Gas Production Site - Release Notes
Gas Production Site v1.4.3
Official Patch Notes — July 2026
Updated: July 9, 2026
A major update over v1.1.13 — a live guided instructor, visible pressure and hand-operable valves, a full Site Safety Lab and new equipment stations, plus big reliability and performance gains. Available on Meta Quest, Pico, and Windows PC.
⚙️ System Updates & Performance
- Fewer Failed Launches: The app now retries connecting on start-up, fixing the common "Connection Unsuccessful" message on Quest.
- Reliable Reconnects: Dropped Wi-Fi and headset sleep recover gracefully, with clear on-screen status while reconnecting.
- Session & Crash Recovery: If the app closes unexpectedly, your in-progress session and training records are saved and sent the next time you log in.
- Background Sign-Out: If your session ends while the app is in the background, you're returned to the login screen instead of getting stuck.
- Organization Sessions: Multiplayer is scoped to your organization for cleaner, more private rooms.
- Reliable Progress Tracking: Training completion and analytics are more accurate, including for interrupted sessions.
- Smoother & Faster: A major performance pass gives a steadier frame rate on standalone headsets, and scenes load noticeably faster.
📖 Training Content & Modules
- Live AI Instructor: A lifelike on-site instructor now leads training — she speaks with natural lip-sync, points at equipment, walks between locations, and demonstrates each step. In multiplayer, everyone sees the same guidance at once.
- Site Safety Lab: New guided safety stations in one place — Wind (read the windsock, find the upwind exit), Emergency Shutdown (ESD), Fences & Egress, and PPE.
- See the Pressure: A new color overlay makes gas pressure and flow visible as it moves through the unit.
- Operable Valves & Live Gauges: Turn valves by hand and watch digital and needle gauges — and pressure-relief valves — respond in real time.
- New Maintenance Procedure: A hands-on Meter Run Differential Plate Replacement, step by step.
- New System Stations: Guided lessons across the Wellhead, Conditioning Skid, Compression Skid, and Pigging systems.
- Site Tour Revisions: Clearer directions, pulsing hazard-area highlights, and multi-point guidance.
🕹️ Player Controls & Sign-In
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Guest & Demo Sign-In
Enter as a Guest or Demo user without a full account — pick that option on the login screen.
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On-Screen Control Hints
Contextual button hints now appear for actions like teleporting and grabbing, in your language.
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- Smoother Lesson Flow: Many lessons advance automatically as you complete steps, with clearer exit instructions.
🌐 Multiplayer & User Interface
- Consistent Multiplayer: When the host leaves, everyone gets the notice together, and guest avatars wear PPE when the host does.
- Training Center & Wrist Menu: Cleaned up for clearer navigation.
- Steadier Popups: Instruction popups stay put in a comfortable spot instead of following your gaze.
✨ Environment & Visuals
- Sharper Text: Menu and sign text is noticeably clearer, especially in English and Spanish and at a distance.
- Clearer Safety Signage: Warning signs rebuilt with clearer icons.
🐛 Bug Fixes
- Cold-Start Connection: Fixed the "Connection Unsuccessful" error that could appear when launching on a Quest before Wi-Fi finished connecting.
- PC Valve Freeze: Fixed a case on PC where cracking a valve and then fully opening it could freeze your progress.
- Lessons Not Starting / Replaying: Fixed lessons that sometimes wouldn't start or failed when replayed.
- Multiplayer Pressure Sync: Fixed the pressure display and valves not showing correctly for guest players in multiplayer.
- Pressure Colors: Fixed pipes showing the wrong pressure color, or showing pressure colors when they shouldn't.
- Gauges: Fixed gauges that didn't show a reading or flickered.
- Instructor Animation: Fixed glitches such as jitter while walking, hair pop-in, and getting stuck pointing.
- In-App Console Crash: Fixed a crash that could occur when opening the in-app developer console.
- Multiplayer Voice-Over: Fixed missing voice-over and content-loading errors that could occur in multiplayer.
- Text Clipping: Fixed lesson descriptions overlapping the Launch button.
- Pig-Trap Pressure: Fixed pressure behavior on the pig trap so it fills and empties correctly.
✅ Do I Need to Do Anything?
For almost everything, no — just update and go.
- No full account? Enter as a Guest or Demo user on the login screen.
- Session ended while the headset was asleep or in the background? Just log in again — your progress is recovered automatically.
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Previous Releases
Gas Production Site v1.1.11
Official Patch Notes — March 2026
Updated: March 9, 2026
⚙️ System Updates & Performance
- Faster Load Times: Improved how training scenarios load, significantly reducing loading times and optimizing memory usage.
- Multiplayer Syncing: Upgraded internal tracking to ensure menus, tools, and objects sync flawlessly between all users.
- Realistic Tool Penalties: New penalty system for unguided tasks; using the wrong tool now triggers a mistake notification.
- LOTO Safeguards: Simulation locks now only snap into correct, secure positions, preventing accidental sequence breaks.
- Cloud Updates: Seamless rollout of new training modules without requiring a full app download.
- Smoother Login Flow: Virtual keyboards now pop up and type flawlessly in VR when entering credentials.
- Expanded Device Support: Enhanced support for switching between PC, Meta Quest, and PICO headsets.
📖 Training Content & Modules
- New Module: Gas Production Site Tour featuring dynamic animations and professional voiceover.
- Conditioning Skid: Integrated into System Assessment and Site Identification training modules.
- Lab Scenario Updates: Refreshed Site Flow, ESD, and Overview scenarios with updated starting locations.
- Refined Core Procedures: Smoothed logic for GPU Blowdown, Pig Launching, and Plunger procedures.
- Upgraded Beginner Tutorial: Controllers now pulse and highlight specific buttons to guide you step-by-step.
- Live Progress Tracking: In-game boards now display real-time "Current Step" for all users in a room.
🕹️ Player Controls & Interactions
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PICO VR Support
Full support for PICO headsets with high-quality models and optimized button layouts.
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Tool "Home Base"
Dropped tools automatically snap back to your toolbelt or workbench.
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- PC Equipping: Press 'Q' to equip items anchored to camera view; 'F' acts as the uniform Use/Equip button.
- Smart VR Pointers: Laser pointers now pass through walkways and railings to prevent environmental snagging.
- Precision Wrenching: Exact precision for high-detail tasks like the Little Joe rebuild.
- Spray Can Overhaul: Revamped trigger-based system with custom particle effects.
🌐 Multiplayer & User Interface
- Room Browser: Overhauled with Join/Private tags, confirmation screens, and room-capacity indicators.
- Late-Join Syncing: Mid-session joins now instantly sync all training boards to the correct current step.
- Comfort Transitions: Added "Connecting..." fade-to-black for more comfortable module jumping.
- Redesigned Boards: Scenario and Bulletin boards feature sharper text and cleaner transparency.
- Whiteboard Tools: Added a "Clear All Drawings" button to reset whiteboards for new groups.
✨ Environment & Visuals
- Lifelike Avatars: Newly animated worker avatars performing realistic idle and working animations.
- Training Center Minimap: New functional minimap display for easier facility navigation.
- Smart Rendering: Optimized object loading at distance to maintain high frame rates and prevent pop-in.
- Visual Polish: Cleaned up visual glitches and flickering on complex machinery like the Compression Skid.
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