Schedule I update adds sewer system and performance fixes

The latest Schedule I update on Nov. 2 added a new sewer system under Hyland Point. To gain access, the player must get ahold of the sewer access key; the sewers grant a new way to navigate Hyland Point without having to worry about the police or cartel members. 

A new ladder system is being added in the sewers, providing more vertical navigation, alongside two new NPCs: the sewer king and the sewer goblin. The update also debuts significant performance optimization and bug fixes, which are said to boost framerates by 10-15%. 

Here are the full Schedule I patch notes, according to the official Steam posting:  

Additions

• Added sewer system.
• Added climbing system.
• Added ladders to various buildings.
• Added sewer maintenance office property.
• Added sewer access key.
• Added 2x1m plastic table.
• Added trash crown.
• Added garbage throne.
• Added water step sound.
• Added ‘sewer king’ NPC.
• Added ‘sewer goblin’ NPC.
• Added meth LODs.
• Added new ‘replication queue’ system to help stagger network traffic when a player joins a multiplayer game.
• Added loading dock to west Gas-Mart.
• Added 5 more graffiti locations.

Tweaks/Improvements

• Refactored the environmental FX and post-processing system to support transitioning between different visual zones.
• Changed fog color and density to be controlled by day-night timeline instead of a basic curve/gradient.
• Tweaked occlusion settings for more aggressive culling.
• Tweaked shadow cascades.
• Tweaked various LODs.
• Disabled vehicle FixedUpdate calculations when vehicle is static.
• Optimized compass rendering.
• Disabled a light optimization technique that wasn’t actually providing any performance improvement.
• Changed a lot of calculations to be on-demand instead of every frame.
• Disabled additional light shadows when quality is set to medium or below.
• Changed various cooldowns to use global time (Time.timeSinceLevelLoad) instead of manual time tracking.
• Removed unnecessary update loops from a number of scripts.
• Replaced some MeshColliders with primitive colliders.
• Cached animation string hashes on start instead of recalculating on use.
• Turned off shadows for a bunch of small objects.
• Tweaked graffiti surfaces to only generate texture data when required instead of when the game starts. This was causing a ~1s hitch and unnecessary memory allocation whenever loading a game.
• Reorganised the structure of the main scene. This shouldn’t have any visible impact but makes my job easier in the future 🙂

Bug fixes

• Fixed police global vision events not working properly (this allows police to ‘share’ their knowledge of where a wanted player is).
• Fixed a bug where NPCs would shoot at the player even when not visible.
• Fixed some duplicate GUIDs.
• Fixed police officer vision getting bugged if killed while searching for the player.
• Fixed ‘cuke effects’ and ‘energy drink effects’ utility items being usable in item slot filters.
• Fixed not being able to pickpocket unconscious NPCs if you have recently failed a pickpocket.
• Fixed null reference error that occurred when inserting cash into a storage entity.
• Remove some unnecessary Player.log spam.

Schedule I was released on March 24, 2025, and currently has “Overwhelmingly Positive” Steam reviews with over 220,000 users having provided input. The title is only available on PC.