Overhaul Update #3 (0.38-R4)

...by Bryan Mader (Deketa) ◘  

The Overhaul Update: #3
Last updated November 27, 2023
Launches November 30, 2023

Before the Holidays really kick up, a critical update has been in the works for around six months, with many critical game changes and progression improvements. All this and more is coming to a new patch, coming available by November 30, 2023!

Core features

An example of customization, and their approximate bounds.

New D-Pad touch controls for mobile!

     
New ingame achievement system!

More variety! More emotion! More dynamic! More unique characters, and special emotes!

- Added on-screen "hint" system
- Added clothing accessories (hat/eyes/mouth slots) and assets hat1/hat1b, glass1, and mask1, and temporary dialog option for customizing a hat/mouth accessory's color
- Added native on-screen mobile U/I, ability to toggle it via /dpad and /pedals
- Added missions "The Wrong Side of Town" and "The Wrong Side of Town pt. II"
- Began work on "banners" - collectible seasonal and holiday badges for Veteran players
- Added a number of skins, generic and unique
- Added a number of new characters
- Finished intro cutscene and missions
- Added interior 'fish' (Jack's Bait)
- Added new character: Jack to pedlist, always spawning in Jack's Bait
- Added new character: Joe to pedlist, always spawning outside Jack's Bait during mission: Fishy Business
- Added Jack's dialog, and opportunity to relieve his back pain with weed, which he is grateful and takes a friendlier tone onward for
- Added clothing accessories, at long last (hat1, glass1, mask1) - purchaseable and colorable at Northside apparel, through dialog for now
- Fixed some bugs preventing progression to Wrong Side of Town II, and onward.
- Added crude pause menu, with rudimentary functionality
- Improved settings menu HUD, and framework for custom audio settings

New Items

- Donut
- LSD
- Crack
- 'Shrooms
- Needle
- Wraps
- Papers
- Baking Soda
- Bowl
- Bong
- Burger
- Fries
- Slice
- Loca-Cola
- Hoagie
- Bottled Water
- Power Drink
- Power Bar
- "Beverages" (Mysterious/Exotic/Accelerated/Strange) [altho no functionality for now]

New businessness
- Jack's Bait (interior/dialog functionality)
- Northside Apparel
- HIGH GUYS Smoke Shop
- King's Burger
- Mama Marie's Pizzeria
- Jack's Bait (interior)

 Star characters

- Dwayne Jefferson
- Jethro Jefferson
- Ty' Jackson
- Ronnie DeLuca
- J.V.
- Michelle Watson
- Jack Richard
- Joe Richard
- SUB-Urban Employee
- King's Burger Employee
- Mama Marie's Employee

Vehicle changes

- Added dashboard, RPM, gear, and needle HUD when inside a vehicle
- Refined Smokebus (smokebus)
- Added cutscene-only Linerunner (rig1)
- Added Willow
- Began work on vehicle trunks
- Began work on calling vehicle spawning on the go (for random spawning)
- Our first instance of requiring the player's character to commit a felony accomplished in J.V.'s first mission (The Wrong Side of Town pt. II)

Misc. assets

- Added pkn, pkn2, pnk3 textures and oct1-4 banner images

Other changes
- Temporarily disabled most custom keybinding, due to filesystem errors
- Gave fishing bobber its own entity and movement handling (will follow player after 100px distance)
- Fixed numerous dialog bugs in unique character dialog (not engaging in dialog /not responding to certain options)
- Began framework for opportunities (such as Jack's "medicine")
- Fixed a fusing error where the game would not launch