1. Patch #8 – Visual improvements, gameplay fixes & more.
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  4. Hi everyone,
  5. A new update is now live!
  6. This patch introduces new visual effects, improves controller support, and includes another round of gameplay, tutorial, and quality of life fixes.
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  8. As always, thank you for all the feedback and bug reports. Your reports continue to help us improve the game with every update.
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  10. New Features
  11. Visual Effects
  12. We've added several new visual effects to make cooking feel even more satisfying:
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  14. • New cutting visual effects
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  16. • Better Glass shard effects when bottles and jars break
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  18. • Camera shake when the player gets hit by objects
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  20. • Camera shake when gas tanks or fire extinguishers explode nearby
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  22. • Camera shake now reacts dynamically to the direction of the impact or explosion
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  24. Plating & Cooking
  25. We've continued improving ingredient handling and plating:
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  27. • GN containers now display ingredient coatings
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  29. • Added support for coating ingredient piece mixtures
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  31. • Ingredients with different coatings can no longer be mixed inside the same GN container
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  33. • Added simple warnings in the Blueprint Editor for impossible actions, such as attempting to grill water
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  35. Gameplay Improvements
  36. • Improved quality of life when placing stackable ingredients into flat containers such as cutting boards and baking trays
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  38. • Improved liquid visualization inside containers by reducing excessive wave movement when only small amounts of liquid are present
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  40. • Updated controller turning behavior for smoother movement
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  42. • Expanded controller sensitivity range, allowing finer adjustment for gamepad players
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  44. • Knives can now once again be taken from drawers in the Player Kitchen
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  46. • The timer is now hidden while using the Blueprint Editor in the player's apartment
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  48. Visual Improvements
  49. • Added LOD support for herbs
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  51. • Added LOD support for ingredient spawners
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  53. • Optimized cube ingredient models and LOD distances
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  55. • Improved visual representation of ingredient pieces
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  57. • Improved kitchen texture mipmaps
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  59. • Fixed floor visuals in Kitchen 1
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  61. • Fixed collider for yellow bean portions
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  63. • Improved liquid pouring visualization when filling empty containers
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  65. Tutorial & User Experience
  66. We've continued polishing the tutorial experience:
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  68. • Fixed a progression blocker on the first tutorial day related to pinned recipes
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  70. • Fixed incorrect tutorial hints when interacting with the oven
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  72. • Restored the missing trolley outline in the player's apartment
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  74. • Added missing controller hints for Mass Unloading and Container Transfer
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  76. • Added the missing hint for returning the trolley
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  78. Fixes
  79. This update also includes a wide range of gameplay fixes:
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  81. Gameplay
  82. • Fixed customers not handling props (menus, utensilts) correctly
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  84. • Improved customer fire detection - now the line stops until there's a fire in the kitchen
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  86. • Fixed invalid recipe quantities when coating mixtures
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  88. • Fixed draining interactions that could fail despite correctly targeting the colander
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  90. • Fixed being able to interrupt ladle pouring during plating
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  92. Mass Transfer & Containers
  93. • Fixed Mass Unload and Container Transfer interactions when unloading ingredient stacks onto grills and into deep containers
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  95. • Fixed network synchronization issues during Mass Unloading
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  97. • Fixed invalid mixture icons appearing in the transfer UI
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  99. User Interface
  100. • Fixed tasting screen hover when switching controllers
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  102. • Fixed shop inventory losing focus
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  104. • Removed incorrect white square hover that could occasionally appear
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  106. Visual Fixes
  107. • Fixed solid mixture visualization remaining visible after being AFK
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  109. • Fixed several visual issues affecting piece ingredients
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  111. • Fixed incorrect coating display on the dish rating screen in the player's apartment
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  113. And More
  114. As always, this update also includes numerous smaller fixes, visual polish, optimizations, and quality of life improvements throughout the game.
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  116. Thank you for continuing to report issues, share feedback, and help us improve Cooking Simulator 2.
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  118. More updates are on the way.
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  120. Big Cheese Studio
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