After some time to check out the fixes all work on experimental we are ready to push this update live on the default branch now. Enjoy!

• New: Bas Boule television show! Dynamically driven and will be different each time.
• New: 15 new collectable Bas Boule cards scattered throughout the city*
• New: Camera now has a working flash (can turn on/off)
• New: Citizen conversations, notes, v-mails & evidence
• New: Screen space reflection toggle graphics option
• New: In-game poster art (including those by our competition winners)
• Improved controller support (simplified controls, virtual cursor, onscreen keyboard etc.)
• Memory footprint optimizations
• Memory leak fixes
• Updated object icons
• Updated furniture icons
• Price revisions for some furniture and items
• Localization update
• New page-based contents for décor editing as opposed to scrolling list for easier & faster navigation
• Improvements to cruncher V-mail legibility
• Various small UI Tweaks
• Improvements to auto travel navigation
• Improved distant citizen LOD model with correct scale
• Improved ball & grenade throwing physics
• Player can now log in on their own purchased cruncher
• Fixed: Lots of bugs in v-mail sender/receiver logic, tweaked spawning parameters
• Fixed: Added some missing junk item descriptions
• Fixed: Cruncher cursor now properly controlled with ‘Primary’ or ‘Select’ button action
• Fixed: Control glyph was broken for the escape key
• Fixed: Extra dialog option visible in dialog choice menu when in high resolutions (4k+)
• Fixed: In ‘Dead of Night’ it was possible for the flophouse owner to live on an echelon floor and be very difficult to access.
• Fixed: Room contents now updates properly when moving between rooms in the décor menu
• Fixed: Some ‘null’ furniture could be displayed within the décor menu’s current room furniture list
• Fixed: Hanging basket placement position in décor edit mode was wrong
• Fixed: It was possible to ‘resume game’ when there was no game loaded, resulting in a blank world loaded, if you spammed a button during the game’s initial load screen.
• Fixed: An issue where the player was unable to get crushed by an elevator
• Fixed: Turning a camera off and back on again within the security app would cause the camera itself to appear in captures
• Fixed: If visible but far away, citizen photo images could appear blank when loading a game or looking at CCTV captures.
• Fixed: In some languages with some items the object name text when looking at them was not displayed.
• Fixed: Security system breaker box bugs
• Fixed: Using the in-game text input search fields could result in them keeping focus after the case board was closed, resulting in loss of input.
• Fixed: Wooden fence geometry & UV
• Fixed: UI time text could overlap other parts of the UI on certain non-ENG languages
• Fixed: Security disabled states were not saved properly
• Fixed: Elevator controls UI can no longer overlap the containing window
• Fixed: Physics objects could disappear if thrown too high while in certain areas
• Fixed: When starting a new game in sandbox mode and setting 0 starting lockpicks, the game displayed ‘99’ lockpicks in the UI.
• Fixed: Player unable to purchase lockpick kit when inventory was full even though it does not take up an inventory space.
• Fixed: Being able to turn in side jobs multiple times
• Audio: Proper can impacts for wall and floor
• Audio: Echelon barrier now emits sound
• Audio: Sea splashes for chucking different sized things in the sea
• Audio: Minifridge now has its own sounds
• Audio: New music tracks added
• Audio: Grenades now momentarily affect player hearing
• Audio: Flash bomb causes temporary ringing at close range
• Audio: Hyperacusis filter option added (Audio Settings)
• Audio: Bass reduction filter option added (Audio Settings)
• Audio: Retirement sequence music cue added
• Audio: Pick-up object foley added
• Audio: Wristwatch and fists foley added
• Audio: Player bullet impact sound fixed and improved

* Requires a new city generation to appear/spawn/see

Currently the instance is the source of unmoderated trolls, and the instance admin seems unwilling to take action despite multiple reports sent.

We're therefore taking the action of defederating. We'd rather work with the instance admin to keep those trolls in check and minimize the disruption before taking a drastic action like this.

For transparency purpose, you can see which instances we are defederating from by accessing the https://lemmy.ca/instances page and going to the Blocked instances section.

Happy Canada Day everyone.

Related to the outage that happened last night, we rebooted the Lemmy services but we're still trying to figure out the root cause, which seems to point to an out of memory issue in the logs. However it's not what we see in our monitoring console.

In the meantime, we will monitor the service more closely until we are confident the issue is resolved, and we will improve our tools to detect such a problem faster.

EDIT: Also happened at night on July 2nd, still trying to find the root cause..

Apologies for the extended downtime.

Good day, Detectives. We’ve got a news bulletin from the city straight out of the Candor Newsroom for you to investigate!

First, a notice for detectives currently investigating crime scenes. While similar in look, there IS a definitive difference between Ruby Choice, Ketchup and blood splatter. Make sure you thoroughly inspect your crime scene to ensure proper evidence collecting.

Recent reports state that Synth Beef is approved for consumption across all food boards informing its customers that it is indeed safe to eat raw and it is “Just like the real thing”. This comes amidst citizens reportedly having bouts of nausea and vomiting after consumption.

We are also sending out a BOLO for a potential lead on what the surrounding cities are calling “The Bad Poet” killer. We ask that you report any evidence of this poetry to your local enforcers division.

There has been a surge of black market arms dealers setting up shop in the fathoms, city wide. Anyone discovered to be in possession of one of these rifles should be place on a watch list following an ongoing operation to clean up the streets of illegal weapons and potential sharpshooter assassins.

This has been your June Candor News update!

CANDOR NEWS: WHEN WE TALK, PEOPLE LISTEN.