ADDED
* Characters will now idle when not told what to do.
* Outline when hovering the cursor above interactable objects.
* If a Pro Gamer has a prefered weapon it should now align with their prefered Unit.
* Characters will now idle when not told what to do. In better words: Characters will now lead their own lives. Stream, Practice, Walk around and such.
* You can now toggle if a unit should be manually or auto-controlled. You can toggle between the two modes with the new button above the unit portraits. You can also take manual control of a unit by just giving it an order.

FIXED
* ghost player can appear
* Tooltip disappears when cancelling an action
* Hightlight on interactable objects sometimes failing
* Line showing unit's path sometimes starting from unit position when it shouldn't
* Selling a gamer the same season it was bought is no longer possible
* Audio Volumes are no longer mute when under 50.
* Projectile render delay. Weapons with high rate of fire should now render all projectiles.
* Money earned from Inheritance and Birthdays has been re-adjusted for better scaling.
* Don't update cursor texuture. This is to avoid missing cursor error
* Game shouldn't freeze when starting an arena match
* Error which can occur when generating names

TWEAKS/MISC
* Double all bed energy increase
* doubled the time it takes to pee on the floor
* Gamers panel gives you a better overview of the gamers' conditions
* LeagueEarnings has been adjusted to match a shorter season.
* Rent is now paid 5 times per season instead of 1.
* Adjusted sleeping so that it will make hygiene, hunger and thirst decline in half rate again
* Game always pause when opening a hud
* You can't move the camera while having the house main menu up

Thanks for all the feedback. If you encounter any more bugs or have nay other feedback, pleas get in touch.

/Dev team

ADDED
* If a unit is standing still or roaming and decides to shoot someone, it won't chase the enemy but hold the ground
* Missing text in translations.
* Experience bars now update in real time.
* More one-time notifications, to inform players.
* If a Pro Gamer has a prefered weapon it should now align with their prefered Unit.
* Outline when hovering the cursor above interactable objects.
* Characters will now lead their own lives. Stream, Practice


FIXED
*A bug causing updated experience to crash in Transfer and Management.
* Contract Lengths now display correctly.
* A rotated object will go back to its previous rotation if moved to a place it cannot be placed
* Units can walk through narrow spaces
* Computer should reset action queue even when Shift is pressed.
* Fridges always ends up last in the character action.
* Portraits in the arena should not be twice as many after a round.
* You will no longer see other charaters auto actions unless that character is selected.
* Sponsors no longer expects you to demote.
* Units will no longer spawn in walls on the map "The Core".


TWEAKS/MISC
* Decline rate of bladder, thirst and hunger has been reduced by half.
* Coffee now grants 60 in thirst instead of 35. Water now grant 80 in thirst instead of 50.
* The action queue now displays a sprite of the object it is using
* Grenade cool down has been increased from 5 seconds to 20 seconds.
Grenade detonation timer has been reduced from 3 seconds to 2.5 seconds.
* Now you can press on the X button of a characters action to cancel it.
* Pro Gamers no longer start with 5 attribute points to spend.
* The first league match is on day 3
* A Season is 25 days long
* A day goes past a lot faster
* NightOwl experience boost reduced from 200% to 150%.
* Characters never stops practicing or streaming unless ordered to do something else
* One hour is now 20 minutes (it was 4 before)
* Streaming, conditions, experience and income adapted for new timescale.
* Fixed a few spelling errors.
* BAMG bullet damage has been reduced from 35 to 32.
* Can now move the camera when the mouse is above any UI.


REMOVED
* Flee action
* Mood Boost notifications.
* Low Condition notifications.

Old save files should be compatible with this update

If you encounter any glitches or have feedback, you know where to find us! ;)

/

Hey,

Thanks again to everyone who has supported the game! We are gathering a lot of valuable feedback from the you right now and below is a compiled list of stuff to be addressed and our current solution to it.

We wanted to give you an opportunity to care more about your Pro Gamers. That said, we acknowledge that taking care of full grown Pro Gamers as if they were babies, is not the way to do this or what we really intended. Sure, they can't game all day, but having to tell them what do all the time is not great or that much fun.

We are currently working on the following things to make this better.

• Speeding up the time in the house, A LOT. The transferwindow, i.e. the days before the league starts will be set to 3 instead of the current 7.
  
• We'll speed up the time in the house, (perhaps times 8? we're trying it out) since there isn't that much to do at the moment.
  
• Pro Gamers will automatically take better care of themself and when idle they will either choose to practice or to Stream instead of just standing around.
  
• Conditions, like bladder and hunger, will not drop as rapidly any more. This to give the Pro Gamers more time to GAME.

Yepp, you are right. This should be a simulation, where your tactical moves have an impact as well as your Pro Gamers skills, more than you button mashing the mouse.

The current solution looks as as follow:

• If you don't give them any orders they will automatically roam around and try to their best in accordance to their abilities, and seek to win the game.
  
• If you tell them to go to a corner, they will stop there and no longer chase the enemy, unless you tell them to do that.
  
• Flee-action has been disabled. So no more running around like maniacs.

Hopefully this will add to the experience for both casual players and those who wants to go more tactical.

Thanks to your feedback we will have eliminated a lot of bugs in the upcoming patch making the game much more fluent to play. That said, you'll probably keep finding more, please keep sending them in when you do, and we'll fix them as soon as we can.

Hopefully we can ship most of this today. We will keep you posted on how things are going. The quickest updates will continue to come on Twitter.

Again, thanks for supporting us.

/Eyoel

Thanks to all who have played PGM 2 tonight! There are issues and mechanics that we have to adress and we will give you a patch tomorrow.

It's been a long and hard day, but we are determined to straighten out as many flaws as possible to make the game as enjoyable as possible!

Have a good evening!

/Eyoel

Finally! We made it!

It’s been a bumpy road, but Pro Gamer Manager 2 is finally relased as Early Access! It’s your time to go pro!


Best Regards,

Millenway

Hi everyone!

It’s all coming down to one single event. One of those rare occasions where everything you’ve done in your life for the past few years will be reviewed and judged. One single event that may change your future. A rendezvous with destiny.

We in the dev team have put our blood, sweat and sometimes tears, into this game for a long time now. It’s been a rollercoaster ride, full of the highs of success and lows of failed ideas.

At the end of last year we took over PGM and we tried to make it work. But we had too small of a team and way too little time to be able to sort through the rocky foundations it rested upon. We took a shot, and failed - miserably. That is the hard truth. We all make mistakes, and believe me, we’ve made plenty during this journey, but we’ve also learned - a lot.

And here we are. With a product I’ve personally invested a lot into, in terms of cold hard cash, but also in countless hours. But NOTHING would be of any value at all for me if it wasn’t for the fantastic team I’ve managed to create. A team that on a daily basis works their as*** off for this project, and for one another. For these people I have nothing but respect. I can’t code to save my life myself, I can barely do math, but I love games with every cell in my body, and everything that comes with it. And because of this, I chose to invest everything I own in all of this.

And I couldn’t be more proud of our accomplishments. These past 5-6 months, with this team of 14 people has been the best of my life. And I doubt that I will live to experience anything close to this again if this fails.

To make up for past mistakes, and to show our gratitude to all of you who’ve supported the idea from the start, both the original game and this one, we decided on letting our long time supporters get the new game for free. That means that a lot of people should be getting this game automatically in their Steam library tomorrow when we press the button. We hope that this small gesture will make up for past mistakes so we can put them behind us, as well as earn back your trust in the project which might have been tarnished.

- I have never, ever, trusted people a group of people more than I trust this team.
- I have never, ever, loved a group of people more than I love this team.

If this fails, no one can question the capability of this team. Ever. Question me, not them. It’s my decisions along the way which have led to this point. And if this goes well, all credit should go to these people who have put in their all everyday to make this game great.

We know the game won’t be perfect tomorrow when we release it. We know that we have a long way to go before we reach the heights we’re aiming for. Both in terms of production and in building trust with the community. We are determined to see this through and make PGM 2 the best management game there is. And we hope you’ll all tag along for the ride.

/Eyoel Lundberg

It’s time go pro!



On the 5th of October, 2017 the Pro Gamer League will start to look for new talents!
Lucky coincidence, this is also the release day of PGM2!

PGM 2 will be released as an Early Access title in Alpha state on Steam, the 5th of October, 16:00 CEST 2017. It will cost $19.99 USD (or equivalent to your country) with 10% launch discount during the first week.

/ Millenway

Hi guys!

This is an exciting day for us. Finally the day has arrived for us to share what we’ve been working so hard on with the world!

Introducing the pre-alpha on Steam trial. We’ve tested extensively ourselves, with a smaller group of testers and now we’re ready for testing with a great volume of players. Therefore we’ve decided to release the game as download here. This to be able to gather feedback from our longtime supporters and fans. Originally we’d planned to do a closed alpha on Steam, but due to technical issues, it couldn’t be done over the weekend. We did not want to break our word on giving you access to the game, so this is the way we found around it.

This means, that anyone who follows the link will be able to test this version of the game. It does not in anyway change our promise to the people who bought the game before our announcement on August 26th. If you did, you will still get the game for free upon release directly in your Steam library. This download is a once off and will not be updated with bug fixes or anything else.

We would very much appreciate if you don’t make any let’s play videos of the game in it’s current form or share any game play footage on social media or elsewhere on the internet at this point. We’d also appreciate it if you refrain from uploading the game anywhere else on the internet as well.

As we’ve mentioned, we’re doing his to enable you giving us feedback and helping us make the game even better before we release it on Steam.

Ingame (in settings menu) you should find a contact form that goes directly into our feedback system. Please use this with any and all feedback you have. Of course we will try to be as available as possible on our usual social media channels as well. But if you want to make sure we don’t miss your feedback, please use the form. If you want quick responses on anything, Twitter will at this point be your best bet for this.

In addition to what’s described above, and what we’ve previously said about our upcoming alpha release in general, this means:
bugs are likely to happen, please let us know about them all
story progression might be illogical, for reasons that will become obvious when testing, we’ve not been able to play through every scenario that might happen through the seasons in the game, please note inconsistencies and logical gaps for us
spelling and grammar might be lacking, even though we’ve worked hard on keeping on top of this, mistakes may have slipped through, we’re human after all, please let us know about any you find.

We’re humbled and grateful that so many of you have been in touch about making translations for the game. It means the world to us. We’ll continue to update the files with the latest text files to enable continues translations.

Language packs will not work with this solution since that’s based on the Steam workshop. When the game is released on Steam you should easily be able to upload your language packs from inside the game.

If you have any more questions about this, or any technical issues regarding uploading, please contact us through Twitter or support@progamermanager.com and we’ll get back to you as soon as possible.

Looking forward to hearing what you guys think!

/Dev team

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