Update log
Full Cave Story+ update
The complete published notes, normalized for clean reading and source attribution.
Extracted changes
- Gameplay
- UI and audio
- Events
- Maps
- Workshop
The branch and password needed to access all the new content is:
Branch name: ModdersDelight Branch Password: ModPizzaParty
Oh Yeaah!!! The massive Cave Story Steam update today, adds a ton of new features and upgrades including 2-player mode, mod support, enhanced visuals, and much more!
This update finally brings all of the later console-version additions to the Steam version of the game, including 2-player co-op mode. Venture back into the caves – but this time, bring a friend!
You’ll see many visual elements have been overhauled with this update, with the addition of animated dialogue portraits for all characters, enhanced dynamic lighting and water effects, improved environment shading, widescreen support, and more.
There’s plenty of love for the sound in here along with the visuals, with a total of four different versions of the game’s iconic soundtrack to choose from, as well as a new Jukebox feature to help you enjoy them all in one convenient place.
As for gameplay, you’ll find a number of helpful tweaks and gameplay improvements have been made. A few spots have had their difficulty minorly tuned or streamlined (like stacking puppies!) plus a Sand Pit Challenge level has been added to the game’s bonus challenge mode.
Even if you think you’ve already seen all that Cave Story has to offer, with this update, the game now supports player-created mods for custom graphics packs, challenges, soundtracks and more.
And that’s not even everything. Check the patch notes below for the complete list of changes – and happy exploring!
Good job, Fred. I’m proud of you
- CS+ Switch on PC
- 2-player mode
- Famitracks soundtrack
- Ridiculon soundtrack
- Sand Pit Challenge
- Jukebox
- Widescreen
- Animated and flipped dialogue portraits
- Lighting system
- Physical water
- Water backgrounds
- Map shading
- Strafing
- Skipping dialogue
- Difficulty tweaks
- Jelly stacking
- Puppy stacking
- Escape Booster's pit
- Easier Waterway cabin jump
- Iron Bond acquirement tweak
- Altered warehouse scene
- Modding support
- Stackable mods
- Lua API
- Converted code
- Arms
- Bosses
- Bullets
- Carets
- NPCs
- Player
- Unused code
- NPCs 58 and 79
- Various commented-out lines of code
- Mods can add custom...
- Graphics packs
- Seasonal themes
- Soundtracks
- Sounds
- Challenges
- Fonts
- Screen filters
- Settings
- Allow dialogue portrait flipping
- Enable lighting system
- Enable physical water
- Adjust internal resolution
- Change default player costume
- Conversion of data blobs to JSON
- Starting stage and event
- Tables
- Arms
- Bullet
- Caret
- Music
- NPC
- Stage
- Dialogue portrait animations
- Custom bitmaps can now overlay (instead of replace) vanilla bitmaps
- Per-room custom water backgrounds
- 4x resolution textures
- WAV sounds (instead of PixTone)
- Unified shaded and unshaded map data
- Merged
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