Hello Miners!
We've just opened the Open Beta branch on Steam for you to check the upcoming update. We're mainly tweaking game's balance and tutorial.
Primarily, we've managed to change the digging's feeling of Front-End Loader and Excavator. We'd love to hear your opinions on the changes. You can help us make the game more enjoyable for you.
Once you give Open Beta Update a try, please join the discussion on our channels:
- Steam Community: https://steamcommunity.com/app/451340/discussions/10/
- Discord (#beta-general channel): https://discordapp.com/invite/goldrush-thegame
- Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1575828229134340/
Let us know, how do you like it and report issues if you find any. Your feedback has helped us many times in the past!
Important
Open Beta branch is a voluntary option and it may not reflect the quality and content of actual Anniversary Update 1.5.1.
Save files from Open Beta version won't be transferred to a live build.
How to switch to open beta branch:
CHANGELOG
Balance changes:
- Changed Excavator's digging parameters. Digging feeling has changed.
- Changed Front-End Loader's digging parameters. Digging feeling has changed.
- Changed starting fuel of any machine to 20%.
- All washplant containers fill evenly at the same rate.
- Reduced Front-End ability to push dirt.
- Reduced claim upgrade prices.
- Changed shop prices.
- Changed machine park prices.
- Changed Seasons' price multiplier.
- Adjusted destroyable Parts lifetime.
- Changed the multiplier of failures during Summer and Winter.
- Lowered the multiplier of parts durability during Seasons on Hard Mode.
- Lowered the multiplier of Fuel price on Hard Mode.
Tutorial:
- Added Tier 2 tutorial.
- Added Tier 3 assembly tutorial.
- Added new tutorial steps to the existing quest tasks.
- Disabled possibility to use the bucket on machines, that are not in quest task.
- Added new yellow markers (quest task indicators).
- Adjusted existing yellow markers (quest task indicators) positions.
- Added new task after smelting first gold bar. Players are now required to get 42k dollars.
- Fueling quest tasks are skipped if the player has full fuel tanks.
- Changed Tutorial starting season from Spring to Summer.
- Quest tasks, which require to collect a specific amount of gold, are skipped if the player is playing with 1$ Mode enabled.
- Other minor tutorial fixes.
Other:
- Name of the highlighted item is now displayed.
- Added 'Stories' text to the icon.
- Small Shovel is now third in order. Players can use it by pressing key on keyboard.
- Removed popup window informing about the addition of Four Seson Cycle to the game.
Fixes:
- Optimization of scenes.
- Fixed double-clicking bug when selling gold bars in the Bank (only one click is required now).
- Added missing sound to Loans tab in the Bank.
- Fixed Frankenstein's collision after loading the save file.
- Fixed Rivertown's bedrock dirt bug (the dirt look like it's diggable, but it wasn't).
- Fixed bug, which prevented some players from continuing the tutorial after filling the hog pan up to 30%.
- Fixed Laptop's transport prompt.
- Fixed bug which allowed to loan the same claim multiple times despite already renting it.
- Removed snow texture from gold bars.
- Minor UI fixes.
Gamepad Fixes:
- Disabled Dump Truck's bed moving with gamepad's stick.
- Added a slight cooldown on the gamepad for changing the number of items in the laptop (values no longer increase without limit when leaning the stick - the counter stops at some point).
- Fixed Transport bug on the gamepad, which prevented players from taking any actions, after transporting anything from the right side of the Transport menu.
- Added possibility to upgrade workers on the gamepad.
- Added possibility to reject workers on the gamepad.
- Added possibility to assign workers on the gamepad.
- Added possibility to unselect workers on the gamepad.
- Fixed inability to move lists of items in online shop when using the gamepad.
- Added popup informing about rejecting workers application of firing a worker on the gamepad.
- Other minor gamepad UI fixes.
Known issues:
- We're investigating reports of autosave crashes. You can expect fixes in the coming the days. If you're experiencing this issue, we recommend disabling Steam Cloud synchronization until the issue is fixed.
Simply go to your Steam Library, right click on Gold Rush: The Game, select Properties, access "Updates" tab and deselect "Enable Steam Cloud synchronization..."
Now let's get digging!