Hello everyone!

Hope you've been well since the last time we spoke. We are coming in hot with new stuff implemented, we have re-shifted priorities to bring you heavily requested content ahead of schedule and to even bring 1.0 features into Early Access. This also means that certain automation features that were initially planned for the Automation Update will be coming sooner.

As always, we are reading every review and forum post, it's incredibly important to us to hear what you have to say about Roadside Research's development. If you have an urgent question, hop into the Discord where we can answer you faster. Otherwise the Steam Forums are also a great place to ask questions.

Summary - Mini Content Update February 26th

• You can now wear hats! 6 new skin colors, 1 new body type, outfits, and more.

• You can pet the dog! There is a cat now as well.

• The pause menu now has a newly updated "How to Play" section with more in-depth information on how to interact with the game's systems.

• Minigames are now clearer with better UI and more explanations.

• Full patch notes at the bottom!

Update 1 - Coming Next Month (March)

• Self-checkout

• Cleaning robot + payment terminal + more mask slots + more shop customization

Near Future

• We are moving crossplay to come before reaching 1.0 as initially planned for everyone to be able to play together.

• Difficulty levels (Easy, Normal, Hard) + Customizable Sliders for certain Variables

New content:

- 11 Hats

- 6 new Skin colors

- 1 new body type

- 2 new outfits - 4 clothing pieces in total

- 4 new pant colors

- 3 new shirt colors

- Added a cat placeable decoration

Popular requests:

- You can now pet that dawg (and cat)

- Tweaked Dog audio and volume

- You can type numbers in the credit card screen with the number buttons on keyboard

- Fixed an issue where it was possible only give back 1 cent at the cash register

- Reworked the number of pump vs store customers. This should give a much better balance especially for solo players towards the endgame

- Made the life of solo players a bit easier when the last pump upgrade is unlocked

- Raised max customer cap based on store upgrades

- V-sync is ON by default

- It should be easier to see goop and dirt at night

- All minigames should have improved UI now to make it easier to understand them

- All minigames have explanations in the How to Play section in the pause menu

- Customer satisfaction has some explanations in the How to Play section in the pause menu

- Increased box limit in store from 100 to 500

- Increased Agent investigation time to make it easier to probe as a solo player

Other fixes

- Credit card keypad should update for everyone now

- Aliens will now get Conked in trash scanner

- When Aliens are high on Goopster Energy, they will also throw stronger

- Fixed an issue where the money and research UI was offset in edit mode

- Fix an issue where saves might get lost when the game was force quit or crashed

- Added thumb sticks dead zones (customizable dead zones are coming in the next update)

- Attempt at fixing the 4th player cannot join issue. For some people activating their VPN fixed this aswell.

- Fixed save slots on gamepad

- It is possible now to clean goop under the stairs (this one was for those that had a goop stuck under the stairs due to a previous bug)

- Fixed reflections and reflection transition in front of the station

- Fixed and issue where it was possible to pump without hose being attached

- Fixed filters not displaying as selected when using mouse and keyboard

- Smaller pole collider so it doesn't block interactions with pump customers

- The player should drop items when they press the "I'm stuck" button

- Sponge is now moving for everyone when using a controller

- Customers buy slightly less stuff to make sure towards the end game they don't linger around the store too much

- Updated spinning minigame to show current influence accurately based on decay

- Attempt at fixing missing upgrade icons

- Added a safety window to the start of the farting minigame

- Adjusted dirt clean times, they should take less time to clean

And to close things off, thank you for sharing all your insanely cool masks, you can find the creators of the ones below in the screenshots and artwork tabs of the Steam forums.

Greeting my fellow goopers I hope this announcement finds you well (I promise not to call you that again)

Welcome to this new patch announcement. This will be broken down into multiple sections

1. What we have fixed

2. Common Requests we are aware of

3. What is coming next

We have recently pushed two hotfixes last week, an update on what we are working on Monday. And today we have a first patch now that things are bit... calmer. Thank you for your patience!

So without further delay, here are the patch notes for today's build update.

Patch Notes - Thursday, February 19th

• Fix for not being able to grab anything after interacting with the dumpster in certain cases. This was a big one!

• Fix for not being able to clean on low mouse sensitivity and high resolutions

• Fixed an issue where settings like mouse sensitivity, FOV, etc. won't save

• Fixed an issue where the produce box would block movement and it would knock Humans out (oops)

• Changed settings when it comes to upscalers to mitigate ghosting (In the future we will provide the option to turn off and change settings of the upscalers)

• Issue where the 4th player is not able to join. We haven't been able to reproduce the error but we think we fixed it. Please update us if it works!

• Fixed an issue where goop would be under the stairs

• Fixed an issue where saves would get lost when the game session was terminated from outside the game

• Fixed an issue where products would disappear from the register

• The trash scanner no longer shows double research values

• The Auto Trash Scanner generates double the points if the Scanner 2.0 is unlocked

• Fixed an issue where a wrong payment method notification was shown when a Human rag dolled at the register

• Added dead zones to thumbstick inputs for movement, look at and navigation in menus/in game UI

• Hands should jitter less when holding boxes

• Fixed an issue where the clock was clipping in the wall

• Removed the lingering baguette

• Fix auto-save indefinitely awaited and blocking loading transition

• Made scanner 2.0 red to indicate that its an upgrade

Here are some topics and feedback points we have gathered from the Discord, Steam forums, and reviews.

• Gas station auto-filling: looking into this for automation update

• Cash register automation: looking into this for automation update

• Saving your custom mask so it is not lost: looking into it

• Not being able to interact with items all the time. (NEW UPDATE) This should be fixed

• Motion sickness: (NEW UPDATE) This might be due to players on PCs that do not fit the system requirements or laptops with integrated graphics cards. We need more information on the topic, if you are motion sick when playing please send us a video + description through the google form OR the Discord here[discord.gg]

• Selling energy drinks

• Bigger storage space

• Entering price with numpad

• Roomba for cleaning

Customization Update + Better Tutorials

• Hats, body types, skin color

• Better mini-game explanations

• More fixes

Here's a sneak peak for cosmetics (free of course, I want to emphasize that)

Small Update Number 1 (This is not the Major Update for Automation)

• Deeper fixes and feature tweaks that cannot be done in a hotfix

• NPC Customer Feedback System: See store stats in the alien screen

• Quality of Life additions

• New decorations

Questions we want to ask you

1. Are there any decorations you wish to have for the store?

2. Are you experiencing motion sickness? Please submit a bug report in Discord or google form so we can help you.

3. What do you want to know about what we are working on?

Thanks for reading and wishing you all a goop day.