After a couple of weeks of testing on the beta branch, the new Schedule 1 update, Rival Cartels, is now live in the main game. The update introduces competition in the form of Hyland Point’s Benzies family, as well as a new property to purchase, a new vehicle, and more.
Viral hit Schedule 1 sees players build a drug-dealing empire from the ground up, and the new update adds some new obstacles for the player’s rise to power–as well as new possibilities. The Benzies family will only be introduced once the player has unlocked a few customers in Westville, and once you’re on their radar, they’ll interfere with your business through ambushes, theft, robbing your dealers, and stealing your customers. You’ll also be able to truce with the Benzies, unlocking new cartel-player deals.
Once you’ve completed the rival cartel’s full storyline, you’ll be able to purchase the new Hyland Manor property. The update also comes with a few new features, including a graffiti system that can be used to reduce the cartel’s influence and gain XP. Cartel influence is something you’ll have to be aware of as you progress through Schedule 1–different areas on the map will now be locked if cartel influence is too high, and players will have to reduce the influence in order to unlock new regions.
As well as the new property and mechanics, the update also adds a handful of new items and cosmetics, including the Hotbox vehicle, a pump shotgun, and some new hairstyles for you to customize the player character.
Despite its runaway success, Schedule 1 is the work of a single developer operating as Tyler’s Video Game Studio, or TVGS. Tyler has apologized for recent updates taking longer than initially scheduled, and in the most recent Steam update said that he will no longer be specifying release dates for updates. The solo dev has also said that he hopes to get some office space and bring a couple of full-time developers on board for Schedule 1 soon.
Check out the rest of the patch notes for Schedule 1’s latest update below:
Schedule 1 v0.4.0
Additions
- Added the Benzies family – a powerful rival cartel in Hyland Point. You will first encounter them once you have unlocked a number of customers in Westville. Interactions with them include:
- Cartel-player deals (only while truced)
- Ambushes
- Dealer robbings
- Dead drop theft
- Cartel-customer deals
- Added new purchasable property – Hyland Manor. Keep in mind that the Benzies’ family storyline must be completed before this can be purchased.
- Added new vehicle ‘Hotbox’.
- Added graffiti system. You can spray graffiti on various surfaces around the map to reduce cartel influence and gain XP.
- Added spray paint item. Purchaseable at Gas Mart. You can purchase 1x spray can each time you rank up.
- Added graffiti cleaner. This can be used to remove graffiti from a surface.
- Added pump shotgun.
- Added shotgun shell.
- Added ‘close buzzcut’ hairstyle.
- Added ‘Tony’ hairstyle
- Added ‘long slicked back’ hairstyle.
- Added ‘setgravitymultiplier’ command.
- Added ‘setregionunlocked’ command.
- Added ‘forcesleep’ command.
- Added an automatic save game backup feature. This will automatically generate a backup of your save file when you first load it on a new version of the game. This is enabled by default, and can be turned off in Settings -> Other.
- Added some more loading screen hints.
- Added ‘Urban Artist’ achievement.
- Added ‘Finishing the Job’ achievement.
Tweaks/Improvements
- Changed how you unlock new regions. Each region now has a ‘cartel influence’ level associated with it. You must reduce this influence to a certain level before you can progress to the next region.
- Stan now uses a shop interface instead of dialogue for selling weapons.
- In multiplayer, you can view the dialogue of other players talking to NPCs.
- Deals are now cancelled when the assigned dealer is dead/unconscious.
- Unconscious NPCs who drop into the ocean are now killed.
- Dead/unconscious NPCs can now be pickpocketed.
- You can now pickpocket police.
- If you attack a customer, they will not order from you for 72 hours.
- Tweaks the braking properties of all vehicles.
- Non-police NPCs can now use ranged weapons.
- Police and NPCs in combat will now sometimes predict future target position instead of pathing directly to the target.
- Tweaked flashlight brightness.
- Turned off JSON pretty-print for the trash save file, offering a reduction in file size.
- Reduced the resell multiplier of all weapons.
- You can now interrupt an incremental reload (revolver + shotgun) by clicking the LMB.
- Customers now carry the cash that is required to pay for an upcoming deal.
Bug fixes
- Fixed various mislabellings in employee tutorial quests.
- Fixed two light beams being visible when the flashlight is equipped.
- Fixed scuffed NPC ragdoll LODs/culling.
- Fixed some missing walls at Hyland Medical.
- Fixed third-person recoil animation for the M1911 and Revolver.
- Fixed the networth calculator algorithm not factoring in some item quantities.
- Fixed vehicle impacts doing too much damage to NPCs.
- Fixed some missing fonts.
- Fixed textured z-fighting on the northern waterfront.
- Fixed dealer/supplier recommendation dialogue starting even if the customer was served by a dealer.
- Fixed a bug where item stock limits could be ignored by using the custom amount selector.
- Fixed missing colliders at the car wash.
- Fixed Tobias’ name misspelling.
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