Night City Awakens in New ‘From the Streets’ Update,
Available Now for The Boss Gangster: Criminal Empire on
PC via Steam Early Access
Tripwire Presents, the publishing division of Tripwire Interactive, and independent Turkish developer BEF Games today announced the launch of the free ‘From the Streets’ update for their open world action-simulation and management game, The Boss Gangster: Criminal Empire on PC via Steam Early Access. The ‘From the Streets’ update introduces a living criminal ecosystem, moving the game away from its previous nightclub-focused structure towards a fully open sandbox experience. The publisher revealed a new trailer showcasing significant changes and expansions of core gameplay systems alongside a free playable demo and limited time 20% discount running May 8 – 15.
Watch the From the Streets update trailer on YouTube
The new update awakens Night City’s criminal underworld with combat and vehicle changes, advanced policing, new side hustles, and the expansion of large-scale drug production systems.
The ‘From the Streets’ content update includes:
- Progression Changes: Players now choose how they begin their criminal empire with four starting scenarios: From Nothing, Thief, Dealer, and Club Owner.
- Advanced Police and Wanted System: Police actively patrol and detect crimes in real time with responses scaling to the severity of the crime. Arrested players can earn freedom by paying a fine, waiting out the sentence, or doing community service. Killing a police officer triggers increased patrol presence and a shoot on sight wanted state that decays with successful evasion over time.
- Warehouse and Worker Expansions: A fully fleshed out warehouse system allows for management of large-scale drug production. Upgrade warehouses to unlock more rooms and stations, but keep work environments clean to avoid sick employees.
- New Side Hustles: Earn extra cash as a taxi driver and discover jobs in the daily newspaper. Manage club entry as a doorman or run a hot dog cart while secretly dealing to certain customers.
- Combat and Equipment Durability: Players can now carry a pistol, rifle and melee weapon at the same time. Weapons will lose durability with use but can be repaired at crafting tables.
- Vehicle Changes: Steal vehicles and use them in combat and illegal street races. Customize and repair any damages to avoid permanently losing vehicles in fiery explosions.
- UI Changes and Audio Enhancements: The minimap system has been refined and now has the ability to track rival faction members. The update also adds 22 new songs for a total of 34 original tracks along with three new in-game radio stations for deeper audio immersion.
For full details and a look at planned content updates on the road to 1.0, visit the game’s official Steam News feed.
About The Boss Gangster: Criminal Empire
Set in the fictional Night City in the early 2000’s, The Boss Gangster: Criminal Empire is a hybrid action-simulation and management game stacked with open-world criminal activities. Players take on the role of an aspiring gangster with kingpin dreams, where they must build a criminal empire from nothing and rule the city, or fall to a rival and lose everything.
Find out more about BEF GAMES and The Boss Gangster: Criminal Empire on the official website, and follow the game on YouTube and Instagram.
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