Hey everyone!

Welcome to Content Update 0.5 - I Know Wash You Did Last Summer! Discover new career jobs, completely new zones, cosmetics, rebindings, lore and much more!

Watch our surprisingly clean update trailer here:

Content:

Added four new jobs to Career Mode
The Mayor’s Mansion, Carousel, Drill and Temple!

More

• Added Water and Time Challenges for Dirt Bike & Back Garden jobs
  
• Added glove styles
  
• Added skins for the Prime Vista 3000 Heavy Duty Washer
  
• Added Extra Long Extension for all washers (available in the shop once Fire Helicopter is complete)
  
• Key rebinding option available (more on this below)
  
• Music slider added to audio options
  
• Button labels added to the HUD
  
• Options menu rework
  

Fixes:

• Higher frame rates no longer have an impact on wash performance
  
• Improved stickiness on some surfaces
  
• Minor dirt improvements on Back Garden
  
• Audio improvements in the Treehouse
  
• App now runs even if not in focus to prevent UI screens getting stuck
  
• Exiting the feedback tool before the report has been sent no longer causes a freeze
  

Developer notes

A priority for this update was to add the option to rebind the controls as we’re aware that some people have been unable to play comfortably without this feature. This system brings with it many variables and while we believe we’ve covered all the critical areas to improve your experience, there is still some functionality we need to work on. While some keys & specific controls cannot be bound, you will also find that on-screen glyphs are not updating if you’ve customised your inputs.

Please bear with us while we continue to polish this feature, but for now we hope it will improve the experience of those most-seriously affected. If you encounter any issues, you should always be able to open the tablet and reset your bindings in the controls tab.

Our next step in improving accessibility is to add an FOV slider. It’s a much-requested feature and while it is high priority, we need to refactor the VFX and camera system before we can implement it. It’s a big change which is also needed for multiplayer, so work is underway! We will have it ready for a future update, but at this time we can’t say exactly when.

Many of you have reported certain problems with UI screens becoming stuck or overlapping. We’ve appreciated your reports and found that most of these issues stem from tabbing out of the game. Prior to this update, the game would have stopped running when not focused (unless you had enabled the “Run in Background” option) and this was causing certain screens to get stuck or overlap. We needed to remove this option for the upcoming multiplayer, so have taken this step now as it should also prevent most of these bugs from occurring.

We’ve added a couple of new sections to the shop in Career Mode, where you can now spend your hard-earned currency on cosmetic updates to gloves and the heavy duty washer. Once purchased, you can access these via the inventory in game. We’ll be adding more styles in the future and new ways to show them off, so stay tuned for more on that in the months ahead.

Finally, we’re continuing to work on improving friction and collision when clambering across rooftops and scaling ladders. We’ve addressed a few key areas in this update but will be continuing to review it throughout Early Access.

Known Issues

• As we were finalising this update, we discovered that the power of washers is lower when using Legacy wash mode rather than Standard. This will prevent players who use this mode from attaining medals in the new Challenges we've added with update 0.5. If you can, please use the Standard wash mode while we work to address this. This decrease of power will be less noticeable in Career Mode and Free Play but where margins are razor thin for medals it is extremely difficult to achieve the medals as intended.
  
• For keys 'control', 'shift', and 'alt' they need to be held down for 3 seconds rather than pressed. All other keys should bind normally on a single key press.
  
• There's no glyph displaying on a prompt to pick up an object (scaffold/ladder/stool) or to push the button to turn on/off the Carousel when using a controller. The default button is down on the d-pad.
  

If you hit any other issues with this update please report them with F8 in-game which goes straight to the developers!

We hope that you enjoy the new content and please keep your feedback coming!

(Note this also counts as this weeks dev log, see you next week for the next installment!)

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