Good day to all of you Dealers!
We have released a lovely update for Dealer’s Life, bringing to you the new and shiny 0.85 version, or as we use to call it, PMLoL (“Play More, Lose Less”). In this update we focused on providing an overall more enjoyable experience to everyone by making some more changes on recurring characters, bank donations and the Brainwasher employee!
Let’s proceed in an orderly fashion and let’s talk about recurring characters first. When we first released recurring characters, we heard some voices from you complaining about the chance of losing the game and since then we did our best to adjust this mechanic in order to make the experience less frustrating. BLAH update (the last one, 0.82) was indeed a good first step towards the right direction but within BLAH it was still possible to lose the game in a couple of situations. We really would like everyone to love this game and we understand how bad could be to lose a long played game without alternatives (remember though that some are hidden!) due to a single bad decision or a button pushed by mistake, so we went further and completely removed any chance to lose the game from recurrent characters dialogues! Beware though: this does not mean that you can avoid bothering with mafia or police: they still can put you in real trouble and they still have huge consequences! Let’s say that if you take bad decisions with recurrent characters you won’t lose instantly but you’ll still be able to lose if you go negative with your cash!
So you’ll now face losing resources instead of brutally losing the game. That’s good but the final result is that you will actually have more chances to lose resources than before. That’s why we didn’t stop there and modified the bank donation mechanic too! Since the game got longer and more difficult, from now on the bank will save you from bankrupt not only once but three times! With this we want to make the game more forgiving and grant you the “three lives” chance that many old school games provide! You have to watch out, though, since every bank donation will be fixed and could end up not covering the entire debt you have! Should you still have negative cash after a bank donation, next day you’ll receive a new one (if you still have one). This will of course not grant to extinguish your huge debt, neither, but it will surely give you more time to recover!
Let’s now talk about the Brainwasher employee. Do you remember we buffed the Expert in our last update? Well, now it’s time for the Brainwasher to be buffed! With PMLoL we decided to make this employee much more useful than before by granting you the possibility to use his power in more “bad” situations! Since yesterday you could use him only if a customer doesn’t agree with your offer and goes away, but now you can use him also in the following situations:
- if a customer forces you with a final and definitive offer
- if a customer recognizes the fake you were about to sell to him (!!)
In both these cases the dialogue with the customer will start again, granting you a new chance to make a big deal (or to fool him)!
Maybe some of you have already discovered other useful situations where to use the Brainwasher… well, keep always in mind that Brainwasher power uses are limited per day and we didn’t changed them with this update, so even if you can use him in more situations, now more than ever you’ll have to carefully decide if and when to use him!
And that’s all with this update!
We really hope you like these changes, do not forget to let us know what you think here in the comments or in our Public Roadmap where you can also see that… “Geek items” pack and mythic rarity are coming!
Stay tuned and keep up the good deals!