidden Fusebox scannable components from the underground section at Metro Hub
A note about Banor
Before this patch Banor was configured to also eat, which could overlap with his working schedule. In your current saves, this could still be the case, so expect him to arrive at work a little later. After that he should always be on time.
