Hi Chefs!

Chef RPG Version 0.57 is now live! This patch features some frequently requested updates to the gameplay. Also, Chef RPG will be featured in Steam’s Winter sale starting today, with a 15% discount!


Your player can now freely deliver cooked dishes to customers, and clean dirty tables. You can also freely pickup and place dishes on Counters. We hope this change will shake up the restaurant gameplay and create a greater variety of playstyles.


Delivering Dishes

Cleaning Tables

The following changes are made to address this new gameplay feature :

- Hasel’s First Meal will no longer require staff members.
- You can no longer hire staff members until you start the Soft Opening quest.
- The maximum amount of customers at once has been limited to 5 until the Soft Opening is complete.
- New tutorials added for Cleaning Dishes and Counters.
- Regular services no longer require waiters or counters (unless there are active Chefs in your restaurant).
- New animation added for cleaning tables, as well as a coin animation when a customer has finished eating.
- Quest dialogue changes to reflect this update.


Previously, after closing the restaurant, new orders from existing customers can keep coming in for several in-game hours (in larger restaurants). Players would sometimes have to “Force Close” to avoid passing out. A new “Last Call” button has been added, and will appear after you close the restaurant. It will stop new orders and you will be able to close the restaurant much sooner.

“Last Call” cannot be used during quest services. Currently, there are no negative effects for using this ability.


You can now upgrade the refrigerator separately from the restaurant. Now, you can keep a smaller restaurant without being held back by the smaller refrigerator size. After Bianca fixes your fridge for the first time, you will be able to upgrade your fridge from your restaurant computer using Credits and Power Cells. With this new upgrade system, the maximum fridge size has been increased from 60 to 76.

Player home storage remains the same for now. We have plans for a larger change in a future update.


You can now skip the intro scenes if you have completed Hasel’s first quest. For existing accounts, you just have to open the game with any character that has completed the first quest, and this ability will unlock.
During character creation, toggle the highlighted button to skip most of the intro cutscenes.

- Grill ingredients will be highlighted after hovering over them with the tongs.
- New sound effect when hovering over.
- Grill ingredient collider has been increased for easier targeting.

We are planning to overhaul certain minigames with new gameplay. Since this requires new animations and sound effects, we will spend more time on this and make this change in a future update.


- Less likely to encounter higher level fish when using a weaker rod.
- Fishing minigame area is now larger. Rod power and fish power have both been increased to match the larger area.
- Fishing minigame area no longer decreases with higher level fish.


- Added a new text box when accepting a Restaurant Service from a quest. The text box displays the restaurant service requirements, and gives a warning that no regular services can be hosted after accepting.
- With the “Happiness Comes First” skill unlocked, waiters will now prioritize undelivered dishes and dirty tables over chatting with impatient customers.
- Customers less likely to have chat box if more customers are inside the restaurant (previously, chat boxes were filling up the screen quite often when the restaurant is busy).
- Specialty recipes received during character creation are now automatically unlocked, instead of needing to unlock them manually.


- Fixed a rare case where customers can get stuck in the restaurant.
- Fixed an issue where sometimes counters become unavailable to staff members over the course of a service.
- Fixed Force close sometimes causing errors, if you reopen the restaurant right away.
- Fixed incorrect player birthdays.
- Fixed player sometimes eating food during a certain flashback scene.
- Fixed fishing minigame where fish can swim on land in certain locations.
- Fixed number of refrigerator ingredients (UI) not updating correctly.
- Fixed tutorial titles (UI) not showing up when first unlocking a new tutorial.
- Fixed some text errors.

We will take a short break and will begin working on some exciting new content after the new year!

Hi Chefs!

A new patch is up with a few quality-of-life updates and fixes.


Improvements

- Improved font sizes on most UIs and new font style added for better readability on smaller screens.
- Some UIs have been made larger for better readability on smaller screens.
- Clearing a farming plant with a shovel will now yield ingredients if the plant is fully grown.
- (Mouse & Keyboard Users) Can now use and rebind alternate keys for movement and interact.

Alternate keys for movement & interactions.


Bug Fixes

- Fixed an error in research facilities where minigames that required a virtual mouse were not working.
- Fixed an exploit where items could be duplicated with vending machines.
- Fixed an animation error with certain jackets.
- Fixed certain furniture items not being able to be selected in stores or build mode (gamepads).
- Fixed some popups not immediately updating after pressing button (gamepads).
- Fixed some incorrect key input prompts.
- Fixed some text errors.