Hello everyone! It's been almost 2 days since we've released the Alpha Demo, and we've been receiving bug reports, feedback, and suggestions pouring in from both the Steam discussion board and Discord. We'd like to personally thank you all of your for your support and valuable comments! We have carefully considered all inputs received. Your feedback is incredibly invaluable to us, and we encourage you to continue sharing your thoughts, not matter how big or small, as the alpha demo will remain available available up to the 15th of January! With this, we'd like to release a small update based on your feedback that aims at addressing and enhancing minor issues that are relatively straightforward and quick to fix. Changelog 0.5.5712:

• Quests are now completed during game pause.
• Locomotive engine and ambient sounds have been tuned.
• Tech details button is now functions in a train dialog.
• Goal hints are now properly managed, incase the objective is completed earlier than requested.
• Cargo weight is now properly shown in a cargo bar.
• Letters and goals hints are hidden when a locomotive technical details scene is active.
• Edited the Buy Locomotive button look on Train stations.
• Added a hint to a train condition bar showing current mileage and age.
• Station facilities tooltips fixed.
• Train station scale is reduced in cities.
• 16:10 resolution monitors the game will now be switched to 16:9.
• Trains pathfinding improvements.
• Local trading UI improvements.
• Other minor UI fixes & improvements.

If you haven't seen any specific changes mentioned for an issue you brought to our attention, it's likely that further investigation is needed, or that we're currently working on it, and will provide a solution soon. Thank you all for your passion and contributions to improving the Alpha Demo! We deeply appreciate your support and look forward to continuing this journey with you!