Please note that the changelog may contain spoilers!

[Gameplay & Mechanics]

• When starting a new game the player may now choose one of four difficulty settings: Easy, Normal, Hard or Unspeakable. This has an impact on damage modifiers, starting equipment, and some specific game rules that only take effect on their respective difficulties.

• New enemy: Crawler

• New item: Bandage

• New sanity effect: Living Trees

• New sanity effect: Knock Knock

• Added a hotkey to wield dynamite [G]

• Added a hotkey to unwield weapon [X]

• Added a dialogue skip button [Z]

• Any UI can now be closed by pressing ESC

• Pressing ESC while no other UI is visible will open a pause menu

• Pressing M will now open the map, pressing any key will close it

• Pressing R will now always display the ammo for your current weapon

• Updated “Basic Controls” -letter to reflect new changes. Also added “WASD - Movement”

• Interacting with items on the ground has been reworked. To pick up an item, the player must first select it by placing their cursor over it. This fixes the issue of accidentally picking up the wrong item. As a result, the range from which you can pick up items has been increased.

• Picking up an item while near another interactible object will no longer perform both actions at once. Items are prioritized.

• Footlockers no longer spit out items at your feet

• Items can now be dropped by dragging them outside of your inventory

• Adjusted the weight of some items

• All bullet projectiles now travel instantaneously, making firefights deadlier for both sides. Consequently, the following balance changes were deemed necessary:

  • Pocket Pistol fire rate reduced slightly

  • Shotgun spread increased for both the player and the cultists

  • Shotgun Cultists move slightly slower

  • Revolver Cultist fire rate and accuracy reduced slightly

  • Unaware enemies take x1.5 damage from firearms while the Crossbow and melee weapons deal x4

• The Crossbow is a powerful ranged stealth weapon, but often too pricy, heavy and situational to see use. These changes are aimed to make it more viable:

  • Cost reduced by $10

  • Minimum damage increased by 2

  • Reload speed increased by 10%

  • Bolt speed increased by 200%

  • Ammo can now be found in some places

  • Is now less affected by sway, making it easier to use in the dark

• Some enemies have received advanced AI:

  • Wild dogs now have a chance to become enraged when taking damage, causing them to move faster and ignore impact damage for a short time

  • Ghouls now move at inconsistent speeds and are resistant to impact damage

  • Festering Ghouls have a slower base speed, but become faster when damaged. They also deal more damage than regular ghouls.

• The Sorcerer Bossfight has been redesigned from the ground up with engaging and challenging gameplay in mind. The bulk of this update’s work centered around refining this part of the game, so we can’t wait to hear your thoughts on it. Expect aspects of this fight to be finetuned in future updates.

• Slightly increased the maximum range where monsters start to effect the player’s sanity

• Slightly reduced the maximum speed at which monsters deal sanity damage

• Health gain from Morphine changed from instant to slow regeneration. Healing increased slightly.

• Solving puzzles and making progress now restores a small amount of sanity

• Cigarettes restore more sanity at first, but the more you smoke the less effective they are

• Lighting a cigarette now takes slightly longer and the player is no longer prevented from turning during this time

• Sanity and alcohol gained from Whiskey increased

• Added a couple new item description changes at certain sanity levels

• Shadowbeast now creates static interference upon spawning and despawning

• The spawning rates for Twisters, Trails, Shadowbeasts and Ghosts are now more dependent on the player’s sanity

• Apparitions and Redscreens happen a little less often

• Made the cleaver collision mask slightly wider to accommodate for the cleaver not swinging directly at the aiming reticle

• Sound from gunshots now travels slightly further

• Increased minimum flashlight brightness by 10%

• Updated the room structure of some buildings in the surface

• Improved the layout of the tunnels

• The final sanity message now appears at a slightly lower sanity level

• Reworded the old man’s dialogue. Examining certain objects after talking to the old man may give additional information.

• Updated Crossbow guy’s dialogue. Now changes based on whether the player has enough money.

• Adjusted the character’s thoughts on some examinable objects

• Glyphs now light up when you walk over them, as long as they have a source of power

[Visual]

• Added item pick up messages

• Added a subtle film grain effect

• Firing a gun now lights up the player’s vicinity. Also, muzzle flashes are only visible for one frame, making sustained fire with the Thompson look much better.

• Static Effect:

  • Slightly reduced opacity

  • Added subtle flickering

  • Now fades in and out smoothly

  • Slowly rotates over time

• Drunk screen sway is now smoother

• The “C” in the dialog box now blinks faintly

• Dwight will now occasionally blow smoke when smoking

• Ghouls and Deep Ones now have walking animations

• Ghouls have varying animation speeds

• Made small changes to several sprites

• Made trees look nicer on fastmode

• Added FOV circle to the intro drive

• Smoothed out menu and intro fadeouts

• Made improvements to the end screen

[Sound]

• Added the first piece of official soundtrack, “Case Closed”

• Added an interference sound loop to the static effect

• Added a new sound indicator for when the player is at dangerously low sanity levels

• Sanity sound loop now starts slightly earlier

• Gave punching a new sound

• Added a sound for opening the map

• Cultists have a new footstep sound

• New sounds for lighting a cigarette

• Multiple new sound effects for the Sorcerer

• Made xFog ambient loop much smoother

• Adjusted car engine sounds

• Slightly increased the volume of rain

• Lowered the volume of rat death screams

• BGM now drops down to 30% volume when the player enters any building

• The hit sound now plays only once when getting hit by multiple shotgun pellets

[Miscellaneous]

• Changed the name of the game window

• Gave the application icon a white outline

• Crossbow bolts are now dropped one at a time

• Added a bullet trails setting to the options

• Volume and brightness settings can now be adjusted using the mouse

• Made a particular corner of the shoreline easier to travel for dogs

• Moved the invisible barriers at the bottom of the map further down

• Moved the small battery in the generator room onto the table

• Changed “Apartment Key No. 4” to “Apartment No. 4 Key”

• Changed knife description to: “A regular steak knife”

• Changed “Press Y to Exit” to “Press Y to Quit” for clarity

• The game will no longer close if ESC is pressed during the fadeout in the main menu

• Made minor tweaks to the intro drive sequence

• Made the Maze a bit darker

• Corpses now stay permanently

• The pages of the Alchemy Book no longer loop

• Optimized FOV deactivations, greatly reducing fps drops

• Made rain less laggy

[Bugfixes]

• Fixed a crash when trying to start the game with fast visuals

• Fixed a fatal error caused by pressing buttons during loading

• Screen overlay effects tracked the player instead of the view, resulting in issues whenever the player left the center of the screen

• Sanity messages no longer pop up when dead

• The crow will no longer turn while the game is paused

• Walls and effects were drawn on incorrect depth levels

• The surface map now gets darker when it rains, as intended

• Picking up a certain item that triggers events will no longer trigger again if dropped and picked up again

• Enemies can no longer see the player through trees

• The sliding wall failed to open properly when the player saved and loaded the game near it

• Changing the volume setting didn’t affect the menu music

• The static effect wasn’t correctly reducing it’s opacity when moving away from monsters

• The player can no longer light multiple cigarettes at once (that one may have been a feature)

• The tracked damage taken from cigarettes didn’t match the actual damage taken

[Known Issues]

• Enemies have a bad habit of getting stuck on walls and other enemies

• Items dropped by enemies will on occasion end up partly inside walls