Blood Pact Studios is celebrating a massive milestone just days after launch: over 100,000 video stores have opened! To celebrate, the developers have dropped Minor Patch CL 1974 & 1994 fixing major employee bugs and outlined a roadmap promising 100% free future content. Here is our complete breakdown.
🎉 100,000 Copies Sold & Free Updates Confirmed
The two-person development team at Blood Pact Studios expressed immense gratitude to the community for hitting the 100K milestone. The biggest takeaway for players regarding the future roadmap:
"All upcoming updates will be completely FREE. We have no plans to charge for future content."
The team is currently prioritizing bug fixes while gathering community feedback to shape the evolving roadmap. Controller support and new localizations are already in the works!
🛠️ Minor Patch CL 1974 & 1994
This double patch finally pushes the highly anticipated employee AI fixes from the beta branch to the live game, alongside some great UI and performance upgrades.
⚖️ Balancing & Improvements
- Employee Raise & Sick Days: Balanced sick and raise chances to increase each day instead of a flat % chance.
- Max CV: Increased maximum CV generated per day from 3 to 4.
- Resell Preview: Added a preview in the context menu showing the resell value of objects (e.g., Movie Shelf, Sell Product $35).
- Added color and icons in the ESC menu to prevent accidental clicks.
- Moved several loud sounds into the Phonophobia sound class (plane, helicopter, siren).
- Added more string states to the catalog repair counter text.
🐛 Critical Bug Fixes
- AI Crash Fixed: Fixed AI stopping working when they wanted to pause but had both no-bathroom and no-sleep skills.
- Corrupt Staff Fix: Added a system to check if staff spawns are corrupt, deleting them if necessary.
- Performance Boost: Temporarily disabled Convolution bloom causing bad performance on ultra-wide monitors.
- Fixed slush machine paper cup dragging behavior.
- Fixed the "Go to black market" quest failing to trigger if the back door was closed too fast.
- Made shelves more robust in code when moved to avoid floating movies.
- Fixed selling price still being visible when the clearance bin was moved.
- Fixed back alley issues where movies were getting stuck.