The Local

Tobey Gronow Developer

JINC Publisher

1970-01-01 Release

Action Indie Strategy Casual RPG Adventure Simulation F2P Sports MMO Racing Singleplayer Multiplayer Coop EATags

Game News Posts: 24

🎹🖱️Keyboard + Mouse
🕹️ Partial Controller Support
🎮 Full Controller Support

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THE TIMED WEEKLY UPDATE

Timed Weekly

This update adds Weekly Timed courses. Each week, there is 1 Points course, and 1 Aim course, both of which are procedurally generated. Both courses will only be playable for 1 week, starting every Saturday 0:00 UTC. Unlike their handmade counterparts, the Points courses are non-linear, so you can reach each point in any order.

Weekly Top 5

Alongside the 2 weekly leaderboards, there is a Weekly Top 5 board that's always visible next to the two courses. This board is based on each player's combined time in each course, so to get to the top, you'll need to play both courses, and rank quite highly in each.

Ranks

Given the online nature of Weekly courses, Medals and Trophies are awarded based on your leaderboard rank and will likely change over the course of the week. The rank brackets are as follows:

Legend - Top 5
Global - Top 10
Local - Top 20
Gold - Top 40
Iron - Top 70
Copper - Top 99

These brackets may be adjusted if needed.

Weekly Logbook

You can view the stats and medals of previous weeks in the Weekly Logbook. This can be accessed by pressing the history button where the favourite button would normally be.

When a new Log is ready to be viewed, a green dot will appear on the button

Notes

You need to be connected to the internet and Steam to play the weekly courses. But you will not be interrupted if you lose connection whilst already playing
At this time, Weekly Courses will not be available to play in multiplayer. This may come at a later date if there is demand for it, but it is not currently a priority
Weekly courses cannot be started from the titlescreen and cannot be favourited (but if Timed is favourite, it will be remembered if you last viewed the Weekly tab)

(all of these notes essentially come down to safe guarding against breaking the seed used to generate each course)

Movement

Air Strafing and Bunny Hopping can now be done backwards

Orders

Projectile warnings will now turn blue when the missile locks its direction. For context, missiles lock their direction and stop tracking you once they are close enough. This is the best time to dodge

INFERNO

Increased the volume of the "clock get" and "checkpoint reached" sounds

Online

Chat message boxes are now larger and will now wrap to prevent text from becoming too small

Quality of Life

Timed

Timed splits now record your speed, so you can view your speed differences at each checkpoint and on the Splits tab. Old Timed data will still work, but the speed data will obviously be absent

Leaderboards

Leaderboard entries are now cached during the session
+ If you have cached entries, you will immediately see those cached entries when you next view the board
+ The leaderboard will update in the background
+ Caching is not supported for the snapshots (although viewing snapshots will not clear the cache)
+ You may notice some lag spikes if you increased the max leaderboard entries
If you launch the game whilst offline, and then reconnect and try to view a leaderboard, an attempt will now be made to find the leaderboard and make it viewable. Previously, you would need to start the game with an internet connection

Other

Fixed a bug where the time of the previous run would still show before starting a new run
Fixed a bug where leaderboard ranks would not always start at 1. This was particularly problematic on Friend leaderboards
Small UI changes
Small world fixes

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2560140/The_Local__Supporter_Package/

[ 2025-03-29 00:30:32 CET ] [ Original post ]

Rapid climate events and mismanaged scientific endeavours have left Australia largely flooded and abandoned. Those who remain are not willing to stray too far from home to take care of their basic needs. So, who will help satiate their growing appetites? You. Put on your running shoes and get ready to sprint, jump, grind and survive in this fast paced, parkour food delivery simulator!

There are many options to help you navigate across Australia...

You've got rail grinding, the primary option. Rail grinding will allow you to quickly gain speed to complete your orders or get out of a dangerous situation as fast as possible.
Sliding helps when going down hills. You will quickly gain speed as you descend.
Wall running will maintain your speed for its full duration, so try this after finishing a rail grind.
Lastly is ledge climbing, which allows you to reach some trickier spots.

The people are hungry! They will most often use the official, government-controlled order app to order generic "food" and / or "drink". You can view these orders on your phone and by looking out for tall blue, sky beams marking the customer’s home.

Beyond the typical orders of "food" and / or "drink", some residents may want something more specific. Seek out these special orders for a large payout. Some people may want fruits from trees, while others will want raw materials, some of which can be very dangerous to collect, so be careful!

In an attempt to cull all dangerous life, heavy machinery was set up to exterminate anything that gets too close. Now these machines are out for you, and as the day goes on, more and more of them will activate. Missiles will track you down, Quake Makers will shake the Earth and launch you into the air, and lasers will give you deadly burns. You should avoid these obstacles at all costs. But if you do pass out, don't worry. You'll be ready to clock on again tomorrow.

Scattered across Australia are many "Vaults" containing useful perks for you to use for that day. Some will influence the economy, others will open more potential movement routes, but they will all help you get a larger paycheck at the end of the day.

MINIMAL SETUPMemory: 8 GB RAMStorage: 2 GB available space
Storage: 2 GB available space
RECOMMENDED SETUPProcessor: Intel Core i5-10600KF or equivalentMemory: 16 GB RAM
Memory: 16 GB RAM
Graphics: AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT or equivalent
Storage: 2 GB available space

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