The solo sim Schedule 1 from developer TVGS has a new update, adding a rival cartel, a pump shotgun, new vehicles, items, and hairstyles. It follows a player vote and alters how you manage your drug business around Hyland Point, including fresh interactions and a storyline-linked manor purchase.
Earlier this year TVGS put a voting feature in the game that let players pick between a Police Expansion, a Rival Cartel, or a “Shrooms” update. Players have chosen the cartel option, and this choice is now live in update 0.4.0. Why would anyone vote for more police? Well, they didn’t this time.
The update introduces the Benzies family – described by the developer as “a powerful rival cartel in Hyland Point” – and new interactions with them. You can strike deals, be ambushed, have dealers robbed, or see drops stolen. The patch suggests you can either ally with the cartel or make an enemy of them while you expand your operations.
The patch also adds new vehicles, items, a few hairstyles, and a pump shotgun that will likely affect those cartel encounters. After completing the Benzies family’s storyline you can buy a manor in the Hyland area, which gives a tangible reward for working through that plot thread.
You can read the official patch notes below:
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:
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- Cartel-player deals (only while truced)
- Ambushes
- Dealer robbings
- Dead drop theft
- Cartel-customer deals
- Cartel-player deals (only while truced)
- 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.
TVGS again apologised for the update delay, noting the work has been done solo amid moving house and exams, so the pace has been uneven. The developer’s transparency about timing is welcome, and the player vote mechanic is an interesting way to steer future content.
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