BadLads has received a major update introducing Base Building, Crafting, Collecting, Contracts, Plugins, Visual Revamp. Showing off VR and procedural progress. identity cards, procedural players, procedural levels and new a ton of new items.

Read the full development blog here: https://devblog.chemicalheads.com/posts/the-large-update

Crouching is now a thing! You can crouch by holding down CTRL (by default).
Crouching is seamless -- works with every item.
A new buildable called the "Item Gate" has been added. It emits an audible sound and lights up when a player walks through the gate.
This buildable is fully lockpickable and can store whatever you put in it's singular slot.
How do you specify which item the Item Gate should check for? Simple, just open up the gate and insert the item you'd like to check for. If no item is inserted, no checks will be made.
The games first gambling buildable, called "Lucky Spin".
How does it work? Simple enough, look at the color you want to bet on and press E!
The spin starts in a few seconds after the first bet is made. You can audibly hear when a spin is about start, and you'll know if anyone has won or lost in the end.
So how do I win it big with the Lucky Spin? Simple, you don't play! The person who earns the most is the owner of the establishment. You see Lucky Spin always takes a cut and stores it. Careful, lockpicks work on this buildable.
Introducing Sandbag Covers, a new droppable item. Ever in a pinch and need some quick cover to regain your breath? Just drop down this bag of sand.
Provides quick and easy cover. Disappears in a couple minutes after placement and is single use. Hold E on it to destroy it.
- Inspired from suggestion made by Metta in the #ideas channel on @PlayBadLads Discord.

Vehicle Lights have been brightened.
- New command /bansteamid steamid (Bans player by SteamId, even if they've never played before.)
- New random death spawns around the city.
- New Guard Sandbag locker in The Tower



- Presidential Guards can now build inside The Tower and the Police Station.
- Guards/Police/Paramedics no longer keep items on death.
- Elevators are now snappier and don't wait too long on floors.
- Vehicle exit logic changed to be snappier and prevent desyncs.
- Replaced park between Apartments with a shop.
- Network bandwidth limits increased.
- Removed old Bank Machine models.
- Voice Chat distance reduced.
- Expanded profanity filter.
- Reduced Lockpicking volume
- Tax is no longer collected if there is no President.
- Increased droppable item network draw distance. Most visible in random environmental drops.
- Optimized network bandwidth by implementing a delta serialization on certain network variables.
- The map loading image is now loaded asynchronously.
- Added roll (F and H keys by default) to camera mode.


- Fixed camera mode spots not saving rotation properly.
- Fixed Stool buildable not appearing in Build Tool.
- Fixed Fireplace buildable using wrong collision size, causing it clip.
- Fixed Apartment corner invisible collision block.
- Fixed road 3 way split mesh alignment.
- Fixed Police statues not having any collision.
- Fixed Guard texture messing up on certain procedural player seeds.
- Fixed edge case that caused Vehicle to become unflippable.
- Fixed Vehicle key order changing vehicle access state.
- Fixed Elevators randomly getting permanently stuck - About time.

Devblog: https://devblog.chemicalheads.com/posts/the-whaling-gambler-update
Discord: https://discord.gg/hqZVQmm

The President can now set a passive income tax. This tax goes to the President every time he gets paid through passive income. This feature is a stepping stone to the Heist update. Enjoy it while you can Mr. President! Additionally The President can now change the laws to anything he wants.

- New Skill for the President, called "Manage Government". Allows access to the Tax and Law menu.
- Implemented a profanity filter for the Presidential Laws feature.

The Presidential Guard is just that! A Presidential Guard. He has access to elite items like the Guard Rifle and the Guard Vehicle. These guys are made to be fought!

A new assault rifle like weapon. Delivers 12 deadly shots. Available in The Tower for Presidential Guards and from the Arms Dealer marketplace.

A new heavy duty Guard vehicle. The biggest vehicle in the game by far. Back can be opened and lots of Guards can be squeezed inside. Great for Raids.
- A droppable radio that plays your favorite hits. Press E to switch to the next song. Hold E to pickup.
- Music composed by our local Janis Grikis!

- Paint now randomly spawns around the map, comes in various colors and shades. Ranging from Gold to even Matte Pink! These items are extremely rare. Walk up to your own car with the Paint item equipped and paint away!

- Players in vehicles can now look at things, or bob their heads to the sweet radio tunes.

- The game has a benchmark that can be accessed from Options _> Gameplay _> Run Benchmark. Displays results at the end and outputs a .json file to the games config directory.

- With proper reflections and detailing.

- A new industrial area, unfortunately at the time of writing the area is not ready to be explored. You can however drive to the entrance.

- Player clothes now have their own stylish shader that tries to artisticly mimic velvet in a cartoon-y fashion.

- Server admins can rejoice in the addition of a game log. Prints out notable game events to the log.
- New moderator command: /tphere <player\*id>

- Added UI to state vehicle functions like sirens and backdoors.
- Added more Gangster clothing variations.
- Plants/Trees are now visually blown by the wind.
- The server name is now displayed in the pause menu.

This is update requires a save wipe, every official server has been wiped.

- Moderators can access camera mode (F8)
- Moderators can now use the teleport commands.
- Roads models and materials changed to use a new shiny asphalt shader.
- Unfortunately the Garage door no longer flings your vehicle into space.

- Adjusted internal networking logic to prevent strange behaviour.
- Fixed being able to shoot through certain windows.
- Adjusted Vehicle wheel sizes.
- Apartments doors are now properly sized to accommodate player width.
- Fixed vehicles being blocked by seemingly invisible objects on spawn.
- All weapons nerfed.
- Reduced planted Car Bomb beep sound volume.
- Increased vehicle explosion strength.
- Replaced Simple Road building materials.
- Reworked elevator insides meshes.
- New Vegas loading screen.

- Optimized item network bandwidth usage.
- Replaced flatscreen TV with a chunky TV.
- Dozens of other tweaks and fixes that can be discovered by playing the game.

* Adjusted interior lighting colors.

- Fixed vehicles being flung into the air when driving up the Desert Road.

- Fixed random crash when leaving/exiting the game.

- Fixed Driver mouth position.

- Patched up several locations that could be used to escape the map.
- Fixed randomly teleporting far away when exiting vehicle.

- Fixed icons not showing up in dynamic radial menus (Item Showcase, Safe)
- Fixed High End Apartment door showing wrong floor.


For the latest BadLads devblogs check: out https://devblog.chemicalheads.com/

Buy Warrant Paper at the Police Station, walk up to some estate and write a warrant. Now deliver the warrant to either the Police Chief or the President.Drop the Warrant Paper near either one and let them sign -- it's not cheap! Grants 3 minute access to property, building excluded. Warrant Paper makes audible sound when created and equipped.

• Players will always spawn a significant distance away from their death locations.

• New Job specific become sounds for the President, Arms Dealer, Vehicle Salesman, and Gangsters.
• Admins and moderators will always see the player name plates and their corresponding player id.
• The Dedicated Server now logs player chat and impactful command usage.
• New money printer sounds.
• New Bank Machine sounds.

• /tp <player-id> - Teleport to player.
• /addmod <player-id> - Add player to moderators by PlayerID.
• /delmod <player-id> - Remove player from moderators by PlayerID.
• /steamaddmod <steam-id64> - Add player to moderators by SteamId64.
• /steamdelmod <steam-id64> - Remove player from moderators by SteamId64.

• Moderators can see anyones ID in-game and have access to the following commands:
• /ban <player-id> - Bans player.
• /kick <player-id> - Kicks player.
• /unban <steam-id64> - Unban player by SteamId64.

How do you take beautiful screenshots in BadLads? Simple, be an admin and press F8 (MenuDebug)!

• Inventory (TAB) key toggles HUD visibility.
• SlotBackward/SlotForward (SCROLL WHEEL) will zoom the camera.
• Primary Fire (MOUSE1) teleports you some distance.
• Keys 1-9 save a camera spot to the pressed key. Pressing a saved key will teleport you to the spot -- double tapping said key will remove the spot.
• Controller supported.

• First time players will receive an invulnerability period of 1m30s on initial spawn. Note: Player invulnerability is planned to receive a visual indicator later.
• Property selling price now scales based on how long you've owned said property. Meaning you can't sell and rebuy property to avoid paying rent.
• The Driver job now ejects all passengers when he enters the vehicle.
• Invulnerable players cannot deal damage.
• Changed the way hat color is generated.
• Reduced server log spam.

• Fixed timed actions indicator ending 3-5 seconds early.
• Fixed containers not stopping movement simulation.

BadLads - Update #5 - The Tweakening Update

• New water and underwater effects.
• New Bloom graphics switch.
• New cosmetic masks, 3 to be exact.
• New vehicle glass shader.
• New vehicle wheel configurations, raised vehicle suspensions.

• Vehicle Salesman and Arms Dealer don't need to unlocked anymore, however now they have mandatory become price.
• Lockpicks get removed after a single successful lockpick, making them single use.
• Lockpicked doors stay unlocked for a minimum of 15 seconds after a successful pick.
• Facing players make their voices louder, and vice versa.
• Adjusted player collision capsule size.
• Adjusted elevator logic.
• Adjusted vehicle steering.

• Fixed printers falling through buildables.
• Fixed Lease Spam caused by keys in a players bank.
• Fixed last ammo-based weapon shot not-registering.
• Fixed money printers scaling incorrectly with the economy.
• Adjusted vehicle exit logic to counter getting stuck bug.
• Fixed replication distance being too short, causing noticeable player and vehicle pop-in.
• Fixed money printers desyncing between client and server, making them seemingly invulnerable.
• Fixed building. The cause was a internal networking issue with how the game handles scaling relevant information to nearby players.

A new item called "Warrant Paper" didn't make it into this weeks update, fortunately the item is almost feature complete -- most likely will be added in the coming days.

• Special drop days. Friday, Saturday, Sunday increase the drop chances of rare cosmetic items.
• New Job: "Driver" - Full control over vehicle, charge passengers for distance driven, price can be adjusted per-vehicle.
• New Vehicle: Taxi. Very low cost and available in the Driver marketplace.
• New mechanic: Random environmental item drops, only way of getting new cosmetics -- occasionally drops money.
• New Cosmetic Items: A set of new and rare cosmetic items that are randomly dropped around the world.
• New: Volumetric Fog: New graphics effect that introduces pretty volumetric fog during the night. (Disabled by default in Video Settings->Advanced)
• New: Flashlight Vending Machines, vending machines that exclusively sell flashlights.
• New: Bank Machines - ATMs that are scattered around the world. Withdraw and deposit items permanently.
• New Gameplay options: toggle player name plate visibility.

• Changed the way random character appearance is calculated -- introduces more diverse skin/hair/outfit colors.
• Ammo based weapons will return loaded ammo on un-equip. This makes hiding weapons difficult.
• Made elevator light significance managed, meaning it casts shadows.
• Garage doors now only open one way -- suggestion by Nestarion!
• Changed Neutral faction job order.
• Lowered all vehicle health values.
• Main menu background changes.
• Bumped version to 0.7.5.0

• Fixed asynchronous loading failing to return callbacks, causing hair and skin to be wrong or invisible.
• Fixed sun directional light precision refusing to update if server has been up for longer than 3 days. No more permanent nights.
• Fixed edge case that allowed shooting through indoor walls.
• Fixed getting stuck after exiting vehicles.
• Fixed gap near Police Station entrance.
• Fixed Shop stair clipping.
• Fixed Pickup truck seats.

Keep up with the games progress here: https://trello.com/b/wTwq5rb7/badlads-official-roadmap
Games website: https://badlads.chemicalheads.com/presskit
Twitter: https://twitter.com/playbadlads